Newsletter
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Your Advocate: Page check for Sept. 3 edition
By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
Through this video blog that takes you inside the Victoria Advocate 6 p.m. page checks, you'll meet members of the Advocate you may not have known. Today, you'll get to meet reporter Allison Miles. Allison is well-liked in the newsroom ...
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Your Advocate: Page check for Aug. 31 edition
By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
You may have noticed a new feature in the paper called "Deal of the Day." Basically, you can buy a paper and get a coupon inside the paper for a free item at a local establishment. For Tuesday's paper, that ...
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Check out AdvoSports, part deux
By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
Everywhere you look, talented athletes dot the landscape of the Crossroads area. In football alone, we’re blessed with kids doing awesome feats on the field: From Jared Dolezal at Victoria West to Roderick Warren at Victoria East to Trent Jackson ...
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Your Advocate: Page check for Aug. 25 edition
By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
It's a busy week here at the Advocate. The sports staff just finished the 2010 Football guide, which will be in Thursday's paper. Also, the high school football season kicks off on Friday with a few really good games and ...
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Your Advocate: Page check for Aug. 19 edition
By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
High School football is king in Texas unlike any other place in this great nation of ours. As we wind down the final days before school starts -- and football games start -- we talk briefly about our 2010 Football ...
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Your Advocate: Page check for Aug. 11 edition
By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
What is your pet peeve? Newspaper editors seem to have lots of them. Most center around grammar and word usage, things that seem weird to regular people. We had a discussion centered around the word "fund-raiser" during Tuesday's page check. ...
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Your Advocate: Page check for Aug. 7 edition
By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
Sometimes, we'll ask a designer to change something he's been working on. For example, if the editors think a different photo is stronger or another headline might be in order, we'll talk about it. That's part of the reason for ...
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Your Advocate: Page check for Aug. 5 edition
By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
Plans for any section of the newspaper can be fluid when there's breaking news. We can make a plan for one thing, and then as the day develops, we find out new news or other information that alter those plans. ...
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Page-check football: your Advocate for July 31
By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
We have some football fans in the newsroom at the Advocate. One of the biggest is public service reporter Gabe Semenza, a rabid and diehard Cowboys fans. I'm a Broncos fan, no surprise considering my office is adorned with Colorado ...
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By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
The 6 p.m. hour is usually a fun hour in the Advocate newsroom. That's the time where some of the top editors (like Chris Cobler, myself, multimedia editor Robert Zavala, presentation editor Kiko Fieg, and photo editor Frank Tilley) do ...