This week, I started work at KBIA, our local NPR station. I came in ready with a story to pitch bright and early on Tuesday morning. Janet, the main person at KBIA who’s in charge of us students, liked my idea about doing a wrap-up of the Citizen Jane Film Festival and how it went.
I’m finding it very difficult to do a story within the time limitations of my shift. My shift on Tuesday was from 8-12 a.m., however, the story meeting didn’t start until 9:00 and wasn’t over until 9:30 and I had a midterm at 12:30, so it didn’t give me and my partner much time to work on the story from start to finish. We got one interview done on Tuesday morning, and we didn’t get in contact with the rest of our sources until either late Tuesday or late Wednesday.
I came in for my next shift on Thursday morning with the goal of finishing up the story. I was concerned that I didn’t make a very good first impression because the Citizen Jane story seemed outdated on Tuesday, and even more outdated on Thursday.
We got the rest of our interviews done and were able to finish up the story that morning and Sara, the other person in charge of students, seemed to like the story, but I’m not sure when it’s going to air.
I decided that the best way to use my short time at KBIA productively was to pitch a longer form feature that I could work on during my own time instead of waiting around the studio for people to call me back during my shift.
I came up with the idea of doing a story about road kill and how it’s increased in some areas over the years. It would also be a human-interest piece because I plan to follow a public works person around as they pick up dead animals. I pitched it to KBIA and they seemed to really like it and gave me the go-ahead.
I’ll be starting on that next week with a partner, Jen, so I’m excited to have more freedom with the story and my time. Hopefully next week will be less stressful than this past week has been.
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