I’ve been busy on other things and just go around to looking for online news about Gail Goestenkors’ decision to leave Duke for Texas. I first went to The Herald-Sun’s Web site and found this:
From staff reports :
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Apr 3, 2007 : 3:39 pm ETDuke women’s basketball coach Gail Goestenkors has taken the head coaching job at Texas. Goestenkors is meeting with her team this afternoon.
That’s it! Almost two hours since it broke on radio, that’s all that the staff at The Herald-Sun has come up with. I think what they’re doing is whetting people’s appetite for the full story in tomorrow’s print edition, but that approach shows a woeful ignorance about where the newspaper business is going.
Of course, Paxton, which took over in January of 2005, isn’t all to blame. When I was director of digital publishing in the early 2000s, I tried to get The Herald-Sun to keep news stories live on its Web site instead of having them kill out in a few days. It was felt that killing them would increase paid use of the archives so that idea was nixed. But all it has done is reduce confidence in The Herald-Sun on the part of thousands of people who find Google links to H-S articles that are no longer available. Oh, well. Not my problem.
