Forget the beach this summer ...okay don't forget the beach... but if you want to learn how to be the next great TV news reporter, sign up for mediabistro.com's TV News Reporting class.

And best of all you can do it from the beach, because it's an online course. The instructor is Emmy Award winning reporter Mark Joyella. I used to work with the guy. He knows his stuff. After four weeks, you'll know exactly how to report on any story, from breaking news to features.

Hey news fans, you may have noticed the site has been slow (or even nonexistent) on your browser the last couple of days. We're troubleshooting some things on this end, but it appears it happens late in the afternoon when web traffic is at its highest. We hear you. We've got a wrench in one hand, and our remote in the other.

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For all you folks who read TVNewser on Internet Explorer, we just wanted to let you know we're up and running again. There was a slowdown last night and into today for some users. For what it's worth Firefox is a great alternative web browser. Also, if you don't already, you can read us with our newly updated full RSS offering. Click here to subscribe.

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Yes, we have comments. Under each blog post, there is now a "comments" link. Click this and it takes you to a platform called Disqus.

Register there and you can begin commenting on all our stories. (You can imagine our excitement). Give it a test drive. We'd love to hear what you think.

And now maybe the anonymous tip box will get a rest from all the thoughtful communiques we receive. Maybe?

If you're visiting us here at TVNewser, you probably know we're just one of the many great blog stops made by the mediabistro.com train. And if you, like the rest of us ambitious media journalists, are based in NYC, then we want you helping us drive our FishbowlNY blog.

FishbowlNY is looking for a New York Media Blogger (check out the job listing here). If you "know your Diller from your Dolan, agonize over how newspapers keep trying and failing to woo readers, and smirk every time a 'green' issue winds up on non-recyclable paper, then we want you delivering breaking industry news, putting media players in their place, and telling our highly engaged readership of media professionals everything they should know about the back-end deals, inside words, and on-the-ground gossip that make up the New York media universe."

Want to come join the team? Apply here.

Okay newsies, this is your blog, we just blog it.

We are kicking around the idea of a redesign and more, but more on the more later. For now, click here to log on to our Flickr page where you can check out a couple of proposed designs and comment on them, right there.

Step right up...the first ever mediabistro Circus is about to swing in to New York. The two-day conference (May 20-21) will help all you TV pros keep up with the latest trends that are changing our industry: mobile content, digital delivery and social media, to name a few.

Check out the Web page here for more information. Also, the team has put together the mediabistro circus blog.

Tell your boss this is the one Spring conference to attend...

You've emailed, and the mediabistro.com sales team has listened.

You may have noticed the NYFA/NBC News ad that auto-plays, sound and all, when you come to TVNewser. As one reader wrote to us, "...the sound is jarring and getting me in trouble at work."

Well, we don't want that. So over the weekend the ad will be amended to include a user-generated play button. This should be resolved early next week.

You'll be seeing an additional byline on the blog. We've hired Steve Krakauer as the associate editor of TVNewser. Steve joins mediabistro.com from spending a year in the NBC Page Program (He's very Kenneth from 30 Rock. Okay, not really.)

Before donning the blue blazer, Steve was as an intern and production assistant at Fox News Channel. The 2006 Syracuse grad already has a lot on his plate; he'll be attending a CNBC event tonight, before catching the CNN/YouTube GOP debate.

I'm not sure what's been the best part of my eight hours in Las Vegas: learning what "fair use" means for bloggers, understanding the true prowess of Technorati or seeing the Bellagio fountains dance to Catherine Zeta Jones singing "All That Jazz."

Thanks to Alissa Krinsky for keeping things going while I'm at Blog World Expo, where tomorrow HDNet's Mark Cuban will be a keynote speaker. Also, tomorrow Alissa will be interviewing Dan Rather as his HDNet show comes up on its one-year mark.