Great Falls Tribune will be designed in Phoenix, Arizona

Gannett Corp. announced Tuesday that its newspapers will be designed at five “hubs” nationwide: Asbury, Des Moines, Louisville, Nashville, Phoenix.

The changeover will begin in 2011.

That means local newspapers will ship off their stories and photos to page designers who are thousands of miles away. And those people will determine how the next day’s newspaper looks. [...]

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Where are the comics? We goofed!

We made a mistake Wednesday, and accidentally left the comics out of the newspaper.

We heard from lots of you, and are really sorry that the mistake happened.

However, mistakes do happen every day – especially when you’re producing a daily product with thousands of individual pieces.

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