The last few days have been great I've had a ton of different things to do. Yesterday I started working on updating the USADA (US Anti-Doping Agency) press releases from last year for this year's competition. This competition, the True Sport Awards, is an opportunity for teachers to compete with their innovative ideas for new programs for their schools to implement that involve preserve the integrity of competition and healthy living. I also looked through many articles about Obama appearing on Discovery's Mythbusters to see if there were mentioned of Discovery Education and then complied those articles together.
It is important for us to follow local coverage of Discovery Education events we hold with schools. I also did research to look for local coverage of an event we held in Katy, Texas and compiled those as well.
I met Andrew Grinc this morning, who works in the internal communications department of Discovery. He mainly works on employee relations, so he tells everyone in the company any important news and events that go on in the different departments. He is the person that I was working with when I dressed up as Mrs. Potatohead for the launch of hub. He discussed some of the things he is currently working on, such as the up-coming launch of another network- OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. He discussed his challenges with this network launch (the idea that this is a very female-focused network but you don;t want to totally ignore the other half of the employees that work here) as well as other challenges, such as deciding which events and news from which departments are top priorities. This was very informational and helpful, as well as interesting because every morning I check the portal, which is the Discovery Communications connection website, and now I can put a face to all the hard work that goes into creating and maintaining this page.
Today I finalized my drafts of the USADA press releases. I'm now working on a big project where I edit and compile videos of news media coverage to make a 2010 Discovery Education Montage.
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