Your Place in the Programme
Some news organisations take remarkably little interest in the later stages of assignments they ask you to cover. No supervision or advice is offered, and you are left to make your own judgement about content and duration. The only support you may get is from colleagues willing to spare a few moments from their own duties to share your problems, in the knowledge that you will reciprocate when the time comes.
Comment, if any, from your superiors is reserved until after what you’ve done has been aired, and then it tends to be critical rather than complimentary. Unless you make a point of asking directly, the only way you may discover you are doing your job well is because no-one says you are doing it badly.
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