A long-overdue hello

9/25/09 2:18 AM

It’s taken me long enough, but I’m finally posting to the Newsroom. The copy editors’ pens are scribbling, the music is turned down a bit and we’re putting the final touches on our layouts. As I type this from our offices in the basement of Curtis Hall, we’re in the final minutes of our first full week of daily production. Things are looking a bit different this semester, especially in the Web realm, and we’re already pleased with the results. Our New Media Department, a new addition, is up and running smoothly in large part thanks to a very (frighteningly?) committed executive, Arlin Ladue. In Thursday’s Web edition, for example, we published a video with students’ reactions to the recent...