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Mark Duell (born 25 December 2008) is a journalist currently reading BA Journalism Studies at The University of Sheffield, who also works as a web journalist for Premier Christian Radio.
The student has already completed work experience at BBC Essex, BBC 6 o'clock News, BBC Sport Interactive [2], The People, Southend Echo and Premier Christian Radio. He also has forthcoming placements booked at LBC, The Week and Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky.
Premier Christian Radio was Mark's first destination after his A-Levels, and he spent 10 weeks at their Pimlico headquarters in a successful stint as a web journalist, which landed him a freelance contract shortly after.
Mark has A-Levels in English Literature (A), French (B), Mathematics (A), Economics (A) and General Studies (A). He achieved scores of over 95% in Mathematics, Economics and General Studies. He also has 11 GCSEs, 9.5 of which were A* grades, and the other 1.5 Bs, and is qualified to Grade 8 on the clarinet and Grade 5 music theory. He was deputy head boy at Westcliff High School for Boys and used to edit the student newspaper, The Insider [3].
He is the youngest-ever news editor of the highly-rated [4] Sheffield Steel Press newspaper at The University of Sheffield [5]. His biggest achievements with the paper are getting over 20 people thrown-out of university accommodation, and almost bringing down a whole Union club night after two investigative pieces of journalism [neither article yet online, but will be shortly].
Mark also appears in other publications such as The Star from time to time [6], and is known by Media Guardian following a highly critical letter against an article by press critic Peter Wilby [7].
He is involved with the Christian Union, Sure Radio, Ceilidh society and jazz band friNJE at the university in South Yorkshire, and lives in Broomhill whilst in Sheffield. His permanent address is in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, where he lives with his musician mother Kay and banker father David. His brother is currently at Westcliff High School for Boys.
Mark is also a member of TAGS (The Almost Gospel Singers) barbershop quartet, who have raised over £10,000 for various charities during their five-year history of performing [8].
His Level One degree is currently first-class at The University of Sheffield.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southend_utd/4784155.stm http://www.whsb.essex.sch.uk/?id=144 http://media.guardian.co.uk/studentmediaawards http://www.shefsteel.com http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/Students-jaw-shattered-in-club.3825490.jp http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/04/1 http://www.tagsquartet.co.uk
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