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She started as an assistant floor manager, was an occasional in vision announcer on BBC Choice NI, then moved into presenting various programmes in NI before moving to The One Show.
Gloria started as a singer, before getting into TV and radio production.
Ruth started as a transmission assistant before becoming an announcer.
Being a good presenter, capable of asking intelligent questions and keeping a programme on track, has nothing to do with having journalistic qualifications.
But that's what we're saying- the better anchors of the show (Kaye, Ruth, Ranvir, Charlene) all are journalists and they're the ones who ask the best questions and seem the most in control of the programme. They're also not scared of debate.
Andrea, Nadia and Christine (as much as I do like Christine) have less journalistic experience and they're the episodes that seem to have more naff content and seem out of control.
As I pointed out, Ruth started out as a transmission assistant before becoming an announcer... she doesn't have a journalistic qualification.
Andrea, on the other hand, does have a post-grad in journalism.
So the better anchors aren't all qualified journalists.
You could of course argue that Ruth has worked as a news anchor... but then, so has Gloria.
Gloria presented Good Evening Ulster (during the height of The Troubles) she conducted interviews in studio and on location. She started out as singer, but she's as much of a journalist as any of the others who have official qualifications in the subject.
Christine doesn't really have any hard news experience, as far as I know. She has written newspaper columns in the past, and I'm sure had input into many of the scripts she's read and of course conducted many interviews on The One Show, Daybreak, First Stop, Country Times, etc... but that's pretty much the extent of it. Town Challenge and Sky High weren't journalism.
She certainly wasn't in Northern Ireland.
She started as an assistant floor manager, was an occasional in vision announcer on BBC Choice NI, then moved into presenting various programmes in NI before moving to The One Show.
Gloria started as a singer, before getting into TV and radio production.
Ruth started as a transmission assistant before becoming an announcer.
Being a good presenter, capable of asking intelligent questions and keeping a programme on track, has nothing to do with having journalistic qualifications.
But that's what we're saying- the better anchors of the show (Kaye, Ruth, Ranvir, Charlene) all are journalists and they're the ones who ask the best questions and seem the most in control of the programme. They're also not scared of debate.
Andrea, Nadia and Christine (as much as I do like Christine) have less journalistic experience and they're the episodes that seem to have more naff content and seem out of control.
As I pointed out, Ruth started out as a transmission assistant before becoming an announcer... she doesn't have a journalistic qualification.
Andrea, on the other hand, does have a post-grad in journalism.
So the better anchors aren't all qualified journalists.
You could of course argue that Ruth has worked as a news anchor... but then, so has Gloria.
Gloria presented Good Evening Ulster (during the height of The Troubles) she conducted interviews in studio and on location. She started out as singer, but she's as much of a journalist as any of the others who have official qualifications in the subject.
Christine doesn't really have any hard news experience, as far as I know. She has written newspaper columns in the past, and I'm sure had input into many of the scripts she's read and of course conducted many interviews on The One Show, Daybreak, First Stop, Country Times, etc... but that's pretty much the extent of it. Town Challenge and Sky High weren't journalism.
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