The News of American Media: a morning in the network editorial office

in the online version, the ability to learn new knowledge by making mistakes, multi-level, multimedia coverage of news, is the common destiny of all journalists in this era

a morning of the Internet reporter

The Philadelphia Inquirer, the online journalist Peter Mucha, was the first person to go to the newspaper office. He is in charge of the Internet edition Morning News, 6:30 A.M. to work every day. To the online version of the first day, my task is to observe the work of Peter.

One of his tasks is to find the most appropriate headlines from the latest reports, and then make recommendations to network administrators. On the same day, Peter saw a sexual harassment report on the website, the police have drawn the head of the suspect. But there is no picture of the suspect in the report. So Peter proceeded to look for the picture of the Avatar.

He did not find a picture in the newspaper gallery, went to other sites to search, and finally in a television network video show found the avatar, so he copied from the video screen image, and in Photoshop to repair the picture. But finally gave up, because the picture resolution is too small.

7:10, Peter began browsing through the editors ' notes from the newspaper library the night before to see what was worth doing. But there was no discovery. Peter decided to write a script about the weather in Philadelphia.

7:20, Peter began writing, 7:30 finished the manuscript, put on the internet. He also attached a link to the Philadelphia Inquirer, a blog devoted to climate and the environment.

7:50, Peter saw a news about the city movement from the Associated Press. Because the Philadelphia people especially love sports, Peter decided to rewrite the news from the perspective of Philadelphia.

8:45, Peter has finished the sport of the manuscript, and received the latest editor mail. A bird caused traffic jams on the freeway. Peter hurried to the police station, the city Hall and other departments to call, but did not get any clues. He also informed the journalist who had found the news. At the same time, he turned on the TV and radio to see if there were any relevant broadcasts. An interview with a comprehensive reporter, radio and television broadcasts, wrote a short manuscript.

9:05, there was a juvenile shooting case. Peter hastened to call the reporter, while recording the interview proceeds, while looking at the map, completed the manuscript.

10:15, Peter has updated the information about birds and traffic jams three times, finally formed a relatively complete manuscript, but Peter still do not know what caused traffic jam is a bird. At last he learned from the Pennsylvania Wildlife Center, which adopted the bird, that it was a red-tailed hawk. Peter found the image of the Red-tailed eagle in the newspaper gallery, with Photoshop tailored to the form of the web version, and attached the name of the photographer, write a good picture description, sent to the Internet. After the press, he called the Wildlife Center to see if he could get a live photo of the bird.

At this time, Peter is free to introduce me to his work. He told me to start work 6:30 A.M. every day until the afternoon. He was in charge of the news in the morning and was in the chat room this afternoon. He usually write a manuscript to 15 minutes to 20 minutes, not only to interview, writing, but also responsible for the picture, "even in the newspaper like me, the work is very special." Peter said with a smile.

Words have not finished, sexual harassment suspect's head finally sent over, so Peter began to busy again.

Peter's high yield depends on three points: first, Peter is fully in control of topics, pictures, interviews, writing, publishing the whole process. And in many news organizations, this process is often controlled by many people;

Second, Peter can easily get a source of information. He can not only easily find photos from the newspaper's powerful manuscripts and galleries, but also get information easily from websites and government departments.

Third, and most crucially, Peter is a versatile journalist. He has more than 20 years of working experience, both as an editor and journalist, able to write a painting, understand a variety of software. Both long-term paper media work experience, but also network media needs a variety of technologies. Also because of his ability, so that he can control from the topic to publish the whole process. This talent advantage, I am afraid is the most shortage in China. This also means that while paper media may be outdated, high standards of professional journalism training will never be outdated.

Network reporter Peter Mucha is looking at the map

Online journalist Peter Mucha is interviewing

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