Norgdom

A lot of you who have been following our progress from the very beginning - all those six weeks ago - may remember the post Stephen Hutcheon from the SMH did on PerthNorg (I can’t link to the post anymore as SMH stories are only available on the net for 8 days it seems.)

Anyway I heard from Steph on Friday soon after the news of Peter Brock’s death broke. He wanted to know if we had any Cit J reports on the event and said the SMH would happily attribute any news and photos to our Cit Js that they used.

I knew some of the Photographers in Perth group on Flickr had been talking about taking photos of the rally, but it seems the damp weather may have turned a lot of people off. Unfortunately we didn’t have any accounts of what happened from people on the ground.

But I was impressed that the SMH saw the potential in our Cit J network to cover such a huge event and I think all Cit Js shouldn’t underestimate our importance in the media landscape.

Of course as soon as Steph gave me a ring I made my way up to Gidgegannup, but my faulty sense of direction got me there too late for any breaking news reporting.

I did feel a baton passing, next time I want to get to the finish line without dropping it…

This entry was posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 8:33 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.