|
|
|
All journalists will tell you they dread going to the scene of a traffic fatality. It's many times worse when the victim is a small child, as we reported in Friday's Advocate.
Reporter Leslie Wilber and photojournalist Roni Gendler were almost in tears at the scene Thursday and afterward. The...
|
Comments [6] - Views [179]
|
|
|
|
Despite being a part of Tuesday's story, we tried hard to cover all sides of the indictments fairly, accurately and completely.
Of course, any work done under daily deadline pressure is far from perfect. Even so, I'm proud of the work the staff did, producing six stories, a chronology of...
|
Comments [17] - Views [189]
|
|
|
|
A delightful woman came up to me at a Bach Festival event last month and told me she missed "Fred Basset." She and her husband had owned basset hounds since they were married about 40 years ago. She loved the dogs and the longtime comic strip.
A couple of weeks later I saw her during...
|
Comments [5] - Views [72]
|
|
|
|
If you're like me, you probably find yourself looking less and less often into a phone book.
Actually, I almost never do. Leafing through pages containing tons of small type just isn't as easy for me as clicking on my computer to find a phone number.
With this user in mind, we've created...
|
Comments [8] - Views [123]
|
|
|
|
For our Monday story on the possibility of school uniforms, a creative copy editor came up with the headline of "What's in, what's verboten."
As an editor, my first reaction when picking up the front page in the morning was, "I hope we spelled verboten right." My next...
|
Comments [19] - Views [186]
|
|
|
|
We waited a day after the suicide attempt of a former Victoria County commissioner to be sure we were handling the story well. Even so, you're never sure you're doing the right thing when reporting about such sensitive and sad matters.
We look to the experts for guidance in such situations....
|
Comments [2] - Views [116]
|
|
|
|
You may have missed the small item in Monday's paper and online about the Advocate's Texas Associated Press Managing Editors awards, but they're a big deal to us.
And we have you to thank for one top honor: the best Web site in Texas for newspapers with circulations from 30,000 to 124,999....
|
Comments [4] - Views [90]
|
|
|
|
In the digital world, newspapers find themselves routinely facing situations they never saw before the advent of the Internet. Almost 400 years of newspaper history didn't necessarily prepare journalists for the digital future.
Among the questions raised by these new situations:
- How...
|
Comments [0] - Views [62]
|
|
|
|
There's a new dog in town -- or at least on the Advocate's funny pages.
Starting Monday, we introduce you to Patrick McDonnell's "Mutts," one of the most popular comic strips in North America. We hope you'll enjoy the adventures of Earl the dog and Mooch the cat. Earl and...
|
Comments [5] - Views [47]
|
|
|
|
Many thanks to Advocate reader Shawn Campbell for e-mailing us images taken from his cell phone of Tuesday's afternoon's crash on U.S. 77 South. It's an exciting new world when readers can share so quickly the photos and videos they take of news events.
If you have any photos to share, you may...
|
Comments [0] - Views [87]
|
|
|
|
Our story Friday about the Calhoun High "gang" reflected our desire to present all sides to any story, but some readers felt we were glorifying violence in schools.
In our original front-page story Sunday, we had only the school's version of the events. Those accused wanted...
|
Comments [13] - Views [192]
|
|
|
|
The community portion of our Web site crashed this morning. I haven't heard yet what went wrong, but our technical folks were working hard to correct the problem.
Fortunately, the site worked fine during the heavy load of Election Night. We can't say our first effort at live video was a rousing...
|
Comments [0] - Views [58]
|
|
|
|
If it's Election Day, then dinner must be pizza. For newsrooms across the country, pizza is regular fare for all of the troops assembled to cover the news. It's easy, quick and generally liked by everyone.
Even though our dinner will be the same, we will be trying some new ways of covering...
|
Comments [1] - Views [39]
|
|
|
|
If you want to know more about what's on the ballot Tuesday, I urge you to check out Election Central.
There you'll find all of the related articles published in the Advocate leading up to Tuesday's primary. Based on where you live, you can dig deeper by clicking through our multimedia...
|
Comments [0] - Views [44]
|
|
|
|
Go-Onger Production Diary 2
So I have explained what a fan film is, so on to business.
I have finished the first episode of ‘Go-Onger’ entitled “Go-On!”
The majority of the main cast has been assembled so I will bring you what there is to know about the good...
|
Comments [5] - Views [36]
|
|
|
