Covering a community beat means paying attention to the offbeat news sources such as community bulletin boards, church bulletins and nonprofit web pages. Community organizations and neighborhood bloggers may have an RSS feed as part of their Web site. Originally an acronym for “Rich Site Summary,” the term RSS is defined today as “Really Simple [...]

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If you’re having trouble building your web page, don’t fret. The primary use for your directory on the digitalnewsroom.net server is space for your pictures, audio files and videos files. There’s no requirement or expectation in class for a fancy web site, even for the group project. It’s important to know basic html, but, beyond [...]

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Overall an outstanding job on blog posts. Post at least two each week on the topic of your choice. Okay to post other comments & observations, but keep focus on your journalism topic. Go nuts when the semester ends.
Keep a couple things in mind:
• keep paragraphs short; extra return makes blog easier [...]

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