Working with early deadlines

[Pilot]

We recently went from about 11:30 pm to 9:30 pm and I'm definitely still adjusting. One factor different from many others here is that preps is not huge in our town. We have a lot of transplants in town who have no connection to the schools.

So, we've decided to cut way back on how many preps games we actually cover. We are making a big effort to get scores in every night, but by my reasoning we could keep doing what we've always done, which the public isn't exactly clammoring for anyway, only now we'd be doing it worse, thanks to the deadline.

Our goal is to dump that time into more features and analysis, stuff that's sometimes slipped through the cracks in the past because we've been spending our time and print space on gamers. Im hoping it's all more share-able online, too. It definitely takes more initiative and planning but I think we will end up better for it.

 

[LendelS]

There have been nights where the paper was being delivered just as I was getting home. Our deadline is 11:45, delivery folks are on the roads around 12:30 or so. An older couple used to have the route that included my house, and the husband asked me one night if I worked at the paper. I said I did and he said it was weird they were dropping off the paper as I was getting home around 1 or so.

Yeah, I am also agree with you in this case. It different from places to places.