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# How the media covered Thatcher's death: liveblogging
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/04/thatcher-death-narrative-liveblogging/
- Published: 2013-04-10T11:19:52.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:54:15.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Journalism, liveblogging, national newspapers

![Telegraph liveblogging Thatcher's death](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/04/Screen-Shot-2013-04-10-at-11.11.42.jpg?resize=664%2C625)

Patrick Smith Storified the [traditional media coverage of Thatcher’s death](http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2013-04-08/baroness-thatcher-dies-how-breaking-news-works?ref=onemanandhisblog.com). The key take-away? Liveblogging is the main way the nationals are covering events like this. It’s odd, because a majority of journalisms still seem to regard liveblogging as a niche activity, whereas it’s very clearly front and centre in the mainstream of news coverage right now. Yet, I see even journalism students regarding liveblogging as an annoying necessity before they move onto the “real” job of writing a traditional inverted pyramid story.

Pre-internet, you ran a news story, an obit, and lots of reaction or analysis pieces. Post-internet, you can bring together all the disparate piece of publication, reaction and news into an on-going narrative – and link to the more traditional story formats as your produce them. The skill is not just in aggregating stuff, but in building a narrative out of it.