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Show -- 2- DIXIESUNLINK.COM ie CHECK OUT OUR MOBILE PAGE' JP ! DIXlE5UNtINK.COMMOBllE Editor-in-Chi- The contract between Southern Utah Now News Dixie State Colbroadcast news telecast and KCSG Television ended during the summer, but three outlets have kept the program alive. SUN News final bioad-cawith KCSG, the local television station in St. Geoige, was on July 29, so those involved in the program established a new website and mobile application to continue delivering news specific to southern Utah. SUN News has also established a new partnership with the Community Education Channel in order to continue working with leges us st professional equipment. Stace Hall, broadcast faculty adviser, communication instructor and SUN News anchor, said he hopes the tools mentioned above will help SUN News continue to carry the news in southern Utah in an effective way. Well continue to cover hard news and feature stories in this area, Hall said. Were excited about our new-loo- k website. We feel like its a fresh multimedia journalism approach. SUN News reporter Car-so- n Stilson, a sophomore communication major from St. George, said the recent split between SUN News and KCSG has given SUN News a chance to challenge itself in the world of new media with the new website and mobile application. He said those in the program are hoping to take the negative of KCSG leaving and turn it into a positive. The SUN News website underwent renovation during the summer. The new website cost the Center for Media Innovation, which is the organization that SUN News and Dixie Sun belong to, around $ 10,000 to update. The funds were obtained through third-part- y donors. SUN News is taking the opportunity of this to push forward and innovate the way that people in southern f 1 phone. The mobile application is currently only available on iOS devices such as iPhone or iPad. Stilson said the application is updated as frequently as the website. As soon as something is available on the website, users can access that same content on the application. Our goal is to be as fast as possible and correct as possible, he said. Lets say you hear an ambulance going down the street, and youre wondering whats going on. You will get a notification from this app that lets you know whats happening. SUN News does not currently have a nightly newscast, but both Hall and Stilson said those in the program are working toward having one again in the future. Were building to that TWI no longer broadcasting on KCSG but is still covering news oat southernutahnow.com. You no longer have to wait for the 6:30 news SUN News is nline point, Hall said. As of right now I cant give you a timeline. Were in a restructure mode at the moment. Part of that restructure for SUN News involves a partnership with CEC, which is officially a part of the communication department as of this year. CEC senior producer Coiy Clyde said members of SUN News will have what they need in order to effectively operate. "We have the resources Ho BY HANNAH ALLAM MCT etoyj f 0 ditttfe' yCa Wl" be exceptions. that SUN News does not have to properly perform their news delivery to the public," Clyde said. "We have the ability to have the proper equipment to enable them to make sure that the news can be shot and recorded." Clyde confirmed that SUN News is working toward having a nightly newscast although he also said it is uncertain when reestablishing that nightly newscast will come about. Hall said the relationship between SUN News and CEC will evolve as time nod a 01 ; goes on. Weve entered into a working relationship with CEC, Hall said. That brings access to their .im at equip ment. They have some aw- tor esome equipment, and jia the)' have a knowledgeable staff Were excited with to work ,il them more closely than we have in the past. We feel like can thats going to benefit "of :s the students." Libyan rebels seek yjj to improve image f swdatteeecardtodayatDUgree, h8t d yo ,'je Utah receive news, Stilson said. Instead of having to wait for a 6:30 show, theyre going to be able to get news instantly through the Internet and through their cm jjob k tuo o j,A 1 SUN News, KCSG split; CEC lends support with equipment BY RICHARD BRIGGS )y arreW. aWw kil Consolidating the swift and dramatic capture of Tripoli is only the first of myriad obstacles the rebel leadership must overcome to build a democratic Libya from the rubble of Moammar Gadhafi's rule, analysts said Monday. In a region rife with cautionary tales of failed democracy experiments, Libya's National Transitional Council seeks to build the exception an Arab state with an inclusive government, a com- mitment to human rights, and legitimacy at home and abroad. The council members' success, experts said, hinges on whether they can prevent a campaign of g and persuade Libyans to unite around their shared experience of life under one of the world's most capricious dictators. How the rebels treat members of the former regime such as deciding whether to prosecute them in Libya or through referral to the International Criminal Court will be an early test of their principles. "Truth and reconciliation is going to be necessary, but it's also going to have to be forgiving and generous," said Lisa Anderson, president of the American University in Cairo and a renowned expert on Libya. "There's no other way. Most of the people who stayed in Libya managed lives for their families by doing things that in the light of day they'd just as soon not talk about." score-settlin- Securing the capital and its environs is at the top ol the transitional council's to-d- o list, with a focus on 1 preventing revenge killings by jubilant foot soldiers in their newly won territory. By late Monday, the council estimated that 95 percent of Tripoli was under rebel control, with clashes still under way in dis- the last regime-hel- d tricts. aHuman Rights Watch lready has documented episodes of rebels engaging in vengeful violence, ovethough the council's human to rall commitment rights is "wildly impre- ssive," said HRW special adviser Fred Abrahams. He said the potential fora i I remains revenge spree regime Gadhafi's as high crumbles and loyalists melt back into the popula tion. "People are furious, legitimate angry, and have gripes and grievances dictatorship, against the said Abrahams, who was month in Libya earlier this hea Mustafa Abdul Jahl of the transitional threatened to venge acts council- resign ifre . K I ! I b l proliferated-Abdu- trusts Jalil said he the rebel the leaders of concerned forces but is to contro they'll be unable . their troops. some0 "The actions of me their followers worry juAbdul Jalil, a former - stice minister, b. admitted ? U W a Monde) news conference in the rebels' eastern i k cap he Wf font c20 see LIBYAN3 |