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Are you ready for some football?
What a silly question in South Texas. We know you are. Because of your insatiable appetite for football, we bring you "The Pressbox," the Advocate sports department's weekly sportscast.
Our experts will discuss the week's games each Thursday and show...
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Let's hope Gustav goes elsewhere and we can focus on that much more enjoyable season -- football.
Either way, we have two new and improved sections online today to help you. Please check out our hurricane section here and our sports page here.
Our hurricane section features a tracking map...
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We've had fun this week experimenting with the Webcast of our morning news meetings. In case you missed the explanation of this Webcast, check out my previous post here.
For a few more weeks, we'll continue our soft launch, as we call it. We're not promoting the Webcast much as we continue to...
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We think it's time to take another step to engage our community in a conversation about the news. Starting at 10 a.m. each weekday, you'll be able to join us during our morning planning sessions.
What's even better is you can do this from the comfort of your home or office. All you need is a...
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We're analyzing new readership research conducted by Belden Associates. We still have hundreds of pages to digest, but the bottom line is good: The Victoria Advocate remains, far and away, the dominant source for news, advertising and information in the Crossroads region.
A few bullet points...
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We launched a multimedia internship this summer at the Advocate, and it couldn't have gotten off to a better start.
Somehow, we managed to land University of Texas students Katie Petroski and Chelsey Delaney, who both brought incredible skill and enthusiasm to our newsroom. Regular online...
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Here is the agenda for Tuesday's meeting of our ethics board. We welcome your comments on the topics below or anything else.
We also have discussed adding a couple of community members to the board. We'd want them to be people with some background in ethical decision-making such as a priest...
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In e-mail exchanges, Advocate newsroom staffers compliment the best work of the day in print or online. In this way, we try to encourage more good journalism and recognize the hard work that goes in to producing it.
Here's an e-mail I sent to the staff today:
Stand up and cheer for the...
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I doubt we'll ever be able to moderate an online forum to everyone's satisfaction. A blogger today raised questions about comments being deleted. Another asked about how we decide what to delete and why we don't explain more about those deletions.
For that blog, I pulled together a list of...
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The Advocate's ethics board had a special meeting after being alerted by a state investigator that we would receive a subpoena for the computer records of someone who posted what could be considered a threat against Victoria District Attorney Stephen Tyler.
As Friday's story notes, we agreed...
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Our "Law and Disorder" coverage appears far from over, but we received some positive reinforcement regarding our 2007 coverage during this weekend's Texas Press Association annual convention.
I'm pleased to announce the Advocate won eight awards during the convention and made a...
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As the beautiful music thundered over me Friday night, I wished all of Victoria could have shared in the moment.
I'm not much of a classical music lover, but the power of Verdi's "Requiem" floored me. The choir and the musicians covered every square inch of Our Saviour's Lutheran...
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Two or three weeks ago, Scott Hanson hung up on me after I became exasperated by his criticism that the Advocate wasn't digging hard enough into Victoria District Attorney Stephen Tyler. We're doing all we can, I told Hanson, also known as Sailor on our discussion forums.
Then Thursday night,...
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A newspaper contains much more than news stories or photographs. Perhaps just as important is the central role it plays in bringing together its community.
I thought about this today because of a letter to the editor criticizing the Advocate for not covering a car show last weekend. Even...
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Quite a few readers reacted strongly to Monday's B1 feature on two new fathers. The story idea was to find a dad whose child was born this Father's Day.
As it turns out, both of the fathers at DeTar Hospital were not married to their child's mother. We didn't comment on that fact in the story,...
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