On Monday, at approx­i­mately 10.00pm, the Rochester cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism site Rochester Turn­ing broke the news the state is part­ner­ing with Patec to help absorb the costs of demol­ish­ing Rochester’s Mid­town plaza to make way for a new cor­po­rate head­quar­ters for Patec. Spitzer made the announce­ment on Tues­day. Today it was the lead story in the D&C.

The announce­ment is huge for the region, as it means at least 600 jobs moving into down­town, a major employer keep­ing it’s hq in the area, and an end to the ongo­ing saga of what to do with Midtown.

Its also sig­nif­i­cant from a CJ per­spec­tive. Rochester Turning’s post was a day and a half ahead of the D&C. This may be the fur­ther­est a local CJ has been ahead of the tra­di­tional press. The ques­tion is now will RT get cred­ited with break­ing the story? Noth­ing was men­tioned in the D&C arti­cle about the posting.

As for me, I learned about it through an e-mail list that quoted the RT article.