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The lovely and talented Richelle Carey is one of the more visible women of color in news. She’s the morning anchor for Headline News and takes her position as a voice for current events very seriously. The Baylor University alum has developed an enviable career and her experiences have served her well. –todd williams
What is one of the hardest lessons you’ve had to learn professionally?
I [had to] be able to take criticism; I think you cannot be sensitive about people who want to critique your work. They generally want the best for you and if you want to continue to grow in what you do, you have to realize that you are not perfect. There are people who came before you, and you have to be able to seek out criticism, and absorb what it is they have to tell you and take it with the spirit in which it’s intended. That’s how you can progress. You have to have an open eye and an open spirit.
What is the most demanding aspect of your job?
You’d be surprised at how much I have to read and how much news I have to watch when I’m not working. At any moment I have to be ready to ad-lib and riff on any breaking news that’s happening anywhere in the world. So my homework is to watch television — not reality TV (laughs) — I mean the news. It is my job to read articles on the Internet, it is my job to read books, I feel like I have to be able to have a conversation about things because that’s what an interview is.
What do you love most about being a newscaster?
I love feeling like I’m educating people just a little bit about something that maybe they didn’t know before they turned on the television. They don’t have to be able to write an article about it or be an encyclopedia, but if they know something about another part of the world or country, then I feel like I’ve done my job.
