Media regulation employees normally enter the field having gained experience elsewhere in the media industry. It is fairly rare to enter the profession immediately after graduation.
Internships and work experience
As entrants into media regulation often come from other backgrounds consider gaining work experience within advertising, television, broadcasting, journalism, film or radio. This will help you develop a good understanding of the sector before moving into the appropriate regulation area.
Internships/work experience are offered at the BBC. There are hundreds of opportunities and from time to time these are within the BBC Trust. Ofcom offer a two-year engineering apprenticeship. Ofcom also offers a graduate training programme which offers four pathways; Generalist, Economic, Technologist or Spectrum Engineering.
As formal work experience placements are rare, sending a speculative application to your preferred media regulator can be a positive step.
Graduate jobs
Roles are often advertised on the media regulation company's websites, however due to the small number of media regulation companies these roles appear infrequently and competition is high. In this situation experience is a benefit. Because of this it is fairly unusual for a recent graduate to gain a job in media regulations.
Some regulation companies do not employ people from within the sector; for example, the Press Complaints Commission do not employ former journalists to ensure they remain free from bias or outside influence.
LSE Careers has compiled a list of graduate training schemes acrossthe AMMP sector for 2011 starts. See Graduate Training Schemes 2011 (pdf) (updated November 2011).
Routes into media regulation links