I applied online. I interviewed at Boston Herald (Boston, MA) in Mar 2011
Interview
Lunch with editor. Chance to show off work and tout eagerness to get scoops, break stories. Three day tryout, writing stories like crazy with editors pushing you. Not easy, always a story or two of someone who shows up for the tryout, is bombarded with assignments and disappears at lunch. If you survive, you have a shot at at getting the job, though that is not always a guarantee.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There really wasn't a formal interview process. It was rather a multi-day, on the spot, job test.