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.

Click here for full story at winchestersun.com

We’ve finished the comments and results and we’re making a list by newspaper available of the winners. (Click Here For List) Those listed won either a First Place, a Second Place OR a Third Place.

Please check the list for your newspaper and if there are mistakes in the spelling of names, please e-mail corrections to corrections@kypress.com – please include your paper’s name in the email.

Also have each winner from your newspaper send a mugshot no later than January 5, 2010, to photos@kypress.com

The awards will be announced Friday, January 22, at our 7 p.m. (Eastern) awards banquet. That marks the official end of the 2010 KPA Winter Convention although the Kentucky News Photographers Association winter conference will be January 22-23 at the same location — Embassy Suites, Lexington.

For those who are coming to the banquet but will NOT be attending the rest of the convention, click here for the form to register them for the banquet.

The Kentucky High School Journalism Association has 90 member schools for the current school year as of Dec. 18. Of those those schools, nearly 60 percent have been sponsored by Kentucky newspapers.

Last year, KHSJA, which was established by KPA 13 years ago to be an advocate for high school journalism in the state, had 100 member schools with 70 percent of member schools having their $50 membership fee paid by one or more Kentucky newspapers.

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From Tonda Rush – National Newspaper Association

Congress completed work on appropriations for a number of federal agencies, including the Postal Service, last weekend. HR 3288 carries forward the language requiring 6 day mail service. It follows this note. Read the rest of this entry

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.

Click here for full story at amnews.com.

A Jan. 8 deadline has been set for nominations to the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. Anyone wishing to submit a nomination must submit the entry by Jan. 8, 2010. A new round of inductees will enter the hall in the spring.

The Hall of Fame recognizes Kentuckians who have made significant contributions to the profession of journalism. Selection is made from individuals, living or dead, who either are Kentucky natives or have spent a significant portion of their careers in Kentucky. Read the rest of this entry

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.

Click here for full story at nnaweb.org.

By Charlie Pearl
The State-Journal

Journalists, bankers, politicians, educators and others today paid tribute to Al Dix as a sensitive and caring publisher who was dedicated to improving the community but kept his good works private.

Dix died at his home in Frankfort Tuesday morning of pancreatic cancer. He was 80.

Click here for full story at state-journal.com

If you look in the KPA directory listings for your newspaper, chances are you’ll see your newspaper masthead/nameplate in the right-hand column. Then again, if you haven’t sent us a copy of it in the last two or three years, chances are it won’t be there.

We’d love to have all mastheads shown and here’s your chance.

Send it to masthead@kypress.com in either PDF, JPG, GIF or TIF format.

Your deadline to do that is Monday, December 7.

If your masthead is shown in the directory listing area and you don’t want to change it, then you don’t have to do anything, we’ll use the same one.