Digital world creates new situations for newspapers

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

In the digital world, newspapers find themselves routinely facing situations they never saw before the advent of the Internet. Almost 400 years of newspaper history didn't necessarily prepare journalists for the digital future. Among the questions raised by these new ...

Woof! Bark up about whether you like our new comic strip

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

There's a new dog in town -- or at least on the Advocate's funny pages.   Starting Monday, we introduce you to Patrick McDonnell's "Mutts," one of the most popular comic strips in North America. We hope you'll enjoy the adventures ...

A blooming beautiful spring

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

Texas wildflowers seem extra special this spring for some reason. I guess I was too busy last year moving to Victoria to notice them much. Paula and I were out walking today and captured this scene near our house. At ...

What is your reaction to suit against DuPont?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

Invista's allegations against DuPont are sure to set this community abuzz. Look for full details of the lawsuit in Thursday's Advocate. This case surely will play out for years in court. Meanwhile, we will have a lot of digging to ...

Hey, what happened to the Bankshot court at Riverside Park?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

My family and I drove through Riverside Park today and realized the Bankshot baskets were gone. Does anybody know when they were removed or why? We played the game for the first time a couple of months ago when a ...

Advocate readers as reporters

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

Many thanks to Advocate reader Shawn Campbell for e-mailing us images taken from his cell phone of Tuesday's afternoon's crash on U.S. 77 South. It's an exciting new world when readers can share so quickly the photos and videos they ...

Should suspects get their say, photo in the newspaper?

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

Our story Friday about the Calhoun High "gang" reflected our desire to present all sides to any story, but some readers felt we were glorifying violence in schools. In our original front-page story Sunday, we had only the school's version of the ...

Our apologies for technical difficulties

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

The community portion of our Web site crashed this morning. I haven't heard yet what went wrong, but our technical folks were working hard to correct the problem. Fortunately, the site worked fine during the heavy load of Election Night. ...

Election coverage: From pizza to pixels

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

If it's Election Day, then dinner must be pizza. For newsrooms across the country, pizza is regular fare for all of the troops assembled to cover the news. It's easy, quick and generally liked by everyone. Even though our dinner ...

Check out Election Central before you cast your vote Tuesday

By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog

If you want to know more about what's on the ballot Tuesday, I urge you to check out Election Central. There you'll find all of the related articles published in the Advocate leading up to Tuesday's primary. Based on where ...