Matthijs van Nieuwkerk

After the training of pre-university education, graduated From the Nieuwkerk one and only time in English at the University of Amsterdam, completed the study.

Van Nieuwkerk started his journalism career at The Moment. Along with his friend Mark van den Heuvel he started there in 1984 and athletes to interview, among those who are the chess players Kasparov and Karpov, and the football player Johnny Rep. Later, he went out of writers to interview, and refreshed, he is the literature page of the newspaper. In 1988, Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, editor for the editorial staff. Finally, in 1996, and editor-in-chief. Under his leadership, it was decided that the time was still a rural newspaper, and is once again fully focused on it. Van Nieuwkerk, it was praised for it because he was hard to ignore, Run-back for a smooth, contemporary newspaper and was able to make it.

His subsequent editorship of the Amsterdam station AT5, it was not a great success, and he soon made the move to Johannesburg, where he was in 2002, netcoördinator of Nederland 3. Within the next six months, he stopped on the country station out of frustration with the complex and omroepcultuur that the change is in the way.