The post below with photos of the Akron Road Runner Marathon extolls the virtues of the Beacon Journal website Ohio;com in providing a better working platform and a lot faster delivery in showcasing the work of photographers with breaking news of the race.
Now comes the print edition in a 12-page section containing results plus at least 18 photos. Just about everyone on the photo staff was out there shooting.
Ohio.com meanwhile had a couple of galleries of photos–probably about six times more than the seven we saw Saturday morning.
You can bet, however, that there were many extra copies of the newspaper sold to race enthusiasts who can find nothing better as a keepsake of the record turnout. How do you save a website as a memento? There is no way for us to easiily learn how many extra papers will be sold today..
The marathon, however, provided a look at the advantages of both elecronic and print media.
The blog guy still likes the bridge photos by Ken Love and Paul Tople on the ground and from the air that best show the gang of runners. Neither photo made the print edition. A shadow photo by Bob Demay was chosen for the A-1 spreader on the race with a race feature by Jim Carney.
A1 was dominated by a far more important and well-done report by David Knox headlined the “Increbile Shrinking Paycheck..” One sidebar tells the story of an American family in three generations in a tale spanning five decades from census information. Another “must read” report.
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today's coverage of the race and the coverage of rex humbard reminds me of the bj of old. i think it was a great job...enjoyed the humbard story of interviewing folks who had attended his services.
and while we're at it, mary beth did a good story on a couple of our old buddies, chuck and russ.
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