Jill Terreri covers the politics for the D&C, and she's pretty good. She might even be One in a Million, as her editor titled his latest post about her trip to DC to cover the inauguration.
Jill's going to accompany a group of Obama supporters, and she'll be posting about the trip on a D&C blog. According to her editor, "she will be sleeping on the bus and will face potential hardships including a potentially taxed cell phone network and lack of portable toilets."
I'm sure it's no fun to sleep on the bus, but Jill is probably used to hardship, because she has to fit her stories into the tiny space alloted by the D&C. Jill , each of which has a few paragraphs about a topic that could support thousands of words.
Gannett has spend millions on RocMoms, RocPets, RocEarth and a dozen other sites, but their flagship brand is still letting the size of the paper edition dictate the length of their best reporters' stories.
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" but their flagship brand is still letting the size of the paper edition dictate the length of their best reporters' stories."
They have room to print two pages of her stuff everyday. Problem is that some editors insist on running reams and reams of Associated Press sh_t.
Agree completely. The AP stuff is a throwback to the days when people didn't have TVs or the Internet. You don't need as much national news in today's newspaper.