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\"\"<\/a>The York Daily Record\/Sunday News’ front page today is shown, leading in to coverage of Joe Paterno’s death.\u00a0 Sports Editor Chris Otto led the coverage crossing many platforms – social media, mobile, print – and at the same time told the story via Twitter: YDRChrisOtto<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday evening was awash with rumors about Joe Paterno’s death, led by an erroneous report picked up by CBS Sports and the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n

That later resulted in the resignation of an editor with a student-run website<\/a>, originator of that report.<\/p>\n

Here’s a sample of York Daily Record Chris Otto’s tweets in the heat of the battle, when big-time players were saying Paterno died:<\/p>\n

– “Yes, we’re seeing the Paterno rumors, too. Nothing from anything resembling a legitimate source, but we’re monitoring.”<\/p>\n

– “Journalists on both sides of this Paterno rumor — dire vs. not dire — need to start citing their sources by name. Step up, someone.”<\/p>\n

– “The fact that CBS put its integrity on the line bc of reports from a student blog blows my mind \/via@brittanylion. (That’s YDR’s Brittany Wilson).<\/p>\n

– “Sons Jay and Scott Paterno both just tweeted that their father is still alive.”<\/p>\n

– “Really, CBS Sports, was it that important to get it out there first?”<\/p>\n

And a reader paid Chris a great compliment:<\/p>\n

“I will wait to hear from @YDRChrisOtto or http:\/\/PennLive.com<\/a> or CentreDailyTimes before I make assumptions.”<\/p>\n

Otto’s post mortem:<\/p>\n

“YDR was thisclose to reporting Paterno’s death. CBS almost convinced me, but I was dismayed by no sourcing.\u00a0@Scott_Blanchard taught me well.” (Blanchard is the YDR’s Sunday editor and heads our investigations projects.)<\/p>\n

And I said this in an email to Chris the next day:<\/p>\n

“Beautiful job last night. Your tweets had the right amount of information, humor, righteous indignation – and reserve.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Also of interest:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Insightful piece by Daniel Victor, poynter.org<\/a>: ‘How Penn State student website <\/a>evolved from \u2018online coffee house\u2019 to breaking news’<\/p>\n

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