Jeremy Fernandez will start his new job as the main anchor ABC NSW 7pm News on Monday, September 11.
"Discrimination comes in almost invisible ways, that make you stop and second guess your own reaction to it. For me, it's been relatively rare that racial abuse or discrimination has been outwardly evident or easily defined," he says.
"I don't want to be known primarily for just being brown. I've often felt I have to outperform to overcome that perception that I might be there to tick a box, or that that my significance is entirely carried in the colour of my skin or in my migrant background.A seismic event in my life "I still can't work out whether I came into journalism through exposure to my dad's career, or despite it. I suspect it's a bit of both."When Fernandez was 13 years old, his parents decided to move to Perth. Joseph Fernandez wanted the opportunity to go to university, something his own parents couldn't afford in Malaysia, and also to give his children the chance of a tertiary education.
In what he regards as a series of unexpected fortunate events, Fernandez secured a casual job working as an overnight radio producer on ABC radio in Perth, had a stint producing on local radio in Albany but missed out on an ABC cadetship and "about 30 other journalism jobs", which made him rethink if he was on the right career path .
He's been guest host of The Drum, Q+A, News Breakfast, Compass and Media Watch, plus numerous live ABC TV broadcasts and even appeared on Play School."I've really come to love breaking news and rolling coverage because of the thrill of the unexpected, and the machinery that goes with working with a production team highly attuned to each others' needs, strengths, and weaknesses. That is the sort of work that's most exciting to me," he says.
Since he started in journalism two decades ago, there's been a massive shift in how people get their news from broadcast to digital platforms but Fernandez believes there's still a place and audience demand for an evening news bulletin as part of a broad suite of journalistic offerings in the digital age.
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