The journalists at the Liverpool Daily Post are extra-busy today - because they're liveblogging the production of the paper.
The insights into the pressured environment of a daily publication are suprisingly gripping, so far. (I've never worked on anything more frequent than a weekly.) However, the thing I'm finding most entertaining is comparing and contrasting deputy editor Alison Gow's official post and her personal one.
Building on the success of our local elections coverage, when our exclusive live blog gave online readers the opportunity to interact in real time with our journalists at counts across Merseyside and receive instant information, the Daily Post is running a live blog from 7am today until the presses roll during the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Staff will update the live blog throughout the day and everyone who logs on will be invited to comment on the work as it unfolds, ask questions or share information with the editorial team.
And this is her on her personal blog, Headline & Deadlines:
Tuesday May 13 will be the day I go grey, bite off all my nails, and possibly take up smoking again. For Tuesday is the day the LDP goes live for a day. From 7am when the first stories are uploaded to www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk until 1am when the last page is sent down to the press room, our decisions and actions will be live to the world and up for scrutiny and questioning.This is why I love blogging. It can be so personal and compelling.
The Liverpool Daily Post team are using Cover It Live, a neat little widget which allows readers to comment into the live blogging stream. I'm not 100% convinced that it's better than the regularly updated blog post approach, but the sheer ease of adding comments does seem to encourage interactivity.
[Via Joanna Geary]
