In Brent Garland’s latest column in the Cavalier Daily, he does a good job of critiquing the Cav Daily’s site (albeit in a brief fashion), pointing out what’s good and what needs to change. He’s spot-on about all of the things that are good, but he forgot something that needs to change: they should permit people to directly reply to articles, like you can reply to this very article. If only every local media outlet would critique their on-line presences. I suspect that WVIR‘s “Local News” section would receive less-than-glowing reviews. Don’t get me started on the Progress.
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Police announced this afternoon that their investigation into what was initially believed to be a fatal fire on Rugby Avenue is now a homicide investigation. #
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied George Huguely’s appeal. His second-degree murder conviction will stand, WRIC reports. #
In a carefully worded story, and not citing specific sources, WTVR reports that forensic evidence belonging to Jesse Matthew Jr., the main suspect in the disappearance of Hannah Graham, matches forensic evidence collected during the investigation of Morgan Harrington’s 2009 murder. #
In the wake of Hannah Graham’s disappearance, and the evidence that came from private security footage, city officials are revisiting the question of installing security cameras on the downtown mall. #
Both Charlottesville Registrar Sheri Iachetta and former Electoral Board member Stephanie Commander have turned themselves in to the police on
foursix and four felony counts of embezzlement, respectively. #Ten years ago, the National Institutes of Health budget doubled and schools like the University of Virginia built massive new research facilities. A decade later, those buildings remain largely underutilized. NPR visits UVA in this story on the effect of federal binge and spurge spending in the sciences. #
In 2012, Council approved a new student housing complex on West Main—now some council members are questioning whether what they were shown matches what was built. #
The Architectural Review Board has approved a bike-themed mural on West Market, below the McGuffey Art Center, although at least one member expressed concerns that it might look like the bicyclists were riding away from Charlottesville’s downtown. #
City Police Chief Tim Longo is meeting with city leaders to work on protocols regarding the use of military surplus police weapons in Charlottesville. #
A 100-year-old Colonnades resident received military honors for her service in the WWII Women’s Army Corps #
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I want to hear you get started on the progress. what kind of a newspaper doesn’t archive their articles? At least the cav daily does that. A bunch of students are vastly outwitting the “pros”.
They’re outwitting every Central Virginia media outlet, and probably a good number of the sources of news throughout the country. As I type this, WINA and C-Ville Weekly’s sites are both down. A couple of days ago, the Progress didn’t even bother to update their site with the day’s news. When Jeffrey Peyton bought the Observer, he took down what had been a great (if technically-backwards) website.
Bah.
Waldo
While I’m on the topic, Channel 29’s site is down, too. It looks like Cornerstone is to blame for all of these site outages.
-Waldo
That’s correct. They told callers this morning they might be down for 2 days or so. Doh.
Two days?! That’s incredible. I believe I’ll keep right on hosting sites at RLC and BNSI.
-Waldo
check out ‘The Central Virginian’ sometime… this is the newspaper whose front page headline once was that the local hardware store was “burgalized”. That’s right. In big bold letters. Burgalized. This is typical ‘central virginian’. While the Progress is bad in its own right, the CV is worse, oh god is it worse. ;)
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