Happy A.M.s
My paper has made the transition from afternoon distribution to evening distribution. For the newsroom that means reporters and editors are actually there after 4 p.m. For everyone else that means… not much. Except I hear we are actually gaining subscribers because of it even though all predictions said we’d lose a couple hundred.
The only downside to this big change is there is now competition for the newsroom’s only laptop. I love using the laptop. I can type much faster than I can write. I can look up archived stories for background information and to ask better questions. Most importantly, it has an air card so I can file right from my meeting and then go home and bring it back to the newsroom in the morning.
When we were a p.m. paper most reporters wrote their stories between 7 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. the next morning. But now that we’ve all got a deadline of 9:30 p.m. everyone wants to use it.
Fortunately most of my meetings end before 9 p.m., so if I hurry back I can push the envelope of my deadline.
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008