Romenesko Letters
That's according to
Charlie Madigan, who once ran Chicago Tribune's continuous news desk. "A lot of my friends and I would argue that we worked a lot more effectively under the gun on breaking news stories than we would have worked had we seven or eight lazy hours to ponder the verities of the train wreck we were supposed to be writing about, or the presidential campaign, for that matter," he says. "One thing we all have to realize at some point is that the day of the 1,200 word story, while it is not yet gone, is fading." ||
Alan Mutter: The 24 hour news desk is a terrible idea.
