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.
• 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)