The Galaxy Birmingham radio breakfast team talks casually about life working in radio and what they believe it takes to become a great Journalist.
As funny off air as they are on, Dan Kelly 32 and his co presenter Katy joke about their dream jobs, interviews they have done and how they managed to get a job in radio.
When asked what advice he would give to an aspiring journalist, Dan laughed and shouted “don’t do it” before swiftly emphasising that networking, being nice to people and doing things for free will always impress when your first starting out. “It’s not necessarily what you know it’s who you know, always make contacts and always be nice to people.” Dan initially got into radio by first doing a full time position behind the scenes and finally being given the chance to go on air when one of the DJ’s didn’t show up leaving him to step in. A job in radio however is a bit different to his dream job of playing for Leicester city, although he reveals his schoolboy dreams are not completely destroyed, as he still believes that England manager Fabio Capello will one day pick him.
Katy claimed that a great reporter is “someone who gets the facts right” but also has compassion. “One of the girls in news was out with the fire brigade doing a report when a fire happened, some of the fire guys that had gone into the building died so she was reporting on the scene. She really showed compassion and did an awesome report.”
When asked what wage you could expect from working in radio a very specific figure of between £10,000 and £100,000 was given. Although Katy alluded to the figure by joking that “it would be nice to get my boiler fixed.”
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