Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty

I mean, by trade, I'm a journalist first.

And that typically meant it was never really about you.

It's always about the story, which is right.

That's how it's supposed to be.

Yeah.

Now, if you have something that you're fronting or something that you're working on, because people are so distrustful for many different reasons, they want to know who the person is who's telling them the news.

And I have been encouraged and I agree with it in many ways to share more about myself.

In fact, if you are doing a podcast or you're fronting a doc or something, they want to come with you.

They want to behind the scenes, you know, and that means, you

This is me doing my hair and this is me on the way here.

And I have found it to be immeasurably helpful because when I was in New York doing the Diddy trial, you didn't just hear me pop up for 15 minutes a day doing a court report.

You came with me every step of the way.

And then I streamed live for two hours at the end of every day.

And you could just directly ask me questions I'd answer on the spot.

And I did see, I mean, it's a real ask.

And I get that.

I really do understand that.

But

The proof was in the community that we built of people going, you know, I wouldn't normally come to the BBC because I typically hate the BBC.

But I know where she is.