PROMOTING PRESS FREEDOM SINCE 1868
MAY, 2017 “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” - Thomas Jefferson ISSUE 5 31st Annual Scholarship Golf Benefit from MPA Foundation President Rich Perlberg The 31st Annual MPA Foundation Scholarship Golf Benefit ventured into new territory May 18 – and the results were spectacular. Thanks to the work done by MPA President Doug Caldwell and host newspapers – the Petoskey News Review, the Gaylord Times Herald and the Charlevoix Courier – this year’s version of the Foundation golf fundraiser took place at Gaylord’s Treetops Resort, which bills itself as Michigan’s Most Spectacular Resort. According to longtime golf committee chair Dirk Milliman, this is the furthest north that the Foundation has traveled for its golf outing. Based on the results, it surely won’t be the last time. Despite somewhat chilly weather – and just a few drops of rain – those participating at Treetops enjoyed a challenging but beautiful 18-hole scramble, and in the meantime made a sizeable contribution to the Foundation’s scholarship fund. Before the first tee shot, the day was certain to be a success, thanks to the generosity of the benefit’s two major sponsors: Meijer and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Some 14 teams registered for the event, which is the largest number of golfers in at least four years. The day’s totals are not yet final, but it’s already assured to be one of the strongest financial efforts in many years, easily topping the $10,000 target from a year ago. The Silent Auction, for example, netted $2,115, about double last year’s total. Thanks to the sterling efforts of MPA board member Helen Stojic, the sale of Mulligans, entries into the Skins game and the new Beat the Pro contest netted several hundred dollars from generous and competitive golfers. For the record, three teams – MSU J School, The View Crew, and Stafford Media – Beat the Pro; no one earned a Skin in the Skins game; Matt Deyong won a golf bag by hitting his shot closest to the bag; Jeremy Speer sank the longest putt; Julie Stafford had the women’s long drive; Lynette Schreiner was women’s closest to the pin; Fraser Baker was men’s closest to the pin, and Jim Stevenson celebrating his birthday with the men’s long drive. No one was close enough to the flag to win the betting hole, netting the Foundation another $233 dollars. To finish up the night, the 50-50 raffle earned another $420 dollars when the Grand Haven and Elaine Myers. Tribune’s Kevin Hook generously donated back his winnings. Now’s the time to mark your calendar for next year’s Foundation benefit, which will by Low Gross honors were taken by the Grand Haven Tribune team of Kevin Hook, Jim Stevenson, Wednesday, May 9, in the Lansing area as a prelude to the MPA’s annual convention which, Paul Bedient and Chris Huckle. Their score of 62 edged the 63 tallied by the View Crew of Wes as part of the association’s 150th birthday, is moving to May this year and returning to the Smith, Todd Hagerman, Pete Clinton and Jim Sherman. Kellogg Center in East Lansing as part of the celebration. The Low Net Modified Calloway title went to the 57 scored by Ron’s Bombers which included Ron Dzwonkowski, Dawson Bell, Jack Kresnak and Joe Swickard. Taking second in a seriously complicated formula was the MEDC team of Otie McKinley, Frank Provenzano, Nick Nerbonne
New Members Welcome On May 17, the MPA Board approved three new members. MPA would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest members. Our two newest members of the News Media category are:
Chalkbeat is a nonprofit education news organization. They have several locations all over the US including their Michigan office in Detroit. The organization covers stories regarding the improvement of schools for all children, especially those who have historically lacked access to a quality education.
The Record is a weekly newspaper in Washington, MI serving the village of Romeo and the townships of Bruce, Ray and Washington as well as surrounding areas. The Record offers a variety of news and editorial coverage along with advertising products.
MPA’s newest University publication member is the Pulse.
The Pulse is a student-led monthly news publicaton from Spring Arbor University in Spring Arbor. The newspaper covers campus news and entertainment as well as giving national issues and events local angles, applying them to students, staff and faculty. PAGE 2 MAY, 2017 Michigan Press Association - Promoting Press Freedom Since 1868 #TBT from MPA Executive Director Jim Tarrant We are months away from celebrating 150 more on the horizon for newspapers. years of service to Michigan newspapers. It is critical for newspapers to maintain Throughout the years MPA has promoted interaction with elected officials at all levels freedom of the press, transparency and of government both to drive transparency accountability in government, freedom of and to education them on decisions which information and public notice. Newspapers could harm your ability to remain viable have faced many challenges in the past 100 with resources to inform the public. MPA years but have never lost focus of the mission. needs your ongoing discussions with state Newsrooms have gotten smaller making legislators concerning the importance of it more difficult to cover all the local public notices in print, expanding FOIA to the governmental meetings with the same rigor Governor’s office and legislature, promoting as the past but you continue to find ways to access to body cam and drone recordings and inform the public. Students are still excited to adjusting the Folio rate. Keep in touch with join the profession and continue the strong your representatives and MPA will keep you tradition built over these 150 years. I met informed on the status of these issues. the young general manager of a community Finally, join your colleagues when MPA newspaper who enthusiastically talked about celebrates 150 years of service. Mark your the new reporter she described as a super calendar now for the 2018 Convention, May star. I read that newspapers are their own 10-11. We are returning to the Kellogg Center worst enemies by describing the death of in East Lansing, which hosted many past newspapers. If you say enough times people conventions, a return to our roots. We will will begin to believe it is true. be hosting a forum with the gubernatorial The environment has been changing. Many candidates and many other programs of industries have needed to regroup, adapt, interest to the membership. rebuild and innovate. Think of the Michigan auto industry, healthcare, bookstores and now the retailers. My impression is newspapers We look forward to seeing you in May 2018. May 1971 Michigan Publisher are in the midst of innovating, adapting and Ronald Lewis, director of the vocational school, Carl Nieminen, intermediate refocusing to continue their10-11 valuable superintendant (center) and President John X. Jamrich discuss the mertis of the role for our democracy. Like our auto industry mobile printing unit used as part of the school. with the rise of autonomous there is much
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www.MICHIGANPRESS.org PAGE 3 MAY, 2017 What’s happening in Leaks in the Age of Trump WASHINGTON? Excerpts from Editor and Publisher As a candidate and now as president, Donald Trump has of the Fourth Estate and their real and potential sources displayed two traits that make him virtually impossible of information. How well the press stands up to such an for journalists to cover in any conventional way. First, onslaught could be critical to freedom of speech and of there is Trump’s well-documented talent for sowing the press. A press that cannot gather real information informational chaos—making assertions unsupported is a press without freedom; a government sealed from by facts; assertions directly contradicted by the available within by fear is a government that cannot be held facts; and assertions contradicting assertions made just accountable. days or even minutes before. It’s a safe bet that Trump will pull no punches in pursuing Second, Trump has made clear he has little interest in the sources of leaks, or the media outlets that publish the traditions of political coverage that have developed them. Trump has made abundantly clear that he views over time to subject the president to the routine scrutiny journalists — as a group — as “scum,” and “disgusting.” of the press. Just one example: Trump doesn’t do press He systematically denied press credentials to news conferences. Until January this year, he hadn’t held one outlets that covered him critically during the campaign. since last July. In that time, he has tweeted some 1,500 He has suggested that “freedom of the press” (among times. other things) was to blame for September’s series of bombings in New Jersey and New York. The ability of the White House press corps to extract meaningful information from the Executive Branch Journalism in the age of Trump faces formidable during the Trump era will be seriously constrained, challenges, to be sure. But there is hope. Courageous to say the least. But for the same reasons Trump is an whistleblowers have always been willing to stand up, impossible quarry for the conventional press, he has despite potentially dire consequences, to alert the already proven to be a never-ending fount of leak- American people to misdeeds by those elected to inspired journalism. govern them. Chaos begets dissension, and dissension within the close Although many of the institutions that would protect ranks of government bureaucracy leads, inevitably, to and defend such whistleblowers, and the media who leaks. Career public servants ignored by the boss will bring their alarms to the public, have been weakened in try to find someone else to tell. Reporters who don’t get recent years, the law that protects them—starting with their calls returned look elsewhere for information. We the United States Constitution—remains intact. Even have already seen the results of this dynamic time and the President of the United States can’t change that. At again with Trump. least not by himself. So, prepare for the coming floods—first, of leaks, and David Snyder, a lawyer and journalist, is executive then of retribution. What Trump’s chaos giveth away in director of the First Amendment Coalition. The views the form of leaks it may try to taketh back in the form expressed here do not necessarily reflect the opinions of witch hunts, criminal probes and routine intimidation of the FAC Board of Directors.
Police Body Cam Legislation Clears Committee Excerpts from MIRS News
Police body cameras are significantly different than dash cams, Rep. Jim RUNESTAD (R-White Lake) told the House Judiciary Committee a few weeks ago. Unlike dash cams, police can carry body cameras into people’s homes, their bedrooms, backyards and provide a view of the inside of a person’s car. Runestad feels should be additional policy that protects against the release of police video that invades people’s privacy. HB 4427 would do just that.
The American Civil Liberties Union agrees. “The personal privacy of the public should be protected unless there is a compelling, publicly beneficial justification for lifting that protection,” said Kimberly BUDDIN, ACLU of Michigan’s policy counsel. “Without such a policy in place, we risk discouraging people who do not want the interiors of their homes videotaped from contacting the police.”
HB 4427 would exempt from disclosure video from a police body camera recorded in a private place. Exceptions to that are made for the person who is the subject of the video, or his or her parents, and for any person whose property was seized or damaged in police action related to the video.
The law also requires police agencies that use body cameras to retain that video for at least 30 days if the recording is of “a crime, arrest, citation, search, use of force incident, or confrontational encounter with a citizen” or if the video would count as evidence in a criminal or internal investigation.
Committee members asked whether police could discard video before a citizen can file a formal complaint with a police department. Runestad contended the wording “confrontational encounter with a citizen” would prevent that.
A policy on retention is crucial, Runestad said, because “there is no way large departments could retain all that video” if they had to retain everything.
Runestad said the FOIA is good for most government information. “But these are the most intrusive things law enforcement has ever used,” he said of body cameras. “They can go in and capture video in the most compromising situations within homes.”
His bill is intended to give law enforcement direction on using body cameras, and in turn encourage their use.
The Michigan Press Association opposed this bill because it exempts crucial information about police behavior from the public. MPA feels the legislation is counterproductive to the good having this footage can do for building public trust in law enforcement. The bill is currently poised for passage on the floor of the House. www.MICHIGANPRESS.org PAGE 4 MAY, 2017 2017 Peter Pettalia Memorial Sunshine Award Winners Three outstanding legislators were honored with the Peter Pettalia Memorial Sunshine Award Tuesday, May 16 in the Capitol Rotunda. Senator Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge), Representative Jeremy Moss (D- Southfield) and Representative Jim Tedder (R-Clarkston). The Sunshine Award is given annually to those in the Capitol who work tirelessly to support and progress open government in Michigan. This year the award was also renamed after the late Representative Peter Pettalia for all his effots to support freedom of the press and open government in his state.
Maximizing Your FOIA Response Rate By Jen Dukarski, MPA Hotline Team You just found the perfect accompaniment for your piece. It may be an image taken 2. The Nature of the Copyrighted Work. from Facebook or a short video found on YouTube. You take the material and run with it This factor looks at the characteristics and attributes of the work itself and is one of the thinking, “not a big deal; it’s fair use.” But is it? least analyzed factors. Generally courts tend to give greater protection to creative works What is Fair Use? and thus use of nonfiction works are more likely to be found fair use than use of works of Copyright law tends to favor the journalist and embrace the need for reporting and social fiction. commentary. But as the nature of media has evolved to embrace access to materials on the internet, the risks have also increased. To be confident in using materials, a fair use 3. The Amount or Substantiality of the Portion Used. assessment is recommended. In a nutshell: the less that a work is used, the more likely it is to be found a fair use. The The U.S. Copyright Act establishes four factors that must be balanced determine if the use “amount” used is usually evaluated relative to the length of the entire original and in light of a copyrighted work is a “fair” use. These include: of the amount needed to serve a proper objective. But the test isn’t just a percentage • the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial test. Copying the central piece or the “heart of the word” of an article may be copyright nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; infringement even if it is a small part of the overall work. On the other hand, if commentary • the nature of the copyrighted work; or criticism is the central aspect of the copying, copying significant amounts of the work may be necessary to convey the message. In a 1995 case, the Washington Post used three • the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as small quotes from Church of Scientology texts that were found on the internet. The a whole; and Virginia court determined that only a small amount of material had been used from the • the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted Scientology doctrine and, when paired with the use as commentary, it was fair use. work. No single category rules the day. You have to consider all four factors for each clip, video, 4. The Effect of the Use on the Potential Market for or Value of the Work. book quote, or online content that is used. The effect of the use on the potential market has been considered the single most important element of fair use. This factor assesses whether widespread distribution of an article 1. The Purpose and Character of the Use. containing copyright work would harm the potential market for the original work through diminished potential sales and theft of the original work’s market. To some degree, this The first factor looks at the way the material is being used. When material is used for the depends upon the purpose of the copying. If the purpose is commercial, it is easier for the journalistic tasks of criticism, comment and scholarship, it is more likely to be a fair use. In copyright holder to demonstrate an adverse market impact. Conversely, noncommercial the past, courts often looked to whether the use was for the good of public or for private uses, such as research or scholarship, make it more difficult for the copyright holder to commercial gain. Although that test is still applied, courts have become more accepting demonstrate adverse market impact. The fact that the copyright holder doesn’t market of companies making money using other’s copyrighted material. The Ninth Circuit Court a similar product and that the copy from which the copy is made is lawfully acquired also of Appeals found in favor of South Park when it created a parody of Samwell’s “What What” favor a finding of fair use. song in its 2008 episode titled “Canada on Strike.” In the famous episode, the character Butters made his own version of the song to become an internet sensation. The episode, As you can see, determining “fair use” involves subjective judgments such that it is difficult lampooning the song, critiqued the viral video culture, ultimately establishing that for- to say with certainty that a particular use is fair use or copyright infringement. Nonetheless, profit use (by Viacom) wasn’t a barrier to succeeding on fair use. applying these factors are important to confidently using other individual’s copyright protected work. The MPA Hotline Team is able to help in these situations and is able to provide general guidance on the hotline or full formal opinions under special MPA rates.
www.MICHIGANPRESS.org PAGE 5 MAY, 2017 What to Believe About the Qualifying Your State of Newspapers Advertising Prospects by Kevin Slimp I don’t know about you, but my life seems When I was being told no one would ever You may have heard the old story about of our competitors, Of course, it’s difficult the door-to-door salesman who was to learn about special deals and discounts, to get busier with each passing day. I just print a newspaper ad or page from a PDF selling vacuum cleaners way out in the but at least we have a general idea of their finished publishing my second book in a file, by the very people I thought would country. When a lady came to the door, he starting points. If our target prospect is month, began work on a major project to be most excited about the possibility, dramatically emptied a bag of dirt onto the advertising in other media outlets, we can help raise funds for a press association, those voices didn’t sway me. That’s one floor and boasted, “Ma’am, if this vacuum put together a pretty good profile of their conducted more webinars than I can of the things the head of Adobe thanked cleaner doesn’t get rid of every speck of expenses.” remember over the past few weeks, me for all those years ago. When I read, this dirt, I’ll eat it.” She said, “Come on in. and summer convention season kicks in as we all do, that newspapers are dying, it We don’t have electricity.” Beyond the budget, Ross encourages his team to learn enough about their prospects tomorrow, even though summer is still a doesn’t slow me down, because I know the Although there’s almost no chance that to figure out what kind of marketing they few weeks away. My email is filled with truth. Two months ago, a friend told me this actually happened, it illustrates the need. Is this a business that traditionally messages each day from publishers and he attended a civic club meeting and the importance of qualifying prospects. Ross, advertises in print? Do their competitors other newspaper colleagues who want guest speaker was the daily newspaper edi- who manages the sales team at his paper, have a strong online presence? Can their advice about something going on at their tor from his town. My friend told me he was told me they place a lot of emphasis on customers be categorized as general papers. The questions come from the tiniest shocked when the editor told the group qualifying the businesses they approach interest or business-to-business? Is their papers with just one or two folks, including that newspapers were near death and about advertising. “There’s no use to try marketing based on brand identity or the publisher, on staff, to folks running they would be better off to find alternative to sell something to someone who is not special offers? Do their competitors large regional and national groups. If you sources, primarily online news sites, to get is a position to buy,” he said. “So we do advertise in Ross’ paper? If so, does the think it sounds a little overwhelming, you’re their information. My friend was surprised everything we can to look at our marketing sales person have access to ad response right. I recently read a biography of George that I wasn’t surprised. It’s enough to get a products from the other person’s rates? perspective.” Washington andlearned, not surprisingly, guy down, but not me. At least not for long.I 2. During the conversation. “Through he often felt as if he was in over his head. just think about Roger Holmes and those Ross sticks to the philosophy that there the years, I’ve heard stories about sales I know the feeling, George. I’m sure many papers in Western Canada and his work are two times to qualify a prospect: (1) people who leave appointments feeling of us share the same emotion. Like a lot of to move them back into local hands. And Before the conversation and (2) During optimistic, but find out later that there people in our business, I sometimes want I think about Victor Parkins in Tennessee, the conversation. That’s much better was no way the person could buy an ad to throw my hands in the air and ask, “Am who I just got off the phone with, and his than getting bad news after making a program,” Ross explained. “At my paper, I really making any difference at all?”Then papers. He told me they are do- presentation. Here’s a closer look: we don’t want that to happen to our sales team. someone like Joey Young, comes along. 1. Before the conversation. “When it comes You’ve probably heard of Joey, the “whiz ing really well, increasingly better each year. to financial qualifying, a lot of information “No matter how much we learn in kid” from Kansas who keeps creating I think about some of the biggest names is available,” he said. “If the company has advance, there’s a lot more to discover,” he successful community newspapers in in the business who contact me to let me advertised with us before, we can easily continued. “So when we have face-to-face defiance of the choruses of “You can’t do know they read my columns and agree search the files for previous budgets and meetings, we confirm what we’ve learned that.” Joey has a habit of remind-ing me with my thoughts that local management invoices. And if we’ve done proposals for ahead of time and ask questions to fill in how well things are going out in Kansas of newspapers is the only way to keep them them in the past, we can get plenty of the blanks. We simply tell them that the Then there are the publishers, editors and successful. Last night, I was on the phone insights there. more we know, the more we can help.” ad managers lining up at conventions to tell with legendary newspaper consultant Ed “We’ve made efforts to learn the ad rates Ross makes a lot of sense, doesn’t he? me how well their papers are do-ing, while Henninger. We talk almost every day. The everyone seems to be telling them they conversation moved toward the topic of John Foust newspapers, as it always does, and our should be dying. I remember hearing from John Foust has conducted training programs for the CEO of Adobe Software several years concern for groups that continually press thousands of newspaper advertising professionals. ago. He wrote to thank me for the work I the “newspaper is dying” message. Then Many ad departments are using his training videos had done to make Acrobat a viable product. Ed told me about one of the national to save time and get quick results from in-house newspaper groups he works with as a training. E-mail for information: john@johnfoust. He told me, “What you did may have saved com our company.”I was looking for an email consultant. He said, “You know what the yesterday and was surprised to find a five difference is with them, and why I like ( c) Copyright 2017 by John Foust. All rights reserved. year-old message from a business leader working with their group?”Obviously I in New Orleans who was excited about a asked. “The difference is, they leave the plan I had created, at his group’s request, management of their papers in the hands to lure a new daily newspaper to the city of the publishers and staffs, and they have after their long-standing daily newspaper good newspapers because they do.”I know moved to a digital-first format, abandoning I’m preaching to the choir, but sometimes their traditional daily model. I felt a rush the choir needs to be reminded they sound of adrenaline as I read the words he wrote good. The printed word isn’t dying. You can five years ago, “I love it!”Those of you who find the books I publish in bookstores and know me well know that one of my degrees all the usual online retailers. The printed is in theology, and I love keeping up with versions outsell the digital versions by a what various groups believe. I often say long-shot. Most of the studies I find show a I have a little Quaker in me, even though 4 percent drop in digital book sales over the I’m not Quaker, because I love the Quaker past year. Why have some of our brethren belief that a single individual, even when fallen for the “print is dead” line? Well, that’s standing alone against great opposition, another column for another day. My 800 has a significant chance of being right. words were used up 90 words ago.
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31st Annual Golf Benefit Fun The MPA and MPAF members and supporters showed up in Gaylord, May 18 to shake things up on the golf course. A little rain couldn’t slow them down as attendance soared.
OHJ Publisher Jim Young Celebrates Mike Thompson Wins Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Retirement by Detroit Free Press Free Press Editorial Cartoonist Mike Thompson has been awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in After approximately 40 years in the newspaper business and 17 years cartoons for his work on the Flint water crisis. at Oceana’s Herald-Journal and the White Lake Beacon, Publisher Jim Young celebrated his retirement with friends, family and colleagues in The awards recognize journalism that highlight injustice and promote human rights in 13 categories. “Winning Shelby. entries provide insights into the causes, conditions, and remedies of human rights violations and injustice, and critical analyses of relevant policies, programs, individual actions, and private endeavors that foster positive change,” according to a statement Friday from Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. “Throughout 2016 Mike Thompson skillfully critiqued those involved in Flint water crisis, and government’s sorry response to it, with sharp, incisive editorial cartoons,” Detroit Free Press Editorial Page Editor Stephen Henderson said. “Mike artfully depicts life in Flint for its poorest residents and the future lead-poisoned children face with a consistent eye toward the injustice that frames this government-made disaster.” Other recipients of this year’s RFK journalism awards include Bill Moyers in the category of media advocacy for his documentary “Rikers,” about the violence in Rikers Island prison, and Ben Taub, a contributing writer for “The New Yorker,” for the article “The Assad Files,” in the category of international print work. The awards will be distributed at a ceremony in Washington D.C. later this month. Thompson joined the Free Press in November, 1998. He began his career as a contributing cartoonist for the “Milwaukee Journal” and later worked as a staff cartoonist for the St. Louis Sun and the Copley Illinois papers. See more of Mike’s editorial cartoons at freep.com/opinion/mike-thompson/. Obituary: Bonnie Rose Thompson Bonnie Rose Thompson, 88 passed peacefully surrounded by family on Friday, April 28th. Bonnie was born and raised in Mississippi and moved to Ann Arbor after meeting her beloved husband at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh where they were both attending school. She was the epitome of the classic “Southern Belle”, beautiful, gracious and generous with everyone she came into contact with. She truly loved people and liked nothing more than to be surrounded by friends and family.
She was the longest serving volunteer (over 60 years) at the Ann Arbor Thrift Shop. She was also a member of or involved in the Ann Arbor Farm & Garden, Women’s P.E.O., Ann Arbor City Club, Ann Arbor Golf & Outing, Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumna Assoc., and St. Andrew’s Church. She loved to travel, good food, live jazz performances, needlepoint, bridge and anything University of Michigan especially Michigan football and basketball. Bonnie survived her spouse Bradley M. Thompson, her infant son Scott, her parents Bonnie Rose and Paul T. Lagrone, and her brother Pete T. Lagrone. She is survived by her children, Bradley L. Thompson II (Karen), Sally Paredes (Gary) and Andrew M. Thompson (Terrie). Grandchildren Jason Thompson (Melanie), Christopher Thompson (Linda), Michael Thompson (Irina), Taylor Paredes, Connor Thompson and Gabrielle Thompson. She also has one great-grandson Rudy Paredes. Charitable donations can be made to Ann Arbor Thrift Shop or the Organ Fund at St. Andrew’s Church.
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REPORTER TWe are seeking a leader for our award winning Editorial Team based in Bad Axe, Michigan, as part of the Hearst Corporation, a CLASSIFIEDS leading global source news and information. The ideal candidate for the Huron Daily Tribune will have a strong track record of leading print and digital news strategies with GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTER EDITOR a keen eye toward the future of journalism. The Petoskey News-Review, an award As the Editor is responsible for overall news REPORTER The View Newspaper Group is seeking an content, the ideal candidate should be winning organization in beautiful Northern experienced journalist for the position of Michigan and also an organization that was experienced in producing high-integrity, editor for the Huron County View, located quality journalism in a multi-platform world. The Tri-County Citizen is seeking a deemed one of Editor and Publisher’s “10 in Bad Axe, MI. 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