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Entries for July, 2009 in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
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By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
The TAKS scores are out this afternoon, and we're hustling to pull all of the information together for you. Our focus, of course, is on how the schools in the Crossroads region rated. We have most of the reporting staff ...
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What qualities do you think a sports editor should have?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Whenever you hire someone, you look for certain qualities such as experience, ability and intelligence. Our new sports editor, Cedric Iglehart, has all of the above. What excites me about the possibilities with Cedric, though, is more of an intangible ...
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Should we keep all Michael Jackson coverage out of the paper?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
I've complained about all of the national media coverage on Michael Jackson. For almost two weeks after the pop star's death, "Good Morning America" led its morning program with the story, even though there wasn't any news to report. By ...
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Should some of the paper be light-hearted?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
For some readers, A2 is their favorite page. Others don't consider the content serious enough. Here's one such note and my response below. Let me know what you think: I am tired of opening up the paper & having to ...
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How can newspapers use social media to build audience?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Advocate vice president Dan Easton and I are attending the Knight Digital Media Conference in Los Angeles. Many thanks to the Knight Foundation for paying for this training opportunity. If you want to follow the somewhat arcane conversation, my Twitter ...
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Will there ever be another Walter Cronkite?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
One of the many privileges I had as a Nieman Fellow was seeing Charles Osgood interview Walter Cronkite in 2005 at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. By his own admission, Cronkite was "deaf as a post" by that point ...
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Calling your attention to our special report
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
If you haven't already, I hope you'll take some time to read Leslie Wilber's special report Sunday on the use of scent lineups in criminal cases. Around her other duties, Leslie worked about three months digging into this little-understood issue. ...
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Where are you going on vacation?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
As our children get older, we tend to spend more trips visiting relatives. Our family of four is in Omaha this week visiting Paula's sister and her family. You can't beat the sights and sounds of five cousins playing and ...