I've been watching The Courier-Journal handle a big, late-breaking story: General Electric's reported plan to sell its home appliances division. It's a major employer in Louisville, Ky., with 5,000 good-paying jobs at 56-year-old Appliance Park. Updates as warranted.Now, we have the finished paper product, above; click on the image for a bigger view: Editors played the GE story as the off-lede, perhaps because it still feels speculative. The paper continues to attribute news of the possible sale to The Wall Street Journal, which broke its story using sources it doesn't identify, and to The New York Times. (My sympathies: We often got big-footed when I was at USA Today. Indeed, I can't find any GE appliance sale story on USAT's site right now. What's up with that?)
Online, the C-J offers the usual suspects: a timeline, photo gallery (can't link to that!), GE's economic impact, etc.
Meanwhile, the paper's lede says: Eleven months after a cable on a ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom severed her feet, Kaitlyn Lasitter spoke publicly for the first time about her accident and her injuries to help draw attention to a bill she hopes would plug a gaping loophole in federal law.
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What's the facination with this story, Jim? Five different posts / updates and not one comment on any. Are your readers missing something?
ReplyDeleteAlso, isn't there a way you can update the first post so you don't have to read through all the different threads to look at the comments -- of course, assuming anyone did comment? I noticed this was a problem in trying to stay current on all the doings in NJ over the past several weeks. It makes it very difficult to piece together "breaking news" stories and the reaction to them.
At 10:36 a.m.: I'm probably done with this subject. This was an experiment in a variation on live-blogging: I wanted to try posting in more-or-less real-time on how a leading Gannett paper reports a major local story. As I said in the first post, every GCI paper and TV station sooner or later faces the sale of a dominant local employer. I thought it would be instructive to see how it worked in this case.
ReplyDeleteAs to your second question on comments, I'll see what I can do. I'm somewhat limited by the Blogger software I use here. It's free -- but it can only be customized so much.