Sometimes, it is hard to look at a newsroom of the 1990s and then look at one today.
At its height, the DNJ might have had 40 or more newsroom employees. And while some people will take shots at us and try to show we’re dead, we still have 16 full-time professional journalists along with an army of paid freelancers, serving Rutherford County.
To me, the greatest example of our ability to must resources is happening during this period of high school graduations.
We have created a page on our website titled Graduation 2013. Catchy, huh? It is our intent to capture the graduations of 14 Rutherford County area public and private high schools, along with Community Learning Center and Middle Tennessee State University.
It is through our resources, which are unmatched by any other Rutherford County-based media, that we are capturing every single graduate and will host probably 3,000 or more graduation photos when all is said and done.
This great project is the result of hard work by the professional newsroom and the 
advertising department of the DNJ, and with the support of advertisers, at the moment particularly Middle Tennessee State University and the Mitchell Bowman Team of realtors.
However, what is more exciting is that already over 100,000 people have visited the section, and the number continues to climb – and we still have several graduations to shoot! These are readers that we’re allowed to share the great moments for so many families, and its an honor to be a part of that in the way we are.
And frankly, its hardly the work of a news organization on its deathbed.