Inside the newsroom - Weekday movie times may be returning to SoundLife

TNT editors update you on news decisions and coverage

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Weekday movie times may be returning to SoundLife

Posted by David Zeeck @ 10:48:08 am

Mark Briggs, our Web site editor, and Aaron Ritchey, our news programmer, may have come up with a way to return movie times to page 2 of SoundLife Monday through Thursday.

We dropped the movie times for area theaters because we wanted more space for articles and because several theater chains made it hard to get the data from them.

But when readers complained Briggs, Ritchey, Norma Martin (our features editor) and Mary Anderson (the calendars editor) began trying to find a way to restore the listings.

The potential solution arose when we started looking at movie listings we get for our Web site through a different service.

It may take a few weeks, but we think that Aaron can capture the HTML data on theaters and showtimes that we publish on the Web, and convert that to text that can be published in the newspaper.

We'll keep you posted.

Categories: Zeeck • 1 comment

COMMENTS:

Comment by erikemery @ 11:23 - Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Many thanks, Dave.

http://www.erikemery.com/2008/05/movie-times-to-return-to-trib.html

Comments are not allowed from anonymous visitors. Please login or register to comment.

Inside the newsroom

Karen Peterson was named executive editor in August 2008. She served as managing editor of The News Tribune for three years. She joined the paper in 2000 as suburban team leader. She has been a reporter and editor for newspapers in Hawaii and Indiana, and for an Army publication in Germany. During her husband’s first tour at Fort Lewis in the late 1980s, she wrote for The Lakewood Press and started the monthly Pierce County Parent. She is a board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors. She and her husband, a retired Army officer, have two sons and live in Gig Harbor. Email Karen

Deputy managing editor Dale Phelps has been a senior editor at The News Tribune since 1998. He oversees both the sports and business departments. Before coming to Tacoma, he was a copy editor and assistant sports editor for 19 years at The Kansas City Star. He's a past chairman of the Northwest Region of the Associated Press Sports Editors. He lives in University Place with his wife and two children.| Email Dale

David Montesino has been the Assistant Managing Editor/Visuals for The News Tribune since December 2005. Montesino oversees the operation of the photography, graphics, design and copydesk departments. He worked at The News Tribune as the presentation team leader in 2000. He has worked as a graphics editor for The New York Times, art director at the L.A. Times and managing editor of The Honolulu Advertiser. Born and raised in the Philippines, Montesino immigrated to the United States in 1984 and studied journalism at Humboldt State University. | Email David

- - - - - - - -
Occasional contributors:
* Randy McCarthy: Crime/breaking news
* Hunter George: Public life
* John Henrikson: Tacoma, education
* Matt Misterek: Subruban, military
* Jeff Standaert: Crime/breaking news
* Marcelene Edwards: Business
* Jeremy Harrison: Photo
* Norma Martin: Soundlife
* Sue Kidd: Lifestyle
* Craig Sailor: Arts & Entertainment
* Mark Briggs: Online
* Jim Kresse: Copy desk
* Mary Anderson: News administration
- - - - - - - -