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The ryersonian.ca decided to live blog the sneak peek of construction underway at the gardens Tuesday. We sent four reporters with smartphones. They tweeted updates from their accounts, which were connected to the live blog, and their updates were posted automatically. Check out the live blog HERE.

As a reporter I wished I could be in the middle of the action down at centre ice. But as the Ryersonian online managing editor I was an orchestra leader conducting the symphony of coverage from the news room.

We started Tuesday morning advertising the link to the live blog on our website’s home page.

We got the blog rolling around 10 a.m. But then came breaking news that the gardens would be renamed the Ryerson Peter Gilgan Athletic Centre. We changed our top story’s headline and picture to reflect this important detail. We also took some editorial liberty and called it Gilgan Gardens.

Around 12.30pm a graphic design of the completed gardens façade was released. I decided freshen up the page with this image.

We left the above image up for rest of the afternoon. In the evening we posted a high resolution picture from one of our photographers who attended the media event. We also moved the story forward topping it up with a hard news angle that took a critical look at the funding for the construction project. By then our TV crew also completed its package and our photographer uploaded a photo gallery, and we linked this into one story. You can read the final product HERE.

In one day we used a live blog, a print story updated throughout the day, a photo gallery and a TV report to report about one of Ryerson University’s most important construction projects in its history.

Is this multiplatform reporting or what?

This week I begin my new role as the online managing editor of ryersonian.ca. It’s a three week appointment. And I will relish all the little power it brings. I already changed my twitter profile description.

It now reads:

Student @ru_journalism & online managing editor @theryersonian

And may the shameless self-promotion continue…below is my first home page design. Tell me what you think! It will be up for the weekend, once no new news stories break. But if you excuse me, I have to update my Linkedin profile.

My good friend, Karlene Flemming-Fortune is launching a book on Nov 25th at the San Fernando library, Trinidad and Tobago.

It’s a fantastic book, because I penned a very small contribution to it. So go purchase a copy!!!!

Jokes aside. I am extremely proud of all the work that she has undergone to publish her first book.

The book is titled “Chasing Dreams an Anthology.”

But its publisher bests describes it as a collection “of poems, short stories, prose, essays, photographs, artworks, graphic design and illustrations to raise funds for the author, Karlene Flemming-Fortune, to further her studies at Ryerson University in Toronto.”

So if your in Trinidad take a trip down South and attend the book launch. Also get your hands on a copy. Contact thekreativitypress@gmail.com for details

Thursday is the election. And Ryerson’s Ted Roger’s students will be hosting RU Dunning. Check it out.

On the road this weekend. Found this made in China Canada moose at a truck stop.

Yesterday Ontario News Watch got an one-on-one interview with Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath. I was part of the crew, working camera two. Horwath refused to get down and dirty like the other parties about the Liberals proposal to encourage businesses to hire new immigrants to Canada. She also spoke about what it means to be a single parent-parent running a political campaign.

To watch CLICK HERE