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Emma Lingard
Emma has worked in the media industry as a journalist in print, TV and radio for over 20 years. She is experienced in working as a video journalist and currently produces content for Channel 7 and the Grimsby Telegraph. Emma has also presented, produced and directed factual documentaries including To The Manor Reborn, For King and Country and Spotlight On Spurn. Emma has also worked for the Press Association (Howden) training the first batch of national and regional print journalists as video journalists. Alongside her career as a broadcaster and media lecturer, Emma also runs her own PR company.

Specialties
Video Journalist, Presenter, Trainer, Media Lecturer, Social Media, Public Relations

Early Life
Born and raised in Grimsby, Emma went to Waltham Toll Bar School and while there knew she wanted to be a journalist. She spent time in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph newsroom and writing articles for various publications. After her A'levels, Emma went to Stradbroke College, Sheffield to do the NCTJ course for a year. While here she also continued to work in the Telegraph newsroom under the late Peter Moore and worked alongside Michelle Hurst (current Deputy Editor), Michelle Lalor (Editor) and Nigel Lowther (Editor Cleethorpes Chronicle). After college, she did not manage to get full time employment in the industry so worked at the National Fishing Heritage Centre in Grimsby. At the NFHC she also contributed to PR and marketing, helping write press releases and organise publicity stunts. Her boss was Richard Doughty, now manager of the Cutty Sark, who was eccentric but entrepreneurial and very visionary. She became famous for being the Grimsby Fishwife, and dressing up to entertain the crowds and helped write the guided tours around the docks. A year later, Emma returned to study and went to Oxford Brookes University to study an honours degree in English and Publishing for three years.

Media Career
On graduating, Emma returned home to land a job at the Epworth Bells newspaper in the Isle of Axholme. Starting as junior reporter Emma covered parish and town council meetings, court, local shows and the daily news of the Isle. While at the Bells, she also began working weekends in Hull for BBC Radio Humberside on the Saturday sport programme. Here she wrote up the copy for the local games and read them out. From here she also went on to become Broadcast Assistant on the weekday breakfast programme. Based in Grimsby she helped presenters Lara King and Andy Comfort. Then she went to Channel 7 - the local TV station in northern Lincolnshire broadcasting on what was then the NTL network. Here she helped set up the newsroom operation and began presenting and reading the evening news. She worked alongside postgraduate students from the Grimsby College (now Grimsby Institute). Working at Channel 7 saw her present live TV too and be involved with many news gathering operations. In 2000 she left the TV channel to start a family, and then began work teaching media at the Institute. In a strange quirk of fate, Emma returned to the Channel in 2003 and carried on presenting and is still involved today.

Local TV
Today she is working with the team behind the bid for the Grimsby local TV licence, which was granted in October 2012. Currently under the working title of Lincolnshire Living, the channel will broadcast on Freeview Channel 8. Broadcasting will begin summer 2013. Emma will be running the news operation and reading the daily bulletins.

Factual Programmes
Emma has written, produced, directed and presented many factual programmes: Spotlight On Spurn (a look at life at Spurn Point); To The Manor Reborn (history of Healing Manor); For King And Country (following her great grandfather's journey from Lincolnshire to the 1st WW trenches) and Lingard's Lincolnshire Rambles (an historical walk through Lincolnshire villages).

Teaching
She has worked at the Grimsby Institute since 2001 and currently leads the BA Multi-Platform Journalism programme.

Publications
Emma has written a history book called Street Names of Grimsby to be published by Phillimore Press. The book looks at how the street names of Grimsby got their names. This is Emma's first book.