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June 05, 2007
The best laid plans...

Just a quick follow up to yesterday’s blog...

Yesterday I mentioned three stories we were working as potential A1 centerpieces. But in the end the story that occupied that position – Tux Turkel’s article about L.L. Bean’s plan to develop a 700-acre outdoor adventure center – was one that we weren’t even aware of when we held our morning news meeting.

It just illustrates another reality of publishing a daily newspaper. As editors we can plan all we want at a morning meeting, but we also need to be prepared to throw the plan out at a moment’s notice.

Posted by Andrew Russell at 02:02 PM

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Now run the LLBEAN story next to the one on the legislature's 'big box' restrictions, so your readers can tell the 'good' big box from the 'bad' big box more easily!

Posted by fjheller
June 6, 2007 03:23 PM

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Andrew is the assistant managing editor/local news for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He also supervises the paper's watchdog team, which includes reporters who cover education, politics and state and city government. Andrew worked as city editor, regional editor and as a reporter covering Portland City Hall and York County.

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