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April 11, I had the privilege of being inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. It is an honor any journalist would be proud of and I was deeply touched to learn of my selection. However, most all of you reading this share in my award. While the name David Thompson might be printed on the plaque, there are a host of people whose names should be on there.
Content is king. Publish a strong, vibrant, interesting newspaper and readers and advertisers will follow. That applies to our broadcasting brethren too. A few years ago, it appeared cable TV would eat the broadcast networks’ lunch with a slow but steady erosion of their audience. But some wildly popular hit shows on CBS and ABC now have network executives reciting their new mantra “content is king.” And the smart ones are looking at every delivery platform available TV, online, iPods, DVDs, etc.
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Do you want fries with that? While that may not be a question that ad sales reps normally ask, we all should consider add ons when dealing with our political clients. While visiting with your client, be sure to offer all the french fries available at your location.
KPA president-elect gives insight to NIE program Attendees at this year’s Colorado Press Association Convention who sat in on this Friday afternoon session were met by a rare treat: the appearance of a genuine Kentucky Colonel. Kriss Johnson, who led the Newspaper in Education session, was made an honorary colonel last January, joining the same order as Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken. But going far beyond a good chicken recipe, her contribution served the state in drawing students and their parents to newspapers.
In the opinion of the Attorney General The Kentucky Attorney General has ruled in favor of a Lexington Herald-Leader reporter’s efforts to overturn a police department decision. The issue at hand in this appeal to the Attorney General’s office is whether the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Division of Police properly used state laws to partially deny Lexington Herald-Leader reporter Delano Massey’s May 4, 2005 request for “the case file for a rape allegation at the University of Kentucky Wildcat Lodge … on April 20, 2005” and reporter Valerie Spears Nov. 11, 2005 request for “any additions made to the Wildcat Lodge alleged rape investigation file since May 4 and/or the Herald-Leader’s last request on file.”
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Kentucky's Open Records Act celebrates its 30th birthday this year. After three decades, the reach of the sunshine law continues to be the subject of debate in the courts and at the office of the Attorney General, Kentucky's chief open records officer. Fortunately, in this installment of the battle for open government, the press has secured two important victories. Both cases involved the Courier-Journal.
With generous sponsorship from Ashland, Knight-Ridder Productions and the Kentucky Network for NIE offers your newspaper a free 16-page Newspaper in Education tab on Chemistry, a $300 value. “Chemistry is Essential to Life” is a 16-page supplement for middle and high school students that makes learning chemistry fun and profiles exciting projects scientists are working on.This is an excellent guide for science teachers and for general classroom teachers alike. Daily News helps create online yard sale maps Bowling Green Newspaper Uses 'Mashups' to Create Online Yard Sale Maps The Bowling Green Daily News has taken yard sale advertising to the next level — the paper produces detailed online maps of the week's yard sales. Click here to view yard sale maps from the Daily News. The maps are "mashups" web pages generated by combining information from several online sources. In this case, the page is created by mapbuilder.net using Google's mapping technology and Yahoo's geo-coding.
Wal-Mart says advertising tests in rural papers didn't pay off, so no more ads Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which many rural newspapers say has made life hard for them, has decided not to expand its local newspaper advertising after an experiment in Missouri and Oklahoma "showed the expense is not justified" the company said yesterday, reports The Associated Press. The test "had been closely watched by publishers who complained publicly last year that Wal-Mart sought free publicity from their newspapers but refused to buy ads . . . while driving out local businesses that had been mainstays," AP wrote.
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