Fledgling reporters from Albany High School join Albany Today

Dear readers,

I am excited to announce to you that a group of fledgling reporters from Albany High School are joining me to write news stories for Albany Today.

Some of them will write about the big games of their sports teams, some will write about the issues of special concern to high schoolers, some will share with us their views on national politics, etc.

Happy New Year, readers of Albany Today!

Dear Readers of Albany Today:

Happy New Year! I want to share with you some stories behind the news stories on Albany Today, and my plans and wishes for this community news website as the year of 2008 comes.

I started Albany Today in mid September as a project for my Reporting and Writing class. All students in the class were assigned to set up a news website for a Bay Area city, and post news stories on it in the course of the semester.

Now all my classmates have stopped posting on their websites as the semester ended, but I am still reporting and writing on Albany Today.

I keep writing because I enjoy doing it and because you are encouraging me.

Many of you have told me that you like Albany Today in person or by email. The website got nearly ten thousand page views in the past three months. (The exact number is 9,672 views up until now.) Several hundred Albany residents are reading it regularly.