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Apr 2024
Meet the team – Tamsin O’Brien, founder
For the past few weeks, we’ve been introducing you to the team behind The Stray Ferret.
This week we're featuring Tamsin O'Brien, the founder of the organisation.
Tamsin is the founder of the Stray Ferret and has spent three decades working as a journalist and in the media.
She began her career in 1990, working as a reporter for BBC Radio Berkshire. In the following thirty years she’s seen a huge transformation in technology.
She said:
After moving into TV news, Tamsin then went on to run parts of England for the BBC as Head of BBC Yorkshire and then BBC North West in Manchester.
After twenty years in the BBC she returned to North Yorkshire to live in Harrogate where she has stayed ever since. But she missed journalism and in 2020 decided to set up The Stray Ferret.
She explained:
Outside work Tamsin loves to travel, stay fit and enjoys a long walk in the Dales, followed by a pub lunch.
Her passion though is journalism and she is a self-confessed news junkie.
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