FEBRUARY MID MONTH UPDATE 2007 ARTICLES

Spring Ad Seminar Set for May 17-18

The 2007 Kentucky Press Association Spring Advertising Seminar is scheduled for May 17-18 at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Louisville. The facility is located just off I-64 and Hurstbourne Lane.

You've asked us to bring back Mitch Henderson and we are. Mitch has over 25 years’ marketing experience. For 13 years he owned an advertising agency with offices in Seattle and Sacramento. Mitch left the agency business in 1991 to take a job as publisher of a community newspaper in Poulsbo, WA, and now operates his own business, MarketPro.

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Sign Up To Receive Amber Alerts

While reviewing some legislation for the 2007 Kentucky General Assembly, we ran across a current law (KRS Chapter 16) that details the state's Amber Alert system. In that language, it states that the Department of State Police shall work with.....and includes the Kentucky Press Association.

KPA Executive Director David T. Thompson met with Major Mitch Bailey from KSP recently on ways KPA and newspapers could participate in notifying the public when an Amber Alert has been issued.

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Ad Contest Deadline Nearing

Spring’s just around the corner, we all hope, and that means it’s time for you to start gathering your entries for the Excellence in Kentucky Newspapers Advertising Competition - 2007. Get all information including entry forms, rules, arrows and tearsheet tabs at www.kypress.com/adcontest.

The entry period is for all issues published between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2006.

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Mountain Eagle, Appalachian News Express fight competition from hospital paper

Reprinted from Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues Blog

The Mountain Eagle of Whitesburg, Ky., which has given the people of Letcher County crusading journalism despite advertiser boycotts, personal ostracism and the firebombing of its office, now has a foe from a very unusual and unexpected source -- a regional hospital that publishes a newspaper and has been using a non-profit mailing permit to send it to all households in three counties.

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Weeklies should get involved in high calling of Sunshine Week, Mar. 11-17

Reprinted from the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues Blog

Keeping government open and accountable is the highest calling of a journalist. Sunshine Week, March 11-17, offers a chance to refresh that mission and remind the public of its value, says National Newspaper Association President Jerry Tidwell, publisher of the Hood County News in Granbury, Tex

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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.

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21 Newspapers, 4 Associates to get interns from KPA

The Kentucky Journalism Foundation will be giving 21 internships this summer -- 20 of those to students and 1 to a faculty member. And the KPA Associates Division will be awarding four Public Relations interns to Associate Division members.

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Ben Franklin Nominations Due February 23

It's time for Ben Franklin nominations. The Ben Franklin Award is sponsored by the U.S. Postal Service and given out by the National Newspaper Association at its Government Affairs Conference in March. It honors outstanding service to newspapers by local postal employees. Recipients are honored at the state level and one postal employee is selected from the entrants to receive the Ben Franklin Award.

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