Dennis Palmer, 42, has been named publisher of The Selma Times-Journal, selmatimesjournal.com and The Dollar Saver and president of Selma Newspapers, Inc. Palmer has served the past four years as publisher of The Greenville Advocate and affiliated publications in Georgiana, Fort Deposit and Luverne. Prior to that he managed the Houston Times-Post (now Chickasaw Journal) and Calhoun City Monitor-Herald.
Pulitzer prize winner, Ira B. Harkey Jr., 88, died Sunday from complications of Parkinson’s disease at the Parson’s Nursing Home in Kerrville, Texas. When Harkey received the Pulitzer in 1963, he had been editor/publisher of The Chronicle Star (now The Mississippi Press) for 14 years. The Pulitzer Prize was awarded for his editorial writing during the integration of the University of Mississippi. His editorials were recognized as courageous and devoted to the processes of law and reason during the integration crisis in Mississippi in 1962.
Stan Tiner, the editor of The Sun Herald, and Joshua Norman, a reporter who graduated from NYU in 2000, spoke at the Kimmel Center Tuesday about writing during Katrina and and her aftermath.
Changes in Tunica since the arrival of gambling a decade-and-a-half, once dubbed the poorest town in America, have not been as dramatic as other communities across the county, said Brooks Taylor, editor and publisher of the Tunica Times, but an influx of casinos there has had an overall positive impact.
Taylor was recently interviewed by a Delco Times reporter in Delaware County, PA, about Tunica and what has happened there since the casinos opened. A rural town, Tunica had an unemployment rate on par with Joliet, PA when casinos arrived, though it hasn’t seen the kind of influx of people Joliet has since.
Ramblings and rumblings from Mississippi newspapers…
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo: Oxford’s movement toward a smoking ban in indoor spaces open to the public needs the support of health advocates, all non-smokers who value their health, and the University of Mississippi and Baptist Memorial Hospital/Oxford — the two most significant economic forces in Oxford and Lafayette County…
Larry Liddell, former managing editor of the Clarksdale Press Register, on why this season’s Ole Miss Rebels are the worst incarnation in the team’s history…
Birney Imes, editor of the Commercial Dispatch in Columbus, on efforts to improve public schools in his city and why they won’t move forward unless citizens “honestly and faily examine every option“…
Bill Jacobs, editor of the Brookhaven Daily Leader, recalls his community’s efforts to land a Wal-Mart Distribution Center and 600 jobs nearly 20 years ago…
The days of sitting in a classroom for history classes has long been forgotten by many of the Active Adults from First Baptist Church of Kosciusko who made a recent trip to Port Gibson. The trip by bus, down the Natchez Trace Parkway, turned into a day-long history class.
The group made a bus ride along the street with tours of the First Presbyterian and St. Joseph’s Catholic Churches. Joining the group was Emma Crisler, editor-publisher of The Reveille, Port Gibson and Claiborne County’s newspaper. She shared her knowledge of the town’s history.
Sportswriter Mark Beason, the new editor of Mississippi Outdoors, a bi-monthly magazine published by the state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, was the guest speaker at his hometown Rotary Club in Philadelphia. Prior to joining the magazine, Beason was a correspondent at the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo and sports editor for the Daily Times Leader in West Point.
ABC News was the first traditional media outlet to report explicit instant messages between former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., and under-aged congressional pages, but an Internet blog broke the story almost a week earlier.
Ralph Braseth, a blogger and the director of student media at the University of Mississippi, said blogs are good for casting a wide net to look for sources, but should be viewed with a skeptical eye.
His Honor Frank Melton defending his honor has become a daily routine. This week, the Jackson mayor is in Meridian defending himself against charges he libeled two officers of the Mississippi Buruea of Narcotics, an agency Melton lead between daliances in broadcasting and municipal, um, service as the city’s chief exec.
He alleged leaked a memo to The Clarion-Ledger in 2003 that got the pair of officers in hot water.
A sex column will continue to run in the University of Southern Mississippi’s student newspaper despite criticism from university President Shelby Thames.
Pillow Talk has appeared in The Student Printz since Sept. 7, Executive Editor David McRaney said.
“We had decided early in the semester we were going to do a sex column, based on the idea that many college newspapers already do this,” he said. “The more modern and more respectable colleges all do this. Yale, Harvard, Emory, Berkeley, Cornell - all the college newspapers we’re trying to aspire to.”
The latest column, published Sept. 28, is the second most read article on studentprintz.com, only surpassed by the account of the Eagles’ 19-14 squeaker over Central Florida.
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