[Seattle-editorial] Promoting Features, work flow

[BFGalbraith]

Sorry about this, I didn't read Kellan's original
e-mail carefully enough. :(  Also, sorry for spamming
you about my mistake :(  I'll shut up now :)


--- BFGalbraith <bfgalbraith at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > What I found out is that what people *actually*
> want
> > to do is:
> >   * find a strong story from the newswire
> >   * excerpt the first paragraph or so, perhaps
> with
> > minor edits
> >   * link to the longer, original story for more
> info
> > 
> > (this is of course in addition to original content
> > which gets written for
> > center column)
> > 
> > Would the editorial team describe this an accurate
> > description of their
> > process?
> 
>  
> 
> First, I am not what you would call a "well
> established part of the editorial team" so please
> don't take my opinion as critically relevant to what
> the editorial team wants.  
> 
> Second, I don't know if this is how the Editorial
> team
> WANTS to do things, or if instead it's just how they
> thought they had to do it at the meeting, because
> it's
> how they have always done it in the past.  
> 
> Third, personally, NO WAY do I want to have to write
> extra material for every decent newswire item that
> comes along that should get center-column attention.
> 
> Talk about "volunteering yourself"!  What a great
> way
> to guarantee we won't have time to get attention to
> the good stuff on the newswire.
> 
> Fourth, Kellan, is it possible to have it set up so
> we
> can do it both ways?  Can we have the option of
> doing
> it "the old way", AND ALSO the option of INSTEAD
> doing
> it my moving it directly from the newswire?
> 
>  
> 
> =====
> -Benjamin 
> 
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=====
-Benjamin 

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