A high multiplatform dive: a Washington Post reporter recounts his adventures covering the Enron trial for the Web, radio, TV--and, yes, the newspaper.

American Journalism Review,  August, 2006  by Ahrens, Frank

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A snapshot of newspapering, 21st-century style:

It's May 25, and the verdicts are being read in the government's fraud case against former Enron Corp. executives Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling.

They're in a courtroom in Houston, and I'm in Washington, sitting in front of a computer on the Continuous News Desk in the newsroom of the Washington Post. The CND is the Post's intermediary between the newspaper and our Web site, as well as the television networks that feature our reporters and Washington Post Radio, a venture the paper started in March. To my left is a desktop ...

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