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JANUARY 2007 ARTICLES
The annual KPA convention on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 25 and 26 in Louisville promises to be one of the best groups of speakers and breakout sessions we’ve ever had. The convention site is the Hyatt Regency at 320 W. Jefferson in downtown Louisville. The convention begins Thursday with two terrific breakout sessions. Kevin Slimp of the Institute of Newspaper Technology will spend three hours in the morning discussing “What’s new in newspaper technology?"
Mark Thomas thinks it’s great. Public officials getting together frequently for “cereal" meetings. “They ought to be able to sit down and have breakfast together whenever they want." Mark is my counterpart at the Oklahoma Press Association and you have to know him to appreciate his humor. Of course, we’re talking “serial" meetings.
Those with ink in their veins seem to spend a fair amount of time these days worrying about the future of newspapers and all matters financial – advertising revenue trends, circulation ups and downs, finding successful online business models, controlling expenses and more. And those are mighty important issues but sometimes forgotten is the undeniable fact that working at a paper is seldom boring and often quite entertaining. A few reader calls from my editor and publisher days come to mind. There was the reader who called to tell me that reading our paper made her sneeze. She figured she must be allergic to the ink. I had never heard of such, I told her.
It was a year for records to be made and broken. The KPS ad staff made 2006 the best year ever with over $5.3 million in sales for newspapers in Kentucky and Indiana. March and November of 2006 marked individual month records with $601,000+ and $584,000+ in sales, respectively. Another big month came for us with the all-time record month of August 2006 and $910,940+ in sales. NNA seeks nominations for Amos and McKinney awards The National Newspaper Association is calling for nominations for the 2007 Amos and McKinney awards, which are the association’s highest honors awarded to working or retired newspapermen and women who have exhibited distinguished service to the community press. E.C. Amos, former publisher of The Sidney (OH) Daily News, established the Amos Award in 1938 to honor his father, General James O. Amos, a pioneer Ohio journalist and an early-day member of the National Editorial Association, which in 1964 was renamed the National Newspaper Association. NNA calls on FTC to allow recorded voice messaging to reach paper subscribers Newspaper organization applauds government’s delay Newspapers should be permitted to use recorded voice messaging systems to provide information to readers and established business customers, even if a component of the message may lead to a transaction, the National Newspaper Association told the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC has announced that it intends to ban the use of voice recordings, even within an established business relationship. The new rule would affect newspapers' ability to contact subscribers to let them know about their cancellation dates, and provide them an opportunity to renew. People and Papers
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Conference to focus on coverage of kids and families Apply now to attend CJC's conference, "Impact Journalism: Boosting Enterprise Coverage of Children and Families," March 5-6, 2007, at the University of Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C. Today's lean newsrooms demand strong, efficient journalism skills and cutting-edge information to help prevent coverage gaps. Get a jump-start on generating short- and long-term enterprise stories around five critical topics: education; child welfare and foster care; economics and working families; juveniles and crime; and emerging science in child and adolescent development. In the opinion of the Attorney General ... Citing a lack of proof and conflicting evidence, the Kentucky Attorney General's office was unable to resolve a complaint against the Todd County Board of Education. Melony Leazer, a reporter with the Todd County Standard, sought an opinion from the AG's office regarding a possible decision made by the Todd County superintendent screening committee behind closed doors and away from public scrutiny. Leazer was concerned that the Todd County Board of Education violated provisions of the Open Meetings Act at its Nov. 20 meeting by failing to follow the formalities of going into closed session and in taking final action during that closed session.
The 13th annual Conference of the Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Commission was held Nov. 14 and Jeff Jobe, publisher and CEO of Jobe Publishing, was nominated and elected as vice chair. Each year, nominations are taken from the board and voted on for vice chair and traditionally, the vice chair moves up to the chair in the next year. Local newspaper food sections drive purchases A new study released by the Newspaper National Network LP reveals that 53 percent of women who read the food section of their newspaper identify it as their single most useful source for food information. The study was conducted for NNN by Gallup & Robinson using a national web panel.
With Herald-Leader photographer Frank Anderson about to retire, his buddies conspired to give him a special treat. UK athletics staff photographer David Coyle decided to produce a video tribute to play at a roast. Better still, they got UK Coach Tubby Smith to participate.
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Convention time is here 
What’s the deal with ‘cereal’ meetings? 
It’s
never dull in journalism world 
Advertising
records fall for KPA in 2006 
Jeff
Jobe named vice chair of Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Commission 
UKcoach
helps send off photographer 