How do you know if community contributors on our site are using their real names? How do you distinguish staff reporters from community contributors? How do you know who has been featured on our front page? This weekend, The Sacramento Press launched badges to address all those concerns and more. Badges come in two varieties: merit and identity. Identity badges identify our users, what they do and their role on our site. The staff of The Sacramento Press assigns all identity badges manually. Assigning badges will start slowly and take time. We have eight identity badges: Editorial Staff, Sacpress Staff, Editorial Interns, County Government, City Government, Law Enforcement, Fire Departme

With the start of a new year we, at The Sacramento Press, have decided to update the sections that are present on our navigation bar. As we expand out of our initial test area and cover more of Sacramento, we wanted to update our primary sections accordingly. Despite the change in the navigation bar our focus remains the same, to be the best source of news and information in the Sacramento area. Additionally we have found that many contributions to our site are about various cultural topics, such as movies, art and entertainment and so we wanted to include that as well as several other new sections. While the new sections are more traditional in nature nothing about the way we deliver a