Invasion of the blogs! Many newspapers use them, have their own professional bloggers or use blogging platforms for other purposes. The forerunners of these platforms seem to be Movable Type (used by the Sacramento Bee, for one) and WordPress (open source). If you're not yet using blogs, take a look at WordPress, which is a fairly robust CMS in it's own right, though it requires extensive modifications to manage anything but blogs. Interested in setting one up? Check out this video guide by Multimedia Shooter.