WAG - Going to the courthouse and I'm
gonna get re-ee-ee-cords
The modern newsroom is quite advanced. No longer do pages need to be engraved or typeset hours to be prepared. The long lag between when the paper had to be completed and when it was printed has been greatly reduced. Computer programs help with layout and editing. Last minute changes can be inserted, if necessary, a few minutes before it goes to press. Since pages can be electronically transmitted, printing centers and the newsrooms that use them no longer have to be housed in the same building. Though many are located close by, unless you're looking to use the 50 cent soda machine in the production center, Missourian reproters rarely walk the halls where their work is printed.
Though more efficient presses better serve the reporters and the public they work for, it cuts down on dramatic moments. Due to the previously listed advances, and the distance between the two stages of paper production, I may never experience a "STOP THE PRESSES" moment.
But today, seat covered and my heart pumping, I definately shook up the budget meeting by showing the editors a paper I'd received from the Boone County Courthouse clerk's office.
Check the Missourian tomorrow and see how the Rios-Valencia case is heating up.
MORE TO COME... after I check the Trib in the afternoon to see if they picked up the trail as well.
'STOP_THE____um____discussion'
