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January 10, 2008
Swearing over breaking news
There's nothing more annoying than when a major story breaks in your area just hours after your paper has gone to press.
That was the case for my colleague Julie Voyce, who is editor of the Buckinghamshire Examiner, when news broke of the awful discovery by the RSPCA at a farm in Amersham late yesterday afteroon.
For any of you who missed the story more than 100 horses and donkeys were left neglected to starve and a number of these were discovered dead
She was still swearing this morning and bemoaning her bad luck that her paper had 'missed the boat' by a matter of hours on what is likely to be one of the biggest stories this year in the their circulation area.
However, all was not lost as at least the paper's website was able to cover the story in some detail and I am sure will continue to do so over the coming days.
That's the beauty of the website - no matter when a story breaks you can get it up there almost immediately and everyone is happy.
It now plays a key role in the Gazette newsroom as we aim to ensure that we put breaking news from across the borough on our website at the earliest opportunity.
At the moment there is no big breaking news in the Uxbridge area but, it's early days and the first draft of the newslist for next week's Gazette is looking quite healthy with some strong issue stories already on the boil.
Posted by aseal at January 10, 2008 1:40 PM