Next week, if the weather turns bad, we invite you to check our Web site, www.auburnpub.com, to see if your local school district has delayed or canceled classes.
If all goes well, we will have our latest online feature up and running - school closing and delay updates. The information will scroll across the screen near the top of our home page. The nine school districts that make up the Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES have agreed to supply the information, and we pledge to hustle to get the details posted in a timely way.
Until recently, school closings and delays were pretty much the domain of radio and television stations. The time restrictions of assembling, printing and delivering a paper limited our usefulness in disseminating that information.
The Internet has changed that in a big way. Now, I would argue, the Web is the most convenient way to find out if the school bus will be running late or not running at all. Jump on the site when you're ready - no commercials to sit through.
The move toward posting this information is another example of how Web sites are changing the way the newspaper industry operates. The days of putting together one daily report of the news - in the form of that day's hard-copy edition - are long gone.
Readers want news and information updates throughout the day, but I'm pretty sure our publisher (and our press operators) are not going to allow us to print up a new version of the paper every time we get a breaking news story.
That's part of the magic behind newspaper Web sites. Now, we can post new information to our readers any time of day, and they can go online to get it whenever they want, too.
As those of you who frequent our site may have noticed, we are now posting news stories throughout the day. We have updates from court proceedings, government meetings and other events under the “Breaking News” section of our site well before these stories appear on paper.
We'll continue working to do this even more, but we also want to be sure we maintain the news judgment standards we have for the printed product. One of my biggest pet peeves of live television coverage of breaking news stories is the tendency to speculate about what's happening because the facts have not yet been collected.
I sure hope newspaper Web sites don't get into that practice, but I also hope we continue this push toward getting our readers accurate reports as quickly as possible.
Executive editor Jeremy Boyer's columns run Saturdays in The Citizen and he can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 231 or jeremy.boyer@lee.net
Until recently, school closings and delays were pretty much the domain of radio and television stations. The time restrictions of assembling, printing and delivering a paper limited our usefulness in disseminating that information.
The Internet has changed that in a big way. Now, I would argue, the Web is the most convenient way to find out if the school bus will be running late or not running at all. Jump on the site when you're ready - no commercials to sit through.
The move toward posting this information is another example of how Web sites are changing the way the newspaper industry operates. The days of putting together one daily report of the news - in the form of that day's hard-copy edition - are long gone.
Readers want news and information updates throughout the day, but I'm pretty sure our publisher (and our press operators) are not going to allow us to print up a new version of the paper every time we get a breaking news story.
That's part of the magic behind newspaper Web sites. Now, we can post new information to our readers any time of day, and they can go online to get it whenever they want, too.
As those of you who frequent our site may have noticed, we are now posting news stories throughout the day. We have updates from court proceedings, government meetings and other events under the “Breaking News” section of our site well before these stories appear on paper.
We'll continue working to do this even more, but we also want to be sure we maintain the news judgment standards we have for the printed product. One of my biggest pet peeves of live television coverage of breaking news stories is the tendency to speculate about what's happening because the facts have not yet been collected.
I sure hope newspaper Web sites don't get into that practice, but I also hope we continue this push toward getting our readers accurate reports as quickly as possible.
Executive editor Jeremy Boyer's columns run Saturdays in The Citizen and he can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 231 or jeremy.boyer@lee.net
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