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THE HEADINGTONIAN 2020
BRINGING TOGETHER OUR
HEADINGTON
COMMUNITY
Launched in 2019, Headington Connect is our LISE MCNALLY (2009)
online platform which allows the Headington
community to engage with one another and What are you doing now and how has your
develop business networking, career mentoring, career developed?
work experience and job opportunities. We now
have over 850 members including Headingtonians, I’m a newsreader and reporter for ITV News, currently covering the
current and former parents, former North West of England. I joined ITV News as one of their nine graduate
staff and Sixth Form students. trainees when I finished University, and worked as a producer in
Bristol for a couple of years before moving in front of the camera. At
Now available to download on android by the moment I present the morning headlines for the North West into
searching ‘Headington Connect’ or for iOS please Good Morning Britain, and film and edit news reports for ITV news.
download the ‘Graduway Community’ app and
select Headington Connect from the list. What advice would you give to someone seeking
a career in your field?
“As a Sixth Former, Headington
Connect has been an extremely Make sure you’re going into broadcast journalism for the right
useful platform to reach out to reasons. It’s a very varied job and you have the potential to make a
others for career advice. I hope positive impact if you tell the right story in the right way. But it’s also
that one day I will be able to hard work, high pressure, and can involve a lot of standing around in
provide the same support for the cold waiting for your cue! If it’s right for you and you’re happy to
future students! †put the work in, then make yourself a journalistic jack of all trades.
Cici Hong, U6 Student
Alumnae Prefect What does the future hold for you?
6 I’m about to leave the studio setting for a while, spending six months
as an on the road reporter - so I can say goodbye to the middle of the
night alarm clock for a bit...