[Seattle-editorial] latest story?

[Gentry Lange]

I have been meaning to put together a feature on 911, but cannot predict right now when I'm going to have the energy. I spent all night getting my truck running again, just so that's I could drive it home.

Gentry

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From: typist at speakeasy.net [mailto:typist at speakeasy.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 2:36 PM
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Gentry would be most swell if you would put together 911 feature and move cosmic story to a favorite link in it.  I'm not wild about sending people off site.  For the sake of time, we might want to look at setting a more focused editorial policy.  A more narrow focus would help us not waste time on extraneous decision making.  

1)  For instance no outside highlight links, would keep us better focused to the newswire; of course in that case, we need to ask readers to only post original non-copyrighted material. It won't prevent them from posting copyrighted stuff, but at least we'll already have a policy in place not to use it.

2)  Give priority to local stories and local writers.

3)  Have a mechanism for recognizing editors; i.e., attend editorial meetings; shared editorial vision; have been given password access.

4) Have better clarified editoral responsibilities: outreach, recruit and encourage writers and photographers to post work, set editorial policy, work with tech group on web issues.

5)  We may want to give free-lance journalists a better mechanism for posting their work with us.  As editors we should be tracking who our free-lancers are, documenting and recognizing their work for us.  (Does anyone have such a list?)  

6)  Finally, I'm a little discouraged with how timid the feature section is.  Nothing really controversial, nothing that will really get people to sit up and take action has really been posted.  (I guess I wonder why the "Victims of War" photos were ignored.)  

Just my thoughts, Judy











> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gentry Lange [mailto:g at art13.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 04:43 PM
> To: typist at speakeasy.net
> Cc: 'Editorial'
> Subject: RE: [Seattle-editorial] latest story?
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> It be better to put together a thorough 911 link feature. So while I'm not necessarily opposed deleting it is fine as well. For example, Mike Rupert recently posted  something, and there's a lot of other stuff on the newswire as well.
>  
> I haven't had the time to write lately, but maybe tonight I can get something together.
> 
> Gentry
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> [mailto:seattle-editorial-bounces at lists.indymedia.org]On Behalf Of
> typist at speakeasy.net
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:35 AM
> To: sheri at speakeasy.org; seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
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> Sheri,
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> That article was first posted on the newswire.  I proposed it as a feature not looking particularily close at it.  Everyone liked it and approved it with the stipulation to site source; however, it was posted anonymously and the copyright issues of just claiming it as our own off the newswire became apparent to me.  I tried to contact the writer via the web site only to have my email not go through and disappear on me.  We don't really have a policy about sending readers off site; some don't feel it is a bad thing.  So reluctantly I just linked it to the site.  I agree the site looks bad and commercial; a real shame as the article is really great.  It is the web site for The San Francisco Chronicle.  
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> Anyway our debate on this is in email.  And I agree I don't particularly like the results of this.  I'll delete it if others feel the same way.
> 
> Judy
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sheri at speakeasy.org [mailto:sheri at speakeasy.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:18 PM
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> > Subject: [Seattle-editorial] latest story?
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> > hi,
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> > i'm really confused about why we have a cosmic question story on the front page that takes us to a commercial website page about 911 making you sick.  in my humble opinion, this is not a story for the seattle imc to be featuring...catching a plane now or i'd comment further....
> > it doesn't even link to a local newswire story...
> > sheri
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