At IBN: excerpts from my internship diary
January 8, 2009 at 4:31 am | Posted in At work | Leave a commentTags: Carlos Moya, Chennai Open, IBN, internship diary, tennis
*tweet* Awesome. So my day just got better:
Tennis player Carlos Moya is going to talk to some kids at a youth tennis tournament this afternoon and I’m going to be covering it. 
At IBN: excerpts from my internship diary
January 4, 2009 at 4:28 am | Posted in At work | Leave a commentTags: Chennai Open, IBN, internship diary, Leander Paes, tennis
Apparently there’s a Chennai Open that’s been going on for 14 years. It’s the first tournament of the year, always, right before the Australian Open, so it brings in some European and Asian players (rarely any Americans…). The morning press conference was about heightened security at the tennis match in the aftermath of 26/11. I was a bit surprised they held a press conference for this content, because it seemed like information that could have been distributed through a press release. I don’t know why they had a press conference for it.
The second part of the press conference was a drawing to select the players in each round of play. Some of the tennis players were actually present to talk about their expectations for the outcome fo the tounament, including noted Indian tennis player Leander Paes. That’s when I remembered, sometimes there are perks to a job in journalism, and that’s what makes it fun….
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