>> I'm Lauren DiSpirito, I'm a reporter and video journalist
for WBBH NBC2 and ABC7 in Ft Myers, Florida.
So I start off everyday at the Lee County Sherriff's office, that's the crime beat,
which I'm assigned to and we go through all the police, the deputy's incidents
from the night before, so all the crime that took place county wide and look at,
what is something that is newsworthy and we would want to report.
I think that we think the public need to know, have a right to know,
stories that would be interesting.
So we take, we request those incident reports and then I talk, I talk with my managers
and basically figure out what are the stories that we're going to chase today.
That takes up most of the morning and then, as you saw today, I went out and looked for a woman
who was the victim of a burglary and it turned out that deputies were able to track
down the person who had stolen from her, who they accuse of stealing from her,
by looking at a pawn shop's records.
So, yeah, it's, you know, a lot of my job is making sure that a lot of times I feel it's,
you know, putting people at ease and explaining to them, you know,
why others would want to hear their story.
We look for surveillance video of crimes, anything from murders to shoplifting.
If there's something that the viewers can learn from it, we try to put it out there.
So then I look at everything that I've shot and I log it, is what it's called,
it's basically write down the time codes of everything that's said,
so that I know all the material that I'm working with and what the story is and then I go
and write it and then I go and crack the story.
We only have about a minute and 30 seconds to tell the story and you want
to keep it interesting and moving quickly and get all the details in there for people,
so I will spend anywhere from 20 minutes to 45 minutes writing the story
and then I will go back to the edit bay and I'll edit all of that together.
Here I've had relatively normal hours, I'm at that meeting by 8:45 in the morning
so I leave my house probably at 8:20, 8:15 and I'm usually wrapped up by 6:00 unless I'm live
on a story in the 6:00 show, then maybe I'm finished by 7:00 at night.
And it could change, I mean the one thing there aren't really normal hours in this.
I'm a daytime, weekday reporter so that's why I have that shift, but I have, you know,
colleagues of mine work on the weekends, they work midnight
to 8:00 a.m. they work 3:00 to 11:30 in the evening
>> Did they offend someone or something?
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>> And I've done all those shifts, too, so in different jobs, so it is, it's something,
the news is always on and there's always a newscast to prepare for,
so you're not likely going to have a nine to five in this job.