Sunday 17 December 2017

98% of people have experienced this.

98% of people have experienced this.
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4 comments:

  1. We used to have a position in the newsroom, ‘satellite producer.’ They were the point-person for coordinating news material gathered and shared via satellite. To the uninformed, it seemed like the producer spent most of her day on the phone gabbing, and when the producer left us for a job with the network, management decided to eliminate the position, figuring that an executive producer or the managing editor would have time on top of everything else to arrange feeds, etc. (That there were other line producers who didn’t understand time delays via satellite is a whole different problem.)

    The truth was that satellite trades are essentially a barter economy - you’re building a reputation, not only for understanding news, but delivering product, often when it’s breaking news and already crazy - the satellite producer would be interfacing with affiliates remotely or in person with visiting news crews. So an hour-long phone call to go over the day’s stories on both ends (for example, between our station in San Francisco and a sister station in Los Angeles) is perfectly normal. Unless you’re an uninformed middle manager who knows nothing about the process and only sees a woman yakking on the phone.

    Success can be built upon who you know, and how they perceive you. We’d get calls from the network because they knew we’d come through with video, whether news or sports, or if the overnight/am show in New York needed to interview a guest in SF, they could come to the station and we’d put them up on the satellite.

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  2. I know they're doing good project work, I see the results. This group is in a tight place right now with a loss of about half the personnel through people taking other jobs and the position not being refilled. It's easy to assume other people aren't doing anything but to me that's part of the "everyone's replaceable at the drop of a hat" mindset.

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  3. I don't mean to across as undercutting this link, but omg if you worked at my workplace you'd know that the only way to avoid toxic relationships there is to take the day off! 😿

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  4. Now I have read it and there is much valuable advice. Good source.

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