Benjamin Mercer Email & Phone Number

Owner, host, podcaster and content producer at The Little Platoon (and associated channels).

London, United Kingdom

London

London

• Tasked with soliciting comment articles from students and alumni. - This included a number of individuals for whom English is a second language.• Responsible for editing said articles, checking spelling, grammar, and word count.• Required to submit edited articles to the chief editor by set deadlines.• Continued to write regularly for the publication.

•Contributed to various sections of the paper; from small adverts to news, culture and business.•Interviewed local bands, council and business representatives, and local people.•Wrote a number of full-page features. - Most notably a series on the local villages, and an interview with the band PBS.•Chased and published a number of high-profile stories, including: - Job cuts at the Charles Wells brewery (following an anonymous tip-off). - Assisting a senior reporter for a front page story about an information sharing agreement between the RSPCA and Bedfordshire Police. - Following a story published by the BHA, I found schools in the county which had yet to remove Section 28 of the Local Government Act, 1988 from their guidelines. •Became acquainted with the software used to publish both print and online content.

Ma Newspaper Journalism, Journalism

Master Of Arts - Ma, Contemporary Ethics, Pending

Bachelor'S Degree, Philosophy, Religion And Ethics

Activities and Societies: ULU Debate Society, HSU Debate Club, The Heythrop Lion (student newspaper), open mic nights, interviewing.