Wednesday, May 23, 2007

My Bulging…Inbox

I think my response startled them when I said I average about 200 emails, per day.

I went on to explain that email is a primary means of communicating with the content coordinators at our station. In some cases, email is better than even the telephone. Afterall, it’s hard to provide a content coordinator with twenty minutes of information over the phone. Our little fingers just can’t type that fast and for that long without a brief water break. Not to mention, the telephone (the other means of communicating with us) would be ringing off the hook.

We do, however, receive a lot of information via email. Everything from press releases for upcoming events,  viewer story suggestions, breaking news and weather alerts, requests for anchor autographs and suspect mug shots come to us via email.

On a day when a major story is developing, the number of emails can go as high as 350+ for the day. This is very typical on days when we have severe weather or on stories that spark debate. Our stories on Wake Year-Round versus Traditional calendars made my inbox bulge. We also got a lot of emails about our recent coverage of several key immigration issues in the state.  If you go on vacation for a week, it’s not uncommon to come home to 1400 emails that are begging for your attention.

Believe it or not, we read them all.
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How many emails do you average at work? Do you really read them all?  Have you ever deleted an important email…only to realize it several days later when the boss comes asking about something that was in it?

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