J 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Big Umbrella
J100 Lecture #10 - Will Grant, BBC
Guest Speaker - Will Grant, BBC, @will__grant
●Background
○From the UK
○Learned Spanish in Spain at EU
○Went back to UK and got a masters in Latin America
○Interned at
■Runner’s World
■States Magazine
○Just as he left his master’s BBC had a Latin American service opening
○Learned everything he didn’t already know on the job
○Growing interest in journalism rather than politics
○Wrote comedy with friends
■Not traditional
○BBC
■Big umbrella place that does everything
■Right home for him
■Moved around a lot within the journalism field
●Online
●TV
●Writing
■Entry level job
●Learned everything
●The right level for where it was at the time
●Everyone was swooping in and he didn’t know any of what they
were all doing
●Did entry level stuff
○Made coffee
○Printed scripts
○Paying contributors
●But they were very generous to him for tasks
●Suddenly he was working with radio production
●Employers are often genius if they are “cool”
●What is the point of having employees that don’t grow when they
are under you?
○Otherwise there is no use to companies such as BBC
●Never felt like he could cope with being in just an entry level job
○Didn’t feel overwhelmed
●Transition from UK to everywhere he went after
Document Summary
Went back to uk and got a masters in latin america. Just as he left his master"s bbc had a latin american service opening. Learned everything he didn"t already know on the job. Growing interest in journalism rather than politics. Moved around a lot within the journalism field. The right level for where it was at the time. Everyone was swooping in and he didn"t know any of what they were all doing. But they were very generous to him for tasks. Suddenly he was working with radio production. Employers are often genius if they are cool . Otherwise there is no use to companies such as bbc. Never felt like he could cope with being in just an entry level job. Transition from uk to everywhere he went after. Generally he only really followed what interests him. We spend so much time at work that there is no point in doing something that you don"t love.
