WEALTH & RICHES THE BEST YOU PRE OP TV TO BE A T HOW SENTER
The Best You asked three of the top TV presenters in the country what their advice is to get ahead in the game of broadcast journalism.
EAMONN HOLMES, SKY NEWS ON SKY
One of the great secrets of life is to be happy in what
you do – if you are, you are bound to do it better. To any one setting out attempting to get into broadcasting, make sure that you love it. Ever since I was 11 years old I wanted to be a Broadcast Journalist. I was a Trainee Manager at Primark for a while and the experience was so tough that it re-focused me and made me disregard other people’s lack of ambition. A year later I was the Young Journalist of the Year. Luck will play a part when your chance comes – but you’ve got to be ready. And the harder you work at what you want, the luckier you will tend to be..
CHARLENE WHITE, ITV NEWS ON ITV
I decided that journalism was the career for me aged
16. I did work placements every year until I finished university, and also had a stint writing for the New York Post. Five years of summer placements meant I walked straight into a job as a Production Journalist when I graduated, and have been working unsociable hours as a journo ever since! You need a passion for news, dedication to the genre, up for working all hours, and that yearning for the thrill of a breaking news story. And of course, you need the gift of the gab.
KATE QUILTON FOOD UNWRAPPED ON CHANNEL 4
It used to be the case that to get on-screen, you had
to wait for someone to give you a break. Local news and children's TV were both well-trodden ladders for fledgling TV presenters. But now, everything’s changed. You can get yourself on-screen and learn your craft along the way. If you want to be a presenter, the tools are available to get on and do it. Identify the thing that you’re interested in, start making videos and get your stuff online. Second piece of advice, clichéd I know, but be yourself. There shouldn’t be a difference between the on-screen ‘you’ and the down-the-pub ‘you’. So long as you're not drunk.
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