As I was deputy editor for the online news day, I was required to attend a meeting the night before, at which the editors and deputy editors of each news team discussed possible news stories and potential opportunities for media convergence. We also talked about which members of our news team were to be sent into the town centre and other areas of Bournemouth on the hunt for stories. I felt that this meeting helped to prepare each news team, and ensured that the convergence aspect was pre-planned enough to occur smoothly on the news day itself.
Many of the stories written by our team that day were originally sourced – either from police voicebanks and council press releases, or by members of the team taking to the streets in order to find stories. We tried to avoid rehashing stories from the Echo or BBC Dorset website, and borrowing/sharing material from the other news teams helped to maximise the amount of original content we were able to produce and publish on the day.
I also edited the stories of other reporters, paying particular attention to messy grammatical structures and glaring spelling mistakes, as well as keeping the Twitter feed up to date with every new article posted on the site.
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