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JUNE 2006 ARTICLES
The Kentucky Press Association is ready to begin its newest member service - online sexual harassment training for employees of member newspapers. To offer the service, KPA has affiliated with New Media Learning of Napa, Calif., an online-training provider. KPA’s board voted for the association to pay the initial license fee but for newspapers to pay for their employees’ training not to exceed $10 per employee. And the cost could be lower depending on the number of signups.
Plans are being finalized for two one-day KPA mini journalism boot camps for reporters during July. The July 20 session will be held at the Lexington Herald-Leader. The July 27 boot camp will be held in Madisonville at the Country Cupboard Restaurant. Both dates are Thursdays. The cost is only $20 per person and that includes lunch. Both boot camps will feature the same topics and will be geared toward reporters. Both will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. local time. The morning sessions will be 9 a.m. to noon while the afternoons run from 1-4 p.m.
I don’t know if kids still do it but growing up in a small town, “sleeping out” during the summer was one of the highlights. Of course, there was little “sleeping” and lots of roaming. Not to cause trouble or do anything wrong, just get out and explore if you know what I mean. One of the kids I stayed with several times each summer was a friend named Monty Hinton. Monty and I were growing up together and had a pretty close friendship. We traveled to Reds’ games, went on Kiwanis Club excursions and maybe a couple of times each week, we’d “sleep out” at his house.
During the recent newspaper advertising manager's conference a session on having a member driven ad network peaked my interest. When you are member driven, your staff focuses on sales development, growth in network revenue and relationship management. I feel like the staff at KPS listens to the needs of our member newspapers and continues to stay focused on helping meet those needs. As partners with our newspaper members, the staff has high expectations for meeting sales goals. We try to provide the highest level of personal service. When staff members are not in the office, an auto reply directs you to another staff member or you can always call my cell phone. That number is always available on my email and voice mail.
If you asked Charles Thomas, the Republican nominee for Fayette County judge executive, whether he had been charged with harassment or terroristic threatening, he could answer "no." It wouldn't be the truth, but it would be the "legal" truth because the records of those charges have been expunged. Kentucky has strong laws on the expungement of criminal records, and the General Assembly has recently taken a hard look at making them even stronger. After he won the GOP nomination by 400 votes, it was reported that, between 1996 and 2004, Thomas had been charged with 18 misdemeanors which included menacing, intimidating a participant in the legal process, tempering with public records, harassment, fourth-degree aggravated assault, wanton endangerment, terroristic threatening, carrying a concealed deadly weapon, and marijuana possession. Each of the 18 misdemeanor charges had been dismissed, however, and did not result in a conviction. Before he ran for office, a court granted Thomas's request to expunge all records relating to those charges.
In the opinion of the Attorney General The Kentucky Attorney General s Office has backed a request by the LaRue County Herald News to review salaries of school board employees. The paper contends that the LaRue County Board of Education violated the open records regulations by denying a request by Linda Ireland, editor of the LaRue County newspaper seeking a copy of a list of individual salaries by name of its employees.
NAA award winner
Editors selected for WKU newspaper Editors for the Western Kentucky University’s student newspaper and yearbook have been selected. Ashlee Clark, a senior news editorial journalism major from Louisville, will be editor of the College Heights Herald, WKU’s twice weekly student newspaper, for the fall 2006 semester. She was news editor in the fall of 2006 and spring of 2006. The 2006-07 Talisman yearbook editor is Heather Mitchell, a senior graphic design major from Versailles. Mitchell was design editor of the 2006 yearbook.
NASA column available to papers Most elementary age children are interested in space exploration. But how often do they find information about the very latest space discoveries and space technologies written especially for them? The short monthly columns provided by NASA's award-winning Space Place outreach program give newspaper editors a no-cost source of accurate, up-to-date, and highly readable information for their youngest readers. The columns are about 300 words and include a high-resolution image, with suggested caption, to support and enhance the text. They are written at 4th or 5th grade level. Passings
Fellow newspaper publishers, owners, If you haven't done so, I would encourage each of you to read the guest editorial published in the April edition of PubAux concerning the giving away of public notice advertising to the Internet and the constant threat by elected officials. Although the article was spurred by a Supreme Court ruling in Washington State, I think each of us should take heed to its specific warning: stop trying to compromise away our rights with elected officials. This is something that has cost the Kentucky newspaper industry literally thousands upon thousands of dollars in public notice advertising over the past few years. People and Papers
Newspaper circulation drops 2.5 percent over six-month period Daily circulation fell 2.5 percent at U.S. newspapers in the six-month period ending in March, according to data recently released, reflecting the industry's ongoing struggle to retain paying customers amid competition from the Internet and other media outlets. The Newspaper Association of America, analyzing data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, also reported that Sunday circulation fell 3.1 percent at the 610 newspapers reporting those figures. The 2.5 percent decline in average paid weekday circulation was based on data from 770 newspapers reporting to the Audit Bureau.
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA) honored KPA’s “Rockin’ Readin’ Revolution 2005” with a second-place award for Best Statewide Award. Thanks to LG&E & Kentucky Utilities, both E.ON Companies, for their support. Watch for “Tails from the Bluegrass II” this fall!
Want to see the winning ads from the 2006 Ad Contest up close and personal?? Now you can order a cd that has all the First Place ads from the 2006 Ad Contest. Click Here for PDF of the order form. Send checks for $5.00 along with the order form to:
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Knowing the line
Disaster reporting and polishing writing and editing techniques
to be featured at boot camps
Kids missing out on bike rides?
Attention to detail is a priority
Expungement erases part of history
NAA
2006 Circulation Sales Executive of the Years awards went to, from left,
Maria Ravera, Home Delivery Sales Manager, Sacramento Bee, over 150,000
circulation; Mike Memphis, Circulation Director, Carroll County Times of
LCNI, overall category winner; Jamie Sizemore, Circulation Manager, The
News-Enterprise of LCNI, under 150,000 circulation category winner.
Guest Editorial
CONGRATULATIONS KPA - SECOND PLACE
2006
Ad Contest CD