Never work with animals and children- especially at the same time!

The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.
-Ted Turner

Today was a busy day as I had three stories to cover one after the other. the photographer and I headed to our first story about a dog competition. The contact had a 10-week-old puppy and his two young grandchildren. I was able to get some great quotes but when it came time for the photograph it was very difficult. The poor photographer spent about an hour trying to get one decent shot as the puppy was all over the place and the young girl was finding it hard to take directions. Due to this type of photo shoot we were running late to our next job.

The next job was about a charity fun run. I sat down with the contact and asked a few more questions from information that was not in the press release. The contact didn't really seem like she wanted to talk too much and didn't have much information apart from the information in the press release. So I then acted as assistant to the photographer which was interesting.

Next was to the army base as they were having a little press conference about the upcoming Salvation Army Doorknock Appeal. We had to sign in with I.D. then travel around the base where I did not have much time to talk to anyone about the event as we had limited time that was taken up by the photographs. I did get some quotes from the Salvo people and I had a press release.

I was told I would have a fourth job but the COS never mentioned it so I assumed I would just be focusing on my three stories. I was wrong. Apparently I did have a fourth job that nobody wanted to mention to me. But I had no information apart from a contact number. So I chased up a press release and phoned the contact only to be told she was out of the office and would call me back. After an hour I decided to call back as I couldn't spend anymore time waiting around. The contact was there and able to speak to me and give me some quotes.

I had finished my articles and waiting for them to be checked before I could leave. Eventually I was called back and fourth to fix my mistakes and chase up some details by calling my contacts back. For the fun run story I was told I should have spoken to the women that were competing but I had no contact details for them so I rang the participating gym owner instead. I had learned from my mistakes and realised there was always something to be edited in a story.