Media coverage
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Clinton calls for civility, May 22
When former president Bill Clinton came to Lawrence to give the inaugural Dole Institute of Politics speech, the Journal-World and its local media partners pulled out all of the stops to produce convergence synergy.
Online editor Dave Toplikar coordinated with newspaper managing editor Ric Brack, city editor Mike Shields, and photographers Scott McClurg and Thad Allender to let them know what we wanted to have extra for online that they wouldn't be able to get into the actual newspaper. Toplikar also worked with News6 news director Cody Howard's staff to make sure understood coverage plans for TV. Live online coverage of the event used a similar gameplan used for other major press conferences and speeches (the hiring of KU's new basketball coach and athletic director, the Kansas Governor's State of the State address, etc...) in taping the 6News live video coverage of the event and immediately preparing video and audio clips for LJWorld.com and 6Newslawrence.com sites.
A Journal-World photographer also shot a 360-degree "steeerable" virtual reality photo shot inside the arena during Clinton's speech.
LJWorld.com had a breaking news precede story posted early on our site (about 4 a.m.) to let people know parking information, what to wear, what they could and could not bring, etc... The news staff began updating that story around 10:30 a.m., when Journal-World reporters arrived at the scene. Newspaper reporter Joel Mathis gathered quotes and color information from the scene and called back several times, providing updates to the precede story. Journal-World reporter Eric Weslander also provided information from the police that was phoned into the online editor. When the local version of CNN Headline News went live at 11:54 a.m., (which is produced by News6) the online staff taped it, got the video from it and posted it into the precede breaking story by a little after noon.
During the speech, online editors jotted down quotes heard during the live telecast of Clinton's speech, and updated the story during the speech. Online editors began processing the video as soon as the speech started and had the introduction from Bob Dole up before Clinton had even finished his speech. Journal-World photographers submitted nearly 20 photos to be posted early on the newspaper's Web site.
The follow-up coverage in the newspaper was very in-depth. On the online version of the lead story from the Journal-World had links to all the J-W stories, all the 6News stories, the video clips of Clinton's entire speech, the audio clips of his entire speech and Q-and-A session, the 360-degree VR photo and a huge photo gallery. If you missed the speech, you could go to our site and see the whole thing, plus get all the J-W stories and all the reaction. There was even local a "blog" on the site about the speech, which was getting a ton of local reaction. Full story.
Sansei story, May 2
For her Sunday centerpiece on a longtime Asian artist/professor at KU, Roger Shimomura, Journal-World arts editor Mindie Paget wanted to produce a convergence/multimedia journalism retrospective on the artist's work. The story's presentation had a distinctive look in both print and online, and included a large number of online-only galleries of Shimomura's work, video interviews with him from a local weekly interview show produced by News6, a video tour of his studio shot by News6 for the Web site, and expanded audio interviews with Shimomura. Full story.
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