Monday, April 30, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Monday, April 09, 2007
An awfull day
Ok so 3 weeks ago the photo editor of the The Politico was fired. Which concerned me at first i didn't know what was going to happen. The first week went bye and all the shooting i had been doing was stopped my first thought was the new editor just got there and has to settle in. The second week i send him a email letting him know the days i was available he send me a email that nothing was going on. The third week i did the same thing i did the week before letting him know when i was available, wait he did email me back the next day that he need a hearing shoot and asked where i was and to call him. So i called him and then he said that he already reached the staff photographer so again i was not needed. Growing frustrated i did send him anything the third week which was last week didn't hear from him at all. Then today came the day where i needed to get some sort of answer for what is going on or what else i could be doing to help and really be working on my internship. So this is the email he send me today made me feel like hell and being blow off because now i won't get any credit for whatever i did. I guess i wish he would have told me this earlier...
Dear Jens,
Ericka wrote me the other day and I wrote and told her the same thing.
Patrick no longer works at the Politico. After the two of you
initially contacted me I spoke with both the executive editor and the editor in
chief. Neither was aware of an intern program or budget for one on a
staff they oversaw and expressed a concern over insurance liabilities
should something happen to an intern while working in the name of the
Politico.
In the three weeks I have been at the Politico I have used one
freelance photographer to shoot a single assignment.
Basically I'm sorry you were promised an internship that didn't exist
by someone who is no longer at the Politico. It's not a way you should
have been treated, nor a way to expect to be treated by anyone else. I
don't know what I can say above and beyond that.
This is a newsy town. I would continue to shoot every day, talk to
fellow working photographers, learn from them and try to make the best of
a bad situation. I would be willing to write to your professor and
explain what has happened and that it had nothing to do with anything that
you did or didn't do while working here.
Good luck to you.
Regards,
Bob Reeder