Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau Chief
Blogs "have to be interesting," insists the Houston Chronicle's Richard Dunham. "It can't be a reporter's notebook. It can't be stories that aren't important enough for the newspaper. You must have some style; boring means nobody reads it."
The Chronicle's five-person bureau in Washington created a companion blog to the paper's other Washington coverage called Texas On The Potomac, aimed at a Houston crowd that can't get enough of Texas politics "and has nowhere else they can go," Dunham said. The Chronicle's Web site is supposed to be a place where "people look for news that you have that nobody has, for your take on breaking news, and for the immediacy," Dunham explained.
As it would for any Texas-based news organization, President Bush's planned retirement to Dallas next year is sparking conversations about how resources should be applied to coverage of the next administration, whether the president is Arizona Sen. John McCain or Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
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