The Day – Flexibility is key, in life and the news business

The Day’s courts and cops reporter, Taylor Hartz, was winding up her workday this past Tuesday when we heard about a shooting in Norwich.

Photographer Dana Jensen was getting ready to take pictures of a newly located farmers market in Montville.

They both changed their plans and headed for Cedar Street in Norwich to cover the shooting.

Flexibility is key, in life and in the news business.

We didn’t have the colorful photos from the farmer’s market Tuesday that we had planned on for reporter Johana Vazquez’s feature story. 

But Hartz and Jensen gathered information and pictures of police and neighbors at the Norwich shooting scene, and we published an important story about a threat to public safety.

The news “budget” we start with each morning, which lists the stories, photos and videos we plan to publish on www.theday.com and in The Day, rarely looks the same by the time our nightside crew signs on to put it all together.

Another night this past…

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