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Published Date: 04 February 2010
Internet users will be able to gain an unusual insight into how the Chronicle & Echo is put together tomorrow, with a pioneering day-long web chat showcasing the work of our newsroom.
As part of the experiment, visitors to our website will be able to play their part in shaping the content of the paper, see at first hand how stories are put together and learn more about life in the Chron newsroom.

"The experiment is believed to
be the first of its kind undertaken by any UK regional newspaper.

News editor Daniel Owens will be leading the web chat, which will see readers given the chance to interact with Chron journalists and air their views on stories appearing in the following day's newspaper.

Chron editor David Summers said: "Hopefully this will prove to be a way in which we can really engage with our readers and get them involved in their local paper.

"The technology is called Cover-it Live and has been used with great success by our sports desk in recent weeks to help cover both Saints and Cobblers away games.

"We wanted to do a similar thing with the newsdesk and thought it would be an ideal way of allowing readers to get in touch and find out what goes on in the Chron newsroom every day, from covering dramatic news stories to endless arguments over whose turn it is to make the tea.

"We will be explaining what stories we are covering, why we are covering them and how we are writing them. But it will also give readers the chance to meet and learn about the characters who write the stories in their favourite local paper."

The Chron is keen to interact with readers at every opportunity, and our Twitter site - also run by Mr Owens - has proved extremely popular with more than 1,240 followers, making it one of the most successful in the UK newspaper industry.

The webchat will take a similar format to our Twitter postings, with an entertaining, irreverent look at life inside our Upper Mounts HQ.

To take part in the webchat log on to www.northamptonchron.co.uk from 8.30am on Friday and follow the links.




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  • Last Updated: 04 February 2010 10:34 AM
  • Source: Northampton Chron & Echo
  • Location: Northampton
 
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Finker,

04/02/2010 09:30:18
I think most of them are deleted by people clicking the 'report unsuitable' link which instantly takes them off the site, not the C&E staff doing it.
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RubySlippers,

04/02/2010 13:06:06
Maybe we can find out what events are on the the town - 'The Guide' lists events happening 19th September 2009. Would be nice if it could be updated sometime or removed if they do not have the staff or inclination to maintain !!!!
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OnlyMeAgain,

04/02/2010 13:43:15
Laughed at "Let a thousand flowers bloom !".
Many of those who put forward views that were unwelcome to Mao were executed.
However in the run-up to the election, I think we should let 'radical' or 'fringe' comments remain, to encourage the apathetic majority to vote. Otherwise we might end up with an unrepresentative 'representative' !
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Northants BNP,

Wellingborough 04/02/2010 16:48:03
Good, maybe i'll get an answer for why the Freedom of information request I sent them about £2.5m of tax payers money being spent on just 112 asylum seekers in Northamptonshire was not printed.
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Finker,

04/02/2010 17:49:05
You sent an FOI request to a newspaper? I am sensing a reason why there was no answer.
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pipenslippers,

04/02/2010 18:34:53
If this is anything like the so called 'innovative' question and answer session with the then Leader of the Borough Council, Tony Woods - I'm sure we're in for a treat. What a load of tosh that was. Where are the follow up sessions that were promised?

FINKER - You seem to have all the answers and the smart quips. What position do you have at the newspaper?
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Finker,

04/02/2010 21:11:00
I read it. Smart enough quip for you?
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