Rich Ireland writes on the art and craft of, well… craft beer, regional beer events and more.
E-mail: rireland@ suddenlink.net

This Charleston Gazette blog attempts to build on the newspaper’s longtime coverage of all things coal, with a focus on mountaintop removal, coal-mine safety and climate change. Staff writer Ken Ward Jr., a native of Piedmont in Mineral County, W.Va., has covered the Appalachian coal industry for nearly 20 years.

Expanded coverage of everything Marshall University sports from Gazette staff writer and columnist Doug Smock.

Karin Fuller’s popular Sunday Gazette-Mail column can be read here, along with her other idle thoughts and reader’s reactions to her writings.
E-mail: karinfuller@ cnpapers.com

Vic Burkhammer’s poetry blog and podcast casts a wide-ranging net over poets and poetry with a West Virginia connection.
E-mail: vicburkhammer@ wvgazette.com

Jeff Rider rides the waves of video game releases, keeping you up-to-date on the best and worst , along with inside-the-industry news.
E-mail: jrider@ wvgazette.com

Rudy Panucci writes of all things pop cultural, with a nod to TV, toys, animation, local shows and his own Radio Free Charleston music-animation Web show.
E-mail: rudypan@ suddenlink.net

“Sittin’ in the Catbird Seat” means you’ve got a really good seat at a baseball game. And with this blog, Gazette sports reporter Nick Scala hopes to give you, the reader, a really good seat to all the Major League Baseball news and information you want.

In the West Virginia Capitol’s dungeon-like offices for the press corps, and in offices and committee rooms all over the building, lawmakers, staff, visitors and reporters have for years listened to legislative floor sessions
and committee meetings via an electronic audio system affectionately called
the “squawk box.” The Gazette’s legislative blog takes its name from this relic in the pressroom.

Hear what’s happening in and around the Statehouse from Gazette reporters
Phil Kabler and Alison Knezevich , and join in the conversation about state
government issues large and small.

The Charleston Gazette has a long and proud tradition as a crusading newspaper. Our late publisher, W.E. “Ned” Chilton III coined the phrase “sustained outrage” and insisted the Gazette live up to that motto with long-term coverage of important issues facing West Virginia and the nation.

The mission of the Gazette Watchdog blog is simple: To carry on that tradition. We make a commitment to our readers to serve as a public watchdog over government, business, and other powerful entities in West Virginia society, to ensure that the public interest is protected.

We continue to provide many of these stories to readers of our print edition, but with this Web site, we’ll compile watchdog coverage into one easy-to-find location. And we’ll add to that coverage with a new blog and with information to help readers report consumer rip-offs, get involved in government decisions or pass on story tips to us.

West Virginia Book Festival: The Blog is an online journal about books and literary topics, especially those of interest to West Virginians and Appalachians. It is sponsored by The Charleston Gazette, one of the charter sponsors of the West Virginia Book Festival, held each October in Charleston.

Readers and writers from across West Virginia share news, reviews and conversation around the world of books and emerging literary forms.

The blog celebrates the Book Festival’s 10th event, scheduled for Oct. 16-17, 2010.

John McCoy is the outdoors writer for the Charleston Gazette. His “Woods & Waters” page appears weekly in the Sports section of the Sunday Gazette-Mail.

In 28 years of outdoors writing, John has had articles published in Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Bowhunter and other hunting and fishing publications.

An avid angler who ties his own trout flies and makes his own fishing rods, John also enjoys hunting and photography.

John Brown serves up wide-ranging advice on wines of all kinds and prices in his blog and weekly webcast, along as with tips on pairing wines and food.
E-mail: browncom@ aol.com

Steve Fesenmaier casts a wide-angle lens on film and video work with a West Virginia or Appalachian connection.
E-mail: fesenms@ wvlc.lib.wv.us