Robyn Curnow's ongoing reporting, insight, analysis and succinct coverage all night on CNN International late on Thursday and continuing into the early hours of Friday was simply brilliant, amazing, informed, succinct and excellent. Everything else paled by comparison.
From her word choices to emotive pauses, instant relevant background information and stories; from her exceptional, seamless switching between anecdotal information, to perspective pieces, to the reporting of new facts, Robyn Curnow was a one woman international television news superstar on Thursday and Friday.
Robyn Curnow was basically faultless as an indefatigable TV reporter on CNN International, providing viewers with insight, news and the best context on Nelson Mandela among any of the television channels accessible to South Africans.
South Africa's TV critics, TV writers and journalists covering the medium of television attended the SABC's quarterly preview in Johannesburg on Thursday night when news broke of Nelson Mandela's death. TV critics instantly gravitated to television as the medium of choice to track news developments.
TV critics were instantly unanimous in their praise of Robyn Curnow and her unbelievable depth of subject, her tireless presence in the moment across numerous hours on CNN, bringing answers, facts and insight when called on for the latest developing news and background perspective on Nelson Mandela.
On Friday TV critics were still raving about Robyn Curnow and agreed that her Nelson Mandela coverage is making her the single best TV correspondent to beat and buzzed about the gravitas and perceptive insight and articulation she showed in covering the breaking news for viewers.
