Brett Adkins

Chicago

Executive Producer at NewsNation

Executive Producer, NewsNation Now 12-3pm ET @newsnation | Formerly @Fox9, @WFRVLocal5, @KQDS_FOX21

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#TheHerald180 | Printing the paper could be a dangerous job

4 days ago | theherald.co.za | Brett Adkins

Working for newspapers can be a dangerous job if you’re in one of the conflict hotspots of the world. But you don’t expect to lose a limb when you’re actually printing one. Technology may have largely changed all that and made it a lot safer, but when long-time Newspaper House staffer Pieter van Wyk started out as an apprentice in the printing press section, he had lost the top of two fingers not much longer than a year into the job.
#TheHerald180 | Interacting with readers a highlight for street vendors

4 days ago | theherald.co.za | Brett Adkins |Fredlin Adriaan

The Herald’s street vendors are a familiar sight throughout Nelson Mandela Bay — and they love it when customers make their day with a joke or some wise words. Romano Dickenson, 38, of Helenvale, has been a vendor since a very young age and said the favourite part of his job was what he learnt from people who stopped to buy a copy of the newspaper from him where he operates in the northern areas of Cleary Estate and Salsoneville.
#TheHerald180 | Eastern Cape’s proud tradition in the performing arts

4 days ago | theherald.co.za | Brett Adkins

MODERN VERSION: Pearson High School headboy Liyabona Malgas plays the title role in the production of ‘Hamlet’ being staged at the school in Summerstrand The performing arts have always a played vital role in the Eastern Cape — not least of all because the National Arts Festival has been hosted in Makhanda for the past 51 years.
#TheHerald190| MBDA forging ahead with urban renewal efforts

4 days ago | theherald.co.za | Brett Adkins |Fredlin Adriaan

BRIDGING GAPS: Nelson Mandela Bay Development Agency CEO Anele Qaba on the walkway bridge across the Baakens River, which is one of the agency’s many urban renewal projects Legacy is a word that has been at the forefront of the organisation which has been focusing on the restoration and revitalisation of Nelson Mandela Bay’s historic precincts for the past two decades.
#TheHerald180 | Lover of words has been Herald fan for more than 80 years

5 days ago | theherald.co.za | Brett Adkins

What is a lollapalooza? Well, many a reader of The Herald would not have known until Pat Titterington discovered the word and used it to help win herself a prize in the newspaper’s Word Game Competition which used to run more than 30 years ago.
#TheHerald180 | Stories that grabbed the headlines

6 days ago | theherald.co.za | Brett Adkins

IN THE HEADLINES: A series of stories, crimes and tragedies in Nelson Mandela Bay left their mark It was a decade of huge breaking news that was transforming the future trajectory of SA, events and conflicts that were changing the face of the world, and even in Nelson Mandela Bay and the region further afield, a series of stories that would rock the city and beyond. All would be covered extensively by The Herald.
#TheHerald180 | The golden era of South End

1 week ago | theherald.co.za | Brett Adkins |Fredlin Adriaan

LONG LOST ERA: The Cassem brothers — from left, Anwar, 83, Addie, 86, and Yusuf “Mannetjie”, 81 — in front of the giant mural in the South End Museum depicting carefree children playing in the streets in the 1960s There are tears for a long-lost era — and then there are the vibrant memories. Happy ones. Of children playing in the Baakens Valley and its quarry. The kind of outdoor games kids played and loved back in the 1960s. But there is a difference.
#TheHerald180 | Carefree days growing up in South End

1 week ago | theherald.co.za | Brett Adkins

OUT OF THE RUINS: Members of the famous Soweto String Quartet, who played at the launch of the St Peter’s Anglican Church development, are cellist Reuben Khemese, Makhosini Mnguni, Sandile Khemese and Thami Khemese on viola As a young teen, Ernest Moodley, who grew up in the old South End, remembers delivering The Herald on his route — that included up and down the steep Military Road. “You had to have strong arms back then to throw The Herald into the properties,” he said with a chuckle.
#TheHerald180 | The man who started it all

1 week ago | theherald.co.za | Brett Adkins

PIONEER NEWSMAN: The Herald founder John Paterson Scotsman John Paterson knew a thing or two about urging good governance. True, this was something he felt passionately about 180 years ago — not exactly something any Gqeberha resident living today would know much about when it comes to what daily problems the city faced. But just as well Paterson did.
#TheHerald180 | Knowing the community key to serving readers, says former editor

1 week ago | theherald.co.za | Brett Adkins

Doing the job that journalists of calibre should do — being part of the fabric of the community they serve and, by doing so, working in tune with the needs of those communities and addressing their most pressing issues. Whether in a print edition, or now as the media evolves ever increasingly at breakneck speed in the digital platform age, this is the role that former editor of The Herald, Heather Robertson, has always believed should be prioritised.