Bethan Holmes, The Quays Intern 

I was really interested in it. I joined my school newspaper and school magazine. I started going to my local paper and they took me to the Crown Court to report. 

I joined my school magazine and newspaper. 

I did TV in first semester and I had to make a package and mine was on the difference between Welsh school funding and England's school funding. I think there was a £500 gap between each pupil. 

Definitely my major project. I did a story on guide dog discrimination. People who have guide dogs and aren’t allowed into restaurants and taxis or their dog will get abused in major cities. 

I haven't had any breakfast. I didn't get up early enough to have breakfast. 

Do I have phone signal? I'd take my phone because I cant live without my phone and my boyfriend for company. 

I have two dogs, they're Sprollies which is a cross between a spaniel and a border collie They’re called Dora and Kofi. 

Change. I used to work in a shop for about 3 years while I was at uni and people would just hand me the most disgusting change ever. 

I want to be a journalist. I was to be a BBC News at 6 Presenter.  

The phone hacking scandal. 

Getting my degree. I got a first so that was a very proud moment of mine and I cried when I got my results. 

Bubbly, nice and chatty 

I like to go to the gym. I like to go swimming 

I don’t really pay attention to music I just stick the top hits on Spotify on. 

I’d like Jennifer Lawrence 

Tea. I don’t like coffee at all 

A bread roll. 

To turn back time. 

Just get involved! Take every opportunity that is given to you. Just do it! 

1. What's your name and where are you from?
My name's Sarah Hadwin and i'm mainly from Bradford.
2. What do you do?
I'm the BA programme leader, so I have an overview of all the 3 years. I do a lot of teaching - mainly on the multimedia modules.
3. Describe yourself in 3 words.
Passionate. Journalist. Tutor.
4. What's the best thing about your job?
The students are - you are what makes everything worth doing
5. And the worst?
Meetings
6. What's your favourite strand?
I've done a lot of political news, but also spent years at local papers and being an editor, so you get involved with absolutely everything. I ran an arts magazine as well.
7. Digital or print?
Not a broadcaster. But I do a bit of everything.
8. Celebrity crush?
Thomas Keneally
9. Dog or cat?
Cat
10. Night in or night out?
Night in
11. Film or book?
Book
12. Summer or winter?
Winter
13. Biggest phobia?
Being interviewed.
14. Oasis or The Smiths?
Quite tricky, I'll probably go for Oasis.
15. Salford or San Francisco?
Salford

You can contact Sara via her email: S.B.Hadwin@salford.ac.uk

Why did you choose journalism?
“I wanted to tell stories that matter to people in the North West, as I’m from Preston originally and I really care about this part of the word. So to tell stories about this part of the world to people in the North West was part of the reason. “

How did you get into journalism/teaching?
“I got into journalism because I quit my first degree in English Literature at Lancaster and I took a journalism degree and here I am. “

What was the first story you wrote?
“The first proper story I remember doing and I thought I could be a journalist was at a radio news day in our first year and we all had to go and find some stories. There had been a fire at a house around the corner from the Uni in Preston, load of my mates were googling stuff and trying to find  out what had happened, ringing the fire service and that kind of stuff. I was the only one who got a recorder and went out and knocked on some doors, I knocked on around 10 doors and as I was losing hope and about to come back to Uni, a guy came out the front door and I said ‘excuse me did you see anything of the fire last night?’ and as he turned around he had a big bandage up one arm and he said ‘Yeah I ran in and pulled out two kids’. So I said ‘have you got 5 minutes?’ and he said ‘im going to hospital’ so I said ‘have you got two minutes?’ Then I interviewed him there and then, got that story and got it before the local papers or local radio. So that was the first kind of thrill of getting a story, and thinking this really matters’. 

What is the most memorable story you’ve covered?
‘Probably the bomb in Manchester arena, when I was news editor for Granada reports, the day after. I’d gone to bed early because I knew I was in work early, sort of seven in the morning. I woke up randomly around half three in the morning and just got up and went to work, got in around four o’clock and worked through to eight the following night. That really has been the most emotionally effecting story that I have ever work on. Alongside of the Hillsborough inquest. But the Manchester arena bomb will be a story that everyone remembers and will never forget working on that story.’  

What did you have for breakfast?
‘Banana and peanut butter, and then a bowl of cereal.’

If you were stuck on a desert island what two things would you take?
‘Guitar and am I allowed to say my fiancé. Or a guitar and capo.’ 

Do you have any pets?
‘We’ve got one hamster he called Toby, he’s not really mine he’s Holly’s’. 

What’s your biggest pet peeve?
‘I’ve got loads, I hate loads of things. I find myself shouting at the news on the telly quite a lot. There’s a couple of things, one thing the BBC do, they say X told the BBC, but they said it a conference and everyone was there. And also ITV presenters do it a lot, presenters that pretend that there reading a quote off a paper, so they looked down to read a quote and look back up at the camera. It really bugs me as it’s on the autocue. That and anyone who supports Blackpool football club.’

What did you want to be when you grew up?
‘An astronaut, but I have specs so I couldn’t be.’

If you could have covered any story from the past, which would you choose?
‘I’d have loved to have reported on Apollo 11, on man landing on the moon that would have been really cool. And the election of Obama, something unifying. We had John Snow come talk to us and he talked about that being the best story he had ever worked on, so that would have been cool.’ 

What’s your proudest achievement?
‘One of the last few programs I did for Granada was a tribute to Tony Wilson, like a special ten minute section and that was really good.’

Describe yourself in 3 words
‘Northern, ginger, beard.’ 

How do you fill your free time?
‘Play guitar, play video games, ride my bike, go and watch Preston’.

If someone was to play you in a film, who would it be?
‘Fat Chris Pratt, not hot Chris Pratt now’

What’s your favourite music album?
‘Definitely Maybe by Oasis’. 

Tea or coffee?
‘Coffee first thing in the morning, tea thereafter.’

What do you call this?
‘A balm’. 

What’s one ability you wish you could have?
‘To fly’.

What advice would you give to us?
‘Get involved, take on as much as you can. Get involved with Keys and Shock radio, because those skills that you pick up are exactly what employers are looking for and then if you can show an employer a video of you that you’ve done then that will help massively.’