You either love him or you don’t. There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground for sports reporter Joep Schreuder (56) from Breda. He has been a sports reporter for NOS for over 20 years. Known for the interviews in which Joep himself almost always appears. He is not off the beaten track and with that he has acquired a kind of cult status. And he can break a game with the ‘big boys’ in football. Guus Hiddink calls him on his birthday. This, among other things, becomes clear in the book he wrote: ‘Ter Plekke’. He talks about it on Sunday in the talk show KRAAK at Omroep Brabant.
The title ‘Ter Plekke’ already betrays something of his vision on journalism. “Journalists need to get out,” he often says. He is annoyed by journalists who constantly sit at talk show tables to give their opinion. “Recently at Jinek, six journalists at the table. They should not talk about people, but with people.”
Interview
There is nothing he likes more than traveling from city to country to interview people from the sports world in front of the camera. In his eyes, the interview he conducts must be a ‘pleasant conversation’ in which the interviewee feels safe to speak out. Driven by curiosity and by what he calls ‘genuine interest’.
A born journalist, you would say. But Joep first did the PABO and then went to work at a school with children with mental illness. It wasn’t until the late 1990s that he entered journalism. He first looked regionally as director of the commercial local broadcaster TV & Co, the West Brabant broadcaster that later merged into TV10. From 2001 he works for NOS as a traveling sports reporter.
He has experienced so much in that work that he could write a book about it. And so he did.
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KRAAK is broadcast live every Sunday at noon and then repeated. The program can also be viewed online and via the streaming platform Brabant+.