{"id":40,"date":"2018-06-26T12:44:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T11:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/?p=40"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:44:45","slug":"howzat-victoria-breaks-boundary-as-first-female-cricket-presenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/2018\/06\/26\/howzat-victoria-breaks-boundary-as-first-female-cricket-presenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Howzat! Victoria breaks boundary as first female cricket presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Congratulations to Centre for Journalism graduate Victoria Polley who has just become the first female presenter of the county cricket programme Around The Wicket at BBC Essex.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/files\/2018\/07\/Polley-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/files\/2018\/07\/Polley-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/files\/2018\/07\/Polley-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/files\/2018\/07\/Polley-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/files\/2018\/07\/Polley.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Victoria has been a sports reporter for the BBC since she was 17, and she regularly returned home to do shifts during her three years at the Centre for Journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Her new role is a career landmark, in a summer which has been defined by the regular appearance of female pundits and commentators in coverage of the FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Victoria&#8217;s show on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p068q9pm\">iPlayer Radio here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We wish her luck for a long innings in the presenter&#8217;s chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Centre for Journalism graduate Victoria Polley who has just become the first female presenter of the county cricket programme Around The Wicket at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/2018\/06\/26\/howzat-victoria-breaks-boundary-as-first-female-cricket-presenter\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56011,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[143083,888,204702],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/centreforjournalism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}