Foley Story a 'watershed' for ABC News on the Web
Another interview with Brian Ross, the chief investigative correspondent with ABC News, who broke the story of Mark Foley's instant-message come-ons to Congressional pages on the ABC group blog, The Blotter.
"Some of the people inside the building [at ABC] were saying this is a kind of watershed moment for ABCNews.com, at least. [The story] broke because it was online and we got the feedback from those who read it and gave us more. It was a big moment, that was driving editorially the news division. At the height of it, we were posting things every couple hours, and
there was a large number of viewers reading those things [online]. I don't think we've ever had that, 11 million viewers over that first weekend.
"We started just in April, and we're just in the sixth month of it and it's been a huge success. It changes and improves the standards of people who are going to be hired by ABC News into this unit. If there ever was a time where TV people didn't have to write, just had to know what good pictures were or how to get to a fire — that doesn't work for us anymore. Everyone has to be able to sit down and write a story in an understandable, logical way. Most of our people can do
that anyway, but I think that will spread across the network and it will cause ABC to change the standards for hiring people."
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