Boston Globe Preparation Pays Off in Covering Ted Kennedy Death
Posted by Steve Myers at 9:47 AM on Aug. 27, 2009 The first news that Sen. Ted Kennedy was dying came to Boston Globe Washington Bureau Chief Christopher Rowland about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night. Susan Milligan, who was on Martha's Vineyard covering President Barack Obama for the Globe, called and told Rowland that Kennedy "might not make it through the evening," Rowland recalled.By 2:15 a.m. Wednesday, the Globe's home page, Boston.com, had shifted to an all-Kennedy package, which grew over the next couple of hours to include stories, photos, videos and a guest book for people to share their memories of the senator.
The story of how the Globe pulled all that together in several hours, before most people had even heard the news, is really a story of what the staff did in the two months before: reporting and writing stories off deadline, producing video retrospectives, preparing a special home page layout.
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