By Andy Rieger
The Transcript

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.

Veteran journalist John Yemma faces a daunting task in his new role as editor of the Christian Science Monitor: Remake the 100-year-old newspaper into a weekly and push more copy to its Web site.
The 52,000 circulation daily is distributed throughout the world and its writers are well respected. They’ll still pen analytical pieces but will now have to redirect their focus to more of a wire-service approach since they’ll be updating stories and filing more often.

By Kelly Kazek
The News Courier

ATHENS, Ala.

On Tuesday, Nov. 4, a group of News Courier reporters, the publisher and some department managers sat around a conference table eating pizza, which is not unusual, and looking over potential front pages for Wednesday, which is unusual.

By Andy Rieger
The Norman Transcript

The trip to the Cotton Bowl for the football game between the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas is a rite of passage for Sooner and Longhorn fans.
Dallas is transformed into a battleground pitting the crimson and cream of Oklahoma versus the burnt orange of Texas. Sooners and Longhorns can’t get enough information on the game.
Transcript university reporter Julianna Parker helped satisfy some of that news appetite. Besides stories on the spirit squads, the band, traditions and rallies, she blogged on the newspaper’s Web site.

By David Joyner
CNHI News Service

Their buildings rocked and flooded by Hurricane Ike, two newspapers on the Texas coast have banded together to cover the storm’s damage and publish a joint edition.

The Port Arthur News and The Orange Leader published a combined edition Monday and Tuesday, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, said News publisher Roger Underwood. Skeleton crews are circulating the newspapers free to the few people left in those cities, which remain under mandatory evacuation orders.

By Cary Brunswick
The Daily Star
Oneonta, N.Y.

It occasionally happens that people will call or e-mail The Star with an odd request: They want us to purge the historical record (can you imagine it?) of facts that may not reflect well on them.

The most common scenario is that a former Oneonta college student, who is now in the dog-eat-dog world of job hunting and ladder climbing, out of curiosity decides to Google his or her name.