By David Greer
KPA NCS Director

The Kentucky Press Association’s newest member service, the News Content Service (NCS), will go live later this week — on the morning of Thursday, Oct. 1. Read the rest of this entry

News Content Service will be a success

KPA will be launching a member service October 1 that’s going to be the first of its kind for state press associations. And I’m forecasting it will be a tremendous success, a great service to newsrooms across the Commonwealth. Read the rest of this entry

Wide variety of approaches being considered

RESTON, Va. — Nearly 60 percent of newspapers are considering initiating paid access for currently open/free news and information Web site content, according to initial results from a new survey on paid content revenue initiatives released today at The American Press Institute’s Newsmedia Economic Action Plan Conference. Read the rest of this entry

The Associated Press

Frank Batten Sr., who built a communications empire that spanned newspapers — including 20 publications in Kentucky — and cable television and created The Weather Channel, died Thursday. He was 82. Batten built Landmark Communications, the parent of Shelbyville, Ky.-based Landmark Community Newspapers Inc., into a major media company. And Batten’s son, Frank Batten Jr., now the chairman of Landmark, formerly served as publisher of The News-Enterprise in Elizabethtown.

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By Linda B. Blackford
Lexington Herald-Leader

Any organization whose employees are covered by the state retirement system would be subject to the state’s open records law under proposed legislation that will be considered in January.

Top lawmakers say they generally support the bill, prefiled by Rep. Arnold Simpson, D-Covington, that would define such a group as a “public agency,” which would require it to turn over its documents for public perusal.

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The Courier-Journal has named veteran editor Jean Porter as its new managing editor, replacing Ben Post, who announced his retirement in July. Read the rest of this entry

Published by Peter Baniak on September 4, 2009 in News.

It’s known by many names: watchdog journalism, investigative journalism, accountability journalism.

It’s the kind of journalism that digs under rocks, that tells you something you don’t already know, that looks beyond press releases and news conferences and scripted news events to find out how public money is being spent, or how public officials are behaving. Read the rest of this entry

David Hawpe, the former editorial director of The Courier-Journal, has won the 2009 James Madison Award given by the Scripps Howard First Amendment Center at the University of Kentucky.

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