
Today, Juli Jokaxhi, a journalist at ABC News, is known for her political shows, but that has not always been the case. She started her career in Fier on local television there. Interviewed Kosovars fleeing the war, seeking help for them, even at a career point, she also did an aesthetic show and a fashion parade with high school girls. In her words, little of it all.
When he came to Tirana, in the editorial office of Koha Jone, he first encountered politics. Anila Basha, who usually covered this area of the news, recommended to the editor-in-chief, Alexander Chipa, to send "this young woman," Xhokaxhiu, to the SP parliamentary group meeting. And she obeyed.
?When I came to Tirana, I had never dealt with the big parties. It was the moment I experimented with. I did it all, giving and the news. And Basha who tells Cipa, let this young woman go to the SP parliamentary group meeting. And Cipa tells me 'you will go, it is the SP parliamentary group meeting and you will do an interview with Arben Malaj. I was zero out of politics at the time. Zero at all. I neither followed nor loved her. I remember going and starting the text of the report: 'Today the Parliamentary Group of the Socialist Party convened in the building of the Albanian Parliament Presidency. Basha gets the text to fix what I had done, with her kindness. He says to Chip, 'Look at what he's done, look.' And he calls me, asks me what this text is about. I apologized, I had never done politics. Basha scoffed. Only after that, I took it very seriously. I started reading the newspapers seriously, ?she says.
As Jokaji goes on to show, sometimes bullshit and hard work make you better. Often, he needed to present the headless news, with the editor-in-chief serving as a behind-the-scenes cameraman.
?I am very grateful for something else, too. When I was working with Time, we only had one printer that was out of order or inks. We usually made news heads on our own, but Chip wanted to go through them himself. He would come ten minutes before the news, sit down and write a poem. Inspired. He used to print and because the printer never worked properly, he only printed poetry, 40 times as many papers. I got into the news at 3 no quarter always without news heads. Behind the cameras, there was Chip telling me 'Nano today, press conference.' And I had to make it head on, I should have followed. It made me rank. It happened many times and it was an exercise that did me a lot of good. ?