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ISD Serathu Ashk
ISD Interstellar Correspondents
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Posted - 2008.01.06 07:47:00 -
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 Originally by: Ungdall
I don't care about bad press from a terribly broken and hardly playable game, I'd just prefer if they didn't broadcast in real time information that could be in any way strategic. It wouldn't kill you to hold off till the fight is over.
As the editor in chief of the Interstellar Correspondents and as the person who wrote the article, I'd just like to clarify something here.
We're players who volunteer our time to write in-game news based on events that happen in the world of EVE. Although we're overseen by CCP and work within their framework, we're not CCP employees and are not paid to do this. Our objective is to bring news to players, we're not involved in advertising the game.
The article that was produced during the conflict was based on information that was available to us at the time, that was in the public domain. All of what was written before the battle finished could be found in the forums. Afterwards, we interviewed both sides and produced the final article that you can now see.
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Posted - 2008.01.06 08:02:00 -
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Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
So ISD got all the info and published the finished article AFTER the fleet battle.... I don't see the problem 
We actually published a short article during the battle that was later updated to the article you can see now. Original text below:
Originally by: ISD Serathu Ashk
49-U6U, Querious Region
The Interstellar Correspondents are receiving reports of a major fleet engagement involving at least one Titan class starship belonging to Evolution of the Band of Brothers alliance in the system 49-U6U, the sovereignty of which is held by Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate.
It is rumoured that a Doomsday weapon has been fired twice however the number of ships lost in this conflict is not known.
We will provide updates with more information as it is received.
Final article
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ISD Serathu Ashk
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Posted - 2008.01.06 08:21:00 -
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Originally by: Verite Rendition
Matrixcvd, I think you're complaining to CCP about the wrong thing, you're complaining about the lag while thinking you're complaining about a news item.
The fact that ISD had a news item ready for this so early is great. Usually news on a big battle is what, a week old? Here we got an announcement about a battle as the battle was going on and then a good writeup after the fact. It's unfortunate that ISD can't say "and then the node crashed" because they have to be in RP-mode, but that's about the only thing wrong with the articles posted today.
It's nice to see these big battles getting exposure, so that the rest of the universe can figure out what that giant red blob on the map is.
Thank you! 
My job in IC is to bring about a situation where events that we see as news worthy that the players themselves create are covered as soon as possible. News should be fresh, dynamic and engaging - just like the events that it covers.
Expect to see more of this.
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ISD Serathu Ashk
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Posted - 2008.01.06 10:46:00 -
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Originally by: sartorii
Edited by: sartorii on 06/01/2008 08:28:33
Edited by: sartorii on 06/01/2008 08:26:47
Originally by: ISD Serathu Ashk
Expect to see more of this.
expect alot more flaming if CCP insist on advertising ongoing battles to every otherwise uninvolved party..
when its over FINE.
while its in progress keep your reporters off the battlefield and stop making a bad situation worse by proxy.
I'm going to say this again because people seemed to have missed it:
We're players who volunteer our time to write in-game news based on events that happen in the world of EVE. Although we're overseen by CCP and work within their framework, we're not CCP employees and are not paid to do this. Our objective is to bring news to players, we're not involved in advertising the game.
The article that was produced during the conflict was based on information that was available to us at the time, that was in the public domain. All of what was written before the battle finished could be found in the forums. Indeed, it had been in the public domain for a full 40 minutes before the original version of the story was published. We did not visit the battlefield until after the main fighting had finished. We interviewed both sides when we did eventually visit and produced the final article that you can now see.
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ISD Serathu Ashk
ISD Interstellar Correspondents
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Posted - 2008.01.06 11:17:00 -
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Originally by: umop 3pisdn
Originally by: ISD Serathu Ashk
Our objective is to bring news to players
Look forward to more thrilling news story's of bobs success as bob is relieved of its space, ISD appeared within minutes of shrike being pronounced safe.
Think they would have showed if he was dead again?
At least there was no admiral adfnldkg to congratulate them on their heroic logoff
Actually, ISD Cobray Aine reported Shrike's last titan loss and we would have been there had he lost it this time. We're unbiased in our reporting and we work hard to ensure that this is the case.
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