Another Clash with Photo

Learned another valuable lesson for the workplace this week, which is communication.

I got thrown under the bus a bit, though I still claim responsibility. When I got to the newsroom, and Andrew informed me that we were going to send Stevie to Hickman to cover a jazz musician who was teaching a small class to do a photo slideshow. It sounded nice, and I was all for it, so I went into the budget with that to pitch.

When asked if Convergence had anything, I said we had a reporter headed to Hickman. At which point the photo editor glared at me and very loudly said "What?!"

To be honest, I was slightly taken aback. And then I made the connection. Nobody had thought to ask if we already had a photographer on the story. It ended up not being a big deal, Stevie just focused on capturing audio, but I looked like a fool in the budget meeting, and the photo editor was pretty steamed up of the rest of the day toward me.

In the end, it worked out pretty well, Stevie got back with some decent audio, even if her segments with words in them instead of music had a faint audio tone, because she had her speaker level set too high. But the end product was nice, and it was a good way to end my shifts with the Missourian. Plus, lesson learned. Ask and make sure nobody else is doing it before you send a reporter into the field.