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The Oklahoma Publisher Official Publication of the Oklahoma Press Association www.OkPress.com Vol. 85, No. 5 www.Facebook.com/okpress 20 Pages • May 2014 INSIDE REGISTER FOR THE OPA CONVENTION GOVERNOR SIGNS BILLS: Gov. Mary Fallin signs bill for With graduation tabs put to bed, it’s time legal fees for Open Meeting to start thinking about the Oklahoma Press violations; OHP dash cam Association Annual Convention. CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS videos. This year’s convention will be held at the PAGE 3 Reed Center in Midwest City on June 12-14. Plan to arrive in time for the 6:00 p.m. HEADLINER DISCOVERIES: Steve OPA Business Meeting on Thursday, June Booher discovers an old 12, where officers and directors for the KEVIN SLIMP Linotype at the offices of The 2014-2015 term will be elected. Mooreland Leader. Sharpen your crossword skills Thursday • What I’ve learned from successful PAGE 13 evening at the Welcome Dinner and Group newspapers Crossword Contest where teams will vie for the Best Crossword Team title. DISASTER CHECKLIST: • New technology for newspapers Crossword creator Patrick Jordan will Use this checklist to make serve as moderator. Jordan is advertising • A Speed Topics table Kevin Slimp Mark Thomas sure you could recover after a manager for The Ponca City News, where disaster. he has worked since 1984. He’s also a PAGE 16 crossword expert who has had more than OTHER SESSIONS 1,200 puzzles published in the past 10 years DONATE TO ONF to receive by The New York Times, Los Angeles • News Flash this Will Rogers print. Details at Times and Newsday. His puzzles appear • Speed Topics OkPress.com/will-rogers. bi-weekly in the Washington Post, and he’s published two crossword books. • Secrets to Great Content Kevin Slimp will deliver the keynote Marketing address at the convention on Friday morn- Gov. Mary Fallin Patrick Jordan ing. Slimp, who serves as director of the • Packaging Advertising Sales Institute of Newspaper Technology in • Legislative Recap with Knoxville, Tenn., will discuss “What I’ve Learned from Successful Newspapers.” Mark Thomas Slimp has visited thousands of newspa- • Q&A with Governor Mary Fallin pers throughout his career and has learned what makes a newspaper successful. • Q&A with U.S. Representatives Known as the News Guru, Slimp will share those ideas with you during this session. Back by popular demand at 10 a.m. is MEAL EVENTS News Flash. This fast-paced event covers a Rep. Jim Bridenstine Rep. Mark Wayne Mullin range of topics presented by multiple OPA • Welcome Dinner & members in a format that keeps the session Crossword Contest lively. This is a great place to pick up ideas Thursday, June 12, 2014, 7:00 PM to try at your own newspaper. Gov. Mary Fallin joins OPA members at • Blooper & Awards Luncheon 11 a.m. for her second question-and-answer Friday, June 13, 2014, Noon session as governor. The funniest mistakes we’ve rounded • Awards Banquet up from newspapers will be presented dur- Friday, June 13, 7:00 PM ing the Blooper Luncheon, hosted by none Reception opens at 6:00 PM other than OPA Executive Vice President Rep. Frank Lucas Rep. James Lankford Mark Thomas. Get ready for some good laughs during lunch. A new session titled “Speed Topics” begins at 2 p.m. This idea takes round- for you to choose from at 4:30 p.m. – New On Saturday morning, Mark Thomas tables, learning and networking to a new Technology for Newspapers, Secrets to will present a legislative recap, followed level. It’s like speed dating, only conference Great Content Marketing and Packaging by a session with U.S. Representatives Jim style. Join a table and topic for 20 minutes, Advertising Sales. Bridenstine, Mark Wayne Mullin, Frank then switch to a new one. There will be The annual Awards Banquet begins with Lucas and James Lankford. plenty of topics for you to pick and choose a reception at 6 p.m., followed by dinner Registration for the 2014 OPA Conven- from during this session. and presentation of awards, including the tion is available online at www.okpress. Three concurrent sessions are available Better Newspaper Contest awards. com/2014-convention-registration 2 The Oklahoma Publisher // May 2014 If we were a startup Internet company perception would be that we are “right- sized” and “making good use of capital.” INK PIXELS After Phillips left, my dad and I remi- OPA CALENDAR nisced about the hot metal days, the sound of TTS keyboards punching holes OF EVENTS PAPER POWER in paper and Linotypes setting words. Complete Listing of Events In thinking about it, I don’t know of an industry operating with as many indi- vidual outlets that has undergone this By OPA President JEFF MAYO, JUNE 12-14, 2014 much change in the last 50 years while REED CENTER, MIDWEST CITY Associate Publisher of the Sequoyah County Times continuing to stay in operation. As the bad guy, contract-killer Vin- cent says in the movie Collateral: “Now OPA ANNUAL we gotta make the best of it, improvise, CONVENTION Nothing is the same, adapt to the environment, Darwin, s*** happens, I Ching, whatever man, we OPA’s 2014 convention will feature the gotta roll with it.” always-popular Kevin Slimp to share what What a credit to us. We just keep he’s learned from successful newspapers around the nation. He’ll also discuss the except the product rolling. latest newspaper technology, much of it low-cost or free, that you can buy today When you operate a business in the lower portion of the wall that is guaran- COME TO THE CONVENTION! and implement tomorrow. same place for over 80 years, you get teed to get dirty, and light on top where Kevin Slimp, famous on the Internet some interesting visitors. Last week it might be free of hand prints and scars for his fight with the local AT&T office We’ll take learning from each other, a former employee, Dave Phillips, from equipment. near his business and on Facebook for networking and roundtable discussions to a whole new level with Speed Topics. dropped by. But I don’t remember the newspaper his 4:30 a.m. club, will be famous with You’ll have to experience it firsthand! We the OPA after the convention June 12-14. He hasn’t been in the building since as he worked in it. We brought in our think this could become a popular annual 1972, but there he was. As he stood in first offset press in 1976, a 4-unit Goss I have heard Slimp speak a couple of session, along with NewsFlash. my office, he motioned to the back of Suburban, and remodeled the rest of the times and he is good. Not only will he the building and said that was where he building. I was just four years old and be our keynote speaker, he will also be Other sessions will discuss print and online used to run some small job presses for my career as an inserter didn’t start until running some breakout sessions. efforts for advertising and marketing your content. Mark Thomas will also update two or three years. He also did photo- I was nine or so. Unlike some speakers, Slimp brings us on the state’s legislative bills affecting information that is useful to the small engraving work in another building we The newspaper era Phillips worked in newspaper interests. tore down a few years ago to build our was marked by hot, loud and dangerous operators. He will give simple tips, ideas new pressroom. If you are under 45, you equipment. It took many more people and equipment upgrades that are not Join us the first evening for dinner and may need to google “newspaper photo- to produce the newspaper after the ads costly and have a large return on invest- a fun team crossword contest, and don’t miss the awards banquet on June 13 engraver” to find out what that is. were sold and news written than today. ment. to celebrate a great year for Oklahoma Phillips’ visit highlights one reason More than that, Slimp travels the We had nine or more people in the back newspapers. I love working at a newspaper — you shop and only about six or seven in the country speaking and working with never know what tomorrow will bring. front. Today this is more than reversed. newspapers. If there is a man who knows His last day at the newspaper was the The reduction in the number of news- what is going on inside our business, it’s For more information on upcoming last time he was in our building. Phil- paper presses in the state reduces back him. He will tell you the great ideas that events, visit the OPA website at people are making work. lips left Sallisaw and headed to Texas shop employees per location even fur- www.OkPress.com or contact to work as a carpenter. I am sure he ther while maintaining, or even increas- In addition to Slimp, there are other was surprised with what he saw at the ing, the quality of the printed product. sessions designed to make your newspa- Member Services Director Lisa Potts Sequoyah County Times. Not the cur- This reality of making newspapers per more compelling. How can you say at (405) 499-0026, rent aging yellow paint of the newsroom operate with smaller staffs can be looked “no” to guaranteed ways of making your 1-888-815-2672 or — when he left it was a production area upon as a shrinking business.