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It all seems so easy to the viewers; You turn on your TV, log onto the Web, or pick up the paper and there's the latest news from the Olympics.
I'm going to give you a quick peek of what it's like being a journalist here covering the games for you.
The Main Press Center (MPC) is the largest media center in Olympic history. Journalists from all over the world send their Olympic news stories to their news outlets. Team and athlete press conferences also take place here also.
The International Broadcast Center (IBC) is next door. It has foreign press and the set of NBC Sports.
The KSL workstation is inside the Beijing International Convention Center. When we are done gathering video and interviews, we come back here to write and edit our stories. We spend a lot of time here! Next to us are other NBC stations from the U.S., along with NBC owned News Channel.
Outside the Convention Center each NBC station has a driver. We make a reservation with them to take us "on location." Our driver's name is Le Foo. But if we're headed to one of the Olympic venues to attend a press conference, there are buses we can hop on that will take us there too.
When you see us live, you will notice that our location overlooks the National Stadium, or the Bird's Nest, and the spot for the Olympic Flame. We share our location with reporters from NBC stations in Boston and Indianapolis.
Just behind the Bird's Nest is the National Aquatic Center, nicknamed the Water Cube.
When we're done reporting live, getting video and interviews, writing and ready for bed, we come to the Beijing Continental Grand Hotel. It's our home for the next three weeks.
What's nice about everything I've showed you is it's all relatively close. Every morning we walk from our hotel room to our work station and then meet our driver for our stories.
The streets around here and the venues are closed to the public, so the traffic is all Olympic traffic.
