Travis to adopt new news-delivery system

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  • 60th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. --  The Public Affairs office is streamlining their processes to improve the way the base receives its news by transitioning to a Web-based product while working out a deal to maintain a hard-copy publication.

Under the new guidelines, all Public Affairs' articles will now be published and updated daily on the Travis public Web site, http://public.travis.amc.af.mil/

Travis articles will continue to be published in the Tailwind newspaper each Friday.

However, the Daily Republic will be solely responsible for the placement and design of stories in the Tailwind.

Air Force personnel were previously responsible for design and production.
This move increases troop efficiency by freeing up almost 50 hours of Public Affairs' staff time weekly.

"A Web-based information-delivery system provides a number of benefits," Col. Michelle Johnson, director of Air Force Public Affairs said in a recent article.

Among them: posting news releases in real time; providing access to home-station news from deployed locations; and using the same delivery system at home and while deployed, the colonel said.

"The Daily Republic is looking forward to continuing to offer Travis and the military community the same quality newspaper they've come to expect each week," said Daily Republic publisher Bill James.

"Our Daily Republic military liaison will continue to coordinate story choices with Public Affairs and oversee production of the newspaper," he added.

"As the editor of the Tailwind, I am looking forward to the change," said Staff Sgt. Candy Knight, 60th Air Mobility Wing.

"Eliminating the time it took us to layout and design the paper will allow us more time to focus on telling the Travis story in a timely manner."

"There are many benefits to the Tailwind's restructuring for our Airmen and our military families," said Capt Vanessa Hillman, Chief public affairs.

"By focusing on writing stories over doing time-consuming layout, we'll be able to cover more events that highlight the mission and people while at the same time getting those stories out faster," she added.

The change to the new system will occur with the first edition of the Tailwind Jan. 5, 2007.

For more information, call 424-2011.

(Senior Master Sgt. Terry Sommerville, Air Force Print News, contributed to this article.)