{"id":27,"date":"2024-10-14T03:27:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T02:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/keira-gratton\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2024-12-20T15:36:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T15:36:05","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/keira-gratton\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"About Me\" width=\"810\" height=\"456\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cU2tqrmWOwM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Keira Gratton, and I am currently studying Journalism, Media, and Culture at Newcastle University. As part of a second-year university project I will be posting eco-journalism content on this website from October through to December 2024. If you&#8217;re an environmentalist, a student like me, or even just green-curious, stick around to see what I post here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up in the rural Midlands you quickly becoming intimate with a lot of nature. Some of the few summer pastimes in our villages are roaming the wheat fields with your siblings and hoarding conkers until they mould.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/keira-gratton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24116\/2024\/10\/IMG_2523-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35\" style=\"width:340px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/keira-gratton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24116\/2024\/10\/IMG_2523-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/keira-gratton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24116\/2024\/10\/IMG_2523-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/keira-gratton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24116\/2024\/10\/IMG_2523-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/keira-gratton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24116\/2024\/10\/IMG_2523-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/journalists.org.uk\/keira-gratton\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24116\/2024\/10\/IMG_2523-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image credit: Keira Gratton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holidaying exclusively in the UK until my mid-teens, our family instead took more trips than I can remember across the countryside. Somewhere between these places, the exotic seas of my favourite nature documentaries, and sunsets at home, a love for our landscapes was instilled in little me. I was a rapt viewer of any and all fishing programmes (still my go-to hungover watch) and kept a stack of encyclopedias next to my bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meshing that with my love of creative writing and videography, I\u2019ve landed on environmental journalism for this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Eco Echo site will hopefully be a novel space for north-eastern viewers to learn a little more about the stunning ecosystem right on their doorsteps. I hope my content will be a learning experience for season climate-activists and new greenies alike. With Northumberland National Park and the coastline a stone\u2019s throw away, it shouldn\u2019t prove too challenging to impress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll be looking at biodiversity on the Tynemouth coastline, evolving green spaces in Newcastle city-centre, current climate-action and more. You can expect to see a mixture of multimedia news reports, features, opinion pieces and video. Through these articles, I hope to make environmentalism a little more accessible to viewers, and remind you why we must stay vigilant in calls for better climate policies and less pollution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you can check out some of my content on the pages above, or my social media linked on this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Happy viewing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow my<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_ecoecho_?s=21&amp;t=r61Eja5PHH-gSd_g9XAhkg\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@eco_ech0?_t=8sNRusLUYAC&amp;_r=1\">TikTok <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there! My name is Keira Gratton, and I am currently studying Journalism, Media, and Culture at Newcastle University. As part of a second-year university project I will be posting eco-journalism content on this website from October through to December 2024. 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