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With retrenchment and job reductions — oh, let’s call them what they really are: mass firings — as subtext, three of the more influential clubs associated with the newspaper industry held their annual conventions last week. There were hopeful twists amid fear and loathing. The Society for News Design and the Associated Press Managing Editors [...]

Congratulations to Jonathan Dube, formerly of MSNBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., and newly named VP of ABCNews.com. Dube is also president of the Online News Association, an organization for journalists working in online media, and publisher of CyberJournalist.net.