On April 14, 2014, Rotarian Kathy Carver introduced our guest speaker Ms. Tammy Scott–Wallace from the Kings Country Record.
Picture here beside Tammy is the Hon. Bruce Northrup (Left) and Club President Bob Tremblett.
Tammy started her career after graduating from journalism school in 1993 as a news reporter in Nova Scotia. She made her way in the newspaper business in that province at three newspapers, progressing from a reporter, lifestyle editor to managing editor as she moved along...
Kings County girl, she moved back to New Brunswick with her husband to start a family when she joined the Brunswick News family in 2000 as an assignment editor at The Times & Transcript. There she was a repeat winner of Atlantic Journalism Awards for excellence in journalism.
In 2006 she convinced Telegraph-Journal owners to allow her to set up shop in Sussex to start telling stories from a community she believed was on the brink of great things. She was given six months to see if she could find any news to report before having to commute back into the city… that was eight years ago.
Tammy served full-time as Kings Country Record's reporter for the provincial daily until the fall of 2011 when her role expanded. As she continues to report news for the Telegraph-Journal, she took over the editor’s position at the Kings Country Record.
She has won regional and national awards for her work. She is currently one of three nominees for Atlantic Canada’s Outstanding Journalist, which will be awarded on Prince Edward Island next month.
Tammy spoke on the new and changing ways news is being reported, read and delivered to current subscribers. Today people want their news direct and delivered quickly. Many use online media and personal devices to read, report and understand what’s happening. Unlike many online blogs or news chasers sites, the Kings County Record will not publish news sources that can’t be verified and today, that is a departing criterion of the mainstream professional journalist. Tammy describes the issues and comments surrounding the current business model and the introduction and use of a “pay-wall”, an arrangement where access to the news is restricted to users who have paid a fee or subscription. Some like it; many complain.
Tammy shared the new modern look coming to the Kings Country Record this summer.
Past President Donna Gilchrist thanked Tammy for her interesting talk and presentation on the Kings Country Record and the new and emerging methods news is being reported and delivered.
Kings County girl, she moved back to New Brunswick with her husband to start a family when she joined the Brunswick News family in 2000 as an assignment editor at The Times & Transcript. There she was a repeat winner of Atlantic Journalism Awards for excellence in journalism.
In 2006 she convinced Telegraph-Journal owners to allow her to set up shop in Sussex to start telling stories from a community she believed was on the brink of great things. She was given six months to see if she could find any news to report before having to commute back into the city… that was eight years ago.
Tammy served full-time as Kings Country Record's reporter for the provincial daily until the fall of 2011 when her role expanded. As she continues to report news for the Telegraph-Journal, she took over the editor’s position at the Kings Country Record.
She has won regional and national awards for her work. She is currently one of three nominees for Atlantic Canada’s Outstanding Journalist, which will be awarded on Prince Edward Island next month.
Tammy spoke on the new and changing ways news is being reported, read and delivered to current subscribers. Today people want their news direct and delivered quickly. Many use online media and personal devices to read, report and understand what’s happening. Unlike many online blogs or news chasers sites, the Kings County Record will not publish news sources that can’t be verified and today, that is a departing criterion of the mainstream professional journalist. Tammy describes the issues and comments surrounding the current business model and the introduction and use of a “pay-wall”, an arrangement where access to the news is restricted to users who have paid a fee or subscription. Some like it; many complain.
Tammy shared the new modern look coming to the Kings Country Record this summer.
Past President Donna Gilchrist thanked Tammy for her interesting talk and presentation on the Kings Country Record and the new and emerging methods news is being reported and delivered.