Meet our Cadet Journalists for 2024

Welcome to our Cadet Journalists!

Joining the newsroom are our new cadets working from across our business, meet Cameron Carr and Angelica Waite.

We’re excited to see the stories and the success of our 2024 cohort! We’ve spoken to each of them to learn more about their start in journalism, career aspirations and the places they’ve worked from across the globe, find out more about them below!

Cameron Carr

“Which news broadcast to watch on TV as a family was always a heated debate in my household, so long as it didn’t clash with Home and Away. And, luckily enough, SBS World News went to air before Alf Stewart kicked off after 7pm.

Since then, I’ve had a fascination with international news and different cultures and languages, which has seen me live and work in New York, Jakarta and France. After finishing my degrees back home in Perth I joined the ABC, which took me across regional and metro WA, eventually ending up as an award winning and losing producer/reporter for ABC Radio Darwin’s news and current affairs program. Following a challenging stint in the Northern Territory coordinating referendum coverage, I joined the masses in fleeing to South Korea and Japan for a break, before making the move to Sydney. While I am very fresh to NSW I have only been lost once on the train which I see as a massive personal accomplishment. I am looking forward to learning lots this year and finding a pub quiz team.”

Angelica Waite

“A filmmaker whose work I love is Chantal Akerman, as instead of focussing her attention on sensational events or occurrences, she tries to tell the story of something small that might be happening nearby. Her approach finds history and politics and meaning in everything- from people’s gestures and daily habits to the objects on their living room shelves. Thinking about how many stories and layers of history exist in less visible, more overlooked, or underrepresented spaces is something I find both motivating and inspiring.

My decision to pursue a career in journalism wasn’t a straightforward one- it came about in a kind of circuitous way. I studied anthropology and film in my undergraduate degree. I connected with the idea that nothing to do with people is simple, as we exist in complex webs of personal, social, historical and cultural experiences. A Jakarta based organisation called Forum Lenteng focused on media education and empowerment clarified my interest in journalism and in storytelling that looks beyond the sensational, instead focussing on those small or overlooked things that might be occurring nearby.”