My break… Karen Eck
From working with Survivor’s Mark Burnett to assisting Oprah: the TV publicity pro Karen Eck on her big break.
How did you get into the industry?
I was doing a communications degree at Canberra University and my lecturer made an off the cuff remark as we were finishing for the year saying, ‘I have a friend who’s working at the ABC if anyone wants to do an internship’. Amazingly, I was the only person to put up my hand. I jumped at the opportunity and found myself in program sales. I’d been there for three or four days and this woman I did not know stopped me in the hallway and said, ‘who are you and what are you doing here? What did you study?’ I told her and she said, ‘you’re in the wrong department. Come with me’. She took me by the hand, walked me into publicity and said, ‘this is Karen. She needs to do her internship in publicity’. I then stayed at the ABC for five years.
What happened next?
