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APRIL ARTICLES Students chosen for KPA internships The Kentucky Journalism Foundation internship program has awarded 22 KPA newspapers with summer help from Kentucky colleges and universities. Newspapers who participate in the Statewide Classified Program are eligible to receive an intern. Each year, the foundation awards at least 20 internships with Kentucky newspapers and pays the intern’s $3000 “salary” for the 10-week period.
Herald-Leader NIE program named best of the best In presenting the grand prize to the Lexington Herald-Leader, the 2006 NIE Literacy Committee Chairman Hunter George noted that judges had a lot of very good entries to consider this year. All entries that placed first in any category were considered for the Best of the Best Award. Here are some of the comments made by judges who awarded honors to this newspaper in a category previously announced.
Walking in Washington
Newspapers experiment with new models Newspaper Next project, a yearlong effort to re-energize the newspaper industry, has chosen six newspaper companies to receive help on their ideas for improving their businesses. Newspaper Next, which is backed by more than $2 million from the American Press Institute, solicited proposals in February after a two-day meeting of nearly 100 newspaper executives in Washington. The project will produce a report late this year, which will include lessons learned from the six ideas that have been selected for aid, and begin testing some conclusions at a daily newspaper by early 2007.
People and Papers
The excitement is still in her voice. A year after she first “read” a newspaper, Pamela Roarke-Glisson still loves to talk about it. “It’s going wonderful,” she said. Pamela, you may remember, has been blind all of her adult life. She hasn’t been able to read a newspaper in that time.
Passings
The Kentucky Press Association will sponsor two one-day journalism boot camps in July. A July 20 boot camp will be held at The Herald-Leader in Lexington while the July 27 event will be held at the Country Cupboard restaurant in Madisonville. Those are Thursdays. Think of these as affordable, close-to-home continuing education workshops for your newsroom veterans. Both are the same locations as last year’s boot camps. The registration fee will be $20 per person, which includes lunch. Those attending the Lexington boot camp will get a catered lunch while the Madisonville crowd will be get to partake in the Country Cupboard’s sinfully delicious lunch buffet.
By the numbers Some facts and figures about Kentucky’s NEWSLINE service:
Every time I go to a contest judging I get more excited about my job. I work with some of the best newspapers in the country. The design elements in some of these ads are unbelievable and it always makes me happy to be a part of the process. You can enjoy the creativity of our world by attending the Spring Ad Seminar April 26 and 27. This year’s seminar will be Thursday and Friday, April 27 and 28, at the Holiday Inn/Fern Valley Road in Louisville.
Sunshine was nowhere to be found in Frankfort this year. If I had to sum up the 2006 General Assembly session in one word it would be "CLOSED." We lobbied against and tracked 38 bills, far more than usual, even for a long session. The vast majority of these bills proposed to restrict the public's access in some way - access to public records and meetings and to court records and court proceedings.
Man sues newspaper for using his photo, wrongly identifying it as Boney A Lexington man recently sued The Courier-Journal, claiming he was humiliated after being identified last year in a picture as Charles Boney, the man recently convicted of conspiring with David Camm to kill Camm's family. Daryl French's lawsuit alleges that a March 20, 2005, article on Boney being a suspect in the September 2000 murders of Kimberly Camm and the Camms' two children included a picture inside the newspaper of French, with a caption saying he was Boney.
Western Kentucky to hold First Amendment First celebration WKU's School of Journalism and Broadcasting is planning its second First Amendment First celebration April 20.
Robie Scott, educational services manager for the Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.), will bring her enthusiasm and experience to Indiana as the keynote speaker at the NIE Conference June 22-23 in Brown County State Park, Nashville, Ind.
High school journalists receive awards from WKU Western Kentucky University’s Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists hosted its 26th Mark of Excellence Newspaper and Broadcasting awards ceremony March 8 at Mass Media and Technology Hall Auditorium. Mark Goodman, executive director of the Student Press Law Center based in Arlington, Va., was the guest speaker. Approximately 300 students from 19 schools attended the awards ceremony.
June Wiley has been honored for her years of service at The Harrodsburg Herald on more than one occasion - after all, this marks her 63rd year at the newspaper. Wiley, 85, is retiring but not because of her age “it’s my back - I don’t feel good,”she said.
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KPA honored by publishers group for literacy
program
NEWSLINE benefitting visually handicapped 
Summer camp 
Spring on over to annual ad seminar 
Ain’t no sunshine ... this year in Frankfort 
Four states will gather at NIE conference 
After 63 years, Wiley steps down