![]() “Logistical things like getting a credit card. ![]() “There are a lot of challenges when you move that have nothing to do with your job,” she says. Kaul is thankful to have people in the news industry to lean on, some of whom have also moved to the United States from other countries. “I try to be as curious as possible wherever I am, and I’m just constantly trying to listen to people and I think that’s one of the easiest ways to get to know what people care about.” “I try to meet as many people as possible,” she says. Having navigated several new cities over the years, Kaul used those skills when she moved to New York. I think one of the biggest challenges when you are in a different place is having your finger on the pulse and really knowing what matters to people.” “There are different challenges that come every time you move cities and I’ve experienced that over and over because I’ve done that so many times before. ![]() “Obviously new city, new country, new network, new job, so it’s a lot of firsts for me, and so much learning that comes with all of those things.” “I mean, it’s all of the things that you would expect a big move to be,” she says. Working in New York as a news correspondent has been “unbelievably nutty” but a lot of fun. Kaul moved to Toronto in 2018 to work as an anchor and reporter for CP24 before joining CBS this year. “I was so blessed to meet life-long friends in Regina, blessed to meet my husband in Regina, and now I have family there.” “Some of the most beautiful moments in my career have happened in those early stages in those smaller cities where you get to do everything and you learn so much, so fast,” she says. She was quickly promoted to weekend anchor, and then weekday morning anchor.ĭuring her time in the city, she met a born-and-bred Regina man who she later married in Toronto.Īfter building her career at Global Regina for more than three years, Kaul became a weekend anchor and daily reporter with CTV News Edmonton. Photo by KAYLE NEIS / Regina Leader-PostĪfter working in Toronto for over a year, Kaul wanted to start reporting and moved to the Prairies for her first on-air job at Global Regina in 2012. Shanelle Kaul, who started her news career at Global Regina, stands outside the newsroom on Oct. It was the perfect place to start a career in TV news because you are working with everybody in the newsroom in some shape or form throughout your day and your job is to really coordinate coverage.” “I think being on the assignment desk was kind of a big blessing. “And it was as soon as I walked into that newsroom at Global Toronto and started working with the folks there, I just knew that this is what I wanted to do, this is where I needed to be.” “TV was kind of the last thing I tried,” she says. The fast-paced environment allowed her to learn about how newsrooms function and how news gets to air. Kaul studied journalism at Ryerson - now Toronto Metropolitan University - where she had the opportunity to “dabble” in different areas of the media.Īfter landing an internship with Global Toronto, she began working there on the overnight assignment desk. “I thought, ‘I’ll just apply and see what happens.’ Sure enough, that was the first place I heard back from and I just thought maybe this is a sign that I should at least try this out.” I have to be a doctor or a lawyer, all the traditional things,'” she recalls. “I was like, ‘No, no, no - I can’t do that. While applying to universities, a high school guidance counsellor told Kaul she was a good writer and asked if she had ever thought about pursuing journalism. “That was something that always came naturally to me, but I didn’t really see it in this way until later in life.” “I was consuming things that were happening and then processing those experiences and writing them down. “When I look back at that, I’m like, ‘that kind of was journalism,'” she says. At a young age, she would always bring a diary along when she travelled with her family, taking notes about the places they went and the people they met. Kaul later discovered that she had a knack for it. ![]() “I did not see myself being somebody who would be telling stories one day.” “I think I was just a big news consumer,” she says. Although news was “part of the fabric” of her family while growing up in Mississauga, she didn’t initially consider it as a career. Kaul was only one year old when they moved to Canada.
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