I’m not exactly breaking news when I start this column by telling you that today’s media landscape has become remarkably crowded.
Online news organizations. National and local television newscasts. National newspapers and magazines. Daily newspapers, both national and local. They all want your attention, and they want it badly.
But no other outfit devotes more resources than we do when it comes to covering stories that are solely about Newcastle. You might call our news report Newcastle-centric — to the extreme.
If what you’re reading in these 12 pages today have you craving even more local news, may I suggest you not only visit our website, newcastle-news.com, but also like us on Facebook.
We are posting more local news than ever on our Facebook page. We refuse to be limited by our once-a-month newspaper when it comes to reporting what’s happening in and around Newcastle.
Our goal is to write and post breaking stories as quickly as possible. News doesn’t have much of a shelf life. And although we very much want to be first with a story, we will never rush one onto the web just for the sake of beating the competition. All stories receive a careful edit before they are posted online.
Our increase in Facebook activity is a relatively new way of doing things here at the News, and readers have been overwhelmingly positive about the change.
Our social-media expert, Christina Corrales-Toy, is a tireless wrangler of our news report, making sure our very best content reaches our Facebook audience in a timely manner.
We also post news content to Facebook that we can’t share with you in the pages of the newspaper, like video and slideshows.
Our newspaper may arrive at your home one time a month, but we have plenty of great work for you to enjoy much more often than that.
Contact editor Scott Stoddard at sstoddard@newcastle-news.com. Twitter: @scottstoddard