Leslie Hurst

Leslie Hurst has been named president and publisher of The Daily Advertiser in Lafayette, La., the Opelousas (La.) Daily World and The Times of Acadiana. Hurst comes from Lansing, Mich., where she was president and publisher of the Lansing State Journal, a 70,000-circulation daily newspaper. She also was vice president of Gannett's Midwest Newspaper Group, with responsibility for newspapers across mid-Michigan that reached nearly 1 million readers daily. In her new role, Hurst will be vice president of Gannett's Sun Coast Group, which includes newspapers in Florida and Louisiana. Hurst began her career as a reporter and editor for the Shreveport Journal and also previously served as marketing services director for The Times and Shreveport Journal. "I feel like I'm coming home," Hurst said. "I really love Louisiana culture, and I missed it when I left." She succeeds Ted Power, who was named president and publisher of the Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal.

C. Kirk Read will become president of Media General's Interactive Media Division and a vice president of Media General, effective June 1. Read will succeed Neal F. Fondren, who recently announced that he will step down from the role for personal reasons. Read has been with Media General since 1995. In 1999, he helped create TBO.com, Media General’s first converged Web site, and served as its general manager until 2004. He currently serves as regional publisher of Media General’s Northern Virginia community newspapers, which includes three dailies and their associated Web sites, as well as several weekly papers and niche products.

Roanoke Times Managing Editor Carole Tarrant has been named editor. She succeeds Mike Riley, who left the Roanoke Times in February to become editor and senior vice president at Congressional Quarterly in Washington.

Publisher Forum to be Held in Hot Springs
Nat Lea, general manager of the Hot Springs (Ark.) Sentinel-Record, will host an SNPA Publisher’s Forum in Hot Springs on Friday, July 20. 

The new Publisher Forums are offered at no cost, and are designed to help publishers find new and valuable ways to interact and share best practices. Topics of discussion will include:

• Most significant idea to increase revenue over the past year or two
• Greatest success with niche publications
• Most significant innovation
• Best idea for improving productivity or reducing expenses
• Successes in growing circulation and/or readership
• New ideas you’d like to try

In addition to the program in Hot Springs, dates have been announced for five other programs:

• Hopkinsville, Ky., June 5.  The program will be hosted by Kentucky New Era publisher Taylor Hayes.
• Washington, N.C., June 12.  The program will be hosted by Washington Daily News publisher Brownie Futrell.
• Opelika, Ala., June 14. The program will be hosted by Opelika-Auburn News publisher James W. Rainey.
• Gastonia, N.C., June 27.  The program will be hosted by Gaston Gazette publisher Jenny Lambert.
• Sebring, Fla., July 12.  The program will be hosted by Highlands Today publisher Tina Gottus.

Dates will be announced soon for additional programs in Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi and South Carolina.

SNPA Invites Entries for 'Prototype Newspaper of the Future' Contest
SNPA is seeking the best and the brightest take on what “newspapers” will look like in 10 years. This contest is open to anyone, anywhere. It has few rules but offers an award of $2,000 to the winner. There is no entry fee.

SNPA hopes that the ideas gathered from newspaper employees and from newspaper readers will provide publishers with new ideas for the future.

Promotional posters have been mailed to SNPA publishers, associate members, journalism schools across the country and state press associations. SNPA members are asked to help promote this contest to their staffs by placing the poster in a prominent place where employees and visitors will see it. 

A press release and sample ad also have been mailed to all members. The press release and ad were designed to be run in member newspapers or placed on members’ Web sites to encourage participation from readers. Color and black-and-white camera-ready versions of the ad are available at www.snpa.org/contest.

If you have any questions about this contest – or if you’d like additional promotional materials, please contact Carole Kallansrude in the SNPA office.

Entries must have two components: one or more page proofs or visuals of printed material, accompanied by the entry form. Other supporting multimedia applications are welcome. Judges will be looking for innovative ideas, not business plans.

The deadline for entries is Sept. 15. The winner will be announced at the SNPA Annual Convention in October at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.

For contest rules and an entry form, go to www.snpa.org/contest or contact carole@snpa.org.

Last Chance to Register for Interactive Media Conference
The annual Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show, presented by E&P and Mediaweek, begins next week. Because SNPA is a supporting association, SNPA members receive a special rate to attend the conference, scheduled for May 23-24 at the Radisson Hotel in Miami.

The conference is attended annually by executives, editors and publishers from leading media Web sites. The 12th annual EPpy awards will be announced and presented at a closing luncheon. In addition: the first winners of the Knight News Challenge will be announced on May 23. The initiative offers $5 million this year for news experiments that use digital media to foster community.

Keynote speakers include Sarah Chubb, president of CondeNet, and Mark Lukasiewicz, VP/digital media at NBC News. Caroline H. Little, CEO and publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, will speak at the EPpy luncheon on May 24.

Panels will cover a wide range of topics, including user-generated content, advances in video, old and new-media integration, the latest on blogging and "The First YouTube Election."

For more information or to register for the conference, click here.

Next Friday is Deadline to Participate
in 2007 Salary Survey
More than 160 daily newspapers have already returned their salary survey questionnaires to the SNPA office. Newspapers that have not yet returned their questionnaires are encouraged to do so as soon as possible. Questionnaires, which can be downloaded from the links in the green box, will be accepted until May 25.

The fee to participate is just $25 and SNPA will invoice you after your forms have been received.

Newspapers that do not share data for the survey (but want to receive the survey results) will be charged $300. Sharing your data for this important study not only saves your newspaper $275, but it also greatly enhances the value of the study.

This survey is open only to members of SNPA – with one exception. Non-member newspapers over 200,000 daily circulation may participate – including large-circulation dailies outside of the Southern region. Those large circulation non-member newspapers should check with Cindy Durham in the SNPA office about the non-member fee to participate.

No one – except the SNPA staff – will see the survey questionnaires.  Complete confidentiality is guaranteed!

Survey results will be available June 1 and will be sent – electronically – to publishers of participating newspapers. The advantage of an electronic copy is that it will make it easier for publishers to share the study results with their human resources departments and other key department heads. In addition, it will be easier to locate given positions in the survey as the electronic edition will be searchable. However, publishers, general managers or human resources directors who would prefer a hard copy can order them from the SNPA office for $75 a copy. There is no cost for electronic copies – for those newspapers that share data for the survey.

Ad Space Still Available in SNPA's Resource Guide
It's not too late to reserve display ad space in the book. Companies that already have reserved space in the 2007-2008 book include:

In addition to having your display ad seen in the printed book, the 2007-2008 edition also will be seen nationwide – and beyond – by everyone who looks at SNPA's Web site. In January, the 2007-2008 Resource Guide will be available on the SNPA Web site, giving advertisers greater exposure beyond just the SNPA membership.

Advertising in the Resource Guide allows you to congratulate your staff members on awards they have won, recognize corporate anniversaries, highlight the role your newspaper plays in its local community, reach decision-makers at member newspapers with information about equipment and services offered to the newspaper industry, and more.

Click here for advertising rates and an order form.

Hearst Newspapers Acquires Two Texas Panhandle Papers
Hearst Newspapers has announced the acquisition of two Texas Panhandle area newspapers, The Canyon News and The Muleshoe Journal. Both newspapers will maintain their staffing and editorial independence and will report directly to Sandra Aven, publisher of Hearst’s Plainview Daily Herald.

Rollie Hyde, senior associate with W. B. Grimes & Company, represented Lambai Publishing and Palo Duro Publications in the transaction.

The Canyon News is the bi-weekly newspaper of record for Randall County, Texas.  The newspaper has a circulation of 3,074 and was established in Canyon in 1896. The Muleshoe Journal, published once weekly, was established in 1919 in Bailey County, Texas. It has a circulation of 1,640.

Breaking into Journalism
CubReporters.org is a new online career guide aimed at young, college and early career journalists. But even veteran journalists may find some of its features, such as the jobs page, useful.

The site offers advice on getting bylines and appying for jobs, as well as links to internship and fellowship opportunities.

Launched in April, the site gets more than 10,000 page views per week. CubReporters.org has been mentioned in MediaBistro, Online Journalism Review, Vault and several publications.

Yale Wins Challenge Grant to Create Knight Law and Media Scholars Program
Yale has won a $2.5 million challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to create a permanent Knight Law and Media Scholars Program. The challenge will leverage matches to create a total $5 million endowment to keep the program going in perpetuity.

The Knight Law and Media Scholars Program builds on the Law School's leadership in law and media. It includes law and media courses, the scholars, research fellowships, summer internships, career counseling and an annual training program for midcareer journalists. It also will feature a speaker series and a student organization focused on law and media.

"We think Yale is positioned to become the center of media law thinking in the nation," said Eric Newton, vice president of Knight's journalism program. "With this grant, Yale will help train the next generation's leading legal journalists and media lawyers."

The Knight Media Scholars will be chosen from all Yale J.D. and graduate law students. The program is designed to increase the number of Yale Law School graduates prepared to be leaders in media law and the media industry.

The program's midcareer project will bring a wide range of working journalists and interested scholars to the Law School for an annual training session. These workshops will address cutting-edge issues in law and media and create opportunities for journalists, scholars and lawyers to work together.

SP Newsprint to Conduct Strategic Review
SP Newsprint Co., a privately held producer of newsprint, owned in an equal, general partnership by affiliates of Cox Enterprises, Inc., Media General, Inc. and The McClatchy Company, announced today that it has engaged TD Securities (USA) LLC to explore strategic alternatives to maximize value and position the company for continued long-term success.  SP, working in consultation with its financial advisors and owners, will consider a range of options, including the potential sale of the company and SP Recycling Corp., its wholly owned recycling subsidiary.  

“While we have delivered strong returns for our owners over time, the newsprint marketplace is evolving.  We must align the business to capitalize on these changes as well as new opportunities,” said Joseph R. Gorman, president and chief executive officer of SP Newsprint Co.   “The decision to explore various scenarios, including new ownership, will ensure that the company is better able to compete in a newsprint marketplace that is experiencing significant restructuring activity.”

SP is the second-largest producer of 100 percent recycled newsprint and the fifth-largest newsprint producer in North America, with 2006 consolidated sales of $638 million. The company provides newsprint to its owners as well as to other newspapers, primarily in southeastern and western states.  In addition to its two newsprint mills in North America, the company also owns and operates a fiber procurement subsidiary, which is the dedicated recycling operation for the newsprint enterprise.

With respect to the review process, SP will not make further public comments until the company has completed an analysis of strategic alternatives and a definitive transaction is approved.

Naples Daily News Purchases Schur Palletizers
The E.W. Scripps Company has chosen Schur as their supplier of palletizing equipment for The Naples Daily News production facility in Florida.  The packaging area will see the first of four palletizing systems arrive in the first quarter of 2009 and the installation will be operational later that year.  This automation will then form the framework for distributing the paper's daily and Sunday production of papers.

In order to carry out the production, Schur will supply a palletizing system of two double cells that in total include four Winrob III Palletizers and two PSW Stretch Wrappers.  Each cell will include two Palletizers and one Stretch Wrapper.  Complementing the palletizing systems will be a complete bundle conveyor system maximizing flexibility from any tie line to any palletizer.

The Winrob III is a fully automatic palletizing system with many features, offering publishers reliable and effective means of on-line palletizing.  The Winrob III has been developed to handle both tied and untied bundles with a capacity of up to 35 bundles per minute.

Included in the system are six BAL 440 Bundle Labelers and ROP Buffer Lanes.  The Bundle Labelers will place a sheet with real-time information on top of the bundles as they exit the stackers.  The ROP Buffer Lanes will allow for the press to continue to run during short downstream stoppages.

The palletizing operations are controlled by the TPS Production Management System that is integrated in the overall customer distribution system and also interfaces to other supplier’s systems.

The TPS System provides the customer with a number of useful production capabilities. Among them are programmed pallet production, pallet addressing and a bundle tracking system allowing for the tracking of bundles in connection with zoned insert production. Furthermore, it is possible to extract production reports and statistics to help optimize production.

Color Jumps Off Sheet Since Going Computer-to-Plate in Hickory
Like many newspapers that have abandoned manual plate-making in favor of a totally digital workflow, the Hickory (N.C.) Daily Record has seen the benefits of thermal imaging accrue virtually overnight.

"All of our papers have been looking great since we went to computer-to-plate (CtP)," said Jim Lillagore, regional production director for the North Carolina community newspaper group of Media General, Inc. "The color jumps off the sheet. It's terrific."

The Hickory Daily Record purchased the digital front end, thermal platesetter, punch/bend system and thermal lithoplates directly from Southern Lithoplate, Inc. The newspaper implemented ProImage's NewsWay workflow software to drive a Screen PlateRite News 2000 CtP platesetter. The NELA Benchmark punch/bender with three-point registration is precision-registering the exposed Southern Lithoplate VIPER 830(r) thermal lithoplates.

"Because we planned to install a single system, the reliability of individual components was the first thing we considered," Lillagore said. "Cost was second. Third was support as expected from the primary vendor. Even though we are operating equipment manufactured by different vendors, any problem can be resolved with one call to Southern Lithoplate. That's important to us."

The Hickory Daily Record publishes seven days a week. Daily circulation is 25,000, and Sunday circulation is 27,500. The newspaper also prints a six-day paper, a five-day paper and a twice-weekly paper in Media General's North Carolina community newspaper group, with circulations ranging from 6,200 to 12,500 copies.

The company's double-width MAN Roland Uniman 4/2 newspaper press with seven printing units can deliver 24 pages of full color. On average, the pressroom utilizes 7,000 plates per month. The PlateRite News 2000 is capable of imaging 41 doublewide plates per hour or 84 broadsheet plates an hour.

"Moving to CtP saved us money immediately," Lillagore said. "The elimination of film reduced our cost per plate. Production is so streamlined that we also eliminated by attrition and retirement two permanent full-time positions and one temporary part-time position."

The effects of thermal imaging on the VIPER 830 plates are being seen on press and in finished products. "We previously had problems printing 27.6 basis weight paper," Lillagore said. "It's like printing on tissue. Now we are having great luck with it."

Lillagore said registration is vastly improved, and ink and water usage have been "dramatically" reduced. "We're almost using a 'dry offset' process," he joked. "Water usage is nearly nonexistent."

Looking back on the purchase, Lillagore has no doubts the right decision was made. "I've been in this business 47 years, and this is probably the best thing I have ever done in my career," he said. "It was the easiest installation with the biggest number of benefits for the amount of work involved."

• The Hindu, one of the largest English-language daily newspapers in India, has automated its plate-making process in the pre-press room. The Hindu recently completed installation of a NELA plate conveying and handling system. As part of the installation, an existing offline Vision Punch/Bender, the H-VCP, was sent back to Germany and updated at NELA’s plant in Lahr. The machine has been modified to a fully integrated inline, automatic conveying and plate handling Punch/Bender. The Hindu’s goal in automation is to have a pre-press process with minimal operator intervention.
• Journal Graphics has ordered a new Goss Sunday 2000 press system for its facility in Portland, Oregon. The company will install the four-unit web press, its first with gapless blanket technology, beginning in June. Goss International will supply a Contiweb CS splicer, Ecocool dryer with integrated chill rolls, PFF 3.2 pinless folder and Omnicon controls.

New Regs Require Action by Year-End on Deferred Compensation Plans
On April 17, the Treasury Department released final regulations interpreting the nonqualified deferred compensation requirements of Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code. Nonqualified deferred compensation that fails to satisfy the requirements of Section 409A is subject to punitive tax treatment and penalties. The final regulations are effective Jan. 1, 2008. All deferred compensation plans and arrangements must comply in writing with the final regulations by Dec. 31, 2007. Treasury Department officials have stated that this deadline will not be extended. Read more from Fisher & Phillips.

The Work of Newspapers, in Whatever Form, is Vital
Doug Clifton, who retired this week as editor of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, wrote in a column last Sunday: "Journalism, I would argue, provides the lubricant that keeps the wheels of democracy spinning. It is the ultimate check in our system of checks and balances. It evens the contest between the haves and the have-nots. Even with its countless flaws, its frequent excesses, its sometimes mindless pursuit of the trivial, journalism ensures balance in society's balance of power. Read more

Readers on Anonymous Blog Posts
A few weeks ago, The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., asked for readers' opinions about whether The N&O should let people make comments on its Web site, www.newsobserver.com, without giving their real names. The paper received a number of responses, some of which it published last Sunday. Most readers said they oppose anonymous comments. News & Observer editors discussed the online anonymity issue and have decided to continue the current policy of allowing people not to use their real names. "We'll continue to encourage people to use their names and hope they will," said Melanie Sill, The N&O's executive editor. "But I think the Internet is a different environment, and we have to recognize that." Read more

Movies: Cutting Costs, but Paying a Price, by Trimming Movie Criticism
"Fewer movie critics may lead to homogenized movie criticism," writes Sean P. Means of the Salt Lake Tribune. He says, "Most of the movie critics for the major wire services and national publications live in New York and Los Angeles. Now, I know and admire a great many critics who live in those cities – but their perspective doesn't always match that of the people where I live. It's no accident that the best-known and most-respected movie critic in America, Roger Ebert, comes from the heartland of Illinois, far from the elitism or industry schmoozing of the coasts." Read more

Rack-Limits Veto Protects Rights of Public
Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell placed the public's interests first with his veto on Tuesday of an ordinance that would regulate news racks throughout Davidson County. The ordinance, which would have required publishers to pay for rack permits and given the Metro Public Works Department the authority to limit the number of racks or confiscate them, had been approved last month by Metro Council. Council members will act on the veto at a June 5 meeting. In this breaking news editorial, The Tennessean argues that the council should let Purcell's decision stand. Read more

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InDesign CS3: Not just ‘wow.’ It’s ‘yee-haaahhhh!’

Ed Henninger

By Ed Henninger

There are so many good things to say about the new InDesign – a major component of Adobe Creative Suite 3 – that it’s tough to cram all the good stuff into just one column.
 
Adobe provided a full copy of Creative Suite Design Premium for review and I’m happy to say that all the “wow” I heard and read is no hype. In fact, some of the new features included in InDesign CS3 are near amazing.
 
Here are just a few:
 
PANELS. These are “palettes” updated. They’re easier to use, more capable and they collapse as icons to the side of the screen in a more convenient fashion. As always with Creative Suite applications, placement and configuration of these is highly user-definable.
 
WORKSPACE. Want your control panel at the bottom of the screen? OK. Want the tools horizontally at the top? Yep. Want to have your panels in a specific order – and grouped with other panels? Gotcha covered. I’m a perfectionist about my workspace but it only took me about a half-hour from installation to ready-to-work configuration, even with all the new features in InDesign CS3.
 
CONTROL PANEL. If Adobe keeps at it, by about CS5 or CS6 there’ll no longer be a need for other interface tools or panels. In this panel alone (depending upon the tool you’ve selected) you can do the usual such as selecting type face or rule weight. You can also choose a bulleted or numbered list, create a paragraph or character style, create an object style, align items, clear attributes, adjust line spacing, add a drop shadow or other effect (more later) adjust opacity, flip or rotate, set runaround, clear overrides to styles and…and…and…
 
EFFECTS. Many of the popular effects from Photoshop have now been incorporated into InDesign. Some of these are bevel and emboss, outer and inner glow, inner shadow – and a new directional feather capability.
 
SHORTCUTS. Want to decrease the scale of a headline face? There’s no shortcut for that. But you can create one for yourself. Not sure whether there’s a shortcut to create a new character style? Just check the “Keyboard Shortcuts…” item near the bottom of the Edit menu.
 
PLACE. Here’s one improvement that will go over big with those of us who use more than just a couple of photos or graphics on a page. Use the “place” command and then select more than one photo or graphic. The cursor loads with the visual, along with a tiny number letting you know how many visuals have been loaded. I’ve tested this with more than three dozen visuals – all placed effortlessly, no delay, no crash. This is more than a “wow.” It’s a definite “yee-haaahhhh!”
 
SPEED. I can’t remember one time when I’ve experienced the spinning beach ball. Everything about CS3 is quicker – and slicker – than ever.

Some doubters may have been wondering what new additions Adobe could possibly have brought to InDesign in the relatively short time since the release of CS2. After all, Creative Suite 2 is a powerful piece of software.
 
For me, it’s like climbing out of a NASCAR racer – and strapping on an F/A-22 Raptor fighter jet.
 
IF THIS COLUMN has been helpful, you’ll find more help in my book, "Henninger on Design." With the help of "Henninger on Design," you’ll become a better designer because you’ll become a thinking designer. Find out more by visiting my Web site: www.henningerconsulting.com.

Ed Henninger is an independent newspaper consultant and the director of Henninger Consulting, which offers comprehensive newspaper design services including redesigns, workshops, training and evaluations. E-mail: edh@henningerconsulting.com. On the web: www.henningerconsulting.com. Phone: 803-327-3322.

The Secret to Being a Great Editor

Dorie L. Griggs

By Dorie L. Griggs

A few years ago I wrote a column for this publication, “Do you work for the pointy haired boss?” At the time, that one column received more hits than any other I had written. I’m not sure what that says about the state of bosses in the newspaper business.  Since that time I’ve discovered what qualities a journalist looks for in a great editor.

The secret to being a good editor lies in the criteria list for the Mimi Award for editors, developed by the Dart Society. The award recognizes editors who strive for excellence in reporting while also being a compassionate presence to their staff.

The award is named for Mimi Burkhardt, an editor for the Providence Journal who died suddenly in 2004.   Mimi pushed her staff toward excellence while remaining a compassionate presence.  She edited the Dart Award-winning series, “Rape in a Small Town.”  During the investigation of the story, which involved a popular high school football player and a fellow classmate, reporter Kate Bramson discovered the victim had been listed in the newspaper's honor roll often over the years.  After the rape however, the victim's name did not appear.  When Bramson shared this discovery with Mimi she wept at the thought of the pain that young victim endured. Bramson shared this and other stories with her class of Dart Center Ochberg Fellows in 2005.  Out of her stories about a compassionate editor who inspired excellence in her reporters, the idea for an award to recognize outstanding editors was born.

As the person responsible for keeping the nomination and selection process moving along, I had the opportunity to read each nomination and listen as the selection committee reviewed the candidates.  All the editors nominated deserve recognition for their work.  Ultimately the selection committee chose David Clark Scott of the Christian Science Monitor to receive the first Mimi Award.

Scott’s nomination included an essay by two reporters who worked for him.  The first, Abe McLaughlin, recounted how Scott tirelessly worked to get McLaughlin the medical attention he needed when he contracted Malaria while reporting from a remote area of Africa.  The second reporter, Jill Carroll, told of how when she was hired as a freelancer, Scott’s first questions were for her safety.  She recounted how, no matter how tight the deadline, he found time to say thank you for her work.  On Jan. 7, 2006, Carroll’s translator was killed and insurgents kidnapped her.  Scott worked with the CS Monitor’s “Team Jill” to win her release after 82 days of captivity.  He later edited her 11-part series, which recounted the details of her capture.  The Christian Science Church helped to take care of the family of slain translator, Alan Enwiya.

At the award presentation April 19 and during the dinner following, I heard more stories of how David Clark Scott supported, encouraged and pushed for excellence while being an empathic presence for his reporters.  Scott truly embodies the qualities of a great editor as outlined in the Mimi Award criteria list:

• Care deeply about the work, the people we’re reporting on and the reporter.
• Have a real passion for "Act II journalism" championed by the Dart Center, and a keen understanding of how to navigate the emotional landscape where these stories are found.
• Challenge reporters to do better and nurture them along the way, forcing them to see possibilities for a story they may not have seen. This type of editor is acutely aware that even a small story may mean as much to a reporter’s development as the big stories the paper is pursuing.
• Have a deep respect for the English language and the ability to help reporters write crisp, gripping prose and well-structured, meaningful stories that get it right. This type of editor has a sharp eye for details and is highly skilled at identifying flaws, holes and ambiguities in writing.
• Make the work of their reporters better, without imposing their own writing style on the reporters’ work.
• Respond with empathy as reporters are out in the field dealing with victims of tragedy and understand that reporting such stories and interviewing such individuals may require reporters to do their work differently than they otherwise would. Such editors know when to tell their reporters to take a break from the story and focus on themselves.
• Fight to get reporters the time and space they need for truly important stories.
• Have a personal involvement with the story, as if their name is going on it, but are not seeking the glory for the work.

If you have ideas for future One-On-One topics, please send them to me at dorie@dorielgriggs.com.

Dorie L. Griggs holds a master of divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary.  She is the producer of Faith And The City Forum: Interfaith Dialogue on Civic Issues, a cable TV program in Atlanta.  For the past 5 years she has researched and worked in the area of emotional support of journalists.  Contact her through the web site: www.dorielgriggs.com

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