Citizen journalism is here
Told you yesterday I hoped to have some Public Square-related news to report today, and I do.
The News & Record's YourNews has gone live. You can now write and submit your own news stories for publication on our site.
This link takes you to where readers' stories will appear. The first, a reflection on his recently completed Army tour in Iraq by Greensboro native Adam Williams, already is up.
And, yes, comments are enabled.
You can submit your stories here.
You can get more information on submission requirements here.
This setup likely will have to change once we install our new Web-publishing system in a few weeks, but this feature was too important to delay, so we're going ahead and launching it now.
So please join us.
Comments (2)
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Fantastic! A RSS feed for the stories would be cool. I bet this will appear with your new Web-publishing system. :) Thank you for empowering your neighbors.
Posted on February 24, 2005 12:25 PM
[[I bet this will appear with your new Web-publishing system. :) ]]
You are correct. W/o going into grotesque detail, our current publishing system can automatically produce feeds on some pages but not all. We can do 'em by hand for some pages, the techs tell me, but with the new system coming soon, frankly, I think their time is better spent doing other things right now.
Once we get the new system up and running, we'll have feeds for days! :-)
Posted on February 24, 2005 1:25 PM