Steve Stewart, editor of The Meridian Star since last summer, is leaving the 15,000-circulation daily to become publisher of The Tidewater News in Franklin, Va. Stewart, formerly publisher of The Clarksdale Press-Register for Emmerich Newspapers, has long been involved with MPA and is a former member of The Board of Directors.
The Tidewater News was recently purchased by a consortium with ties to Boone Newspapers, Inc.
Julie Finley has been promoted to managing editor of The Natchez Democrat. She has served as news editor since 2005…Crystal Dupre, publisher of the Laurel Leader-Call since 2002, has been appointed publisher of The Meridian Star. She succeeds Paul Barrett, another former LLC publisher who had served as the Star’s top exec since 1997…Woodrow Wilkins Jr. has been named managing editor of the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville. He is promoted from senior reporter…Lynn LaFoe returns to the DDT as Accent section editor. LaFoe, who previously served as Lifestyles/Accent editor, left the newspaper nearly three years ago.
Colorado Springs’s High Plains Messenger is a new community newspaper attempting to publish entirely online.
“Orbservations,” a ghost-hunting group, paid an April visit to The Merdian Star and conducted a study of the paranormal while inside the newspaper’s press room. Group members report capturing a strange orb of energy on camera. No word on if it was the infamous Specter of High Newsprint Prices or some less malevolent spirit.
On May 3, 2006, the U.S. Postal Service filed an omnibus rate case with the Postal Rate Commission. Although the average increase is about 8.5 percent, the rate increases vary among subclasses and within subclasses. Significantly, the Postal Service proposes to greatly increase the recognition in the rate design of cost differences due to shape.
Accordingly, parcels and flats will tend to see larger increases than letters. That poses the threat of big increases for periodicals and TMC products.
More on the rate increases. This article also includes a handy, downloadable postal rates chart.
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