TV journalist
up at 6:30, out the door by 7 for the commute.
At work by 8:30, spend half an hour or so surfing the net reading a jillion online newspapers and checking the wires.
9ish, in the newsroom for the morning meeting, where we suggest ideas for stories to cover in the future and fight over who gets to go cover the good stories today.
After that, it completely depends on what I'm covering that day. Usually I'm stacked so that I have a story in the morning, and one in the early afternoon. Toss the camera, tripod, steadybag, lightkit, batteries, tapes, and my run-bag (has all sorts of supplies - gaffers tape, audio connectors, wireless microphone, etc) in the truck and get moving. Shoot my stories, occasionally having time to grab lunch between 'em, then move to the location of one of that night's liveshots.
Takes about an hour to get the truck positioned, all the equipment turned on, the 60 foot mast in the air, and to get the transmitting antenna pointing at the receiving antenna - called tuning in the shot. Once the shot's tuned, it's usually an hour or two before the hit (when we're actually live on TV)
So I'll run all the cables I'll need for that shot, but leave the camera in the truck to prevent theft. Once that's done, write my stories (usually one is 40 seconds and the other's 1:30-1:50) on the laptop. I'll then voice the stories with the microphone in the truck, and I'll edit both of 'em using the truck's onboard editing equipment.
Then I'll transmit both edited stories back to the station the same way we'll eventually be transmitting the live shot of the reporter.
It's about 30 minutes to air by this point so I'll get all the lights set up and turned on. Around this time the reporter arrives and starts whining about the lighting, his makeup, the background of the shot, the story, you name it.
I get him hooked up with a wireless mic and an IFB (lets him hear directions from the control room so he knows when to talk and when to shut up) and we'll talk about what we want to do for this particular shot.
The newscast opens, they get to our story, and the reporter does his thing. After that, if we'll be doing the same thing in the next cast we'll just stay up, and hang out for an hour. Otherwise everything gets put away and we get back to the station around 7 or so.
That's a fairly typical day, although there really isn't one in TV news - every day is very different from the last - which is what most of us really like about the job
