Jackie Fox

Hello, my friend, and welcome to Catch Up with Louise Makshari.

This is the podcast where I do my best to keep you caught up with what's going on in the world.

And today is Friday, which means I'm interviewing someone interesting who has something interesting going on.

And today's interview is extra special for me because it's someone who I have long admired and respected, who has been given a huge opportunity.

I'm talking about Jackie Fox, who has been announced as RTE's new Washington correspondent.

Jackie and I work together in Ortiz, although in different buildings, as you'll hear.

And I was just like genuinely so thrilled to have a chat to her ahead of this huge opportunity that she'd been working towards for so long.

I hope you enjoy this chat.

Jackie Fox, I was absolutely thrilled when I heard that you had been appointed as Ortiz's new Washington correspondent.

This might feel weird, but like I remember my early days of 2FM, you used to be doing the news and you were the only news person who ever like was nice to me.

And so honestly, like I feel like I was in the trenches with you.

But the weird thing about RT is that the news is in one building and the radio stations are in a different building.

So we were never physically in the same place.

I just always remember you being so lovely.

And I remember thinking we're in the same boat because you were obviously trying to build your career in news and you were doing those hard shifts.

And like the Christmas days, I was doing them as well.

And I was just like, I'll do anything that I'm asked to do because I have goals here.

And, you know, like I'm not naughty anymore, but I'm very happy with where I am.

And I think all of that hard work did pay off for me as well.

Absolutely.