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What's happening Around the Web
One of our functions here at the Center is to be "surrogate readers" for Texas community journalists. Keeping up with the fast-changing world of community journalism has never been harder, and community journalism is now the "hot" area in mass communications.
But you have a paper to put out, and a Website to maintain. A few of you may even have a life.
So we'll help you keep up with what folk around the nation are saying about our field — about community journalism specifically and the wider world of newspapers and news Websites in general.
July 22, 2009
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Why journalists shouldn't use Flash
Mark Luckie at 10,000 Words has a post about Adobe Flash and journalism and is saying something that isn't said enough -- journalists don't need to know how to use it. As he says, Flash was all the rage when it came out. But, as we've shown in our Web workshops, there are many free online tools that do the exact same thing with far less effort.
June 23, 2009
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How to improve sports coverage with online tools
10,000 Words has a cool roundup of several ways to adapt online sports coverage to better fit the Internet. While the sports story clearly still has a place, they have some good suggestions for some value-added features, many of which we've discussed in workshops, such as maps and stats features.
June 3, 2009
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9 things you didn't know about newspapers
Do you know which newspaper has the largest circulation in the world? Or which one actually has its own theme song? Or how many use the Gothic font in their masthead? If you're curious, check out this blog post Mark Luckie compiled, "9 things you didn't know about newspapers."
