Youngest newspaper journalist at just eight-years-old!

Meet Anishwa Kunjala, the youngest newspaper columnist in the world

At just eight years old, he's already making headlines. And let's not forget, he also holds the record for the youngest documentary presenter

This afternoon, he's presenting his latest column to the editor of First News

But first, how did you get started, Anishwa? So how it all started

was really simple. The day that I came back from school, I told my dad about

I want to help protect animals because I've seen this whale that died because of plastic pollution

And then my dad, because he's really good at photography and making videos

he said, why don't we do some short videos together? And that was the start of it all

So hi guys, got it in my hand. Let me just put it in here with the other ones, okay

We did really short videos about bees and even swans, one of my personal favourites

all of them were amazing and they were a big hit. Then I got BBC to also see me

and they thought that it would be amazing if I got to meet Steve Batchell, my real hero

And then I got to do an amazing entire documentary about how we can protect our wildlife

and then it started building up and building up even more until I'm here with all of you

I was super happy about that So the column that I doing today is about the blue marlin an amazing fish which is super fast And what I trying to do with this column

is to inspire young children all around the world to love amazing animals just like the blue marlin

From presenter to columnist, our young hero's resume is growing faster than he is

With a pen in one hand and a paintbrush, brushing the other, Anishwa enhances his articles with colourful depictions of the creatures he champions

I absolutely love to paint animals and these are a few of my amazing work that I did

The first one that I'm going to show is off. The Lima Leaf Frog is an amazing animal that is a frog and it jumps off from tree to tree and is an amazing climber

The Himalayan Monal. This is a male. the females are a lot more dull. My incredible hummingbird painting. Hummingbirds are incredible

pollinators. They are super important for their habitat that they live in. So I never got to meet Sir David Attenborough

in person, but I did actually get a letter from him and these amazing words of advice that he said are

try your best and you will perceive your path that you know that you need to do. I also met Rishi Sunark

one of the Prime Ministers and I can't believe I got to meet them

and they are protecting nature in their own special way I asked Mr Prime Minister if I could go to COP28 and spread my message so fingers crossed he might say yes

All we have to do is continuously doing our small bit to try and protect our wildlife

You don't have to do big things. All you have to do is do your tiny little bit to make a huge difference

Well, I feel really excited about seeing how the editor would feel about my newest column

I think she would really enjoy it and it's telling about the characteristics and why we should protect the animal

Steady on Anishwa, you have to talk to the writing team first

Anishwa, thank you so much for sending over the wonderful Blue Marlin

I thought it was fantastic. I mean, the fun facts were super fun

And as Sophia said, the fun facts that really excellent. exciting. I really like them. We just have to think about our audience. So we're like kind of

aimed for 7 to 14 year olds. It's quite good to keep them nice and short and simple and

it's really kind of easy to understand language. Is that like another word that we could

use to sort of explain what temperate water means? Probably. Good word. Perfect

Right, let's get it across to design then, shall we? Yep. Come on. Let's go. That looks exactly like the one that I did

Been flared up and mouth open. Everything's the exact same except it's not. It's not

not in the water. Pressure's on now. And maybe you can enlarge the size

Yeah that looks great Yeah So are you happy with this image Yep Very happy Cool With his heart racing like a blue marlin Anishwa approaches the editor Will his articles sink or swim

Hi, Anishua. Always good to see you. How are you? I'm good. How are you

I'm good, thank you very much. And I've just been looking at your column, so tell me about it this week

So this time it's the Blue Marlin, an amazing, really large, super fast fish

How do you choose? Which animals you're going to feature each week? I'd choose a super cool animal

that's on the top of my head. Last time it was a platypus and this time it's a blue marlin

That's really good. I think this one is really interesting and I like the way Dan the designer was telling me

that you suggested we had a blue background because it's aquatic animal

and like last time it was brown for the earth because it was a mammal on land

So next time I'm doing their incredible capybara even though they look really chubby and fat

They are incredible swimmers and they can swim really well. They're huge

huge. Oh well I look forward to reading that next week I always learn so much from you Anishwa

and so do all our readers. So now it's time to send it off to press I think yep so let's

go. Hi I'm Anishwa and this over here is my blue marling journal isn't it incredible

With Nikki the editor's final nod of approval this Guinness World Records title holder

can take a moment to celebrate. But knowing In Eshwa, relaxation is probably not on the agenda