Job well done
January 8th, 2008 at 10:24pm Anna Derocher
I sent around 10:25 p.m. today the note below to staff who worked to feed rrstar.com today …
I wanted to share with all of you, for sure … if I missed anyone, please pass along …
You all kicked butt today. Thanks for the hard work, especially on the photo galleries and videos. We gave our readers a lot of great stuff today. And as a result of all the hard work today pushing content to the Web, our print readers will get a treat in Wednesday’s paper. Definitely worth more than the 75 cents they’ll pay at the racks.
To get a quick glimpse of all you did, check out the special report page. Of the 506,529 page views so far today, 278,425 were of multimedia. That’s awesome. Our staff photo galleries did extremely well. The day-of gallery generated 100,000 page views today alone. The “aftermath” gallery got 35,000 page views. Our readers’ tornado photo gallery got 88,000, and readers’ orchard photos have gotten 9,000 so far today. That means photos got 232,000 page views today (through 10:20 p.m.).
I can’t remember traffic like this. Well done.
Thanks,
Anna
Entry Filed under: Day-after coverage, Following a big story, Tornado, Web first, Breaking news
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