By Edmund Shelby
Editor, Beattyville Enterprise
2009 President, Kentucky Press Association
After hearing from postal service unions, the White House removed a provision in its budget this year that would have saved more than $9 billion over 10 years. Shortly after the removal, Postmaster General John Potter asked Congress for permission to cut delivery to five days a week because of financial losses. Read the rest of this entry
More than 860 Kentucky high school journalism students and teachers heard former AP Middle East bureau chief Terry Anderson, held hostage by Lebanese militants for nearly seven years beginning in 1985, deliver the keynote address at the 2009 Kentucky High School Journalism Association convention on April 15. It was an all-time record turnout for a KHSJA convention. Read the rest of this entry
Students from the University of Kentucky and Western Kentucky University dominated this year’s SPJ Mark of Excellence competition for student journalists in Region 5: Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, a region that includes other well-known J-schools such as Northwestern and Indiana. Following are the pertinent newspaper categories, with Kentucky students italicized, including one for the newspaper at Eastern. The first-place winners (nine from UK, two from WKU) go on to the national competition.
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It’s no exaggeration to say that the April 10 issue of The Courier-Journal — particularly the front page — is a work of art.
Many of you know that Kevin directs a training program for newspaper designers, publishers and I.T. related staff called the Institute of Newspaper Technology. Th e schedule for the October 15-17, 2009 session is complete and includes classes in InDesign, scripting, photo editing, video production for Web sites, Flash, Illustrator, In- Copy, Adobe Bridge, digital photography, audio slideshow creation, fonts, editing photos in camera raw, Photoshop, font management and more. Basic and advanced classes are off ered. Instructors include Lisa Griffi n, Russell Viers, Lesa Snider, Jay Nelson, Rob Heller and Kevin Slimp. Guest speakers will also be on hand. For more information, visit newspaperinstitute.com.
Kevin SlimpWow. My email is full of questions from readers these days. Some days I just can’t respond to all of them, so let me take a crack at a few of them here.
From Sandy in Tennessee:
Hey Kevin,
I’ve got a question for you, as usual. I am looking at purchasing two Mac Pros for the office, plus a Mac Pro laptop. I noticed there is about $500 difference between a Mac Pro 2.8 GHz quad core Xeon processor and a Mac Pro 2.8 GHz 2-quad core Xeon processor. Is it worth paying the extra money for the two quad core processor for laying out pages? Read the rest of this entry
NAA’s Presstime magazine asked 10 people to imagine they’re starting a print newspaper print from scratch. What stays, and what goes (sections, beats, days published, classified ads)? How would they rethink the parts they keep? Designer Mario Garcia says: “Starting a newspaper from scratch, I may consider doing a robust Sunday edition, then creating the ultimate online newspaper for daily. I may even consider a very short, one-section, printed daily edition, but acting more like a companion to the online than a self-standing newspaper.”
