By Tom Kingham Helen Thomas is a journalist at 91¸£ÀûÉç Radio Stoke. Despite a wealth of experience, she still sometimes struggles with certain words and is constantly working on her pronunciation to make sure she is at the top of her profession.
When you hear the news on 91¸£ÀûÉç Radio Stoke, do you expect to hear a local accent? Does it make it easier to listen to if you don't have to decipher the news from beneath a ‘foreign’ accent?
As a first-year Broadcast Journalist trainee at Staffordshire University it's important to get the right accent when reading the news. I was lucky enough to get a master-class in how to read the news from one of the best at Radio Stoke. Helen Thomas guided me through a simple passage and gave me some tips on how to be a good newsreader.
It was harder than I thought! I guess I had never really thought about how much you need to change your accent when reading the news. Take a listen to hear how I did ...
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