The Craziest Week of My Life

...well, maybe not of my life, but of my semester thus far.

I have to say though... I learned LOTS during my shift at KOMU this past week. Since I was flying solo on the web for the first few hours on Thursday, I was able to do much more in terms of video. It was interesting to actually see how video from Avid News Cutter transfers (or fails to transfer at times) into ACM, which gave me a dose of insight into how to troubleshoot the problems that occur.

Something I've also enjoyed over the past couple weeks has been working with the broadcast students. It's fun to be in a leadership role where I'm able to guide others and help bring their stories to the finish line effectively. Working with 10 o'clock reporters is where this happens most, as it's a much more calm shift where one-on-one time is with the reporters is easier to come across.

And of course, I love images, so searching through video for the lead photo (when the reporters don't have time to - which is usually most of the time) is always enjoyable. One of my favorites this past week was the image I chose for the short piece on the swimming Grand Prix. Not sure if the image is still available directly on that page, but it was of two swimmers near the pool wall as another splashes to tag the wall as well.

Two other stories I worked on were on the NAACP and Autism.

It was also great to help Liz write titles and captions for some of the images in her post-ice storm piece...she was super-exhausted after two long days of reporting and little sleep, so we had a fun time trying to make her captions more coherent than what she was actually saying/thinking.

This week, our moneycommons team is also going to be working on getting in contact with actual sources. I think it was helpful that Liz and I met to create an outline for stories and that we posted that to googledocs for other reporters to see as well. It's exciting that Newsy wants to partner with us in this endeavor as well!

Time to run, but am looking forward to seeing what the rest of this week will bring!!