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A visit from the new CEO
This week, everyone's desks in the newsroom were spotless.
We talked for days about the Nutella cupcakes our managing editor, Lauren Flaum, were going to make, and we hung pictures and awards that had been sitting in boxes since last year's move to our new office in the Main Street Market.
When our company's new CEO, John Paton, stopped by The Middletown Press for a visit on Thursday, we were ready.
Paton spoke to the staff about his vision for the company, which you can learn about here.
We also got a chance to brag a bit about how we at The Middletown Press have embraced the new Flip cameras we received by taking 106 videos in just two weeks. That's right - a newsroom of only 10 people took more than 100 videos in just two weeks - and we got them all posted on our Web site.
The only problem? The site isn't quite ready for that many videos, so the new ones keep bumping the old ones off the front page in just a couple of days. (I've been told we will soon have several pages so people can scroll through our older videos as well).
To show Paton how much we like the new cameras, our photographer also recorded some of his visit to our office, which you can watch below.
We talked for days about the Nutella cupcakes our managing editor, Lauren Flaum, were going to make, and we hung pictures and awards that had been sitting in boxes since last year's move to our new office in the Main Street Market.
When our company's new CEO, John Paton, stopped by The Middletown Press for a visit on Thursday, we were ready.
Paton spoke to the staff about his vision for the company, which you can learn about here.
We also got a chance to brag a bit about how we at The Middletown Press have embraced the new Flip cameras we received by taking 106 videos in just two weeks. That's right - a newsroom of only 10 people took more than 100 videos in just two weeks - and we got them all posted on our Web site.
The only problem? The site isn't quite ready for that many videos, so the new ones keep bumping the old ones off the front page in just a couple of days. (I've been told we will soon have several pages so people can scroll through our older videos as well).
To show Paton how much we like the new cameras, our photographer also recorded some of his visit to our office, which you can watch below.
posted by The Middletown Press at
1:26 AM
6 Comments:
Nice short and sweet blog entry. Videos are a powerful addition to a print story. However, I believe the clips capturing the essence of a person standing on Main Street, talking about an issue, are lost amongst too many frivolous ones of the penguin plunge.
I realize you get a lot of unnecessary criticism so please take my comment in the spirit that it's intended (I would not say anything if I didn't care about MP): Wouldn't fewer better clips be more effective?
Larry Johnson
Hi Larry,
Thanks for your comments.
We have certainly gotten carried away with video at some events - one person came back with 17 videos from one thing.
Part of this is that we are still learning, and we held a staff video contest for the past 2 weeks to get everyone going with their new cameras.
Now we can evaluate and learn from our mistakes.
Viktoria
Read the linked article about John Paton. Intersting stuff. I wonder if anyone at the Press noticed the comments about how he outsourced a lot of tasks at his last job? Might he consider that at the Press as well?
What happened to Danny's blog. Looks like he couldn't take getting slammed by the readers, and the only friends he had were you and the photog Avalone. Nice guy, hes been hiding behind a skirt his whole life and now it's your turn Vik.
Guess the answer to outsourcing has already begun. Publisher is outsourced to New Haven. Are the editors next to be outsourced to New Haven? The front page already says an "edition of the New Haven Register." How soon till that's completely true?
There's been a first round of layoffs under the new CEO. Our publisher was unfortunately one let go on Tuesday, and we will now share a publisher with New Haven.
More about this in a separate blog post soon.
Viktoria
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