Culpeper Star Exponent - The Charlottesville Connection

You may have noticed that the Culpeper Star-Exponent featured video from this week’s events at Montpelier from NBC 29 in Charlottesville. The two media outlets are partnering to help each other get consumers a full package of news no matter where it happens. The partnership between Channel 29 and Media General has been ongoing for years, with the television station having a bureau at the company’s The New Virginian in Waynesboro. Last year, Star-Exponent Publisher Mitch Sneed and Editor Rob Humphreys met with station officials and agreed to work together when possible as well. “We are really working to expand the way we can deliver news,” Sneed said. “We can now do video via our Web site and let’s face it, the television folks are much better at it than we are right now. There have been times and there will be times when big news breaks here and Channel 29 can’t get here in time to get images from the scene. We have helped them with images and video from a few events and they have been a big help to us. It’s good for both of us, but the news consumers are the big winners here.”
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