A local Virginia news station has been publishing since January a newspaper version of their show CrimeTracker.

The station, WSLS-10, is owned by Media General, a company with newspaper, television, and internet properties, and will work with Media General’s print holdings to produce the CrimeTracker newspaper.

It features local crime stories, and information concerning public events, such as child seat safety checks. The newspaper is distributed free at convenience stores.

According to John Carlin, the WSLS-10 anchor, the new venture will be relatively easy to pull off seeing that the show already provides most of the newspaper’s content.

“We already have stories. We gather those everyday as we prepare the television broadcast,” Carlin writes on his blog. “Because we post most of our stories on WSLS.com, they need to be converted from broadcast style to print style anyway.”

Source:  WSLS-10 through IFRA Executive News Service