October 3, 2016 at 5:43 p.m.
CR is launching web-first initiative
Editorial
There’s no need to wait.
As technology has evolved and changed the way news is consumed, The Commercial Review has tried to keep up.
Our first website went live in 2003. We started a heavy push on social media about six years ago. And since then we’ve experimented with slideshows, video and podcasts.
During the summer of 2014, when we launched the newest version of our website, we began posting short "breaking news," "news brief" and "sports brief" pieces on the website immediately following meetings, games and other events. Those stories were limited to 100 words, giving readers the basics of what happened and then teasing to full coverage in the next day’s newspaper.
Now, thanks in part to a much-needed computer upgrade, we’re taking that a step further.
Over the last two weeks, we’ve been beta-testing our new format, which is this:
•During games/meetings, our reporters will post key updates via their Twitter accounts. (Follow us @Cooneyrj4, @c_schanz, @NateRub and @calebbauerCR.)
•When those meetings/games are complete, they will immediately begin writing their stories.
•After those stories have been written and edited, they will be posted — in full — to our website.
That’s it.
If a school board meeting or a soccer game ends at 7 p.m., you don’t have to wait until the story is posted on our website around noon the next day — 17 hours later — or the paper arrives at your home to get all the details. It’ll be there, as soon as possible.
The best ways to keep track of when new breaking stories are posted are to like or follow us on Facebook (facebook.com/thecommercialreview) and Twitter (@commreview) — and turn on notifications — and subscribe to The Commercial Review’s app. (Just search for The Commercial Review on the App Store or Google Play to download it.) Updates will be posted to all of those places.
Your newspaper will still be delivered to your house and available at the newsstand, as usual. But if you’re interested in what happened at a meeting, game or event, you don’t have to wait for the pages to be designed, presses to run and papers to be delivered.
You can get your news now. — R.C.
As technology has evolved and changed the way news is consumed, The Commercial Review has tried to keep up.
Our first website went live in 2003. We started a heavy push on social media about six years ago. And since then we’ve experimented with slideshows, video and podcasts.
During the summer of 2014, when we launched the newest version of our website, we began posting short "breaking news," "news brief" and "sports brief" pieces on the website immediately following meetings, games and other events. Those stories were limited to 100 words, giving readers the basics of what happened and then teasing to full coverage in the next day’s newspaper.
Now, thanks in part to a much-needed computer upgrade, we’re taking that a step further.
Over the last two weeks, we’ve been beta-testing our new format, which is this:
•During games/meetings, our reporters will post key updates via their Twitter accounts. (Follow us @Cooneyrj4, @c_schanz, @NateRub and @calebbauerCR.)
•When those meetings/games are complete, they will immediately begin writing their stories.
•After those stories have been written and edited, they will be posted — in full — to our website.
That’s it.
If a school board meeting or a soccer game ends at 7 p.m., you don’t have to wait until the story is posted on our website around noon the next day — 17 hours later — or the paper arrives at your home to get all the details. It’ll be there, as soon as possible.
The best ways to keep track of when new breaking stories are posted are to like or follow us on Facebook (facebook.com/thecommercialreview) and Twitter (@commreview) — and turn on notifications — and subscribe to The Commercial Review’s app. (Just search for The Commercial Review on the App Store or Google Play to download it.) Updates will be posted to all of those places.
Your newspaper will still be delivered to your house and available at the newsstand, as usual. But if you’re interested in what happened at a meeting, game or event, you don’t have to wait for the pages to be designed, presses to run and papers to be delivered.
You can get your news now. — R.C.
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