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Around the Web: Is this a 'golden age' for community newspapers?

Shared by Andrew Chavez on September 2, 2009
Future of news, Online news / Save the News

In less than a year, M.E. Sprengelmeyer has gone from being the Washington correspondent at the Rocky Mountain News -- covering everything from 9/11 to the war in Iraq -- to owning a community newspaper in a small New Mexico town. He writes about his experience on the Save the News blog, and about his optimism about the state of community journalism. "Think of a community newspaper as a bronze statue in the town square," he writes. "Everybody in town can look up and see that it’s there."

About the author

Andrew Chavez
Associate Director for Digital Intiatives at Texas Center for Community Journalism, New Media Specialist at TCU Schieffer School of Journalism

Andrew Chavez serves as new media specialist for the Schieffer School and associate director of the Center. He is also the author of the Explorations in New Media blog, a Schieffer School project that focuses on trends in emerging media.

Before joining the Schieffer School as new media...