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The Sacramento Press will be the most comprehensive, local news source and information center for the Sacramento Metropolitan Area.
We are a strictly online newspaper. Our writers are primarily volunteer Community Contributors.
We combined the best tools on the web and built an outstanding platform from scratch. This platform enables people to tell stories about their neighborhoods and have thoughtful conversations about these stories. Then our editors place the best content on the front page and section pages to highlight great work.
The casual experience is like a traditional newspaper. We take pride in putting the content front and center. We also take pride in making our tools for rating content, leaving comments, and flagging inappropriate content easy to find and easy to use. For those who are web savvy, we offer all the tools for a power user to aggregate (rss), categorize (tags), and dig deeper with our "storyline" button.
We are a for profit business, but we consider ourselves a public trust. The original concept of the corporation was a balance between allowing people to join together for a common goal with some profit potential and demanding that the corporation provide a public service to the nation. In our case, we will provide valuable services to the neighborhoods of Sacramento while showing that this kind of community journalism can be profitable.
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Congrats on the launch. The site looks fantastic. Huge props.
brent bamberger
Winslow
Can you give us a web address for this map?
also, non-compulsive registration to scrivere ;)
As for registration, perhaps I do not understand your point fully, but it is useful for us to be able to contact those who contribute to conversations and write for us. It helps make our community better.
Keep on persevering, and good luck.
I'll be reading your site and referring others often.
After signing up click the "write" button just above the masthead.
When you write a story about volunteering opportunities, just tag the story "volunteer opportunities."
To learn more about tags and writing for our community click the "help" button in the green section list just below the masthead.
(Boo, non-rendering tags)
feed://www.sacramentopress.com/section/frontpage/feed
There is also a feed for all new comments:
feed://www.sacramentopress.com/section/frontpage/comments/feed
You can subscribe to any storyline right under the article title and receive updates like a blog. You can subscribe to any conversation on the site. You can even subscribe to new stories in any tag or section.
Also before content is laid out on the front page it is read and some fact checking is done. If such a hoax were to make it through our system we would make a correction and do so on the front page, not in the dark corner of our site somewhere. Still these is the potential for something like that to happen. Great comment, and also great icon, I love Magritte!