THE hunger for news grows rapidly with the people critically monitoring the 2019 Midterm National and Local elections. Going beyond paper and ink, SunStar Editorial team beefed up its social media presence where most people do their monitoring. SunStar Davao staged an election coverage like no other, #Piniliay2019.
With the paradigm shift in delivering real time news in the field of print media, SunStar Davao ventured to a new kind of coverage that usually print reporters, photojournalist, desk editors do, Facebook live reporting.
Stationed to different schools to cover the elections, reporters delivered reports fresh off the field to its growing online followers on the current happenings.
With reporters on the field feeding updates, newsroom team led by SunStar Davao Social Media Editor Ace Perez prepared round-up newscast videos delivered via Facebook.
With the technological advancements in news delivery, SunStar Davao, as a community newspaper led the pack in delivering updates using social media venturing the widely used platform Facebook in reaching its views and readers to a whole new level.
Far from being perfect, SunStar Davao with its thrust to digital era, will continue to deliver and cover big news events to satisfy the people’s hunger for real time updates with a coverage like no other.