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August 17, 2007
Meetings and interviews
It might be the end of the week but it promises to another busy day at Gazette House.
This morning I am holding a meeting with my fellow editors from across West London and Bucks where as usual the latest sales figures for our papers will come under scrutiny.
July saw some strong performances from our titles but there is certainly no room for complacency and we will all be looking at ways to improve the sales performance of our papers.
We will also be looking at how successful our websites have been over the past month and measuring the number of page views they have received.
Like the sales of our newspapers it is now just as important to regularly monitor the performance of our websites and also track what stories attract the most traffic through the sites.
This afternoon I will be helping out my colleague Lindsay Coulson with interviews for the position of news editor on the Harrow Observer. We look to have some quite strong candidates for the role so I will be interested to see how they shape up at the interview.
We are already moving ahead with next week's Gazette and have several promising stories on the newslist and will be devoting three pages to the A-level results from schools across the borough.
There are also several strong features we are working on regarding subjects which I am sure will provoke some strong reaction from our readers - more on that next week.
The newsdesk will also be keeping a very close eye on events at the Heathrow Climate Camp over the next few days, especially with some protestors threatening acts of 'civil disobedience' over the weekend.
Posted by aseal at August 17, 2007 8:03 AM