diff --git a/usatoday/usatoday.articles.search.xml b/usatoday/usatoday.articles.search.xml
index 8338e4df..1a0ad600 100644
--- a/usatoday/usatoday.articles.search.xml
+++ b/usatoday/usatoday.articles.search.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 		    USA TODAY Articles API
 		</description>
 		<documentationURL>http://developer.usatoday.com/docs/read/articles</documentationURL>
-		<sampleQuery>SELECT * FROM {table} WHERE api_key='YOUR_API_KEY' AND search='money'</sampleQuery>		
+		<sampleQuery>SELECT * FROM {table} WHERE api_key='YOUR_API_KEY' AND search='money'</sampleQuery>
+		<sampleQuery>SELECT * FROM {table} WHERE api_key='YOUR_API_KEY' AND reporter='Zillgitt'</sampleQuery>		
 	</meta>
   <bindings>
 
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@
 	        <key id="encoding" type="xs:string" paramType="query" const="true" default="json" description="Format in which to return the results. Either JSON or RSS. (I am fixing this to JSON)" />
 
 	        <!-- specifics for this table -->
-	        <key id="search" type="xs:string" paramType="query" required="true" description="The search string" />
+	        <key id="search" type="xs:string" paramType="query" required="false" description="The search string" />
 
 	        <!-- 
 	            ##########################