Phil Norman, who worked for 25 years at The Courier-Journal as a reporter, farm editor and columnist, has passed away.

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The SNPA (Southern Newspaper Publishers Association) Traveling Campus will be in Kentucky June 24-25. Sessions will be held on the University of Kentucky campus. Read the rest of this entry

By Shannon Mason Brock, Anderson News Staff Writer

After spending more than a century on Main Street, The Anderson News is moving to a new location. Read the rest of this entry

The University of Tennessee School of Journalism and Electronic Media has been awarded a McCormick Foundation grant to hold a three-day specialized reporting institute July 16-18 on nuclear power issues. Read the rest of this entry

Twittering, or “tweeting,” has come to the Grayson County News Gazette in Leitchfield and the Anderson News in Lawrenceburg. They are not at the level of followers to new UK Coach John Calipari’s traipses (76,000+) but it’s starting to catch on. Read the rest of this entry

With websites, weeklies finding themselves ‘instant’ instead; Jim Green retires after 45 years; Baniak named editor

By David T. Thompson — KPA/KPS Executive Director

The headline grabbed my attention.

“The Enterprise Goes Daily.” It was in my stack of clips from Kentucky newspapers so I was surprised to hear that one of our members was going daily. Read the rest of this entry

-By Brent Kendall, Dow Jones Newswires; 202-862-9222; brent.kendall@ dowjones.com

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Add the Justice Department to the list of organizations that are abandoning newspaper advertising. Read the rest of this entry

Federal court says Texas law might be

In an opinion that could call into question the constitutionality of open meetings laws everywhere, a federal appellate court held Monday that the Texas Open Meetings law must pass a heightened constitutional test under the First Amendment. Read the rest of this entry

Courier-Journal publisher Arnold Garson talked about the state of the newspaper industry, in general, and his paper specifically in a recent column. 

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Two companies are working on a new style barcode system which would easily tie cell-phone users into their local newspaper. The system has potential uses for advertising and editorial. The system is being tested by a Toronto newspaper.

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