Herald-Leader staff report
A former Lexingtonian has been named publisher of a New Hampshire newspaper. John Winn Miller, 57, will become the next publisher of the Concord Monitor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning daily paper with a circulation of about 20,000 in the state’s capital. Read the rest of this entry
From The Herald-Leader
Retired newspaper owner and publisher John Howell Wolf, 92, of Carlisle died Sunday.
He owned and published eight community newspapers in the Cincinnati area before selling them and retiring to a cottage on Lake Carnico in Nicholas County in 1983.
By Teresa Revlett, KPS Director of Sales
The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors met Friday at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond to discuss weekly newspapers and websites. Al Cross, organizer of the event and director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, suggested posting items online that you cannot put in your regular printed newspaper. Read the rest of this entry
(CNN) — Now that they’ve gotten a peek at it, publishers of books, newspapers and magazines are hoping Apple’s forthcoming iPad tablet device will breathe new life into their struggling industry.
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| Tom Curley addresses KPA members. (Ed Reinke, AP) |
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Journalists should be willing to fight for strong laws protecting open access to government even as the news industry struggles in a weak economy, the top executive of The Associated Press said in a speech to a Kentucky newspaper organization Friday.
Tom Curley, chief executive of the AP, said that strong open-access laws are important items in the “journalistic tool kit,” but that journalists have often taken them for granted. Read the rest of this entry
After seven years at the helm, Pam Johnson will step down as head of the Western Kentucky University School of Journalism and Broadcasting at the end of the school year.
Jack May stands in front of the Winchester Sun.
By Randy Patrick, Winchester Sun
It has often been said that newspaper stories are “the first draft of history.”
That being so, Jack May had a significant role in the history of America’s involvement in the World War II.
May was a 15-year-old news boy for The Winchester Sun when Pearl Harbor was attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, and Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan. He was having Sunday dinner with his family when he got the call that he was needed to deliver a special edition of that day’s Sun.
“As I recall, there were four (editions)” that day, he said.
A study room in the new Boyle County Public Library will be named the Schurz Study Room, in honor of the capital donations made to the library by the Schurz family. The Schurz family owns Schurz Communications, the parent company of the Advocate-Messenger.
Dear NNA friends:
Through our partnership with the Missouri School of Journalism and its Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, NNA now provides regular updates on current journalism and media research. Associate Professor Clyde Bentley, an experienced community newspaper executive and educator, will highlight and analyze the latest research from around the country that may have an impact on your operations.
By Teresa Revlett
KPS Director of Sales
As the New Year draws closer, we are feverishly working on the KPA directory for 2010. Please remember to send in your rate and data sheets so that your newspaper’s information can be updated.
We use information from the rate and data sheets for the entire year. It tells about personnel changes that may have occurred within the past year and allows us to have the correct rates on file for our clients’ use.
Deadline on the rate and data sheet says November 13, but as a charter member of the Kentucky Procrastinator’s Association, we are still taking any changes. The KPS staff would appreciate complete media kits with rate cards so that we will know about any specials that may be available. If your newspaper sells website advertising, don’t forget to send that information in too.
