Newsletter
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By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
Chicago -- A main point of discussion today in our Leadership Summit at Unity was how a newspaper thoroughly and accurately covers its community. One way to cover your community is to make sure you reflect part of that community. ...
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By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
Chicago -- I'm in the Windy City attending the Unity -- Journalists of Color conference. I was selected along with 12 other editors to participate in a leadership summit meeting at this conference. Today's topic was how we talk about ...
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By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
About six years ago, my brother committed suicide. He did it in a very public way. On Wednesday, I posted a reply on a thread of comments about the photo we ran in the second installment of the Fatal Funnel ...
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By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
I know this is kind of long for a blog, but I thought I'd share this column I wrote with you online folks. tm I didn’t grow up in a newspaper family, but rather I grew up in a ...
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By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
The recent debate online about our decision to run a Gay pride story on the front page of the newspaper conjured up some memories for me. The newspaper industry used to celebrate a week every year in May called Time ...
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By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
Sometimes in the news business, we get to be part of something cool and special, not just the negativity that seems to overwhelm us most days. We were part of something special this past week with the Chris Cagle story. ...
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By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
Of course it's unofficial, but the VictoriaAdvocate.com experienced a first today. That's right, blogger xxenxxen posted a blog seeking a date. "Looking for single men ... 30-year-old female. Are there still some men in the world who are too busy to go to ...
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Race and relevancy in reporting
By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
Race and relevancy in reporting continues to be a fine line that most newspapers walk. A story we published on Wednesday stirred the debate in our newsroom. Here's a note I sent out to the news staff today: Race/ethnicity and ...
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By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
A couple of days ago, we ran a story in the Advocate about rival girl gangs in Calhoun County. Police arrested members of one of the gangs, a mother and grandmother when things escalated. A reader posted a comment to ...
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By ThomasRMartinez in Easy writer
A couple of days ago, we ran a story in the Advocate about rival girl gangs in Calhoun County. Police arrested members of one of the gangs, a mother and grandmother when things escalated. A reader posted a comment to ...