JULY MID MONTH UPDATE 2006 ARTICLES

Tails From The Bluegrass II

Last fall, 84 newspapers with some 935,000 circulation participated in the most successful chapter series offered to date. Kids, teachers and parents kept up weekly with the roamings of Woody, the Kentucky weiner dog, and his sister, Chloe, as they traversed the state. Praises rang in from state and local education officials, from parents and teachers and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association presented KPA with a second place award for Tails from the Bluegrass.

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Reporting on Diverse Communities

Apply now to attend CJC's conference, "Reporting on Diverse Communities," Oct. 12-13, 2006, in Las Vegas.

In areas across the U.S., racial and ethnic "minorities" are becoming demographic majorities. At least one child in five is from an immigrant family. Is your newsroom equipped to cover your community in these times of change?

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Need Custom Art? I've Found a Place to Get It

by Kevin Slimp, July 2006

When I take a break between sessions at a convention, it’s not unusual for a software representative to attack ... I mean approach me to share information about a product or upgrade.

Such was the case in Miami a few weeks ago when Jill Addy, Senior Vice President at MultiAd, approached me about their custom artwork feature. At first, I feigned interest. Then, as she showed me what they were up to, I realized MultiAd was on to something.

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Deadline set to Sept. 1 for online sexual harassment training

Sept. 1 is the next deadline for KPA member newspapers to e-mail their flags and sexual harassment policies to New Media Learning if they want to participate in KPA’s newest member service – employee online sexual harassment training.

Flags and policies should be e-mailed to Arlene Gunter at New Media Learning via arlene.gunter@newmedialearning.com. Papers meeting the deadline should be ready to begin online training and testing by mid-September.

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Award nominations sought

Do you know a publisher, editor, reporter or photographer who has demonstrated courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism? You are invited to nominate one or more of them for the Tom and Pat Gish Award, presented by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.

The award is named for the couple who are in their 50th year of publishing The Mountain Eagle of Whitesburg, Ky. The Gishes have withstood advertiser boycotts, declining population, personal attacks and even the burning of their newspaper office to provide the citizens of Letcher County the kind of journalism often lacking in rural areas, especially those dominated by extractive industries -- in this case, primarily coal. Their coverage and commentary go beyond the boundaries of Letcher County to address issues in state and federal governments and other institutions that have a local impact, such as a new regional drug-fighting agency, the 40-year-old Appalachian Regional Commission, and the Tennessee Valley Authority and its coal-buying policies that encouraged strip mining in Central Appalachia. These are just some examples of the type of journalism worthy of the award.

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Free NASA Column

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.

The columns are offered free of charge. But editors are asked to send in a tear sheet each month.

If you would like to receive this monthly column for use in your NIE space, please contact Nancy Leon at (818) 354-1067 or at nancy.j.leon@jpl.nasa.gov

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Looking for a FREE NIE project??

If you're looking for an NIE project for the 2006-07 school year, here's another FREE idea. All you have to do is agree to publish it during the upcoming school year.

With a generous sponsorship from Ashland,Inc., Knight-Ridder Productions and the Kentucky Network for NIE is offering your newspaper a FREE 16-page Newspaper in Education tab on Chemistry. (a $300+ value)

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