All Blog Posts Tagged 'news' (42)

How to Generate Value in the Newsroom

Kevin Kelly's article entitled, "Better Than Free," lists 8 ways to create value on the Internet. Student newspapers should strive to generate these values in the following ways:

Immediacy - generate value by being the first to publish news. Everything eventually becomes free when distributed on the Internet. However, if your newsroom operation delivers news…

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Added by Fred Eaker on February 22, 2008 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Tag-teaming a big story

Today was an interesting day for the newsroom at VenturaCountyStar.com. There was a shooting at a local junior high school involving two students. Two reporters and a photographer were dispatched as soon as the call came in. One of the reporters took a video camera.

For the text story, both reporters called story details as they became available. Within 45 minutes of getting to the scene, I was out the door to do a quick exchange of video tapes and sd cards (for the photographer).… Continue

Added by Anthony Plascencia on February 13, 2008 at 1:53am — 1 Comment