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MARCH ARTICLES Training seminars abound in March, April The Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and the Kentucky Press Association are sponsoring the SNPA Traveling Campus to be held in Louisville April 17-19 at the Hurstbourne Hotel and Convention Center, off Hurstbourne Lane, and near Interstate 64. Best of all, Traveling Campus sessions are free. The Kentucky AP Editors Association is helping support attendance of the event which is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which promotes excellence in journalism. The three-day extravaganza of sessions will appeal to staffers from every department of your newspaper.
Earnhardt's death, Sept. 11 lead to legislative proposals NASCAR and Attack on America events are getting lots of attention in legislatures across the nation. And Kentucky is no different. Dale Earnhardt’s death in last year’s Daytona 500 has led several states to take up discussions on autopsy photos and records, while the Attack on America in September has resulted in numerous government security bills around the country. And strangely enough, the versions between states vary only slightly. Lexington, Winchester and Hopkinsville win in SNPA Three Kentucky newspapers were honored recently with five awards recognizing their excellence in literacy programs, Newspapers in Education and advertising. The Lexington Herald-Leader was recognized for using its efforts to drive up sales while being named in the dealer category of the Newspaper Association of America’s 2002 Dandy Awards for excellence in automotive newspaper advertising.
Kentucky people, papers in the news
Staats to retire from AP after 40 years After a dozen news and administrative positions around the country with the Associated Press, Louisville AP Bureau Chief Ed Staats never counted on staying in one place so long. It was late 1984 when Staats became Louisville bureau chief. In April, the West Virginia native will retire from AP after more than 40 years of service. Staats and his wife, Charlene, Oldham County residents, plan to stay in suburban Louisville after retiring. “ After 17 or 18 years, it seems like there is no place better to go,” Staats said of Kentucky. People here are among the most cordial he’s met anywhere, he said. As bureau chief in Louisville, Staats has been responsible for AP's news staff, the news and photo reports and the business relationship with member newspapers.
Two Kentucky daily newspapers are sold
Newspapers should grow readership, even if it means giving papers away, speaker tells convention attendees The average reader spends 28 minutes a day with their newspaper. If you find comfort in that number, think again. In comparison, the average person spends 3-and-a-half hours a day watching television. Those were just some of the results of a project begun four years ago at the Readership Institute, John Lavine, the institute’s director, told KPA convention attendees in Lexington in late January. In addition to being director of the Readership Institute, Lavine was the founding director of the Media Management Center, both at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. He is a professor of media management and strategy in the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the Medill School of Journalism.
AOC to sponsor Bench-Press meeting in Somerset this month The Administrative Office of the Courts is conducting a seminar for circuit/district judges and the news media in the Southeast Kentucky region. Newspapers in the region should have received a letter from the AOC recently inviting them to participate in the March 21 Bench-Press Conference in Somerset at the Center for Rural Department, 2292 South U.S. 27. This will be the seventh regional conference the AOC and KPA have conducted around the state. A deli lunch will be served at noon and the discussion will be from 12:30 to about 4:30 p.m.
Wilson named interim director of UK journalism, telecommunications Richard “Dick” Wilson, a retired Louisville Courier-Journal reporter and news bureau chief, has been named interim director of the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications. Wilson's appointment is subject to approval by the UK Board of Trustees at its March 5 meeting.
Improving single copy sales – just being there is half the battle Having a front page with the latest news, gripping headlines and unique photos will spur single-copy sales but so does just having the paper available for customers. That was the message from Kent Carpenter, former circulation director with the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer and now with USA Today in Chicago.
To catch a thief Quick thinking by staff members of the Big Sandy News helped make an arrest in a bank robbery case and perhaps prevented a second bank heist. It started when the Community Trust Bank in Fort Gay, W. Va., was robbed on Jan. 10. Police in West Virginia took copies of photos of the robber, who had been caught on the bank’s security camera, to the Big Sandy News because it was thought the robber was from Eastern Kentucky. Police asked the paper to publish the photos to see if any readers recognized him.
Judge withdraws charge against Ledger-Independent A contempt citation issued against The Ledger-Independent in Maysville in December in connection with a Fleming County trial has been withdrawn. Special Judge D. Michael Foellger issued the citation claiming Kelly Sudzina, a Ledger-Independent reporter, violated a court order handed down during the November trial of a Flemingsburg couple.
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