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SPRING 2013 / Vol. 35, No. 1 Dedicated to improving journalism in Idaho Inside this issue:

President’s 2 Best of 2012 gala is May 18 column: Session Swing Into the Evening with Frim Fram 4 victories Idaho EDNews 3 By Deanna Darr No, we’re piling on the artis- ing off in its trademark white- All too often, the term tic license with that statement— jacketed, swinging style with a focuses on “awards banquet” triggers a the annual performance from education primitive shudder—as if our gathering of 6-7 p.m. The blues/ most ancient ancestors had to sit IPC mem- jazz/swing quartet Open Idaho 4 around a cave with a dry meal bers will be recently released its website and droning speeches about anything but latest album, I’m a great mammoth hunts of the last boring when Shy Guy, and is season, somehow passing their we come ready to show off Records case sets 4 dread on to future generations. together on its latest catalogue legal precedents Perhaps that’s why the Idaho Saturday, of songs. Press Club Best of 2012 May 18 to The band has Meet your IPC: Awards Banquet should lose the give some Frim Fram 4 to play at gala been a Treasure 6 whole “awards banquet” part of props to Valley staple for Sadie Babits the name and more accurately some of the best work produced years and earned legions of ded- be called the Idaho Press Club in 2012. icated fans with its style that is Media Moves Best of 2012 Concert, Dinner For starters, Boise’s own both retro and contemporary, 7 and Celebration. Frim Fram 4 will start the even- (Continued on page 7) Public record lawsuit results in legal victory in Blackfoot

By Nate Sunderland and refused to discuss its rea- Publicly, board members de- Payout contract The Post Register’s recent sons for agreeing to part ways nied any displeasure with Bingham heard rumors that legal victory against Blackfoot with the superintendent and pay Crane. Crane received a large payout School District 55 was a tribute him off with taxpayers’ funds. On April 24, Crane unex- to leave. She questioned the to the strength of Idaho’s sun- pectedly announced his retire- board and was rebuffed. shine laws and transparency in Scott Crane’s abrupt retire- ment. He denied that he was "I was told it was (a) person- government. At the heart of the ment forced out by the board. In- nel (issue) and that it would not story was a nearly $220,000 It was no secret that the stead, Crane said he wanted to be discussed and that I needed payout from District 55 to for- Blackfoot school board and move on, collect his pension to not ask any more questions mer Superintendent Scott Crane Crane didn’t get along. The and take a superintendent job in about it," Bingham said. – a deal struck during an illegal deteriorating relationship was a Moab, Utah. Her unease grew, when, by executive session. frequent on-background topic Board members also denied chance, she discovered a While the discovery was discussed by district staff. Still, forcing Crane to retire. They $105,428 contract payment satisfying; the victory wasn’t it came as a surprise when, in expressed shock at the an- made to an anonymous source complete. In fact, the bigger January 2012, the board voted 3 nouncement. It was obvious while reviewing the district's truth was lost when the board, -2 not to renew Crane’s con- more was going on but no one July 2012 budget. That pay- on the advice of its attorney and tract for a third year. wanted to talk about it. The ment was made the day after under threat of a lawsuit from The board’s explanation was story might have ended here if Crane left office. the former superintendent, reaf- vague and filled with references not for the actions of substitute Bingham requested a copy firmed the questionable deal about employee confidentiality. teacher Joyce Bingham. (Continued on page 5)

COMMUNICATOR Page 2 IPC Board President’s Column President Betsy Russell Celebrating victories for openness in this Vice President year’s Idaho legislative session Todd Dvorak By Betsy Russell Not to mention that Capitol leaders, and most notably Senate Treasurer It’s been a video that provided fodder for Majority Leader Bart Davis, Joan Cartan-Hansen good year for some excellent news reporting worked closely with the press, openness in gov- about how lawmakers were re- the Freedom Foundation and Secretary ernment in Idaho. acting to folks carrying guns in others to develop appropriate Melissa McGrath There are a lot of the Statehouse, even as they guidelines for new video archiv- reasons for that, were promoting laws designed ing rules, and both houses of the Print Rep but I’d like to to go the extra mile to protect Legislature approved them. focus on four in gun rights. Clearly, these were Now, Idaho Public Television’s Melissa Davlin Betsy Rus- particular, all public records about what was live streams won’t vanish after a Broadcast Rep four of which came out of – be- happening in public buildings, week – they’ll be available for Sadie Babits lieve it or not – this year’s Idaho and the state was trying to make history and posterity. legislative session. them secret. The third item was a broad Broadcast Rep The first one didn’t start off Others had concerns as well, public records exemption in- like something good. The state including the ACLU of Idaho, cluded in SB 1133, a bill osten- Jamie Grey Department of Administration which was particularly con- sibly about school safety and Weeklies Rep proposed legislation to make all cerned about prison videos, and security, a high priority nation- surveillance video exempt from the Idaho Newspaper Associa- wide in the wake of the New- Deanna Darr the Idaho public records law. tion. town school shootings this year. Associate Rep This happened just after a shot The really great ending? Af- The bill added a new section to from a surveillance video at the ter our pro-bono lobbyist, Julie state law requiring schools to Sydney Sallabanks state Capitol – of an armed man Hart of Shift Public Affairs, and develop and submit security At-Large rifling through lawmakers’ the INA’s lobbyist, Jeremy Pis- plans to the state, and then add- desks in the House chamber – ca, met with the director of the ed this wording to the Idaho Allen Derr had appeared on the front page state Department of Administra- Public Records Law’s list of At-Large of the Idaho Statesman newspa- tion, Teresa Luna, she withdrew exemptions: “School security per, so it seemed odd timing. the bill, saying she had no inten- plans, threat assessment results John Hecht It turned out the same guy tion of impacting policy at pris- and related annual reports to the had requested extensive surveil- ons or other agencies. Some- state board of education, as pro- lance video of himself at the thing more specific could re- vided in section 33-1804, Capitol the previous year, and emerge next year, but that bill Idaho Code.” Chapter that’s what prompted the pro- was dead for the session. The thinking: Bad guys Representatives posed shutdown. Word was, the The second one involves an shouldn’t be able to make public man may have been trying to issue also related to public rec- records requests for the results Southwest determine where the “blind ords: The live video streams of of threat assessments showing spots” in the state’s surveillance the proceedings of the Legisla- where schools have security Todd Dvorak system were. HB 207 would ture and its committees. Legisla- loopholes, which they could “provide that public records of tive leaders in the past had re- then exploit. The problem with security systems in place to pro- fused to allow those streams to this: The public records law al- Executive Director tect public buildings and their be archived, for fear courts ready exempts those. It exempts Martha Borchers occupants are exempt from dis- would interpret the videos as the “Records of buildings, facilities, closure.” official record of the proceed- infrastructures and systems held [email protected] This caused us concern on a ings, rather than the journals of by or in the custody of any pub- number of levels. High among the House and Senate, as provid- lic agency only when the disclo- Find us on Facebook them: The Associated Press ed in the state Constitution, and sure of such information would or see us online: broke a big story in the past year the legislation itself. jeopardize the safety of persons about violence at the privately They were prompted to re- or the public safety,” and adds, www. run state prison south of Boise, consider in part because the Ida- “Such records may include idahopressclub.org that included video of a shock- ho Freedom Foundation started emergency evacuation, escape or ing beating of an inmate by oth- capturing its own videos of the other emergency response plans, er inmates while guards looked streams and posting them in its vulnerability assessments, oper- on. Were they trying to keep that own online archives. Over the ation and security manuals, stuff secret? course of the session, legislative (Continued on page 3) COMMUNICATOR Page 3

New Idaho online news site focuses on education

By John Miller schools. linked reporting project in Col- coverage and serious analysis There’s a new education There's another familiar face orado that's funded by the of such issues as school choice, news website in the Idaho Cap- behind the project, too: Jennifer Gates Family Foundation, accountability and education itol this year, but the reporters Swindell, a former longtime among other groups. reform.” who are writing about disputes reporter and editor at the Swindell traveled to Denver over the education budget, new Idaho Statesman who is to meet with its leaders, to teacher contract laws and addi- now the Idaho Leads Pro- glean ideas amid the scramble tional funding for charter ject's communication di- to get her site off the ground schools are all familiar faces. rector. ahead of the Legislature's Jan. 7 Idaho Education News in- Swindell says in her start this year. cludes Clark Corbin, the former work with the Idaho Leads In addition, employees from legislative reporter at the Idaho Project, people kept say- Education News Colorado have Falls Post-Register, and Kevin ing they wanted a forum traveled to Idaho to provide Richert, the longtime editorial dedicated to covering pub- more input on the new project. page editor for the Idaho lic education news. “We're fortunate to use their Statesman in Boise. This isn't the first non- experience, sharing their expe- The website, breathed into traditional news organiza- riences with us,” Swindell said. life following voters' defeat of tion in the Idaho Capitol. “We're not starting completely public schools chief Tom Lu- Idaho Reporter, funded by from scratch.” na's education reforms, is being the free-market think tank Ida- There, Education News Col- In addition to original re- coordinated through Boise ho Freedom Foundation, has orado bills itself as the only porting about education legisla- State University's Idaho Leads been in the statehouse for sev- news service “devoted to con- tion and policy by its reporters, Project, a program bankrolled eral years. tinuing, in-depth coverage of the Idaho website includes are- by the Albertson Foundation to Idaho Education News, at education policymaking in the as for columns from experts focus on strengthening leader- www.idahoednews.org, is mod- legislature and state govern- and others about topics related ship capacity in Idaho's K-12 eled after a similar education- ment and to comprehensive (Continued on page 8) President’s column: Making records requests easier

(Continued from page 2) on the House’s amending order, es of sexually harassing a Sen- unanimously; this will make the those committee amendments ate staffer. process of requesting public plans, blueprints or security didn’t get considered – instead, The problem: Traditionally, records easier on both the pub- codes.” the bill became a vehicle for a the Legislature hadn’t designat- lic and the Legislature. The new exemption would late-session “radiator capping” ed a specific custodian for pub- Throughout the legislative go beyond that, making secret procedure, in which its entire lic records requests for things session, our First Amendment the entire process of determin- contents were stripped out and like emails of individual law- Committee, chaired by Idaho ing whether school districts are replaced with the text of two makers, essentially leaving Press Club Vice President Todd complying with new state re- House-passed gun rights laws each lawmaker to deal with Dvorak, met weekly for brown- quirements to protect student that never got hearings in the them on his or her own. So bag lunches with our lobbyists, safety. There would be no pub- Senate. The amended bill then what happens when that law- Julie and her partner Nate Fish- lic accountability, no statistical died. maker has resigned? And are er and tracked and stayed on reports on how many districts We shed no tears. When the the members themselves really top of legislation that affects are in compliance, not even any issue comes back in the future, the best ones to be retrieving our right to know what’s going opportunity for parents to find we’ll be watching to make sure the emails from the state’s sys- on in our government. I’d like out if their kids’ school’s safety our concerns are addressed and tem? to thank Todd, Julie, Nate, and procedures are up to snuff. public accountability preserved. Our lobbyists worked all the members of the commit- Our pleas to the sponsor This brings us to the fourth throughout the session, particu- tee for their good work this went unheeded in the Senate, item, one on which we started larly with Senate President Pro- year. It’s something to cele- but when the bill hit the House work last year. At that time, a Tem Brent Hill and House brate! committee, committee mem- flurry of public records requests Speaker Scott Bedke, and legis- Betsy Russell is a Boise- bers added their own concerns, flew around the Senate as all us lative leaders from both parties based reporter for The Spokes- as did Julie and lobbyists for reporters sought to stay on top and both houses enthusiastical- man-Review, and is president the Freedom Foundation and of a major scandal that led to ly signed on. New Senate and of the Idaho Press Club. the ACLU. We participated in the resignation of the Senate’s House rules designating a sin- drafting a slew of amendments majority caucus chairman, then gle custodian for public records to the bill, but when it came up -Sen. John McGee, amid charg- requests in each body passed COMMUNICATOR Page 4

Open Idaho: Working to promote access Bingham v. Blackfoot points up By Joan Cartan-Hansen will respond. red flags the press should notice Whether you are a journal- Find out more about your ist, a public official or a private rights at the Open Idaho web- By Brian Kane ministration of public busi- citizen, you have rights and site: www.openidaho.org In December, Judge David ness responsibilities under Idaho’s What to do if you are denied Nye handed down a decision in  Regardless of form. Open Meeting and Public Rec- a public document? a public records case. Based ords laws. Now it is easier to If you are denied a record, on this analysis, there are sev- Within the Blackfoot case, find out what to do if you are ask to speak to the custodian of eral instructive points for the the school district claimed that denied a document or barred the records in question. Ask the press and public as they engage the agreement was exempt from a public meeting. Idaho custodian to cite the exemption in governmental oversight. from disclosure because it was Public Television and Idahoans under which you are being This case is particularly in- a personnel record. But the for Openness in Government denied the document. Be sure structive because Judge Nye court evaluated the agreement have updated their award win- to note their answer. Next ask expressly acknowledges, “Yet, to determine whether it was a ning Open Idaho website to for written denial and request everything about this case product of the job, or an evalu- reflect recent changes in state information about the appeals smacks of a public agency try- ation of performance of the job. statutes. process for the agency holding ing to hide its decision-making The former is not a personnel On the Open Idaho website, the document. Follow their from the public.” record, while the latter is. As a you’ll find eight videos that go procedures. You have the right First, don’t just rattle your separation agreement, it clearly through the “dos and don’ts” of to formally appeal the denial of saber. Once Joyce Bingham did not meet the evaluation test how the state’s Open Meeting your public record in the local made her request and it was with regard to the personnel and Public Records laws district court. -From the Open denied, she hired an attorney. record exemption. should be applied. In addition, Idaho website This might have been the most This conclusion leads to two the Open Idaho website con- What to do if you think Ida- important step Bingham took in final important points. A pub- tains detailed resources to help ho's Open Meeting Law is securing her rights under the lic entity cannot simply label a journalists and citizens access being violated: Idaho Public Records Law. document with a title that plac- government meetings and doc- If a meeting is being Under Idaho Code § 9-343 the es it into an exempt category— uments and information to train closed, ask: ”Under what pro- sole remedy is to bring a com- the content of the document and support public employees vision of the Idaho Open Meet- plaint in the district court must actually fit the exemption. responsible for administering ing Law do you intend to close where the records are located. And, a public entity cannot these laws. this meeting? Has a two-thirds The best way to claim that rem- create an exemption when there Joe Golden and Tom Will- majority voted to close the edy is by hiring an attorney. is none by creating a confiden- morth, a.k.a. The Fool Squad, meeting, and has that vote been The single best way to insure tiality clause within an agree- star in the videos. As part of recorded in the minutes?” your rights are protected is to ment. There should be existing the update, the steaming ver- If you object to the closure, hire an attorney. authority for the creation of the sions of the videos on the web- say: “I object to the closure of Second, be wary. It is ex- confidentiality clause in order site were closed captioned for this meeting, and I note for the ceptionally difficult for a pub- for a governmental entity to hearing impaired. record that any action taken in lic agency entering into a con- include one in an agreement or Members of Idahoans for an illegally closed meeting is tract with a public employee otherwise public record. Openness in Government null and void. Furthermore, requiring the expenditure of Don’t be afraid to challenge (IDOG) now have an special each member of the governing public money to then claim that claims of exemption. Idaho’s DVD version of the Open Ida- body who knowingly partici- it is exempt from public rec- Public Records Law is de- ho project that’s available for pates in an illegally closed ords disclosure! Within the signed to provide transparency training sessions, in addition to meeting can face fines. I also Blackfoot case, the school dis- and oversight of the govern- the live seminars IDOG con- remind the board that even in a trict tried to claim that the ment’s business. As reflected ducts periodically around the valid executive session, no agreement was a personnel in the Blackfoot case, some- state with Idaho Attorney Gen- final action or decision can be record, which the press ap- times the best case for Idaho’s eral Lawrence Wasden. made. The Idaho Open Meet- peared willing to accept as a Public Records Law is made to If you are ever denied a ing Law requires all decisions justification. Only after Bing- a judge—so be prepared to public document or denied to be made in public. I ask that ham hired an attorney, filed a make your case! access to a public meeting or my objection be noted in the complaint, and scheduled a Brian Kane is the assistant court proceeding or even if you minutes.” hearing did the press file a peti- chief deputy attorney general just have a question about these -From the Open Idaho website tion for public writings. of the state of Idaho, and an two statutes, help is available. Joan Cartan-Hansen is a Third—the test for a public authority on the state’s public Send an email via the Open reporter, producer and host at record is simple: records and open meeting laws. Idaho website’s “Contact Us” Idaho Public Television, pro-  Any document form and someone from the duced the Open Idaho project,  Containing information Idaho Press Club or Idahoans and is the treasurer of the Ida- relating to conduct or ad- for Openness in Government ho Press Club board. COMMUNICATOR Page 5

Blackfoot School District: Board cited ‘personnel issues’

(Continued from page 1) The Post Register also sent sion that we shouldn't have District 55 notice of its belief had," board Chairman Scott of the contract and was refused that the board violated open Reese said in December. because it was a "personnel meeting laws by making an As per Idaho Code 67-2347 issue." agreement with Crane during (1), Reese declared his inten- Continued rumors caught an executive session. tion to “cure” the infringement the attention of local news me- The lawsuit was an unquali- by "declaring that all actions dia, including the Post Register. fied success. Sixth District taken at or resulting from the The newspaper began re- Judge David Nye determined meeting in violation ... (are) viewing budgets, meeting the contract was not a personnel void." The board was given a minutes and making numerous record and ordered its release month to void the contract or records requests. The April 24 within three days. He ruled that reinstate it during an open minutes showed the board a clause inserted into the con- meeting. Nate Sunderland made an agreement with tract stating that it would be District officials, the board “Employee B-2012” during an placed into Crane’s personnel and Crane still refused to dis- garding the open meeting viola- 8-minute executive session. file and not disclosed under the cuss specific reasons for the tion wasn’t commenced within Not so coincidentally, that public records law was invalid, contract. The board did, howev- 30 days, the contract wasn’t was the same date Crane an- and that inserting such a clause er, stand by its decision to cre- automatically voided. "The nounced his retirement. can’t make what was clearly a ate the contract. Idaho Supreme Court … has A majority of document public record somehow fit un- held that unless an action, requests filed by local media der the personnel records ex- Aftermath: Recalls, resigna- which is in violation of an open were denied; the board cited emption. tion meeting act, is challenged in 30 personnel issues. Eventually, on "Everything about this case The revelation that District days, the action is valid and the recommendation of its at- smacks of a public agency try- 55 paid its former superinten- stands," White said in January. torney, District 55 confirmed ing to hide its decision-making dent $220,000 to retire, and She recommended the board that Employee B-2012 was from the public," Nye wrote in then hid the evidence, caused not discuss its reasons for the Crane. District officials, board his December ruling. massive public outcry in Black- contract. The board voted to members and Crane refused to The released separation foot. Dozens of angry residents reaffirm the separation agree- discuss the agreement, howev- agreement stipulated Crane spoke at board meetings de- ment as legally binding and er. receive nearly $220,000 for the manding an explanation. But announced the matter was While we had no direct evi- remainder of his contract. The residents never received one. closed. dence, Bingham and the Post document contained instruc- During a January board It was a frustrating end. Register began acting on the tions to be hidden in Crane’s meeting, Crane’s attorney’s Nothing in the Open Meeting assumption that the Crane personnel file and included a made it clear that if the board Law prevented the board from agreement and the $105,428 nondisclosure clause preventing voided the separation agree- explaining its actions or choos- contract payment were related. Crane or the board from dis- ment or revealed the circum- ing not to reaffirm the contract. cussing it. stances leading up to the agree- Still, a limit longer than 30 days Open meeting violations After the judge issued his ment, Crane would sue the dis- to challenge illegal closed Convinced the Crane agree- ruling, the board called a spe- trict for breach of contract. meetings would allow more ment was public record, Bing- cial meeting. Trustee Taylor Johansen recourse and review. ham put her money and reputa- At that meeting, district at- took a stand and argued the We may never know why tion on the line by suing to torney Dale Storer admitted the public had a right to know why the board agreed to the con- force the district to reveal the board violated opening meeting the district agreed to the con- tract, but the board’s actions document. The Post Register, laws during the April 24 execu- tract. did have consequences. Recall working closely with Bingham, tive session. The board also Johansen implied Crane efforts recently were initiated, joined the lawsuit shortly after. admitted a violation March 13, forced the district into the two board members resigned “Too many members of gov- when, according to Storer, agreement by threatening a and another has opted not to erning bodies in Idaho are ei- Crane first outlined his separa- lawsuit if they did not agree. A run for reelection. ther ignorant of our sunshine tion agreement. The violations payout was cheaper than a law- The remaining board mem- laws or simply flout them, and occurred because neither of the suit, he said. Johansen refused bers will stand for election in when our information requests executive sessions had been to elaborate on the Crane’s May. for corrective action go unheed- called to discuss Crane’s retire- threat without the permission of Nate Sunderland is a report- ed we have no choice but to ment. legal counsel. er for the Idaho Falls Post Reg- seek a court mandate,” Post "After consulting with our Amy White, the district's ister who covered the Blackfoot Register Publisher Roger Plo- legal counsel, we find that we interim attorney, advised the School District story. thow said. did err ...and got into a discus- board that since the action re- COMMUNICATOR Page 6

Meet your IPC: Sadie Babits Name: Sadie Babits ly able to feed his family. The can't find anywhere else. I'm Job: News Director for Boise only way he could was to make proud of the work we've done State Public Radio charcoal, which is illegal in and the stories that we've been Education: B.A. Political Sci- Kenya, and then essentially able to tell digitally and on air. ence / International Relations; smuggle it to the market in I'm also happy to say that by minor in Mass Communication Nairobi. I can still see his face the end of this year our news from Boise State and the faces of his children. team will be in a new facility Where are you originally Heart-breaking. that will be a state of the art from? I've lived so many plac- Who is the most interesting newsroom complete with new es - Portland, Denver, Wash- person you’ve interviewed? studios. I'm really thankful to ington, D.C. (briefly), Flag- I've interviewed so many inter- be in a position that has me staff, Arizona. But I call Boise esting people from the leader of providing input on a new news- my home and I'm originally the band Churchill to Lance room design, working with our from Salmon, Idaho, where I Armstrong – pre-doping scan- management team on strategic grew up. dal - to authors like Alan plans, and launching a series of What brought you back to Heathcock and Craig Childs. community engagement events Sadie Babits Idaho and BSPR? A great So I'm going to go with my in the coming months. I have a have live reads of their plays. opportunity to lead Idaho's most recent interview with dynamic role which means that Ever had any embarrass- largest public radio newsroom! Academy Award-winning ac- no day is the same. I see great ing or totally unplanned on- My husband Nate and I love tress Jodie Foster at the Sun things for public radio in Idaho air moments? One of the most Boise and he had just received Valley Film Festival. We did and I feel lucky to be a part of embarrassing moments was his doctorate and was living in the interview in a storage closet it! while I was working in my first Portland, Oregon. I was an as- at nexStage Theatre in Ketch- I know you do some arts radio gig at KSRA in Salmon, sistant news director in Denver, um. It had been turned into a reporting. What are some Idaho. The general manager at Colorado and we really wanted sort of green room. She was hidden gems in Boise (artists, the time wanted me to learn to to bring our lives back together. really down to earth and we places, music, anything) that stay calm in any situation on BSPR was searching for a new talked about directing films and people should definitely the air. He proceeded to make news director and Nate really why she loves downhill skiing check out? Boise has an funny faces at me while I was wanted to open a clinic in Boi- in Sun Valley. emerging art scene that in the on the air one day. I couldn't se. So in 2011, I became the If you could interview any- last couple of years has really keep the laughter in and just news director at BSPR and one, who would it be and taken off. There's so much cre- busted out laughing live on the Nate launched Trailhead Chiro- what would you ask them? I ative energy and we're seeing air. For those who know me, I practic. We are both happy to would love to meet Bono of U2 that through events like have a very loud laugh. have roles in this community fame. I'd ask him about his Treefort Music Fest and Mod- When you’re not working we both love. humanitarian work and how ern Art. hard or volunteering with the What draws you most to he's able to stay so relevant I'm working on a profile IPC Board, what do you like radio journalism? I've always after all of these years. right now about artist and illus- to do? I absolutely love being felt that the voice alone carries What are some things trator Bill Carman, whose work outside and I'm a bit of an so much emotion and when you BSPR has accomplished in is currently showing at the adrenaline junky. So I spend a combine it with reporting and the last year that you’re most Brumfield Gallery in Hyde lot of time mountain biking, storytelling, you have journal- proud of? I'm really proud of Park. His work is imaginative skate skiing in the winter and ism that takes listeners on a how our newsroom has grown and lets you find your own hiking all year round with my journey. in the last two years and some stories in every painting. Also husband Nate and our lab What is the most memora- of the special projects we're a there are some interesting Jacques. I practice yoga and ble story you have covered? part of, including our collabo- shows at the Linen Building's have been known to do a pose I've been lucky to cover many ration with NPR on StateIm- Gallery. Artists such as painter or two out in Boise's Foothills. memorable stories, from Jack pact Idaho. I was hired right Bill Lewis are part of a series And I almost always have a Hemingway's funeral 13 years when BSPR found out it would of exhibits around the creative couple of books I'm reading. ago, to the Jarbidge Rebellion be one of eight states in the process. A show called Anything else unique we in rural Nevada, to covering the country to be a part of this na- "Unfinished" just closed where should know about you? I'm Tour de France and the Olym- tional-local collaboration. I artists like Lewis work to com- proud to have grown up in pics. So it's hard to choose. But hired our StateImpact team and plete unfinished art. Now he's a Salmon, Idaho where I had an I will never forget being in launched the project nearly two part of a new show at the Gal- amazing childhood which in- Kenya reporting on illegal years ago. 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IDAHO PRESS-TRIBUNE site manager/breaking news editor; Sandpoint Reader, Hagadone has KBOI—TV Business reporter Holly Beech he was formerly city/managing been a regular contributor to BW Carrol Carreau joins KBOI as is the reporter for Meridian Press, a editor for the Twin Falls Times- and served a stint as the paper’s news director. She came from new weekly newspaper that News. Zach Kyle, new business business editor in 2010. Hagadone CNN in Atlanta. New reporter launched Jan. 25, 2013. Beech is a reporter focused on housing, bank- takes over for Rachael Daigle, Sarah Brodie came from KEZI in graduate of Northwest Nazarene ing and finance and the nexus of who left the paper in October 2012 Eugene. University. Local Editor Charlotte business and government, was Wiemerslage handles day-to-day formerly a reporter at the Idaho KIVI– TV news operations for the new prod- Falls Post Register. IDAHO PUBLIC TELEVISION Bri Eggers joins as a new uct. Departing staffers include Pat- Greg Hahn, former host of morning weatherperson. She came Night Reporter Torrie Cope is rick Orr, public safety reporter. Idaho Reports, has departed for a from KINF radio. Gemma Gau- the new business reporter after He will become a community re- new position as vice president for dette, morning anchor, left to take serving as night reporter for a year source officer for the Ada County communications at Boise State a position with the University of at the Nampa newspaper. Sheriff's Office. Bob Lockey, web University. General Manager Peter Idaho. Rebecca DeLeon, former editor developer, will become the web Morrill has announced his upcom- in chief for The Arbiter at Boise marketing specialist for Blue Cross ing retirement; the State Board of KPVI—TV State University and recent BSU Idaho. Former online/breaking Education is launching a search for Dave Martinson is the new graduate, is the new night reporter news reporter and editor Meghann his replacement. Morrill will con- weekend anchor/reporter. He is a at the Idaho Press-Tribune. DeLe- Cuniff left for a reporting position tinue in the post through the sum- graduate of BYU-Idaho. on previously held internships at in the Beach Bureau of the Orange mer and will assist with the transi- the Idaho Press-Tribune and Times County Register. tion. KLEW– TV -News. Dave Southorn, who Sophia Miraglio was recently worked at the Idaho Press-Tribune TWIN FALLS TIMES-NEWS KTVB—TV promoted to full-time news report- for seven years, covering BSU, New business/food reporter and Briana Carr is a new digital er and weather anchor. Veronica recently accepted a sports writing Sunday editor Joe Cadotte comes media producer. She was last with Miracle, reporter, is now the an- job at the Idaho Statesman. to the Times-News from Duluth, FOX Sports in Los Angeles. Ka- chor for the weeknight newscast. Minn. New copy editor Eric ren Zatkulak, reporter, recently Matt Sizemore, reporter/anchor COEUR D’ALENE PRESS Goodell returns to the Times- came from WTVC in Chattanooga, joined KLEW in March. He came Bill Buley, city editor for the News, where he worked previously TN. Tyson Miller has been pro- from KVAY-FM Radio in Lamar, past 12 years, left to become editor until 2011. City/Managing Editor moted from web producer to pro- CO. in chief of The Garden Island on Nate Poppino departs for a posi- ducer of News at Six. Brandon Christine Boggy, sports report- Kauai. Reporter Alecia Warren tion at the Idaho Statesman. O’Rourke is now the executive er/anchor left to go to NTV in Ne- left for a position with Mass Media producer of Today’s Morning braska. Whitney Hise, news re- in Las Vegas. BOISE WEEKLY News. Producer Julia Dodson has porter/anchor left to pursue other Zach Hagadone has been left KTVB. options. Meg MacNamara, news IDAHO STATESMAN named the new editor in chief. anchor/producer left to do free- Nate Poppino is the new web- Previously publisher/editor of the lance work. Register for banquet on May 18: What you need to know

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(Continued from page 3) Project; the addition of this supermarket founder, contrib- broad an audience as possible. website project has resulted in uted $250,000 ahead of the Among other outlets, the Idaho to improving schools and help- another $100,000 contribution Nov. 6 election to a political Statesman and Idaho Press- ing students in Idaho. from the Boise-based founda- action committee that ran cam- Tribune have used stories from There’s a Facebook page, tion. paign advertisements promot- Idaho Education News, while too; as of March 27, 266 peo- The Albertson Foundation ing Luna's overhaul. the Spokesman-Review’s Eye ple had “liked” it. and its leaders are active play- Swindell said precautions on Boise blog regularly links to Readers can post comments, ers in education policy and have been taken to ensure the stories by Corbin and Richert. too, though Swindell hopes one politics in Idaho. editorial independence of Ida- “We're existing to help important requirement will For instance, after Luna ho Education News. make Idaho citizens more in- help to elevate the tone of introduced his proposed over- Neither members of the formed and more involved in feedback above the standard haul in 2011, the foundation Albertson Foundation board the future of our kids,” Swin- fare offered by anonymous ran supportive advertisements nor its staff will be allowed to dell said. “For BSU and the posters on many newspaper including in Idaho newspapers. intervene in its editorial policy Albertson Foundation, this is websites: Anybody wishing to The Albertson Foundation has or the coverage decisions of so important, they're willing to weigh in must also provide also contributed significant the website's reporters, she make a pretty big investment.” their first and last names. sums to promote nontraditional said. In addition, the site won't John Miller is a reporter in BSU's Center for School schools in Idaho, including sell advertising. Boise for the Associated Press, Improvement & Policy Studies charter and virtual schools. She said content from the and just completed a term on got an 18-month, $3.85 million In addition, Joe B. Scott, the site will be offered to news the Idaho Press Club board. grant from the Albertson Foun- chairman of the foundation outlets across Idaho, for use for dation to start the Idaho Leads board and a grandson of the free, in an effort to reach as