A group of Pennsylvania newspaper photographers has been offering free portraits to victims of Hurricane Katrina. WLOX-TV reports the trio is hoping to “ease the pain” of some of those devastated by the storm.
Rick Kennedy, a former publisher in Yazoo City, is now in Lakeport, Calif. as managing editor of the Lake County Record-Bee…
Dave Peyton, a columnist for the Charleston Daily Mail in West Virginia, gives the late George McLean, longtime publisher of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, a lot of the credit for the Mississippi city’s economic successes and paving the way in ink for such developments as Toyota. Turns out Peyton was in a delegation from Huntington, W.Va., which visited Tupelo in the early 1990s to learn of its achievements.
The Reflector rebukes Secretary of State candidate Jeffrey Rupp for leaving a specially-created post at Mississippi State after only six months to run for office.
John Newhouse, former publisher of The Clarion-Ledger, has set up shop in Texas as publisher of the Beaumont Enterprise.
Editor and Publisher reports The Sun Herald has called the cops in on vending machine thefts…Sam Hall, editor and publisher of the Demopolis Times in Alabama, recalls meeting folks while on duty in Mississippi, including some influential newspaper types…The Daily Journal’s Charlie Langford parses some minutia about the new Toyota plant…An Arbor Day celebration in Ocean Springs memorialized recently-deceased residents of the community, including former Mississippi Press city editor Regina Hines Ellison…Ed Trainor, former general manager of the New Albany Gazette and editor for The Star-Herald, has been named GM of the Eufaula Tribune in Alabama.
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