From NetNewsCheck
It started with an email to the Cox Media Group Ohio-owned WHIO-TV station to alert the reporting staff that an expected humdrum January school board meeting would instead be red-hot.
A last-minute agenda item had a member of the Springboro Board of Education in suburban Dayton discussing whether to allow school staffers with concealed weapons permits to bring their guns onto school grounds, a raw subject sparked by the recent school shooting tragedy in Newtown, Conn.
Although the email came to the television station, they quickly funneled the tip across the room to the Breaking News Team, a collection of digital, TV, radio and print journalists launched by Cox Ohio in January 2012. The group operates from the Cox Ohio Media Center, a 14-acre campus housing CBS affiliate WHIO-TV, as well as staff working for seven newspapers including flagship Dayton Daily News , three radio stations and various websites and serves as a base of operations for the company’s collaboration efforts.
