ABOUT ME
Kalina Kirilova
From an early age I have always had an interest in music and media. Growing up in Bulgaria I attended the National School of Music where I excelled in music as well as ordinary lessons, regularly obtaining high grades, and often the highest in the class.
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Following school, I moved to the UK to further my education. This saw me move to Cardiff to begin a Music Business degree at the University of South Wales. During this time I saw myself go from strength to strength, really growing in confidence and as a person as I ventured out of my home country for the first time ever, and my experiences on my undergraduate degree led me on the path that I am currently on.
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Following graduation I began to think of what was next, and I decided to pursue my love of media, and enrolled on the International Journalism masters course at Cardiff University, one of the best Universities in the country for journalism.
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While my studies were impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, limiting my chances of securing work placements within organisations, I took the opportunity to contribute as often as I could towards our student publications. I became a confident and competent video producer, creating news packages either as a camera operator for fellow students, or as the journalist myself.
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My life up until this point had almost always focussed on music, but during my course I wanted to challenge myself and get out of my comfort zone, so I even took on a sport story on occasion, something that I never thought I would ever be confident enough to do, but I created a article and video, interviewing Welsh athlete Jenny Nesbitt as sports events began to return to Wales following the pandemic.
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Now as I come to the end of my degree I am eager to prove myself to an organisation as a young, bright, up and coming and determined journalist.
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With proven abilities to not focus just on one area, and skills ranging from interviewing, writing, filming, editing and presenting, I feel that I am just one chance away from a long and successful career in the media industry.