Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com.
It has been a busy week in the LINK nky offices. Tuesday night was Kentucky’s primary election, and we put together the most comprehensive election coverage NKY has seen in over a decade.
Not only did our team cover every race in the NKY Metro before the primary, but on election night, we sent reporters to cover the results at each of the three courthouses, bringing the people of our community faster results than they could get from any other resource. (Special shout-out to our contributors Patricia Scheyer, Robin Gee, and Jason Finnel, who served as our behind-the-scenes information-gatherers, sending results back to headquarters as fast as they came in.)
By the time we ended our livestream at 9:20 p.m., we had unofficial final results from all three counties, while the Kentucky Secretary of State’s website still wasn’t showing any results from Boone, Kenton, or Campbell counties at that time.
The work didn’t end there, however. Once the livestream ended, our full-time reporters still had to write stories for our website about the results, for those folks who prefer to read their news instead of watching it. Then, our Daily Headlines podcast producer had to create the next morning’s podcast with the election results.
In other words, it was a TON of work. We invested heavily—in both manpower and dollars—in this election coverage because we know how important it is to you, our readers/viewers/listeners. NKY deserves this kind of attention for every election, and we’re committed to bring it to you.
And, if you’ll indulge me for a moment, I just want to say how proud I am of our team. Michael Monks and Mark Collier have been covering elections in NKY for over a decade, but the rest of the full-time reporting staff at LINK is all new to NKY elections. In only five months, they’ve embedded in the community, immersed themselves in the issues and races that matter most, and brought that information to you.
Additionally, we are not broadcast journalists by training—last night, we asked every single one of our reporters to go on camera and report in a way they had never done before. And they performed magnificently. Three hours of coverage flew by in a flash, and they looked, sounded, and reported like the professionals they are.
When you start up an organization and pick your first team members, you always hope for the best. I’m happy to report that at LINK, we got the best.
Onward to November!
