I\u2019ve said this before, but the analogy seems appropriate to blare again.<\/p>\n
Newspapers are a lot like chickens.<\/p>\n
Sure, at one point we were a dinosaur, but we always manage to evolve into something eminently more useful. No extinction here, folks.<\/p>\n
So while some of the big daily journalism dinosaurs are stumbling around, our quicker, smaller Reporter paper continues to evolve and grow, both in print and online.<\/p>\n
One of our most exciting new features is an online community calendar. You\u2019ll find it on our home page at www.kentreporter.com.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s great is that it\u2019s nearly all reader-driven. We are encouraging anyone with a community event to come and enter their information onto our calendar – a process that takes just a few minutes to do. Once you\u2019re signed up to submit an item, you can type in your information – and in just a couple of hours, your event is posted for any reader to see, by date or event.<\/p>\n
This is far quicker than our print edition, where we can\u2019t always guarantee that an item will run, due to space issues. But space is no problem online (although you will be kept to a 50-word minimum for your event\u2019s description.) So be sure to check this new feature out!<\/p>\n
But if you don\u2019t want to go the online route, we\u2019ll continue to take items that you submit to us. You can send them to calendar@kentreporter.com, or mail them: Kent Reporter, 19426 68th Ave. S., Kent 98032.<\/p>\n
The idea is to make the Kent Reporter more useful to you, whether you\u2019re locked into computer technology, or happier sticking a stamp on an envelope.<\/p>\n
The other thing I\u2019d like to talk about is how we can get more of what our readers are saying into our paper. Most people think of us as the publication that shows up on their driveway twice a week. But we\u2019re daily online news outlet, too, complete with video capacity as well as photos and the written word.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s where you come in.<\/p>\n
We want to hear from you. Are you a local blogger? Drop me a line and let me know: we are looking for bloggers to whom we can link.<\/p>\n
Have a video of a public event, funny happening or news item you\u2019d like to share? We can work with you to get it featured onto our Web site.<\/p>\n
Feeling the urge to vent your feelings on a topic? (I think we\u2019ve gotten a serious earful with the Lingerie League.) Then e-mail us a letter.<\/p>\n
Another item I\u2019d like to introduce is the comment box that runs below each of our online news stories – you can express yourself on the same page as the reporter who wrote the story. And other readers can respond to you. The reporter, also.<\/p>\n
This brings me to what a newspaper is supposed to be: a forum for its readers. It\u2019s not just about our ideas and the news we create: it\u2019s about what is happening from your perspective, too. Gone are the days when the newspaper was thought to \u201cinject\u201d people with ideas and opinions. It\u2019s an interactive world out there, thanks to the wonderful technology that is increasingly at our fingertips.<\/p>\n
We want Kent to be reflected back to you, in the light you give it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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