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SEPTEMBER 2007 ARTICLES
KPA seeking ‘08 vice president Nominations and letters of application are being accepted until Sept. 30 for the office of vice president of the Kentucky Press Association for 2008. Any KPA member may nominate any individual who meets the criteria set fourth in the KPA by-laws for that position. Additionally, individuals interested in holding office in the Kentucky Press Association may submit a letter of application.
Even though it's losing one Kentuckian, the board of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association will continue to feel the influence of the commonwealth through a new board member and its new president. David Paxton, publisher of the Paducah Sun and president and CEO of Paxton Media Group, has been named president of the SNPA while Scott Schurz, publisher of the Advocate-Messenger of Danville, has joined the board.
The nine media representatives, who will witness the execution of Ralph Stevens Baze, scheduled for Sept. 25 at the Kentucky State Penitentiary, have been identified. Under state law, nine representatives of the news media may witness an execution. The news media listed in the statute are as follows: one (1) representative from the daily newspaper with the largest circulation in the county where the execution will be conducted; one (1) representative from Associated Press Wire Service; one (1) representative from Kentucky Network, Inc.; three representatives for radio and television media within the state; and three representatives for newspapers within the state. The three broadcast media are selected by the Department of Corrections through a drawing. The three newspapers are selected by the Kentucky Press Association.
John McGill Jr. died earlier this Spring of cancer. I had known Johnny (the Johnny and Junie names separated him from his father when we talked of one of them) since the late 1960s. He was one of those I had the pleasure of working with at the Lexington Herald sports department. Most of us were just college kids, working our way through school while putting out a quality daily sports section.
Cover art needed for directory What better way to show a photographer's talent than on the front cover of the KPA Yearbook and Directory? Each year, the KPA selects one four-color photograph or a montage from a photographer at a Kentucky newspaper and published that on the front cover of the directory with appropriate credit given inside the directory.
National Newspaper Week to be held Oct. 7-13 It was started back about 1940 by state press association managers as a way for newspapers to promote themselves. There wasn't enough of that going on and still isn't for that matter, and managers figured what better way to promote newspapers than with a national newspaper week.
PARIS – The phone rings and an advertiser asks if he can still get his ad in this week’s paper. Minutes later, a man brings in a classified for his wife’s yard sale. “I hope it doesn’t rain,” he says. Meanwhile, the delivery driver is in a hurry as he grabs a stack of papers for a store that’s run out. Sound familiar? Probably. It’s a scene repeated daily at scores of present-day newspapers across Kentucky and the nation. Only this paper is a bit different – it’s not only recorded history for 20 decades, it’s made two centuries of its own history.
It hasn’t been many years ago when KPA seminars and conventions were dominated by males. Attendance at those were perhaps 70-30 males to females. Today, the numbers have switched in some cases, with advertising seminar attendance showing a female domination. In the last quarter-century, the KPA/KPS Board of Directors has seen a surge of women as well.
Woody, the Kentucky wiener dog that has swept the state, is set to make his fourth appearance in Kentucky newspapers this fall. And Princeton artist James Asher will help his story come alive. The series authored by Leigh Ann Florence begins in mid-September and will be carried by 87 newspapers for a readership with more than 962,000. The 2007 Kentucky Press Association Fall Chapter Series project is titled “Mr. Dogwood Goes to Washington,” and will focus attention of primary and elementary students on the dogs’ exploits in the nation’s capital.
Exhibit will spotlight Kentucky photographers’ work At the 2008 KPA Winter Convention, which will be held Jan. 24-25 at the Marriott Resort at Griffin Gate in Lexington, the Kentucky Press Association will display photos from Kentucky newspapers that were taken in 2007. These photos will be on display during the trade show and the exhibit will be available for local use, such as public libraries for instance, after the convention ends Jan. 25.
In the opinion of the Attorney General ... The Kentucky Attorney General has ruled that a 911 dispatch center can't withhold logs from public disclosure. The question presented in this appeal is if the Campbell County Consolidated Dispatch Center violated the Open Records Act in the disposition of Kentucky Enquirer reporter Jim Hannah's June 25 request for a "log of all police calls and/or emergency runs to 70 Madonna Place in Fort Thomas.
As KPA’s 2007 faculty intern, I spent six weeks at the Grant County News this summer. As someone who has taught community journalism at Eastern Kentucky University for 20 years and who last worked for a newspaper full time in the early 1980s, I found the experience rewarding and enlightening. I hope my work was also helpful for the newspaper staff.
Another school year has begun across the Commonwealth for 2007-08. That means more traffic on the highways and childcare challenges for parents and after-school jobs for teens. It’s also time for the Kentucky High School Journalism Association, headquartered here at KPA, to gear up for the new school year. That translates into our annual membership drive among the state’s high schools, in addition to recruiting newspapers across the state to sponsor their local schools.
Passings
Western Kentucky faculty members honored by NABJ BOWLING GREEN – Two Western Kentucky University journalism faculty members were honored recently by the National Association of Black Journalists for their efforts to increase the number of black journalists in newsrooms. Robert Adams and Jim Highland will receive the group’s Journalism Educators of the Year Award on Aug. 10 in Las Vegas. For more than 20 years, Adams and Highland directed WKU’s Minority Journalism Workshop.
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SNPA elects Kentuckian as president
Reporters selected to witness Baze execution
New
award will help honor John McGill
It was hard news to swallow. “Junie” had died of cancer. I didn’t
know he was that ill until it was too late. Some of us had talked of visiting
him and were to send him cards. The news of his death came before we could
mail those cards or even think about visiting him.
A
bicentennial in Bourbon
Wild
for Woody
Teaching on the job
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your local schools in KHSJA
