2025 Fellows

Here are the talented journalists accepted on this year’s early career and apprentice mentoring scheme. To find out more about their mentors, please visit the Senior Fellows’ page.

Adil Hassan

Adil is a freelance journalist specialising in features on social justice, climate change and travel. He has worked at the Financial Times and the Big Issue.

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Aisha Kherallah

Aisha is currently the Washington Producer at ITV News, previously she worked as a producer at BBC Arabic and researcher at Airwars.

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Alberto Lejarraga Molina

Alberto is a live news reporter at the Press & Journal (DC Thomson).

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Alexandra (Alexa) Phillips

Alexa is a reporter at The i Paper. She has worked at The Telegraph, Sky News and Daily Mirror.

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Amarachi Orie

Amarachi is a freelance multimedia journalist based in London. She has written news and features stories for CNN International, Sky News, The New Scientist, The Telegraph and Euronews. 

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Andrea Racekova

Andrea is a Slovakian journalism apprentice with BBC Scotland. She is currently working at BBC Radio Shetland.

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Anthony Noonan

Anthony is an editorial assistant at Delicious magazine.

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Antoinette Radford

Antoinette is a breaking news writer at CNN.

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Anttoni James Numminen

Anttoni is a local democracy reporter covering politics in North Yorkshire as well as working as a freelance current affairs and travel journalist.

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Anvee Bhutani

Anvee is an award-winning independent journalist who’s worked for a range of global outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, NBC, Channel 4 and more. 

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Arya Fatih

Arya is a producer at Sky News.

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Becca Monaghan

Becca is Trends Editor at indy100, an online news source that is part of The Independent.

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Ben MacDonald

Ben is a reporter at The Courier (DC Thomson).

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Benjamin van der Merwe

Ben is a digital investigations journalist at Sky News

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Ben Whitcombe

Ben is a freelance broadcast journalist.

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Caitlin Chatterton

Caitlin is a Gold Standard NCTJ-qualified journalist with experience across digital, print and broadcast.

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Charlies Bell

Charlie is a freelance journalist at Sky News.

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Chelsea Coates

Chelsea is a multimedia journalist at BBC News.

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Charlotte Albutt

Charlotte is a reporter at Worcester News.

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Connor Belford

Connor is an early careers apprentice at BBC Guernsey.

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Connor Gormley

Connor has been covering community news and writing features throughout East and West Sussex as an apprentice journalist with JPI Media.

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Daisy Smith

Daisy graduated Nottingham Trent University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism in 2022 and since then has worked for Global Radio.   She started reporting for LBC News in Yorkshire, covering political stories, royal visits and sport events. Daisy now works for their team in the East of England reading the news bulletins on Heart and Smooth Radio, while continuing to contribute to LBC News and LBC.

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Dale Eaton

Dale is a multimedia news and sport reporter at Tay FM (Bauer).

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Danai Nesta Kupemba

Danai is a BBC journalist and whose work has appeared in BBC, Al Jazeera, VICE, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Women’s Health, Refinery29, Wine Enthusiast, Stylist Magazine, Rest of World, and PinkNews, among others.

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Dolly Carter

Dolly is part of the BBC investigations team covering London and the east of England. Prior to this, she won Young Regional Journalist of the Year at the Media Freedom Awards for her work as a crime correspondent at Newsquest.

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Emma Lawson

Emma is a news reporter for the Sunday Post (DC Thomson).

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Erin Lister

Erin is a video journalist at BBC Wales News.

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Evan John

Evan is a video journalist at CNN International.

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Florence Okojie

Florence is a freelance researcher and news anchor for Newstalk in Dublin, Ireland.

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Gabrielle Sungailaite

Gabrielle launched her career through the highly competitive BBC Journalism Advanced Apprenticeship, working across TV, radio, and online platforms, including BBC World Service, Radio 4, and the economics news team. She is currently a journalist at BBC Monitoring, focusing on global media analysis.

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George Francis Lee

George is a freelance feature writer who has worked with The Guardian, The Fence, The Big Issue and others. He is also a co-founder of STAT Magazine, an art and culture publication for the North West of England.

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Hannah Bradfield

Hannah is a freelance lifestyle and features writer and editor specialising in health, fitness, and wellbeing. She has experience working in radio, digital, and print. 

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Harrison Galliven

Harrison is a local democracy reporter for MyLondon, covering stories in the Croydon, Sutton and Merton areas. 

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Hayley Clarke

Hayley is a journalist at BBC News.

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Isabella Ward

Isabella is a journalism apprentice at Bloomberg News and PA Media Academy. She has covered technology, economics and politics.

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Jacob Evans

Jacob is a journalist at the BBC World Service.

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Jaysim Hanspal

Jaysim is a freelance investigative journalist currently specialising in the environment and open-source investigations. She was previously at BBC Newsnight, and Assistant Editor at the Africa Report in Paris.

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Jessica Sharkey

Jessica is a news reporter at The Times.

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Jo Crawford

Jo is a multimedia reporter at Times Radio.

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Jo Heywood

Jo is an assistant producer at Channel 4 News.

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Josh Watton

Josh is a freelance sports journalist with experience in radio, print and social media.

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Joshua Hartley

Joshua is a content editor at Nottinghamshire Live, Derbyshire Live and  Lincolnshire Live.

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Kaushal Menon Muralidharan

Kaushal is a broadcast journalist at BBC West.

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Kerry Obihara

PA Media.

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Kieran Brand

Kieran is a bulletin editor for Bauer Media.

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Kimi Chaddah

Kimi is a Manchester-based freelance journalist specialising in features, profiles and opinion writing across government policy, education, climate change and activism.

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Kristina Wemyss

Kristina is a sub editor at The Daily Mail.

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Laura Devlin

Laura is a live news reporter with the Dundee Evening and Telegraph and The Courier (DC Thomson).

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Lauren Russell

Lauren is a news reporter at Sky News.

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Lucy Carter

Lucy is covering financial news as a journalist at Markets Media.

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Lucy Norris

Lucy is a mult-imedia journalist at RTÉ.

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Lydia Wilson

Lydia is a multi-media journalist at BBC South. She aspires to work at an international level, focusing on long-form content.

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Malia Carty

Malia is a BBC trainee apprentice.

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Manuela Brown

Manuela is a planning producer at Sky News.

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Maral Shafafy

Maral is a camera journalist at ITV.

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Marion Taba-Goma

Marion is a journalism researcher at Quays News.

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Martha Elwell

Martha is a producer and director at ITN.

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Matilda Davies

Matilda is a data journalist at The Times.

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Matthew Bassett

Matthew is a BBC journalist apprentice.

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Michael Crossland

Mike is a business reporter for The Yorkshire Post.

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Mirek Gosney

Mirek is an award-winning British-Czech reporter currently working as a Social Media Producer at Sky News. He previously spent three years in a local newsroom, where he was hired through the NCTJ’s Community News Project scheme. He has also worked as a production assistant in film and TV and as a film teacher. His investigative documentary tracing his ancestor’s journey as a Nazi slave premiered at the Czech Embassy in London in 2023.

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Naj Modak

Naj is a multiplatform journalist / reporter at the BBC, a Channel 4 Investigative Journalism MA graduate, a Chartered PR Practitioner and a Screen Actor.

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Nawal Abdisamad

Nawal is an aspiring political journalist with over 200,000 TikTok views. She has experience contributing to News UK, Talk TV and The Sun.

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Nayana Mena

Nayana is a BBC Radio Kent journalist. She is also able to write scripts, edit and produce material for broadcast, voice and report on key subjects and source suitable contributors.

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Nikita Singh

Nikita is a live/ breaking news reporter for Newsquest, where she covers South and West Wales.  She aspires to be a producer.

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Olivia Mustafa

Olivia is a producer at ITV News, after joining as a trainee in 2023.

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Olivia Peden

Olivia is a video journalist and podcaster with the Belfast Telegraph, with a keen interest in politics and social issues. 

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Olutayo (Tai) Kolade

Tai is a Community Reporter at My London.

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Oyeniyi (Niyi) Oyedeji

Niyi is an investigative intern at BBC.

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Patrick Hughes

Patrick is a journalist working on original news and investigations for BBC South. He has a background in science and specialises in reporting on the environment and climate change.

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Poppy Atkinson Gibson

Poppy is a trainee reporter at Mail Online.

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Rachel Steinberg

Rachel is a sports reporter for PA Media.

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Reem El-Hassany

Reem is a multimedia journalist at RTÉ, based in Ireland.

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Renu Thapa

Renu is a freelance broadcast journalist for BBC Wales. 

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Rhys Webb

Rhys is a football journalist and the Editor-in-Chief at FromTheSpot.

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Riddhi Kanetkar

Riddhi is senior startups and VC reporter at Business Insider.

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Roxanna Wright

Roxanna is a producer of the Ben Kentish and Vanessa Feltz shows on LBC.

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Ruby Gregory

Ruby is a local democracy reporter at My London.

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Sadia Nowshin

Sadia is currently the junior editor at Boundless, a new magazine from independent publisher Unbound. She is also a freelance features writer — her bylines include The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Stylist and City AM Magazine, amongst others; she was previously a reporter at the FT-backed publication Sifted.

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Saibh Downes

Saibh is a journalist and presenter at RTÉ, based in Dublin Ireland.

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Shawaz Ahmad

Shawaz is a digital news producer at ITN.

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Shiler Mahmoudi

Shiler is a freelance journalist working at the BBC.

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Siobhan Middleton

Siobhan is multimedia journalist at Cambridgeshire Live.

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Sofia Luis-Hobbs

Sofia is a news presenter for Heart & Capital Yorkshire.

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Sunita Ghosh Dastidar

Sunita is an assistant producer and broadcast journalist at ITV.

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Tom Burgess

Tom is a senior reporter at The Northern Echo.

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Tom O’Neill

Tom is a digital content producer at Bradford 2025.

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Um-E-Aymen Babar

Um-E-Aymen is an award-winning multilingual sports journalist, commentator and presenter.

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Werrda Ali

Werrda is a BBC Sport journalism apprentice.

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Will Higgens

Will is currently a researcher for the BBC’s North West Investigations team.  

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Zofia Melanczuk

Zosia is a producer at Good Morning Britain.

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Will Tullis

Will is a bulletin reporter for ITV News, reporting for ITVX and on ITV News programmes. He was previously a producer in the ITN Washington DC bureau.

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