Breaking News Comes to Light Through Many Avenues

Debbie Hiott, Editor of the Austin American Statesman, which scored the 2012 Charles E. Green Award for Star Breaking News Report, traces the development of the prize-winning coverage of a police slaying in Austin.  Hiott tells interviewer Mark Morrison of how the newspaper’s resources were marshaled and deployed to first break the story online and then move quickly to cover all aspects of the tragedy over several media outlets.