Oh, and there's a video too. Nicely done!

The Portland Tribune is a twice-weekly free paper, printed and distributed on Tuesdays and Fridays. It is owned by Robert Pamplin, who also owns KPAM (AM 860) and the Community Newspapers Group. The news initially was only to be about Portland, but now it also covers the suburbs as well (which is good, as the editorial offices are now in the suburbs). Issues tend to be about 16-32 pages long. The news consists of a long front page story, and a number of shorter pieces.

Both in print and online, they have their content divided into news, opinion, features, sports, sustainable life and classifieds.

The front page online is updated between print editions. They do not appear to have RSS feeds.

While some issues have a decided conservative slant (alternative and public transportation, public spending, small business), and editorial feature work generally reads like PR pieces, they can pull a real surprise out of their hats every now and again.

They have all of their content online, and while they have recently switched content management systems (and broken all of their old URLs), they have a well-oiled search engine to find material. They don't appear to take material down, which I appreciate. (Now, if they had some sort of redirection rather than their ugly 404 message).

The REVIEW has been North Portland's community newspaper for over 100 years and serves 13 neighborhoods including Linnton and Sauvie Island. ... It is published every other Friday, which allows the paper to keep up with the latest news and get it to the readers quickly. portlandonline.com/northportland/index.cfm?a=heebg&c=dcddi

The St. Johns Sentinel is a monthly newspaper available on the first Wednesday of the month in print all over N. Portland.

The St. Johns Sentinel (formerly the In & About News) has been operating as a monthly newspaper since March of 2001. The Sentinel covers St. Johns, Sauvie Island, Multnomah Channel, Linnton, and the Greater North Portland area (areas of the City of Portland West of Williams Avenue).

The current issue and past year's old issues are available as PDFs.

The Oregonian is the daily newspaper of Portland. Locals frequently refer to it as the Snoregonian or Boregonian. It is online at oregonlive.com. On one hand, that's great, but on another, it's really difficult to find things on the oregonlive web site. The company that puts it together, Advance Internet, does a number of other cookie-cutter regional newspaper web sites that look exactly like this.

Admittedly, I first used the print version, and I prefer it to the online version. Things, to my mind, are in a regular, findable place in the print version.

You can purchase the print version from machines and in stores: 50 cents, daily, and $1.50 on Sundays.

Here's what you can expect to find on Oregonlive.com:

OregonLive.com archives articles for 14 days. There are a few exceptions: Obituaries are held for 6 months, while sports articles, FOODday recipes, and movie reviews are kept up for one year. Our search engine allows you to search all of the archived stories on our site. If you saw a story published in our affiliated newspaper, The Oregonian, and want to find it online, keep in mind that it may not be here. We publish the top news, sports and business stories from The Oregonian every day. We do not publish everything that appears in print. For example, we do not publish the crossword, horoscopes, comics, or most syndicated content.

The Oregonian has a Breaking News RSS feed at rss.oregonlive.com/olive_oregonian_news/index.rss. However, it appears the only other RSS feeds (oregonlive.com/rss) that they have are to Oregonian-branded blogs.

While some news papers post content in a structure that echoes the print version, oregonlive.com doesn't entirely do that. So when I go looking for an article that I know is in the Metro section, I end up flailing along in News and Local looking for the article. When you consider that frequently the same article might have two different titles (one in print, one online), with the online one being no more obvious than the print one, well, it's frustrating, argh!!!

today's headlines: oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/
up-to-the-minute AP reports: oregonlive.com/newsflash/

A&E: oregonlive.com/AandE/
business: oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/
careers: oregonlive.com/jobs/
classifieds: oregonlive.com/classifieds/
columnists: oregonlive.com/columns/oregonian/
entertainment: oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/
FoodDay: oregonlive.com/foodday/
Homes and Gardens of the Northwest: oregonlive.com/hg/
inPortland: oregonlive.com/portland/
living: oregonlive.com/living/oregonian/
local: oregonlive.com/local/
metro: oregonlive.com/metro/oregonian/
O!: oregonlive.com/O/
obituaries: oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregonian/
opinion: oregonlive.com/opinion/
police scanner (!): oregonlive.com/policescanner/
science: oregonlive.com/science/oregonian/
sports: oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/
traffic: oregonlive.com/roadreport/
weather: oregonlive.com/weather/

See the current week's front pages from The Oregonian in PDF: oregonlive.com/oregonian/pageone/

What if you want to find an article in the Oregonian that ran more than, say, three weeks ago? If you have a Multnomah County Library card, no big deal!

1. Go to multcolib.org/ref/articles.html#N (that's the Multnomah County Library site, then Research, then Articles, then Newspapers).
2. Select the Oregonian (NewsBank) 1988-present which is available online.
3. Get out your library card, and click the library card like image.
4. Fill out the search form.
5. Your library card number is the whole library card number.
6. The pin is the last 4 digits of your phone number, unless you've changed it.
7. If anyone has questions about how to access library databases, including what their PIN is, they can call the Reference Line, 503-988-5234, during Central Library's open hours.