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NorthEscambia.com Called A ‘Must-read’ By Pensacola News Journal Columnist
February 10, 2009
A column in Monday’s Pensacola News Journal calls NorthEscambia.com a “must-read”.
“For news north of Nine Mile Road, www.northescambia.com is must-reading, occasionally even beating emergency vehicles to accident scenes,” Pensacola News Journal columnist Mark O’Brien wrote in his Monday column.
While we at NorthEscambia.com appreciate being called a “must-read” by the daily paper, we thought it worthy to point out that we don’t cover Nine Mile Road and north. We cover the Molino area from Quintette Road north — the area which we define as being “North Escambia”.
That was one of the reasons we started NorthEscambia.com — the mainstream Pensacola media seemed to be missing out on basic geography. If you fold a map of this county in half, you find that places north of Nine Mile Road like Ten Mile Road, Cottage Hill and Cantonment, are actually in southern half of the county. North Escambia does not begin at Nine Mile Road.
O’Brien also used his column to attack most of the other local online news blogs that mentioned in his article, but not NorthEscambia.com. He attacked Ricksblog.biz, saying “Rick Outzen often prints unconfirmed items and writes about events he doesn’t attend, so his error rate is high.” He said the Pensacola Beach Blog “has a haughty tone”, and O’Brien said others were coming from the left or the right.
NorthEscambia.com is, by the way, the only complete general news online-only paper in Escambia County. We are the only ones that cover a complete range of news, from government to wrecks to fire to school events on a daily basis. All of the others in the county focus their coverage on a particular facet of events such as politics.
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9 Responses to “NorthEscambia.com Called A ‘Must-read’ By Pensacola News Journal Columnist”
Great Job, It gives me hope that maybe true journalism still exists in this country.
I moved from walnut hill, to pennsylvania bout 3 yrs. ago and i really enjoy this site. I check it almost everyday. THANKS!
Well YEAH! Kudos on the props, William. I check Northescambia.com for news at least several times a day…. PNJ only a couple times a week.
I’m glad Mr. O’brien acknowledged what a valuable resource NE.com is….
Good job!
I am in Cantonment, but I consider myself a “surrogate” North-ender
Among other things I appreciate that churches are welcomed with their events and announcements….. you can provide a venue for information without endorsing / censoring.
Great job!
Northescambia.com was also mentioned in the Independent News Feb.edition
We are so blessed to have this online newspaper.Keep up the good work William.See you at Rotary tomorrw.
I moved from Bratt to Birmingham in 1994—but thanks to NorthEscambia.com I am able to keep up with everything.
Keep up the good work!
This site has more wanted news, than the PNJ. I am so glad that the people in our church were informed of this website. I do not think everyone knows about it yet.
And all this with the use of a blackberry…just think what you could do if you were to “move into the now” using an iPhone…LOL!!!
I think NorthEscambia.com was long overdue. I love it, my husband being in the military and us being stationed anywhere from San Diego a few years ago, to Tampa now, and me being from Oak Grove, I sponge up any and all information that I can from the area. My family still lives out there so I am informed to an extent and I know too many people to just completely forget everyone.