[grc] California prison firefighting story

[Ann Garrison]

I uploaded a brief news story I produced to the NewsUp section on
Audioport.  It was about California prisoners on the front line fighting
wildfires as slave labor.  They're about 1/3 of the California State
firefighting force and have at times been as much as half. In 2014,
Attorney General Kamala Harris's staff went to court and argued against
reducing prison population because it would reduce the state's ability to
fight wildfires.

After uploading, I realized there was a brief repetition at the beginning
of the file that thankfully didn't play on KPFA air.  It was an error I'd
made before uploading to the KPFA Soundcloud page, then to Audioport.  It's
now corrected and I imagine the two people who had downloaded it caught it
before airing it if they did.

This reminded me of one rule that I failed to mention when I gave my news
writing workshop at last year's GRC: Once you have the sound file that you
want to air, delete any others that might have accumulated in your folders
along the way—as you grabbed bits of audio out of another broadcast,
renamed the file, whatever.  If you have several copies of an audio file,
there's a good chance you'll accidentally upload the wrong one.

I have found this is true of writing as well.  Often I accumulate multiple
versions of something I've written in Office or Google Docs folders—edited,
proofread, renamed, etc. and then wind up sending the wrong one.  It's now
part of my process to eliminate all other versions of any writing or radio
before e-mailing or uploading it, but I forgot to do that on Sunday.

For real,
Ann Garrison <http://www.anngarrison.com/>
Independent Journalist,
SKYPE: Ann Garrison, Oakland
415-503-7487