Kansas City Star Internets News Chooses Royals Over Rising Murder Count Coverage



A thoughtful reader sent us this bit of news about the quality and focus of Kansas City print media struggling to keep up in the digital era . . .

Local print coverage awards: "The Star's journalists decided to use the 2015 baseball season as a digital laboratory. They created the True Blue app, they launched a Royals blog, they dove into aggregation, podcasts, and social media. Along the way, they produced beautiful writing, gorgeous photography and coverage that drew them ever closer to the community they serve. And the community responded: In just a year, the Star's Royals audience grew by 80 percent."

The fact is, everybody, even this skeptical blog got a bump from the Royals.

Meanwhile . . . A more pressing issue that should concern locals didn't get much attention from the Dead Tree Media crowd and it was The New York Times that really amp'd up talk of the recent homicide spike.

Here's the followup from a KC Star digital news gathering effort that was abandoned . . .

The latest news from The Star's Homicide KC project: 0 people have died in Kansas City-area homicides this year.

Reality, Kansas City counts 13 homicides this year compared with 9 at this time last year.

Developing . . .

Comments

  1. Maybe the guy that updates that website got murdered.

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  2. LOL!

    that's horrible but funny.

    He probably was just downsized.

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  3. I don't know what your point is.

    At least they know Troy Schulte doesn't live in Jackson County.

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