First again! From conference season to a 9am polling day edition, how the New Journal led the election reporting
Saturday May 8, 2010
THE Camden New Journal was being praised across the borough this weekend after being the first newspaper to get Camden's General Election news onto the streets. Reporters worked through the night to publish a special 9am edition, stretching the deadline to the limit because of the recount in the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency. It was printed through the morning while candidates caught up on lost sleep and by the afternoon on the same day as Ms Jackson's victory, the special run was being distributed.
To the surprise of councillors and council workers at the local election count at Friday, amazed by the speedy turnaround, the edition was also circulated at the count venue. Thousands were made available through the day as the New Journal got their first again.
It followed months of in-depth political coverage running up to the big day, which started in September when the New Journal - again the only paper locally - had journalists at the conference season in Bournemouth, Brighton and Manchester, During the final days of the campaign, the paper interviewed Nick Clegg (and his wife), Vince Cable, Ed Miliband, David Miliband, George Osborne, Grant Shapps, Justine Greening, Boris Johnson and the Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Similarly, our sister newspaper, the Islington Tribune was the first paper in Islington to get the election news on the streets with a 7am edition which reported on Emily Thornberry's triumph in Islington South and Finsbury.