EL200: Current Event
The current event: An arrest of a St. Peter's College (Jersey City, N.J.) student. The campus went into lockdown mode after a threatening note surfaced.
Breaking news: St. Peter's College ends lockdown
Local story: St. Peter's College reopened after lockdown
National story: St. Peter's president: Threat note 'sent chills down my spine'
All of these articles were basically similar in content. The first two even included the same quote from a student's mother (which comments in response to the article states was an over-exaggeration). All the articles focused on how many students were evacuated, the note itself (which no story goes into much detail about aside from the national news coverage from Newsday), and the premier usage of St. Peter's text message alert system, very similar to the alert system our own Seton Hill University recently put into practice.
The articles are very similar in content and organization, but the Newsday coverage goes a little more in depth by including pertinent facts such as the type of paper the threat was written on as well as quotes from St. Peter's staff.
The Setonian could cover an emergency on campus via the Setonian Online. Many of the news stories I found on the St. Peter's lockdown were strictly online versions. It would be difficult to cover any breaking news in the Setonian unless that news happened during production week, as the paper only comes out once a month. It would be nice to have staff members strictly used for writing breaking news stories to post on the Setonian Online. Right now it's difficult to find enough writers for the print version, as the New Media Journalism program continues to grow and bring in new students The Setonian staff will grow and this will allow more opportunities to cover breaking news.
I'm looking forward to getting out of the Pubs Office.
Sorry it's not posted yet, we've been trying to upload the paper for over a half hour. I've been looking at a computer screen for 7 hours straight. At least this issue is done.
Chris is playing the Hallelujah Chorus...
I'm looking forwards to reading your analysis of the next current event, Stormy.
unless we had a daily new blurb, I don't see us covering a story unless, like you said, it happened during production week. Perhpas one day we will have enough staff to do a weekly online mini-newsletter