Monday, November 12, 2007

Veterans Day Coverage

On a day when there are so many different activities and events to cover, the assignment desk has some interesting choices to make.

Today is Veterans day. And much like every holiday that is recognized in our country, that means there will be a number of local events to cover.

As a news station, we try to cover as many of the local stories as we can. However, we cannot make every single event that is going on, so we must decide which ones to send a crew to.

We prefer to cover events that are visual and have interesting people in them. Just like you, as viewers, want to watch visually exciting stories, we like to cover them.
With any story that we cover, there are no guarentees that we will get out of it what we came for. But if an event offers elements right off the bat (that we know will be a good visual story), we lean towards sending a crew to that event.

Today, we decided to send a crew to a ceremony in Lillington where they were going to be laying a wreath, hear from speakers, and have a local boy scout troop. This type of event gives us the opportunity to shoot a lot of different elements for a story.

We also decided to cover a local saloon who is giving free haircuts to veterans. This is also a very visual story that will offer the reporter and photographer a lot of good shots and sounds for their piece. If we do not cover a local event, it is not because we did not like it. We simply do not have the crews to cover all of the events in our area.

I do encourage people to forward as many events on days like these (and all days throughout the year) to . We will try our best to cover as many as possible.