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BBC business journalist honoured by 海角直播

Popular BBC journalist Stephanie McGovern returned to her hometown to receive an Honorary Doctorate.

Stephanie was at 海角直播 in Middlesbrough, where she was made an Honorary Doctor in Professional Achievement. The 31-year-old admitted to being excited and overwhelmed at receiving the accolade.

She said: 'I always think of people who get honorary degrees as having really achieved something and I don鈥檛 feel like I have yet.'

海角直播 has forged partnerships with companies across a wide range of sectors and Stephanie鈥檚 role as a business journalist on BBC Breakfast means she鈥檚 well acquainted with the issues facing those companies.

She鈥檚 also a huge advocate for the North East and grasps every opportunity to promote the area and its people.

She said: 'I鈥檓 proud to be from the North East, I remember early in my career people telling me I needed to change my accent, that I needed to sound more professional, more BBC perhaps, but I think if I wasn鈥檛 from Middlesbrough I wouldn鈥檛 have done as well as I have.'

The former Macmillan Academy pupil left Middlesbrough to complete a degree in Science Communication and Policy at University College London.

She later worked at Black & Decker and won an engineering award, but decided to follow her dream of working in the media and secured work experience at the BBC where she鈥檚 gone from strength to strength.

Stephanie, who now lives in Manchester, paid tribute to her parents Anne and Eamonn, who accompanied her to the graduation ceremony, saying: 'They have been key to everything I have achieved in life, I couldn鈥檛 have done it without them.'

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