Smriti Gopal

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Reporting about Michael Palin at the Book Festival and having it published in Wimbledon Guardian's print newspaper is where my career began in the industry. Since then, I have left no stone unturned and successfully reported on human interest news and feature stories locally, regionally and nationally. Many of my written stories are published in KCW Today which covers Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster areas. I've had my first front page news story column published in the Eastern Times print newspaper. Both Eastern Times and Asian World News print newspapers published double-page spread features I had written, with many other stories I have had published here. Initially, I covered many star-studded Red Carpet events which are published in DesiBlitz online.

My exclusive stories continued to be published. My adventurous yet curious personality helped me in staying committed to journalism and telling truthful accurate stories.

So I continued doing this throughout my MA Journalism course in North East England. I achieved a 2:1 grade for my News Reporting module while using SEO and a Merit in my Media Ethics and Society module where I used the IPSO Editors' Code of Practice for Journalists to critically analyse investigative cases. I constantly abide by IPSO and Media Law every time I report stories to be published. I've travelled far and wide to find a scoop, talking to new faces, including interviewing Mayors, MPs and Councillors and extracting exclusive statistics through Freedom of Information requests. I built a large network of direct sources where I showed empathy towards people in sensitive situations. I interviewed people who were otherwise hard-to-reach and received productive comments as first-hand quotes. I used my SLR camera to take photos for my stories. My news gathering resulted in having my unique stories very recently published in SRNews online.

Let me know if you'd like to see a copy of my final project, I completed for my MA Journalism course in which I achieved a Merit for my news and investigative features that focus on human interest stories in a lifestyle genre.

To read more of my news and features I've written for print and online, see link: https://www.clippings.me/users/smritigopal

For news videos and interactive maps I've made and edited for online, see link: https://smritigopal.contently.com

My South Asian news and features in print and online can be read on this link: https://muckrack.com/smriti-gopal