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Today was the first day I asked a reporter for some of his story so I could put it on the web. And he was cool about it. I think this flustered me, because I then proceeded to upload it with the wrong priority setting which messed up the homepage, then I put the byline [...]

I found out last week that two of us from the Online Department will be merging with the Newsroom. Our videographer, Denton, will now be a “Multimedia Reporter” and I will be “Web Editor & Social Media Coordinator”.  Denton will sit amongst the reporters and I will be moved to the copy desk area. I [...]

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