Television Reporter & Video Journalist, NBC

>> I'm Lauren Desputo [Assumed Spelling]. I'm a Reporter and Video Journalist for WBBH, NBC-2, and ABC-7 in Fort Myers, Florida. So I start off every day at the Lee County Sheriff's Office, that's the crime beat, which I am assigned to. And we go through all the police, the deputy's incidence file the night before, so all the crime that took place county-wide, and we'll get what is something that is newsworthy and we would want to report, things 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 with my managers and we 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 accused of stealing from her, by looking at a pawn shop's records. So, yes, it's -- you know, a lot of my job is making sure that a lot of times I feel like, you know, it's 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, and basically write down the time codes of everything that's said so that I know all of the material I'm working with and what the story is. And then I go and write it and I craft 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 eight-forty-five in the morning, so I leave my house probably at eight-twenty, eight-fifteen, and I'm usually wrapped up by six o'clock, unless I'm live on a story then and in the six o'clock show, then maybe I'm finished by seven o'clock at night. And it could change, I mean the one thing there aren't really normal hours in this. I'm a day side, weekday reporter, so that's why I have that shift, but I have colleagues of mine work on the weekends, they work midnight to eight a.m., they work three o'clock to eleven-thirty in the evening. >> Did they offend someone or something? >> 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.