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1:34 PM, September 29, 2006

Various things for your Friday afternoon:

NYT will add ragged-right to denote opinion in news pages. Chaos! Slippery slope! Next thing you know you’re The Morning Call!

Jim Jennings quits as Toronto Sun editor-in-chief. Jennings was an SND president back in the day. Says: “I worry about what will happen to the paper in the coming months.”

Plain Dealer’s Steven Beard to join Indianapolis Star. Huzzah!

Steven Heller-written obit on Tom Suzuki, influential textbook designer. “He had that important editorial designer gift — he actually read what he was designing for.”

Juan Antonio Giner’s ecstatic about the effect of Heller’s sabbatical on the design of the NYT Book Review. He’s got 10 suggestions for the Book Review. No. 10: “Fire Steven Heller.” Ooof!

Nova Scotia entrepreneurs to launch a PM tab. Will start at 10,000 copies a day, printed on the Halifax Chronicle Herald's presses. Also, word on the street in Toronto is that The Star’s downloadable PDF PM tab is doing better than expected. Ad positions sold out and lots of subway sightings.

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Stephen Heller's obit of Suzuki was good. There were several details that I had not previously known.

Unfortunately, he repeated some of the errors that were in from the obit that was sent out around here in DC. He was smart enough to realize that Stanford isn't in Berkeley (as the original indicated) but he missed the fact that Chouinard Art Institute is now the California Insitute of the Arts (or CalArts as it is known).

There is no California School of Fine Arts (there was, but it became the San Francisco Art Institute something like 40-50 years ago.)

Posted by: DC1974 at October 2, 2006 9:22 AM

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