Week 6: 8 hours

This week I did work on both Thursday and Friday.

On Thursday, I got a phone call from the reporter at 12pm. She was searching for MOS on campus about a blackmail case involving a boyfriends threatening to release sex videos of he and his girlfriend if she left him for physically abusing her. The woman in the case was an East Central student. so we wanted to get MOS of other students.
I worked for two hours in between classes asking students to give their opinions. We worked to keep the story balanced, using both male and female interviews.

Friday, we worked to produce a full package and a MUGVO.

The day started slower, during the morning conference call we were told to pursue our story idea over the Stonewall police being declined by the sheriff their request to expand their jurisdiction.
For this story, we knew we needed an interview with the sheriff as well ass with chief of police for Stonewall.

We started by contacting Ada's city administrator for the interview with the sheriff. After some time, we were able to meet up with him for his interview. We tried contacting Stonewall police through pone calls and e-mails, but were unsuccessful in reaching anyone.

Then, we headed for Stonewall. Luckily we caught the chief right outside of the police station and he agreed to an interview. While we were there we got B-Roll of him showing on a map his requested area, the police department, and the highway that they would be patrolling if the request would have been granted.

This took up most of the day, but we still had time to request the mug shot of Sheila Arles to write up an update MUGVO for her.

Once again, I was struck by the amount of work a reporter does in one day. Getting both sides of the story and making sure the stories are fair and unbiased is not always easy when you are working on a day deadline and are under the power of other's willingness to interview. Still, KXII does a great job at reporting fairly and honestly.

Cumulative Hours: 38