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Echo trainee's video report makes Newsnight top 13

A trainee reporter from the Express & Echo in Exeter could see her video report broadcast on BBC’s Newsnight, after being shortlisted for a national competition.

Alice Klein, who joined the Echo just four months ago, filmed a two minute video on carbon offsetting for the TV programme after viewers were asked to send in their own news.

Her film is among 13 shortlisted and those which receive the most public votes will be broadcast on the show in January.

Alice, (24), regularly produces video reports for the Express & Echo website www.thisisexeter.co.uk, and decided to make one in her own time for Newsnight.

She said: “I was watching Newsnight one evening when I saw this competition.

“The Echo had just sent me on the Press Association diploma in video journalism so I thought I’d have a go.

“Climate change is such a controversial topic at the moment which will continue to make the headlines and I’ve always felt very strongly about the environment.

“I made it during a week off in November, most of it was filmed in my bedroom and I visited a tree-planting project on the Moors to get some interesting shots of trees.”

She added: “I was really delighted to make the shortlist. It’s good to see that local journalists can make national headlines and it’s important that established media encourage newcomers in order to keep the industry alive.

“I hope other journalists will watch my video and if they like it, vote for it.”

In her spare time Alice enjoys watching documentaries and her next aim is to make a short documentary.

Echo editor Marc Astley said: “As well as carrying their traditional notepads and pens, reporters now often go on assignments armed with camcorders and tripods.

“People are increasingly consuming their media in a variety of different ways and I see it as our job to serve them through whichever method they require be it the newspaper, text, Internet or download.”

To watch Alice’s video click here.

Her video is number seven, entitled CARBON.