This 12-Year-Old Kid Gets To Be An ABC Election Correspondent With Leigh Sales
Hope you weren't feeling unaccomplished today.
Kids doing the news is never not hilarious and adorable, and if you don’t like it then you and your withered husk of a soul can get right outta here. ‘Apparently Kid’ captured our hearts two years ago, tiny-people news outlets Crinkling News and the Under Age in Melbourne regularly kill it, and kids on camera was the premise of that amazing Simpsons episode that introduced the crazy old lady who throws cats at people.
But the ultimate in kid news, at least in Australia, has always been Behind The News, an ABC-made program tailoring the news to upper primary school-age kids and regularly broadcast in school. BTN has been making schooldays less boring since 1968, explaining issues in a way that younger kids can understand and reporting on events they care about.
Now as part of their election coverage, BTN is putting kids in front of the camera. 12-year-old Maya is BTN‘s first official Rookie Reporter, and gets to follow politicians around on the campaign trail and ask them questions like a tiny Walter Cronkite.
Maya found out she’d got the gig on the set of 7.30 a few days ago when Leigh Sales told her after giving her a hug, in case you’re not jealous enough already.
This kid is gonna take all our jobs in like eight years, tops. Teens are the future.