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Desert
Journal Online established May 24
Desert
Journal Online was born on the World Wide Web Thursday afternoon, May
24.
“We didn’t want to go public until today so we could use the last
week to do some fine tuning to our site, and publish news stories and
photos, including more than half of our pictures from the Cortez LP Gas
Co. explosions,” said Desert Journal editor Bill Johnson.
“The
great thing about being online is that we can publish our photos in full
color; an extravagance we cannot otherwise readily afford in the newsprint
world,” he said.
“Thanks
to web guru Victor Arvizu, we can now reach all corners of the earth and
share a bit of our community with the rest of the world,” Johnson said.
Arvizu is in the process of opening a computer repair and upgrade shop
next door to the Desert Journal at 111 N. Date St. in Truth or
Consequences, NM.
“Vic
did a wonderful job getting our web site published, training the staff to
maintain it with ease and is now establishing ties to search engines so
our online news service gets out there big,” Johnson said, adding, “It
will only be a matter of time before we can begin counting the number of
hits (circulation) we get.”
To
celebrate its cyber birth, Desert Journal Online is publishing for free
all of the classified advertisements that are paid in the Desert Journal
hard copy newspaper.
Desert
Journal Online now makes up a trio of productions of the Desert Journal,
which also include the weekly newspaper published every Friday in Truth or
Consequences and the Sierra County Realtors Homes & Land Guide
published every quarter year.
“Desert
Journal Online will ensure we get the growth we deserve for our award
winning general circulation newspaper,” Johnson said, adding that the
Desert Journal, established Sept. 15, 1995, has earned an impressive 20
awards the last four years from the New Mexico Press Association’s
Better Newspaper Contest.
“We
think we can do just as well with our online news service and Desert
Journal Online’s birth comes just in time for the NMPA’s first ever
Best Online Contest with today (Friday, June 1) being the deadline for
entries,” Johnson said. Contest winners will be announced at the
NMPA’s spring convention in 2002.
Internet
users and the public may visit the site on the internet: www.DesertJournalOnline.com.
For
the computer illiterate, access to the internet may be obtained at the
Truth or Consequences Public Library.
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