Monday: This was a normal 8-5 day for me. We are still trying to get passwords and access to all the websites and networks at work set up for me, but Monday we took care of quite a few of them. I also was given the assignment of working with a reporter to do an audio recording for a story that was the cover story of National Journal. It was about military families and I needed to set up a time for him to come in and record his narration track. I worked on the website a bit, and it was my co-worker Michelle's second-too-last day in the office.
Tuesday: Today was Michelle's final day before heading off to be the business producer for the Washington Post. She is really fabulous and knowledgeable about her job and I know she will do great. We had a cupcake tasting contest in her celebration with hellohello cupcakes and georgetown cupcakes. I am not sure who won, maybe georgetown?? I also was able to record the audio for the military piece I was working on, and I managed to edit a third of it that afternoon. Putting my audacity skills to good use.
Wednesday: Today was more audio and more editing. It hit us that Michelle was gone, but that just meant more responsibility for me. Everywhere I went in the office the first week they asked me if I was the new Michelle. It is kind of a daunting thought. I finished the audio edits and did some work on the homepage. I learned more of the ins and outs of Moveable Type and our content management system. Wednesday was key because Thursday is our big/long day for the magazine and it took some preparations.
Thursday: We knew Thursday was going to be a long day, and it was: 12 hours. Yes, but so goes the life of a journalist. We were at the Newseum at 7 in the morning to shoot a policy summit on jobs and healthcare (an updated issue report on this event should follow in the coming week!) and we were there til the late morning. We came back and Theresa took charge of the magazine changes while I spent my time getting the event video ready to post. Once I had that taken care of, it was time to upload my audio files to the webpage and make any changes I needed to for the magazine updates. We also went down to the studio to prepare for Friday's day-long studio interviews for a pilot program we are thinking about. I finally rolled out of there sometime after 7 pm.
Friday: Since I was at the office for so long on Thursday, they gave me a break Friday. I had an appointment with my intern group to visit CNN and John King (who we never actually got to see...) at noon so they gave me the morning off. It was a nice mental health morning. CNN was nice and the executive producer of John King USA, Michelle Jaconi, spoke to us for an hour about political reporting and her work at CNN and Meet the Press. She is a wonderful speaker and I very much enjoyed listening to her perspective. Made it back over to the Watergate for work around 2:30. I helped with the afternoon interviews... save the day with the bobby pin... and finished up with some loose ends and then headed home. Friday was a much more calm day than the day before and I think everyone was just spent at that point.
Hopefully next week at work looks to go as smooth or better.
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