AUGUST MID-MONTH UPDATE - 2007 ARTICLES

WOODY, CHLOE AND GANG HEAD TO D.C.

Kentucky's most popular canine troup, Woody, Chloe and gang will be off to Washington beginning the week of September 9 as more than 80 newspapers being publishing a 10-week chapter series, "Mr. Dogwood Goes to Washington." Elementary students, teachers, parents and grandparents will follow Woody, Chloe and gang around the nation's capital.

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Weeklies Get Tuition Discount for API’s Internet Strategies for Community Markets Seminar

If you have responsibility for online content, business development, revenue, marketing or citizen-participation efforts in community markets, you don’t want to miss API’s seminar Internet Strategies for Community Markets, Sept. 17-19, 2007 in Reston, Va. API is offering a special tuition rate of $875 for weekly attendees at this seminar.

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Create Pagination Workflow With Remote Users Utilizing InCopy CS3

If you’ve been reading this column for long, you know that I’m a big fan of Adobe InDesign. If you’ve been paying close attention, you’ve probably heard me mention InDesign’s companion application, InCopy. Paginators know InDesign as one of the tools of choice for creating newspaper pages.

For others, like editors and reporters, InDesign can be overkill. Sure, you could use InDesign as a word processor if you wanted to, but it’s a lot more application than most people need to place text on a page.

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The Internet Seen As An Opportunity for Newspapers

A recent study of America's top 100 newspaper websites, entitled "American Newspapers and the Internet; Threat or Opportunity?" by Bivings Research, noting that using the Internet to expand a newspaper's reach is becoming more and more important, reports that ninety-two percent of America's top 100 papers now offer video on their websites... a significant jump from 2006, where just 61 percent offered video.

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Knight Foundation to Award Millions for Digital Experiments
News Challenge Seeks Cutting-Edge Ideas from Anyone, Anywhere; ‘You Invent It. We Fund It!’

MIAMI – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has launched year two of the Knight News Challenge, a contest awarding as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news.

Do you have a big idea for informing and inspiring community using bits and bytes? Cell phone documentaries? New operating software for news collectors? Journalism games? Nothing is too far out to qualify. With the slogan “You Invent It. We Fund It!” the contest is open to community-minded innovators worldwide, from software designers to journalists to citizens and students of any age.

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National Newspaper Association's Convention Sept. 26-29

The National Newspaper Association will hold its 2007 convention September 26-29 in Norfolk, VA. For program and reservation information, go to www.nna.org/Meetings/Annual2007.

Materials for National Newspaper Week, October 7-13

For more than 65 years, the Newspaper Association Managers have sponsored National Newspaper Week, a time set aside for the newspaper industry to do something it doesn't do a lot of -- promote itself.

This year's National Newspaper Week will be October 7-13.

Media kits are being developed that will include stories, editorials, cartoons and facts and figures about the newspaper industry.

The kits will be available, at no cost to Kentucky newspapers, online after September 1. Go to www.kypress.com/nnwkit and download the materials posted for your use.

AG says KSP can't choose not to sell information

The Attorney General's office has ruled that the Kentucky State Police violated the Open Records Act by releasing information from its Collision Report Analysis for Safer Highways database to two private entities while refusing to release the same data to another.

In this appeal, the focus is whether or not the Kentucky State Police violated the Open Records Act in denying Capitol Publishing President James Donato's April 19 request for an electronic data extract from the CRASH database for a period from March 1 until April 18.

After examining the facts, the AG's office determined that the denial constituted a violation of the Act.

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Subpoena can create balancing act

In handling a recent defamation lawsuit, we learned that our client newspaper's libel insurance policy provides for subpoena defense. Although subpoenas are among the more frequent issues that we address on the KPA legal hotline, I wasn't aware until now that some libel insurance policies cover a newspaper in defending against a subpoena even where the newspaper has not been sued. This particular policy was with First Media, which is one of three libel insurance providers recommended by the KPA.

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