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MPA Convention guests went on a gallery crawl in downtown Columbia. 5-8 This piece was on dis- play in the PS: Perlow- Stevens Gallery. Photojournalism Hall of Fame inducts three Washington, Mo., Mayor Sandy Lucy, right, poses with Photojournalism Hall of Fame inductees Wiley Price and Jean Shifrin at the Oct. 18 induction. 4

School children from around central visited the Missouri Press Foundation’s Print Shop Museum in Arrow Rock Missouri Press retains during the Children’s possession of Little Heritage Craft Festival on Brown Jug with sweep Sept. 27. of second-day matches 15 in Excelsior Springs. 13

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Missouri Press News, November 2012 www.mopress.com Forums generated national buzz We took a break from work for wedding of our daughter he 146th convention of the Missouri Press Association Bray Scholarship to Hannah Spaar, who is from the long line is officially in the books. Kathy and I are grateful for of Spaars who have published The Odessan in Odessa. Han- Tthe hard work carried out by the Columbia staff in nah is majoring in print journalism at the Missouri School of preparing for the convention. Journalism. Bill Bray, the former executive director of the MPA, The attendance for the convention was particularly grati- owned The Odessan from 1948 to 1955. fying. I am told that the registrations were higher than they The passing of the gavel—using the huge wooden gavel have been for several years. The banquet room for the Hall provided by Steve Oldfield of Adri- of Fame dinner was packed with guests and an, one of this year’s the families of the newspaper people who were Hall of Fame induct- One of the inducted. Of course, the mayor of Chillicothe, ees—was an emo- Chuck Haney, did his usual fine job of induct- tional moment for highlights ing the distinguished honorees. me, knowing that my Our convention earned some statewide year as president was of the day and even national buzz by hosting the debate beginning to wind between the candidates for governor and U.S. down. I remember for me was Senate. I have noticed that, even weeks after our immediate past the convention, many of the photographs president, Joe May presenting and video clips used to illustrate stories about of Mexico, telling me the race between Claire McCaskill and Todd that I would enjoy the Wil- Akin for the Senate originated from the MPA Phil Conger my year as president. convention. Bethany Republican-Clipper He wasn’t kidding. liam A. Bray Doug Crews did a masterful job in planning MPA President know that next for the debate. He had to find a way to balance Iyear’s president, Scholarship the demands of the candidates with the needs Mark Maassen of the of the statewide and national media who covered the event. Kansas City Star, will enjoy his time to Hannah Doug met with the handlers of the candidates on Tuesday as president as much as I did. Even before the debates to plan the logistics. Not an easy job in though the convention is past, there Spaar. this increasingly bitter campaign year. are a few more activities before the ashington Missourian publisher Bill Miller Sr. and end of the year. WIndependence Examiner editorial page editor Jeff Fox Kathy and I took a break from our newspaper duties at the were on the panel of journalists who had some insightful end of the month to go to the wedding of our daughter Rachel questions for the candidates. They were joined by students and Aaron Baca in Albuquerque. Rachel is the design director of from the Missouri School of Journalism. Great job, everyone! the Albuquerque Journal, while Aaron, a former business editor The awards luncheon Saturday, when I had the privilege at the newspaper, is now an assistant prosecutor for Bernalillo of handing out prizes to some of the best journalists in the County, N.M. state, was a very rewarding experience for me. One of the It has been a very eventful few weeks in the Conger house- highlights of the day for me was presenting the William A. hold.

PRESIDENT: Phil Conger, DIRECTORS: Joe May, Mexico Ledger Bethany Republican-Clipper Brad Gentry, Houston Herald FIRST VICE PRESIDENT: Mark Maassen, Joe Spaar, The Odessan The Kansas City Star Richard Gard, St. Louis, Missouri Lawyers Media SECOND VICE PRESIDENT: Jon Rust, Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian SECRETARY: Shelly Arth, Marshall Dennis Warden, Gasconade County Republican VOL. 80, NO. 11 Democrat-News Jim Robertson, Columbia Daily Tribune NOVEMBER 2012 TREASURER: Bill Miller Jr., Washington Missourian Official Publication of EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Doug Crews Jeff Schrag, Springfield Daily Events Missouri Press ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: Greg Baker NNA REPRESENTATIVE: Trevor Vernon, Association, Inc. EDITOR: Kent M. Ford Eldon Advertiser

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Photojournalism Hall of Fame inductees Guests at the induction program look at the exhibit of Jean Shifrin’s photos on display at the Wiley Price and Jean Shifrin with their Photojournalism Hall of Fame. (All photos by Jeanne Miller Wood, Washington Missourian) plaques. 3 inducted into Photojournalism Hall of Fame hree people who made careers be seen at mopress.com/Photojournal- continues to lecture at George Washing- of photographing news and ism_HOF.php. ton University and NASA. Tnewsmakers were inducted into • Lee Battaglia has photographed in • Wiley Price started as a freelancer the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of his native Italy, throughout Missouri, in in 1982, making photos for the St. Fame in Washington, Mo., on Oct. 18. the former Soviet Union and in count- Louis Post-Dispatch, The Kansas City Star, Kansas City native Jean Shifrin, less points between. Ebony magazine and other publications. longtime St. Louis photojournalist e studied photojournalism at MU He has been making photos as a staffer Wiley Price and government and space Hunder Cliff Edom, earned two de- for The St. Louis American for more than program photographer Lee Battaglia grees and worked for MU Publications. 20 years. were honored as the eighth group to be His photography book, The Face of Mis- In 2000, Price received the Mis- inducted. souri, is a documentation of the entire souri Governor’s Humanities Award The Photojournalism Hall of Fame, state in the spirit of the photographers for his book of photography, Lift Every a project of Bill Miller Sr., publisher of from the Farm Security Administration. Voice and Sing, an historical essay that the Washington Missourian, inducted its Battaglia was one of the founding chronicles the lives of 100 St. Louis first group in 2005. Information can editors for Air & Space/Smithsonian. He African-Americans in the 20th Century. he NAACP named Price among the T“100 Most Inspiring St. Louisans” in 2009, and in 2011 he was honored for his iconic photographs documenting St. Louis’ Forest Park during the previ- ous 25 years. • Jean Shifrin, a native of Kansas City, earned a photojournalism degree from the Missouri School of Journalism in 1979. After working at the St. Joseph News-Press and The Kansas City Star, in 1990 she went to work for the At- lanta Journal-Constitution. She has won many international awards, including a Clarion Award for “When Children Die,” a long-term project in which she documented patients in one of the few children’s hospices in the country. Wiley Price poses with the photos in the exhibit of his work. At the bottom center is a portrait Shifrin started her own business in of inductee Lee Battaglia, who was unable to attend the program. Photojournalism Hall of 2005, specializing in portraiture and Fame committee members David Rees, Cliff Schiappa, MPA Executive Director Doug Crews documentary photography of babies and Bill Miller Sr. of the Washington Missourian participated in the induction program. and children.

4 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2012 Convention in Columbia Missouri Press Association held its 146th Annual Convention Sept. 20-22 in Columbia. Among the sessions was one called Lightning Round Roundtables, top photo, which consisted of six topics being discussed for 15 minutes each, then repeated. The center photos show guests enjoying beverages, snacks and Lottery tickets during a stop at the PS: Perlow-Stevens Gallery during the Thursday evening Gallery Crawl in downtown Columbia. Joe and Reneé Spaar scratch their Lottery tickets beside a work of art for sale. At left, Saturday morning guests from the Lexington News look over contest entries in the hotel lobby. Below, Digital Innovations panelists Jane Haslag, Jefferson City; Jeff McNiell, Houston; Andy Waters, Columbia; and Jon Rust, Cape Girardeau, discuss projects at their newspapers during a Saturday morning session.

Missouri Press News, November 2012 www.mopress.com 5 Left: Brady Brite, left, of the Christian County Headliner News, and Emily Younker, right, from The Joplin Globe, received the Outstanding Young Journalist Awards at the MPA Convention. The Ed Steele Scholarship Fund provided funds for the $250 awards. Ed Steele, retired ad manager for Missouri Press, presented the awards. Five other young journalists received Awards of Merit: Dugan Arnett, The Kan- sas City Star; Seth Stringer, The Sedalia Democrat; Tyler Francke, Branson Tri-Lakes News; Emily Letterman, Christian County Headliner News; and Paul Thompson, Jackson County Advocate. Thompson and Letterman, below, were present to ac- cept their awards.

Above: 2012 MPA President Phil Conger pres- ents the William A. and Jo Anne Bray Commu- nity Newspaper Scholarship to Hannah Spaar of Odessa. Hannah is the daughter of Joe and Reneé Spaar and the granddaughter of Betty Spaar, publisher of The Odessan. Hannah, a se- nior at the Missouri School of Journalism, is a member of the staff of theColumbia Missourian. Hannah’s great-grandfather, Les Simpson, was president of MPA in 1957. Her grandmother, Above left: MPA President Phil Conger receives the Past President plaque from Betty Spaar, led the MPA in 1988 and her uncle, Joe May, publisher of The Mexico Ledger and 2011 President of the Missouri John Spaar, in 2005. Her father is on the MPA Press Association. Lower left: Conger presents a President’s award to Bob Wilson, board of directors. David Bray and Brenda Bray publisher of The Milan Standard, for being a “friend and colleague from North Ledbetter, children of Bill and Jo Anne Bray, es- Missouri” and for his “steadfast” support through the years. Below: Past presi- tablished the scholarship to the Missouri School dents of Missouri Press Association pass the gavel down the line that ended of Journalism with a $50,000 gift to the Missouri with 2012 President Conger passing it to 2013 President Mark Maassen of Foundation. Coincidentally, Bill Bray was Kansas City Star. Maassen will succeed Conger on Jan. 1. From left are Tom Miller, the publisher of The Odessan in the late 1940s Washington (1992), Don Warden, Owensville (1993), Kirk Powell, Pleasant Hill and ’50s before he moved to Columbia to work (1994), Chuck Haney, Chillicothe (1995), Harold Ellinghouse, Piedmont (1996), for the Missouri Press Association. Bill James, Warrensburg (1998), and Bob Wilson, Milan (1999). Several other past presidents were in line. In the foreground are the Hall of Fame plaques and Pinnacles.

6 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2012 Bill Miller Sr., center, pub- lisher of the Washington Missourian, visits with Craig Felzien and Jon Sondag after lunch on Friday at the Conven- tion. Sondag, right, is presi- dent of AT&T Missouri, a sponsor of the Convention. Felzien is in public relations for AT&T. Among the speakers at the Conven- tion was Reed Anfinson, President of Newspaper As- sociation and publisher of the Swift County Monitor-News in Benson, Minn. Above: Convention guests visit in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Executive Center before the Hall of Fame banquet on Sept. 21. From the left are Richard Gard, Missouri Lawyers Media, St. Louis; Jon Rust, Rust Communications, Cape Girardeau; Sue Mills, wife of Dean Mills, right, dean of the Missouri School of Journalism. Dean Mills was among the Missouri Press News- paper Hall of Fame inductees this year. Left: University of Mis- souri baseball coach Tim Jamieson, center, visits with Lynn Wade of Nevada, left, John Spaar, Odessa, second from right, and Bruce Wallace, Ashland. Jamieson spoke at breakfast Saturday during the Convention. Below: These people are from weekly newspapers that won awards in the Better Newspaper Contest.

Missouri Press News, November 2012 www.mopress.com 7 These people are from daily newspapers that won awards in the 2012 Universities of Missouri; Others: Stone Hill Winery, Orr Street Produc- Missouri Press Better Newspaper Contest. All of the results of the con- tions, Columbia; Les Bourgeois Vineyards, Rocheport; Boone County test, including comments from the Wisconsin judges, are on the MPA National Bank, Columbia; Charton Communications & Consulting, website at mopress.com/association.php?blog_id=601. Sponsors of Columbia; The Missouri Lottery; Metro Creative Graphics; The Bridge, this year’s meeting were: Platinum: Branson Lakes Area Convention Columbia. Next year’s MPA Convention, the 147th, will be Sept. 5-7 and Visitors Bureau; AT&T; Gold: Missouri Press Service and Missouri at the Marriott Downtown Kansas City. Missouri Press Association Press Foundation; Silver: CenturyLink and Missouri National Guard; encourages its members to plan now to attend the 2013 Convention. Bronze: Missouri Beverage Association and Independent Colleges and

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8 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2012 president of the organization at the an- nual meeting. Scrapbook • Marshall — Democrat-News re- • Rich Hill — Darryl Levings, an edi- • St. Louis — Post-Dispatch photo- porter and columnist Marcia Gorrell has tor for The Kansas City Star, discussed his graphers J.B. Forbes and Robert Cohen compiled three years of her “Semi View” recently published book “Saddle the Pale were honored by the Press Club of Met- columns into a book. Horse” at the Bates County Museum on ropolitan St. Louis for their coverage of Gorrell’s column tells humorous Sept. 15. last year’s tornado in Joplin. They were stories about a former suburban girl’s Levings’ historical novel follows the honored on Oct. 4 at the St. Louis Hil- adventures in farming and advocates for Confederate invasion of Missouri in ton at the Ballpark. family farms. 1864 from its beginning at the Arkansas The name of her column comes from border to the large battles at Westport • Kansas City — The Association of one of Gorrell’s farm jobs, driving trucks and Mine Creek. Opinion Journalists on Sept. 22 named to the elevator during harvest. winner of the Top Opinion • Marble Hill — The Banner Press on Pages award at its annual convention in • Marshall — The Democrat-News on Sept. 26 debuted a new design with ad- Orlando. Oct. 1 began placing all content on its ditional features, among them a “Photo “Seven days a week, these pages pub- website and charging a fee for total access of the Week” submitted by a reader, and lish opinion journalism that is lively, well online. Subscribers to the newspaper get Outdoors and Country Living pages. written, attractively engaged and — most free access to all of the online content. important — engaged in questions that Non-subscribers have access to a limited • Independence — also are vital to the health of communities in amount of content. has done some remodeling. It has a new Kansas and Missouri and the lives of the typeface for news and has more national people who live in those communities,” • St. Louis — The St. Louis American sports and more sports agate. Comics the judges wrote. Foundation’s 25th Anniversary Salute to now have a regular spot in the back of Miriam Pepper, vice president, edito- Excellence in Education Scholarship & the B section. rial pages, at The Star, was named vice Awards Gala was held Sept. 14.

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Missouri Press News, November 2012 www.mopress.com 9 The Foundation has awarded nearly to the news that affects their lives. of Commerce. The Eagles Lodge held a $2.5 million in minority scholarships “Taking more than one paper when spaghetti dinner with music and raffles and community grants. you put 50 cents in a rack is stealing,” on Oct. 6. The co-chairs of the event announced Marts said. “We take this very seriously A Rusty Murry Benefit Fund account that the Donald M. Suggs Scholarship and we will hold those responsible to the has been set up at Heritage Bank. Program at Harris-Stowe State Univer- full extent of the law.” sity would be doubled and the Donald • Marshall — Democrat-News editor M. Suggs Endowed Scholarship Program • Salisbury — The Chariton Valley Eric Crump received the 2012 George at Forest Park Community College News Press has a new online edition that Award from the Optimist Club of Mar- would begin. Each student selected for readers can subscribe to for $28 a year. shall at its annual banquet. the awards will receive a scholarship, Along with a local business, the news- The award, normally given to a books, mentor and a laptop law enforcement officer and computer. named for Saline County Dr. Suggs is the president of Sheriff Wally George, went the foundation and publisher to local media for their as- and executive editor of The St. sistance of law enforcement Louis American. in serving the community.

• Ironton — Vic Crocker • Kansas City — The of Graniteville found what he Kansas City Association of believes is an original copy of Black Journalists has award- the Iron County Register from ed The Star three awards. July 1, 1876, in an attic. The Glenn E. Rice and Mara paper folio says Vol. IX, No. Rose Williams won the en- 50. terprise reporting award In his book “Missouri for large newspapers for the Newspapers,” historian Wil- Warsaw football video online Civil War story “Freedom’s liam H. Taft wrote that the Distant Cry.” Matt Bohanan and Barry Edwards are delivering live streaming Register was established in the video play-by-play and commentary of Warsaw High School Helen T. Gray won the 1860s by Eli D. Ake. football, courtesy of the Benton County Enterprise. BCE-TV features category with “Songs streams using citylink.tv.com. More than 1,000 people logged of Their Freedom.” • Monett — On Sept. 24 in to watch the first football program in August. (Benton County Jeneé Osterheldt won the started charging Enterprise photo) commentary award for a for access to its online content. Print paper gave away two Kindle readers in body of work that included “Wear a subscribers continue to get free access, drawings from among readers who acti- Hoodie for Trayvon.” but online-only readers will see only a vated web subscriptions. limited number of stories before being The paper’s website is Cvnewspress. • Elsberry — The Elsberry Democrat asked to pay. com. has honored a former editor and publish- er, Margaret Ann Watts-Herring, for her • Poplar Bluff — The • Canton — The Press-News Journal many years of service to the community Republic has a new online edition. The has started a new feature it calls The by establishing a journalism scholarship new darnews.com includes access to all Vent. It invites readers to send in brief in her name. of the paper’s archived pages. statements giving an opinion about The first scholarship will go to a 2013 anything. graduate of Elsberry High School who • Noel — The theft of a recent edi- Those who offer “vents” must include plans to go into the field of journalism. tion of the McDonald County Press from their names, “keep their vents clean and Michael Short, general manager of news racks throughout the county led family-friendly and also save any ‘thank The Democrat, made the announcement the company to reprint enough papers you’ notes for our ad section.” on Sept. 27 during a Cousins Reunion. to refill the racks later in the day. Publisher Kent Marts said papers were • Nevada — Two benefits were held • St. Louis — St. Louis Labor Tribune taken from racks in the Jane area, Noel recently to raise money to help pay managing editor Dana Spitzer, publisher and Anderson. medical expenses for Daily Mail/Weekend Ed Finkelstein and staff writer Tim Row- “We are committed to getting the Herald-Tribune reporter Rusty Murry. den served birthday cake on Sept. 18 to news out to our community,” he said Murry, who has worked for the news- delegates to the St. Louis Labor Council. in a story about the thefts. “The staff paper for almost four years, is being They were observing their newspaper’s works hard to produce a paper and it is treated for cancer. 75 years of serving the labor community frustrating for them to see that someone A chili luncheon was held on Oct. 5 of Missouri and Illinois. was trying to deny the public the access by the Nevada/Vernon County Chamber

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• St. James — Jim Brock, 32, is the On• Kennett the — Donnie Move Shelton has Democrat, have been named publishers new editor of -Journal. been named general manager of the Dai- of that newspaper, The Monett Times and Brock started his journalism career ly Dunklin Democrat Connection magazine. writing freelance for his hometown in Kennett and the The couple owned and operated the newspaper, The DeSoto County Tribune Delta News-Citizen Democrat from 1995 until 2005, when in Olive Branch, Miss. in Malden. they sold it to Rust Communications. Brock remained in the Memphis, Shawn Miller, The Schlichtmans retain a minority Tenn., area until 2006, when he moved who had been gen- ownership in the paper. to the Atlanta area to work as a reporter eral manager of the in Lawrenceville, Ga. Malden weekly, was During a break from journalism named sales and beginning in 2008, he worked with the marketing director family business and performed in the Donnie Shelton for Delta Publishing Memphis area as a musician. He then newspapers, a divi- returned to newspapering as news editor sion of Rust Com- at the Germantown News in Tennessee. munications, which is based in Cape Gi- • Kansas City — Sports columnist rardeau. and Chiefs beat writer Kent Babb has left Ron Kemp, re- The Kansas City Star for a position as a gional vice president sports reporter for The Washington Post. for Rust, has been He started his new job Oct. 1. named publisher of Lisa and Mike Schlichtman the papers in Ken- Lindsay Reed remains editor of the • Lee’s Summit — The Tribune has nett and Malden, Democrat, a position she’s held for four four new contributors. Shawn Miller the Daily States- years. Jared Lankford recently was named Ed Croteau writes a weekly religion man in Dexter, the sports editor of the Democrat. Robyn column. Jason Reeder and Jeremy Flow- Missourian-News Blankenship has been named ad director. ers are photographers. Drum instructor in Portageville and and retired Hallmark Cards employee the North Stoddard • Brunswick — Amy Lynne Mc- Ron Wight also is contributing to the Countian, which Campbell of Mendon has joined the Tribune. serves Bloomfield staff of The Brunswicker. She’s a 1986 and Advance. graduate of Marshall High School and • Smithville — Kemp also is the has attended Missouri Valley College Mark Johnson, who publisher of Rust and the University of Central Missouri. has reported on papers serving the She and her husband, Dale, have two communities in the Ron Kemp Arkansas communi- children who are in college. Kansas City North- ties of Rector, Pig- land for more than gott, Manila and • Chaffee — Linda Dowd, editor 20 years, is the new Poinsett County. of the Scott County Signal since March editor of The Smith- Bud Hunt, who 2001, retired on Sept. 28. The news- ville Herald. has been publisher paper held an open house in her honor Johnson is a com- of the Kennett paper that day. munications gradu- Mark Johnson and regional vice Dowd joined the Signal as office man- ate of Avila University. president with Rust, ager in August 2000. The Herald is owned by the News- has been promoted The Signal hired Samantha Kluesner, Press & Gazette Co. of St. Joseph. to the new position a lifelong resident of Scott County, as a Bud Hunt of vice president of reporter. Donna Urhahn was hired as the • Republic — Sports reporter Rodger revenue. He will customer service rep. Wheeler has left the Monitor after five oversee the creation of a sales training Kluesner grew up in the Benton area years to manage a website he created and evaluation program for the company and is a graduate of Kelly High School. to cover athletics in his hometown of and will assist in product development She lives near Chaffee and is working Aurora. and launch of new corporate initiatives. on a degree in historic preservation from Southeast Missouri State University. • Savannah — Ryan Richardson has • Cassville — Mike and Lisa Schli- Urhahn, a Chaffee resident, has a left the Savannah Reporter for a position chtman, former owners of the Cassville degree in psychology from Ashford with a daily newspaper in Missouri.

Missouri Press News, November 2012 www.mopress.com 11 Newspaper ‘essential’ in classroom To St. Louis American, the legal system, learn and summarize stand and summarize a passage from Dr. y name is Rhonda Stovall, and I the inventors and inventions section, Woodson’s book. Mam a fifth grade educator at Gate- and to teach my fifth grade students Your newspaper has become an es- way M.S.T. Elementary. I would like to how to read and navigate through the sential part of my instructional planning, take this opportunity to nominate my newspaper. as well as a great nonfiction study tool classroom for the Classroom Spotlight n fact, my current bulletin board in alignment with the Common Core series in your newspaper. Ireflects my students’ opinions about Standards. I would like to nominate my class be- the Lebron James tennis shoe con- For these reasons and so much more, cause we integrate your newspaper into troversy, as well as a summary of the I would be honored for my class to have our weekly academic activities. I have Reginald Clemons court case. Today in this wonderful opportunity. Thank you used your newspaper to review Common class, we discussed in depth the article for your time and consideration given! and Proper Nouns, to review current entitled “Dr. Woodson’s Nightmare” Sincerely, math computations with real world ap- and completed a graphic organizer, Ms. Rhonda Stovall plications, to discuss the implications of which required my students to under-

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12 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2012 Washington hand press demonstration Cynthia Nold of Slater demonstrates how a Washington hand press number of times over the years. Cynthia showed the kids how type works to children attending the Heritage Crafts Festival on Sept. 27 was set, inked and moved to the press and then how the press was in Arrow Rock. Missouri Press Foundation’s Print Shop Museum is operated to print a newspaper or a sale bill. She also demonstrated one of the demonstration exhibits at the festival, which is held every how some of the other early printing equipment works. two years. MPA editor Kent Ford has demonstrated at the festival a Taping closed meeting leads to impeachment he Louisiana City Council voted Tat a special meeting on Sept. 26 to impeach councilwoman Robbyn Morris. She is accused of taping a Sept. 10 closed session without permission and of taping the session secretly, according to a story in the Louisiana Press-Journal. The council voted 6-2 to impeach. No hearing date was set. Morris said she taped the Sept. 10 meeting to protect herself in the closed session called to air City Administrator Bob Jenne’s grievances against her for Pieces of type always attract the attention of the kids who attend the Heritage Craft Festival. allegedly meddling in city business. They can’t seem to resist picking up type to see what it looks like and trying to find the letters She also said the closed session was in their names. Several hundred children from schools around central Missouri attend the called illegally because it was about event, which is sponsored by the Friends of Arrow Rock. her, an elected official, and not about Jenne, who is a city employee. The open meeting statute allows closed meetings Colorado publisher elected NNA president for discussion on the hiring, firing or HARLESTON, S.C.—Merle Ba- Baranczyk succeeds Reed Anfinson, disciplining of employees like Jenne. Cranczyk, publisher of the Salida publisher of the Swift County Monitor- That open meeting exception does not (Colo.) Mountain Mail, became presi- News in Benson, Minn. apply to discussion of elected officials dent of the National Newspaper As- Robert Williams Jr., chair and pub- like Morris. sociation during the association’s 126th lisher of SouthFire Newspaper Group Morris said after the Sept. 27 meeting annual convention and trade show held in Blackshear, Ga., was elected as vice she would have no comment until she in Charleston in October. president. contacted her attorney.

Missouri Press News, November 2012 www.mopress.com 13 New York City Donald Suggs Jr. Circuit judge suspended sentence, closed file Obituaries onald M. Suggs Jr., 51, New York Columbia of Journalism until 1979. After a brief DCity, son of St. Louis American stint as director of the School of Journal- publisher and executive editor Donald Irene Haskins ism at LSU and then as a teacher there, M. Suggs, died of heart complications rene Haskins, 84, an award-winning he returned to Columbia in the early on Oct. 5, 2012. I columnist for the Columbia Daily 1990s. He resumed teaching graduate Mr. Suggs, a long-time resident of Tribune for many courses at MU and researched and wrote Manhattan’s East Village, was a senior years, died on Sept. numerous books. editor at The Village Voice. After graduat- 27, 2012. Dr. Merrill taught workshops and gave ing from Yale, he began his journalism Mrs. Haskins be- lectures in dozens of countries. He is career in London. As a freelancer he had gan her career as a a member of the Louisiana State and written for many publications, including humor columnist Iowa journalism halls of fame, and he The New York Times. with the Tribune received the Missouri Honor Medal for Among survivors are his partner, Jer- in 1977 after sub- Distinguished Service In Journalism. emy Hess; a son, his father and mother, mitting a couple of Dr. Merrill is survived by his wife, two sisters and his grandmother. sample columns. Dorothy; five children, nine grandchil- Not only was she dren and three great-grandchildren. Irene Haskins Greg Melton recovering hired to write her “Smile Awhile” column, she became Kansas City from serious crash injuries the newsroom receptionist and obituary reg Melton, 55, the publisher of writer. She began writing “Snapshots,” a Jerry Heaster Gthe weekly Sedalia News-Journal, round-up of local social events, in 1989. erry Heaster, 74, a former business is recovering from serious injuries sus- The Missouri Press Women named Jeditor for The Kansas City Star, died tained in a crash on Highway 65 just Mrs. Haskins its Woman of Achieve- of cancer on Oct. 10, 2012, at his home south of Sedalia. ment in 1985. A book of her columns in Lenexa. According to the Highway Patrol re- was published in 1984. In 2006 Heaster received the Presi- port, Melton’s 2002 Dodge Ram struck She was diagnosed with stage 4 non- dent’s Award from the Society of Ameri- the rear of a semi-truck at 4:35 p.m. on Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2004. can Business Editors and Writers for his Oct. 9. Melton was partially ejected, the Survivors include her former husband, service to the profession. report said. He was taken by Life Flight John, of Chicago; a daughter, a son, six Heaster joined The Star as business helicopter to University Medical Center grandchildren, two great-grandchildren editor in 1979. He retired in 2006 in Columbia. and a brother. because of the effects of non-Hodgkin’s An Oct. 24 report from the newspa- The funeral for Mrs. Haskins was held lymphoma. per office said Melton was improving in the auditorium in Jesse Hall, the MU He leaves his wife, Shizue, a daughter slowly from broken ankles and serious administration building. and a son. head and internal injuries.

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14 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2012 Riverfront Times part of Village Voice sale he Riverfront Times in St. Louis Twas among the newspapers sold in September as part of the sale of Village Voice Media Holdings LLC, based in Phoenix, to Voice Media Group, based in Denver. Former owners Jim Larkin and Mi- chael Lacey retained ownership of the online classified site Backpage.com. Scott Tobias, CEO of the Village Voice, led the buyout. The deal included all 13 free arts and entertainment weekly papers in the group, their websites, their national sales arm and associated events. (From an AP report)

Little Brown Jug golfers in Excelsior Springs were, from left, Missourians Matt Morrison, Postal Statement Rob Viehman, Randy Picht and Steve Booher, and Kansans Jay Lowell, Ben Marshall, This is the Statement of Ownership, Matt Lowell and Gregg Ireland. Management and Circulation as required by Act of Congress of Aug. 12, 1970, of Missouri Press News, published monthly at Columbia, Mo. This statement contains the information provided on Form 3526, which MPA retains Brown Jug was mailed to the Postmaster at Columbia, Mo., on Sept. 28, 2012. The publisher and owner of Missouri with second-day sweep Press News is the Missouri Press As- sociation, 802 Locust St., Columbia, MO, 65201-4888, a non-profit corporation with- 50-year record stands at MPA 26, KPA 23, tie 1 out capital stock. The editor is Kent M. Ford of Columbia, second-day comeback gave Mis- souri teams won their matches to re- Mo. The managing editor is Doug Crews of A souri Press Association a win over tain possession of the Little Brown Jug Columbia, Mo. the Kansas Press Association in the 50th trophy. There are no bondholders, mortgagees, annual Little Brown Jug golf tourna- Morrison and Booher defeated Jay or other security holders of any kind or na- ment, Sept. 27-28. Excellent weather Lowell and Ireland, 4 and 3, on the ture, either with reference to the Association or the Missouri Press News. resulted in good playing conditions on second day. Excellent putting by Picht Total number of copies printed during the historic Excelsior Springs golf course, and Viehman proved to be the decid- the preceding 12 months averaged 650, founded in 1915. ing factor in a narrow 2 and 1 win over and 650 were printed for October 2012, the Competing for MPA were Matt Brad Lowell and Marshall. Final team issue nearest the filing date. Morrison, Nowata Printing Co., score: Missouri 2-1/2, Kansas 1-1/2. No copies were sold through dealers, carriers or vendors during the year. Paid Springfield; Steve Booher, St. Joseph Golfers and guests attended a Sept. or requested mail subscriptions averaged News-Press; Randy Picht, Reynolds 27 dinner at The Elms Hotel in Excel- 639, with 625 in October. Journalism Institute, Columbia; and sior Springs. Attendees included MPA No copies were distributed free each Rob Viehman, Cuba Free Press. president Phil Conger and Kathy of month through the mail. Free distribution KPA’s team members included Jay the Bethany Republican-Clipper. Press outside the mail was 6 each month. Total distribution averaged 645, with 631 distrib- Lowell and Brad Lowell, Concordia association executive directors Doug uted in October. Blade-Empire; Gregg Ireland, Topeka Anstaett of Kansas and Doug Crews of Copies not distributed averaged 5, with Capital-Journal; and Ben Marshall, Missouri cheered on their teams. 19 not distributed in October. Sterling Bulletin. The Little Brown Jug tournament Paid and/or requested circulation aver- After the first round, playing two- matching MPA vs. KPA began in 1963. aged 99% for the year and was 99% in October. person Best Ball on Sept. 27, KPA led During the 50 years, Missouri has won I certify that all information furnished is Missouri, 1-1/2 to 1/2. Playing two- the tournament 26 times, Kansas 23, true and complete. person scramble on Sept. 28, both Mis- with one tie. Kent M. Ford, Editor

Missouri Press News, November 2012 www.mopress.com 15 Newspaper In Education Report the country’s most acclaimed artists to tell the story of our state in paint, clay, glass and tapestry. The series should be a high interest Art of the Capitol read for all ages, and we hope it will make Missourians proud of our crown jewel on the Missouri River. ready for download A disappointing side note, however, is that we were not able to secure permis- Veterans Day feature also available sion to use art from the Thomas Hart Benton mural in the House Lounge in eterans Day is Nov. 11, to be ing and Capitols. our series. It seems the rights are owned commemorated this year on The series was written by Bob Priddy, by a family trust, and there was a hefty VMonday, Nov. 12. a veteran Missouri Capi- fee to reprint a section of the mural in Last year we produced a tol reporter. Bob has been our series. We’re disappointed by the feature on flag etiquette the Missourinet news di- omission. and released it for Veter- rector since its founding he introductory feature in the series ans Day. More than 250 in 1974. He has written Toffers three classroom activities and newspapers nationwide five books, the most re- there are standards correlations with downloaded the Flag Eti- cent is a beautiful tome, each feature. School districts in Missouri quette feature! “The Art of the Missouri are transitioning to the Common Core This year we’ve created a Capitol: History in Can- similarly styled feature on vas, Bronze and Stone,” the history of Veterans Day, published in May 2011. 2013 Reading Project including a timeline of Bob is widely recog- how the commemoration nized for his knowledge about a mule moved from a one-time Ar- of Missouri history, and mistice Day remembrance Dawn Kitchell is MPA’s NIE he did a terrific job tell- who gets no respect in 1919 to an annual holi- director. Contact her at ing Missouri’s story in a day recognized across our (636) 932-4301; dawn.kitch- brief, entertaining way nation. [email protected]. for young readers. Standards, an effort toward a shared set Both the Flag Etiquette The goal of the series of educational standards for English, feature and the new Veterans Day feature was to showcase art in the Missouri State language arts and mathematics that were created in partnership with The Capitol. The Capitol Commission had states could voluntarily adopt. This is Missouri Bar. $1 million in 1917 to decorate the newly the first educational feature MPA has You may download the features at constructed building. It worked for more released with the Common Core Stan- www.mo-nie.com. For the Veterans Day than 10 years commissioning some of dards alignment. feature use download code “veterans.” Keep in mind to publish all seven For the Flag Etiquette feature, use the features before holiday vacations, news- download code “usflag.” Honoring Our Veterans papers will need to begin this series early

H Congress followed the states’ Our election series, “Vote Missouri,” On the 11th hour, lead and in 1938 declared in November. that every November 11 of the 11th day, would be observed as proved popular again this year; more Armistice Day. nd we’ve got more great features H Congress changed the name of the 11th month to Veterans Day in 1954 to than 40 Missouri newspapers published in 1918, an armistice, or agreement honor veterans of all wars. planned for second semester! to stop fighting, was reached between H For a brief time, 1971- A the Allied nations and Germany in 1974, Veterans Day was the series. Educating about voting never World War I. observed on the 4th Monday In January, our ninth annual Reading in October. Since 1975, One year later, President Woodrow Veterans Day is always Wilson declared that Nov. 11, 1919 was observed on Nov. 11. ends, so when the next round of elections a day to remember Americans for their Across Missouri Project will introduce military service in World War I. He called H If Nov. 11 falls on a Saturday H Veterans Day pays tribute to all it Armistice Day. He suggested that or Sunday, the federal government American veterans, living or dead, Americans celebrate with parades and observes the holiday on the previous but especially gives thanks to living approaches, we’ll dust off the applicable perhaps a “brief suspension of business” Friday or following Monday, young readers to Manny Cloverfield, a veterans who served their country around 11 a.m. President Wilson also respectively. honorably during war or peacetime. hoped it would be a time when Americans H Nov. 11, 1921, when the first of H States designate their own holidays, features, make necessary updates and offered prayers of thanksgiving for those the unknown soldiers was buried mule that “gets no respect.” so there are no official U.S. national who had served and for peace for all in Arlington National Cemetery, times. holidays. The government can unidentified soldiers also were laid to only designate holidays for federal offer them to newspapers again. There H President Wilson originally intended rest at Westminster Abbey in London employees and for the District of Over the years, mules have gotten Armistice Day to be observed one and at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Columbia. But states almost always time, but many states decided to H Memorial Day, the fourth Monday follow the federal lead. are 12 features in the series, including observe it every year to honor World in May, honors American service stuck with a bad rap. They’re believed War I veterans. members who died in service to their county offices. country. to be lazy, ugly and dumb. Manny’s had Timeline for Veterans Day Observance Activities

e’ve been working for months on Nov. 11, 1918 The fighting in World War I ended. (The Treaty 1. Write to local citizens who are it up to his long ears with this pile of of Versailles formally ended the war on June serving in the military and to the 28, 1919) newspaper publicly thanking those in our final series for 2012, “Mis- military service. mule hooey. In an eight-chapter serial November 1919 President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed W that Nov. 11, 1919, would be observed as Learn more about The Tomb of Armistice Day—a day to honor the veterans 2. the Unknowns at www.arlington souri History Through the Art of Our of World War I. story, he’s going to set the record straight. cemetery.mil/visitorinformation/ Nov. 11, 1921 The first of the unknown soldiers, a veteran TombofUnknowns.aspx of World War I, was buried in Arlington State Capitol.” It is now available to Cemetery in Virginia in what has become 3. Research the Uniform Holiday The Reading Across Missouri story is known as the Tomb of the Unknown Bill. Why were people unhappy with Soldier. On the same day, unidentified this bill? soldiers were laid to rest at Westminster Missouri newspapers. There are seven Missouri GLE: SS3—A1, C, CA2, 1.6 free again this year and will be available Abbey in London and at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (Grades K-8) June 4, 1926 Twenty-seven states had made Armistice Day a holiday so Congress Missouri CLE: SS 2 C, CA, 3, 1.6 features in the series: an introduction declared it to be a recurring day of remembrance. (Grades 9-12) for publication beginning Jan. 1. We’ll May 13, 1938 Congress makes Armistice Day a national holiday. June 28, 1968 Congress changed Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. and features on Native Americans, Sept. 20, 1975 President Gerald Ford changed Veterans Day back to Nov. 11. Produced by the Missouri Bar, have more details in next month’s Mis- Missouri Press Foundation and Steamboats, Civil War, Railroads, Min- your newspaper. ©2012 souri Press News magazine.

16 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2012 Joplin tornado film will be shown at St. Louis festival hese individuals and organizations made recent contributions to he Missouri Press Association pro- Missouri Press Foundation. To make a donation with a credit card, duced film “Deadline in Disaster” T T call (573) 449-4167, or send checks to Missouri Press Foundation, about The Joplin Globe’s coverage of the 802 Locust St., Columbia, MO 65201. May 22, 2011, tornado will be shown Nov. 15 during the St. Louis Interna- Missouri Press Foundation tional Film Festival. The screening is set for 6:30 p.m. at William James, Warrensburg the Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Lindbergh Jim and Deborah Robertson, Columbia Boulevard and Clayton Road. Vernon Publishing, Inc., Versailles “Deadline in Disaster” details through Mike and Barb Sell, Columbia the eyes and voices of Joplin Globe Joe and Renee Spaar, Odessa reporters and staff members the days, Betty Spaar, Odessa weeks and months following the tragedy. Advance tickets to see the film are for Tom and Marilyn Miller, Washington sale at the Plaza Frontenac box office, Trevor and Molly Vernon, Eldon 2-9 p.m. daily. (No phone sales.) For Vicki Russell, Columbia tickets online, visit www.landmark- Michael Jenner, Columbia theatres.com. There is a $1-per-ticket Gary and Helen Sosniecki, LeClaire, Iowa service charge. Duane Dailey, Columbia Pick up your tickets from the box- office attendant or use an automated Caroline Miller, Webster Groves kiosk at the box-office counter. Bring the Doug and Tricia Crews, Columbia credit card that you used to purchase the Gary and Jane Haberberger, Washington tickets and the confirmation number. Andrew and Suzette Waters, Columbia The 21st annual Whitaker St. Louis Gasconade County Republican, Owensville International Film Festival will be Nov. The Maneke Law Group, Kansas City 8-18. The majority of the more than 400 films screened – many of them critically Perry County Republic-Monitor, Perryville lauded award-winners – will receive their News-Press & Gazette Co., St. Joseph only St. Louis exposure at the festival. Springfield Daily Events, Springfield Information about the festival is at cinemastlouis.org. Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame Mr. and Mrs. William L. Miller, Sr., Washington Bill Thompson named In Memory of Stephen Smith clerk of Supreme Court Kent and Sharon Ford, Columbia he Supreme Court of Missouri ap- Tpointed its counsel, Bill L. Thomp- In Memory of Irene Haskins son, to clerk of the Court effective Oct. Doug and Tricia Crews, Columbia 1. Thompson had been serving as in- terim clerk since the May 31 retirement of Thomas F. Simon, who served the Washington Missourian Newspaper In Education Program Court for more than 40 years. Amy and Christopher Reed, Eureka, Mo. Thompson, a native of Chillicothe, Jerome and Christie Stuckenschneider, Washington went to the Court in June 1978 after US Bank, Princeton, N.J. serving as a staff attorney for the Joint Committee on Legislative Research for the state’s General Assembly. He had St. Louis Post-Dispatch Newspaper In Education Program served as counsel to the Court since Barden Circulation, Inc., San Antonio, Texas 1997. Thompson and his wife, Julia, live in Ashland.

Missouri Press News, November 2012 www.mopress.com 17 It does NOT belong to your advertiser. And, when it shows up in some other Ads your paper creates publication, whether a flier for the com- munity fair, the local historical society newsletter, or any other publication that are copyrighted too! might exist, you have a right to be upset that your copyrighted material is being Rate card needs language addressing this issue used wrongfully. opyright law and intellectual ment was paid for by the advertiser or How do you handle this situation and property rights are areas of the not. keep your advertiser happy? I have a few Claw near and dear to the hearts In some cases, a customer will want to suggestions. of all of you reading this column. It’s create an advertisement (probably, in this First, I suggest it is critical that you how we make our living, but it is more case, an entire advertising campaign), have a rate card that every single adver- than that. and so they will hire a tiser gets, and that you go over it with From the first day you design firm or a marketing them when they start talking about buy- put three words together company to create a con- ing an ad, on paper and thought to cept, and then prepare a and that you yourself how great they number of advertisements then leave it The issue I’m sounded, protecting your of various kinds — print, with them creative work product has video, maybe web-based and encour- talking about been important, as much — that the customer can age them to for the pride in your work distribute to various me- read it. is who owns as for the financial benefit dia entities to promote n that rate it brings. the product. In the case of Icard you the advertis- And it doesn’t matter that set of facts, where the n e e d t h i s whether we are talking customer pays the market- l a n g u a g e : ing content about the news story we ing company for the work All adver- create, the editorial we Jean Maneke, MPA’s Legal it created, the material is t i s e m e n t s in your use to persuade readers Hotline attorney, can be called a “work made for created by or the advertising copy reached at (816) 753-9000, hire” under the law and the Publish- publication? that makes our customers’ [email protected]. the copyright belongs to er are not products shine, all of them the person who paid for considered a are created by our sweat and blood and the campaign. “work made for hire” and the Publisher we take pride in them, our children. (Think about this concept in terms retains the copyright to all advertise- That’s the basis in copyright law, you of your employees. When they write ments created by the Publisher for the know. It protects that feeling of pride we stories for you, do they own the sto- Advertiser. The advertisement may have, but it also makes sure that when ries? No, of course not. They are paid not be reproduced without the written we allow others to use our work prod- by you to sit at their computers and permission of the Publisher. uct — our words — we are adequately write the stories. Your company owns Then you find a tactful way to go to compensated for that use. the stories. They get the paycheck. You your advertiser, remind him that you While some of the material may are both happy!) actually own the ad and suggest, gently, require more “sweat of the brow” than n the other hand, many of you that you could, for a reasonable fee, other material we create, the basis of Oare working in smaller media op- create some other advertisements that copyright law is that it is all equally erations. Your advertising staff goes out he would own and could use elsewhere, protected. and convinces a local business to buy if he would like, so that neither of you nd that is the issue I want to discuss a 4x4 ad in this week’s paper. You ask will be doing anything that would create A with you today. them what they would like to see in the legal problems. I know I’ve discussed this before, but ad. You put it together (sometimes late Certainly, if you want, you have a when I start getting frequent calls about at night in your ad department) and you right to send a letter to the other entity an issue, I think it’s time to discuss it run it by them to get their approval, then and advise him that this is copyrighted again, and so perhaps it is time to raise it appears in print. material that you own and that the ad- this issue for your careful consider- But here’s the important part of that vertiser doesn’t own the ad or the rights ation. The issue I’m talking about is set of facts. We are assuming here that to place it in other publications. the issue of who owns the advertising they write you a check only for the 4x4 If we need to talk further about this, content in your publication. space the ad takes. They pay you nothing don’t hesitate to call me. The hotline is When you drill down to the essence for the advertisement you have created. here to not only serve the news depart- of this issue, it becomes the question of Under those circumstances, your ments of our members, but our advertis- whether the creation of the advertise- company owns the copyright to that ad. ing departments, too.

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Missouri Newspaper Organizations CALENDAR NORTHWEST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Adam Johnson, Mound November City; Vice President, temporarily vacant; Secretary, Kathy Conger, Bethany; Treasurer, W.C. Farmer, Rock Port. Directors: Past President, Matt Daugherty, Smithville/Kearney/ 17 — Mizzou football v. Syracuse Liberty; Jim Fall, Maryville; Dennis Ellsworth, St. Joseph; Jim McPherson, Weston; Chuck in Columbia. Haney, Chillicothe; ; Steve Tinnen, Plattsburg; Kay Wilson, Maryville; Steve Booher, St. April 2012 Joseph; D’Anna Balliett, Cameron. 21-23 — Missouri Circulation Manage- ment Association meeting & SHOW-ME PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, David Eales, Paris; Vice President, Circulation / Audience Mega Jeff Grimes, Centralia; Secretary-Treasurer, Sandy Nelson, News-Press & Gazette Co. Summit, Renaissance Hotel, Directors: Dennis Warden, Owensville; Stacy Rice, Drexel; Past President/Director, Linda Lambert Airport, St. Louis Geist, Monroe City. September 5-7 — MPA Convention, Marriott OZARK PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Keith Moore, Ava; Vice President, Whitney Downtown, Kanas City Anderson, Crane; Secretary-Treasurer, Dala Whittaker, Cabool. Directors: Roger Dillon, Eminence; Brad Gentry, Houston; Jeff Schrag, Springfield; Chris Case, Cuba; Tianna Brooks, Mountain View; Sharon Vaughn, Summersville.

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Amanda Layton, Perryville; Magazine, bulletin First Vice President, Donna Denson, Cape Girardeau; Second Vice President, Randy Pribble, Ironton; Secretary-Treasurer, Michelle Friedrich, Poplar Bluff; Executive Secretary, can be read online Ann Hayes, Southeast Missouri State University; Historian, Peggy Scott, Festus. Directors: he Missouri Press monthly Bulletin Gera LeGrand, Cape Girardeau; Kim Combs, Piedmont; H. Scott Seal, Portageville; Kate Martin, Perryville; Deanna Nelson, Sikeston; Ed Thomason, New Madrid. Tand Missouri Press News magazine now can be read online. DEMOCRATIC EDITORS OF MISSOURI: President, Richard Fredrick, Paris; First Vice In your browser, type magazine. President, Bob Cunningham, Moberly; Secretary, Beth McPherson, Weston; Treasurer, mopress.com or bulletin.mopress.com. Linda Geist, Monroe City. (Do not preface with www.) No user- MISSOURI CIRCULATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: President, Brenda Carney, name or password are necessary. Harrisonville; First Vice President, Jack Kaminsky, Joplin; Second Vice President, Steve A new Friend of Missouri Press, Dirx- Edwards, St. Joseph; Secretary, David Pine, Kansas City; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: Jim Kennedy, Bolivar; Ken Carpenter, Kansas City; Rob Siebeneck, Jefferson City. ion, produces the e-editions. Missouri Press will send a brief email MISSOURI ADVERTISING MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION: President, Jane Haslag, to let everyone know when a new edi- Jefferson City; First Vice President, Jana Todd, Warrenton; Second Vice President, Jeanine tion of or magazine has been York, Washington; Secretary, Mark Maassen, The Kansas City Star; Treasurer, Kristie Williams, Columbia. Directors: Suzie Wilson, Milan; Bruce Wallace, Ashland; Brian Rice, posted. If your email address is not on Excelsior Springs; Jennifer Vanderpool, Lake Ozark. Past President, Dennis Warden, those email lists, let MPA know and Owensville. you’ll be added to the list.

MISSOURI ASSOCIATED DAILIES: President, Joe May, Mexico; Vice President, vacant; Secretary, Shelly Arth, Marshall; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: Jack Whitaker, Hannibal; Arnie Robbins, St. Louis; Dan Potter, Columbia.

MISSOURI PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATORS: President, Colene McEntee, St. Charles; President-Elect, vacant; Secretary, Peggy Koch, Barnhart; Treasurer, Roxanne Miller, Ballwin; Public Relations Officer, Suzanne Corbett, St. Louis; Membership Officer, Linda Briggs-Harty, St. Louis; Contest Director, Janice Denham, Kirkwood; Quest Awards Directors, Susan Fadem, St. Louis, and Marge Polcyn, St. Louis; Conference Director, vacant; Archivist, Dee Rabey, Granite City, Ill.; Past President, Fran Mannino, Kirkwood.

MISSOURI PRESS SERVICE: President, Kevin Jones, St. Louis; Vice President, Vicki Russell, Columbia; Secretary-Treasurer, Jack Whitaker, Hannibal. Directors: Dave Bradley, St. Joseph; Steve Oldfield, Adrian.

MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION, INC.: President, Mrs. Betty Spaar, Odessa; First Vice President, Wendell Lenhart, Trenton; Second Vice President, Kirk Powell, Pleasant Hill; Secretary-Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: R.B. Smith III, Lebanon; James Sterling, Columbia; Edward Steele, Columbia; Robert Wilson, Milan; Dane Vernon, Eldon; Vicki Russell, Columbia; Bill James, Harrisonville; Bill Miller Sr., Washington, Tom Miller, Washington; Chuck Haney, Chillicothe; Dave Berry, Bolivar. Directors Emeritus: Mrs. Wanda Brown, Harrisonville; Wallace Vernon, Eldon; Rogers Hewitt, Shelbyville.

MISSOURI-KANSAS AP PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS: Chairman, Susan Lynn, Iola, Kan. Missouri AP Managing Editors: Chairman, vacant; Past Chairman, Carol Stark, Joplin.

MISSOURI COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION: President, Jordan Larimore, Missouri Southern State University; Vice President, Megan Gates, Missouri State University; Secretary, Michelle McIntosh, St. Louis Community College-Forest Park; MPA Liaison, Jack Dimond, Missouri State University; Adviser, Olive Sullivan, Missouri Southern State University.

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