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winter/spring 2014

Mark your calendars the 2014 Publishers Association Convention will be held at the Salem Convention Center July 17-18 There will be interesting sessions, awards, the annual business meeting and the opportunity to mix and mingle with your fellow journalists.

Make your room reservations by calling 1-877-540-7800. Be sure to mention is for the ONPA Convention to get the group rate.

Nominations for the Oregon Hall of Fame and Voorhies awards are due by April 1.

1 The Oregon Newspapers Foundation: oregon publisher Our way to help the future of journalism! Winter/Spring 2014 Oregon Publisher is the official newsletter of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers’ As- sociation. Previous issues can be viewed in PDF format by going to the publication page on the ONPA website.

Oregon Publisher staff Laurie Hieb Executive director and publisher ——— ONPA Board of Directors Vance Tong President Associate Publisher, Dave Baker President-ELECT Eugene Register-Guard Therese Bottomly TREASURER , Portland Grady Singletary IMMEDIATE PAST-PRESIDENT Mail-Tribune, Medford

— DIRECTORS — Lyndon Zaitz

Allen Herriges

Scott Swanson , Sweet Home

Mike McInally Corvallis Gazette-Times

Timothy W. Gleason University of Oregon, Eugene

Christine Moore , Tigard/Sherwood Gazette

Joe Petshow

Jeff Ackerman The News-Review, Roseburg

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Thank you, ONPA Publishers

ONPA held a reception on November 20 at the Salem Convention Center in an effort to create an opportunity for our publishers to visit with their local legislators. The types of legislative battles newspapers are currently facing and will continue to face in the future demand close relationships with legislators.

It is understandable that everyone gets busy at their newspapers and don’t always have time to have coffee or go to the capital to visit with their legislators. However, ONPA feels strongly that publishers try to carve out sometime in the slower parts of your year to do so and also attend the events we try to create as another excuse to get together with them. It was great to see such a solid representation of publishers from across the state.

Publishers from as far as Roseburg, Ontario, and Astoria made the trip for the three-hour reception. This was the first of this type of event for ONPA and was such a success that the association plans to hold something similar each year in an effort to keep publishers in front of legislators as often as possible. There was a nice response from our legislators emailed to the ONPA office thanking us for hosting such a nice event.

There was participation from over 30 representative offices.

Each year we have this reception, it will be more highly attended by the representatives because they will be more familiar with the format, know it is a regularly scheduled event and hopefully enjoy coming.

The front page PDF’s that newspapers provided ONPA were printed, mounted, hung around the room and thoroughly enjoyed by the representatives. Legislators took the photos back to the capital and have hung them in their offices. ONPA has heard from many of the publishers that they think we should produce them again at the next event, so be thinking of what you might submit next time.

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The following are stories We are doing this because we by continuing investments in and editorials from member are determined to make our digital media so that you will publications which give a award-winning newspaper have news when you want it, synopsis of what’s happening — named the top newspaper in where you want it and how you in Oregon newspapers. Some Oregon in 2013 — even better. want it. have been edited to be more We are doing this because the StatesmanJournal.com, our concise, others are published has a bright smartphone apps and our tablet in their entirety. future. apps will be improved as well, Some newspapers — in fact, so users will have an even many newspapers nationwide better experience. Our printed Statesman Journal — are delivering less. We will newspaper and all our digital expanding newspaper deliver more and bring it to your offerings are both vital for our Statesman Journal doorstep seven days a week. future. MORE is headed your way. You will find out more in the Our mantra for 2014 and beyond MORE of what you care about. coming days about what the comes down to one word: More. MORE of what you want. expanded Statesman Journal will So be on the lookout. Starting MORE of what you have asked look like. next Sunday, the Statesman for. We don’t want to get too far Journal will bring you more. The Statesman Journal is ahead of ourselves and ruin the We can’t wait to show you. changing in unprecedented surprise. You have a terrific treat ways. We are reimagining the in store next Sunday when we Expanded newspaper newspaper and reinvesting in it unveil all the new features and is launched in a big, bold way. pages. By STEVE SILBERMAN and We are expanding exponentially. But here’s a little sneak preview. MICHAEL DAVIS Statesman Journal You will start seeing these You will see far more of what changes next Sunday. we do best: local news and Welcome to the new Sunday We are adding pages to the information. Statesman Journal, an expanded newspaper — not a few pages You will find more stories, more and heftier newspaper with a and a few stories, not some photos and more information renewed mission to remain your nice tweaks, mind you — but a about the Mid-Valley. indispensible source for local resounding 60 pages a week. Our expanded local news report news, now and forever. Sixty more pages of local and will be accompanied by a special As you will see by leafing national news each week. edition of USA TODAY — a through the seven sections The Statesman Journal will be newspaper within a newspaper, of ’s print edition, your much bigger, and much better. if you will — that will provide hometown newspaper is decidedly different. In a word, Why are we doing this? The an in-depth look at national and what we have delivered to you answer is quite simple. You world news, business, life and this morning is more. told us you wanted a paper with sports from the country’s largest more heft, with more to read. newspaper. We promised you more and You spoke: we listened. It will all add up to more. More we meant it. Last Sunday the Statesman had 48 pages of news. We are doing this because local. More national. More of Today we have 72. newspapers are valuable. what matters to you. Making them bigger and better Our investments in the Actually, there is so much more only makes them more valuable. newspaper will be accompanied to tell you about that it took a

5 Member news & views, continued four-page section to get the job passionate people and nonprofit newspaper-within-a-newspaper: done. Wrapped around today’s institutions that enrich life in a customized edition of USA Inside Business section is a the Mid-Valley. It’s our way of TODAY, packed with national helpful Reader’s Guide. It will recognizing that volunteering and international news and take you through the exciting and philanthropy are a way of coverage of national business changes debuting today and life here. It’s the good-neighbor trends and markets. USA throughout the rest of this week. glue that binds us. TODAY’s helpful columns about The biggest change is that the What about news from personal finance will join the main news section of the paper everywhere else in ? mix, as will the popular state- will be exclusively local, front That will be found in a new by-state roundup of the republic. to back, every day. And on section produced by the We believe you will find this Sunday you will receive a bonus highest-circulation newspaper news content to be an upgrade local news section. in the country. Our ongoing from the standard-fare national Why? partnership with USA TODAY stories we have traditionally run. You have told us quite clearly has blossomed into something Our newly fortified Sports that local news is what you bigger and more exciting. section will feature two pages of value most from the Statesman Starting today in section B Journal, and so we are putting and continuing through the See MEMBER page 6 local first. week, you’ll be getting a Today in the A section you will find the familiar and the new, a content mix we believe will provide more informative, relevant and insightful reading. (Be sure to look for Peter Wong’s Oregon, a newsy report on state developments from our veteran reporter-at-large.) But there’s more. Instead of one section devoted solely to local news on Sunday, you’ll now have two, the A section in your hand and the robust Mid-Valley section. In Mid-Valley you’ll find breaking news and coverage of Saturday’s events, plus Dick Hughes’s Connecting the Dots column and Capi Lynn’s Forward This column. In addition, today in Mid-Valley we are introducing Causes, a section-within-a-section that will offer coverage of the

6 Member news & views, continued insight and analysis from USA providing more. streamlined design, the compact TODAY’s widely recognized Doing so has allowed us in will be a richer experience for sports writers, complementing recent months to develop new our readers.” our coverage of Pac-12 and pages and features that will The compact size will measure high school sports. You’ll also begin rolling out today and about 15 inches tall by 11 see a renewed commitment to continue through Saturday. inches wide, the format Homes coverage of community and It has also allowed us to find & Gardens of the Northwest is recreational sports. new ways to allow the work currently printed in. The new And there’s more. of our reporters to shine, new format will have individual We’ll now have two features opportunities to probe local sections, which will be stapled. sections for you on Sunday. issues, new ways to harvest Some sections of The Oregonian First, we have reimagined more opinions from you, our — Friday’s A&E, Foodday + our local features section and readers. To that end, we are Living, Living, Health & Fitness, renamed it Homegrown, a introducing Rapid Response and Opinion celebration of all things Mid- today, a faster way to allow — will convert in February. The Valley. the community to have its say entire newspaper will transition Homegrown combines on matters of urgency and to the compact format by fresh pages on home décor importance. April 2. and edibles, along with our Please let us know what The compact format allows for popular coverage of local you think of our changes by full color on every page. The wine and cuisine, the arts and dropping a line or sending an type size will not change. personalities. email. Local, national and international Inside you will also find a bonus Steve Silberman, publisher news will be combined into the Life section from the editors of ssilberman@StatesmanJournal. main news section. Sports will USA TODAY, an effervescent com and Michael Davis remain as a stand-alone section, blend of good reading about mdavis4@StatesmanJournal. as will Business on Wednesdays, lifestyles, popular culture, style, com. Fridays and Sundays. On books, travel and more. Wednesday, Foodday + Living and health news will be Over the next seven days, the The Oregonian going combined into a single features Statesman Journal will be to compact format section. On Sundays, the features adding more than additional The Oregonian sections also combine into a pages to our daily and Sunday The Oregonian will transition single A&E, Living and Travel editions. It’s an answer to the from a size to a section. most frequent reader complaint compact format this year, “The traditional broadsheet we heard during the Great the Oregonian Media Group format was due for an upgrade,” Recession and its aftermath: I announced Tuesday. said Peter Bhatia, Oregonian like what you are giving me but “The new format will allow for Media Group’s vice president I want more. a stronger visual presentation of content. “Today’s readers , parent company of the of editorial content and want a more convenient and Statesman Journal and USA ,” said N. Christian efficient way to consume the TODAY, is adding heft to 35 Anderson III, president of news that matters to them. With of its community newspapers Oregonian Media Group and the new compact format, we’re across the continent. Unlike publisher of The Oregonian. other media companies that “With color on every page and a See MEMBER page 7 are publishing less, Gannett is

7 Member news & views, continued presenting the same quality a thing of the past. But they subscribers were few and far journalism in a smarter package.” said the same thing when the between. We, Craig Murphy The compact format is more fax machine was invented. and myself, worked throughout common in Europe. The Technologies come and go, but the night every week, trying to Oregonian’s new size will be the the distribution of information do our best to catch typos or same width it is now but shorter. will always have staying power. reworking a sentence so that an “For 163 years, The Oregonian We’re a force in this community, article made sense to the reader. has changed to keep pace with and we’re not going away Once the paper was put to bed, the needs and expectations of — hopefully not for another 125 which was usually the time the our readers and advertisers,” said years. birds started chirping, we would Anderson. “Our latest redesign is We invite you to celebrate our go home and catch a couple just the next step in the paper’s 125th anniversary with us. Write hours of sleep before heading ongoing evolution.” a letter to the editor stating what back to the office to begin the paper means to you. We preparations for delivering our certainly appreciate our readers, new product to subscribers and celebrates 125 years who invite us into their homes to newsstands. Independent staff and offices, who smile over As the weeks, months and After 125 years, the Woodburn our features, ogle at our hard years passed, more and more Independent is still going strong news headlines and battle over people have become acquainted in this community, and we have the last available issue with the with the Springfield Times. the community to thank for its $10 off Safeway coupon. Like We have endured the tough, support over the years. you, our readers, we are part of early years of earning our The Independent started with the community, we care about stripes. This hasn’t been easy. humble beginnings on Dec. 1, the things that happen around Springfield had lost its beloved 1888, nine months before the us, both the good and the bad, Springfield News due to an city of Woodburn was even and we’re here to deliver that out-of-state corporation that incorporated. L. McMahan information to you for as long as failed to manage their business was publisher and editor, and you’re willing to support us. correctly. They had lost a second the first years of the paper read So, may the news keep filtering newspaper, the Springfield more like a gossip column about in and may the readers keep Beacon, which was in business what the neighbors were doing supporting us? Thank you for for a little over a year. Add this more than actual news. 125 years, Woodburn! to the fact that we were heading We’ve come a long way in 125 into one of the worst economic years. But we still hope we’re as Springfield Times recessions in American history, I much a part of the community celebrates 5 years feel very fortunate that we have as ever. It’s not been easy; By SCOTT OLSON survived. we’ve had leadership changes It’s hard for me to believe Why did I take the risk of here and there, but we’ve tried that this week marks the fifth starting a newspaper during a to maintain the quality product anniversary of the Springfield time when newspapers were in that Woodburnites expect and Times. It seems like yesterday the news for closing their doors appreciate from its community when we couldn’t wait to unveil and a time of such economic newspaper. Springfield’s latest rendition of a unrest? It’s a common story to hear community newspaper. I believe in community about the Internet takeover of It was tough sledding the first journalism. I believe that weekly information, with the scare couple years. Advertisers and See MEMBER page 9 that newspapers will soon be 8

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“community” newspapers working within our means. the radio and tape it on the offer information that they Sometimes we are limited in the refrigerator. That’s our bread can’t get anywhere else. We things we can cover due to the and butter. As long as there are cover things like high school size of our staff. We welcome mothers and grandmothers out sports and classroom projects your story ideas and calls there clipping articles of their in the elementary schools. We when an event is happening. kids and grandkids, I believe cover the local school board We do our best to work with a newspapers will survive. and city council meetings. We handful of freelance writers and Nothing makes me feel better cover good news like weddings photographers who help us cover than to see the look on a and engagements. We publish the events happening in our person’s face when they come births and obituaries for free. community. We also welcome into the office and purchase a If it happens in and around the those who are willing to help paper with an article that we’ve greater Springfield area I want us out by taking a photo or done either on them or a family to see it in the paper. I want the two of an event and submitting member. Sometimes this is gut- Springfield Times to not only information on an event, if we wrenching if it happens to be be your community information are unable to attend. We are a an obituary, telling a person’s source, I want it to be your “community” newspaper and we life story for one last time. community scrapbook, which want to publish your events and Other times it pure joy, if a kid we are proud to share with share them with the community. got the winning hit to win the everyone. We love to publish things that game. These are the kinds of One of the drawbacks in keeping make people proud. You can’t our business afloat has been cut out a video or a story on See MEMBER page 10

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10 Member news & views, continued things that attracted me to this been sold to a group of local Cloyd and fellow association profession and I wouldn’t trade investors who plan to tear down members Trish Daniels and it for anything. the building and replace it with Garry Stephenson filed a notice I also get the biggest thrill from a new housing development. of intent with the Oregon Land reading notes from subscribers The Gazette-Times publisher Use Board of Appeals on Jan. who send in the renewals. They Rick Parrish said the $1.8 6 to contest a Corvallis City are often supportive of what million transaction closed on Council decision nullifying a we do and they offer words of Friday. , the planned development overlay encouragement, saying they love newspaper’s Iowa-based parent on the Gazette-Times block. their newspaper! company, put the property up for The council’s ruling allowed the In celebration of our fifth sale early last year. site to revert to its underlying anniversary I would like to The Gazette-Times reports the zoning, clearing the way for thank all of our subscribers newspaper plans to relocate a sale and redevelopment of and advertisers who have to smaller quarters elsewhere the property for medium-high- supported us during the past in Corvallis to save money on density residential use. five years. Without subscribers, operating costs. The paper has But after being approached by a we wouldn’t be able to attract already consolidated its printing representative of the would-be advertisers. And with out operation and some other buyers, the three agreed to drop advertisers we wouldn’t be able functions with its sister paper their appeal in exchange for the to keep the doors open. Thank in Albany. The newspaper’s right to negotiate on aspects of you for your support! staff has dwindled to about 25 the project design, Cloyd said. I would also like to thank employees. “We had tried to reach out to those who have worked at the Three neighbors who sought to the potential buyers and hadn’t Springfield Times the past five block the redevelopment have had any success — that was years. I appreciate your work since withdrawn their legal fundamentally why we filed,” and dedication. Without you we appeal (see story below). Cloyd said. “We were contacted wouldn’t have made it. I thank by an agent for the buyers after all of you from the bottom of Neighbors drop appeal we had filed notice of intent to my heart! on land-use rules for appeal who said he was quite In celebration of our fifth Gazette-Times block certain they would be interested anniversary, the Springfield Gazette-Times in talking to us once the sale Times will be having an open Three neighbors who sought went through — but they house on Friday, Nov. 22, from to block redevelopment of wouldn’t talk to us if the appeal noon to 5 p.m. Please stop by the Gazette-Times block have went forward.” for some cake and refreshments withdrawn their legal appeal The Gazette-Times occupies and help us celebrate the past and say they will work with the a full city block bounded by five years of the Springfield buyers of the property in hopes Southwest Jefferson and Adams Times! of shaping a project they can avenues and Sixth and Seventh live with. streets. Lee Enterprises, the Property housing “Our goal all along was to have newspaper’s parent company, Corvallis newspaper a chance to have a voice in the put the property up for sale early plant sold to investors redevelopment of the site,” said last year at an asking price of $2 Gazette-Times Courtney Cloyd, president of million. The potential buyer has The property housing a the Central Park Neighborhood Corvallis newspaper plant has Association. See MEMBER page 12

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Member news & views, continued not been publicly identified. T’s sister newspaper in Albany readers expect from the paper.” The neighbors aren’t necessarily and some jobs were consolidated Gomez won the “Best opposed to student housing, with other Lee properties. Writing” award in the 2013 which has sprouted up around Once the sale goes through, Lee Oregon Newspaper Publishers Oregon State University in intends to move the Gazette- Association Better Newspapers response to skyrocketing Times staff into smaller quarters contest, and also won awards enrollment, Cloyd said. But elsewhere in Corvallis. in the education coverage, they want to do what they “Our focus is to continue with feature writing, and photo can to ensure that whatever the sales process and bring it to essay categories. The staff of is built on the G-T block is a conclusion,” Gazette-Times the , under compatible with the surrounding publisher Rick Parrish said Mentzer’s leadership, won two neighborhood, a district of older Tuesday. “We’ve been actively dozen awards in the ONPA single-family homes mixed with searching for locations, and we contest. new apartments and student have some pretty good options. Gomez has lived in the mid- townhouses. We hope to have a permanent with her Cloyd said neighbors would space confirmed soon.” husband, Peter, and son, Eli, like to see the new development since 2005. face Jefferson rather than one Lebanon Express of the quieter side streets. names new editor New sports editor joins They also hope to maintain a Lebanon Express Itemizer-Observer substantial building setback, Audrey Gomez is the new editor Polk County Itemizer-Observer preserve the site’s mature trees of the Lebanon Express. (Dallas) and established hedge, and avoid Gomez replaces Emily Mentzer, The Polk County Itemizer- an excessively large or dense who resigned to take a position Observer has named Lukas development. at the Polk County Itemizer- Eggen as its new sports editor. “We understand it’s going to Observer newspaper. Eggen, 23, comes to the have to pay for itself and it’s “I am excited to serve the Itemizer-Observer from The Ely going to be a big, full-bodied community of Lebanon in this Times, a community newspaper structure rather than high-end new position,” Gomez said. serving Ely, Nev., about three houses,” Cloyd said. “I think our Gomez started at the Express hours east of Reno. There, he preference would be not to see in April 2011 as the education was the managing editor and eight, 10, 12 doors opening onto reporter and most recently covered sports as part of his Seventh Street as we have seen has served as the paper’s city duties. Eggen won several farther to the west.” reporter. awards from the Nevada Press The 25,000-square-foot Mike McInally, the general Association during his tenure in Gazette-Times building was manager of the Mid-Valley Ely. built in 1970 on land zoned Newspapers group, which A native of Bend, Eggen residential after Lee Enterprises includes the Express, said he earned a bachelor’s degree in obtained a planned development was “delighted that Audrey journalism from the University overlay specifically permitting will be taking over the reins of of Nevada (Reno) and served newspaper production and the Express. I expect that she as sports editor of The Nevada related office uses. In recent and her staff will continue to Sagebrush, the student-operated years, however, the paper’s staff produce the type of excellent newspaper. has shrunk to about 25 people as community journalism that was moved to the G- In his new role as Itemizer-

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Observer sports editor, Eggen Newspaper Program (ODNP) Independent/Roseburg Review, will play the lead role in initiative to digitize historic Roseburg; Oregon Mist, St. determining the content, layout newspaper content and make Helens; Corvallis Gazette/ and design of the sports section. it freely available to the public Corvallis Times/Oregon Union- He plans to help increase the through a keyword-searchable Gazette, Corvallis; and Spray online presence of Polk County online database. Courier, Spray. sports news on the Itemizer- “We are pleased to learn that Historic newspapers digitized Observer’s website, www.polkio. older copies of the Heppner through the ODNP are made com, and work at increasing Gazette-Times will now be keyword searchable and freely the newspaper’s presence on digitized and have a permanent available to the public online; Facebook and Twitter. home for all to see on the more than 540,000 historic “We’re excited to have Lukas internet,” said Gazette-Times Oregon newspapers are already join our staff,” Itemizer- owner and publisher David online. Observer Managing Editor Kurt Sykes. “Our way of life is With more than 3,000 Oregon Holland said. “His background important to the history of our newspaper titles in the public in community newspapers and country, and a picture of that life domain, the group says it has knowledge of sports make him a should not be lost because the “just begun to skim the surface great fit, and we believe he will newspapers which documented it of potential content to be be a great asset to us and the could not be preserved.” included in the collection.” communities, schools and teams After reviewing over 40 title While some back issues of we cover.” nominations from public the Gazette, 1883-2009, are Eggen began his new role with libraries and historical societies available on microfilm at the Itemizer-Observer on Dec. across the state, the ODNP the Heppner museum, Karen 16. advisory board selected the Estlund, digital collections He can be reached at 503-623- initial titles for this phase of the coordinator for the University 2373 or via email to leggen@ project, which first launched in of Oregon’s Knight Library and polkio.com. 2009. As part of head of the statewide Oregon Endowment for Humanities” Digital Newspaper Project, says Old Gazette issues National Digital Newspaper the program will deliver access go online Program (NDNP), these titles for people who can’t get to a Heppner Gazette-Times will be available both on library to use microfilm. Ever wish you could have Historic Oregon Newspapers, “The full text available with historical issues of your local http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu, the digitized images allows paper at your fingertips? Now, if and the Library of Congress’ for keyword searching, which you have access to the internet, Chronicling America site, http:// revolutionizes research of old you soon can. The Heppner chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. newspapers. No longer will a Gazette-Times has been chosen Other Oregon newspapers researcher need to spend hours, as one of the 10 newspapers chosen include the Hood River days or even weeks scrolling across Oregon to be the next Glacier, Hood River; Polk through microfilm hoping to to have its historical content County Observer, Dallas; State catch what they looking to find,” digitized and made available Rights Democrat, Albany; she says. online. Daily Capital Journal/Capital Beginning in 1953, the The selection of the G-T is Journal, Salem; : part of the Oregon Digital E.., Pendleton; Douglas See MEMBER page 14

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Knight Library started the more.” Information issues and providing Oregon Newspaper Program Currently, Chronicling America AP with feedback,” Sellers said. in association with the contains historic newspaper “I’m proud of this organization Oregon Newspaper Publishers content from 11 states and the and the fine editors who make Association to microfilm all District of Columbia. It will it thrive. APME has had a of Oregon’s newspapers for eventually contain 20 million starring role in my professional preservation. pages of historic American development.” This new project took root early newspapers from 1836 to 1922 “The APME board of directors in 2009 under a Library Services and offer educational essays is thrilled that Laura is joining & Technology block grant of on every title represented and the leadership ladder,” said $79,883 from the Institute of a directory of all newspapers Debra Adams Simmons, APME’s Museum and Library Services published in the incoming president. “Laura has through the Oregon State Library from 1690 to the present. made a tremendous contribution in Salem. to the APME, working tirelessly “With these times of big media EO Media Group digital with nearly every committee to such as nationwide TV news director to lead national help strengthen the organization programs, large circulation editors group as it serves the nation’s editors. newspapers and, of course, the Coast River Business Journal Laura has had a hand in nearly myriad of internet news sites, it (Astoria) every major APME project might be easy to overlook the Laura Sellers, digital or initiative in recent years importance of small community development director for — from reviewing the Bylaws newspapers,” said Sykes. “While EO Media Group, has been to modifying the membership these local papers may not selected to lead the Associated structure to rebranding and provide the big viewership of Press Media Editors in 2017. marketing the APME to creating larger media, they offer what She joined the officer ranks a social media strategy. Laura no one else has, a look into the during the APME conference in is one of the people who has to day-to-day life in small-town Indianapolis October 29. travel the farthest to participate, America.” APME is an association of yet she is always there. You can Historic newspapers supply news and broadcast leaders, always count on her. APME is vital evidence of our history journalism educators and student in good hands with Laura on the and culture and are used by editors in the United States and leadership team.” students, scholars, historians, Canada. APME works closely EO Media Group COO John arts groups, businesses, urban with the Associated Press to S. Perry said, “We’re delighted planners, genealogists and foster journalism excellence and that Laura has been selected to others,” Estlund said. “These to support a national network a leadership position in APME. primary source materials provide for the training and development Her creativity, passion and a window into the life of local of editors who run multimedia determination will enrich that Oregon communities a century newsrooms. organization as they have our or more ago, covering early “This is an honor and an company.” environmental preservation, incredible opportunity to assist Sellers, 50, lives in Astoria and industry, agriculture, urban editors in committing to quality has worked for EOMG, formerly development, Native Americans journalism, safeguarding or East Oregonian Publishing, for and race relations, the First Amendment rights, staying 21 years, first for The Daily establishment of the state and on the forefront of Freedom of See MEMBER page 17

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Oregonians agree**: Public notices should stay in the newspaper!

You have a right to know what your government is doing. Current Oregon law requires public notices to be printed in a newspaper whose readers are af- fected by the notice. But many government agencies in Oregon believe that posting public notices on their web sites instead of in the local newspaper will reach the public more effectively. If they did that, you’d have to know in advance where, when, and how to look, and what to look for, in order to be informed about government actions that could affect you directly. Less than 10% of the U.S. population currently visits a government web site daily,* but 80% of all Oregon adults read a newspaper at least once during an average week, and 54% read public notices printed there.** Keep public notices in the newspaper! * U.S. Census Bureau, May 2009. ** American Opinion Research, Princeton NJ, September 2010. Member news & views, continued Astorian newsroom, including News-Review managers advertisers to reach a greater five years as managing editor, take on new challenges audience more effectively. then for EO Media Group leading By CRAIG REED “With a daily readership of over its digital efforts. She has been Roseburg News-Review 35,000 and a digital presence active with APME since 1995 and Bob Franks and Tiffany Miller that has over 350,000 page on the board of directors for 10 of are excited about the new views per month, The News- the last 12 years. challenges they have at The Review is very well positioned She started in newspapers at the News-Review after recent to assist our clients’ needs in a Palestine (Texas) Herald Press’ promotions. very strategic manner,” Franks art department, and worked for Franks, 53, who has been said. “For instance, we have the the Plano , Addison- circulation and distribution best demographic information North Dallas Register before manager for the newspaper, available regarding our readers. joining Student Media at Southern was named the new advertising We know 71 percent of our Methodist University as the director. Miller, 30, who had readers have incomes between production supervisor. In 1992, been the circulation sales $20,000 and $70,000, they are she and husband Carl Earl moved manager, was named the 52 percent females and over 76 to Astoria, where he is the systems circulation manager. Distribution percent are homeowners. That’s manager for the company. responsibilities will be taken valuable information for the “I’m especially proud that my over by Rod Carlson, who is the business community as those company has supported my press manager. owners strive to grow their continued growth through APME. Franks came to The News- businesses. In the past five years, We are among the smallest Register in January 2006 after we have transformed from a media groups represented on the previously working in the traditional print-only business to board, and it speaks well of both circulation and distribution a multimedia company offering EOMG and APME that a priority departments at the Falls print, digital, customized direct is placed on smaller markets,” , the Salem mail and commercial printing.” Sellers said. Statesman Journal and a couple Miller, a 2000 Cottage Grove EO Media Group is based in of smaller papers. The native of High School graduate, was Salem and includes 10 other Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho, has been hired as a News-Review district newspapers in Oregon and in the industry for 34 years. manager in 2007. She later southwest Washington: East In his new position, he will became the sales and promotions Oregonian, Pendleton; Hermiston manage 20 employees in retail manager. Now, as circulation Herald; Blue Mountain Eagle, sales, classified sales and ad manager, she will manage seven John Day; Wallowa County production. employees. Chieftain; Chinook Observer, “I wanted a new challenge, “I’m really excited about this Long Beach, Wash; Coast River and I’m excited about this new position,” Miller said. Business Journal; opportunity,” Franks said. “It was definitely unexpected Today, Lincoln City; Seaside “I plan to bring a deeper although I had hoped to Signal; Cannon Beach Gazette; understanding of our subscribers eventually work into Bob’s and , an agricultural and readers to our advertisers position. Bob has been my weekly based in Salem. to better help them in growing mentor from the beginning. Now The company has 17 websites and their business. By knowing that it has become available, I was recently named as an EPPY our readers as I do, I feel we believe I’m ready to meet the finalist in three categories. can develop more ways for our challenge head on.”

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