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Where did all the great features about West Virginia go? | may22.2020
WELCOME to to the e-mail newsletter of WestVirginiaVille. We’re just getting started. If you were forwarded this email or landed here from Mars, you can subscribe to this free newsletter of WestVirginiaVille.com at this address: WestVirginiaVille.substack.com | May 22.2020
WHAT’S THIS NEWSLETTER and SITE ALL ABOUT?
WESTVIRGINIAVILLE is aselective & opinionated ‘many/media’ guide to some of the best writing, photography, video, and news on the life and times of West Virginia. We create our own multimedia features and also curate from other sources and take suggestions, too. (We’re highly suggestible.) As the news business contracts and changes, feature and news-feature stories are often the first to go. This site is an attempt to fill that gap. TO RECEIVE UPDATES, SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE at westvirginiaville.substack.com
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY ‘MANY/MEDIA’? THAT SOUNDS DUMB.
WE’RE NOT AFRAID TO BE DUMB. I’ve been looking for a substitute for the tried-and-true (and tired) phrase ‘multi-media’. For five minutes, I thought of nodding to my Italian family roots and going with ‘molti-media.’ But then we’d have to explain it and that would be annoying. We promise we won’t use it often. But ‘many/media,’ signifies two things. WestVirginiaVille showcases everything from traditional text and photographs, to videos, podcast, Youtube series and whatever the heck the human species dreams up if it doesn’t successfully off itself from climate change like a self-cooking frog in a pan. We also draw from many media sources—notebooks to Canon Rebels, blogs to web series, a 1944 Underwood typewriter to Instagram.
Kids! This is a typewriter! It is not connected to the Internet.
WHO’S BEHIND THIS? ARE YOU PART OF THE ‘DEEP STATE’?
WE DO INTEND TO GO DEEP ON SOME SUBJECTS. And there’s a serious lack of deep-dish pizza in the Mountain State. But this e-mail newsletter (and a companion website we’ll be rolling out) is a project of: Douglas John Imbrogno, former feature editor, writer and multimedia producer with the Charleston Gazette and Gazette-Mail, and videographer Bobby Lee Messer of MesserMedia in Huntington WV.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
ONE WORD: Free. We hope later on to be rolling out subscription content beyond what we offer for free. (Shout-out to the substack.com platform, which we highly recommend if you’re looking to launch a low-cost, no-cost multimedia newsletter).
CAN I CONTRIBUTE?
YES, BUT IT HAS TO BE GOOD. Got exceptional stories, images, video or work somehow connected with the state that deserves a wider audience? E-mail me at douglasjohnmartin AT icloud.com and we’ll consider it. Be well, stay safe. Wear a mask in public like a superheroine/superhero. | Douglas John Imbrogno