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What were the ideas and thoughts behind Studio 55?
January 24, 2007

Months before we started working at the Naples Daily News (heck, well before anyone at Scripps had even talked to me about possibly coming to Florida), the publisher there — John Fish — really wanted to do a daily online newscast.

The working title for this project was “10@4,” which meant 10 minutes of local news at 4 p.m. each day. There was even a prototype of this newscast shot long before our team had arrived in Florida.

John Fish loves local video on a newspaper site.

When we worked together at The Topeka Capital-Journal back in 2000, …