YOUR Liverpool Daily Post begins a new chapter in its history on Monday, and we want our readers to be a part of it.
Journalists with the Liverpool Echo, Liverpool Daily Post and sister weekly titles begin working in a revolutionary new editorial structure from February 23, and readers are being invited to follow their experiences through a newsroom live blog.
The week-long blog will aim to show readers, in real time, the radical changes being introduced in the Trinity Mirror-owned newspapers, which include journalists across the Merseyside operation now working across the two daily papers and their associated weeklies in a centralised hub.
Editor-in-chief Alastair Machray said the restructure was the most ambitious ever attempted by a regional UK news operation and the live blog was an opportunity to share the experience with readers.
“This is a major change for us and we wanted to mark what we were doing, tell people about it and give them the opportunity to see it, ask us questions and tell us what they think.
“We aren’t afraid to experiment and try radical new methods of news-gathering and story-telling – we think this is one of the most exciting developments for regional newspapers in a while; what we are saying is that we know our industry is changing, and we’re up to the challenge of changing with it. We can learn from our readers, and through telling them what we are doing, inviting them into our new operation, we think they can learn more about us.”
The Welcome to Our Newsroom live blog will open at 7am on Monday, February 23 – the day the new merged operation begins – and run throughout the week, charting the day from the morning Liverpool Echo conference, through to the late-night completion of the Liverpool Daily Post.
The reshaping of the Liverpool newsroom, including the creation of the multimedia hub, has been captured by photographers and video-journalists through the months leading up to “Go Live” day and will feature on the blog. Conferences will be live-streamed and journalists will be posting on the blog either directly or from their Twitter accounts.
The Liverpool Daily Post ran a day-long newsroom live blog last year to give readers an insight into its operation. Editor Mark Thomas said: “The day was a great opportunity to interact more with readers, so running it over a week, and capturing such a pivotal week in our newspapers’ histories, seemed like the natural thing to do.”
You can find the live blog from Monday morning by logging on to www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk and clicking on the “live blog” link on the home page.
