Paul Harrison – whose dad died reporting for the BBC- says good reporters always beat their rivals. Mr Harrison, 35, is a Sky News reporter who joined the company at the end of 1996 and has been on the road with them ever since.
He is now based in London and currently working on a credit crunch piece where he faces the challenge of making a complex issue accessible to all viewers.
The key, especially with an ongoing issue, is to be able to tell the story in a different and more interesting way than the opposition.
On Monday Sky News gave an armchair trader £1,000 and is seeking to show the impact of the markets by seeing how they have affected that money by the end of this week.
Mr Harrison stresses the importance of a good contact list and when he reported on the Ipswich murders last year got the inside track due to a colleague’s impressive contacts.
When he first started out at the Richmond and Twickenham Times in 1994, the same year in which his father died, Harrison was earning £23.10 per day.
Now he earns around £54,000 a year which he adds is: ‘better than the BBC’.
Harrison always wanted to be a reporter and has followed in the footsteps of his father, who was the BBC Southern Africa Correspondent for 11 years.
Although Mr Harrison’s father was killed, the event has not discouraged him from doing that same job himself.
He said: ‘It taught me there is a limit, but you cannot replace the buzz of breaking a story.’
No comments:
Post a Comment