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Tyre maker Bridgestone has today launched the 2007 Bridgestone e-reporter competition for young journalists.
Now in its fourth year, Bridgestone e-reporter will continue to provide up and coming writers with first hand experience of interviewing GP2 drivers and issuing race reports from a European GP2 race weekend.
Bridgestone e-reporter is a Europe-wide competition open to all students aged 18-30 and in full time education. Seven finalists will be selected to attend a European Grand Prix weekend where GP2 – the feeder series to Formula One – will showcase the Grand Prix stars of tomorrow, as it has done previously with drivers such as Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Heikki Kovalainen.
Written entries will be judged by a panel of motorsport media representatives, including ITV F1 commentator James Allen, Sky Sports broadcaster Tony Jardine, Motorsport news editor Jim Holder, Bridgestone motorsport press officer Rachel Ingham, and GP2 series media manager Will Buxton.
Allen supported the competition in 2006, meeting Bridgestone e-reporter finalists in the F1 paddock, and providing them with an insight into the world of media and television that follows this global sport.
Allen said he continues to back the contest in 2007 but with increased involvement by joining the judging panel. He said: “I was a big supporter of the competition last year, meeting most of the finalists, and I am delighted to be a judge in 2007. It is important to put something back into this business, I do this when I can, and think Bridgestone e-reporter is a wonderful idea for young journalists to get hands-on experience.”
Previous winners and finalists of Bridgestone e-reporter have gone on to work in media as a direct result of their experience in the F1 and GP2 paddocks. In 2006 the overall winner Martin Westerhoff was offered experience with Auto Bild Motorsport in Germany, and is now a freelance journalist. Rupert Manwaring also impressed F1racing.net while at a race with Bridgestone and is currently on its British reporting team.
In 2005 three Bridgestone e-reporters took the next step in their media careers, with finalist Russell Atkins becoming a journalist with Crash.net, winner Mike Channell securing an editorial position with PC Format Magazine, and finalist Dorian Patynowski working briefly for TopSpeed Magazine in Poland. Jamie O’Leary won Bridgestone e-reporter in its inaugural year and now works for Eurosport.com. Finalists’ GP2 race reports and diary entries will be published on the Bridgestone Europe, Bridgestone Motorsport and GP2 websites.
The overall winner will then get to report on the final GP2 race of the season in a journalistic role, with full access to the paddock and have their work published in a specialist magazine.
The winner will also be awarded with
- A state-of-the-art laptop
- The chance to interview a GP2 graduate who has made the step up to Formula One
- Work experience with the UK’s leading paper in the industry, Motorsport News
- A trip to attend a Bridgestone safety event in Europe.
The closing date for entries is 12:00 GMT on Saturday 31 March 2007. To find out more, see link below.
(Just curious, I'm not hugely bothered one way or the other.)
I think you might be right there. Someone could easily challenge this, what with the increase in human rights, european laws and all the other shite that seems to be prevelent these days in the employment world
(Just curious, I'm not hugely bothered one way or the other.)
WHat are you blathering on about? It's a competition to find a 'young reporter' and to cover motorsport they'll need to be at least over 16 and be a full time student, which puts them in university category age brackets.
So 18-30...
Why would you bring up the contestants ages???
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