Nadia Romanos, 5FM's beloved newsreader, celebrates a decade with the station, reflecting on her journey from childhood radio enthusiast to accomplished broadcast journalist.
A lover of cake and radio, 5FM 's Nadia Romanos has news pumping through her veins. Smile, and you disarm anyone. 5FM ’s Nadia Romanos can defuse entire armies with her beam. She’s warm, kind, affable and every other positive adjective in the dictionary. It’s easy to wax lyrical about her because even when she reads the news, Romanos serves it up as a pair of designer sneakers.
This year marks a decade at 5FM as a news reader and now digital contributor, as well as thirteen years in total as a broadcast journalist. This included a stint at the once notorious ANN7, where Romanos covered some of the past decade and a bit’s biggest news events, including Madiba’s funeral and the Oscar Pistorius trial.Landing the job at 5FM was a dream realised. “I was obsessed with 5FM in school,” Romanos said. “I never imagined it would be somewhere I’d end up. It was always ‘them’ over there and ‘me’ over here.” But sometimes, the universe has a way of surprising you, she said. While she was still at school, a teacher made her feel like she could realise her ambition. “She once told me, ‘Go for it. See what happens.’ And that stuck with me,” she shared. After completing high school, she followed it up with a one-year course in drama, which included a bit of radio broadcasting. “I loved it. I didn’t know it yet, but that’s where the seed was planted.” Then, Romanos’ path narrowed focus. She studied journalism at the University of Pretoria, where radio was also part of the course. “I tried very hard to get into campus radio,” she said. Eventually, she landed a spot as a news presenter, and the fit was comfortable.Television journalism was her next, and ANN7 gave her a shot a couple of years after she first saddled a microphone. “I loved field reporting, but the hours were hectic,” she said. “You could be called out to cover a protest three hours away, spend the day there and then still have to rush back to deliver the story,” she said, adding that it was exhaustin
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