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Bloomberg TV’s Susan Li is creating quite a success story, writes Sandra LamNot many jobs allow you to wake up the American financier Jim Rogers at five in the morning, grill the billionaire LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault on his business strategy, or sit face-to-face with some of the most powerful political figures on the planet.儲存“I find it amazing that I get to talk to and learn from these people every day,” says Susan Li, presenter of Bloomberg TV’s weekday show, First Up with Susan Li.Wearing a fashionable magenta “shift” dress, Li looks every inch the celebrity news presenter. Her daily schedule, however, is anything but glamorous.“I get up at 4.15 every morning,” she says. “I get to work around 5am, then read for a few hours before I have my make-up and hair [done] quickly. And then the show starts.”Born in China, Li moved to Hong Kong when she was two, before emigrating with her family to Canada a year later. It was as a young girl in Canada that she decided she wanted to go into broadcasting after watching an unexpected event on TV.“I was watching the events in Tiananmen Square,” she says. “I thought that I really wanted to be in the field one day and cover big events for the world, the things that change history. I thought it was very meaningful.”After graduating from university in Toronto, she worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for three years before moving to Beijing and working for China Central Television (CCTV) International as an anchor and editor. “I love Asia so much. I was excited about what was happening in Asia, what is still happening in Asia. I always wanted to be a Beijing correspondent and get some international experience,” she says.Being trilingual – English, Cantonese and Mandarin – gave her an advantage when it came新蒲崗迷你倉to communicating with the locals. “Though culturally very different, CCTV was burgeoning at that time,” she says. “China was still developing, but it was a very exciting time. I think people need to be adventurous to be journalists.”She moved to Bloomberg, and to Hong Kong, seven years ago. Her career has since gone from strength to strength, culminating in last year’s “Highly Commended” runner’s up award for Best News Anchor at the Asian Television Awards, while the First Up show she hosts was awarded Best News Programme.Contrary to popular opinion, Li says there is nothing glamorous about the broadcasting industry. “People might think it looks like it’s all lip gloss, but it’s not glamorous when you’re reading in your pyjamas at 11pm and then getting up at 4am,” she says. “You’re running from here to there. You’re sweating in the heat to get the story, the shot, the interview.”Li says a lot of hard work goes on behind the screen and those who want to work in the industry should be prepared for sacrifice. “You have to be really willing to put in the long hours,” she says. “Early wake-up calls and strange working hours are the downs of this industry. The ups, though, are that you get to talk to such amazing people every day and you get to learn so much. I think there are so many more ups than downs.”Li says live broadcasting is a challenging field, especially in this new age of scrutiny where just one mistake can find itself plastered across internet sites and social media.“You get one take and there’s no going back. Once it’s on tape, it’s on tape,” she says.This makes the biggest challenge getting the story right and not making any mistakes. “You don’t want to misrepresent what’s actually happening, because that can have an impact on share prices.”mini storage