The Courtyard by Marriott in St. Petersburg, Fla., is the smallest Marriott I've stayed at in years. It's making the palm trees outside my second floor window look tall.
But you don't care about palm trees — or about the landscaping plants that caught my eye during the rather lengthy shuttle ride from the airport, so let me hurry up and report that I have been networking on your behalf already.
I have learned there are 25 Features staff members on the Kansas City Star and they produce several weekly sections, three of which are general features. Their Sunday section is mostly arts, with an art columnist; they have a home and garden section and a weekend section on Thursdays. They have a popular books page, not much travel. Recently they have been handed responsibility for Ink, a 60-page tab aimed at young professionals that used to have a staff of 9. Now it has one editor and access to the Features department.
And they have a new Features AME, Kathy Lu — as of last week. Lu came from The Roanoke Times. She was surprised that her staff editors all gather their own wire fillers and run their own sections. She was surprised that some of us are also shooting photos and video.
She was in my shuttle from the airport.
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