Newshub journalist, Karen Rutherford, visits the New Zealand Broadcasting School.

“You’ve chosen an incredible career,” said Newshub journalist Karen Rutherford to a roomful of second-year students at the New Zealand Broadcasting School (NZBS).

“You wake up in the morning and you’re not sure where you’re going to work that day. When I was recently in Christchurch to cover the Port Hills fire, I was talking to the cameraman and he said he had no idea he would be getting up close and personal with a whale that same day,” she said, referring to news coverage of the stranded whale in Moncks Bay in January.

The former NZBS student had the “best years of my life at NZBS,” she said, reflecting on working long hours on her journalism projects with other students, on biking through an icy Hagley Park on her way to Ara on winter mornings, and on meeting so many interesting people.

“We as journalists are just so lucky in this job. The contacts you’ll make and the experiences you’ll have are extraordinary. And no two days are ever alike.”

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