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	<title>Douglas E. Jessmer</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Abrams: Design is an imperative now</title>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/07/abrams-design-is-an-imperative-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his latest innovation memo, Tribune Co.&#8217;s chief innovation officer, Lee Abrams, wrote this:
&#8220;Writers NEED designers to take their work to a wider audience in today&#8217;s TV rooted reader.&#8221;
I couldn&#8217;t have said it better. We&#8217;ve elaborated for years about how visual editing will help newspapers survive in an era of heavy TV viewership and winnowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reader sues over newspaper cuts</title>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/07/reader-sues-over-newspaper-cuts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:24:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Betcha no one saw this coming: A reader of the News &#38; Observer in Raleigh, N.C., is suing the newspaper for breach of contract. His logic: Just after he renewed his subscription, they cut staff and news hole, and they&#8217;re not giving him what he renewed for.
Keith Hempstead, an attorney and former reporter for The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are the good times over for good?</title>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/07/are-the-good-times-over-for-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we rollin&#8217; downhill like a snowball headed for hell?
With no kind of chance for the flag and the Liberty Bell?
I wish a Ford and a Chevy would still last 10 years, like they should.
Is the best of the free life behind us now? Are the good times really over for good?
— Merle Haggard,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let the back shop design your paper?</title>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/06/132/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the June 2008 issue of Publisher&#8217;s Auxiliary, the newspaper of the National Newspaper Assn., there&#8217;s a headline that caught my eye:
&#8220;Production should be handled by professionals&#8221;
Well, yes. But what&#8217;s defined in the column below that headline as &#8220;professional&#8221;&#8230; isn&#8217;t.
Consultant Ken Blum says it&#8217;s inefficient for reporters and editors to lay out a weekly paper.
He&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribune CIO: 15 Points To Grow Newspapers</title>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/06/15-points-thatll-grow-newspapers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tribune Co.&#8217;s Lee Abrams is back at it again, and I&#8217;ve already heard positive buzz from newsies outside the Tribune ranks.
Poynter&#8217;s Jim Romenesko has the &#8220;think piece&#8221; here.
Abrams, the company&#8217;s chief innovation officer, says newspapers have to break out the 2&#215;4s to get people&#8217;s attention. You may have read earlier memos, where he&#8217;s said it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinellas News gets first visual award in 12 years</title>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/06/pinellas-news-gets-first-visual-award-in-12-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/06/pinellas-news-gets-first-visual-award-in-12-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You read right. The Florida Press Association&#8217;s Better Weekly Newspaper Awards included a second-place award for the Pinellas News for &#8220;overall graphic design.&#8221;
(Images and more after the break.)
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		<title>Birthday, Memorial Day bad timing, thanks to Congress</title>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/05/birthday-memorial-day-bad-timing-thanks-to-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 20:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from my May 23 column in the Pinellas News:
On Monday, you may place flowers on a veteran’s grave.
You might watch a parade, with veterans groups and politicians.
You’ll hear the words: “In Flanders fields the poppies blow/Between the crosses, row on  row/That mark our place; and in the sky/The larks, still bravely singing, fly/ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looks like someone&#8217;s AFDI</title>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/05/looks-like-someones-afdi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/05/looks-like-someones-afdi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 02:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFDI: &#8220;Actually Friggin&#8217; Doing It.&#8221;
That&#8217;s some new phraseology at the Tribune Co., which as you know is in the hands of private ownership.
The company&#8217;s chief innovation officer, Lee Abrams, recently penned a memo that landed in the hands of the capable Jim Romenesko, at his Poynter Institute blog. He&#8217;s saying it&#8217;s time to take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you live without a cell phone?</title>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/05/can-you-live-without-a-cell-phone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/05/can-you-live-without-a-cell-phone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 16:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How did we ever survive in the pre-mobile phone era? An era that pretty much extended from the time of creation until, say, 20 years ago?
Sure, there were pay phones everywhere. But they weren&#8217;t out in the middle of nowhere at 3 a.m., when you needed a phone to call AAA when you had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THIS gets an award?!?</title>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/04/this-gets-an-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Florida Press Association&#8217;s 2007 Better Weekly Newspaper Contest comes this gem. They actually have a category for &#8220;blooper headline of the year.&#8221;
The &#8220;winner&#8221; comes from Alachua County Today. Ready?
&#8220;Harris gets head job&#8221;
Sorry, but I don&#8217;t think there should be an award for shoddy editing in the first place.
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