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The Natchez Democrat has taken the wraps off a snappy new Website, somewhat akin to the Commercial Appeal’s. Some of the content is even iPod friendly.

The July edition of Editor and Publisher magazine honored The Sun Herald in Biloxi as one of “10 That Do It Right.” The paper is lauded for maintaining circulation levels, even in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and for its community service following the August 2005 storm.

Also from TSH, a new Editors’ Blog has launched, with entries from Stan Tiner, Kate Magandy and others.

From The Clarion-Ledger: As ailing newspaper publisher Charles Tisdale fights for his life in a Jackson hospital, colleagues and friends are pondering what that life has meant to the community, the state and beyond.

State Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds references in a recent column the North Mississippi Media Alliance, a consortium of newspaper, broadcast and outdoor media firms which have donated space and airtime to battle the state’s embarrassing school dropout rate.

Robert “Bob” Gordon, a former newspaper editor and reporter who documented the South’s turbulent struggle for civil rights, has died. He was 69. Gordon died Saturday from heart complications, according to the AP and The Clarion-Ledger, where he served as managing editor in the 1980s. He began his career at the State-Times in Jackson after graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1960. He joined UPI in Atlanta in 1961.