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Sky Sports presenter to host NCTJ’s annual awards

Jo wilsonA Sky Sports presenter has been unveiled as the host the National Council for the Training of Journalists’s annual awards.

The NCTJ has announced Jo Wilson will present the awards, which are due to take place at London’s Twickenham Stadium next month.

Jo, pictured, completed NCTJ training at Glasgow Caledonian University before joining the graduate trainee scheme at Sky Sports News.

She then worked as a junior sub-editor creating the on-screen graphics for the channel before being promoted to sub-editor nine months later, where her duties included cutting pictures and writing scripts.

Said Jo: “A year later, I started co-producing and a year after that I did a reporting secondment for six weeks and I was asked if I fancied doing on-screen shifts, and I have never looked back.

“I really loved production and one day I will go back to that. I was given the opportunity to do on-screen stuff, but I hadn’t particularly thought about it before then.”

“Sky Sports News has always been about encouraging and promoting women. When I first started, it would have been unheard of to have two women presenting side by side but now it’s not unusual. I think the women before me did the best work and paved the way.”

The awards ceremony and celebration lunch take place on Thursday 2 March, following an accreditation seminar for NCTJ course leaders and industry advisers.

Jo added: “It’s a real honour to be asked to host the awards as the NCTJ really set me up so well for my career and it’s great to see the future generations of journalists coming through.

“I’m so happy to be involved in recognising their achievements.”