Tuesday, September 04, 2007

When It Rains It Pours

The day began like every other day. We met for our morning editorial meeting and firmed up our coverage plans for the day. Reporter Carolyn Costello was working on the criminal contempt of court charges against former Durham District Attorney, Michael Nifong. Our reporter, Frank Graff, was working on a story that highlighted the first year since the new Bishop took over the Diocese of Raleigh. Ken Luallen was sent out the door on spot news regarding a missing child, in Raleigh.

Little did anyone know that by the afternoon virtually our entire coverage plan was going to be flipped on its head. We had to move Frank Graff to the evacuation of the UNC Law School. Ken Luallen was shifted onto the drought heading into Labor Day weekend and Sergio Quintana was added to the news mix to cover the arrest of John McCormick, the missing attorney believe to have embezzled millions from triangle residents and businesses. Plus, Late the afternoon a Durham Judge found Nifong guilty of criminal contempt of court and sentenced him to serve 1 day in jail.
The missing toddler that Ken started out his day covering was found and returned safely to his family. The Diocese story was held over the weekend and aired on Labor Day. In the end, we got all the stories covered.

As a content coordinator, figuring out how to cover all the news of the day and keeping everyone abreast of the changes and developments is our ultimate responsibility. We made decisions as a team. We figured out what stories could be dropped down from PKG’s to VO-SOTs and what stories could be held for another day.

Teamwork and Communication—The recipe for success.

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-Jason