Robin Roberts, the Good Morning America anchor, says there’s a silver lining within the present leisure business turmoil.
“I do know there’s a variety of uncertainty proper now within the business, and we’re all experiencing it. I simply take a look at that that means there are limitless prospects. We have now limitless prospects with the manufacturing firm,” Roberts mentioned throughout a keynote handle on the Banff World Media Pageant on Sunday.
In addition to her day job with the ABC morning present, Roberts can be president of her personal manufacturing banner, Rockin’ Robin Productions. And he or she’s at Banff to drum up enterprise for her manufacturing firm, in addition to obtain the A&E Inclusion Award on the Rockie Awards gala.
Roberts mentioned her manufacturing firm goals to create content material to encourage larger variety and inclusivity that isn’t discovered elsewhere. “We have now this motto that we wish to create storytelling that creates a response that results in motion,” she defined.
An instance is responding to new academic requirements in Florida and othe U.S. states which have rewritten the historical past of American Blacks. “When issues are taken out of the colleges, some historical past is being rewritten, to have the ability to do items for The Historical past Channel, to enlighten folks about historical past” is a objective of Rockin’ Roberts Productions, she defined.
The Good Morning America anchor additionally talked about her father, Colonel Lawrence Roberts, and his legacy as an unique Tuskegee Airman. “I didn’t understand how younger they had been. I didn’t understand my father was a youngster. He was 19 years outdated,” Roberts recalled of analysis she did for The Nice Warfare, an occasion sequence she did for The Historical past Channel.
Roberts added a lesson she has discovered within the indie manufacturing sport after her years as an athlete is to encompass your self with expert colleagues, quite than do the job your self. And as a high flight interviewer, Roberts mentioned she has confidence, however isn’t afraid to confess ignorance.
“Once I don’t know one thing, I’m not afraid to say I don’t know,” she conceded throughout her keynote handle in Banff. Roberts added after current newsmaking interviews with Brittany Griner, a professional girls basketball participant who was launched from jail in Russia, and Regina King, who opened up as a mom in regards to the loss of life of her son, that her objective is to permit folks to debate tough points and recollections with out getting their guard up.
“I wish to give them a secure place,” Roberts mentioned. She additionally gave an replace on her upcoming Lifetime biopic about Gloria Gaynor and who will play onscreen America’s “Queen of Disco.”
“We’re nonetheless looking for out who we’re gonna get to play her. She’s having a variety of say and he or she’s very grateful and hands-on and trusting of Rockin’ Roberts Productions and Lifetime as a result of she was very, very protecting” of her life story, Roberts mentioned.