The ACE Media Relations Made Easy conference kicked off yesterday with a behind the scenes tour of the CNN world headquarters here in Atlanta. It was very impressive to see the various newsrooms and the hundreds of staffers on duty around the clock – and around the globe – to make sure no one misses even a second of a breaking story.
Many of the hallways are covered with images depicting news stories CNN has covered since they started broadcasting as the world’s first all news channel back in the early 1980s. It was a bit like a trip back through my childhood as I walked those halls – I was in elementary school when Challenger exploded and when baby Jessica McClure was dramatically rescued from a well in Texas. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the first Gulf War…all these events helped shape CNN and also helped shape how all of us today receive our news.
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