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May152006

Mother of a Storm: The Web Version

Filed under General by nick pappas at 12:01 pm

One of our goals when we decided to create a managing editor/online position last fall was to improve our ability to get breaking news to you quickly through our Web site, www.nashuatelegraph.com.

Damon Kiesow, working closely with New Media Manager Ernesto Burden and online producer Eric Darbe, has been out straight all day trying to keep you up to date with the latest flooding information.

Since this morning at 7:45, our dedicated reporters and photographers in the field have contributed more than a dozen updates, all of which are accessible under the "Flooding Updates" section at the top of our home page.

You might want to keep an eye on that throughout the day, since we intend to update it frequently. One of the more recent additions to that section is a special page anchored by a Google map that shows area road closures.

I also would like to take a moment to acknowledge newsroom editorial assistant Teresa Santoski, who has been busy handling the phones and our primary news e-mail account all morning, and City Editor Jeff Merritt, who has spent a good part of the day writing up information as he receives it from our many reporters and photographers in the field.

As you can see, we are also making a big push to reach out to you for your help. A note at the top of our "Flooding Updates" page asks you to contact us by e-mail (news@nashuatelegraph.com) or by phone (594-6467) if you see anything during your travels that we would want to know about.

We are also asking you to submit your own flooding-related photographs so we can post them on our site. As of noon, 27 reader-submitted photos were available for viewing, and we are hoping there will be many more to come. In fact, we are planning to publish a sampling of them as part of our coverage in the Tuesday print edition of The Telegraph.

So please keep those news tips and photos coming.

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    I'm very disappointed in The Telegraph's coverage of the effects of the storm on it's website. Here we have a case of information the public *needs* to know. But it can't get to it because it's behind the need to login to the site. Instead of using the Telegraph's site, I went to the Union Leader's site which gave me no hassles about getting the information on road and school closings.


    I understand that running a website costs money, and that you have to show a profit. But this is a safety issue. The Telegraph should have made this information available with no questions and/or logins asked. I've been a Telegraph subscriber since I moved to Nashua 20 years ago, and right now I'm very dissatisfied with my local paper.

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    Barry:


    I'm really sorry to hear we weren't able to live up to your expectations today. As you know, newspaper Web sites across the country have wrestled with the registration issue for some time and will continue to do so into the future. In the meantime, however, given our extremely strong Web traffic today and the fact that more than five times as many people registered than on a typical day, I'm encouraged by the response to our breaking news coverage today. The fact that you weren't one of them is disappointing, but I respect your decision.

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    Today the Telegraph served its subscribers and readers in a timely, superb, and innovative manner. I read my delivered print paper this morning, and thought the storm coverage was informative. Then, I followed the important updates on line all through the day. The updates were very helpful and not just empty tech fluff. You're integrating print and web news very well, Nick, and you've proved this by your exemplary coverage of today's breaking news. Congratulations to all, and keep it up.


    Kirby F. Smith

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    Compliments on your print coverage of the storm. After a slow start the first day, you came through with some nice local photos and facts.

    But can I share a bit of constructive criticism? While it was interesting to see the "Now and Then" photo package on the Region front today (Wednesday, May 17), I think you ought to have waited a bit before devoting half a page to 70-year-old photos showing how much worse it once was.


    I'd have preferred to have seen the space devoted to local photos with information of what went on yesterday.


    Why? I guess some of us are still dealing with storm damage and flooded basements, and aren't so receptive right now to accounts of how good we have it by comparison.


    It's cool you had a historical photo archive so readily available (you'd run some of the previously), but you went with it just a tad too early, don't you think? It would have made a nice Sunday feature, perhaps.

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    Very good, congratulations article

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