The Commercial-Appeal will begin rolling back its home delivery to subscribers west of the Mississippi in about a month, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The CA will now offer Internet editions at a cost of $10 per month, compared with the $18.67 monthly sticker price for seven-day home delivery.
All eyes will be on the University of Mississippi next week when the school hosts the first presidential debate of the 2008 campaign between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain. The school itself is planning a week of activities leading up to the event, which, it is hoped by many, will foster positive discussions about progress in the state since the turbulent period of the 50s and 60s.
It is attention the university welcomes.
The symbolism of America’s first black party nominee for President taking part in his first general election debate in Mississippi on the campus of a school that notoriously sought to block African American enrollment in the 1960s is not lost on the national media.
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The Mississippi Supreme Court has affirmed a 2007 Circuit Court ruling that said the DeSoto Appeal newspaper was a DeSoto County newspaper qualified to carry legal advertisements from government entities in the county.
The Circuit Court ruling by Judge Andrew Baker was appealed by the competing DeSoto Times Today newspaper, but the high court rejected the appeal on an 8-1 vote. Baker had ruled on the case on July 13, 2007.
In its first ruling since gaining new authority, the Mississippi Ethics Commission has ruled a private citizen is entitled to redacted Jackson police initial incident reports involving George Bell III in the slaying of his ex-girlfriend.
Jackson blogger James Hendrix had submitted a public records request to the city clerk’s office requesting the information on the case.
There are several lessons to be learned from this case:
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David Hampton writes in The Clarion-Ledger: “This is a major breakthrough because it gives citizens a potential remedy without having to go to court, which is expensive.”
Dee Burke, a former high school coach and Mid-South sportswriter, has been named sports editor for the DeSoto Times-Tribune. He served as sports writer for the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville from 2003-04. In Hernando, he succeeds Ron Caldwell. Burke calls the new job a dream come true… Chris Brennaman has been named assistant sports editor of The Meridian Star. He joined the east Mississippi daily from TV station WTOK. He succeeds Brandon Walker, who recently joined the staff of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo…After 53 years, William “K.B.” Thompson has hung up his pica pole and retired from The Star-Herald in Kosciusko. Waid Prather, editor of The Carthaginian, and a former co-worker of Thompson’s at the Kosciusko weekly, paid tribute to his colleague with a column appearing in both newspapers last week…Scott Ware, 54, who began his newspaper career at The Meridian Star, will retire at year’s end from the Kitsap Sun in Bremerton, Wash., capping a 34-year career with the Scripps Co.
The 2008 Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in the Media will celebrate the grand opening of the Newseum by honoring Newseum Chief Executive Officer Charles Overby on Thursday evening, Oct. 9, at The University of South Dakota.
Gareth Clary, just a couple weeks into his new gig as editor of the Mississippi Press, has added the title of publisher to his duties at the Pascagoula daily. He succeeds longtime publisher Wanda Jacobs, who has moved to parent Advance Publications in an executive role.
The Scott County Times has upped its weekly per-issue price to 75 cents, though home delivery of the Forest weekly will remain at $25 annually for in-county readers.
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