Down to the wire on a Tuesday with the Great Basin Sun added back into the stable and the only thing we’re waiting for to hit send is me finishing this column.
We have the statewide, rural paper put together today and printed for each community as Section B of each local edition. And what an effort by this scrappy little team.
I’ve said it before when there were just two of us, and I’ll say it again as we’ve expanded and added to the “family…”
Never before had there been a batch of people so good and so willing to just make things work.
We thought we were ahead of the game and mostly done with the new section first thing this morning, but then as we were proofing, someone said, “Why do we have yadda yadda and not blah blah blah…”
It was then off to the races to correct and add because, of course, everyone agreed. All hands on deck working together to make it happen.
The whole thing makes me just a little emotional.
Part of me thinks everyone just thinks I’m crazy and sort of annoying, like a demanding mom, but the other part of me is watching these group texts we have running, one for each paper, and I’m just amazed watching them all work. We have the designer and the person running production and a crew of proofreaders and the team writing the stories, and from time to time one will cross over between papers with a story that fits or a photo or help with a caption.
If you didn’t know better, looking in, you would think it perfectly choreographed through the chaos. They have a way of making it look easy.
Which, if you had been here a half hour ago watching and remarked on the process, probably would have gotten you banished or kicked in the shin.
So, as we add one more paper and we continue to perfect our processes and we manage to somehow all keep speaking to each other, we’ll also be right here…
…Keeping you posted.
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