MAY

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Board votes to combine KPA contests

The Kentucky Press Association Board of Directors has accepted the recommendations of its Contest Committee to combine the Better and Fall Newspaper contests into one.

The move was necessitated after the board voted at the Fall 2001 Board Retreat to discontinue the KPA Summer Convention after this year's meeting in Gatlinburg. The 2002 KPA Summer Convention will be June 20-22 and will be combined with the Tennessee Press Association.

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Nelson elected VP

John Nelson, managing editor of the Danville Advocate Messenger, has been elected vice president of the Kentucky Press Association by its board of directors. Nelson has served on the KPA board since 1995.

The vice presidency became vacant when Sharon Tuminski of the Winchester Sun moved into the office of president-elect earlier this year. That followed the resignation of David Greer, who would have been president-elect for 2002, but instead accepted a position at KPA as member services director.

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Media fared well in 2002 General Assembly

Whew! We made it through the 2002 General Assembly session. Relatively unscathed. In fact, considering the number of bills the KPA actively lobbied against, the result was an excellent one.

There were 25 bills during this session which so threatened press and public rights to information that KPA felt compelled to oppose them actively. We tracked another seven because they contained language dealing with access to records and we wanted to make sure that right was not amended away during the session. Of all these bills, only four that really concerned us passed both chambers and were signed by the governor.

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Principal says editorial criticizing discipline not fair or balanced

The future of the student newspaper at Tates Creek High School in Lexington is unclear after the last edition contained an editorial the school principal calls unfair.

" I have just told the sponsor that until further notice, the newspaper may not be publishing in May," principal Bob Gardner said. "I haven't made a final decision."

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KHAJA convention gets record attendance

More than 785 students attended the Kentucky High School Journalism Association’s annual statewide convention on May 1 in Louisville. More than 850 attended the convention’s awards luncheon. That makes the 2002 KHSJA convention the largest ever.

More than 30 journalists made presentations to students. The results of the popular KHSJA contest were announced at a noon luncheon. David Hawpe, vice president and editorial page editor of The Courier-Journal, was the keynote speaker.

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The 2002 telemarketing bill - What does it mean to Kentucky Newspapers

In March, Gov. Paul Patton signed into law HB 47, a bill dealing with telephone solicitations. Since many Kentucky newspapers use telephone solicitations for subscriptions, it's important that we all understand the new rules of the game.

HB 47 amended an existing law concerning telephone solicitations, KRS 367.46951-.46999. The greatest change is the creation of the zero call list. Any person who chooses to put his or her name on this list (maintained by the Attorney General's Division of Consumer Protection) ensures that no Kentucky unsolicited telephone solicitations will be made to his or her home telephone number. (That sounds like double talk, but the law allows for the possibility that a person on the zero call list might still invite a solicitation call from a particular vendor. For example, Mr. Zero Call could sign a form requesting a call when he visits that vendor's booth at the State Fair.) Once on the zero call list a name remains there until its owner asks to remove it.

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This years college seniors were infants when KPA last raised dues

Most of this year’s college seniors were born in 1980 or 1981. They’ve been through diapers, the “Terrible Twos,” day care/babysitters, kindergarten, 12 years of secondary education and four years of higher education.

That’s the best way to relate to the last time the Kentucky Press Association had a dues increase.

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