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Alien abductee email news tip

Posted by Misty Montano on Saturday, July 10, 2010, In : Assignment News Desk 
“John Doe

Denver
555-555-55555
Granting an on air t.v. interview about alien abductions.  An abductee requesting an interview.  How does this work?  Can someone contact me to explain the process.  555-555-5555 and ask for John Doe over at No Name Modeling & Talent Agency”

Yes, the above is indeed a news tip/request that the station received last week via email.  To protect the identity of the tipster, I changed the name and a few other details.  All of my changes are in italics.

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News desk mistaken for dating service

Posted by Misty Montano on Tuesday, August 18, 2009, In : Assignment News Desk 

This afternoon the news desk received the below email with a simple subject line of "Hello".

 

Hello! I dream, to meet my significant other, a native part of soul, a kind, fair, true the person who can establish a strong, friendly family. In which there will be a main thing, respect, trust, love, sincerity, to each other. I will be very happy to see your letters here: (Web address listed here)

 

Attached to the email is a picture of a beautiful young lady in a red clingy, but not too revealin...


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Come on people; not everything you read on the Internet is true. Do your research. Stop the spam email.

Posted by Misty Montano on Wednesday, August 12, 2009, In : Assignment News Desk 

I have mentioned before the amount of email we receive on the news desk.  Hundreds.  We have to sort through them for vital information needed by deadline; for press releases updating continuing stories or notices for upcoming events; for internal station and corporate memos; and for valid news tips.  I think only half of what is emailed is actually useful to us.  The rest is basically spam from companies (news wire services, and even some PR firms) all over the nation doing mass emails to al...


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Oh the frenzy one missed email causes

Posted by Misty Montano on Saturday, June 20, 2009, In : Assignment News Desk 
I've mentioned this before and will mention it again: we received HUNDREDS of emails DAILY from PR professionals, viewers, and Public Information Officers. To handle all of the emails we have one email address that goes to all of us on the news desk as well as all of the producers. The more eyes that can see what is sent to us, the better the chance something isn't overlooked.

This is exactly what happened today. A police department sent out additional information to a situation we'd covered t...
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Email tips that make you go "what?"

Posted by Misty Montano on Saturday, June 20, 2009, In : Assignment News Desk 

Email tips that make you go "what?"

EMAIL RECEIVED THIS AFTERNOON:

This is what I sent the ASPCA.

I would like to report cruelty against some poor squeal's in a tree. I was taking my dog out today at about 10:30am and I was standing in my front yard. Then I heared these tree removal people cutting a branch off a large tree to clear for the "under-constuction" Light Rail behind my house. I didn't think anything of it at first, Then one guy up in the tree w/ a chainsaw said "Check out this sque...

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News tip: In the event of my death...

Posted by Misty Montano on Saturday, June 20, 2009, In : Assignment News Desk 
The news desk receives hundreds of emails every day from PR types, organizations like police, schools and hospitals, and viewers. Viewers email what they think are news tips, which is everything from witnessing something that could be considered breaking news, to letting us know of their child's school play, to rants on conspiracy theories.

I sift through it all and within a glance I know if it is:
1. to be shouted out to the newsroom because it's breaking or developing news
2. to be filed unde...
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Misty Montano


Evolving Journalist I am a Journalist using Social Technologies and Interactive Media to connect with news consumers. I am taking on the new exciting and challenging role of Digital Content Manager at 9News in Denver, CO. Previously I was an Assignment Editor at CBS4 News in Denver where I won an Emmy for my work and spent the first 10 years of my career. I truly grew up on the news desk.

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