The Provise Project #14 - John Campbell

John Campbell is a New Zealand journalist and radio and television personality. He is currently a host on Breakfast at TVNZ; before that, he presented Checkpoint, Radio New Zealand's drive time show, from 2016 to 2018. For ten years prior to that, he presented Campbell Live, a current affairs programme. He was a rugby commentator for Sky Sports during the All Blacks' test against Samoa in early 2015 — a fixture he had vocally campaigned for while hosting Campbell Live.

Timestamps

• (01:28) John’s background
• (04:18) How his career launched to success
• (08:18) Tips in working in the journalism industry
• (11:39) The New Zealand journalism scene
• (16:20) Life as a radio and TV personality and reporter
• (20:41) The revolution unfolding and in media
• (24:10) Thoughts about broadcasting and how things have changed
• (28:10) Stories from Campbell live
• (42:10) How the notion of criminalizing someone for smoking cannabis is absurd.
• (46:10) Practical advice for journalist or a journalism student
• (49:10) Why people are exhausted and stressed out 
• (51:24) Hip hop that tells a story and takes you to places
• (55:18) How John is interested in telling stories and shining light and dark corners
• (1:10:38) Education system in New Zealand and suggestions to improve it

Quotes:

“People had a culture which had been appropriated and stolen and profited from and never acknowledged and never celebrated, and they were angry about it.”

“We need journalism, we need, true spoken to power. We need diversity in our journalism for that reason and we've got to protect journalism and make sure what it's good because otherwise we're in the shit cause it is an art form.”

“ We have to tell other stories. Otherwise we're not being representative. It's called broadcasting for a reason. It's meant to be broad. It's meant to have all voices in all lives on the inside.”

Links to John Campbell

https://twitter.com/johnjcampbell

https://www.instagram.com/johnjcampbell/

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