Sectioning at Muncie Free Press

In an effort to be transparent about the inner workings of Muncie Free Press, I bring this to the community - my dilemna for the night if you will. As publisher, I'm always on the lookout for new people to contribute to the site. Unfortunately, I can't pay for freelance writers (yet!). So, sometimes, like recently, if I find writing out there that should have a bigger voice, should reach more people, I'll contact the people in question and ask to reprint it on Muncie Free Press.

Now, here's where my mind was wandering yesterday and today. If I'm promoting these pieces (even as Opinion) to the 'main section' of the site, am I alienating the great writers we have in the blogs section?

I don't mean to, but I realized it may have seemed that way. If so, I want to make sure you know you're always free to submit a 'particularly good piece' as a 'story' (mark as opinion if appropriate) rather than a 'blog'. It will go into a queue where I'll look at it and push it to the homepage of MFP. Either that or work with the author to polish it up some.

I think Barbara and Carol, who formed the POT Party of Muncie, want to be heard here, but they're already posting to a blog elsewhere, and it would seem bad for me to ask them to post there and here. (Although some of you already do that, I think, which is fine. Getting the word out is what we're about.)

So, there it is. What are your thoughts? Maybe it's just me and you don't see a difference in where it's published on the site as long as it gets out there and is read?

Do we need criteria for items to make it to the 'main section' of the site as a 'story'? I think we probably do. What do you guys think?

-kpaul

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