Brea Jones » The Record http://breajones.com wonderful world of web Tue, 03 May 2011 06:36:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Fires on everyone’s mind http://breajones.com/fires-on-everyones-mind/ http://breajones.com/fires-on-everyones-mind/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:56:28 +0000 Brea http://breajones.com/?p=75 There is something strange about blowing away records and performing your best when others are in peril. On Tuesday, some of the worst fires Stockton has ever seen raged through a neighborhood. Smoke poured onto the highway and roads were blocked off. As firefighters did their jobs, I did mine.

I redesigned the top element of Recordnet.com to house all of the stories, video and audio from the scene and put all of our efforts on the fire. I built photo galleries, jotted down notes from reporters at the scene and worked with newsroom staff to build something thousands of people came to see and participate in. Thirty families were displaced and we set a site traffic record with 391,000 page views in one day.

It’s a sad irony, but newspapers really do show their value in times of devestation.

The content is no longer on the front page, but you can find it on a landing page:  

 

 

]]> http://breajones.com/fires-on-everyones-mind/feed/ 0 Corporate media jumping on the bandwagon http://breajones.com/corporate-media-jumping-on-the-bandwagon/ http://breajones.com/corporate-media-jumping-on-the-bandwagon/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:04:00 +0000 Brea http://breajones.com/wp/?p=54 I saw this video awhile ago, but I was surprised when The Record publisher presented it to the entire editorial staff over the past several days. Check it out if you haven’t seen it before.

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