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The weekly Winona Times has unveiled its new Website.

Not in print according to Time columnist Michael Kinsley. Here we go again…

“It seems hopeless. How can the newspaper industry survive the Internet? On the one hand, newspapers are expected to supply their content free on the Web. On the other hand, their most profitable advertising–classifieds–is being lost to sites like Craigslist. And display advertising is close behind. Meanwhile, there is the blog terror: people are getting their understanding of the world from random lunatics riffing in their underwear, rather than professional journalists with standards and passports.”

Writes Vicksburg Post managing editor Charlie Mitchell in his weekly column: Again in 2007, the Mississippi Press Association and the Mississippi Coalition for Freedom of Information will try to convince the Mississippi Legislature that law enforcement agencies need to have standard “incident reports” available to the public.

Star-Herald editor and publisher Mark Thornton on creepy coaches: Last week, my friend and colleague Robbie Robertson got put in the most unenviable position a small-town journalist can be put in. He had to write a Scarlett Letter-like story about someone he had been friends with — a coach who was charged with statutory rape of a 16-year-old student in Newton County. That charge came about as a result of the investigation into a similar charge in Marion County.

Clarion-Ledger editorial director David Hampton issues an invite: …We want to broaden the conversation by expanding the blogs. I am in the process of recruiting potential bloggers. So, want to join the conversation?

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Wednesday criticized ongoing press coverage of this city and efforts to rebuild since Hurricane Katrina, saying the media, local and national, was ignoring many of the positive events.

Meanwhile, Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway offered his own media critique, telling the dozens of editors gathered that the national media had missed the story in his city. “New Orleans’ story was sexier than Mississippi, it showed more on TV. New Orleans is a world class city, we don’t expect to get their attention,” he said, but added, “With all of you here today, we expect to get more.”

Brookhaven Daily Leader publisher Bill Jacobs has joined the National Newspaper Association board of directors. He’s the first Mississippian to serve since the late Dan Phillips, assistant publisher of The Oxford Eagle and former MPA president, was on the board and ultimately served as its president in the late 1990s.

After Tom Andrews, publisher of The Picayune Item, sent a letter to Editor and Publisher encouraging more recognition for smaller newspapers who mounted herculean efforts following Hurricane Katrina, the trade publication responded accordingly.

Reports Anna Crane on editorandpublisher.com: While there was a national focus on the struggles and rebuilding of top gulf newspapers like The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, La., smaller papers like the Sea Coast Echo in Bay Saint Louis, Miss., were also hit hard by Hurricane Katrina.

From newsblues.com: Jack Welch, the former chairman of General Electric who walked away with an obscene amount of “executive compensation” when he retired in 2002, is thinking about spending some of his loot to buy the venerable Boston Globe.