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Good evening. Here’s a look at what our newsroom has been working on:
Beginning at the stroke of midnight on June 20, we set out to capture an hour-by-hour account of a day in the life of Winnipeg’s downtown. At the top of each hour, we moved to the next story and we didn’t stop until 24 hours were up.
This ambitious assignment involved putting 24 reporters on the street, one for each hour of the day. They were joined by six photojournalists tasked with telling the story in pictures. Our team of editors then had less than 48 hours to sort through the interviews and hundreds of images to deliver this package.
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We hope this project demonstrates the value of a newsroom like ours, with the depth and breadth, the creativity and capacity to take on this kind of assignment. One that you can only read in your Free Press.
Also today: A new public service report calls for $1 million of new safety spending for city libraries to fund eight more community safety hosts — five at the Millennium Library and five rotating through other city branches. Metal detectors look set to stay at the downtown Millennium branch after a slaying at the facility last year forced the city to reassess its security measures.
Hairstylists, tattoo artists and a nurse who does Botox injections are now renting spaces in Village Salon Studios in the Exchange District.
And: To get you set for what’s to come, sports columnist Mike McIntyre spent some time this week looking back at the dozen drafts the Winnipeg Jets have participated in since the NHL returned to our neck of the woods in 2011.
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