Melissa Coulter has begun training her newsroom colleagues at The Quad-City Times about blogging and social media tools to help reporters cover their beats better. There is a difference between training people on how to blog or how to get on social networks and training people how to use those tools...

The Sacramento Bee’s Jon Ortiz recently launched a new feature called “blog backs” that has quickly become a hit with users on his State Worker blog. It’s similar to hoisting comments, but it’s more in depth than that. Both features are ultimately about community buildi...

Colonel Tribune has become one of the more popular Twitter and Web personalities run by a traditional media organization. Tribune Interactive’s Daniel Honigman is the brainchild behind the Colonel. The Chicago Tribune describes the Colonel as, “the Chicago Tribune’s Web ambassado...

While most major U.S. news organizations are fleeing the expensive realm of international coverage, the Global Post is poised to enter the space as an online-only organization. Charles Sennott is a veteran of the Boston Globe’s foreign desk. He laments the fact that many major metros like the ...

Click here to stream the interview. Or download the MP3. Earlier this week, The Christian Science Monitor announced that they’ll be ceasing daily print production. Instead, they’ll be focusing much more heavily online and creating a new weekly magazine. We were interested in finding out...

Kent Fischer, and education blogger for The Dallas Morning News, wants to build a "blog on steroids." In just six months, he has become a successful beat blogger with thousands of page views each day and plenty of comments from......