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Twenty trainees accepted onto the Media Foundation Placement Scheme |
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Friday, 15 June 2007 |
ITV Granada, BBC Manchester and Lime Pictures have welcomed 20 trainees into their respective operations for year long paid placements, as part of an initiative developed with Media Training North West.
The initiative began in 2005 as the North West Foundation Placement Scheme. Almost three quarters of attendees last year subsequently gained employment in the media sector.
The focus of the initiative is on people from ethnic minorities who are seconded to departments within all three media organisations to see how the industry works.
"We had more than 300 applications for 20 traineeships this year which demonstrates that we're really reaching into communities that perhaps we've not accessed before now" said the scheme’s project manager Michele Bentham. The standard of the candidates is very high and I'm confident that we're going to provide the trainees with an interesting and stimulating year."
 Hallworth
“I was so excited about being given the opportunity. I was not sure where I wanted to be in the future but at the time I just wanted to learn as much as I could.”
Hallworth has subsequently been employed as a technical operative within the news department at ITV Granada.
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