Back to Normal
It’s nice to get back to a little normalcy, if you can call a newsroom “normal”.
For the past week and a half I spent most of my time at Juvenile Courthouse covering the boot camp trial. I was in charge of blogging what was going on in court so people who couldn’t watch all day or people who wanted to go back and read what had happened could.
At first I’ll admit, I wasn’t really sure what I was doing. I was probably putting too much information in an effort to be thorough. I think by the end I was able to put some of the more important highlights and to break things up by subject so that it was easier to read.
We had the blog and our streaming live coverage on our special page we made for the trial. We all think the time and effort we put into it paid off with some of the largest web hits that we have ever seen. In other words, what we were doing was beneficial and of interest to you.
Many of you wrote in to our “Share Your Thoughts” section. I was getting copied each time they came in and I know there were dozens and dozens everyday. Thank you for your contributions.
The last day of the trial I had butterflies. I guess I was nervous that we would miss something in our coverage. That was soon replaced by a shot of adrenaline.
After the verdict I was running around all over the place trying to get the different people involved to do an interview with us. Many of my co-workers told me they saw me running around on Court TV. I was in the one in the News 13 shirt and jeans. So I made national television, awesome, although I prefer to be behind the scenes.
Today we are trying to follow-up with some of the defendants and see if any of the jurors are willing to talk. We are also talking to the family of a bicyclist who was hit and killed by someone who left the scene. And finally we are working on a story about an 800 something pound shark caught in Destin. Yeah, things are back to normal.
PS: Heather’s Headlines will be back up and running again tomorrow.
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About The Assignment Desk
When people ask "What does the assignment desk do?" I often have a hard time answering. That's one reason why I've decided to create this "Behind the Scenes" blog. This is a fast paced business that is very addictive to those of us who would most likely now be put on some kind of medication for ADD if we were still in school. The better question might be what doesn't the assignment desk do? I've heard many people equate it to air traffic control. I schedule our crews, assign stories, gather information on story ideas, answer phones, work with reporters on their stories, provide information for producers, work on special projects, fill in for producers and the list goes on and on. With a growing emphasis on web news, I am also very involved with the content on wmbb.com. This includes Heather's Headlines which previews our story line-up for the day. My favorite part of working the assignment desk is dealing with breaking news. It's such a rush and feeling of accomplishment gathering information, sending crews out where they need to go, and getting the news on the web and on our broadcast as quickly as possible for our viewers.
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