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Brett Adkins

Chicago

Executive Producer at NewsNation

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

Articles

  • 4 weeks 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.

  • 4 weeks 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.

  • 4 weeks 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.

  • 4 weeks 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.

  • 4 weeks ago | theherald.co.za | Brett Adkins

    DESTRUCTIVE DELUGE: The floods decimated the structures of Lower Baakens Valley, with roads turned into rivers in the 1968 floods “The cars were literally rolling down the river and blocking up the bridges [at the entrance to the harbour]. The bus company [building] was underwater,” recalls Valentine Brink who remembers witnessing the devastation wrought by the great flood in Port Elizabeth of 1968.

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