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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.
September 2, 2009
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Is this a 'golden age' for community newspapers?
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."
