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Around the Web: Peek inside one of Texas' online news startups
Shared by Andrew Chavez on June 16, 2009
Future of news, Online news
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The Convergence Newsletter
Mike Orren, founder of Pegasus News, talks to The Convergence Newsletter about the operation and how they're using data and citizen journalism to run what they call a local news portal. Pegasus is pretty popular here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and it's worth checking out if you've never done so before. Pegasus runs on some high-end software on the back end, but there are certainly some concepts that community newspapers could employ using free online tools.
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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...