Creating a European identification isn’t just a question of treaties, currencies and borders, it is additionally about folks figuring out and figuring out each and every different.
Euronews reporters had this in thoughts when the channel was once introduced 30 years in the past as of late. It was once introduced in 5 languages however with one, commonplace objective: to present Europe a voice, in an increasingly more hooked up international.
“At the time international news was completely monopolised by the US, with CNN,” Spanish Euronews journalist Beatriz Beiras.
“Eurovision launched an initiative aimed at creating a European channel, with two goals. First, breaking that monopoly, Second, helping European people get to know each other better.”
Today Euronews reaches tens of millions of people across 160 countries. But getting the station up and running was not smooth sailing.
“They told us ‘you’ve got two months to set up a tv station’,” Euronews chef de chaîne Isabelle Martin remembered.
“There were still cables and holes on the ground until the very last moment. Nothing was ready. The technicians were all young.
“We were not sleeping, we were working twelve consecutive hours a day. It was us who put everything in place. No one told us anything.”
But some distance from breaking the spirit of Euronews’ first reporters, the preliminary demanding situations they confronted introduced them nearer in combination.
“We were proud because we felt that we were building something,” Euronews journalist Aurora Velez mentioned.
“A new media in Europe. It was very nice to go into the newsroom and hear people talking in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German.”
“It was the living proof of different nations building Europe, and that was something very important for me,” Euronews journalist Christian Boudarel added.
With round 400 reporters from greater than 30 other international locations, Euronews stays the eyes and ears of Europe.
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