Storm Watch
Although several Post and Courier journalists have been
blogging for the past few months (all of them more regularly than me), it took
a possible hurricane to bring out the full potential for blogs on our Web site.
Storm Watch at Charleston. net, edited by Dan Conover, has had our newsroom in live reporting mode almost around the clock as we have tracked Tropical Storm Ernesto’s run up the coast.
Staffers who might have looked askance at bloggers suddenly found themselves blogging to report a story that was literally changing by the hour, or even minute. More experienced bloggers from all around Charleston jumped in, bringing talent and depth to our report.
Posts ranged from practical advice from staffer Marsha Guerard about where to find pet friendly motels, to a local blogger’s hour by hour account of storm mania in Charleston, to the latest dispatches from our team chasing the storm north of Myrtle Beach.
Storm Watch has already collected more than 11,000 hits, resulting in newfound respect in our newsroom for the role of blogs in reporting a rapidly changing story.
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