The tension between old and new media played itself out last week in the newsroom of the Canton Repository, as it sought to cover developments in the murder of letter carrier Jennifer Milburn:

By Friday morning, when we gathered to critique the day’s paper and plan Saturday’s, a group of people in the newsroom were speaking uncharitably about our Web site. These earnest colleagues were complaining that we had given the story to Cleveland television and all other competitors by putting it on the Web. We had invited competitors to come and report the story that no one knew as well as we did for those several hours on Thursday.

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