A lesson for me
This is a column for the Dispatch for Friday, October 12
News is an unforgiving beast and the names of victims of tragedy are forgotten almost before the ink is dry on the newsprint.
Us journalists can be a cold and cynical lot. The daily grind of horror and scandal can leave you numb. Another story, another day, another headline, another edition, on it goes day after day.
But through this daily churn its easy to forget that often what we write is only a chapter, or even at best a snippet of a chapter, in bigger stories that continue to unfold long after the headlines are forgotten.
I have been reminded of this in a surprising way.
Dispatch website is evolving
Hi all. When I first started this blog I mentioned that we were in the process of redesigning our website. I can tell you that we have advanced really far down that road and that the new site is now in active development. I hope to give you some specifics about how this will look but I'll give you some hints that it will be dripping with user-generated content and that our blogoverse will be at the heart of its functioning.
I think it is going to be fun and pretty unique. Will keep you informed.
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Today we officially launch the start of our breaking news blog, Dispatch Now. Being run at the moment by deputy news editor Jan Hennop, here you will find breaking Eastern Cape news as it happens. Check it out.
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My sports colleague Lux Mantambo has a good point to make about local East London boy Akona Ndungane's role in the Bok side in France. Check out his post on the Sports Chirp blog here.
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I don't know if you have ever read the book Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt. It's a mind-blowing book that looks at the unexpected interaction between choice, cost and consequences in a really accessible way.
I have now discovered that they run their own blog called ... Freakonomics. If you want some reading to power up those braincells you really need to check it out.
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