Royal Visit ‘Live Blogged’

The Queen’s visit to Liverpool handed editors another opportunity to provide live coverage online.

Journalists at the Liverpool Daily Post and Liverpool Echo provided real-time reports on the royal walkabout via a live blog using CoverItLive software.

About a dozen reporters, video journalists and photographers were in the field for the event and sent updates to the blog throughout the visit.

Links to photographs were posted as they were filed and the two editors also issued blog updates about their activities back in the office.

As well as providing users with a real-time perspective on happenings in the city, the blog offered a single forum where editorial staff could communicate with one another throughout the day, whether they were out and about or at their desks.

This is not the first time Daily Post and Echo staff members have flexed their live blogging muscles, they used the tool before as part of local elections coverage.

Live blogging was also used recently to provide readers with an insight into the goings on in a regional newsroom and the blog attracted about 1,600 visitors.

More about this editorial live blog can be found at Holdthefrontpage.co.uk.