Today I had the privilege of shadowing WRAL Crime Reporter Amanda Lamb. The day was much busier than I anticipated, but that made it even more exciting. We started the day at the Raleigh Courthouse going through the recent arrests and search warrants from the past week. We snagged all the stories that were interesting enough for TV and took them back to the WRAL Newsroom. The Newsroom was a new experience for me. I had never sat on a live set before like this one. After touring around the fascinating facilities, we hoped in a WRAL van and went down to Garland, NC for our headlining story of the day. I sat and watched as Lamb interviewed a 9-year-old burn victim who recently lost his mother and brother from a car crash in April. After getting all of the footage needed for the story, we headed back to Raleigh to write and edit the video together. The whole experience was very interesting for me. I got to see the entire process from start to finish. It was amazing to see something I was a part of blossom into a full on television headline by 6 o’clock.
Here is the story we worked on today:
http://www.wral.com/nine-year-old-survivor-recovers-after-fatal-i-40-wreck/16732861/