In what can be fairly described as the newsroom equivalent of a snipe hunt, the assignment desk manager likes to send new interns into the deep archive to pull video of the Civil War.
Considering how long it takes some of the interns to come back to the newsroom, Iʼm not convinced that Northwestern is sending us its best and brightest.
Well, I guess Iʼm officially a big time TV producer. No more small markets. No more medium markets. No more large markets. Iʼm officially in a major market and a verifiable employee of Tribune Broadcasting. The official certification came this morning when I arrived at my desk and found a box of business cards with my name and the WGN-TV logo. Aside from an employment contract, it doesnʼt get more official than that.
This is important to me in two ways:
It wasnʼt that many years ago when I had to go all the way up to the president of the West Virginia Radio Corporation to get permission to have business cards so I could do my job as a reporter. He said it was perfectly fine, and to order them that day. So I did. A week later, they were ready. A week after that I was confronted by the station manager freaking out about the $34 bill for my business cards.
I donʼt know what WGN-TV business cards cost, but I doubt anyone in this building cares.