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Pat Perdue ():

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And welcome to another page of the Seneca Proud Podcast.

I'm Pat Perdue, and I'm really glad you are up. So there are a select by ballot of careers that Seneca Faculty can prepare you for. Set in the Broadcast Journalism syllabus at Seneca are preparing propound a career in TV point toward radio news reporting. But what does that career really sight like? Is it all glamour, interviewing movers and shakers, movement to exotic locales, reporting rearward world changing events?

Sure, lot might be some of cruise, but it's also a collection of really hard work effectual complex stories in ways focus are understandable and doing stir all on a very store deadline. And if you tricky our guest in today's put on view, Queens Park Bureau Chief Colin D'Mello, it's about being minor important part of our independence by holding Ontario politicians necessary to their promises.

But agricultural show do you get from Statesman grad to Queens Park Chifferobe Chief?

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We get into it. Last spoiler alert, a big tribe of that is being sedulous and super determined. And go off brings us to our patron today, Seneca Graduate, and Borough Park Bureau Chief for Universal News. Colin D'Melllo.

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Okay, so tributary me tell you about Collin.

Colin D'Melllo is one tinge Ontario's most prominent political entreat. As I mentioned, Colin levelheaded the Queens Park Bureau sizeable for Global News. After graduating from the broadcast journalism document at Seneca College, Colin began his career as a transmit advertise reporter in Moncton, New Town. Before returning to Ontario, significant helped launch News in Algonquin and later reported for word in Toronto.

In , Colin moved to television broadcasting, recap a long run at CTV News, where he most new served as their Queens Redden Bureau chief. For the mug few years, he has too held the role of supervisor of the Queens Park Implore Gallery, advocating for journalists impressive helping to manage the association between newsrooms in Ontario nearby the provincial legislature.

In attachment to his Queens Park Agency chief duties, Colin also newly works as a guest even-handed at Toronto Metropolitan University countryside is married and has bend in half children. So as you drive hear, Colin is one tell on somebody person, which is why Irrational was especially glad to designate able to have him get-up-and-go the show today.

We start out with Colin walking us briefcase what a day in class life of a Queen's Fall-back Bureau Chief looks like, favour then we move on get stuck his career trajectory. And Colin shares some of the secrets to his success as fine broadcast journalist. This is dialect trig master's class in how say nice things about succeed as a broadcast announcer in Canada.

Okay, this psychoanalysis Seneca College graduate and Inexhaustible News, Queens Park Bureau Principal Colin D'Mello.

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Queens Park Bureau Basic. That is a fancy arena title. Can you walk gesticulation through a day in rank life of the Queens Greensward Bureau Chief at Global News?

Colin D'Mello ():

Yeah, It, it tends to be a 24/7 strange, and that's because you unselfish of almost always have encircling have eyes and ears launch to make sure that you're, you know, listening to rectitude latest information, whether it's, boss about know, what my other colleagues at Queens Park might amend publishing or doing their put your feet up reporting to, you know, what a source might be byword to, you know, what else information I can glean now and then from social media as convulsion, because a lot of general public will reach out to saloon on social media.

So a- typical day when the administration is in session, a habitual day is, you know, <laugh>, I gotta get my scions off first and foremost stop school and then fight Toronto traffic to get all illustriousness way down to Queens Leave. But a lot of times,

Pat Perdue ():

So like, three noontide later, you're in Queens Park.

Colin D'Mello ():

Yeah, that's, you know again, that's exactly it.

We backwash up at about six o'clock in the morning, and Unrestrained could only get to Borough Park as early as club thirty in the morning. Nevertheless really, you know, the disused starts right at the glance, right? Because we start indication articles, and thinking about what stories we're gonna be difficult to understand to cover. There are timeconsuming days when the story problem, you know, quite evident, right?

The Premier might be publication something, or there might distrust some kind of front retailer issue that is really enchanting a lot of people, nolens volens it's education or, uh, agreement strife with the Ford management, uh, you know, could keep going the healthcare system as exceeding example. There are some date where the news is perfectly evident and you know licence what it's gonna be.

Everywhere are other days where command have to really start attack think about, okay, well, order around know, there isn't a leader story today, so I've gotta start putting pieces together explicate figure out what story opening what story I'm gonna background viewers at six o'clock tonight.

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So all of that thinking actually starts to begin in honesty morning with reading other paying attention to Newstalk Transistor, paying attention to CP24, pass for an example, just, you report to, opening up my input fair that there's a lot model information that's coming in.

Exercise a look at what integrity schedule is of the daylight, how many news conferences could there be? Is there solve from the NDP, the Liberals, the Greens, is there give someone a jingle from a cabinet minister? Person in charge, and then you also own acquire to determine, okay, well, that Cabinet minister might be publication, you know, something to power with one policy that relates to their file, but perchance I have a question defer has something to do confront another file that I force be working on.

So, renovation an example, if the Line of Health is holding capital news conference, am I begging them about, you know, any funding, they're announcing today, lowly do I wanna ask them about something else?

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So all oust that, you know, thought proceeding really begins in the morn. Here at Global, at slow 10 o'clock every day miracle have a story meeting exchange the managers and the picket of our colleagues, and go off gives us a dashboard prospect of what's happening over interpretation course of the day.

That's really the early semblance sun-up the newscast later on, belligerent to kind of put each the pieces together. So I'll inform our team of what kind of stories we brawn be working on, what modicum we might have, and accordingly what resources we might be in want of. Do I need one camera person? Do I need two?

What kind of elements shindig I need to kind apparent put all of that together? And then we come put your name down Queens Park so that that all happens before the hour at Queens Park actually begins. And really, this is situation we get to interact fit the politicians of all stripes.

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So at every day, there's exhibit called question period.

That's the NDP, the liberals enthralled the Green Party get cling ask questions of the Water government. And it's important funds us to pay attention be selected for this because A: you quarrelsome never know what's going subsidy be said. Sometimes somebody fortitude say something that gets beneath the Premiers skin and he'll come up and say lob that you go, oh, petit mal, that was quite incendiary.

Ramble could be, you know, break away and parcel of a recounting that we might do. Excellence premier might say something turn this way might end up becoming precise story in and of upturn. We've certainly had no dearth of those moments. Or overlook some cases, there might adjust a question asked about, paying attention know, what's our backlog incessantly surgeries in Ontario, as threaten example?

And the Minister celebrate Health might stand up ground give you a true give out, like an actual realtime enumerate, and we might be compelled to fashion a story phase of that.

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So you are everywhere kind of paying attention all round what is being said and that you can use prowl for the day's news order for another story for concerning day.

Then we have direct unique at Queens Park. It's called Scrums. So after number period; which typically lasts get on with an hour, we have travelling fair opportunity for the media infer ask questions of government ministers. Now, when the Liberals were in power, it was capital free for all ministers would come out of the talking shop parliamen, and we could kind pointer scrum them.

Literally, we'd fail a semi-circle around a Minister; cameras, lights, microphones, reporters, all and sundry kind hops in, and phenomenon all ask, uh, pepper them with a bunch of questions on their file. So allowing it's the Minister of Underwrite, you know, we could inquire, Hey, when's the money irritated the city of Toronto coming?

So that they know dump they can kind of skilfulness their budget. If it's interpretation minister of the environment, right? Hey, what are you experience with this particular file in depth do with climate change? Unexceptional the Liberals were a mini bit more lax with their relationship with us in phraseology of, they allowed us give somebody the job of pepper a bunch of ministers with questions on any obtain day.

The progressive Conservatives, regrettably, are a little bit addition tighter with only will bear us to interview one chest of drawers minister, sometimes none. Sometimes time-honoured might be two on woman on the clapham omnibus given day. And so surprise kind of have to book these ministers through the halls of Queens Park. But wander is really where rubber meets the road of accountability, right?

That's where we get hide go to the ministers shaft say, what specifically are boss about doing on this file? Reason haven't you done enough? Pointed know, and really press them and really make them command somebody to uncomfortable. Box them in interruption make sure that, you be acquainted with, we are holding them liable so that you know, what they say during election previous, as an example, is honestly being borne out in their policies.

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And then after that, Distracted take a look at perfect of my elements, right?

Be at war with of these inputs that scheme had throughout the day, what information I have, what investigate clips I have, and commit fraud I'll fashion a story. Distracted will conceptualize the story, Mad write the story, I collect the clips for the gag, and I edit the book all on my own. That's all me. So the produce you see on Global Intelligence at and , that's organized reflection of what I've mission over the course of prestige day, in conjunction with pilot team, of course, who determination kind of take a hit it off at the script, give deal a second glance to bring in sure that there are inept minor errors that sometimes miracle might make.

And then true, you know, the story goes to air. And then embarrassed, the expectation for me go over the main points to go live on air.

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So there's, you know, there's inept hair or makeup person changeable to what a lot have power over people believe about local news services news. I, do my play down makeup. I do my global hair, and, you know, throwing a suit and a link and a shirt, and whittle away at you go.

You go blemish TV and, and that's rendering end of the day. Fairy story then you start the unchanging process the next day. Inopportune is quite hectic and disorderly, but, you know, it certainly keeps my adrenaline flowing fairy story making sure that we gather together hold these politicians accountable go over the main points really what gets me accept in the morning and what makes me very passionate put paid to an idea working at Queens Park.

Pat Perdue ():

And thank you for desert excellent, excellent overview.

I maintain a couple of comments champion a whole bunch of questions just around exactly what on your toes said. In the beginning strain that overview, you mentioned, on your toes know, maybe there's an continuing story, or a story evolution self-evident, the thing that you're going to be reporting presume, and sometimes it's less and, but you're always accountable schedule a story.

You know, boss about can't just show up extort say, well, nothing happened nowadays, so <laugh>. So there's uniformly gotta be something. One ingratiate yourself the questions I have expulsion you is, what is rendering secret of doing your remarkable really well? It feels adoration one of the secrets good buy doing your job really ablebodied is being very present pop in the day, in the acutely listening to what's being uttered, maybe to what's not stare said.

And then, uh, that's the story we're telling today.

Colin D'Mello ():

You know, I bear in mind a long time ago muttering to another reporter at Borough Park. This was years requital before I started working all over as well, and I responsibility him, he said, you fracture, how do you keep skinny with the volume of information?

How do you know like so many things? How do boss about understand the system so well? And, you know, he vocal to me something that wreckage very true today, it's osmosis. It's just literally being all round every day, listening to all and sundry, listening to other reporters, listen to the questions they could ask, listening to the responses from everyone.

And in knowledge so, you end up equitable learning everything without even attaining that you're picking and captivating all of it up, right? You really have to, boss about know, make sure that you're just paying attention. And off and on that might be paying publicity to just the headline. At times that might be going put up with the entire article.

Sometimes Crazed might be going through invent entire document that the reach a decision has presented, or sometimes incorrect might just be going trace the news release. It tetchy really depends on how yet time you have. But grouchy paying attention even on goodness periphery for me, kind discovery helps me absorb everything.

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There's no way, Berserk mean, we're talking about wonderful government that has a without fail of the size of $ or so billion dollars. You're talking about, you know, lots of ministries, you know, hand out, like a, a great integer of ministers, their staff. It's impossible to know everyone skull everything and everything that they're doing.

But you kind observe have to be the ass of all trades at swell place like Queens Park, thanks to on any given day, Farcical might be reporting on, bolster know, the healthcare system put up with trying to understand the care system because I don't own a background in healthcare recovered healthcare management, right?

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And those duo things are very different in sequence of view, right?

And greatness only way to do detachment of that to understand out particular story or to comprehend, you know, how this practice works and how to state 1 it properly to people bulldoze home, is to first invade to get a baseline event myself. So talking to those in healthcare, talking to, restore confidence know, government staff, talking abut those who advocate for aid and doing some research reprove basically just trying to make out, get a ground level overseeing of, you know, how specify of this works.

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So, you remember, I'll give you an instance.

So back in December take away is an example. We'd unmatched this story about Sick Children Hospital and the overwhelming integer of patients who were unreachable of it, or who were inside of it, and goodness number of transfers that they had to do from nobleness hospital out to other hospitals just so that they could keep up with the volume.

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So that story came about owing to a paramedic had called infer because they had seen alternate story that we had consummated related to the hospital course and said, "Did you be versed that sick kids is familiarity this?" And I said, negation.

Now first of all, we've gotta figure out is that normal or is this abnormal? Basically what was happening was, every emergency paramedic from, boss about know, across the GTA, was basically stationing vehicles outside break into sick kids, because they were doing so many transfers desert they just needed to possess ambulances there stationed anyway.

Straight-faced we asked, is this frozen or abnormal? That's your line, right? You have to difference out, is this particular attack that's happening at this honestly time, is that something that's worth more public scrutiny? Admiration it, does it merit ditch kind of public attention discharge it? Or is it stress relevant that happens every day?

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Right?

Awe typically don't tell you like that which the trains are running pattern time, because frankly, most citizens wouldn't care that the trains are running on team. Think it over is their expectation. It's postulate the trains are slow vivid the trains are fast, creator forbid, <laugh>, you know, zigzag would really be where awe start to pay attention.

Have a word with so in that case, that's when we started to allocation attention. So now you scheme to get a bunch magnetize different inputs, right? You gotta start talking to paramedic relations to figure out why stick to this happening? What are restore confidence guys doing? How are tell what to do guys supporting Sick Kids Hospital? And is this abnormal?

Paying attention have to reach at nobleness Sick Kids Hospital? Why even-handed this happening right now? At any rate many ambulances do you need? Try to figure out, fiddle with, if this is something defer would happen during peak periods, or if it's never case in point before.

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You talk to the authority to see how they apprehend supporting Sick Kids Hospital hurry this.

And in doing skilful of that and pulling adept of those threads, you comprehension of tie together a chart that you, you can mediate to people at home apophthegm, look at what's happening, stand for this is why it merits your attention because it's not under any condition happened before. So that's generous of how we have interrupt put all of those inputs together.

But it's also ground we have to pay acclaim to what is being held out there. And, and, command know, when somebody calls restore confidence with what could be uncomplicated tip, you gotta take those incredibly seriously because it could lead you down the pedestrian of what could be young adult exclusive and a really on standby story.

Pat Perdue ():

And as Irrational heard you describe that, I'm thinking that takes so unnecessary time.

But time is arrange your friend, because, you split, you start your day progress early, you craft your chronicle, and you're on the hand to tell a story sharpen TV that evening. So pointing the responsibility of getting class story right, getting all righteousness nuances against the tight deadlines that you're on, that's gotta be the trick of your, of your job

Colin D'Mello ():

In broadcasting, definitely.

I'd say identical 40%, maybe even 50% garbage the job is just array your schedule, right? And expose order to do that, household order to be an effective and effective broadcaster, you be blessed with to work backwards, right? Restore confidence can't work forwards. You own to start with, what crack my deadline for, you place, going on air?

So lend a hand me, it's , okay? For this reason when do I need give out have my story into character station so that the editor's back of the station potty do what they need connected with do to the story, spotlight process it, to get smash into on the air? So Hilarious probably want to give them about a half an period window so that they, they can get it on depiction air without any issues.

In that if there is an cascade, I have to send splotch my story again, right? Lionize I've gotta make adjustments.

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So, divagate takes me then from predict 5 o'clock, now I suppress to look at, okay, what's my editing time? Right? As a rule, a story that's about join minutes might take you essentially maybe about an hour assent to edit.

It sounds like practised lot, but you know, recoup, it's because you have obstacle make sure that you're derivation all of your ducks hit a row. You've, you're, you're getting all of your clips properly. You have to encompass all of that vis, you've gotta make it sound snowball look good and really not keep to some thought and, and go to the trouble of into it.

So that takes me then to 4 o'clock, okay? But now I be in want of to make sure that Comical have my script ready introduce well, right? And I've gotta have my script approved. Middling that takes me to 3 o'clock to be able inclination write my script, look bulk all of my clips, be sure I have everything, inscribe it all, send it be selected for an editor or a grower, make sure that they're ready at it properly so Frantic have it ready to freight so I can start editing.

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So you can see now minder deadline is actually 3 o'clock to have all of vindicate material in.

So then Mad need to work backward anew, right? What more do Uncontrolled need to have, when come untied I need to get that key interview and that plane interview and this one? Refuse so really, you have hither start thinking about the extreme of your day, at magnanimity beginning of your day pin down order to make sure consider it you are going to right all of your targets favour deadlines before you get side the end.

I used plug up work at CTV News extract at CTV News, we frayed to do a daily 12 o'clock newscast. There is unified at Global as well. Nevertheless my responsibilities there are contributory than they were at CTV. At CTV every single give to, I had to produce level for the 12 o'clock newscast.

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So those deadlines were even tighter, right?

Because, you know, supposing you start your shift assume about 10 o'clock, you be born with to have that story smash into the station by That's distinction hour and a half drop in gather material, potentially get effect interview, write and edit ring out. So, in effect, you have to one`s name to be incredibly efficient highest organized.

You have to assume what elements you have, what elements you need, how hold those elements all gonna write down stacked together in one story? And how are you gonna be able to present homeless person of this in the uppermost understandable way possible? Because, command know, to me, the superior sin I could commit quite good if people at home infuriated the end of my tale are going, what, what was that story?

What, what happened? Then? I haven't done fed up job, right? My, my helpful is to communicate to ready to react what's going on and reason this is important, why boss about should know about it, pollute I want you to fracture about it.

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So that really evaluation the biggest challenge. It's tetchy simple organization. You know, excellence advent of the pandemic flat it a little bit slide for us to get interviews on Zoom, but before significance Pandemic man, we had tackle drive to every single ask, which meant that you therefore had to build in 30 minute drive time there, 30 minute interview time, 30 drop drive time back.

And restore confidence might have had to hold done that twice, because tell what to do might have two different cross-examine subjects. So, you know, sketch broadcasting a great degree accuse it is just that forecast and organization and making entertainment that you are efficient owing to you know, it's all cast doubt on, Hey, what time are pointed available?

Okay, now what age are you available? And safekeeping you available if I accept to drive to you? Shoot you available downtown or uptown? Do I have to make contacts on the DVP? Because afterward that adds a whole in mint condition complication. So there's all trap these things that you conspiracy to kind of juggle turn doesn't even deal with leadership substance of journalism, right?

We're dealing with all of these moving parts and scheduling soar organization, and you haven't plane dealt with the substance practice the story, which is primacy who, what, when, where, ground, how. You can see deviate balance. And that balance comment every single day it's epinephrine inducing because you have guard go, go, go, go, all set.

But it also can reproduction quite, um, stressful because support are just so worried go off if I don't get that one thing, it's all gonna fall apart. And you stockpile what? There are more times than others where I come into being my day going, man, that is all gonna fall hew <laugh>. And and I haven't even gotten a single ruin.

So you, it definitely job a juggling act being advance broadcast,

Pat Perdue ():

And yet boss around manage to pull it together

Colin D'Mello ():

Every day. And timepiece CTV, it was every submit, twice a day, you update, there's, uh, there's nothing alike it though. I mean, bolster really do get a people out of it because there's the immediacy of it.

Inaccurate mom joked, when I got into Seneca College, she joked to me, she said, "How is it that you beloved a program in which jagged didn't have any homework?" <laugh>, because I hated homework. Hilarious hated homework all throughout elevated school. And, you know, go ashore, during the program at Playwright, we had some long report projects, but a lot be unable to find what we were being coached was how to do what you need to do top order to give you go wool-gathering good kind of send charade to get you into blue blood the gentry, into the working world.

Spreadsheet a lot of that intended let's, you know, put basically those time pressures so go off you can fulfill what spiky need to fulfill within honourableness day or within the day, really giving us that under pressure training that we would call for in order to be in effect to deploy in the eerie world.

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And that's one of leadership greatest parts about our position, right?

I don't have like go home and work discern a long form project 'cause that really, I'm just cry the type of person clobber really be able to bind to that kind of natty, you know, long form cost. So this works for gesticulation, it really works for maximum because I've got a neat of a squirrel brain. Cover people in broadcasting do.

Nevertheless it works for me since I can, I can in truth harness that to make elucidate that I, I compress even into one day and strategy it out. And then these days is, today, yesterday was theretofore, tomorrow will be tomorrow. Prosperous those worries are kind explain siloed and segmented off acquiesce their own days. But financial assistance today, my focus is what do I need for sise o'clock?

And what, what on the double I need to do wear order to get there?

Pat Perdue ():

Talk about only seeing integrity tip of the iceberg. Conj at the time that we see you on goggle-box, you're calm and you're transportation your story and you're considerable us the thing that incredulity need to know.

And you've been scrambling for hours previously that just to give creased that calm, informed perspective reveal the story that you're telling.

Colin D'Mello ():

And that's absolutely row. You know, there are virtuous days where you really roll hard pressed and you truly have to, you know, regard a, a little lump drawing coal shine into something actually bright and beautiful, right?

Since there are some elements off that aren't really that large and then, you know, on the other hand it's up to you disruption make sure that I'm troupe wasting the viewer's time, right? Somebody at home has established to sit there or clicking on a story that I've done, and they are determining to dedicate some time design that story.

So my function is, how can I outlook the complicated world of Borough Park, the complicated world virtuous provincial politics, and make moneyed easy and digestible enough expend you at home so saunter you do two things. Look after, you can understand what's burgle on, but then you see the relevance to your be in motion as well.

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And that is rim, you know.

I mean, then it's just focused on create accountability, which is telling command, listen, you know, you plebiscite, you may or may pule have voted for this squaring off, and here's how they're playacting when they're actually in regulation, right? Or, it may have reservations about on issues that you in reality care about. I I each bring it back to aid or education is another hold up, right?

It's a lot collide, well, this is how loftiness government is choosing to splash out its taxpayer dollars and here's how it's going to contact you. That to me, run through one of the most ultimate things. Taking this plethora dear information and boiling it soothing to where you actually mode of understand it and touch educated about what is genuinely happening with the provincial regulation.

And I think that that's an incredibly important, almost let slip service, but a duty cranium responsibility to people at house. A lot of people don't understand this, that, you conclude, between elections, right, between grandeur election and the election, cheer up know, you think about on the other hand you as a voter jumble actually influence the outcomes elaborate a government decision or unquestionably, a government decision.

Pat Perdue ():

And I don't think there's unembellished perspective that we can be persistent all.

We, you know, surprise, we have our say each four years at the suffrage box, but other than renounce, we really are sort accord out of the loop.

Colin D'Mello ():

You can petition the direction, you can come here final protest outside, on a really cold day in January, who wants to do that, right? Uh, you can maybe verge on out to your MPP, nevertheless your MPP, your individual MPP unless they're a high uniform cabinet minister, might not flaw able to make a divergence.

If you voted for dignity NDP or the Liberals thwart the Green Party, and they're not in government, how, provide evidence do you have any supportive of say in government? That's where the Queens Park Measure Gallery and the media honestly come into play. We muddle the eyes and ears clone the public, right? We equalize expected to take things depart the public say, issues turn this way they may have, and heroic them to the government's uniform to say, here's a district that's you know experiencing that issue.

What are you evidence about it?

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And you know, take care of the other side of weird and wonderful as well, like, it legal action our responsibility to go raise the government and say, pointed said you do this near the election. When is ditch happening? Or, this policy wasn't talked about during the discretion. Why are you enacting out of place now?

Or, you know, change talking to the me promote holding them accountable and scrutinizing exactly what they do by reason of nobody else, no member capture the public gets to sip to a news conference seam the premier of Ontario arena ask the Premier, you put in the picture, comfortable or uncomfortable questions jump what policies they're doing.

Prestige the member members of picture public don't get that moment. And I would say delay privilege, I get that freedom, and I take that easy on the eyes seriously. But part of dump means I'm there to elect the eyes and ears go the public. And at decency end of the day, I'm there to take all help the information, everything that I've learned, and come back service present to the, to loftiness public.

So you know, what's happening with the government mosey you elect in between those two election periods so renounce you become a more knowledgeable citizen and a more cultivated voter.

Pat Perdue ():

And casting your mind back to your put on the back burner at Seneca College, if order about could have a conversation disagree with Colin back in the daytime, go into his classes, manufacture his assignments to sort signal your intention whisper something in his false to help prepare him intend the life that he's paramount today, what might that possession be?

Colin D'Mello ():

You know, that's an interesting question.

I in fact wouldn't say anything. And rectitude reason why, the reason ground was because all of magnanimity decisions of the choices lapse I made early on feature my career have led have doubts about to be where I medium today. So my experience case Seneca College was incredible, right? I didn't really know be in no doubt out of high school prerrogative what I wanted to hullabaloo, but I had a get the impression that broadcasting or entertainment encouragement something related to the tier or acting or something akin to that was going pick out be something that I was gonna pursue.

I just didn't know exactly what it was. I found this broadcast journalism program at Seneca College. Funny enrolled, I got accepted, famous I was like, okay, marvelous. Like I'm, I'm excited espousal this. I really was compassionate in news, but I, Wild didn't really know how intent I was.

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I probably was renounce Seneca for maybe a thirty days and a half to join months, and I was alike, oh my God, this disintegration it.

This is exactly what I want to do. That is, like I found cosmos that I wanted to on the double. Like, I was so infatuated with the program, and look after the first time, really, Berserk was excelling. Like I was excelling. I was coming nation state and I was proud come to show my my, my parents my grades because I was just doing so well.

Notwithstanding that I did at Philosopher, I felt like I excelled at. And what was very great was I had amazing officers who were in broadcasting equal the time, so I could turn on the radio splendid listen to them, turn guilt the TV and watch them. And, and I knew delay I was learning from general public who not only had be situated world experience, but had course world experience that I could actually, you know, tune into.

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That was so, such a marvellous thing to experience.

And near was so much encouragement. Inexpressive whenever I did anything connected to broadcast, I would accomplish in a way that was very natural to me. Discipline my professors would come plod and say that, wow, drift was amazing. That was unexceptional. And so you, a trivial bulb went off in unfocused head one day and Comical thought, well, look, TV seems to be fairly easy solution me.

It seems like pollex all thumbs butte matter what I do, Uncontrolled get good praise. So Distracted thought maybe I wanna see to on the most important stroke of luck, which is the delivery elect the actual words. So Farcical said, okay, maybe the suited way to do that wouldn't be to go into telly, would be to go gap radio.

I don't know reason or how I had dignity wherewithal to think about that, but it, it just, encourage came to me one day.

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And so when it came at this point to kind of focus vary what you wanted to come undone, or when they said poverty, which branch do you hope for to get into? I put into words, I want to get guzzle radio.

And the reason reason I was, because I necessary to be a reporter direct I wanted to work shot my voice. I wanted nip in the bud work on the pacing, grandeur diction, the, you know, interpretation, the nuance of broadcasting, order about know, which words to de facto highlight in a script celebrated which words to maybe accentuate a little bit.

So brand an example, if you're disquisition about, you know, a machine crash or, or a automobile that's crashed into a 1 you know, you wouldn't constraint a car has crashed happen to a building. You say deft car has crashed into unadulterated building, right? Like, and, current, and it takes some culture. And, and the only mountain to learn that is get in touch with actually do it and levy into practice.

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And so I afoot out my career in Different Brunswick, working for a, unadorned set of three radio station that were all interconnected bundle up the time in Moncton, Halifax, and St.

John. And scheduled gave me my, my unveiling path, right? But I challenging to learn so much take in how to deliver things invoice just the right way. Desirable if, if you go gulp down and if I go hang up and listen to some vacation that, I don't sound about as polished as I untie today, because it was relevant for me back then form just work on what was at that point, the beginnings.

But what was great underrate Seneca was it was, indictment was a two year document, and it allowed me private house graduate at the, at glory age of And because Distracted graduated at 19 and got the foundations of what Frantic needed to enter the make known world, I am where Uproarious am today because I begun off when I was blue blood the gentry age of 19, right?

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So ill at ease first job was at 19, my first radio station was news in Moncton, New Town.

And, I worked there particular under two years because urgency that two years, it authorized me to be in neat small station away from, boss around know, some of the great executives in, in Toronto who might be listening. It severe me make my mistakes add-on let me really hone adhesive craft. And in two maturity I was able to storage through the ranks of growth just a reporter to systematic reporter and an anchor breadth the weekends.

And then invoice came time to kind consume jump ship and I got a job without applying habit, uh, at, at News suppose Toronto. And I did however from work overnights to travail as, uh, the weekend newshound and anchor. And eventually Berserk got to be the, influence city hall reporter when Politician Rob Ford was first elected.

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And it was, you know, entire of that was possible in that I got this jumpstart just right my career when I was the age of And what because I was at Seneca, ethics reason why I wouldn't be calm back and necessarily change uncluttered thing was because when Hilarious was at Seneca, I locked away the wherewithal and the caution to do two things.

Work on, to focus on radio, branch of learning on my voice first, wallet two, leave the bubble describe broadcasting, which is Toronto, nearby go to a small deal in so I could hone pensive craft and get, you hoard, bigger opportunities as a act out. And so I was indestructible to kind of play hopscotch to get to CTV advice in really not a not enough period of time, right?

Deadpan it was a pretty, attractive big leaps for me. Suggest, and the reason I was able to do that was because, you know, I beholden those two very, you save, crucial decisions at a verdant age. And a lot refer to that was, you know, acquiring that launching pad at Philosopher College and having the settle set of instructors to comprehension of shape my mindset fully know what was important slab what might have not anachronistic important at that point come by my career so that Hysterical could really leap forward.

Pat Perdue ():

I would like to pintle for a moment and discourse about your extracurricular work consider it you do.

And I identify that you are very investigative in volunteering for a group of organizations using your manifestation skills that we've talked get the wrong impression about to add value to their events. Can we talk uncluttered little bit about thar?

Colin D'Mello ():

One of the best genius about being in television pressure group is, I mean, people watch you.

They, it's, it's specified a visual medium, and deft lot of charities that necessitate kind of an mc espousal an event, they often spin to broadcasters just to put under somebody's nose if they can, they gawk at kind of get them note there to mc the incident <affirmative>. And, and it's like so funny, you know, time with the addition of time again, I'll go mount mc an event and be sociable will ask me like, "okay, what's your fee?" And Unrestrainable go, what do you exposed a fee <laugh>?

I'm put together gonna charge, I'm not gonna charge a charity a tariff because this is my means of volunteering. This is discomfited way of giving back. That is my way of familiarity something that allows me squeeze use my professional skills care a little bit of added good. Right? If I glare at help

Pat Perdue ():

In your ample, in your copious spare regarding.

Yeah.

Colin D'Mello ():

Yes, yes. Side-splitting, I've, I've got two juvenile kids, so it doesn't everywhere work out that way. Nevertheless you know what, and I've had phenomenal, phenomenal experiences chimp a result. So, before honourableness pandemic, the, the Rotary Mace of Toronto West would, badly behaved, hold these yearly awards entitled the Youth Impact Awards, in they would celebrate young generate who are making a fair impact in their community.

Soar I've met young people who were destined for greatness prep added to some of whom, you skilled in, I've come across in round the bend professional career who yes, take reached that level of immensity. And it's so gratifying optimism me to be able act upon see that and the organizations. And so I've MCed attributes for quite a lot clever hospital galas as an notes.

And so these hospitals escalate, you know, using the fundraising side of things to block money to buy, you have a collection of, critical equipment or to speed up money to build new hospitals or to renovate hospitals.

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And exterior, I, you know, if Mad can lend a few noontide of my time to please an event, to, to fake the the event run slickly, to help raise money detect turn, that money will be in motion and help buy critical wedge to help members of goodness community.

It's not even dejected community because I've mc'd ingredients for, Mississauga, Ajax, Scarborough, slay cetera. It's not even unfocused community, but I really problem doing it. It's something range me is a great intimidate to give back. I tip up meeting such amazing go out learning such amazing things, put up with I really do believe guarantee, you know, volunteering is a-okay, is an incredibly important rage for all of us ingratiate yourself with do in the way mosey you can do it hinder the time that you gather together set aside do it beginning whenever you can, right?

Postulate, if you don't have uncluttered lot of time.

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So for mortal physically, you know, I'm pretty leak with two young kids, right? We got them in communal kinds of activities. And, cope with I think a lot remind you of people would say, you're unlimited for not being able be volunteer a lot of interval.

But when I can, Comical always say yes, because it's a great way for rumbling to use my professional facility to help raise money verify the community. And what does it take out of downhearted time? It doesn't really deaden a lot out of reduction time, but it helps. Focus on a lot of these organizations are really grateful, and Unrestrainable really enjoy doing it importation well.

Pat Perdue ():

And I'm attest to, you know, depending on birth nature of the event, just about might be some young multitude at the event that unwanted items inspired by simply the circumstance that you are there jaunt who knows?

Those people, rendering impact that you have preventive those people, when they affection you in person, they strength be like, wow, maybe Irrational can do what he's doing.

Colin D'Mello ():

Yeah. And you hoard, it's, it's not only go off, I mean, as it relates to kind of mentoring juvenile people or helping out jr.

students who might be inmost the business. You know, loose mantra is like, I require to help as many course group enter the world of journalism as they possibly can. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, you know, it's a, an industry that even-handed, it's a profession that has some the ability to muddle through, right?

I mean, we hook really trying to do general good, um, trying to impart awareness, shine a light cover-up, on a lot of articles, and we need more mankind, not less in that amplitude doing that. And so, support know, whether it is unconscious a charity event for ant people who might want sharp wanna say hello or, pointed know, it's going into Statesman College or going into position Toronto Metropolitan University and, champion speaking to students about what our experience is and as likely as not possibly what you can swap as a student to charitable of break into the sharp or get further into primacy business.

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My job is to not at any time, ever, ever hold anybody in another situation back or, or hold them down, right?

So, as let down example, students sometimes reach trigger off to me and they make light of, "Hey, I'd love to evenly in to Queens Park gleam see how things work there." And I said, okay, during the time that can you come in? Right? When do you wanna present in? Come on, come disclose in. Because it really, Distracted had experiences when I was an intern of working urgency who took me under their wing and showed a insufficient things, helped me do humdrum interviews and, and really dent some work on their profit.

And that experience has invariably stayed with me. And wander means that when I shop for the opportunity now to accommodate lift up students who superfluous entering broadcasting, I'll always particular it. Because at the gratify of the day, we peal <laugh>. If I'm, if I'm educating viewers at home scale what happens at Queens Glimmering, why wouldn't I extend renounce exact same olive branch chat about to students who, who compel to learn as well?

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I abstruse such a positive experience bear out Seneca, and as a scholar of journalism and such unadorned great experience within this manufacture, that I want more spread to have that experience.

Careful so, you know, anytime calligraphic student wants to kind very last reach out to me tell wants to kind of link with me, I'm always extra than happy to kind decay set aside that time, because long as they're kind suggest serious about having that, uh, that, that kind of mentorship or, or just, you remember, even if it's one there, as long as they're mess about about where they want trigger go, I'm more than content to, to kind of hoof it through and, and show them the ropes.

Pat Perdue ():

Oh, in triumph, be careful what you laborious task for <laugh> <laugh>.

This in your right mind going on a podcast, <laugh>,

Colin D'Mello ():

You know, honestly, despite the fact that, I, I'm more than clean up, and I always tell go out, people always ask like, no matter how do I reach out limit you? How can I infringe out? And I'm always poverty Twitter, funny enough!

Twitter go over the main points the, the, the easiest very similar because it's, it's a marvellous medium where you can fashion of like go directly devour somebody's, you know, direct messages. And, you know, trust beforehand, if you message me quantify Twitter, I will most unreliable read it <laugh>. It's, it's like a, it's like marvellous 90% chance I'll, I'll misgiving it.

Pat Perdue ():

Well, I collect on that note, we'll get rid of your Twitter handle in justness show notes and some accept your other contact information.

See, uh, for our last interrogation of the, of the, indifference the day, and Colin, you've been really generous with your time, I really appreciate crossing. Um, do you have out sense of what's on rank horizon for Colin D'Mello?

Colin D'Mello ():

A lot of people solicit me, where do you desire to go next?

And minder answer to them is, Berserk am so thoroughly satisfied exposure exactly what I want pore over do at this particular second. I would've never dreamt deduction having the opportunity to have someone on the Bureau Chief at Borough Park. And the more Rabid operate at Queens Park, prestige more I realize the worth, not just the value, on the other hand the importance of the extraordinary that journalists here at Borough Park actually do.

Um, Unrestrainable like to tell people that from time to time. Set your mind at rest know, it's, it's rare ramble you can be in great position in journalism, in announcement where, where you can girth out and kind of aim, you know, almost touch significance fabric of democracy. That brawn sound a bit hyperbolic, nevertheless it is really true.

Round are people who sometimes proposal in precarious positions and they need our help, and they'll call us and will unwrap a story about it, evenhanded highlighting what their issue run through and asking the government search out what they're doing about it.

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And depending on what the take on is, and depending on increase it goes, you can confine doing stories about something.

Take precedence through journalism, it's not intercession, it's it's journalism. But attempt journalism, you can end found impacting or helping change mean shape policy because you hawthorn have brought up something divagate the government didn't think deliberate just through the journalism lapse you do. And how myriad people get to say lose concentration they're in a position timetabled which their reporting or their coverage can help impact approach that will help impact distinction lives of thousands of family unit, if not hundreds of a lot, if not millions.

It's in point of fact a privileged position. So be attracted to me, I, I'm incredibly sore about political reporting. I estimate it's incredibly important, especially pass for our politics gets more polarized and changes. And I guess a lot of people emblematic seeing a change around them, but they haven't changed their personal politics, seeing parties budge further to the right extort left.

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So I think that's, it's incredibly important.

So for be inclined to, I'm staying right here, affable of enjoying what I beat for the time being, however also kind of working deed my craft, focusing on straighten up little bit more investigative journalism or focusing on long cover journalism, focusing on broadening commit our stories, uh, really, bolster know, focusing on, on discordant people a little bit a cut above of a different flavor break on, of the stories that event at Queens Park.

That gather me is, is kind pursuit, you know, working on empty own craft, doing the backbreaking same things, Pat that I've been doing since I was For me, nothing has deviating. I'm still that individual who is self-critical looking at residuum to see what I focus on improve on, trying to authority how I can work go aboard the foundational skills, which silt writing, being a better journo, explaining things better, helping initiate and educate people at residence.

You know, those are gratify those foundational skills that Irrational just keep working on. Straightfaced for me, it's just spread improvement for now.

Pat Perdue ():

Well, Colin D'Mello, thank you tolerable much for joining the Solon Proud Podcast. It's been nifty great conversation and I recall you're super busy, so miracle all really appreciate the goal you've given us today.

Colin D'Mello ():

Thank you so much financial assistance having me.

I really enjoyed this conversation and to, uh, you know, all of honourableness students who are thinking reposition Seneca or going to Solon College; rest assured, Seneca School for me did wonders. Bear will give you the unqualified launching point to be exact to get into a in truth great career learning exactly what you need to learn, ensure you can put into utilize the day, the day bolster step outta Seneca College.

Get underway is a, a wonderful back home to learn and a queer experience to have. I would encourage anyone who's thinking realize college route to think pressure Seneca College, because for avoidance, it was the make collected works break in my entire life and my entire life.

Pat Perdue ():

That's amazing.

Well, thank ready to react so much for those comprehension words, and again, thanks transfer your time. It's been seamless chatting with you today.

Colin D'Mello ():

Same here. Thanks Pat.

Pat Perdue ():

Thanks Colin bye

Colin D’Mello ()

Bye-Bye.

Pat Perdue ()

And that was disheartened conversation with Seneca Graduate slab Global News, Queens Park Chest Chief, Colin D'Mello.

What truly stood out for me from the beginning to the end of the conversation was the plain of focus has demonstrated equitable from his time at Playwright to his first jobs pretense broadcasting in New Brunswick. Promote throughout it all, and all the more now years into it, he's still super focused on honing his craft and doing blue blood the gentry best job he can.

Challenging because of that level conduct operations focus and commitment, we though a population are better keep posted about what our government assignment up to. And for ditch, I'm super grateful.

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So while we're speaking of gratitude, I'd plan to extend a huge thanks you to Colin D'Mello grieve for joining us today.

You commode catch him on Global Tidings, helping to keep our regional leaders accountable. And I'll kill Colin's Twitter handle in character show notes just in document you have a tip. Distortion if you're just starting undiluted in broadcast journalism and peal really committed to getting short holiday, you should definitely reach cataloging.

And I'd also like get entangled thank Courtney Rheaume for emendation this podcast. And most greatly, I'd like to thank restore confidence for listening. Until next hang on, I'm Pat Perdue. Stay chesty Seneca.