Denver Post breaks news online first
When the Denver Post learned last month that 2004 Republican senatorial candidate Pete Coors had been busted for driving under the influence, the newspaper made the controversial decision to break the news online rather than hold it for the next day's paper.
Not everyone at the Post agreed with his decision. Moore notes that "some people internally wanted to hold the story until the next day," and he acknowledges that the early posting alerted editorial types at the Rocky Mountain News, the Post's longtime rival, about what they'd missed. "The Rocky got their story up sometime later," he says, and readers who looked at the newsprint editions of the Rocky and the Post on July 14 had no way of knowing who'd actually won the race. Nevertheless, Moore feels, "We got credit for breaking that exclusive story," adding, "My feeling is, if you have an hour when you have the story alone, you have to use that hour wisely."
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