My second week in Global TV was a bit different, it was hectic! I was not at all prepared to see what was there. I knew that there was going to be a lot of work but again I did not expect THAT much.
It came as a shocked, it was so different than my first week. First there was a press conference. It was not quite as I expected, maybe it's because that Global TV as its image is more lenient as compared to other company. The press conference involved question and answer session, band performing and free lunch for the journalists and reporters! And this press conference was in regard of an upcoming yearly event, MTV Staying Alive, an event that celebrate the 1st of December as World AIDS day, also a form of community social responsibilty or CSR. It was quite interesting, it was my first time actually experiencing a press conference.
The event took place at the end of the week, which is on the 14th of December, right 2 weeks after i started working. It was hectic and I was responsible for the media stand. Every journalists and reporter who were going to do a coverage on the event would have to register in the media relation booth first and I was in charge of that! Well, I had to also give out merchandise and handband so that the media can go backstage to interview band personels and cover their story.
The event went on for 12 hours, from noon until midnight. I could only stayed for half of it, but my job was actually done right after the media relation booth closed, which was at about 3 pm. I have realized that many of the times, the journalists and reporters chose to come late, it is at their lost as much as ours actually. We need the coverage and they need to write something, thus at that point it came quite as a disappointment. Other than that, it went pretty well.
In between the press conference and the real event, my task was mostly faxing. There were so many invitations to fax!! I guess to get a wide coverage you need a lot of media, it was such a tiring job but it went pretty good. There were also so many press releases to print and photocopy because for every media that come they all need at least one pice of press release. That really taught me the importance of press release!
And that was the exhausting second week ... maybe it does not sound much, but there was actually so much to do!
It came as a shocked, it was so different than my first week. First there was a press conference. It was not quite as I expected, maybe it's because that Global TV as its image is more lenient as compared to other company. The press conference involved question and answer session, band performing and free lunch for the journalists and reporters! And this press conference was in regard of an upcoming yearly event, MTV Staying Alive, an event that celebrate the 1st of December as World AIDS day, also a form of community social responsibilty or CSR. It was quite interesting, it was my first time actually experiencing a press conference.
The event took place at the end of the week, which is on the 14th of December, right 2 weeks after i started working. It was hectic and I was responsible for the media stand. Every journalists and reporter who were going to do a coverage on the event would have to register in the media relation booth first and I was in charge of that! Well, I had to also give out merchandise and handband so that the media can go backstage to interview band personels and cover their story.
The event went on for 12 hours, from noon until midnight. I could only stayed for half of it, but my job was actually done right after the media relation booth closed, which was at about 3 pm. I have realized that many of the times, the journalists and reporters chose to come late, it is at their lost as much as ours actually. We need the coverage and they need to write something, thus at that point it came quite as a disappointment. Other than that, it went pretty well.
In between the press conference and the real event, my task was mostly faxing. There were so many invitations to fax!! I guess to get a wide coverage you need a lot of media, it was such a tiring job but it went pretty good. There were also so many press releases to print and photocopy because for every media that come they all need at least one pice of press release. That really taught me the importance of press release!
And that was the exhausting second week ... maybe it does not sound much, but there was actually so much to do!
