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JUNE ARTICLES Boot camp deadline is July 1 Plans are well underway for the second annual Kentucky Press Association Journalism Boot Camp at Georgetown College. Again this year, Jim St. Clair, associate professor of journalism at Indiana University Southeast, will be the boot camp instructor. Boot camp reservations will be accepted through Monday, July 1, or until all slots have been filled ñ whichever comes first. Public inquiries about the boot camp are far ahead of last year's pace. By mid-May, more than 50 individuals had called KPA for more information. Callers are sent an information packet. That's more than twice as many as last year. Although the boot camp is primarily a service to KPA member newspapers, openings in the class are available to the public and have been advertised in a series of statewide classifieds. The boot camp can accommodate 24 students. Several individuals have already reserved slots.
Well-written obits have a big impact on our readers More than 30 years ago, J.D. Minnehan made us diagram sentences on the blackboard until I wanted to gnaw off my right hand so I'd have a good excuse for not holding the chalk. Fortunately, I reconsidered. Today, I still have my right hand and whatever grammar I know I can credit to J.D. Minnehan. Mr. Minnehan was my junior high school English teacher. That was more than 30 years ago. Fresh from college, he was in his first year or two of teaching. Ten years older than most of his students, he was an adult. At the time, 10 years seemed like an eternity. Now, it's nothing. Nearly 800 students attend 2002 KHSJA convention In the days that followed, e-mail after e-mail from high school journalism teachers and advisers alike repeated the same message - thanks for putting on a great 2002 Kentucky High School Journalism Association convention. The daylong May 1 convention at Louisville's Galt House East drew 785 high school students making it the largest KHSJA gathering yet. Adding professional journalists and guests, the noon awards luncheon included more than 850 participants.
Winchester publisher concludes eight years on NAA board Winchester Sun publisher Betty Berryman knows what it's like to be the only woman at a meeting. She's found herself in that situation frequently in her career. Berryman was the first president of the Kentucky Press Association to be female. That was in 1986. Then in 1994, she was invited to join the Newspaper Association of America's board of directors. Again, she was the only woman on the board at the time. About a year later, Danville Advocate Messenger publisher Mary Schurz - who served as KPA president in 1992 - also joined the NAA board. " For awhile, it was just two Kentucky women on the NAA board," Berryman said. State's papers gear up for second big NIE project Last fall, 44 Kentucky newspapers published "Luke in a Really Big Pickle" and gave rave reviews to KPA's Kentucky Network for Newspaper in Education literacy project. Now, a second NIE project, "Noodles," is underway. Because your paper is a KPA member, there's no cost to publish this new chapter story for students in grades 2-6. It supplements your in-paper features and help students, families and teachers read together and help meet Kentucky's academic standards. KNNIE is again paying the publication costs for any Kentucky paper that wants to publish the seven-week chapter story. All your paper has to do is donate the space.
Former Western Kentucky editor joins news bureau Dana Ehlschide has accepted the position of KPA news bureau director. She was the former editor of the McLean County News in Calhoun but has been employed outside the newspaper industry for the past several months. Ehlschide, a Central City resident, was also formerly on the Greenville Leader News staff. She is a graduate of Murray State University with a degree in journalism.
Landmark establishes Innovation Fund The Landmark Publishing Group, which includes Landmark Community Newspapers Inc., headquartered in Kentucky, has launched the Innovation Fund. The fund's purpose is to provide seed money, guidance and inspiration for Landmark properties looking to start new products and publications, in addition to running properties more efficiently. The fund will have $2 million in seed money, according to a story in the May issue of the LCNI News. The money will fund the start-ups of new products and publications as well as projects that improve existing operations. A panel of Landmark executives will select projects to be implemented. They will be chosen based on adding profitable revenue or reducing expenses.
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