The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal recently morphed its djournal.com Website into nems360.com. The Journal and its weekly publications recently partnered with Matchbin to make the transformations.
Robert Bozeman, an assistant something at The Crimson White, Alabama’s student newspaper, enjoys stirring the pot. He dissed Mississippi State a few years back, and he’s at it again in his final column — a milestone obviously met with relief by readers of the CW. That’s evidenced by the rather pointed comments following Mr. Bozeman’s, uh, commentary.
The New York Times profiles troubled Jackson Mayor Frank Melton and his battle for reelection…
“…These days, Mr. Melton, 60, finds himself surrounded, to use a cops-and-robbers term. He is running for re-election in a crowded field while facing a criminal trial for taking part in the demolition, without a warrant, in 2006 of a duplex that he believed was a drug den.
“With an ailing heart and a police chief who defected from his team, Mr. Melton has hunkered down. He no longer saves local newspaper articles for his children, what with all of the negative headlines, and he has shunned fund-raising and appearances with political rivals”
Otis Sanford, editor of editorials and opinion at The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, pays tribute to his former colleague, William Thomas, longtime CA writer who died last week…
“The perfect way to talk about great writing is to talk about Bill Thomas. He was unquestionably the finest writer to ever set foot inside The CA newsroom. And he had a charming personality to boot.
“I grew up reading his stories about faraway places and unusual people…Bill’s one of the reasons why I am in newspaper journalism today, and he’s why I believe newspapers absolutely must survive.”
A few national headlines and bylines worth sharing…
A case of unfortunate timing, but the Clarksdale Press Register made its debut as a semi-weekly newspaper on April Fools’ Day. Oh, if only it were a case of being just a joke.
Lawrence County’s Scott Tynes, a 12-year veteran reporter for the Daily Leader, is once more writing stories about life in Southwest Mississippi after spending 10 months in Afghanistan with the 102nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment of the Mississippi National Guard…Jane Clover Alexander has been named editor of Madison County Magazine, a monthly supplement to the Madison County Journal. She formerly the editor of Mississippi Magazine.
Leesha Faulkner, formerly of the Greenwood Commonwealth and Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, describes in a column for The Selma Times Journal, where she is now managing editor, once meeting the late Hazel Brannon Smith.
” It was like meeting a movie star. But by that time, the years and the terrorism — yes terrorism — had worn her down a bit.”
Emiliegh Barnes is a Mississippi native who enrolled at the University of Iowa after obtaining a scholarship to study journalism. She’s serving as editor-in-chief this year of the student newspaper, The Daily Iowan.
And, like most of her fellow j-students, she’s worried about finding a job in the contracting industry after graduation.
Dan Davis is a veteran newspaperman who has worked tours in Cleveland, West Point, Columbus and Pascagoula. In recent years he has served as managing editor of the Hattiesburg American and recently became the Gannett daily’s top editor after the departure of executive editor Kathleen Williams.
Davis told readers a little bit about himself in a Q&A feature in one recent edition.
A few days before that, Davis likened the current recession an “economic Katrina,” while offering an explanation to readers for the shrinking content on pages of his newspaper.
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