The NOS is a foundation and has a Supervisory Board. They are about ten people from politics, business, the academic world and other organizations, who supervise the daily affairs of the NOS and its management.

A new Supervisory Board was appointed last month and the ladies and gentlemen made an introductory tour of the various NOS editors: News, Sport and Events. I work in the latter department, as a manager. So I had to have a ‘talk’ about what we do at Events, what programs we make. I have done this before, and apart from a DVD with program fragments of Queen’s Day, the 4 and 5 May celebrations, Noorderslag, Serious Request, state visits, royal funerals and weddings, commemorations, Paralympic Games, etc., I do not use any tools. So, for example, certainly no Powerpoint, the viagra of speeching. I’m still young enough.

I teach head-on as it is called; I answer questions and discuss the journalistic choices we make. And I do that with pleasure. Afterwards, the financial director came to me. “I’m jealous of you” he said. “Why?” I asked. “How can you keep such a story so easy and relaxed?”  “Just go and teach for a few years; this was really easy” I said. “These weren’t 30 disinterested teenagers who stare at your fly; who basically want to discuss completely different things with each other; who want to eat their lunch or doze off a bit.” After eight years of teaching at the Rijnlands, I no longer have to think twice before making a speech.

Peter Kloosterhuis, March 2012

(history teacher from 1982 to 1990; from 1990 to 1998 reporter at Studio Sport, Brandpunt and Netwerk; from 1998 to 2002 deputy editor-in-chief of NOVA; employed by NOS from 2002; since 2006 as Head of Events)