Now I'm blogging as part of the my job
My beat is in a courthouse, a building where human drama
plays out in some form every day. In eight years of covering courts, I'd
often hear of interesting stories that wouldn't fit into what I was working on
that day, or just didn't have a place for one reason or the other in the paper.
But I've found a home for those stories in the new courts blog the Eagle
launched this week. We call it "What
the Judge Ate for Breakfast," after a well-known courthouse saying. It
actually as an interesting origin, which we explained in the "about" section.
Actually, one of the most difficult parts was researching the origin, which
took the help of the University of Kansas Law School Library, to find the exact
quote.
Now, I blog as a part of my job. We also put my Twitter feed in the
navigation, so I can continue to file microblogs from the courthouse.
Some of the posts publish to the blog first, and then developed into full
stories for the newspaper. Others update stories that we didn't run in
the print edition. It's a combination of original reporting from our
courthouse and links to legal and crime trend stories from elsewhere.
So far, I've gotten good feedback from judges and lawyers. We'll see if
we can get the crime and courts news junkies from the public interested.