It takes a special kind of journalist to write sport. One that doesn’t just cope under pressure, but goes looking for it.
“I love it when you’re at a sports game and you’ve got to file to deadline, and you have your adrenaline pumping and you’re not sure if you are going to get your story or not,” Renee Valentine says.
“You have to want to do that.”
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“I think it is just something that’s in your blood – journalism,” Herald editor Heath Harrison says. “And once you have decided that is really what you want to do, then there’s nothing quite like it.”
Part III in a special series of interviews with Herald writers and editors conducted in September 2018 follows Parts I and II published from Monday, October 2.
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Simon McCarthy
Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.
Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.
