In Brief
17/11/2017
Grab experience where you can
Santana: “I arrived here, jobless, from the Canary Islands in 1994, and wanted to carry on editing.
“I did a very short online course in order to get into low-budget TV. It was great experience and led to me working on National Geographic documentaries.
“You shouldn’t be sniffy about low-budget productions as an...
In Brief
17/11/2017
The job: “If you do what we do, you have to love it because it’s not easy. It’s pretty much an all-consuming passion.” (Darlington)
“I’ve been from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to the top of a volcano in Ethiopia and everywhere in between. I’ve had the most amazing experiences – and been paid to do it.” (King)
People versus machines: “Cameras...
In Brief
16/11/2017
Duff works on studio and live shows, combining both specialisms on ITV’s The Voice; Duffield is usually found on location, from the Alps for the feature documentary, Touching the Void to BBC Two’s The Story of China.
Duff on getting started: “This is the only industry, I think, where you can start [from the bottom] as a runner and get in – I see...
In Brief
15/11/2017
Why a career in TV is for everyone
“It’s important to demystify television and make you realise that TV is a great place to work…
“As a second generation British-born Indian no one in my family had ever worked in the media before. Of my siblings two are lawyers and one is an environmental scientist.
“Ideally my folks would have liked me to be a...
In Brief
15/11/2017
How she became a journalist
“I came to journalism quite late having done sociology at university. I had no idea what I wanted to do. I ended up working for Britain’s first black MP, Bernie Grant, for a number of years.
“Working for him I saw media from the other side and it wasn’t very good. Awful things were written about him, especially in the...