My second week, like my first, has gone very quickly. I’ve been on the Home Planning Desk from Monday to Thursday and with Sky News Radio on Friday.

At times it has been quiet, but I’ve managed to get a few pieces of content done. On Thursday I did an interview with Jay Nagley, a motoring analyst, and this was used on Sky News the next day as part of graphic wall presentation. You can view the interview here. (Nagley is the first person).

Yesterday I was tasked with producing a package on Swine Flu. The angle was the effect it is having on businesses and I interviewed a spokesman from the Federation of Private Business, and also did some digging and found some statistics to add some meat to the story. I’ve got an MP3 version of the file which I will upload when I get the chance.

This week I also managed to set up an interview with Will Greenwood, the former England rugby player, for a package about Manchester City. Turns out he’s a City fan. Alan Carr, however, is not. A quick Google search informed me that he was, despite my suspicions. Anyway, I gave his agent a ring and it turns out Google was wrong.

This week I also spent a day shadowing reporter Sara Merchant. First we went to a briefing on swine flu. It didn’t really herald a new angle on the story, just what we have all heard before. A number of journalists at the briefing tried to get a discernible new angle amidst the deluge of statistics, but it wasn’t there.

Afterwards we headed back to Osterley where I shadowed Sara and helped out as she produced a package on the assisted suicide of the composer Sir Edward Downes and his wife Lady Joan Downes at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland

Next week I’ll be at Five News, which should provide a bit of contrast to my first two weeks, owing to the difference in styles between the two. The only thing I’m not looking forward to is starting at 8:15am every morning!