Behind The Post's online efforts
Rajiv Chandrasekaran , assistant managing editor, Continuous News, discusses The Post's online initiatives, including how the newspaper publishes breaking news on washingtonpost.com, in this online chat.
It does, unfortunately, mean more work for our reporters. We're often asking already busy staffers to write stories for the Web and then another version of the story for the print edition. When news breaks late in the day, it's often easier to get contributions from reporters, because they're going to be banging out the story for the paper. The Continuous News desk does more work in the morning hours, when beat reporters are still in the field or tied up in interviews.When we've got a good story, and it's competitive, we're likely to publish it on the Web sooner rather than later. That has not always been the case, but editors here recognize that we're operating in a 24-hour news environment and we have to be competitive with other news sites out there....
Part of the job of the Continuous News Desk is to push stories for the next day's paper to washingtonpost.com as soon as we can. Often, we'll post stories that will be on the next day's front page on post.com's homepage by 7 or 8 p.m. Generally speaking, those stories won't be big scoops but things everyone else is covering -- a speech by Bush, a big vote in Congress, violence in Iraq, etc. Of course, there may be elements of those stories that are unique to The Post. If our competitors see that material and decide to use it, we hope they'll credit us (which they normally do). However, when we've got an only-in-the-Post scoop that we know will make waves, we often will wait until later in the evening to post it. To see those pieces, it's best to check the site around midnight Eastern time.
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