Today was a good lesson in how fast-paced a newsroom environment can be. The sports' desk seemed relatively quiet in the early part of this week, and reporters sat in the mornings feeling useless.
That didn't really happen for me. I began catching an itch to work on something immediately, and I found some releases to cover. So I did those. They didn't quench my thirst though.
Luckily, as the week wore on, releases turned into stories and updates. And, by Friday night, I had a total of 7 media (stories, briefs, and a picture) up. Sunday, I have another event awaiting to be covered. I was glad to be feeling used again.
But, the real story was today. I was following Christian Cantwell in London, and the morning update got written, edited, and posted with ease. This afternoon was different.
Nick and I went to the afternoon MU basketball press-conference regarding the team's upcoming tour to Europe for 10 days. Well, of course after that was done, it was due for Cantwell's final results. So, while in the early moments of writing on the press-conference my editor flew me away and said Cantwell? So I flew, wrote an update, and flew back and wrote more of the story.
But, then I was needed to help identify people in pictures and write captions. By the time I returned to Nick, he had finished our last few thoughts and Greg had the story.
Just have to say love working with Nick as a team, he was great getting the story with and we worked fast and efficiently together to get the story done and published with complete coverage.
Needless to say, I'm tired.
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