He’s clearly quite green and faltered during his first live cross, cut him some slack. Everybody starts somewhere.
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Yeah but first impressions are important. Hopefully he gets better from here.
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Probably for the best it happened on a low rating Saturday night.
I’ve seen lots of reporters make quite poor live cross debuts. They’ve all turned out to be really good at their job and I’m sure most people don’t remember it after a few weeks. I remember Harry Clarke in Brisbane stopped halfway through a cross once (he clearly lost his train of thought) and threw back to the studio apologising. He ended up being a crime reporter and doing a live cross most nights.
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There’s the problem - these newspaper journalists have no television experience and you can really tell they are out of their depth in a live television environment. And he isn’t the first.
That kind of delivery is really awkward for a viewer to watch and he should not have been put into that situation in the first place.
It should be mandatory for all newspaper journalists to do a stint in regional television news, before taking on a metropolitan reporting role.
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In the world of television, i completely disagree. Several very famous TV Presenters first time at the desk wasn’t great (including one presenter who fainted while presenting the weather and she became very successful)
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I agree. I was just making a comment that he’s got plenty of room for improvement which I hope will occur. Considering Nine Melbourne got him to move down to Melbourne from Sydney and from SMH to Nine News it indicates that they have confidence in him which is good.
What about Mark Stevens, who worked at Herald Sun for several years before joining Seven News Melbourne? I don’t think he had previous TV experience either.
I think Danny Weidler, Michael Chammas and possibly former reporter Neil Breen are Sydney examples of those taken straight from the print side of the business into on screen TV with no other media experience. Though they were all sports reporters only.
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Saturday 23 April -
Alicia Muling presented sport in Melbourne.
Sunday 24 April -
Peter Overton is back presenting in Sydney tonight.
Europe correspondent Carrie Anne Greenbank is reporting from Gallipoli in Turkey.
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Peter Overton and Amber Sherlock are back on Sydney’s 9 News tonight.
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Pete is fine form so far tonight - it’s like he’s never been off at all.
I think it’s the first time in a while since both Pete and Amber have on the same night?
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Scherri-Lee Biggs returns to presenting Perth weather after a week in the east coast filling-in for Tim Davies.
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Thank heavens - Media Spy’s long national nightmare is finally over…!
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Not quite. He’s MIA from the late news tonight. There’s something sinister going on, I tells ya!
Another sleepless night for certain MS members.
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Pete could have wanted an early night so he could attend a dawn service in the morning. Lizzie was in the studio for the 6pm news and was available
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Monday 25 April -
Kate Creedon is presenting Morning News today.
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who was that?
Finally they have a voiceover for her.
“This is Nine News, with Kate Creedon”.
Also the morning news is coming out of a different studio
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