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Journalism is a difficult enough industry to break into.\u00a0 Broadcasting is even more difficult.\u00a0 In this post I am going to share with you how I went about it and offer some advice to anyone who might be considering broadcasting as a career.\u00a0 That could be you.<\/p>\n

This is me sitting down with Dutch football legend Ruud Gullit for an interview. Another career highlight.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
**\u201cIt\u2019s not what you know.\u00a0 It\u2019s who you know.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n**
I am sure you have heard that one before.\u00a0 In my case I did not know anyone.\u00a0 No one in my family had ever worked in broadcasting before and it was my dream to a radio presenter.\u00a0 One day I was looking at courses at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology<\/a> and noticed a short course called \u201cIntroduction to Radio Broadcasting\u201d.\u00a0 I rushed home and convinced my parents to pay for it.\u00a0 I was 20 at the time.<\/p>\n
$\"\"$
One of my career highlights has been travelling to high-profile events like the Olympic Games and interviewing gold medal winners.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
During this course I gained invaluable information about the industry.\u00a0 It would all culminate in me passing with a distinction and achieving the highest score in my class for our practical assignment, which was recording and producing a radio demo.\u00a0 A demo is a demonstration of your skills.\u00a0 In television, this is also commonly referred to as a show reel.<\/p>\n
My strategy after completing the course was to record a new demo and then distribute it to all the community radio stations in my province, except the one that was 500 km away.\u00a0 Community radio stations are mostly for volunteers only so moving so far away from home without having a job to support myself was unwise.<\/p>\n
$\"\"$
This was just before an interview with a Toyota Hilux team representative in the Namib Desert. The Toyota team were preparing and testing their vehicles before the next Dakar Rally.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Two stations invited me to bring my demo to them.\u00a0 Radio KC<\/a> in Paarl (about 60km north of Cape Town) offered me the opportunity I had been dreaming of and on Saturday 20 March 2004 I was on air for the first time ever.\u00a0 I was so nervous and my first 10 minutes on air were a disaster.\u00a0 However, after about 30 minutes I settled down and began to have some fun.\u00a0 By August I was hosting the afternoon drive show and by June of the following year I left to join P4 (now called Heart FM 104.9<\/a>).<\/p>\n
After three years in commercial radio I moved into television as a sports reporter at e News<\/a> and currently I work as a sports presenter at one of the biggest television news channels in the world, Al Jazeera<\/a>.<\/p>\n
$\"\"$
Sometimes the tables turn and I am the interviewee! Al Jazeera Arabic asked if they could speak to me on my experiences as a foreign journalist in the UK. Who knew four years later I would be working for them?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
You do not have to follow my exact path of course, but I would strongly recommend putting together a good demo or show reel and distributing it.\u00a0 You might say you do not know who or where to send it to.\u00a0 I would answer you by saying, find out.\u00a0 You are a journalist after all.\u00a0 Build up a network for yourself.\u00a0 Use LinkedIn and Twitter and soon you will have contacts.\u00a0 Not everyone will help you but by way of example, you can follow me on Twitter<\/a> or add me on LinkedIn<\/a> and then you have a contact at Al Jazeera.\u00a0 See how easy it can be?<\/p>\n
$\"\"$
My career has given me the pleasure of meeting and working with wonderful people from all over the world, like Craig Norenbergs from Australia.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
All of this is very useful information, but I cannot stress enough how crucial natural talent, ability, skills and hard work are.\u00a0 Those elements trump knowing who to call or email every day of the week. \u00a0My advice is simply to help people who are good, or at least potentially very good, and give them a little push in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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This is me sitting down with Dutch football legend Ruud Gullit for an interview. Another career highlight.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
**\u201cIt\u2019s not what you know.\u00a0 It\u2019s who you know.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n**
I am sure you have heard that one before.\u00a0 In my case I did not know anyone.\u00a0 No one in my family had ever worked in broadcasting before and it was my dream to a radio presenter.\u00a0 One day I was looking at courses at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology<\/a> and noticed a short course called \u201cIntroduction to Radio Broadcasting\u201d.\u00a0 I rushed home and convinced my parents to pay for it.\u00a0 I was 20 at the time.<\/p>\n
$\"\"$
One of my career highlights has been travelling to high-profile events like the Olympic Games and interviewing gold medal winners.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
During this course I gained invaluable information about the industry.\u00a0 It would all culminate in me passing with a distinction and achieving the highest score in my class for our practical assignment, which was recording and producing a radio demo.\u00a0 A demo is a demonstration of your skills.\u00a0 In television, this is also commonly referred to as a show reel.<\/p>\n
My strategy after completing the course was to record a new demo and then distribute it to all the community radio stations in my province, except the one that was 500 km away.\u00a0 Community radio stations are mostly for volunteers only so moving so far away from home without having a job to support myself was unwise.<\/p>\n
$\"\"$
This was just before an interview with a Toyota Hilux team representative in the Namib Desert. The Toyota team were preparing and testing their vehicles before the next Dakar Rally.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Two stations invited me to bring my demo to them.\u00a0 Radio KC<\/a> in Paarl (about 60km north of Cape Town) offered me the opportunity I had been dreaming of and on Saturday 20 March 2004 I was on air for the first time ever.\u00a0 I was so nervous and my first 10 minutes on air were a disaster.\u00a0 However, after about 30 minutes I settled down and began to have some fun.\u00a0 By August I was hosting the afternoon drive show and by June of the following year I left to join P4 (now called Heart FM 104.9<\/a>).<\/p>\n
After three years in commercial radio I moved into television as a sports reporter at e News<\/a> and currently I work as a sports presenter at one of the biggest television news channels in the world, Al Jazeera<\/a>.<\/p>\n
$\"\"$
Sometimes the tables turn and I am the interviewee! Al Jazeera Arabic asked if they could speak to me on my experiences as a foreign journalist in the UK. Who knew four years later I would be working for them?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
You do not have to follow my exact path of course, but I would strongly recommend putting together a good demo or show reel and distributing it.\u00a0 You might say you do not know who or where to send it to.\u00a0 I would answer you by saying, find out.\u00a0 You are a journalist after all.\u00a0 Build up a network for yourself.\u00a0 Use LinkedIn and Twitter and soon you will have contacts.\u00a0 Not everyone will help you but by way of example, you can follow me on Twitter<\/a> or add me on LinkedIn<\/a> and then you have a contact at Al Jazeera.\u00a0 See how easy it can be?<\/p>\n
$\"\"$
My career has given me the pleasure of meeting and working with wonderful people from all over the world, like Craig Norenbergs from Australia.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
All of this is very useful information, but I cannot stress enough how crucial natural talent, ability, skills and hard work are.\u00a0 Those elements trump knowing who to call or email every day of the week. \u00a0My advice is simply to help people who are good, or at least potentially very good, and give them a little push in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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