I'm just already just, you know, scared out of my mind. My legs were shaking, which is not a good evolutionary traits. You know, if I had to run away, I wouldn't have been able to. The legs just went. It was so weird. And it was clear people were angry.

A few years ago, Andrew Gold was working as a freelance journalist,

and he was trying to find a way to make himself indispensable to commissioning editors.

Now, some journalists might try to become experts in data analysis, scraping, court reporting,

but not Andrew. I was obsessed with learning languages.

I thought that was the way to become, like,

that was going to be the next thing that people were going to need to be able to speak languages

because we had all these documentaries with presenters and stuff

where they were having like translators and it was all a bit sticky and awkward.

So I thought, okay, I'm going to learn all these languages.

Maybe this is what would set him apart from the rest, he thought.

Because I think there are so many people who want to be documentary makers, present as journalists like this.

It felt like our parents' generation, you could be like, hey, I want to be a freelance journalist, give me loads of money.

And they were like, here's £10,000 for an article that's 100 words.

And nowadays it's just, it's insane.

He had learnt French during a year abroad at university, and then later moved to Colombia,

where he learnt Spanish. From there, he moved to Argentina, all the while doing projects here

and there for the likes of HBO or Fusion. But he didn't feel yet like he had cracked it. And Andrew knew just what

kind of journalism he wanted to do, and just who he wanted to emulate. They loved Louisa Rue.

You see, before his big move, and fresh off his NCTJ course, he got a job at The Sun,

and he kept suggesting to the editor there that he

makes short videos for their website. And he was like, no, we don't need that. So I was like, well,

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