Opinion writing
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 7, 2009
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How newspaper columnists can be great bloggers
The thing newspaper columnists do best, Robert Niles says, can make them great assets online. Many columnists already have established followings, it's just matter of converting those followers into participants in an online dialogue. His piece in Online Journalism Review has some practical advice on how to do that.
