From Andy Rieger
Editor, The Norman Transcript:

Newstrain, a journalism training venture sponsored by the Associated Press Managing Editors and the Mid-America Press Institute, will be held Sept. 25-26 in Norman at OU’s Gaylord College of Journalism.
The first track of the two-track seminar features “hands-on” training on making better use of web videos and social media, a luncheon talk with award-winning television reporter Bob Dotson.

By Chris Muldrow
CNHI

Twitter.com, the Web service that allows people to share their lives and news in 140-character bursts, is exploding in popularity.
Measuring company Nielsen Online says Twitter grew more than 1,382 percent year over year in February, and celebrity mentions and endorsements of the service continue to goose its growth.
Twitter's short-burst format is ideal for feeding wired readers breaking news quickly, and it's relatively easy to point your tweets back at your newspaper Web site to further drive traffic.

Loné Beasley

By Lone' Beasley
Publisher, Ada, Okla., Evening News

One of Ada Evening News’ 2009 strategic plans is to refine our usage of video on the web. Copying others who have pioneered the concept, we decided to produce a weekly “News in Review” feature in which we, as the name implies, present the most striking news stories of the previous week in a television broadcast format.

Jodee Taylor

By Jodee Taylor
CNHI News Service

We like to sit around the newsroom and talk about the future of our business.

No, not really.

We're too busy putting out a newspaper. We don't have time for philosophical discussions.

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.