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INSIDE McAlester writers win NNA awards OKLAHOMA SUMMER: “A well-stated case about protecting the public rather than gov- See the last fun moments ernment image. Nice,” the judges commented. of summer featured on News-Capital reporter James Beaty received two awards in the newspapers’ front pages. contest. He placed second in the Best Serious Column category PAGE 9 with his entry from December, “Remembering Heroes.” The col- INTERNS: The ONF interns umn chronicled the bravery of McAlester twin brothers Claude write about their experiences at and Clyde Stokes during World War II. Oklahoma newspapers. “Fine, personal piece. Emotional without being maudlin,” the judges said. PAGE 12-13 Beaty also placed third in the Best Review category for his LEGAL TEMPLATES: December piece “Dylan Digs Deep,” which reviewed the “Base- ment Tapes” CD by Bob Dylan. Wilma Newby explains how “There’s a lot of info here, and the piece is a little long. But it’s to build a template for legal jam-packed with details that Dylan fans will revel in and newcomers affidavits. might be interested to learn,” the judges commented. PAGE 14 News-Capital Publisher Amy Johns said the awards demonstrate the talent in the newsroom. DONATE TO ONF to receive Executive Editor Glenn Puit and Senior Editor James Beaty. “I am humbled to be surrounded by such talent,” Johns said. this Will Rogers print. Details at Photo by Kevin Harvison/McAlester News-Capital “The energy and commitment we have to doing good work for our OkPress.com/will-rogers. The McAlester News-Capital was named as a winner in the community is second to none.” National Newspaper Association’s 2015 Better Newspaper Contest. There were 1,413 entries in the Better Newspaper Editorial An editorial by Executive Editor Glenn Puit finished second in Contest. Judging was performed primarily by active community the Best Editorial, Daily & Non-Daily Division, circ. 3,000-5,999. newspaper editors and publishers. Puit’s December 2014 editorial, “Public deserved more information All winners in the contest will be recognized during the NNA’s on inmate walkaway” described how authorities failed to notify the 129th Convention and Trade Show, set for Oct. 1-3 in St. Charles, public about a murder suspect walking away from Jackie Brannon Mo. Correctional Center in McAlester. Longtime Norman Transcript editor retires For more than 35 years Andy Rieger has Rieger joined the copy desk at the Okla- worked for Oklahoma newspapers. homa City Times, moving to police and city The longtime editor at The Norman hall reporting beats and editing a communi- Transcript retired on Aug. 1, after working ty section. He left there to co-found a weekly at his hometown newspaper for more than newspaper in Noble and attend graduate 20 years. school, and then returned once again to The Rieger plans to return to teaching part- Norman Transcript. time at the University of Oklahoma Gaylord He was faculty adviser to OU’s student College of Journalism, as well as pursue newspaper, The Oklahoma Daily, and also some other non-journalism interests and served as chairman of the advisory commit- writing an occasional column or story for tee of the Ethics and Excellence in Journal- The Transcript. ism Foundation. “It’s been a wonderful ride in an industry In 2010, Rieger was inducted into the that changes almost daily,” Rieger said. University of Oklahoma President David Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. “While news gathering and writing remains Boren, right, congratulates Andy Rieger on his Although Rieger has spent many years virtually unchanged, the delivery platforms retirement. as a journalist, penning thousands of words, and speed are very different today.” he still remembers the day he truly became His knowledge of Norman is legendary and he says it’s been a journalist. It was 35 years ago and Rieger was a young police rewarding to have worked in the community where you have reporter at an Oklahoma City newspaper. He had been following always lived, editing a newspaper that’s as old as the city. His chil- the story of a kidnapped child for a week when word came that she dren are fifth-generation residents of Cleveland. had been found. Readers of The Norman Transcript have read his columns that Rieger sped to the scene for details, then fed coins into a pay offer a personal glimpse into his life. phone to dictate this lead: After graduating from Norman High School, Rieger earned “An unemployed man scavenging for aluminum cans found the bachelors and masters degrees at the University of Oklahoma. young girl kidnapped from her south Oklahoma City home just In high school, he worked at The Transcript as a carrier, mail- before noon today, police said. She was found under a carpet scrap room and switchboard employee; in college, he worked at the on a rural road near Lake Stanley Draper, dirty, cold and hungry student newspaper, The Oklahoma Daily. but very much alive.” 2 The Oklahoma Publisher // August 2015

not legal because a potential juror who “I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who expressed doubts about using the death has strengthened me, because He con- penalty was excused. The charges were sidered me faithful, putting me into ser- not refiled. vice; even though I was formerly a blas- In the 11 years Coleman had been phemer and a persecutor and a violent on death row, his case had been heard aggressor,” the scripture states. “And more than 20 times by five different yet I was shown mercy because I acted courts. ignorantly in unbelief; and the grace of In 1987, Coleman was within 36 hours our Lord was more than abundant, with of execution when he won a stay from the faith and love which are found in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Christ Jesus.” But here, three years later, his luck At 12:26 a.m., Coleman took a heavy ran out. breath, followed by a light cough or gasp. His eyes closed and his lips slight- THE 11 OTHER REPORTERS and I select- ly parted. ed to witness and report on Coleman’s The lethal drugs continued to be execution climbed into state Department administered for several more minutes. of Corrections vans and were driven just By 12:30 a.m., Coleman’s face had before midnight to the nearby front gate turned a dark blue. Bearing witness to a death of the state penitentiary. An unidentified doctor then entered We were led into the viewing room the execution room, checked for a heart- It was the only lottery I ever won. COLEMAN WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH about 12:15 a.m. A short time later, cur- beat and said: “I pronounce death at As I recall, there were 99 media rep- Oct. 12, 1979, for the shotgun slaying of tains were pulled back from the window 12:35 a.m.” resentatives registered at the Oklahoma John Seward, 68, of rural Muskogee and we saw Coleman strapped to the State Penitentiary in McAlester to cover County. Seward’s wife, Roxie, 62, also gurney. ONCE OUTSIDE THE PRISON WALLS, I a midnight execution. Eight were guar- was killed, but Coleman was not tried in Covered with a white sheet from stopped the media witnesses and asked anteed a witness seat by state law. Four her death. his feet to his chest, Coleman looked that we review our notes and confirm other reporters were selected by luck of Police believed the couple interrupt- nervous and apprehensive. His tattooed Coleman’s last words. When we deliv- the draw – my name was the first one ed a burglary Feb. 9, 1979, at the home arms were restrained by black straps ered our pool report to the other waiting drawn. of John Seward’s sister and brother-in- and his opened hands were held secure media, I wanted to make sure that we all I would later joke that I couldn’t win law, Delphia and B.L. Warren, who were with white tape, with both palms upward. agreed on the final statement. a new car, only a ride to an execution. away at the time. Coleman refused an offered sedative In front of television cameras, wit- With that kind of luck, I don’t gamble. Coleman was stopped by police later or to have his face covered, officials said. nesses offered their views: The Sept. 10, 1990, execution of con- that day for speeding, and officers found The warden later said Coleman, while “It was very upsetting. My chest victed murderer Charles Troy Cole- the Sewards’ billfolds and custom-cut being strapped down, appeared to be tightened up and I had kind of a tight man attracted national media attention meat from the Warrens’ home in his afraid and shed some tears. throat,” said Jacqueline Scott of United because it would be a new method of pickup. At 12:25 a.m., warden James Saf- Press International. execution – lethal injection. While awaiting trial, Coleman escaped fle ordered, “Let it begin,” and three OETA’s Emory Bryan said, “It was I never wanted or sought to witness from the Muskogee County Jail. Author- unnamed executioners shielded by a like a macabre play.” an execution, but when asked to cover ities said he fled to Luther, where he cut one-way mirror started the fatal delivery “It seemed to me to be an eternity this important news event for The Okla- the throat of a Luther police officer and of drugs into Coleman’s left arm. before they pronounced death,” said homan, I accepted. Goes with the ter- left him handcuffed in his patrol car. The We watched in silence, taking notes Ziva Branstetter of The Tulsa Tribune. ritory of being a journalist, I reasoned. officer survived. as Coleman spoke his last words. “It was a very easy death,” said Art The ultimate power that government Then, authorities said, Coleman stole Cox of the Enid News & Eagle. “But the has is life or death over its citizens. If the a car from a man he shot to death “PRAISE GOD! PRAISE GOD!” he said. one thing you couldn’t get away from state is going to carry out capital punish- in Tulsa and was recaptured after he The 43-year-old inmate had voiced was there was a human being there and ment, then citizens in a democracy need handcuffed and abandoned an Arizona his last words of faith as prison chaplain the last thing he ever saw was when he to know how that sentence is adminis- deputy in the desert. Jack Hawkins read from the Gospel looked out into that crowd… tered and what it looks like. Coleman was convicted and also of Matthew: “Do not judge lest you be “I would hate to think that the memo- Journalists, empowered by the First given a death sentence in the slaying judged yourselves. For in the way you ry he took to his grave was me or any of Amendment’s guarantee of a free press, of Russell Lewis of St. Louis, Mo., but judge, you will be judged; and by your the other people in the room. But that’s are tasked with that responsibility. the conviction was overturned in 1983 standard of measure, it shall be mea- what happened. As chief of The Oklahoman’s Tulsa by the state Court of Criminal Appeals. sured to you. “It was a very cold death, very anti- Bureau, I had interviewed Coleman in That slaying took place in a Tulsa park. “And why do you look at the speck septic.” prison days before the execution. The court ruled the conviction was in your brother’s eye, but do not notice I offered: “Whether you support or the log that is in your own eye … you oppose the death penalty, the execution hypocrite, first take the log out of your appeared humane.” Basically, Coleman own eye, and then you will see clearly went to sleep. enough to take the speck out of your Considering a sale? brother’s eye.” OKLAHOMA CONTINUES TO ENFORCE “Just tell everybody I love them, and the death penalty by lethal injection W. B. GRIMES & COMPANY I have a peace and quiet heart,” Cole- for capital crimes. In June, the U.S. man said earlier as he turned his head, Supreme Court upheld the mixture of has sold over 1,400 newspapers over the smiled, and nodded at me and the other drugs Oklahoma now uses to carry out years and appraised thousands of others. witnesses seated in the viewing room the death penalty. some 10 feet away. Richard Glossip is scheduled for exe- LEWIS FLOYD handles the Southwest and Southern States. Coleman’s chosen witnesses included cution Sept. 16. Benjamin Cole is to die Lewis Floyd – (850) 532-9466; lfl [email protected] Mandy Welch, the deputy appellate pub- Oct. 7, and John Grant Oct. 28. lic defender who had represented him. Coleman’s execution was my first She silently wept. time to witness a person die. And as diffi- What’s Your Paper Worth? Find Out Today. Hawkins, who as prison chaplain had cult as it was, our system of justice – and A Free Confi dential Appraisal awaits via our web site. ministered to Coleman on death row, our society – demand a witness. had read from 1 Timothy as the viewing www.MediaMergers.com room curtain opened. The Oklahoma Publisher // August 2015 3

University of Oklahoma welcomes prospective The Oklahoma journalists at Diversity in Journalism workshop Publisher The 13th annual Oklahoma Institute including photography, videography and professionals and are encouraged to fol- for Diversity in Journalism workshop graphic design. low their own story ideas. was held July 26 to Aug. 1, at the Univer- “Students work with media profes- The workshop seeks out students ISSN 1526-811X Official Publication of the sity of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of sionals from all over the country and who have barriers to journalism edu- Journalism and Mass Communication. journalism faculty from Oklahoma,” cation. OIDJ eliminates the financial Oklahoma Press Association Twenty high school students spent OIDJ Director Melanie Wilderman said. barrier by having all expenses paid for PUBLISHER the week experiencing the life of a Among the OIDJ staff is a former the students. This year the camp was journalist by reporting on issues and Washington Post recruitment and hiring funded by Dow Jones News Fund and Mark Thomas events relevant to central Oklahoma director, a Navajo Times reporter and a the Gaylord College of Journalism and [email protected] along with writing opinion and entertain- nationally recognized photographer. Mass Communication. ment pieces. The students also received The students have the opportunity to To view the OIDJ students’ work, visit EDITOR training from industry professionals and gain one-on-one experience from media www.oidj.org. Jennifer Gilliland heard about different media branches [email protected] OPA OFFICERS New managing editor at Miami News-Record Robby Trammell, President The Oklahoman The Miami News- from Miami High School in 1971 and the digital aspect of delivering the news Record recently Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and sports. 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Email: [email protected] • www.AceBookBinding.com 4 The Oklahoma Publisher // August 2015 7KH0RRUHODQG/HDGHU New editor at Perry Daily Journal Dana Hill is the new city editor at said. “I am passionate about commu- the Perry Daily Journal. nity journalism and I feel like my years OHDGVWKHZD\ZLWKQHZ Hill, who spent her childhood in the of experience at different publications Middle East, graduated from Putnam will help me succeed in this position.” City North High School in Oklahoma In addition to covering the news, DGVDOHVSURJUDP City. She received a bachelor of sci- she plans to write feature stories on a ence degree from Oklahoma State regular basis. University. Gloria G. 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A senior sports media major at Okla- a four-day, all-expenses-paid trip to San Stavenhagen credited his advisor, a good reporter, and you can be a good homa State University placed second in Francisco. Barbara Allen, in keeping him focused writer, but very rarely can you be both. the prestigious National Writing Cham- At the end of the competition, Staven- and motivated throughout the compe- Cody is both.” pionship sponsored by the William Ran- hagen was named the nation’s second tition. Allen is a lecturer at the OSU Stavenhagen is from Amarillo, Texas. dolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism best collegiate journalism writer, netting School of Media & Strategic Commu- He has held internships with MLB.com Awards program. a $4,000 scholarship in addition to his nications and faculty advisor for OSU’s covering the Texas Rangers, at The Cody Stavenhagen was selected to previous winnings in earlier stages of student newspaper, the O’Colly. Oklahoman and the Amarillo Globe- compete with seven other college jour- the contest. “For him to go to San Francisco on News, as well as having served as a nalists in on-site writing exercises for “This was a really big deal,” he said. his own and beat some of the best stu- sports writer, sports editor, managing the championship round. He received “It’s the biggest honor you can get in dent journalists in the country says a lot editor and editor-in-chief of the O’Colly. collegiate journalism.” about his talent,” Allen said. “You can be He will graduate this December. New look for Journal Record YUKON REVIEW SOLD Yukon Review, Inc. owners $1.00 • Vol. 120, No. 114 • Two SectionsTUESDAY journalrecord.com New Source Thursday, June 11, 2015 08.11.2015 JOHN AND KATHY MILLER Earthquake insurancejournalrecord.com Vol. 120, No. 156 Compound reports loss with sales skyrocket in state Two sections What’s News Fear factor Single copy $1.00 debt coming due • • • are pleased to announce BY KAELYNN KNOERNSCHILD THE JOURNAL RECORD Actuaries join forces INSIDE BY SARAH TERRY-COBO analyzing flood of data The Journal Record OKLAHOMA CITY – Recent interest The result of a massive data- crunching collaboration earthquakes have spurred an OKLAHOMA CITY – New Source En- the sale of the Yukon Review increasing number of worried Retailers, event or- among four North American ergy Partners LP is the latest local driller actuarial organizations is Oklahomans to make a risky in- ganizers think about expected to have signifi- vestment in earthquake cover- 2 whose earnings suffered due to low com- holidays As tempera- age, knowing they may never modity prices. And the company will cance to just about any in- tures were reaching 90 degrees dustry that struggles with file a claim. soon have to repay $19 million in debt Since residents began to in June, Holiday Pop-Up Shops to Star Publishing, Inc. owners weather patterns, ranging from its oil-field services business divi- feel the shaking and quaking of producer Allison Bailey was from agriculture to health sion. care to insurance. p2 the ground below them in 2011, thinking about merrier times. data from the Oklahoma Insur- CEO Kristian Kos told analysts dur- FNC retail tenants ance Department revealed a • • • ing a Monday conference call he is con- search for new downtown huge increase in the purchase sidering selling a JOHN AND PAULA SETTLE. addresses Retail tenants in of earthquake insurance poli- portion of the New chips – in credit the First National Center in cies around the state. oil-field services downtown Oklahoma City After surveying the 10 most cards – could force popular homeowner insurers 3 business. He did not provide details on are getting mixed messages casinos to pay for selling those assets, but said he expects about their lease status. in Oklahoma, the OID com- fraud Casinos in Oklahoma piled data revealing that before to complete a deal by the end of the year. Most are looking for space may soon be shouldering a in other buildings. p3 November 2011 about 2 percent New Source doesn’t have plans for greater risk of liability when it of homeowners had purchased drilling, because of low commodity prices New law lets charter earthquake insurance. That comes to cashless transaction The Review is a twice-weekly and because contractor costs have in- schools go statewide, but number has increased drasti- fraud, industry experts said. hurdles still exist Despite cally, with 20 to 25 percent of creased, Kos said. The company is facing Oklahoma Insurance Department seniorPHOTO attorney BY KIM Gordon HOUGH Amini fields a question about local earthquake a new law that will allow coverage in his Oklahoma City office. • • • a lawsuit by contract driller New Domin- access to every corner of See FEAR, PAGE 22 ion LLC. Kos said he couldn’t discuss de- the state, charter schools tails of the litigation, but New Dominion’s Thunder road A Tulsa community newspaper serving likely won’t pop up overnight. p7 startup will use upcom- Gulfport7 ups Turn to NEW » p18 ing Oklahoma City Thun- State program diverting NASL sues McLaughlin over der home games to test a Doris Benbrook and her team are researching a preventive solution to treating cancer at the workers’ tax payments to Utica assetscommuter bus service between businesses Oklahoma em- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. PHOTO BY BRENT FUCHS Yukon and the surrounding area. the state's two largest cities. ployees of Goodyear, Hi- OKC Pro Soccer withdrawal BY SARAH TERRY-COBO RECORD tachi and 15 other firms are Pro Soccer owes the NASL $2 million, of THE JOURNAL Price tag from contributing part of their BY MOLLY M. FLEMING • • • Researcher receives funding for RECORD which McLaughlin is personally responsi- paychecks to help pay for THE JOURNAL ble for $1 million. Under the terms of the OKLAHOMA CITY – Gulfport Energy plant expansions and equip- payment guaranty, the NASL can seek $1 Corp. will purchase about 35,000 netHot commodity severe weather ment purchases costing NEW YORK – The North American Soc- million directly from McLaugh- acres and pipeline assets from American cancer drug trial, seeks more more than $89 million, an The 50,000 cer League filed a lawsuit Friday lin without first resolving its dis- Energy – Utica in Ohio’s20 prolific Utica Oklahoma Watch investiga- in New York against Tim pute with OKC Pro Soccer. pounds of water- Shale play. At BY SARAH TERRY-COBO revenue. She worked with Oklahoma State tion shows. p18 McLaughlin, a partner with “NASL has suffered exten- melon consumed at this year's adding up The sale was closed June 30, least one expert The Journal Record University professor Darrell Berlin to turn Prodigal LLC’s Oklahoma City sive damages as a result (of the heralded the Watermelon Festival in Rush Pool service industry Energy FC. improper withdrawal),” accord- deal as a good Springs was part of a $4.3 mil- vitamin A into a compound that effectively awash in business Swim- BY TIM TALLEY The NASL alleges that ing to the lawsuit. move for both OKLAHOMA CITY – Doris Mangiaraciana prevented ovarian cells from becoming ma- Associated Press ming pool repair is a boom- lion state industry. McLaughlin owes the league $1 The NASL is represented by companies. Benbrook dedicated two decades of re- lignant. ing business in the wake million after he failed to prop- William G. Primps in New York, Gulfport will have about 243,000• • • search to develop a cancer prevention drug. But she needs 20 years of data to prove 2015. Thomas C. Bolitho, of of May’s record-breaking erly withdraw OKC Pro Soccer where the league is headquar- acres once the deal is completed. The OKLAHOMA CITY – The rain has storms. p23 tered. The lawsuit was filed Fri- But the University of Oklahoma Health Sci- to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Kathy and John Miller recently sold the from the league when he signed Tim McLaughlin added acreage makes the publicly stopped falling and the triple-digit heat of ___ with the Energy FC. Before join- day in the commercial division hli iN traded driller the second-largest playerk National Media Associates located Yukon Review to John and Paula Settle. BEFORE AND AFTER: The look before (left) and the look today (right). in Ada, Okla., represented the The Journal Record is sporting a new, The index and story summaries Millers in the sale. modern look. remain on the left side of page one, but Oklahoma City’s daily business news- the colored box has been removed, giv- paper recently received a redesign. ing it a modern touch. The biggest change is the new flag. The briefs package on pages 4 and 5 NATIONAL EDIA The Journal Record flag had been white now includes a map that allows readers type on a blue background for more than to spot which part of the state the brief is ASSOCIATES 35 years. from. In addition, headlines on briefs are The new look sports an open, airy smaller, and there’s slightly more space THOMAS C. BOLITHO EDWARD M. ANDERSON flag with words in blue on a white between them. P.O. Box 849, Ada, OK 74821 P.O. Box 2001, Branson, MO 65616 background. Folio information has been With the addition of a few new type- (580) 421-9600 • [email protected] (417) 336-3457 • [email protected] moved to the left underneath the flag faces, The Journal Record looks clean with the date set in red. and fresh. Serving the Newspaper Industry Since 1966 • www.nationalmediasales.com 6 The Oklahoma Publisher // August 2015 What is your exit strategy for selling your newspaper?

BY LEWIS FLOYD, 1. SPECIFY GOALS AND OBJECTIVES. W.B. GRIMES & CO. Achieving optimal value begins by clearly articulating the seller’s goals Within the U.S. population is a larger and objectives. These will be both than usual group of aging self-employed financial (liquidity, sale price, taxa- business people approaching retirement tion/estate planning) and non-finan- and the sale of their business. cial (succession, legacy and reputa- This group includes many smaller tion, employee and stakeholder con- publishers counting on that sale as part cerns and other special interests). of their retirement. The expectations of Sellers need to ask questions such many publishers are based on a multiple as: To whom do I want to sell/trans- of the publication’s annual revenues. fer the business (owner/operator, In today’s market, unless the publica- strategic buyer/competitor, finan- tion has extraordinary cash flow, that cial investor)? How long do I want multiple to revenue paid will be between to work/be involved? Do I want 50% and 100%. The weighting of the mul- to maintain some upside/risk? Are tiple is tied to several factors including there employees or others whom I ness, actively pursue new advertis- visit, they’re scanning not reading. revenue trends, household penetration want to protect/reward? ing accounts and subscribers. Keep And it is time for a re-set. If your ads in the market, print competition, general your circulation audits up-to-date. are static and there is no merchan- health of the economy in the markets 2. DETERMINE THE RIGHT TIME TO SELL. Buyers are looking for predictability dising within your digital pages, served, the stage in development of a Value is optimized when a sale is and avenues for growth, not a static there’s a really good chance your digital strategy as well as the growth proactive rather than reactive. A or declining business. advertisers are not getting much, potential. three to five-year time frame allows if any, bang for their buck. Yes, you More importantly, today’s buyers the company to demonstrate con- 5. IMPLEMENT THOSE COST-CUTTING may very well need to bring in out- place much heavier weight on the news- sistent growth that will optimize its MOVES NOW. If there are some logi- side talent to create and implement paper’s cash flow generation. In today’s appeal to buyers. cal steps you can take to bolster a strategy that vaults you into the market, buyers are typically paying Beyond financials, this time frame your bottom line, without hurting digital age. Money well spent. 3.5x-5.5x adjusted cash flow (available enables the company to demon- the quality of your pub or your cash flow after all expenses including strate long-term relationships with household penetration, implement 9. GET YOUR RECEIVABLES AND PAYABLES owner compensation, with add backs customers and vendors. It also pro- them. These steps could include re- IN ORDER. Clean up any legal issues. for any interest, amortization, deprecia- vides sufficient time to ensure that bidding your printing, eliminating You can’t deliver title to your prop- tion, expenses that would not accrue to an effective support team is in place your in-house printing operation if erty unless liens can be satisfied at a buyer, and owner perks). Weighting long before a potential transaction, it is no longer cost effective, cut- closing, there is a plan in place to is tied to the same factors mentioned allaying buyer concerns that the ting circulation to areas where you pay off that long past due printing above, with cash flow trends taking cen- business value might be too depen- are not generating significant adver- bill, and any litigation is behind you. ter stage. dent on the entrepreneur. tising support, further automating Want to guarantee a major price your operations. It may also mean reduction? Have a large percentage In the sale of a newspaper to a strate- 3. HAVE ALL RECORDS READY BEFORE partially re-vamping your staff. of your receivables over 90 days. gic buyer, operating and sales synergies YOU GO TO MARKET. Automate your may kick into place, driving cash flow accounting systems and make sure 6. BE COMPETITIVE. Consider bolster- 10. UNDERSTAND THE MARKET VALUE OF upward. To a strategic buyer, a higher you can provide detailed profit & ing your household penetration to YOUR PUBLICATION. Take all your multiple paid at closing may translate loss statements and balance sheets a level advertisers will embrace emotion out of the valuation by hav- into a much more conservative multiple for the past three years and as far while keeping your competition at ing an objective third party assess once those synergies kick into place. It into the present year as reasonable. bay. Mine your data (assuming you the re-sale value of your publication is always important to remember that Get your taxes in order and your have collected it – never too late) (like an experienced newspaper bro- a newspaper will not typically sell for a filings up-to-date. Maintain detailed and work with your advertisers to kerage company). price beyond what the debt service will advertiser and subscription lists, develop digital and mobile market- 11. GOOD TAX PLANNING IS ALSO ESSEN- require. A bank is certainly not going to news stand sales. ing campaigns that reach your sub- TIAL TO SUCCESSFUL SALE. Consult finance a transaction where there is not 4. IF A KEY MEMBER OF YOUR STAFF scriber base. with your accountant, financial plan- enough cash, day one, to cover the debt HAS LEFT, REPLACE THEM. Especial- 7. MERCHANDISE WITHIN YOUR PAGES. ner and attorney to explore the opti- service. ly on the advertising sales side. Are there key advertising categories mum way to potentially structure There are several steps publishers There’s no sympathy from buyers you can secure by adding content your transaction. But keep in mind, can take to potentially increase the value if your sales are down because you within your pages (print & digital) these advisors will have little to any of their publication in a sale. Putting are understaffed. Positive revenue or via special sections that will draw knowledge of newspaper operations these into action over a 3-5 year period trends are very important. Don’t readers to their product and ser- or comparable transaction data. should set the stage for a smooth and retire before you sell; run your busi- vices? 12. USE A BROKER! Selling a publication rewarding transaction. ness as if it were “Not for Sale”. 8. MOVE BEYOND THE PDF. You need a requires an ever-increasing level of Continue to promote your busi- digital strategy. Although you may sophistication and a great deal of be trading print dollars for digital your time. Most publishers have dimes right now, the bottom line is neither, nor do they have access to your readers, ages 18-40, have fully established relationships with the embraced and now rely on much of broad range of publishing and finan- LEGAL ADVICE their news and actionable informa- cial buyers that an experienced bro- tion to be received digitally (that’s ker will have. You should choose a is just one of the benefits of being a member of the Oklahoma Press tablets, phones, laptops, your car broker as part of your exit strategy Association’s Legal Services Plan. Remove the worry of needing planning team (3 years before you professional advice by enrolling today. For more information contact: dashboard). And buyers have begun placing higher value on operations are ready to list). OKLAHOMA PRESS ASSOCIATION’S that have the makings of a well- Lewis Floyd is Senior Associate with W.B. Grimes & rounded digital strategy in place. If Company, with responsibility for the Southern states. LEGAL SERVICES PLAN the average visitor to your site is Established in 1959, Grimes has represented pub- spending less than 3 minutes per lishers in the sale and acquisition of over 1,500 media 1-888-815-2672 or 405-499-0020 properties. (850-532-9466) [email protected] The Oklahoma Publisher // August 2015 7 USPS announces new service hubs opening by fall Community newspapers using the A service hub permits publishers to to mail processing centers and helps mail recently received some good news. prepare mail destined for nearby post publishers reach subscribers more THANK The U.S. Postal Service expects to have offices in “Direct” containers that can be quickly. 187 service hubs open by fall to pro- handed off directly at a hub to ride post- Publishers wanting to enter mail at vide direct transportation for newspaper al transportation to the destination post the hub, possibly because the newspa- YOU mail in locations where mail processing office. That means 5-digit, Carrier-Route per is printed nearby, can get the old plants have closed. – or mixed 5-digit containers combining SCF price for entering these containers The announcement followed passage both – can be dock-transferred between there. The establishment of hubs has of a bill in a key Senate committee call- one post office and another in the Hub become a pressing necessity for com- ing for a study of timely rural mail deliv- territory, usually that of the old Sectional munity newspapers that rely on the mail ery. David E. Williams, chief operating Center Facility. for circulation because nearly 100 mail officer of the Postal Service, credited the The preparation of mail in 5-digit and processing centers have been shuttered National Newspaper Association with carrier-route containers for hub han- by USPS in recent years and another 82 working to establish the hubs. dling avoids long and unnecessary trips closings are planned. DEATHS JOHN WILLIAM ‘JACK’ HOVORKA, who He was a longtime member of St. retail advertising at The Oklahoman. He served as advertising manager at The Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in also served as an Oklahoma State Capi- to the following individuals Edmond Sun, died July 15, 2015. Oklahoma City. tol tour guide. and organizations for their Hovorka was born Nov 24, 1932. He In addition to serving as ad manager Hovorka is survived by his wife, June, recent donations to the was 82. at The Edmond Sun, Hovorka managed of Oklahoma City, and three sons. Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation:

JAMES (JIM) JULIUS MONROE, former Morning News and The Daily Oklaho- in Oklahoma, two in Arkansas and one owner and publisher of the McCurtain man before joining the Associated Press in Texas. In memory of Daily Gazette in Idabel, died July 25, for eight years. In 1996, Monroe was inducted into 2015. He was 89. Monroe was a founder and first presi- the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. Jim Monroe Born in Freeman, Mo., and raised in dent of the Oklahoma City Press Club. He served on the board of the Oklaho- Big Cabin, Monroe grew up on a dairy He left journalism for politics in 1963, ma Citizens Commission on Education, ANDY & KAREN farm. He followed his older brother Ed becoming the executive secretary of the the Oklahoma Forestry Association, the into the armed services to fight in World Oklahoma State Democratic Party. The Oklahoma Historical Association, the RIEGER War II, lying about his age to join the next year he served as U.S. Sen. Fred RedArk Development Authority and the U.S. Navy at 17. R. Harris’s press secretary. In 1969, he University Hospital in Oklahoma City, Monroe left the service as an officer was appointed as Harris’s administrative now known as the University of Okla- A donation to the Oklahoma in 1946 and, using his GI Bill, earned assistant. homa Health Sciences Center. Monroe returned to his Oklahoma Monroe is survived by his wife of Newspaper Foundation will a Bachelor of Arts degree from the support its efforts to improve the University of Oklahoma. He was named roots in 1972 and purchased the McCur- 48 years, Betty; daughter Jeanne and Outstanding Journalism Graduate in tain Daily Gazette. husband Dennis Wilson of Idabel; son state’s newspaper industry and 1952. He believed in the power of a local Travis and wife Margie of Norman; son quality of journalism. His first job after graduating was at paper to help bond and unite a commu- Mark and wife Lisa of Los Angeles; and ONF’s programs include training The Norman Transcript as sports editor. nity and would eventually hold an owner- many grandchildren and great-grand- and education for professional He also worked as a reporter at the Enid ship stake in 10 small-town newspapers children. journalists, scholarship and internship programs for journalism students, and PAUL WILLIAM NISHIMUTA, a former Germany. He was awarded the Bronze where he became general manager at Newspaper in Education efforts. employee at the Lawton Constitution, Star during combat in Italy. Shortly after the “West Hawaii Today” newspaper. He died July 13, 2015, in San Diego. He was World War II, he attended the University moved to California in 1985. ONF relies on donations and 91. of Oklahoma, earning a degree in jour- He is survived by three children, memorial contributions to fund Nishimuta was born March 16, 1924, nalism. seven grandchildren and three great- these programs. in Cushing and was one of eight chil- Nishimuta started his journalism grandchildren. If you would like to make a dren. When he was 20, he joined the career at the Lawton Constitution before donation, please send a check to: Army and served in Italy, France and moving to Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, in 1969, In Memory of Our Friends & Colleagues OKLAHOMA Mathew ‘Kuyk’ Kuykendall Logan Alice Faye Brown Arvon Staats NEWSPAPER July 11, 2014 July 25, 2014 July 28, 2014 Helen Lenore Lyon Ferguson Richard Eugene Chase Cecile D. Richards FOUNDATION July 12, 2014 July 26, 2014 August 22, 2014 3601 N. Lincoln Blvd. Edward ‘Ed’ L. Goodwin, Jr. Matt Lane Oklahoma City, OK 73105 July 25, 2014 August 22, 2014 8 The Oklahoma Publisher // August 2015 THE OG&E PHOTO CONTEST

JUNE 2015 DAILY WINNER: BILLY HEFTON Enid News & Eagle

JUNE 2015 WEEKLY WINNER: LOUISE RED CORN The Bigheart Times

The June 2015 contest was judged by members of the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. Jay Smith and Tim Honhoff practice arm wrestling. Photo by Billy Hefton, Enid News & Eagle, June 22, 2015 View all winning photos at www.OkPress.com/OGE-Photo-Contest ENTER AND WIN A $100 CHECK FROM OGE ENERGY CORP. For more information about the photo contest, visit www.okpress.com CONTEST RULES 1. To be eligible for the contest, photographers must be staff members of an OPA member newspaper and photos must have been published in print.

2. Send your photo in electronic format (TIF or JPG, 200 dpi or higher) to [email protected].

3. Photographers may enter one photo per month.

4. Include name of photographer, name of newspaper, photo cutline and date photo was published.

5. All entries for the previous month must arrive at the OPA office by the 15th of the month. Winners will receive a Certificate of Achievement and the photo will be published in Mvhayv Cunningham laughs during the Osage dances in Hominy as her cousin Wa.sta.tse is twirled in the air The Oklahoma Publisher. Sweepstakes winners will receive a above her. Mvhayv is pronounced Ma-HY-yah. plaque and have photo published in The Publisher. Photo by Louise Red Corn, The Bigheart Times, June 18, 2015

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It all started with a phone call. Want evidence of the importance of newspapers? Want to hear good news about newspapers? Good stories abound, and I find them every month as I’m scanning the pages for this column. But here’s a story that tops the list. A few weeks ago a Meeker woman phoned Brian Blansett of the Tri-County Herald to say she’d missed her paper (label problem). Brian delivered the paper and it turned into a terrific story about her husband, a WWII veteran, Glenn Leak. I saw Brian’s post on Facebook about that, and was impressed. But the follow up is even more impressive. Here’s Brian’s more recent post that grabbed my attention. “Got a phone call early this evening that registered 8.9 on the Coolness Scale. “A couple of Fridays ago, I deliv- ered a paper to a house and ended up visiting for three hours and getting a Featured newspapers this month: The good story about a modest 91-year-old Duncan Banner, The Eufaula Indian ex-paratrooper who was on the raid to Journal, Wagoner Tribune, The Cordell liberate the Los Banos internment camp Beacon, The Journal Record, The Tonkawa in the Philippines in WWII. News, Hugo News, The Westville Reporter “He’s a neat guy and I thought he and Choctaw Times. should get maximum exposure, so I sent the story and photo to my friend, ly series, “Honoring Those Who Robby Trammell, who ran it in The Sun- Served,” on area war vets. Mike day Oklahoman. One of the internees he Schatz research, Ginger Hunter edi- helped liberate lives in OKC, read the tor. story and called him. She’s 90. • Tim Stanley, Tulsa World, “Had to do “What are the odds? There can’t be it,” Michael Wyke photographer, in many of the internees still around. vet series about a WWII Merchant Enterprise, on barbers giving free “If she is willing, I’ll drive Mr. Leak to Marine. Lead: “Jim Coley’s grand- haircuts, and Nathan Thompson on meet her soon.” mother wasn’t big on tearful fare- the statewide and local teacher short- Incidentally, the reaction from his wells.” age. Noteworthy – newspapers doing what readers in the paper and on Facebook • The Ada News carried an AP story • Kim McConnell, Poteau Daily News, they should. has been tremendous. remembering Hiroshima bombing. reporting county schools are in the • The Cordell Beacon, quoting and head- Want to read the story? Go to www.tri- Irony – written by Kaori Hitomi. lowest state percentile in many areas. lining a city councilman who says he countyherald.com, and search archives. Every Oklahoma district has a lot of • Cathy Spaulding, Muskogee Phoenix, doesn’t represent the people. And, thanks, Brian. children in poverty and the high cost “Crunch time for schools” – cuts in • Choctaw Times – Ryan Horton story LOOKIN’EM OVER: Topics that stood of back to school supplies is a national staff, state aid and enrollment hurting about police pushing education. out this past month: more veterans and news item. As are other problems and budgets. • The Norman Transcript, for Jessica back to school. trends – all story ideas your readers • Laura Eastes, The Ardmoreite, about Bruha’s extensive coverage of hate It’s good to see so much more veteran need. Locally: high school students’ concurrent crimes that police say are not hate coverage. • Barry Porterfield , Pauls Valley Demo- enrollment at Murray State. crimes – in spite of the N-word and • Colin Murphy, Weatherford Daily crat, on a campaign to provide those • In-depth at the Tulsa World, “Charters swastikas. News, on a 65-year-old Vietnam vet supplies. Booming,” by Andrea Eger and Nour • Wagoner Tribune – Dave Spiva and with Purple Heart, on the anniversary • David Bitton, Stillwater News Press, Habib. Photo by James Gibbard. Shelby Stockton, highlighting flood- of the Purple Heart, Aug. 7 (1782). “Jump start for school,” on a sporting Lead: “Tulsa is on the very verge of a ing problems. • Mitch Meador, Lawton Constitution, goods store giving 29 YMCA youths charter school explosion.” • Tulsa Beacon – Localizing the Boy in-depth series, “War Stories,” on $100 shopping sprees. • Good news – Mandi Goforth of The Scouts accepting homosexuals with locals, for the 25th anniversary of the • Vinita Daily Journal on the Salvation Westville Reporter on the success of the Baptists negative reaction. Gulf War. Army taking donations for school the library summer reading program. Continued on Page 11 • The Tonkawa News carries a week- supplies. • Tim Hudson, Bartlesville Examiner- The Oklahoma Publisher // August 2015 11

Clark’s Critique Continued from Page 10

• The Journal Record – front page flag and redesign by Brian Richter. Edi- The Oklahoman, on Randy Ellis’ story tor Ted Streuli says, “It was time to about rural health care: modernize. We kept the elements RURAL HOSPITALS IN – the font, color scheme and under- CRITICAL CONDITION line – so we’re confident the brand Pryor, on Cydney Baron’s story about remains recognizable, but we think a couple who met in a children’s home: it’s a fresher look.” HAPPILY EVER AFTER FOUND IN Journalism Hall of Fame congratula- AN UNLIKELY PLACE. tions – to Jim Ellis, now managing editor Baron’s lead: “PRYOR – Everyone of The Miami News-Record. New sports has a story: For one Pryor couple it editor Dannie Lee Oliveaux has a boss started in Whitaker State Home in 1943. with all the connections. Good to see It’s a story that starts in a children’s M.J. Vandeventer-Shelton writing in the home in the post-Depression-era, but it’s Muskogee Phoenix on foster parents. one of love and happy endings.” HEAD’EM UP AWARDS: First place, Honorable mentions: The Dewey Coun- tie, The Duncan Banner and The Eufaula ty Record, “There’s a reason they call this Indian Journal. wild cow milking”; The Journal Record, Duncan, on Charlene Belew’s story on Sara Terry-Cobo’s story about Hugo on huge drug raid: water, “Boiling Over”; Owasso Reporter, METH MELTDOWN on Josh Burton’s story and photo about Eufaula, on Jerry Fink’s story: drum majors, “Band Together”: Bartles- INSPIRATION GARDEN COULD BE ville Examiner-Enterprise, on Emily PUSHING UP DAISIES SOON Droege’s story, “A changing landscape: Second place, tie, two Krystle Taylor Vintage tractors to be auctioned”; Enid stories from the Hugo News: News & Eagle, on Cass Rains’ story about IT ALL BOILS DOWN TO PUBLIC a retiring cop, “He’s put away a lot of CONCERN – HUGO COUNCIL bad guys”; Claremore Daily Progress, QUESTIONS ON WATER on Tom Fink’s story about Foyil alums and repainting a 60-foot tall totem pole, “Tall HUGO OFFICIALS GRAPPLE WITH Task”. Fink’s lead: “Back in their middle DARK WATER – RESIDENTS FUME OVER school days, best friends Erin Turner BAD WATER AND HIGH BILLS and Margo Hoover told one another that Third place, three-way tie, The Nor- one day, they’d reach great heights.” man Transcript, The Oklahoman and Coweta American, on Christy Wheeland’s Pryor Times. story, “Coweta’s new eagle scouts soar- Norman, on Bruha’s story about ing high”; The Delaware County Jour- racist spray paint signs in a neighbor- nal on Kaylea M. Hutson-Miller’s story hood, with graphic photos: about a wild teen party, “Out of control”; SPRAYING HATE Marietta Monitor, “Up in Flames – Mari- etta has an arsonist on the loose.” 12 The Oklahoma Publisher // August 2015 Newspaper interns gain hands-on experience

This year, the Oklahoma Newspaper Founda- JJORDANORDAN BBISHOPISHOP • OOklahomaklahoma SStatetate UniversityUniversity • TThehe EdmondEdmond SunSun tion’s internship program placed 22 journalism First things first, I don’t know how people in Over the summer, I’ve gotten to interview a pro students at Oklahoma newspapers. the city are able to deal with traffic every day, but golfer in Fiamma Felitch, an NBA player in Ekpe I understand your pain now and applaud you for Udoh and the ultimate cool thing which is to sit in The paid internships were made possible by a being able to keep your calm in it. a press box. I still think that’s the neatest thing and grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journal- This summer, I got to work at The Edmond Sun makes me feel just like Robert Duvall’s character in ism Foundation. The ONF’s internship program and for a small town kid like me, it felt like a move “The Natural.” On the news side, I’ve traversed the promotes the value of working at Oklahoma news- to the big city. I had always thought Edmond was whole town, took pictures of a crime scene and had papers and benefits students as they begin their this big bustling part of the OKC metropolis, which more awkward interviews for general news stories technically it is, but after working there, I can tell than I think anyone in the history of journalism. professional careers. you, it still has a small town feel to it. I definitely had a blast though and getting to Interns were asked to write about their experience I mean there’s definitely more businesses than work on all the news stories and editing will help at the newspaper. Following are stories by six of the any small town, but the people are down to earth. me when I go back to the O’Colly at OSU for my interns. More intern stories will be featured in the And the ultimate example of that is The Edmond senior year this fall. It has also helped me get a September issue of The Oklahoma Publisher. Sun. For such a big town, that staff of 16 people first-hand look at what I want to do for the rest of gets stuff done. On press days especially. Running my life. I will see you again, Edmond, as my editor, around getting last minute stories and ads in, edit- Scott Wanish, has asked me to help cover Friday ing copy and getting it placed in time so the guys at night football for you this fall. And for a town with the press don’t have to wait all night. It’s busy, but five high schools, which still amazes me, there will we have fun. never be a dull night.

MICHAEL BRESTOVANSKY • University of Oklahoma • The Norman Transcript That’s all she wrote. professional. A neophyte, but a professional none- My brief stint at The Norman Transcript came at theless. the perfect time. I had just graduated from OU and I’ve learned other things as well. I’ve learned I the future, which had seemed to be approaching can use words like “milquetoast” only rarely during like a glacier – slow and inevitable, but distant and news stories. I’ve learned where some of the better manageable – arrived like a freight train. sushi restaurants are in Norman. I’ve learned that, I had no plan. I would have to go back home to sometimes, working at a newspaper means selling JORDAN MICHAEL Michigan and start from scratch. something instead of merely describing it. I’ve Which is why I was so pleased to receive an learned, more than ever, that Norman is, all things BISHOP BRESTOVANSKY internship at The Norman Transcript. Not only considered, a pretty exceptional place. would it be a summer job and a portfolio builder, Obviously, there are people I need to thank, in but I could comfortably stay in the same college particular my boss Andy Rieger, but also everybody town I had lived for four years, staving off the who helped me this summer. These people are freight train for a few more months. strange and quirky and often completely dysfunc- Well, the freight train is finally here. Only, I’m tional and persnickety, but they made me feel like not getting run over. I’m hitching a ride. I belonged. More than anything else, the Transcript has I’ll cut this short. Whatever happens in the next taught me self-sufficiency. To find the interesting few weeks, I’ll be leaving Norman, quite possibly stories, find the right angle, meet the right people, for good. But I’ll never forget this town, or its paper, ask the right questions, take the best pictures – or most of all, the people who made all of this pos- without asking for permission or approval. Thanks sible. to my time here, for the first time ever, I feel like a

DAISY JOHN CREAGER DEXTER DAISY CREAGER • University of Oklahoma • Bristow News With my last issue at the paper, it’s confession campus or a bigger city like Norman, working in and apology time. I am afraid to say I underesti- Bristow has been amazing. It wasn’t long before I mated you, Bristow. realized this was exactly where I want to be. People In November I sat on the floor of my dorm remembered my name, saying ‘hi’ when they saw room, filling out more internship applications than me around town, not being hurt when my memory I could count. Sealing and stamping one manila failed me. It’s a five minute drive to everywhere, envelope after another, each thick with my resume, and needless to say, there is plenty of news to cover. clips, hopes and dreams. I saw myself in a big city I learned a lot in my time here, definitely grow- somewhere, most likely getting people coffee and ing personally and professionally. I will miss the waiting for a reporter to throw me a bone. train depot, the Chevrolet Plymouth sign and the When J.D. Meisner emailed me about an inter- tall panel windows of the newsroom, all of which view, I didn’t know where Bristow was. When I amazed me from day one. Thank you everyone drove down Main Street the first time, I saw a small who made me feel welcome, humored me with town with small time news. Although excited for interviews and challenged what I wrote. You made MADISON EMILY the opportunity, I did not expect the experience I my experience and taught me so much. I will miss got. you, Bristow. It’s been fun. DUDLEY FARRIS While much different than covering a college The Oklahoma Publisher // August 2015 13 at OPA member newspapers across the state

JOHN DEXTER • Oklahoma State University • Owasso Reporter My time as the summer intern for the Owasso the opportunity and the coverage of the small town Reporter has been an unforgettable and worthwhile heroes. Too often media covers trivial topics that do not experience. deserve the amount of recognition they receive. I feel For the first few weeks, I can remember thinking blessed to have had the opportunity to cover these sto- how long this summer was going to be if I was to be ries. For me, what makes journalism and newspapers covering a retirement or writing about a local teacher. so great is the ability to put the spotlight on those most However, after interviewing people and seeing the deserving of it. amount of passion that goes into this community and I am forever thankful to have had the opportunity to how many people care about Owasso, it showed me work for the Owasso Reporter. I will always remember what makes a small town newspaper such as this so the lessons I learned from the staff and the community JOHN DEXTER/OWASSO REPORTER great. of Owasso. I look forward to being able to continue to A group of high school students perform a song during a band symposium concert at Owasso High School this past week. For me, I will remember and be most proud of work for The Reporter as the Collinsville sports writer.

MADISON DUDLEY • DePauw University, Indiana • Lawton Constitution

STOP THE PRESSES: Madison Dudley has finished interviews and found my own story. I felt like a real his photo assignments and teaching me some of what her internship at The Lawton Constitution. journalist, and it was so much fun. I decided that I want he knows. Since the end of May I have been working at 102 SW to do this for a really long time. Thank you to The Lawton Constitution for this life- 3rd Street, but now it’s time to pack up my pens and Being a journalist is a job that has few limitations. changing experience. notebooks and head back to school. You get to experience your city in a way that no one I’m from Lawton, I graduated from Eisenhower else does. Jeff Dixon, a veteran photographer at The High School and my family lives here. To me, working Constitution, likes to say that media people are not at The Constitution was a perfect fit because I could be civilians: We see things that everyday people don’t get close to my family and get experience at the same time. to. Instead of running away from a fire, we run to it. Lawton is my home, and this was one of the best ways Through my work I have been able to go to horse for me to give back to my community. shows and animal shelters, marinas and hospitals, I will be entering my sophomore year of college in a places I never would have gone if not for a story. few weeks and I will be the news editor for my campus The people I met, both the ones that I interviewed newspaper. I have worked on student-run papers since and the ones I worked with, have shown me kindness my sophomore year of high school, but I have never and understanding and have helped me become a bet- worked on anything this real. College is a bubble, but ter journalist. this is the real world, and my experiences at The Con- I feel nothing but gratitude for the individuals who stitution were on a higher level than anything I have let me into their lives for a few minutes and the ones experienced before. who taught me the tricks of the trade. In my time as an intern I have done everything from The most valuable things that I learned during this sports to features stories. I have interviewed three experience I would never have been taught in a class- women who have turned 100, visited eight summer room. camps, gone as far west as Altus and as far south as I know that leaving here I will be a better writer, a Waurika. better reporter and a better person. My byline has been on the front page, something I I want to thank Stephen Robertson for putting up did not think I would be able to say when starting in with my atrocious spelling, David Hale for his guid- May. ance, Dee Ann Patterson for always giving me some- One of the articles I am most proud of was cover- thing to do and Jeff Dixon for letting me tag along on ing Waurika Lake. That day I took pictures, conducted

EMILY FARRIS • Oklahoma State University • Tulsa World

My friends think it’s crazy that I’ve spent my sum- my ideas. Everyone was willing to help me. Working in valuable things I got out of this internship were the mer, the last summer I’ll have before getting a full-time an environment like that is truly a special experience. relationships I made with the staff. job, working a time-intensive internship. The idea of I’m walking away with projects I’m incredibly proud Every day I got to sit next to people who made me sacrificing vacation time to wake up early and work all of. The other interns and I worked on a project about smarter, made me work harder and made me laugh. day is insane to them. What they don’t understand is Tulsa’s levees and created an awesome page with They are people who I loved working with and people I that there’s no place I would have rather spent my sum- interactive elements (tulsaworld.com/levee). I got to loved going out after work with just as much. mer than at Tulsa World. take the lead on a contest where residents vote on their I can leave this newsroom saying confidently that There’s something about being in a newsroom with favorite high school football players, and we received not only did I make great professional connections, I phones ringing like crazy and people frantically typing more than 1 million votes. also made amazing friends. I made friends that I will that will always beat being on vacation. These are things I could never have done without call for advice often when I head back to Stillwater. I It’s impossible to put into words everything I’ve having Tulsa World as a platform and the fantastic staff made friends that I’m incredibly sad to leave. learned this summer, not only about working on a web as a resource. So, my friends might continue to think I’m crazy desk, but also about journalism and life in general. The daily grind of working on the web desk is for choosing an internship over vacation, but this sum- I was immediately treated as a member of the staff. exciting and interesting. I got to work on a variety of mer I learned that there’s no place I’d rather be than a Everyone valued my hard work. Everyone listened to projects and gained a ton of experience, but the most newsroom, and there’s no newsroom I would rather be in than Tulsa World. 14 The Oklahoma Publisher // August 2015 How to place copy from legal notices on a template Make sure that facing pages is not you text wrap this box so auto flow will pages the legal created in this docu- Computer Notes checked and 4 columns is selected. honor it. ment. Let’s use 10 as that number. Go from the road Now open the Pages Palette (under If you already have existing pages to the Master Page and make the page by Wilma (Melot) Newby Window Menu). Look above the line in the document, click and hold down numbers say “A of 10” so the document [email protected] near the top where it says A-Master. the A-Master page, then pull it on top of is auto numbered. Now print the legal. These are master pages. Anything put those pages. You can add more pages The Master Page system works in The Oklahoma Corporation Commis- on these pages appears on each page in by dragging the A-Master below the Quark although the steps are a little sion no longer allows regulated compa- the document. Generally, master pages line or by using the flyout menu in the different. Read through the InDesign nies and law firms to submit affidavits are only used when first setting up a Pages palette to insert pages. I recom- instructions to see how we’re handling where legal notices cut from the news- document. To open the A-Master, dou- mend having around four pages in this this template. paper are pasted on the affidavit. ble click on it. template. To move between pages just In Quark, use File >New Project and The OCC requires documents to fit double click on the page in the Pages use the same page setup as we did in on an 8 1/2 X 11 paper. Additional pages, palette. InDesign. The Pages palette works the numbered and submitted in order, may Now put a copy of your legal affidavit same in both programs. To access the be used for longer notices. Proof of Publication notice on the right Master Page in Quark just double click Law firms and regulated companies side of page one in the document (not on in the Pages palette. For the auto page number symbol in the text block at the required to place legal notices in news- the A-Master). Basic information can be top of the Master Page, use Command papers are beginning to ask newspapers filled in that will apply to any legal. Make 3 (Mac) or Control 3 (Windows). to submit proof of publication affidavits sure there is a text wrap around this Autoflow works by that adhere to these rules so they can block so autoflow text will not overlap it. creating a text frame submit the document to the OCC in an The template is now ready for small on the master page. electronic format. legals. Just copy and paste the legal Click the knot symbol Gone are the days of using scissors to from the newspaper page into this file tool in the upper left cut and paste a cascading accordion fold and print. corner of the master legal to an affidavit. There’s not a fold in To make the legal have the same page, then choose the existence that will go through a scanner. fonts and styles as you used in the news- Linking tool from the Scanners need crisp copy on white paper paper, go to the flyout menu in your Tools palette (the top one that looks like to be recognized. Paragraph Styles palette and pull down a knot). Newspapers need to know how to If you see two A-Masters, delete one to Load Paragraph Styles. When the After you click the knot, click the text build a template that makes it easy to by dragging it to the trash at the bottom dialogue box comes up, choose the page block, which tells the program that this transfer copy from the paginated news- of the palette. If it gives you a warning, of your paper that has legal styles on it block will be autoflowed on all pages. I paper page onto the template. just tap the OK button. and open it. When all your styles show would put the column guides within the I’ve talked to many publishers about To set up auto numbering place a up, click on OK. Master Page text frame so it divides the how they’re going to handle it. Several text block at the top of the master page. But what if it’s a 20-column legal in text for you. Item > Modify > Text > newspapers have created clever tem- Make sure it’s above the column guides your newspaper? That’s easy. You’re Columns allows you to put in the num- plates to do the job and I’ve gathered so the text in long legals doesn’t flow going to love using autoflow for those ber of columns that fit on the page, in some good ideas to share with all of you. over it. large legals. our case four. Since a lot of newspapers have In- Select the text tool, click in the text For long legals that come in as Word Now go to Page One and drop the Design, I’ll start with a template file block and go to Ty pe menu >Insert documents, go to File > Place, then legal text into the autolinked box. This done in this program. Special Character >Markers >Cur- hold down the shift key as you flow it will make as many pages as needed, If you want your legals to look the rent Page Number. This inserts the onto the first page. It should flow onto saving you lots of time. Don’t forget that same as they do in your newspaper, mea- coded letter “A” in the text block. After all the pages and even build more if Page One will have the text wrapped sure the width of three or four columns the “A”, type “of 1”, which makes your needed. How easy is that! copy of the Proof of Publication with of a legal. If four columns fits in an 8.5” text say “A of 1.” Now each time you If the text is only available in your blanks to be filled in for each legal. space, use four columns. Subtract the add a page the letter A will change to InDesign document, go to the page Save the blank InDesign or Quark four-column width from 8.5” and then the number of pages in the document, where the legal ran in the newspaper. files you created as a template file, under divide that number by two. That will be making the pages auto number. Use the text tool and select all the text the Save As command. When saved as the margin width for the left and right in that legal (you can use Command A a template, each time they are opened side for the new template. (For example: A of 1 to select all the text), and copy. a duplicate is made of the page so the A 4-column legal in your newspaper is On the template page, draw a text template stays clean. The template can 6.92”. 8.5” - 6.92” = 1.58”. 1.58” ÷ 2 = 0.79. Each time you use the template for block on Page One below the box for be altered by going to File > Open, then The right and left side margin will be a long legal that is more than one page, the identifier text and paste the text you choosing the open original button in the .79”. Make the top and bottom margins you will change “of 1” to reflect the copied. Then click on the red plus sign dialogue box. .5”. See example below.) number of pages in the document. For (+), which picks up the remainder of the example, if your legal runs over 5 pages, text and go to page two. Hold down the go back to the master and change “of 1” shift key and click in the first column. TIME MACHINE to “of 5”. Each page now says the correct The remainder of the text should auto- With virus attacks getting worse and number (i.e., 1 of 5, 2 of 5, etc.). flow into the document. Make sure you worse, I’m singing the praises of the For identification of the legal, make avoid the placeholder text box at the top Mac Time Machine backup these days. an empty text block on the Masters Page of the page. We’ve had to restore from Time at the top left hand side. The identifier For the identifier text, double click Machine at three newspapers. text gives enough information about the on Page One in the document. Select If you haven’t done at least one back- legal so that if one of the pages in the the first part of the legal with the Text up on your computer, now is the time to document should become separated it tool, then go to Edit > Copy. Now go do one. A $60 external drive can save would be easy to tell where it goes. This to the Master Page and paste the info in your sanity – and your computer files. normally includes the publication date the identifier box. This makes that text and name of the newspaper on the first appear on each page of the document. OPA Computer Consultant Wilma Newby’s line. And don’t forget to make sure the block column is brought to you by the Oklahoma This text block is only used on legals is text wrapped on the master page. Advertising Network (OAN). For more informa- that flow to extra pages. Make sure Your final step is to note how many tion on the OAN program, contact Oklahoma Press Service at (405) 499-0020. The Oklahoma Publisher // August 2015 15 Marlow Review receives act of kindness OKLAHOMA PRESS ASSOCIATION The Marlow Review is feeling blessed ees) could get their breath and step STAFF DIRECTORY after a local Sunday school class trans- away for a minute.” formed a storage room into a break Genn and Gayla Ligon, along with ADMINISTRATION room. Gayla’s visiting sister, did the bulk of the MARK THOMAS When the First Baptist Church began physical work while the rest of the class Executive Vice President its “Inhabit the City” community service helped by donating money to make the [email protected] • (405) 499-0033 campaign in January, the “Abundantly changes possible. JEANNIE FREEMAN Blessed” class selected The Marlow The Review staff is grateful to the Accounting Manager Review as one of the businesses it want- class, said Review Publisher Judy Keller. [email protected] • (405) 499-0027 ed to serve. “These ladies are amazing,” Keller The class decided that over the sum- THE FINISHED PROJECT: The “Abundantly said. “They came into the office and said SCOTT WILKERSON mer it would clean up and remodel a Blessed” class spent several days they would like to do something for us. I Front Office/Building Mgr. storage area cluttered with old equip- remodeling a junky area into a top-notch didn’t expect anything like this.” [email protected] • (405) 499-0020 ment and supplies into a break room break room. Keller said the area they chose to area. Photo by Todd Brooks/ The Marlow Review remodel was a junk-filled corner. MEMBER SERVICES Jennie Genn, one of the class mem- “I’ve always had a very soft spot for “It took only a few days to transform LISA (POTTS) SUTLIFF bers, said her class picked The Marlow the newspaper,” Genn said. “We wanted it into a very inviting place to have lunch Member Services Director Review because she felt a connection to to provide a place where (the employ- or take a break from a busy day.” [email protected] • (405) 499-0026 the newspaper. ADVERTISING LANDON COBB Bishop inducted into high school Athletic Hall of Fame Sales Director Wayne Bishop, who spent his career became the Ledger’s managing editor. National Wrestling Hall of Fame that [email protected] • (405) 499-0022 as a sports writer covering Broken Arrow He also worked as a high school sports same year. CINDY SHEA High athletics, is one of six people being writer for the Tulsa World. Bishop described his passion for Advertising Director inducted into the BAHS Athletic Hall of In 2011, he received the Onions Mar- sports writing as a labor of love. [email protected] • (405) 499-0023 Fame on Sept. 19. tin Award from the Oklahoma Wres- “It was for the love of the sports, but BRENDA POER Bishop was the sports editor for the tling Referees Association and also was most of all for the love of the people Advertising Assistant Broken Arrow Scout and Broken Arrow inducted into the Oklahoma Chapter of themselves,” he said. Ledger from 1987 until 1993 when he [email protected] • (405) 499-0035 CREATIVE SERVICES JENNIFER GILLILAND Ed Kelley named Creative Services Director interim dean at OU [email protected] • (405) 499-0028 ASHLEY NOVACHICH Ed Kelley, who has been serving Editorial/Creative Assistant as Director of Experiential Learning [email protected] • (405) 499-0029 for the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the Uni- COMPUTER ADVICE versity of Oklahoma, has been named WILMA (MELOT) NEWBY interim Dean, pending approval of the Show Me Computer Consultant OU Board of Regents. [email protected] • (405) 499-0031 Joe Foote, who resigned his post to rejoin the college’s faculty after a decade The Future Of POSTAL ADVICE as the college’s leader, previously held STEVE BOOHER the position. The permanent successor Postal/Public Notice Consultant to Foote will be named after an appropri- [email protected] • (405) 499-0020 ate selection process. An award-wining newspaper editor Newspapers DIGITAL CLIPPING and reporter, Kelley had a 36-year career KEITH BURGIN at The Oklahoman. In 2003, Kelley suc- Clipping Director ceeded Edward L. Gaylord as editor of [email protected] • (405) 499-0024 The Oklahoman and served in that role until 2011. KYLE GRANT “I’m honored to have been asked to Digital Clipping Dept. serve in this position at my alma mater,” [email protected] Kelley said. JENNIFER BEATLEY-CATES Kelly returned to OU from Salt Lake Digital Clipping Dept. City, where he was senior contributing editor at The Desert News. He also has [email protected] • (405) 499-0045 served as editor of The Washington MALLORY HOGAN Times. Digital Clipping Dept. He was inducted into the Oklahoma 129th Annual Convention [email protected] • (405) 499-0032 Journalism Hall of Fame in 2003. & Trade Show Kelley earned a bachelor’s degree Saint Charles GENERAL INQUIRIES in journalism from OU, graduating Phi Convention Center (405) 499-0020 Beta Kappa. 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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE JUNE 2015 WINNERS June Column: MARIA LAUBACH, The Hennessey Clipper June Editorial: WAYNE TROTTER, The Countywide & Sun

JUNE 2015 COLUMN WINNER Enter and Win MARIA LAUBACH, The Hennessey Clipper a $100 Check Progress toward digitized newspapers is bittersweet from Oklahoma Natural Gas! A state press convention this month left me with a is holding and smelling the products in its untouched, The June Oklahoma Natural Gas bittersweet taste. yet finished, form. Column and Editorial Contest was I enjoy conferences and other professional develop- Most newspapers no longer have a printing press, judged by a member of the Oklahoma ment events but I was overwhelmed by the success but they continue getting their fingers dirty while label- Journalism Hall of Fame. stories with the digital news media. It may be because ing and inserting each paper before it goes in the news I’m in my mid-thirties and outdated,but I can’t let go of racks. Once the newspaper hits the streets it connects 1. Each month, send a tear sheet or photocopy of your best column and/ a feeling that if digital information completely replaces with the reader who shares them and discusses news or editorial to Oklahoma Natural Gas print, we will be out of touch, more disconnected from and controversies with friends and family. Contest, c/o OPA, 3601 N. Lincoln Blvd., the real world than we’ve ever been. The value that readers find in a newspaper is up to Oklahoma City, OK 73105-5499. The age of social media and digital news forced their judgment as some preserve newspaper clippings us to worship the false god. But unlike a stone idol in family albums, or Bibles. 2. Include the author’s name, name of we can’t touch it. The digital world connects with us Another reward in producing a paper is the excite- publication, date of publication and through the sterile, invisible and unreal web and can ment of young readers. I often hear from teachers in category entered (column or editorial). be blocked, ignored or tricked. You don’t have to look our Newspapers in Education program that students 3. Only ONE editorial and/or ONE column into the eye of your listener, smell them or hear their can’t wait to receive the paper in their classroom. per writer per month will be accepted. responses when processing information. They often read it in its entirety. Students also enjoy Progress toward digitized newspapers is bitter- newspaper tours so they can learn about how they are 4. All entries for the previous month must sweet. produced. be at the OPA office by the 15th of the People became equipped with the tools to think for The printed newspaper page is final. current month. themselves in the 15th century with the invention of the On the digital end, looking up something on the web Gutenberg press. Books became available to all at an may not give you what you want. It may shuffle you off 5. Winning entries will be reproduced on the OPA website at www.OkPress.com. affordable price. to something that is disguised as news, but isn’t. Reading, however, came along with the touch and The good news is that newspapers, even in digital smell of that very medium that gave us information. format, have managed to preserve their value as the Entries must have been previously published. Contest open to For centuries newspapers have connected us to most trustworthy source. This claim again can be all OPA member newspapers. information through different links: newspaper staffs twisted because research shows that digital informa- collecting news, printers, sellers, readers discussing tion is not as well retained as the information read from Although Oklahoma Natural Gas Company news in a group and those talks often leading to com- a print source. selects representative contest winners’ munity action. My fears and premature nostalgia for print are that work for use in this monthly ad, the views Digital media breaks this entire structure. the lack of print media will lead to broken links with the expressed in winning columns and editorials are those of the writers and don’t necessarily The reward of running a newspaper to the publisher real world, and the past. reflect the Company’s opinions.

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