Cherno's Path from Journalist to a TV-host
Michael Jackson is performing in Berlin. It just so happens that one of Cherno’s guitar teachers from LA is a member of Jackson’s band and who helps him into the inner circle of the reclusive star. All this happens while a pack of renown journalists is kept waiting for the shy superstar.
Cordt Schnibben from the weekly DIE ZEIT is among the waiting media people. A conversation with Schnibben leads to new opportunities to contribute freelance articles for DIE ZEIT and DER SPIEGEL magazine.
All of this brings a lot of prestige but earns little money. Cherno also learns about the fundamentals and more mundane realities of daily life in a TV station, making photo copies for a tiny hourly wage three times a week. But he realizes it’s a foot in the door and soon he is contributing parts to the local evening news. Then, in the early nineties, he gets a break prompting iconic German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to make a personal statement that catches everyone’s attention. At the Berlin Press ball, Cherno asks the chancellor about his favourite dance. Kohl replies: “The Tango”. When faced with the chuckling reporter, stoutly-built Kohl famously makes an indignant statement: “I dance only to get close to women.”
A year later Cherno gets his first jobs as a TV Presenter:
It all starts with a little disaster and very much as a last minute call. The local evening news show is about to begin and all of the anchors are either ill or for various reasons unavailable. Cherno jokingly offers himself. He gets the job - and keeps it.
Cherno Jobatey from a stand in to become a TV-host with an own Show - click to continue…