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APRIL ARTICLES Court: KSU must release confiscated yearbooks A settlement’s been reached in the Kentucky State University yearbook case that calls for KSU to release the 717 copies of the Thorobred that have been locked up for almost six years. In January, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled KSU was wrong to withhold the yearbooks. On Feb. 28, the lawyers for Charles Kincaid and Capri Coffer said that KSU had agreed to release the yearbooks, pay Kincaid and Coffer $5,000 each, reimburse the Society of Professional Journalists’ defense fund and pay legal costs.
2001 KHSJA State Convention draws record crowd Over 850 pack into Galt House East for annual gathering All KPA convention-goers know the Galt House East in Louisville is big — huge, in fact. That’s why it was picked as the host facility for the 2001 Kentucky High School Journalism Association State Convention. A good thing, too. The crowd on March 22 topped 800 as high school students and their teachers came from across the state to learn more about this thing called “journalism.” This year’s meeting started the evening before the convention with a pizza party and dance for those students and advisers traveling overnight. The event featured print and broadcast professional journalists who shared insights about their career choices with the students. The journalists also took questions from the students. Eastern Ky. papers launch new editions Spring brought change to Eastern Kentucky in more ways than the blooming of dogwoods and swelling of rivers. Two new editions of multi-county coverage newspapers hit the streets — one a merged Sunday edition between the Floyd County Times and Hazard Herald that’s focusing on seven counties initially and the second, a Friday edition of the Perry County News that covers five counties and carries the name “Kentucky River News” as the masthead. The Floyd County Times and the Hazard Herald are both properties of Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc. (CNHI) and Rod Collins serves as publisher of both newspapers.
A lobbyist? Never in my wildest dreams This most recent legislative session was different in more ways than what you’ve already read about: it was the first annual session of the Kentucky General Assembly (a change made possible by a constitutional amendment voted on in the 2000 session and approved by voters last November), it only lasted 30 days, in comparison to the biennial 60-day session that we’ve all grown accustomed to and last, but certainly not least, they (lawmakers) accomplished very little. OK, I concede, maybe that’s not that much of a change after all. It was different for me because, with my recent job change from News Bureau Director to Member Services Director, I’m no longer covering the legislature and instead responsible for lobbying. Yes, I’m a lobbyist — one of those eight-letter dirty words to many, if not most, reporters. High court ruling gives journalists access to some student discipline records It was a great victory for the public’s right to know what happens in the public schools. Considering recent episodes of senseless violence in several of the nation’s public schools, including one here in Kentucky, one would hope and pray that the public now has — or should have — a keen interest in knowing what’s going on in our public schools. In a March 22 ruling, the Kentucky Supreme Court required the Hardin County Schools, based in Elizabethtown, to release the records of student disciplinary hearings — without marking out the particular school and offense — to the Elizabethtown newspaper, The News-Enterprise.
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Apperson retires, Rouse takes top post at Murray Longtime Murray Ledger & Times Publisher Walt Apperson retired from the newspaper on March 31. Alice Rouse, general manager of the newspaper, will become the new publisher. Apperson will become publisher emeritus at the newspaper and will stay involved there part-time to help during the transition. He has been publisher and co-owner at the newspaper since 1973.
WKPA picks new officers Karl Harrison, editor of The Paducah Sun, was elected president of the West Kentucky Press Association.
Media role in public’s view of youth violence debated Professionals on both sides of the issue debated how much, if any, the media’s coverage of youth violence sways public perception during a speaker series at Eastern Kentucky University on March 30. Criminologists said the media covers youth violence disproportionately to its role in society. Journalists said the very fact that it is rare and unusual is what makes those crimes newsworthy.
C-J, Hardin Co. Schools’ Supreme Court cases lauded On March 22, 2001, the Kentucky Supreme Court published two decisions affecting news media in this state. One of them concerns access to a school system’s disciplinary action statistics. The other concerns a newspaper's access to jurors in a capital murder trial.
Landmark’s Coffey to retire in August Larry Coffey, president of Landmark Community Newspapers, Inc., has announced his retirement effective in August. In making the announcement, Bruce Bradley, president of the Landmark Publishing Group, said, “It would be difficult to overstate Larry’s impact on LCNI and on Landmark Communications. He has served as president of LCNI for 24 years. He joined what was then Newspapers, Inc. in 1968 as its controller. Landmark acquired the company in 1973 and Larry was named vice president and treasurer, later being named president.”
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