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Will the AP remember this next year

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dand5780

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When they give out the awards?

Biggest lead in the case of two escaped prisoners and WBEN has had the story up for hours now and has had a reporter at the scene with breaking news throughout a Saturday afternoon.

Not sure what's going on on the FM dial but WBFO just updated their website a minute ago:

Search for escaped inmates now centers on Allegany County
By WBFO Newsroom • 1 minute ago
 
6:30 PM breaking news interrupting Buffalo Means Business (an hour long commercial, more or less) to bring updates live from Allegany County.
 
9:30 PM WBEN's Ryan Hendrick's (?) story made national news at the bottom of the hour CBS News Update.
 
Numerous news outlets had the story up, so I'm sure that it had nothing to do with WBEN "enterprise reporting". So, apparently there was someone in the WBEN newsroom. WBFO? Maybe not.

The AP has a "breaking news" category. Did WBEN have a reporter on-site? Or were they just "aggregating" (i.e. "stealing") the work of other news outlets that DID have reporters on-site? If not, they'd hardly qualify.

WBFO gets most of its awards for actual REPORTING, not for rewriting the work of others. At one time, radio was THE source for breaking news. Those days are GONE - mostly because of major cutback to news staffs. WBFO concentrates on getting local stories that others aren't following, or looking at them from a different (and generally, less biased) perspective. That's why they keep winning awards.
 
SirRoxalot said:
The AP has a "breaking news" category. Did WBEN have a reporter on-site? Or were they just "aggregating" (i.e. "stealing") the work of other news outlets that DID have reporters on-site? If not, they'd hardly qualify.
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Of course they did. That's what the first three posts in this thread were about.
 
9:34 AM Hedrick at the scene again this morning providing update on Buffalo's Early News. Took 3 and a half hours to get from Amity to Jamestown last night.
 
SirRoxalot said:
At one time, radio was THE source for breaking news. Those days are GONE - mostly because of major cutback to news staffs.
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So you're saying that newspapers just rolled over and died when radio came along? And if radio would simply hire lots of full time local news staff, that people would throw away their computers, phones, and other devices because of the obvious superiority of radio? Really?
 
TheBigA said:
So you're saying that newspapers just rolled over and died when radio came along? And if radio would simply hire lots of full time local news staff, that people would throw away their computers, phones, and other devices because of the obvious superiority of radio? Really?
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I'm a news person, not a radio person per se, but I think the radio is the best for news. But there are excellent newspapers in the area, just not the one owned by Warren Buffet. But you get a different kind of news from those papers.

But as the promo currently running goes- you can watch it tonight, read about it tomorrow, or hear it now.

Radio still can be the source for breaking news. Certainly not newspapers though, and not even computers.
 
dand5780 said:
Certainly not newspapers though, and not even computers.
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Then you don't know how to use a computer. I can't hear WBEN. I'm not in Allegany County. But I have access to the same sources they do. Their reporters on the scene will interview the locals, and those locals are tweeting what they saw on social media. So you can wait for the special report on WBEN, or you can watch it in real time on Twitter. Complete with pictures and video. And those people will never win awards from the AP.
 
2:00 PM, additional reporter sent to Allegany County. Still receiving live updates at the top and bottom of every hour. Press conference expected this afternoon.
 
TheBigA said:
Then you don't know how to use a computer. I can't hear WBEN. I'm not in Allegany County. But I have access to the same sources they do. Their reporters on the scene will interview the locals, and those locals are tweeting what they saw on social media. So you can wait for the special report on WBEN, or you can watch it in real time on Twitter. Complete with pictures and video. And those people will never win awards from the AP.
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Well if you're using a computer, you sure can hear WBEN online.

Computers are almost obsolete, anyway.
 
Strange. I don't see "Ryan Hedrick" on WBEN's news staff page. Apparently he does some weekend shifts, while also working as News Director for Entercom stations in Jamestown. So, it appears he's "stringing" for WBEN on this story while covering it for his job in Jamestown.

I'll let you and "TheBigA" duke it out over the role of radio in 2015. It seems that some people believe that social media and journalism are the same thing.
 
SirRoxalot said:
Strange. I don't see "Ryan Hedrick" on WBEN's news staff page. Apparently he does some weekend shifts, while also working as News Director for Entercom stations in Jamestown. So, it appears he's "stringing" for WBEN on this story while covering it for his job in Jamestown.

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Their website needs to be updated then. Looking at it, I don't see at least two full time and two part time reporters or anchors.

But no, you are way off base, I believe. First of all, the station in which he is a news director at in Jamestown is not an Entercom station. Second, he is the Saturday afternoon anchor at WBEN and actually left the newsroom, as directed by management, in the middle of his shift to go cover this story.

He may be part time, but he was not covering for his job in Jamestown. When he got there on Saturday, he was still working for WBEN. Maybe he was "stringing" for his full time job, or after 5pm when he would generally be off the air at WBEN.

It doesn't matter, though. Another WBEN part timer, Sloane Martin, is on the scene now.
 
SirRoxalot said:
I'll let you and "TheBigA" duke it out over the role of radio in 2015. It seems that some people believe that social media and journalism are the same thing.
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Social media is the Tom Bauerle show.

Journalism is Buffalo's Early News, and news updates throughout the day.

Twitter and Facebook are for people to tell the world what they ate for lunch. They are media, and so is American Idol.
 
3:30 PM update: Sloane Martin at the scene waiting for the press conference to start. WBEN will be airing it live and will apparently need to either interrupt Rush Limbaugh's Week in Review, or Money Talk.
 
For someone who doesn't work at WBEN, you sure seem to know a lot about them. He was "directed by management" to leave in the middle of his shift? How would you possibly know this if you don't work there?

You are correct - the Jamestown stations are not Entercom stations. His LinkedIn profile is a bit ambiguous. It lists him a "Reporter at Entercom". It does say he works for WLKW-FM and KISS-FM in Jamestown. It doesn't mention any other groups - which is unclear at best. He makes it sound like they're all Entercom stations.

As a full-time ND, he is ALWAYS on call at the Jamestown station. If he's covering it in Jamestown, he's on both WBEN and WLKW/WKZA. He may be getting paid by both stations - although ND is usually a salaried position, and there's no such thing as "overtime". OTOH, the amateurish website appears to encompass both WLKW and WKZA, which have different formats. Confusing, to say the least.

In any event, let me know when they catch the guys. I haven't really tuned in to either WBEN or the unlistenable Sunday afternoon programming on WBFO to find out. I'd be much more likely to check one of the local TV websites. They have reporters on the scene.
 
SirRoxalot said:
For someone who doesn't work at WBEN, you sure seem to know a lot about them. He was "directed by management" to leave in the middle of his shift? How would you possibly know this if you don't work there?
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I only know that because I listen. He was a guest on Dave Debo's Hardline program this morning, and he gave the order of events, stating that he contacted station management Saturday afternoon after learning of the situation.
 
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