Co-Hosts Announced for Media Student’s Awards
Two former regional university students, now carving out successful careers for themselves in broadcasting, are to co-host this year’s Midlands Media Students’ Awards.
The awards, sponsored by Amazon UK Services Ltd and organised by Birmingham Press Club, will take place on 8 November at Hockley Social Club - a former 10,000 sq ft print factory which has been transformed into a vibrant meeting place and street food venue.
Being held for the first time since the Covid 19 pandemic, the awards are a celebration of the hard work and talent of the region’s next-generation of journalists, broadcasters, photographers and social media professionals. Categories will include subjects such as broadcasting, photography, social and campaigning journalism, data and investigations, sport, news, digital journalism and the social media video of the year.
Co-hosting the event will be the BBC’s Amber Sandhu and ITV Central’s Lewis Warner.
Press Club chairman Llewela Bailey said: “Amber and Lewis are fast-becoming household names amongst TV and radio audiences in the Midlands and I hope that their successes will prove inspirational to the media students of today.”
Amber, a senior broadcast journalist who has presented a weekly programme on BBC Radio WM, fronted the coverage of the Commonwealth Games 2022 for BBC Midlands Today. She now has a regular slot every Saturday on BBC Asian Network. A former pupil of Wolverhampton Girls High School who gained a BSc at the University of Worcester in Sports & Exercise Science, Amber also acts as a sports reporter across BBC Sport and Sky Sports News.
Lewis, currently an on-screen journalist with ITV Central News, edited QE Dispatch at his college before graduating from Staffordshire University with a BA in broadcast journalism. A former station manager at Staffs TV and head of news at Stoke-on-Trent-based OMG Radio, Lewis also worked as a reporter with Birmingham’s Local TV and as a video journalist with Manchester-based That’s TV before joining ITV News Border and then ITV Central News.
Tickets for the awards are priced at £45 each (inc VAT). Ticket enquiries should be directed to Press Club director Peter Brookes at peter@brookesmedia.com
Neil Williams, Public Relations Manager with Amazon UK Services Ltd, said: “We’re delighted to support the return of the Midlands Media Students’ Awards, which recognise the rising stars of the industry – and celebrates their successes.”
University students from across the East and West Midlands will be taking part in the Awards, which relate to material published or broadcast between 29 September 2022 and 29 September 2023.
