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Courtney Spradlin, reporter and social media editor for the Log Cabin Democrat has been named one of Editor & Publisher's 25 Under 35. Each year E&P honors the next generation of journalists who are unafraid of change, at ease with digital multitasking and able to learn new job skills overnight. This drive and determination ensures that the future is bright for newspapers.

Richard Duke, who has served as interim editor for the past three months, will take over the position permanently, Log Cabin Democrat Publisher Alan English announced Thursday.

“Ricky is approachable and dynamic, seeing new ways of reporting to keep readers informed,” English said. “His understanding of what a community newspaper can and should do to thrive in print and in a digital world is exactly what we need.”  

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The Brainerd (Minn.) Dispatch has a bold new design! Keith Hansen: “Dispatch readers had been viewing the same page design for generations, as have most daily newspapers around the United States. Key lines separated columns, stories and photos. It was a grid system that had grown old.

Savannah Morning News gets behind the scenes of film production as Hollywood meets the Deep South. Savannah, Ga. has been transformed into New York City for an upcoming biopic about the legendary club, CBGB. “CBGB” follows the story of a New York nightclub that became famous as the birthplace of the American punk movement.