One of the goals of the Daily Cal news desk is to improve its coverage of breaking news, delivering important stories immediately via the Web and then following up with more detailed articles in the print edition.

An aspect of our coverage that really benefits from this accelerated news cycle is crime reporting. This came into play for two recent crime stories:

On the night of Sept. 10, just after editing our regular stories for the next day’s issue, we received several calls about a rumored shooting on campus. A few writers immediately went to the North side of campus to chase down police officers, while others called emergency dispatchers from the office.
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