Our correspondents are closer relations in the family. And we decided to brand our correspondents’ blogs as “Reporter’s Notebook” because we believe they are a chance to glimpse inside the daily scribblings of a journalist who is well trained and talented and edited and living in a far-off corner of the world where they want to share what they know.

So please be sure to check out Jason Overdorf in India and Patrick Winn in Thailand and Royal Ford in his world auto beat called “Wheels” and Seth Kugel in Brazil. Each of these correspondents has been great at contributing to their Notebooks and offering the kind of writing and GroundTruth that you won’t see anywhere else. You can always get to a “Reporter’s Notebook” by clicking on the correspondents name or picture which will take you to their bio page where their Notebook resides. You can also call up any correspondent’s bio through the navigation bar. Let them know what you think. Start the conversation.

We’re really picking up steam as we brought in some extraordinarily talented people this week, including,

Poynter picked up on our hires and you can read about it here.

New Global News Enterprises ME Barbara E. Martinez

The biggest news is that we’ve hired veteran journalist Barbara Martinez to be our managing editor. You can read what Politico had to say about her when they hired her to be their deputy managing editor. But we’ll save you the click: “Barbara E. Martinez recently returned to Washington after almost three years working in Europe’s capital, Brussels. While there, she guided bicycle tours in the French countryside, worked as a freelance editor and supported the competition practice of Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP.

“Martinez cut her journalistic teeth as a writer and editor for the Harvard Crimson before joining The Washington Post, where she worked as Lloyd Grove’s assistant on the “Reliable Source” column, covered the town of Leesburg for the Metro section and learned the business of the news business as a budget analyst.”