By DAVID GREER
KPA Member Services Director
The past, present and future of Kentucky and its many fine newspapers – that will be the primary focus of the 2009 KPA convention Jan. 22 and 23 at the Galt House Hotel & Suites in downtown Louisville. Convention goers will be treated to a viewing of the famed KentuckyShow! multimedia presentation and hear Gov. Steve Beshear speak at the Friday Changing of the Guard luncheon. A third of our convention breakout sessions will be devoted to online and new media. That includes sessions on social media for newspapers, web site design and learning how to animate your online ads.
But the convention won’t forget the all-important topics of advertising, editorial and circulation as KPA brings in top-notch nationally known speakers on a variety of topics.
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By DAVID GREER
KHSJA Administrator
The Kentucky High School Journalism Association hit the century mark plus two during the current school year. No, not years. KHSJA has only been around for a dozen years but has 102 member schools for the 2008-09 school year.
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Contact Brian Steffens, Executive Director
briansteffens@nna.org
National Newspaper Association
573-882-5800
COLUMBIA, MO — Strong communities are all about strong relationships and connections: citizens and their government; citizens and community businesses; local government and local businesses; citizens and local social or cultural institutions. Nothing facilitates or creates those relationships and connections like America’s community newspapers. In cities and towns served by a community newspaper of 25,000 circulation or less, 86% of the population read a community newspaper each week. No other media has that kind of reach into and throughout those communities.
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A group of enthusiastic citizen journalists and citizen-journalists-to-be attended the first KPA Citizen Journalist Workshop on Thursday, Nov. 13. And judging by their support for the concept, it won’t be the last KPA Citizen Journalist Workshop. Read the rest of this entry
State Rep. Brent Yonts, D-Greenville, has prefiled a bill for the 2009 session of the Kentucky General Assembly that would protect the rights of student journalists and their teachers/advisers in Kentucky. Read the rest of this entry
The Rev. John Crystal Morris was born in Rector, Ark., in 1899. The man whose life spanned all or parts of three centuries was 108 years old and still writing his newspaper column for the Ohio County Times-News in Hartford when he passed away on Oct. 27, 2008 – just three weeks shy of his 109th birthday.
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By John Foust
Raleigh, NC
In the 1980s, International Paper ran an award-winning “Power of Print” ad campaign, featuring a series of educational subjects – each delivered by a well-known literary figure. Here’s a sampling:
- “How to write a business letter” by Malcolm Forbes
- “How to read faster” by Bill Cosby
- “How to write with style” by Kurt Vonnegut
- “How to read an annual report” by Jane Bryant Quinn
- “How to enjoy poetry” by James Dickey
- “How to make a speech” by George Plimpton
- “How to improve your vocabulary” by Tony Randall Read the rest of this entry
