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Football FanCast Intern Training Day
To mark the halfway mark of the Football FanCast journalist internship, the six interns, the editor of FFC Martin Crawford, and the two Managing Directors Niall Coen and Sarah Kennedy met up at the Sports Bar & Grill in Marylebone. The three month internship scheme has been designed by FFC to offer crucial experience to budding journalists and to give each intern the opportunity to develop his talents in the direction he sees fit. The meetings for the interns are there to help them in their path to become football reporters, giving advice, guidance and most importantly, to learn from each other’s experience on the internship. By the end of the scheme, each intern will have a massive portfolio of work to demonstrate their abilities to employers and show they have the capabilities necessary to work in the field.
On Tuesday last week the interns met for the second of the internship training days at the Sports Bar & Grill and the bar has recently been celebrating its first birthday. Located by Marylebone station, the bar was designed to give a new option to customers around the area according to the bar’s Sales & Marketing Director Jane White:
“It is a restaurant bar, with good food, beverages and services, and the fact that we show sport means that we can cater for everybody”
It has a unique location which the bar has capitalised to the full during the recession and they are now ready to expand their business and brand to another railway station at Victoria. It has found Marylebone an ideal spot for customers. It’s a high volume travel terminal and the bar can offer football and sport to passing commuters. They are hosts who can offer a great atmosphere for people and it is something according to White which makes the place so attractive:
“We have a vibrant atmosphere and the décor is warm and welcoming as it is not your regular sports bar. It has chandeliers hanging in the restaurant and wine displays. It’s a bit more upmarket than you would expect or anticipated. The warm opening atmosphere encourages more female customers and people enjoy their time here. The restaurant tries to get a feeling of sport rather than being totally in your face, and we have international sport memorabilia around the venue and the latest Sony Bravia Motionflow HD TVs to give the best sporting experience.”
The surroundings were ideal for the internship training day with the front bar being a great place for a small meeting. The adjacent brasserie/grill restaurant and the basement lounge, provided excellent hospitality. During the day, awards and certificates were handed to interns for the achievements during the scheme. Tom Jones was given an Impact Award for being the greatest contributor to both FFC and Transfer Tavern, Chudi Onwuazor was awarded a prize for most read article, Oli Major was handed an award by his fellow interns nominating one of his articles as the best on the scheme while David Tully was given a prize for the most Twitter followers. In addition, interns were also given prizes for Editor Challenge articles which made them choose a subject and select their own title for an article, Mark Greenwood won an award for the first challenge, while David Tully was given a certificate for the second challenge. The editor also gave his own article choice prize to Gawthaman Gobinath for an outstanding article that he has written during the internship scheme.
After the skills day was over, the interns and the rest of the FFC team laid back to have a few beers and played a few games of pool in the American style bar downstairs from the restaurant, ending an interesting and rewarding day for the interns.
FFC is keen to build strategic relationships with such key partners as the Sports Bar & Grill to support our ongoing business growth and Jane White is delighted about the partnership which has been struck up between the two businesses:
“The bar area is great for a journalistic training day as our screens offer the possibility of presentations and obviously with Sports Journalism it continues the creative flow going with all the big screens showing sport and the surrounding memorabilia. . . It’s nice to see new faces and I’ll definitely be working with Football FanCast again.”
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If you would like to join the Internship Scheme, please email us at info@snack-media.com
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