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AUGUST 2007 ARTICLES
Each summer, the Kentucky Press Association teams up with papers around the state to provide internships for Kentucky college students. The internships are a great breeding ground for the next generation of Kentucky journalists. Here are some of the experiences this year’s crop of interns had and their reaction to the program:
My mom used to have a small, three-legged wooden stool. I don’t remember the stool being used for any reason, just something to set a newspaper or magazine on for a minute. It was small and thus not sturdy enough to hold anything of weight. But no matter if it was strong and sturdy, the three-legged stool was no good if something happened to one of the legs. It couldn’t stand on just two.
Recently the Kentucky Automobile Dealers Association sponsored seminars around the state to help educate everyone dealing with auto advertising. There were many good points brought up during the seminar that I attended. Regulation Z lets the consumer know terms of credit offered for a specific motor vehicle. If an advertisement contains a triggering term, then it must also have certain disclosures to go along as explanation. Triggering terms include:
Once again, Harry Potter has shown the world that kids will read. Give them something they want to read -- and they will. That ugly rumor making the rounds a few years ago claiming that kids don’t read was off base. Not even close. They will even read books. Heck, they will even read books printed on paper instead of being displayed on LCD screens. Imagine that. But they’ve even gone a step further. Millions of kids have even been engaging in that ancient – and decidedly low tech -- practice of reading words printed with old-fashioned ink applied to paper made more-or-less the same way it has been for hundreds of years. Or maybe thousands of years but who’s counting?
It caused something of a minor stir last month when the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun published early reviews of the latest and final Harry Potter book. As just about any editor knows, papers usually receive early releases of books for review or tickets to an early screening before the general public gets a crack at it. But this was Harry Potter and not just any Harry Potter adventure, it was the last one.
People and Papers
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Three-legged
stool can’t stand on only two
Car
ads must adhere to Regulation Z
The
fight for youthful literacy can be won
Early
Harry Potter reviews raise questions
Passings