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A memorial service will be held Saturday in Englewood, N.J., for Donald V. Adderton, the former editor of the Delta Democrat Times in Greenville. Adderton died Saturday after a long battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 61.

Paul South has been named the new city editor of the Daily World in Opelousas, LA. He previously served as a managing editor for The Mississippi Press in Pascagoula.

Family members of the late S. Gale Denley, longtime owner and publisher of The Calhoun County Journal, attended the unveiling of a wall hanging at The MED July 14 honoring Denley for his efforts supporting work of the hospital throughout the region, but specifically in Mississippi.

Mississippi courts are joining others across the country in facing a new concern - how to address social media with jurors.

For decades, judges have instructed juries not to watch television, read newspapers or listen to radio. But with Twitter, Facebook and MySpace at people’s fingertips, social media is gaining a foothold in popular society, and judges are having to adjust.

The city of Tupelo and its newspaper, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, will both mark 140 years in 2010.

The paper’s unique relationship with the North Mississippi CREATE Foundation was also recently profiled in Editor and Publisher magazine.

“In the scramble to find new business models for newspapers, some see charitable foundations as the way to keep newspapers afloat. But in what may be the poorest region in the nation’s poorest state, the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal is one of the financial engines of a foundation that’s helping improve the lives of its readers…” Click here if you are an E&P subscriber to read the article.

The Gannett Company Inc. will consolidate print design and layout for all of its newspapers at five regional design centers, including one in Nashville.

The company said it plans to install a state-of-the-art editing and content management system at all of its print properties. The changes mean pre-press production of The Clarion-Ledger, Hattiesburg American and other Mississippi Gannett publications will be shifted to out-of-state locations.

A cartoon that was published in the University of Mississippi student run newspaper The Daily Mississippian has been criticized as racist and offensive.

It depicts a news anchor telling the audience there is “Breaking News — Lebron James beats the heat and has signed with Ole Miss to be its mascot! There, he will serve as a reminder of why we are no longer racist… because black people can play some damn ball!”

The brand new DM editor has responded to the controversy in her blog.

We’re a little behind on this, but it’s worth sharing. The Meridian Star was recently named CNHI’s Newspaper of the Year for it’s editorial work in 2009.

“I couldn’t be happier for this staff,” said Executive Editor Fredie Carmichael. “This is a testament to their passion and dedication to local news. This is an honor for us as a small community newspaper and we appreciate CNHI for recognizing our efforts.”

The Clarion-Ledger has been tinkering with its Sunday edition for a while now. It has added features on dining, shopping and travel and, just this weekend, introduced three “Print Exclusives.” The stories are available only in the printed edition with an abstract teaser on the web that also not-so-subtly includes a subscription pitch.

The first exclusives includes a story by Marquita Brown on inappropriate student-teacher relationships that will likely drive a few folks to the newsrack for the whole sordid story of educators gone wild.