Today’s guest post is by Julia Wall-Clarke.  

It is 5 a.m. and I’m already on my second coffee, standing in the middle of the Mall, watching dawn break over Buckingham Palace.

No, I haven’t been on an all-nighter with Prince Harry; it’s just another day at the London Olympics and this is my temporary office.

I graduated in PR six years ago and since then I have worked for two fabulous agencies, but have also kept an ever-increasing side career as a freelancer in media operations for sports events.

Fortunately, I had very understanding bosses who allowed me to take annual unpaid leave to help run the race-week media offices at the London, New York City, and Chicago Marathons.

I also worked the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

So what exactly is media operations? It’s never boring, that’s for sure. (more…)