I hate my recorder
So I am a reporter who chooses to use a recorder during face to face interviews. I feel it is much more polite to sit and pay attention to what the person is saying rather than have my face in my notebook taking notes the entire time we are speaking. I feel it shows I respect my interview subject more.
Until today. Today I spent 45 minutes interview two very well spoken (great for quotes) and very friendly principals in the school district. It was a fantastic interview but long and very multi-facited. I don't start working on the story until tonight and guess what I find out? The ENTIRE interview did not get recorded, the WHOLE thing. My recorder sucks and now I have wasted those two principals' time. I feel just awful and stressed about the whole thing. I have to get the story in before Monday morning.
I am going out of town tomorrow, luckily I am not driving (I am just the passenger in Kelsey's car) but I will have to be furiously working on this story tomorrow. And now I am at the mercy of these two principals, I had to write a very embarrasing e-mail showcasing that I didn't get any of the interview down because it was all lost.
I tried to write it from memory but the whole piece really does benefit from those very well spoken principals' quotes, which I just don't have anymore. Needless to say I am very upset and overall I am very stressed out.
I was basically too overwhelmed this week. I had three days to complete 5 stories, two of which weren't even for the schools section (but were thrown to me at the last minute, and took a lot of my time this week). And now I am having to work during my day off and possibly through the weekend if I don't hear from these principals.
I am really glad I am going on vacation tomorrow, I just hope it actually feels like a vacation....I really need this stress to subside, like now.
Recorders freaking suck, I really have to find a better recorder, maybe something digital. Meh.
Until today. Today I spent 45 minutes interview two very well spoken (great for quotes) and very friendly principals in the school district. It was a fantastic interview but long and very multi-facited. I don't start working on the story until tonight and guess what I find out? The ENTIRE interview did not get recorded, the WHOLE thing. My recorder sucks and now I have wasted those two principals' time. I feel just awful and stressed about the whole thing. I have to get the story in before Monday morning.
I am going out of town tomorrow, luckily I am not driving (I am just the passenger in Kelsey's car) but I will have to be furiously working on this story tomorrow. And now I am at the mercy of these two principals, I had to write a very embarrasing e-mail showcasing that I didn't get any of the interview down because it was all lost.
I tried to write it from memory but the whole piece really does benefit from those very well spoken principals' quotes, which I just don't have anymore. Needless to say I am very upset and overall I am very stressed out.
I was basically too overwhelmed this week. I had three days to complete 5 stories, two of which weren't even for the schools section (but were thrown to me at the last minute, and took a lot of my time this week). And now I am having to work during my day off and possibly through the weekend if I don't hear from these principals.
I am really glad I am going on vacation tomorrow, I just hope it actually feels like a vacation....I really need this stress to subside, like now.
Recorders freaking suck, I really have to find a better recorder, maybe something digital. Meh.