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Entries for April, 2008 in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
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Were you a Houston Chronicle subscriber?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
As an avid newspaper reader, I've subscribed to multiple papers most of my adult life. Even as I child, I read the morning Topeka Capital and the evening Topeka Journal. That's no longer possible since the Houston Chronicle stopped serving ...
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Do you still use the phone book?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
If you're like me, you probably find yourself looking less and less often into a phone book. Actually, I almost never do. Leafing through pages containing tons of small type just isn't as easy for me as clicking on my ...
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Post your listings in Victoria rather than on craigslist
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We flipped the switch today on the Victoria Advocate's version of craigslist featuring free online listings. We hope you'll check it out here on our community site. Scroll down the page to find the listings. The power of craigslist is ...
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
When you have a boy and a girl, you can't help but notice gender differences. While attending the Victoria Independent School District's academic awards ceremony recently, I found myself counting the number of elementary-age boys being honored vs. the number ...
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German apparently is OK, but what about Spanish?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
For our Monday story on the possibility of school uniforms, a creative copy editor came up with the headline of "What's in, what's verboten." As an editor, my first reaction when picking up the front page in the morning was, ...
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Reporting on mental illness gets the issue before the public
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We waited a day after the suicide attempt of a former Victoria County commissioner to be sure we were handling the story well. Even so, you're never sure you're doing the right thing when reporting about such sensitive and sad ...
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Can you buy a story for a meal?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
While working on a story last week about the shortage of wait staffs, reporter Allison Miles picked up several menus from the new Hu Dat restaurant. Inside were invitations to a special lunch in which Hu Dat offered free food ...
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Rock chalk, please don't call social services on me ...
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
... but I've turned my son into a die-hard Jayhawks fan, too. Through the help of generous grandparents, we managed to score tickets to Saturday night's to the NCAA Final Four semi-final games in San Antonio. Sharing the experience with ...
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We're honored by all of your contributions
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
You may have missed the small item in Monday's paper and online about the Advocate's Texas Associated Press Managing Editors awards, but they're a big deal to us. And we have you to thank for one top honor: the best ...