[Seattle-editorial] Promoting Features, work flow

[anarch3m]

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DATE: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:56:01
From: kellan at protest.net
To: seattle-editorial at indymedia.org
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 I had a vision in my head of people choosing stories from the newswire, fliping a switch, and having them show up in the center column.
<<<THIS MIGHT BE NICE, but its not been on the wish list.  I do wonder if there IS such a button, as it was my expectation this was how it worked.  That articles could be sent to wire, features, topics by the "flip of a switch"  true for new submissions but how about old ones?  that switch is where?>>>

>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?
>
This will probably be the norm, as we like to do some prefacing to the center stories pulled directly.  We'll probably develope some new ways of this, stylistic stuff.

But , yes, this does describe it i believe.  Now to figure all those levels of title and subtitle and...

walt


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