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October 2007
October 23, 2007
Finally! A Thanksgiving series!

More on the Thanksgiving week series.

I attended a brainstorming meeting today with several reporters to come up with some ideas and map out several days’ worth of stories to run during the holiday week. The reporters were David Hench, Beth Quimby, Josie Huang, Ray Routhier and Tom Bell.

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Posted by Andrew Russell at 03:42 PM
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October 12, 2007
Turkey Day series followup

Last month I put out a call for Thanksgiving story ideas. Nobody responded.

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Posted by Andrew Russell at 02:02 PM
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October 01, 2007
Here come the candidates

Last week’s campaign visits by two presidential candidates, Rudy Giuliani for the Republicans and Barack Obama for the Democrats, prompted several discussions here about where to play the stories.

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Posted by Andrew Russell at 12:41 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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Finally! A Thanksgiving series! (1)
John Lovell wrote: Those are all good ideas. I'll be eager to see how well they come out....

Turkey Day series followup (2)
Mitch wrote: Andrew, This is the first time I have looked at your blog. How about ...

Here come the candidates (3)
John Lovell wrote: Let’s assume that the city editor’s numerous questions about how he should ...