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The Insurance Journal reports State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. has filed a motion in federal court in Gulfport, claiming it will get a fairer trial somewhere other than the Mississippi Gulf Coast. State Farm, in its motion, cites news coverage in The Sun Herald newspaper, “negative'’ television reports and a “substantial bias'’ against insurance companies among registered voters surveyed in south Mississippi.

In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted State Farm is a client and customer of Mississippi Press Services.

Print is dead — at least that’s what the newspaper industry keeps telling itself and keeps getting told. And it’s what columnist Bill Virgin writes about in the near-dead Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
For some reason the magazine industry did not get the same memo. Maybe it was distributed electronically and a spam filter ate it.

Dr. Samir Husni of the Ole Miss Department of Journalism is quoted liberally in the article.

Project Runway contestants contend Cyrus Webb agreed to pay them $2,500 plus other expenses to appear at a weekend event at the Telcom Center and then didn’t deliver. Webb says it was all a big misunderstanding. If you make it all the way through this convoluted account of what Webb may or may not have been trying to do, you’ll learn he is was a freelancer for The Clarion-Ledger.

Jenny Humphryes, former news editor at the Clarion-Ledger, has been named editor of The Messenger in Troy, AL, a Boone newspaper. An Alabama native, Humphryes was managing editor of the Greenwood Commonwealth from 1999-2005. Prior to that, she worked for The Star-Herald in Kosciusko and for The Commercial Dispatch in Columbus.