Happy Thanksgiving, a little early
Because of light staffing this week, we'll be taking a little holiday break here at the Daily Briefing. Enjoy your Thanksgiving!
Daily Briefing archive for Nov. 2007
MONDAY, NOV. 19, 2007
THURSDAY, NOV. 15, 2007
Where's Fuhrman?
The morning meeting started off with this question-- “Where is Mark Fuhrman?” The KGA conservative radio talk show host, who gained notoriety during the O.J. Simpson trial, is AWOL on the air and his webpage has most of the content removed. Speculation abounds. Was he…
TUESDAY, NOV. 13, 2007
To post or not to post...
The morning meeting started with a conversation about posting documents with today's Teacher remains on payroll. Everyone who read them seemed to agree they were too graphic for publication.Steve Smith said that the A goodbye for a friend story was as good a story as…
FRIDAY, NOV. 9, 2007
Wonderful Paper
“Wonderful-- one of the best papers we’ve had in a long time,” said City Editor Addy Hatch. “Most of A-1 and Northwest page stories developed in the afternoon,” she said.Reporter Tom Clouse and Karen Dorn Steele did a great job of explaining Appeals decision that…
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7, 2007
Election post-mortem
After a short conversation about vote counting and possible concession speeches, Gary Graham said he thought last night's election coverage went well.Carla Savalli agreed calling the coverage,"A great package across all platforms."In particular Savalli noted the increased and timely multimedia coverage, the great analytical narrative…
MONDAY, NOV. 5, 2007
Go Griz! (Thanks Marlene)
In a quick run through the weekend's newspapers, Steve Smith noted that the headline on Saturday's Tent City story did not reflect the story. Smith also said he thought we had a pretty good paper Monday, "All things considered." Worthy of mention:Bert Caldwell's Sunday column:Fairness…
FRIDAY, NOV. 2, 2007
Notes from this morning
A news brief about Jane Hession never made it into the newspaper for some bizarre reason. It did appear on SpokesmanReview.com as a breaking news item (free access). Mayor Dennis Hession called political reporter Jim Camden. No one knows exactly how the error can be…
THURSDAY, NOV. 1, 2007
Kudos, putting people first, and great centerpiece photos
Yesterday there were clusters of children running around the newsroom. Because everybody followed the "60 kids" number, folks overestimated and bought a lot of Halloween candy. It now fills a very large tub.Among some of the costumes seen yesterday: Spider-Man (Spider-Man two words and hyphenated),…
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