Filed under: Hackney Post, Journalism | Tags: Business, Geo mapping, Hackney, Hackney Post, Online, Podcast
This week I have been involved in all things online and things were going fairly smoothly till disaster struck. The website crashed, on deadline day.
Thankfully it was back up and running fairly quickly.
For the rest of the week I have been juggling doing some news stories and getting content online.
On Monday I made my first podcast a run down of the news from last week and a taster of things to come. I got my first taste of editing a podcast which proved to be harder than I thought as I could not get the delete option to work so it went into the capable hands of Shona to complete.
Tuesday was news day and I spent the day with my phone stuck to my ear trying desperately to get comments for stories, the efforts finally paid off.
The end of the week has involved putting content online, editing pictures and geo mapping. As well as chasing the rest of the team for content, pictures, locations for geo mapping and checking with tutors for legal problems in stories.
It all got a bit complicated in the end, they say too many cooks spoil the broth and I can vouch for that this week. We had misunderstanding about which folders final copy was kept in and who it had been checked by before it went online.
Unfortunately a couple of stories went up which were legally a bit dodgy. I can take partial responsibility for that but a break down in communication was mostly to blame. Despite the glitches we have managed to produce a good paper and website.
Next week I am business editor, something which I am a bit nervous about as business news is not my strong point. We have some good ideas and hopefully we can turn some of them into good stories.
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Hi, I am interested in putting together something similar in a rural area of central Maine. I would like to pick your brain on website setup. Did you use templates , wiki or such, or is it website from scratch? I have built my own website but am looking at which format will allow for interactivity and ease of changes. nice job. Sandy Olson
Comment by spatialcontext March 21, 2009 @ 2:37 pmHi,
Comment by claredickinson March 23, 2009 @ 1:09 pmwe used wordpress to create ours but got a different template from the internet. Try woothemes.com. WordPress has worked quite well for us as it allows for comments and is easy to update.