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Richard Jacobs: from footballer

to international cameraman to

multimedia lecturer in Aruba

ORANJESTAD – Richard E. began playing soccer too. algetter in a championship
Jacobs Jr. is currently a At a young age he moved twice, and was MVP of a
guest lecturer in multime- to the Netherlands and championship twice. He
dia at Ibero American High from that moment contin- also won best striker.
School. Jacobs has a long ued developing in his sport.
and successful trajectory Half of his career was in During the 1990s, he was
in the world of television; the Netherlands where he part of Aruba’s national
but before entering televi- played for big teams. Af- team, representing our is-
sion, his first love was soc- terwards he came back to land in elimination games
cer. In an interview with our Aruba and played in vari- for the World Cup in 1994,
reporter, Jacobs tells a bit ous youth teams and rep- 1998 and 2002. He was also
about his career in soccer resented Aruba in Santo part of the Aruba team for
and multimedia. Domingo, among others. the Caribbean Champion-
ship Shell Cup, and in the
From a young age, be- Jacobs says that during his year 2000 he was part of gained a lot of experience “You learn everything re-
cause his father played soccer career he won dif- the Aruban team that beat in the world of television. garding filming, editing,
soccer, Jacobs followed in ferent individual awards. the Puerto Rican team 4-2. you learn video editing,
his father’s footsteps and Among others, he won go- Internationally, he worked and you learn to work with
Jacobs studied in the elec- at different TV stations and Photoshop, restore images,
trical sector in Aruba and programs. He says that make posters, you learn ev-
after finishing his studies he worked with CNN, Fox, erything regarding social
in Aruba he moved to the NBC, as cameraman for media. We also teach the
Netherlands to continue the Larry King show, and technical aspect a bit of
studying electronica. he worked as cameraman the work of IT”, he added.
During his studies in the also for Nancy Grace at
Netherlands, Jacobs says, that time. Finalizing, Jacobs says that
there was a department what he likes the most
that would photograph The transition from televi- about teaching at the
and film here and there, sion to school happened school is inspiring the kids,
but mostly photograph. He because his two daughters who have an open win-
went to experience this, attended Ibero American dow to the world of multi-
and loved it so much that High School, and during the media. “Maybe you are a
he started participating. years they were enrolled, very creative person, you
“I started going deeper into they realized that he was can do a lot with multime-
it. For filming, I began when doing multimedia work and dia and what I like is that
I was 14, filming various ac- the school approached when I give an assignment,
tivities around Aruba with a him to start teaching in the I want for them to do it the
big camera. I always liked MultiMedia department in best that they can, better
filming. That’s how I started, order to introduce the sub- than me. The goal is to push
and as I grew up I gained ject to the students. “They these children to use their
more experience.” found accreditation for this creativity and experience
and after six years teach- the world of multimedia,
Jacobs worked in TeleA- ing, this is the only school through which they can
ruba, and after that he got that is currently giving com- express themselves in differ-
the opportunity to work plete multimedia lessons,” ent ways.”q
in ATV and at this time he Jacobs emphasized.