Josh Berger has joined the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville as a staff reporter…More on Sam Hall, who recently resigned as publisher of The Demopolis Times in Alabama: We’re told he’s joined the campaign staff of former Congressman Ronnie Shows, who earlier joined the fray to succeed retiring Congressman Chip Pickering…Tunica Times publisher Brooks Taylor was the speaker at the local Rotary Club recently.
Newspapers are beginning to report their wins following the annual Better Newspaper Contest-Ad Division results were announced Saturday in Jackson.
From the Longmont (CO) Daily Times-Call: No one can confirm whether this curiosity and willingness to change helped him reach the milestone. But Ernest Clark’s marathon life story sparkles with moments when he realized he could learn to be a better man.
The latest example began a couple of years ago when the Mississippi native — who moved to Longmont in August — wandered into the Winston County Journal newsroom in Louisville, Miss.
Clark’s parents took out a subscription 114 years earlier when the paper launched, and he grew up reading it. Though his career was split between public education and aviation, Clark wanted in his golden years to try journalism.
“After a hundred years of livin’, you don’t have much trouble (coming up with story ideas),” he said, chuckling.
The Department of Journalism has added a new blog to its Website.
George Riggs, former publisher of the Contra Costa Times and the San Jose Mercury News, has resigned his post as top executive of California Newspapers Partnership, the three-company group that owns most of the Bay Area’s papers. Riggs got his start as an ad salesman for the Hattiesburg American…Sam Hall has departed The Demopolis Times in Alabama. He joined the paper as publisher in 2006 after a stint with the Mississippi Democrats as communications director. He previously worked at The Scott County Times in Forest and as the Houston Times Post.
Clarion-Ledger Perspective Editor Sid Salter has been named by Washington Post blogger Chris Cillizza as one of the nation’s best political writers. Salter has quite a following for his column, which is also syndicated to dozens of state newspapers.
Personal addendum: Columnists Al Cross of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Pat Crowley of the Kentucky Enquirer deservedly made the list from that state. We’d also like to add the name of Ronnie Ellis, a talented reporter and now statewide columnist for CNHI with whom we had the pleasure of working and kicking up some dust a few years back. With the likes of former Govs. Paul Patton and Ernie Fletcher, there is never any derth of material on which for Ellis can opine.
Writes Editor and Publisher’s Shawn Moynihan:
“When researching the ‘50 Years Ago’ section for each issue, I often come across some amazing stories from E&P’s rich history. This time, I discovered one written especially for us by David Halberstam, then a little-known reporter for The Nashville Tennessean, titled, ‘One Picture Arouses Nation to Give Succor to Poor Family.’ Appearing in our Jan. 4, 1958 issue, it’s the story behind a newspaper report — and a gripping image captured by staff photographer Eldred Reaney — that drew wide attention to the plight of the Ledbetter family, and the outpouring of help they received after the story ran in December 1957.“
Robert Lee Hotchkiss, a Mississippi native and computer science student in San Diego, pens a letter to the editor in the LA Times, disagreeing with the paper’s editorial on shopping malls as free speech zones.
A Monmouth journalism professor lectures — sort of — The Mississippi Press in Gautier for a recent editorial that took the city to task for a memo that outlines a municipal public relations policy, determining who can and who can’t speak to the press.
Jon Broadbooks, formerly of The Hattiesburg American and The Clarion-Ledger, is departing The Observer-Dispatch in Utica, NY to become executive editor of the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill…Gannett has named Bob Robbins, formerly publisher in Hattiesburg and Jackson, as publisher of the Palladium-Item in Richmond, IN…Wayne Parham has been named editor and publisher of The Enterprise-Tocsin in Indianola. A communications grad from West Georgia College, Parham earned his Masters in Business from University of Georgia in 2006. He is an 18-year veteran of the newspaper and magazine trade, working most recently for Georgia Trend magazine. He succeeds Jim Abbott, who is retiring this month after nearly 40 years as editor and publisher of the weekly newspaper.
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