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Tom Collins, owner of Tupelo Engraving and Rubber Stamp and a former executive for Hancock Fabrics, has accepted the position as general manager of The Pontotoc Progress. He succeeds Lisa Bryant, who moves to the Daily Journal mother ship as advertising director…Renae Alexander is the new advertising director of The Meridian Star…Heather Freret has returned to the Stone County Enterprise in Wiggins as publisher after leaving the paper in 2007.

From the AP: “Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said he’s unhappy about corporate ownership of news organizations in the United States.

“Something that worries me more so than the war and Iraq and money in politics is freedom of the press,” Hood said. “Is our press free anymore? The corporate ownership of the press nationally is a concern to me.”