New way to report breaking news
Add comment December 10th, 2007
Tried a different approach when reporting today about the threat at Northern Illinois University which closed the campus. Instead of “writing through” the main story every time we had new information, we instead added information to the top of the original story, changed the headline and updated the time stamp. That way, readers could get every tidbit we posted in reverse chronological order if they wanted. You can see how we did it here. Or click on the thumbnail below to see how the story was played on the rrstar.com front page.
