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		<title>Tampa Tribune backtracks on redesign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Well, sorta. The Tampa Tribune, which debuted its two-section weekday paper  this past Monday, is taking a step backward &#8212; to a three-book paper, beginning  today.
Executive Editor Janet Coats said:
On Monday, we asked you to tell us what you thought about the Tribune&#8217;s  redesign. Boy, did you take us up on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passing thoughts on job cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A good friend of mine had his employment terminated from a national newspaper this week, and it came as a shock to him. There&#8217;s been a rash of people, it seems (whether it&#8217;s a rash or not, I&#8217;m not sure), who&#8217;ve been hired somewhere, then fired within weeks. I don&#8217;t know whether to be frustrated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look at the first &#8220;new&#8221; Tampa Tribune</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bought Monday&#8217;s edition of The Tampa Tribune late in the day, just before I did laundry. I started to post a new response on Charles Apple&#8217;s blog, where he introduced the redesign, on my phone, with one problem &#8212; there was no &#8220;Post&#8221; button under the longwinded comment I wrote.
Dammit. Windows Mobile sucks as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rays don&#8217;t play in Tampa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last time, let&#8217;s get this straight.
The Dallas Cowboys play in Irving, Texas, not Dallas.
The New York Jets play in New Jersey.
The Texas Rangers play in Arlington, not Dallas or Fort Worth.
And the Tampa Bay Rays play in ST. PETERSBURG.
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		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/10/the-rays-dont-play-in-tampa/</link>
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		<title>Taxpayers will be on the hook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Al Tompkins of The Poynter Institute is connected to my Twitter feed. That, in and of itself, isn&#8217;t a big deal, because a lot of people are connected to him. But he&#8217;s been posting links on Twitter concerning breaking news &#8212; and today, he&#8217;s posting links regarding the federal bailout of the American financial services [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/09/taxpayers-will-be-on-the-hook/</link>
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		<title>Lost your job? You might become a hermit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People who lose their jobs become hermits, according to this story from Live Science.
&#8220;Social engagement often involves an element of social trust and a sense that things are reciprocal — that you give some support if you get some support, and you benefit from society if society benefits from you,&#8221; said lead researcher Jennie Brand, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/09/lost-your-job-you-might-become-a-hermit/</link>
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		<title>TampaTrib: One section, every day?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The buzz around here is that The Tampa Tribune will move to a one-book paper every weekday.
The further buzz is that jumps will be limited from the front page, and the inside pages will be charticles and shorties.
At his &#8220;Common Sense Journalism&#8221; blog, Doug Fisher said:
So why is it significant beyond what will be bemoaned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/09/tampatrib-one-section-every-day/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;We&#8217;re doing it &#8216;for the readers&#8217;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I had a nickel for every instance I&#8217;ve heard those words, I&#8217;d probably have a pretty good sized can of nickels.
Like a 55-gallon oil drum&#8217;s worth.
The first response on Charles Apple&#8217;s blog page about Alan Jacobson&#8217;s take on Tribune Co. redesigns made me think about this one.
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		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/09/were-doing-it-for-the-readers/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Too cool&#8217; for the National Anthem?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are we &#8220;too cool&#8221; to stand up and put our hands over our hearts for &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8221;? Or is it just that many of us don&#8217;t know what to do (you see that a lot at baseball games)?
Does being &#8220;working media&#8221; mean we are exempt from showing respect to the society that gave us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.visualeditors.com/jessmer/2008/08/too-cool-for-the-national-anthem/</link>
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		<title>Five ways newspapers botched the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;Death Of Print&#8221; comes a piece that I&#8217;m sure will launch a bunch of discussions, including one I saw on Fark.com. It&#8217;s called &#8220;Five Ways The Newspapers Botched The Web.&#8221;
The piece mentions Knight Ridder and AT&#38;T&#8217;s &#8220;Viewtron&#8221; service, which lasted three years beginning in 1983 before KR pulled the plug. It also mentions the [...]]]></description>
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