WEBVTT 00:00:04.030 --> 00:00:05.490 >> I'm Lauren Desputo [Assumed Spelling]. 00:00:05.490 --> 00:00:13.070 I'm a Reporter and Video Journalist for WBBH, NBC-2, and ABC-7 in Fort Myers, Florida. 00:00:13.070 --> 00:00:18.600 So I start off every day at the Lee County Sheriff's Office, 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:22.300 that's the crime beat, which I am assigned to. 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:27.160 And we go through all the police, the deputy's incidence file the night before, 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:31.810 so all the crime that took place county-wide, and we'll get what is something 00:00:31.810 --> 00:00:36.680 that is newsworthy and we would want to report, things that we think the public need to know, 00:00:36.680 --> 00:00:39.950 have a right to know, stories that would be interesting. 00:00:39.950 --> 00:00:46.050 So, we take, we request those incident reports, and then I talk with my managers 00:00:46.050 --> 00:00:49.610 and we basically figure out what are the stories that we're going to chase today. 00:00:49.610 --> 00:00:55.550 That takes up most of the morning, and then as you saw today I went out and looked for a woman 00:00:55.550 --> 00:00:57.690 who was the victim of a burglary. 00:00:57.690 --> 00:01:02.990 And it turned out that deputies were able to track down the person who had stolen from her, 00:01:02.990 --> 00:01:08.540 who they accused of stealing from her, by looking at a pawn shop's records. 00:01:08.540 --> 00:01:14.790 So, yes, it's -- you know, a lot of my job is making sure that a lot of times I feel like, 00:01:14.790 --> 00:01:19.680 you know, it's putting people at ease and explaining to them, you know, 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:21.430 why others would want to hear their story. 00:01:21.430 --> 00:01:29.420 We look for surveillance video of crimes, anything from murders to shoplifting. 00:01:29.420 --> 00:01:34.730 If there's something that the viewers can learn from it we try to put it out there. 00:01:34.730 --> 00:01:39.190 So then I look at everything that I've shot, and I log it, is what it's called, 00:01:39.190 --> 00:01:42.850 and basically write down the time codes of everything that's said so that I know all 00:01:42.850 --> 00:01:45.030 of the material I'm working with and what the story is. 00:01:45.030 --> 00:01:48.960 And then I go and write it and I craft the story. 00:01:48.960 --> 00:01:52.160 We only have about a minute and 30 seconds to tell the story, 00:01:52.160 --> 00:01:55.200 and you want to keep it interesting and moving quickly 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.370 and get all the details in there for people. 00:01:57.370 --> 00:02:02.670 So I will spend anywhere from 20 minutes to 45 minutes writing the story, 00:02:02.670 --> 00:02:06.340 and then I will go back to the edit bay and I'll edit all of that together. 00:02:06.340 --> 00:02:08.730 Here I've had relatively normal hours. 00:02:08.730 --> 00:02:13.140 I'm at that meeting by eight-forty-five in the morning, so I leave my house probably 00:02:13.140 --> 00:02:17.750 at eight-twenty, eight-fifteen, and I'm usually wrapped up by six o'clock, 00:02:17.750 --> 00:02:21.650 unless I'm live on a story then and in the six o'clock show, 00:02:21.650 --> 00:02:24.590 then maybe I'm finished by seven o'clock at night. 00:02:24.590 --> 00:02:28.720 And it could change, I mean the one thing there aren't really normal hours in this. 00:02:28.720 --> 00:02:32.820 I'm a day side, weekday reporter, so that's why I have that shift, but I have colleagues 00:02:32.820 --> 00:02:37.410 of mine work on the weekends, they work midnight to eight a.m., 00:02:37.410 --> 00:02:41.390 they work three o'clock to eleven-thirty in the evening. 00:02:41.390 --> 00:02:42.690 >> Did they offend someone or something? 00:02:42.690 --> 00:02:47.150 >> And I've done all those shifts, too, so in different jobs, so it is -- 00:02:47.150 --> 00:02:50.920 it's something, the news is always on and there's always a newscast to prepare 00:02:50.920 --> 00:02:53.930 for so you're not likely going to have a nine to five in this job.