Senior Reporter Jennifer Portman has been working on a story about Wakulla County Sheriff David Harvey for months.
She has read countlesss documents and conducted hours and hours of interviews to tell the story of the man who has been in office for 30-plus years, examining his service, style and the personal and business relationships that make him a powerful force -- a seemingly untouchable force -- in his small community and beyond.
The story will appear in Sunday’s Tallahassee Democrat print edition.
That’s all I’m going to tell you about it for now, except to say don’t look for it on Tallahassee.com. It won’t be here.
Sunday’s are special days for readers of traditional print editions of newspapers. More people read the newspaper that day. There are more features and advertisements. More young adult readers pick up a copy of the Sunday paper than any other day of the week, based on national statistics.
We want to keep Sundays special for our print-edition readers, who pay extra for the newspaper and deserve more.
Each week, we’re going to develop a special report aimed at them, something that moves beyond the news to provide greater depth and analysis of a story, and publish it exclusively in print.
This week, it’s the story about the Wakulla County sheriff.
What you will get on Tallahassee.com on Sunday is a brief summary of what the print story is reporting, the opportunity to talk about it and any extras, such as video, photo galleries or documents. In print, we'll still point to them online.
It is, as I said, a way to reward our readers who buy the print edition with something extra and special, but also it is an attempt to take advantage of the strengths of each medium.
Most digital readers simply won’t read the long narrative Sunday story; we know that these stories, while in high demand in print, don’t generate huge traffic online, which has evolved into a breaking-news medium and a place for readers to discuss the news. We'll use online to provide multimedia and long documents that don't work in print.
So, this week, if you want to read the full David Harvey story, pick up a copy of the printed Tallahassee Democrat, then come back on here to talk about it.
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