In the coming months, The N&O will step up the pace and ambition of its news reporting.

We'll be quicker and more prolific with breaking news at newsobserver.com, and we'll use the printed paper's advantages for context and depth.

We'll push harder on news that we reveal -- exclusive reports, investigative work and memorable storytelling -- in these pages and through multimedia storytelling.

We also will connect our reporting more ambitiously to the wealth of knowledge in our communities. Through our Web sites, we'll expand the information we offer our readers. Some of that material will be published in the print edition, too.

In those ways The N&O can take the next steps to be a two-way communicator -- a hub for news and information.

These ideas form the heart of a newsroom reorganization we announced last week.

We're no longer a newspaper with a Web site. We're a newsroom producing print and online publications.

We want to do great work in the finest traditions of "The Nuisance and Disturber" -- work that reveals, surprises and entertains you, that provokes and informs discussion and that never, ever bores you.

Our new newsroom redefines some jobs, invents others and reshuffles some teams to spark new kinds of storytelling.

For instance, a new team of reporter/editors will produce news for newsobserver.com throughout the day. Our photo and graphics departments will be combined into a multimedia team.

Some of our most experienced journalists will move into new roles to carry out our ambitions for news and storytelling. Many writers will report with audio as well as words, and photographers and some reporters will shoot video to help tell stories.

Other roles are entirely new.

For instance, Grey Blackwell moves from graphics editor to a role producing a regular stream of animated cartoons like the wildly popular "Coach Kommercial" (about Duke's Mike Krzyzewski) and "Hard Out Here for a Coach" (NCSU's former football coach Chuck Amato.) He'll also do illustrations for the print edition.

We're also realigning our staff to recognize Wake County's explosion in population, moving a few positions from management to reporting and content production, and putting more emphasis on quality at every level.

Most of these moves came from our staff's suggestions. Our journalists, individually and collectively, want their work to reach as many people as possible and to help build connection and citizenship in communities we serve.

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As part of building that connection, we've launched share.triangle.com, a free site where individuals and groups can post photos, host blogs, talk to each other in online forums and share news.

Share.triangle.com will take shape in the weeks and months to come as users help us build it. We're interested in hearing what people want and need from this community bulletin board for the Triangle.

Please take a look and share your thoughts with me or via comments on share.triangle.com.

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