2015 football coverage

Goals

• Provide in-game text and visual updates to someone either watching the game at home or not having access to the game.
• Utilize social media to drive people to that post emphasizing photos and video.
• Utilize social media to drive people to non-football news stories.

General timeline

• Ryan usually sends in a pre-game story that you need to post if the sports desk can't do it. With that, keep an eye out for any pre-game images that the photogs either input or tweet (they usually just tweet them but they're high enough quality for the web).
• As the game begins, go into the sp.uofootball.rundate story file and start updates. See below for structure of those. To begin all you need is notes. Also, be sure to update the headline with changes to the score.
• Carl has a WebSummary structure set up in the story file for the front page. When the game starts I often switch out the generic gameday info (time, channel, tickets, etc.) and replace it with an image and caption.
• As the first half progresses there should be a Pietsch video, make sure there aren't any typos in the caption (via Brightcove) and add that video to the story file and it's own web.vid- file. Send Pietsch the bit.ly links for those stories so he can tweet them.
• Update the game story with scoring updates from Hansen's Twitter.
• Update the game story with quarter updates emailed in from Hansen.
• Keep an eye on photos. This is dependent on whether they are using SSP, the system or FTP. Carl often assists with the images.
• Send push notifications on the app at kickoff, and after each quarter if the game is close and/or an important game. If it's not close I usually just do pregame, half and final. I usually copy/paste push notifications into Twitter and tweet out those updates as well.
• At half, take a breath. Tweet out top news story at the moment. I've found that news stories get lots of traffic during games. Read: When people are watching the game they don't really care about our updates file but they will read non-related news stories while watching the game. This might be something we want to explore more of in the future.
• Rinse and repeat for second half.
• Make sure to do Tweet/Facebook/app push with the final score with a link to the updates which will become the post-story file. Ryan emails this in to the sports desk, I have never received it.
• Pietsch will send in one or two more videos, do the same for them.
• Assist sports desk with images that don't generate properly (they know how to fix this but on deadline they ask for help).
• Go home, sleep.

Update format

QUARTER (all caps, --- BodyText_Subhead style)

Summary (pasted in from email --- BodyText regular style)

Notes (typed by you watching the game, includes but isn't limited to: major plays, stats that the sports guys tweet, commentary about game to give context --- BodyText_Bullet style)

Scoring summary (pasted in from Hansen Twitter, minus the quarter)

Note: An example file from the last game can be viewed here: web.football-demo.0926