Gannett Co. is undertaking a stock buyback program in an effort to repurchase $1 billion (yes, billion) in common stock. Gannett execs say the move is to increase shareholder value after a particularly strong quarterly report.
We ran across this Website recently for Horizon Publications, parent of daily newspapers in Starkville and West Point.
Arkansas’ new ban on indoor smoking is putting the pressure on Mississippi to follow suit. Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal editor Lloyd Gray says the contrast is stark, especially since our governor, a former tobbaco lobbyist, vetoed a measure earlier this year to hike Mississippi’s cigarette tax.
The Sun Herald and the New Orleans Times-Picayune are both set to receive the President’s Award for Public Service from The Associated Press Managing Editor’s association for their distinguished efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal news editor Patsy Brumfield watched Tom Brokaw’s documentary program on Jackson Sunday night and pontificates on its portrait of the capital city: “The general conclusion of Brokaw’s report is that while most whites and well-educated blacks are doing pretty well across America, young and poorly educated blacks are not - that decades after passage of the Civil Rights Act, we find ourselves back in serious trouble racially.”
A newspaper’s credibility is the measure of trust that its customers place in what they read every day. So says a blog on The Santa Barbara Independent’s website. The piece drew our eyes because of a passing reference to Jackson. But it is a lengthy commentary by journalist Jerry Roberts on the Journalism Code of Ethics that makes is a worthy read.
Nearly two dozen residents of Laurel, Maryland traveled to Laurel, MS recently to stage a camp with the goal of helping children overcome lingering trauma after Hurricane Katrina. The folks at the Laurel (MS) Leader-Call were kind of enough to send Bryan Livingston’s report back home to the Laurel (MD) Leader.
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Hewitt Clarke, author of “The East End Tea Room,” a tome on the Civil Rights Era, will sign copies of the book Saturday from 1-3 p.m. at Dancing Rabbit Press Gallery in Neshoba County. The book includes interviews with Stanley Dearman, former Neshoba Democrat editor and publisher and a member of the MPA Hall of Fame.
Delta Democrat Times editor Ross Reily writes in a recent column: “…As we editorialized on Sunday, it would be counterproductive for Cleveland to enter the federal building sweepstakes, a mission that, if achieved, would take away a vital cog in Greenville.”
He references a recent DDT editorial chastizing talk about moving the courthouse to Cleveland.
“When I go visit the newsstand, my mind is racing: ‘What new idea has been executed today?’ ” says Samir Husni, aka “Mr. Magazine,” a journalism professor at the University of Mississippi who publishes a yearly guide to magazines.
The good professor figures in this Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch report on how new successes in the magazine medium are highly-specialized, while wide-interest titles are losing readership.
And here is Dr. Husni in The New York Sun speaking on the plethora of titles geared toward women.
Well, Shazam! Here is the ubiquitous Dr. Husni talking about the attraction of new titles and the Internet to Baby Boomers in a Wall Street Journal article.
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