It has flown by – my first week at Sky News is over. So far it has been a very enjoyable experience, with plenty of variety.

On Thursday I shadowed the Live at Five team from planning the programme to it being broadcast. First up I attended the meetings and watched the producers start to lay the foundations of the programme: the running order, timings of the headlines and other segments etc.

I also wrote 3 NIBs for the programme – a shooting in Manchester, a Chinese man dangling his baby from an eighth floor window, and a man dying in rather unfortunate (and morbidly comic) circumstances by falling into a vat of chocolate in the US.

Then I spent some time with Enda Brady while his package on phone tapping was put together. He’s a thoroughly nice guy and passed on plenty of tips. I finished my day by going to the gallery and watching the programme being broadcast.

Yesterday my time was divided between radio and online. I was on radio in the morning, and helped out Verity Geere, Magic’s news reader, by recording an interview with Cllr Alan Bradley of Westminster Council, which is selling off 30 of its road signs. This was used in the 1pm bulletin.

My afternoon at online proved to be particularly fruitful. I managed to get an article on the Sky News website, about Brits tipping on their holidays, and a 17-second NIB about a man being killed in the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

They say time flies when you’re having fun, and in this case it definitely appears to be a truism.