A day in the life of a Canberra Times reporter

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00:00Here's what it looks like to spend a day as a reporter at this place, the Canberra

00:04Times. In the morning I generally will have checked my emails, perhaps made some

00:08calls and read up on news. I'll do that either on the bus or before I leave

00:12home because straight away I have a meeting with the national property team

00:16before I go and pitch my stories to the Canberra Times editors. So I head in,

00:20check papers from other mastheads. I think here is a front page that I had

00:24yesterday which is quite satisfying. Straight into it I'll check real estate

00:28listings, development applications from Canberra Government and other councils

00:33as well before I check the news again. This is the AFR and I was reading up on

00:37the ABC's business blog because there's been some inflation data dropped today.

00:41That's the Canberra Times analytics which helps inform my stories which you

00:45see a spreadsheet of here. Coffee time after meetings with my colleagues. This

00:49is always a nice time for us to talk about what we're doing and perhaps give

00:54each other ideas or tip-offs and great pastry as well. Then I'm straight into

00:59some phone calls with some contacts before I had some training on actually

01:03how to make and maintain contacts which was really helpful. Bit of a sad beige

01:07girl lunch at my desk while I continued to do some work because I was heading

01:11out to this press event about a big development opening in Red Hill. Finally

01:16I'm back at my desk. I have two stories to file so I've got some work to do

01:19though I had a quick donut break courtesy of my colleague Sarah before I

01:23got back into it. Often I'll also have coffee or other meetings with contacts

01:27but today wasn't really one of those days.