New Kids on the Block

The Metro is the newest section of The Daily Gamecock.
As the “newbies,” we’re still trying to figure out where we fit in the paper.
You’d think it would be easy to find news in South Carolina’s capital, but it’s not. Much of what happens in the city doesn’t affect students at all, except that it’s happening in the city they happen to live in, so they don’t care about it, and we try not to run stuff students don’t care about.
So it’s hard to come up with stories. I’m sure it’ll get easier as we get more established and figure out what we want to run, but right now it’s a pain.
Here’s a question we get a lot: “How do you find content to print every day?” In response, some staff members might say: “We don’t” and that we more or less don’t have real content most of the time. But I don’t think that’s true. We try not to make it true, anyway.
How we get content most of the time is through people -- people telling us stuff they want to see. We rely so much on people giving us tips and calling us and telling us what’s going on. That’s why it’s hard to start a new section, because people don’t call you when you’re the new kids on the block, and they have no idea what you’re about.
So this is more or less the semester where we’ll decide what we want to do and how we want to do it. This is both really exciting and really nerve-wracking because the precedent we set will be there for future Metro sections.
I just hope we get it right.

-- Metro
Gina Vasselli
Asst. Metro Editor