Keep in touch www.lancaster.ac.uk/alumni 3 She was one of the first journalists at the aftermath of the bombing in which 23 people died and 1,017 were injured - still wearing her Take That concert bracelet, she faced a scene difficult to comprehend on sight as 40-50 emergency vehicles lit up the sky with red and blue lights and thunderous helicopters went back and forth airlifting patients (many of them children) to hospital. Forensic teams, bomb squads and paramedics swarmed among the dead, injured and distressed. Amy worked through the night providing reports for Key 103 (and the Bauer radio network) every 15 minutes and also updates for Sky News, Channel 7 Australia and CNN, eventually going home at 1pm. Most of her job for the next 18 months became working on arena-related stories. “The attack has deeply affected me both personally and professionally - it changed my perspective on how I view news,” reflects Amy, who won several journalistic awards for her coverage of the arena attack and its aftermath. Microphone in hand covering major university sporting events such as Roses for Bailrigg FM campus radio, Amy Scarisbrick had no idea of the invaluable grounding she was gaining for covering what would be the most demanding assignment of her career to date - the terrorist bombing of the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena. Now a senior sports producer and journalist on Radio 5 Live, Amy finds it difficult to talk about that night in May 2017 when she received a call from Key 103 on her way back from a Take That concert in Liverpool, asking her to check out reports of an incident at the arena. TheBuzzof LiveS Amy Scarisbrick GRADUATED: 2011 SUBJECT: HISTORY COLLEGE: FYLDE PROFESSION: SENIOR JOURNALIST BBC RADIOSPORT 5 LIVE
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