KAMALI MELBOURNE

Television

Presenter at Sky News

By Maira Butt

What was the most useful skill you learnt at City?

Lis Howell [Head of the TV MA] taught me that when you’re reading a news bulletin to speak lower and slower. It’s about taking your time and being aware of your voice and that’s something that I still try and remember and maintain in my work today. It’s a very tiny nugget. But it’s important for a broadcaster.

What’s been the highlight of your career so far?

I was on Downing Street when Boris Johnson gave his resignation speech, and I was there the morning Liz Truss was arriving. Then there was the day the Queen died- it was quite a career highlight. I was also on air the moment Russia started its invasion of Ukraine.

What advice would you give to new journalists?

ROWLEY Newspaper Deputy Editor at Grazia

By Ciéra Cree

The starting point for any journalist is to be curious, and you can’t really teach curiosity. You need to have a work out how a machine operates, but for us it’s the stories and life.

What’s your favourite piece of journalism?

I’d say any piece of work that pulls at the threads. Something that pieces the parts together. Back in the day that would have been done by knocking doors. the real ‘shoe leather’ work. Today, it’s all about open source- it’s vital in being able to unearth nuggets of truth in the morass of information and content we are exposed to right now.