{"id":42088,"date":"2020-04-06T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42088"},"modified":"2020-04-06T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T18:25:08","slug":"time-of-my-life-part-48-still-able-to-keep-up-with-fast-paced-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42088","title":{"rendered":"Time of My Life, Part 48: Still able to keep up with fast-paced story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have returned to the game of print journalism, even if it isn’t daily print journalism.<\/p>\n

Still, writing for a weekly<\/em> newspaper presents a whole new set of challenges \u2026 such as trying to keep pace with a story that is changing damn near hourly.<\/p>\n

Forgive the boast, but I am happy to report that I still am able to remain nimble enough to hit a fast-moving target.<\/p>\n

The target is the coronavirus, aka COVID-19. They’ve declared it a worldwide pandemic. It is killing thousands of people daily.<\/p>\n

How does that affect my freelance gig? The Farmersville Times covers a lovely community in Collin County, Texas, about seven miles east of where my wife and I live in Princeton; I write for the Times. I have spent the past few days keeping pace with the outbreak of COVID-19 in Farmersville.<\/p>\n

I was assigned a story to write for the Times that looked at how the community’s first responders — namely firefighters and police officers — are coping with the pandemic. My initial story said there had been no reported infection in Farmersville.<\/p>\n

Then it changed. Rapidly.<\/p>\n

The publisher, my boss, notified me that Collin County Public Health officials reported several cases in Farmersville. I had to make contact with the police and fire chiefs for updated information. I was able to do so quickly. They provided the information I was seeking.<\/p>\n

However, the story likely continues to move even as I write this brief blog post.<\/p>\n

Indeed, I have no idea how many — if there are any to report — new cases of coronavirus have been reported in Farmersville just since I filed my amended version of the original story.<\/p>\n

By all means, we are experiencing a crisis that tests us all. I just have to stay nimble.<\/p>\n\n

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I have returned to the game of print journalism, even if it isn’t daily print journalism. Still, writing for a weekly newspaper presents a whole new set of challenges \u2026 such as trying to keep pace with a story that is changing damn near hourly. Forgive the boast, but I am happy to report that … Continue reading Time of My Life, Part 48: Still able to keep up with fast-paced story<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[1063,9128,2978,9261],"class_list":["post-42088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","tag-collin-county","tag-farmersville-times","tag-media","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42089,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42088\/revisions\/42089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}