Election Coverage: Are You Ready? (ARCHIVE)
Originally recorded on October 2, 2016
In this webinar…
Michael Toeset, editor of GateHouse Media’s Briefing 2016 website, and Tim Schmitt of GateHouse Media’s Newsroom Development team discusses coverage plans for election night, as well as some great digital tools you can use to provide readers with the best experience.
About the presenter:
Tim Schmitt has spent decades in various newsrooms — some print, and some broadcast. He was a sports reporter, news reporter, and then managing editor of his hometown paper, the Tonawanda (N.Y.) News, where he led an award-winning editorial page. He’s worked as an editor, staffer or longtime contributor with the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff, the Mesa Tribune, the Arizona Republic, the alt-weekly Buffalo Current, and the Niagara Falls Gazette, where he was executive sports editor over four dailies — spearheading coverage of the Buffalo Bills and Sabres. He joined GateHouse Media in early 2015.