Transparency … So Hot Right Now

We love a good look inside an editorial meeting here at Public Eye. And we're not the only ones. The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash. has been blogging about its editorial meetings for some time now. NPR's new blog, Mixed Signals, has been doing the same. Yesterday, The Spokesman Review took it one step further – they now offer a live Webcast of the day's two editorial meetings. Staffer Ken Paulman's comment on the inaugural broadcast gave us a chuckle:

Today was the first day that the public could access the web stream of our news meetings, and an earlier assessment by the Inlander turned out to be almost correct. The weekly identified "the eight people outside the Review's 'transparent newsroom' who actually care...," and lo and behold, we clocked exactly eight connections to our webcast this morning! Only problem is, seven of those connections were from inside the newsroom. The eighth connection was actually two people - one who watched the first half (and, evidently got bored and left), and another who watched the latter half.