It’s after 5 a.m. and I just got home from work. Needless to say, this was a rough night.
First, I made a big mistake Monday night while doing Tuesday’s front page. Late in the night, I had to switch the entire basic template on the page due to a problem with the original page. I pulled Wednesday’s template and forgot to change the date, causing Tuesday’s paper to run with Wednesday’s date. Needless to say, people noticed.
Other snags popped up throughout the night as well. The obituaries page had to be recreated four times, our entire photo workflow is being reworked, everyone was behind deadline, and I had to make an images page to run Thursday AFTER finishing my normal pages.
I’m not complaining. All things considered, the day could have been much worse, but it was certainly the worst I’ve had since starting at The News-Times.
Luckily, I have today (Wednesday) off and tomorrow we leave for Egypt and Jordan for two weeks!
Here is the front page in question and a Healthy Life page I did. Click on each to see a PDF.
people at my paper screw up dates all the time! we have 13 papers and it’s not too rare for someone to totally get the wrong week. and we hear about it, too. so, don’t feel too bad!