What Type of News Do We Cover?
Any business, especially a media business in this day and age needs to continuously look at their strengths and weaknesses and see how they can best serve the public. I have recently looked at what we do well and what we like to do and that is breaking news. For over five years now that is what we have excelled at using social media. There is no other way to deliver breaking news as it is breaking. I've always referred to our reporting as "Drive By Media". That is we are there, report and drive by to the next story. We don't have the manpower to do much follow up. Most of our reporting is scanner reporting. I report what…
