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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Well, I hope to make it to the Saturday Indy meeting and help out in the future.
Perhaps others will come to?
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If you want a more rapid changeover of features then join the mailing lists and help write the new features. Don't complain that someone else isn't writing the things you want to see - write them yourself.
Hi Ray. I think there are plenty of good newswire items that can be used as 'features'. If someone writes a piece specifically for the features, how does he or she know it will get published?
I suggest the editorial crew take the 'pics of the week' from the newswire or invite reps from the different campaigns to submit a feature. If they don't, they lose their spot and someone else has the feature.
The shit's hitting the fan in West Papua right now - East Timor style - and the Irish campaigns are proving vital in exposing this around the world. The Irish govt. is also complicit in agreeing to the whitewash UN vote of 1969 which legalised the Indonesian occupation. OF course a 'feature' could be written on this, but are there guarantees? what is the policy?
...features are not simply articles lifted from the newswire, but short pieces that introduce, summarise, and link to several posts from the newswire. Someone from the editorial collective could explain a little more perhaps.
The problem with calling for more features, or calling for indymedia to chase campaigns looking for features, is that it involves more work for a small group of people that are already overstretched.
If you want more features then you should -
1) Join the main and editorial mailing lists
2) Ask someone who has already written a feature to give you some pointers (length, use of HTML, that kind of thing)
3) Identify a subject you think is deserving of a feature article
4) Write it yourself
I don't think there are any guarantees that new features will be published, but everyone likes new features so a half decent one has got a good chance.
(And yeah, this is something else to bring up at a meeting - drawing up simple guidelines for feature writers and explaining the processes involved)
stop spamming the newswire with non-irish news.west papua is not relavent to irish indymedia. (joke)
And presumably, if sth doesn't make it as a feature, it could still , with a bit of tweaking, be a newswire article anyway...