Newsletter
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Your guide to Gustav and football debuts today
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Let's hope Gustav goes elsewhere and we can focus on that much more enjoyable season -- football. Either way, we have two new and improved sections online today to help you. Please check out our hurricane section here and our ...
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How do you know when to say goodbye?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
"I haven't lived a day of my life without Scoop," our daughter cried Saturday night. How could it be time to let him go? Our heart-wrenching decision had been coming for months. Scoop, our faithful 19-pound Terrier mix. had wandered ...
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What are you doing at 10 a.m.?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We've had fun this week experimenting with the Webcast of our morning news meetings. In case you missed the explanation of this Webcast, check out my previous post here. For a few more weeks, we'll continue our soft launch, as ...
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We've reserved a seat for you at our morning planning meetings
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We think it's time to take another step to engage our community in a conversation about the news. Starting at 10 a.m. each weekday, you'll be able to join us during our morning planning sessions. What's even better is you ...
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What headline would you put on the Ratcliff story?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We had a lengthy discussion tonight about what headline to use on the big story of the day about Michael Ratcliff's plea bargain. We aim for every headline in this situation to work well with the accompanying photo. In this ...
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Will newspapers be the last mass medium?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We're analyzing new readership research conducted by Belden Associates. We still have hundreds of pages to digest, but the bottom line is good: The Victoria Advocate remains, far and away, the dominant source for news, advertising and information in the ...
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Ethics board discusses how we handle tough photographs, stories
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We reviewed how we handle sensitive photographs and controversial stories during Tuesday's ethics board meeting. To review our agenda, check my previous post here. Here's a quick summary of what we concluded regarding sensitive photographs. - First, review SPJ and ...
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Are you wild about the Texas Zoo?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
When we moved to Victoria, we were delighted to discover the Texas Zoo. It's a wonderful place to spend a morning or even just a lunch break. Last week, our son attended zoo camp there and regaled us nightly with ...
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I'd say the future is in good hands
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
We launched a multimedia internship this summer at the Advocate, and it couldn't have gotten off to a better start. Somehow, we managed to land University of Texas students Katie Petroski and Chelsey Delaney, who both brought incredible skill and ...
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What comments do you have for next ethics board meeting?
By ChrisCobler in Your Advocate: an editor's blog
Here is the agenda for Tuesday's meeting of our ethics board. We welcome your comments on the topics below or anything else. We also have discussed adding a couple of community members to the board. We'd want them to be ...