Siblings of Photojournalism Hall of Fame Inductee November 2013

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Tribune Publishing Co. in Columbia has received awards recently for its production work and its 12 Siblings of Photojournalism Hall of Fame inductee website. Marian Hatcher, left, Tom Miller, center, and Bill Miller Sr. pose with the plaque for their brother, the late Jim Miller Jr., during the Photojournalism Hall of Fame program in Washington, Mo., on Oct. 17. Three people were inducted. Read about all of them on pages 4-5. Washington Missourian photo editor Jeanne Miller-Wood made this photo.

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“Deadline in Disaster,” the Mis- souri Press Association’s documentary film about the Joplin Globe’s tornado response, received an EMMY Award. 6 6

Regular Features President 2 NIE Report 15 On the Move 10 Jean Maneke 17 Scrapbook 12 Obituaries 18

Missouri Press News, November 2013 www.mopress.com Wonderful program in Washington Maryville story demonstrates newspaper, social synergy had the good fortune to attend the Missouri Photojour- com, with more than 500,000 of the page views being referred nalism Hall of Fame 2013 Induction Ceremony held by Facebook. Newspapers indeed work hand-in-hand with IOct. 17 in Washington. social media. The committee did an insightful job selecting this year’s I ask you to consider making a pledge to the Missouri Press inductees: Bob Linder, who worked for the Foundation. The Foundation continues its So- Springfield Daily Press, Leader-Press, and News ciety of 1867 and Leader for 37 years, Geri Migielicz, who Page Builders fund- worked briefly at the St. Joseph News-Press be- raising campaign. fore embarking on a 23-year career at the San Some of you may Please con- Jose Mercury News, and the late Jim Miller, Jr., have seen the pas- who was honored for his career that included sionate plea generat- sider join- 22 years at the Washington Missourian. ed by Vickie Russell The program included remarks from Jason and Jim Robertson Kander, Missouri’s secretary of state, as well as of the Columbia ing your Washington Mayor Sandy Lucy, and Jon Bauer, Daily Tribune, and chairman of the board of the Washington Area Dave Berry of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce. Mark Maassen Bolivar Herald-Free One thing was immediately evident. Wash- The Kansas City Star. Press at the Missouri newspaper ington is very proud to host this Hall of Fame, MPA President Press Convention in and it does a great job showing it. The family Kansas City. While of Bill Miller Sr. had everything organized and it was a fun way to associates looking great. The turnout was robust, and the food was get a message across, it also high- scrumptious. I regret missing this terrific program in the past. lighted our need to donate to the in support Put this on your “to do” list next year. Foundation to protect newspapers’ uring the Hall of Fame reception in Washington, sev- future. of your Deral individuals stopped me to discuss the Kansas City he Society of 1867 is for in- Star story regarding the alleged sexual assault of two teenage Tdividuals to contribute to the girls by two teenage boys in Maryville. The story, written Foundation. Newspapers can con- industry. by Dugan Arnett, has garnered much national attention, tribute through the Page Builder including the mother of the alleged victim and her daughter program, in which they pledge to appearing on CNN. donate annually the equivalent of a full page of advertising. The story ran on Sunday, Oct. 13, and by the end of the Installment payments can be made on pledges, and you can next day, Oct. 14, the story had recorded more than 1 mil- use a credit card. lion hits on the Star’s website, KansasCity.com. In fact, by Please join your newspaper associates in support of your industry. Friday, Oct. 18, five days after the story ran, it had amassed Fliers explaining the program and the levels of giving can be more than 2.1 million page views. The story ranked as the downloaded at mopress.com/current_forms.php. Do your part number one socially driven story in the history of KansasCity. and make your pledge today!

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Missouri Press News, November 2013 www.mopress.com 3 3 photojournalists enshrined in Hall Two Fame inductees did all of their work in Missouri Photographs made by group will join Hall’s collection he Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame in Washington, TMo., inducted three award- winning innovators and teachers of photography and journalism on Oct. 17. This was the ninth group of inductees since the founding of the Hall of Fame in 2005. Inducted were Bob Linder of Springfield, Geri Migielicz of California and the late Jim Miller Jr. of Washing- ton. Photographs made by the inductees were on display during the ceremony and reception. Those photographs join the Hall of Fame’s collection of work by inductees. Bob Linder and Geri Migielicz toy with the Washington-made corncob pipes they received The Photojournalism Hall of Fame at the Photojournalism Hall of Fame program. In the lower photo Linder poses near an is a project of Bill Miller Sr., publisher array of his photos on display during the program. Jeanne Miller-Wood, photo editor of the Washington Missourian twice- of the Washington Missourian, made these photos and the photo on the front cover.

weekly newspaper and brother of one of this year’s inductees. The Hall’s home is a building near the newspaper office in downtown Washington. In f o r m a - tion about the Photo- journalism Hall of Fame and pre- vious inductees can be seen at mopress.com/Photojournal- ism_HOF.php. This year’s inductees:

— BOB LINDER —

• Bob Linder attended Missouri State University in Springfield, his hometown. He worked as a photojournalist, chief photographer, photo editor and photography director for 37 years for the Springfield Daily News, Leader-Press and News-Leader. He received many awards from news organizations, the National Press Pho-

4 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2013 tographers Association, Gannett and the In 2008 Migielicz started Story4.org, Missouri Press Association. a multimedia production company. In Embracing change, Linder specialized 2010 she became a visiting professor at in color photos in print, introduced the Stanford University’s Graduate Program Springfield News-Leader’s first digital in Journalism. cameras and placed the newspaper’s first video on the Internet. His special passion — JIM MILLER JR. — is photographing the people and places of the Ozarks. • Jim Miller Jr. made photos for more than 22 years for The Washington Missou- — GERI MIGIELICZ — rian, which was published by his father. His photos of people great and ordinary • Geri Migielicz developed from a earned him accolades from local and newspaper photographer into a multi- state associations. media storyteller, a digital entrepreneur Miller attended the University of and university professor. Missouri, served in the Korean War, and After graduation from the Missouri then moved to Kansas City, where he School of Journalism, Migielicz went worked for The Star and for broadcast to work for the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette Jim Miller Jr. was a brother of the founder of stations. Later he worked for radio sta- and then as chief photographer for the the Photojournalism Hall of Fame, William tions in New York and Indiana and as a St. Joseph News-Press and Gazette. She Miller Sr., who now is the publisher of the freelance photographer while working Washington Missourian, for which Jim Miller later worked at The Seattle Times and The made photographs for more than 22 years. for the stations. Rocky Mountain News, then for 23 years Miller made photographs for The at the San Jose Mercury News, where she finalist. Missourian while in high school, and led the photo department. In 2007 she was executive producer he returned to the newspaper in 1964. Projects by her staff won numerous of “Uprooted,” a web documentary that Photo assignments kept him busy seven national awards for news, photography, won a national Emmy Award for New days a week, and he passed his darkroom documentaries and multimedia report- Approaches to News and Documentary expertise on to those who assisted him. ing. Honors included Pulitzer Prize Programming: Documentaries. He was 58 when he died in 1987.

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Missouri Press News, November 2013 www.mopress.com 5 MPA Joplin tornado film wins EMMY he Missouri Press Association’s by the film production team and the film about The Joplin Globe’s Missouri Press Association. The docu- Tresponse to a disastrous tornado mentary “Trustees for the Public: 200 has won an EMMY. The Mid-America Years of Missouri Newspapers,” a history Chapter of the National Academy of of the state’s newspapers and journalism, Television Arts and Sciences presented was honored in 2009. the awards Oct. 5 in St. Louis. The Missouri Press Association, “Deadline in Disaster” focuses on founded in 1867, is the trade association how The Globe served its community in for about 280 Missouri weekly and daily the days and weeks after the May 2011 newspapers. storm that killed 161 people, including NATAS Mid-America is one of 19 one member of the newspaper’s staff. regional chapters of the National Acad- Accepting awards were Beth Pike, emy of Television Arts and Sciences, Stephen Hudnell and Scott Charton, headquartered in New York City. The directors, editors and producers of the Mid-America chapter includes television film, and Doug Crews, executive direc- markets primarily in Missouri, Arkansas tor of the Missouri Press Association, all and Illinois. of Columbia. Also attending the Attending the EMMY banquet were Michael awards program in St. Beatty, publisher of Louis were, from left, Doug Crews, executive director The Joplin Globe, and of the Missouri Press Asso- Mrs. Sandy Smith, St. ciation; freelance journalist Louis, composer of the Scott Charton, Columbia; film’s music. and video journalists Beth The Missouri Press Pike and Stephen Hudnell of Columbia. This was the film competed in the second EMMY for a video Documentary-Cultur- produced and directed by al category with final- this team. “Trustees for the ists from Kansas City, Public” received the honor Columbia, St. Louis in 2009. and Champaign, Ill. This is the second regional EMMY won GistCloud offers robust news release service he Missouri Press Association has kind of features and distribution area affordable. partnered with GistCloud, LLC, they need. “We’re excited about our partnership Tto provide a cutting-edge press Every press release includes online with GistCloud. This new press release release distribution service. distribution, robust social sharing tools, service offers a high level of sophistica- GistCloud’s Intermedia and real-time analytics de- tion and options that will benefit our Press Release (IPR) can livered in a professional and customers,” MPA Executive Director incorporate video, audio, attractive manner. All these Doug Crews said. documents, photos, and services are provided at a Those interested in sending press re- web pages, along with mul- significantly lower cost than leases can go to missouri.gistcloud.com tilingual content for instant other national news release and click the “get started” tab. They can broadcasting capability. services. follow the simple step-by-step system to IPR can be distributed to By partnering with Gist- order their releases. traditional media outlets all Cloud, MPA is able to offer For more information contact MPA across the country, to online more exposure to its clients. editor Kent Ford ([email protected]) social sites and to mobile applications. Each release is included in Google News, or advertising director Mark Nienhue- The service offers users an easy-to- MSN News and Yahoo! News, is mobile ser ([email protected]), (573) follow website where they can select the ready, offers multilingual options, and is 449-4167.

6 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2013 Webster University raises disaster funds with tornado film isaster Relief was the mission of the DWebster University Film Series on Oct. 12 with a viewing of the Missouri Press Association’s film “Deadline In Disaster.” A panel session on weather disaster issues followed the film. “Deadline In Disaster,” filmed by Beth Pike and Stephen Hudnell of Columbia, documents how The Joplin Globe covered the May 2011 disaster. After the film, Pike joined a panel for a discussion about the event. Other panelists were Todd Frankel, enterprise MPA’s Little Brown Jug golfers were Ryan Glenn, Mound City, third from left; Matt reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Morrison, Nowatta Printing, Springfield, fourth from left; Tay Smith, Perry County author and St. Louis zookeeper Carolyn Republic-Monitor, Perryville, third from right; and Adam Johnson, Mound City News, Mueller; and Don Corrigan, Webster second from right. Representing Kansas Press were Tom Broeckelman, left, Grove University journalism professor and County Advocate; Ben Marshall, second from left, Sterling Bulletin; Brad Lowell, fourth editor of the Webster-Kirkwood Times. from right, and Jay Lowell, right, of the Concordia Blade-Empire. KPA Executive Director Frankel talked about his many as- Doug Anstaett provided the photo. signments covering the Joplin storm. Mueller explained the work of “Lily the Rescue Dog,” the subject of her coming MPA retains Little Brown Jug book (reported in the October issue of issouri Press Association’s Little Brown Jug golf team brought the Missouri Press News). Corrigan put Joplin Mjug back home after a sleet-shortened match against Kansas Press on in a historical context, based on his book Oct. 17-18. This year’s match was played at the Falcon Lakes Golf Course “Show Me… Nature’s Wrath.” in Basehor, Kan., just west of Kansas City. Admission to the film and panel This was the 50th anniversary of the first Little Brown Jug match between event was free, but a $5 contribution the two press associations. The first was held in 1963. was encouraged to the Missouri Press While the record through the years is split nearly evenly, MPA has won Association Disaster Fund. Contributors the last three matches. received a free copy of Corrigan’s book Teams of four play 36 holes when the weather cooperates. This year’s “Show Me… Nature’s Wrath,” a com- second-day match was called off after nine holes because of cold and sleet. pendium of the worst weather disasters to hit Missouri. Journalism students at Webster Uni- versity helped coordinate the benefit. About 80 people attended the program. Sunshine request nets report on sheriff erry Voss, publisher of the Linn Unter- plaint because of his friendship with the Kansas City Star to print Jrified Democrat, used a Sunshine Law Osage County sheriff. request to obtain reports of an investiga- The Democrat reported the charges Lawrence Journal-World tion of the Osage County sheriff. against the sheriff are a felony charge he Kansas City Star will begin print- The original reports involve the inves- of tampering with a vehicle and misde- Ting the Lawrence (Kan.) Journal- tigation of a spring incident that resulted meanor charges of sexual misconduct, World on Jan. 14. in a special Phelps County prosecutor assault, harassment and stalking. Senior executives of The World Co., filing five criminal charges against the The newspaper reported that the the publisher of the Journal-World, sheriff. Maries County investigation of the announced the move in mid-October. The sheriff of Maries County reported sheriff was completed when the Maries The World Co. said the move is not that he had received a call from the po- County sheriff turned the case over expected to affect the delivery time of lice chief of Belle stating that the Osage to the Highway Patrol. Copies of the the newspaper. sheriff “was harassing and stalking” reports were obtained from the Maries The Star prints about 35 different his sergeant. In his report, the Maries County Sheriff’s Office when Voss sub- products, including The Wall Street County sheriff said he requested the mitted the Sunshine Law request. Journal and The Topeka Capital-Journal. Highway Patrol to investigate the com-

Missouri Press News, November 2013 www.mopress.com 7 Education awards total $314,000 St. Louis American Foundation presents ‘Excellence’ grants

his year’s St. Louis American Foun- Tdation Salute to Excellence in Education gala on Sept. 13 awarded $314,000 in scholarships and community grants for educators. Since it began in 1994, the Founda- tion has generated nearly $3 million in scholarships and grants. Eleven scholarship winners were recognized by the nearly 1,500 guests at the gala in the America’s Center. Donald M. Suggs, publisher and Above: Recipients of the Donald M. Suggs scholarships also received laptop computers executive editor of The St. Louis Ameri- at the St. Louis American Foundation’s Salute to Excellence in Education gala. Below: can and president of the Foundation, Dr. Lynn Beckwith Jr., the Desmond Lee Endowed Professor of Urban Education at welcomed guests to the gala. the University of Missouri-St. Louis, left, applauds St. Louis American photojournalist Six Missouri schools have Donald M. Wiley Price for his portrait of Beckwith. Dr. Beckwith is the 2013 Lifetime Achiever in Education recognized during the St. Louis American Foundation’s Salute to Excellence Suggs scholarships totaling $252,000: in Education gala. Beckwith donated the $2,500 grant from the Foundation to the Harris-Stowe State University, Missouri West Side Missionary Baptist Church Scholarship Fund. (St. Louis American photo by State University, St. Louis Commu- Michelle Meredith) nity College, Southeast Missouri State University, Webster University and the University of Missouri. SEMO University’s full-tuition scholarship, valued at more than $30,000, went to Justin Robinson, a graduate of Pattonville High School. Webster presented its first Suggs scholarship, totaling $100,000 over four years, to freshman Olivia Perez, a media literacy major at Webster. All of the scholarship winners also received laptop computers from the Foun- dation. Many other awards recognizing educators at various levels were awarded. American’s NIE program wins top national honor he St. Louis American received Louis, and added a second page called keeping the program, but fully sup- notice in August that its News- “Healthy Kids” that focuses on heroes porting it with a full-time coordinator. Tpaper In Education program, in the health-care field along with tips Well done.” which was just beginning its second on wellness and safety. More than 6,000 The American allowed the Missouri year, had won the National Newspaper students in more than 250 classrooms Press Association to recreate some of its Association’s first-place award among all are receiving a free newspaper each week. feature pages on STEM (science, tech- non-daily newspapers. The judges of the NNA contest nology, engineering, math) topics into a In its first year The American distri- wrote The American’s program is “a well- series that newspapers around the state buted 5,200 copies each week to stu- thought-out, well-articulated program can use at no cost. Those features can dents in the Normandy and St. Louis that reaped big benefits ... for the com- be downloaded from the MPA website, Public Schools, making it the largest free munity it services. It embodies a ‘go big code: stem13. NIE program in Missouri. or go home’ approach. This newspaper The American hired Cathy Sewell as This year The American added more set a very high standard and attained its full-time NIE manager. She has more school districts, including East St. it, and used it as a baseline for not only than 20 years of NIE experience.

8 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2013 Foundation fund-raising program continues Society of 1867, Page Builder pledges will support newspapers

he Missouri Press Foundation is the only organization that exists Tsolely to champion the future Individuals join the Society of 1867 with their donations and and quality of Missouri’s newspapers. pledges. Newspapers join the Page Builders by pledging adver- To support that mission, the Founda- tising space. Join the Society of 1867 or Page Builders, or both, tion launched the Society of 1867 and Page Builder campaign in September at and pledge your support of Missouri newspapers. the annual Missouri Press Convention. Installment payments may be made with a credit card. Society of 1867 membership is be- All donations are 100% tax deductible. stowed on partners who recognize the important history of Missouri newspapers and are dedicated to helping them meet the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. the levels of individual giving. News- other recognition. A flier you can download at www. papers can contribute through a Page The flier also lists ways the Society of mopress.com/current_forms.php ex- Builder program, in which they pledge to 1867 will work to build a solid future plains the Society of 1867 program and donate annually the equivalent amount for your newspaper. Those include hir- of a full page of advertising. ing a Foundation director, developing Newspapers and individuals can make a Newspaper Toolbox you can use to Jane Flink receives pledges to give annually at varying levels. demonstrate the value of your newspa- The pledge year began Oct. 1. per to your community and businesses, Hall of Fame honor All members of the Society of 1867 and training opportunities for you and will be recognized in Missouri Press News your staff. from Historical Society magazine. Privileges and recognitions for All Page Builder contributions and ane Duncan Flink, retired publisher each level of giving are noted on the flier. money donations to the Society of 1867 Jof the Boone County Journal in Ash- They include special gifts, lapel pins and are 100 percent tax deductible. land, on Oct. 10 received the Boone County Historical Society’s Hall of Fame award. Mrs. Flink in September was inducted by the Missouri Press Association into the Missouri Newspaper Hall of Fame. It is a Historical Society tradition to fund a trust or project in honor of the Hall of Fame inductee. Mrs. Flink asked that a trust be established called the Richard and Jane Duncan Flink Research Center Trust, endowing the preservation of archived material at the Boone County Museum and Galleries, and that all donations to that trust be made in her name. The trust will help make accessible to the public the work of several Boone County photographers and more than Jefferson City United Way fundraiser 500,000 negatives made in the late Jefferson City News Tribune staffers Richard McGonegal and Janelle Haley, right, serve 1800s through the mid-1900s, and customers on Sept. 20 at the News Tribune barbecue lunch fundraiser for the United Way. many other items of historical signifi- A rummage sale also was held. The barbecue in the paper’s parking lot and the sale raised cance to Boone County. nearly $1,300. (News Tribune photo by Julie Smith)

Missouri Press News, November 2013 www.mopress.com 9 Gurbuz, who now is a photojournalist with the St. Joseph News-Press. She also On the Move has taught English in Hebei Province, China. • Nevada — Ralph Pokorny, who has Rogers, former manager of papers in 17 years with the Nevada Daily Mail, was Neosho, Carthage, Aurora and Green- • Cameron — named editor of the newspaper, effective field for GateHouse, joined ACM in Cameron Newspa- Oct. 14. Pokorny has served as assistant May 2011. He served as the director of pers has three new editor for the past five years. product development before being pro- staffers. Pokorny is a 1968 graduate of Nevada moted to corporate director-operations Lifelong resident High School. He attended the University in 2012. Kimberly Potts, 33, of Missouri-Rolla for a time, then joined is a new reporter. his family’s photography business, which • St. Joseph — Sara Summers is the She and her hus- he took over in the mid-1970s and con- new Newspaper In Education coor- band, Bud, have tinues to operate part-time. dinator for the St. three children. In 1981 he entered Pittsburg State Joseph News-Press. Kimberly Potts Dianne Marines, University, where he studied commu- The paper hasn’t who attended school nications for three years. He joined the had an NIE director in Cameron and Daily Mail in the mid-1990s as a part- for more than seven then went to the time photographer. years. Missouri Institute of Ms. Summers Technology at Platte • Piedmont — Joy Sherrill, Annapo- attended school in College, is a new ad lis, has joined the staff of Ellinghouse St. Joseph and her sales rep for Camer- Publishing Co. Inc., children are in the on Shopper and Citi- Piedmont. She’s an Sara Summers system now. zen Observer. She ad sales rep for the Area business has sold real estate Dianne Marines Wayne County Jour- sponsors will provide copies of the News- and title insurance nal-Banner in Pied- Press to local classrooms. Teachers can get since returning to mont and the Rey- assistance with their NIE projects at the Cameron in 2007 nolds County Courier new newspressnow.com/NIE website. after working for in Ellington. “It’s important for kids to read the large telecommuni- Sherrill and her newspaper for a myriad of reasons, but cations companies. husband, Scotty, one that I’m most passionate about is Brandy Bogart Joy Sherrill have a daughter who getting kids community-engaged and also is a new ad sales is a freshman at Mineral Area College civic-minded because we need that in St. rep for the publica- and a son who is a freshman at South Joe,” Summers said. “Our young people Brandy Bogart tions. She moved to Iron High School. She also has two do matter and they are capable, and we Cameron 13 years stepsons, one living with the Sherrills need their talents and skills to make this ago with her daughter and her family, in Annapolis and the other with family the great place that it is to live.” who are passionate about their horses. in Barnhart. Sherrill is working toward an associ- • Mound City — C.J. Trent-Gurbuz, • Corrections: Centralia — The On ate’s degree in education through night a native of Kansas City and resident of the Move column in the October maga- classes at Mineral Area College. She St. Joseph, has joined the Mound City zine reported that Gary Flick is the new plans to become a substitute teacher. News staff. general manager of the Fireside Guard. The Sherrills own a small business in Tre n t - Gu r b u z The item said he had worked for the Annapolis. holds a master’s in paper in the 1980s as general manager. journalism from the That was not his position with the paper • Irving, Texas — Rick Rogers, a Missouri School of at that time. former publisher and regional manager Journalism and a The July issue of Missouri Press News for GateHouse Media Inc. in southwest bachelor’s in interna- introduced the five people inducted this Missouri, has been promoted to vice tional relations and year into the Newspaper Hall of Fame. president of operations for American music from Drake The entry for inductee Jane Flink said Consolidated Media (ACM) in Irving. University in Des she wrote and edited news for the Fire- Rogers directs oversight of ACM’s Moines. side Guard and the Kingdom Daily News Texas Southwest and OK/KS regions C.J. Trent-Gurbuz Tre n t - Gu r b u z in Fulton. Mrs. Flink was a reporter for and continues oversight of the com- previously was a freelance writer and the Guard and later an editor at Fulton. pany’s Ad Design Center, its pagination editor in Ankara, Turkey, where she lived studio and other projects. for four years with her husband, Serkan

10 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2013 Paper follows-up prize-winning project on child poverty avid Stoeffler, executive editor children eligible for free and reduced- know what to do... It is in that absence of the Springfield News-Leader, priced lunches grew from just above 39 of action that a newspaper can become Dparticipated in a “Feed Our percent in 2003-04 to just over 54 per- a catalyst of change. Child, Fuel Our Future” panel discussion cent this year. In Springfield elementary “That is what the Springfield News- on Sept. 18. schools the level is 61 percent. Leader has done — superbly — with its The program was an extension of the Panelists included representatives of series. The stories told are powerful, the “Every Child” series, a project launched local charities and children’s organiza- message is clear. ... If the community more than a year ago by the News-Leader. tions, the schools and churches. wants to end the pattern of poverty ... Panel discussions were organized by The newspaper’s project won first it has to do it itself. community members who served on place in its division in the Community “And then the newspaper takes action, the advisory committee for the project. Service category of this year’s Missouri moving from telling stories to bringing The Sept. 18 topic was the role Press Better Newspaper Contest. about change. Small steps that can lead churches can play in fighting poverty and Judge’s comments: “Sometimes a to great things. This was an outstanding childhood hunger. Local poverty shows community finds itself in a place where it example of community journalism.” up in the schools, where the number of knows it is falling apart and yet does not

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• Cameron — Kristin Ryan, classified receptionist at Cameron Newspapers, presented a check for $225 to the Cam- eron Food Pantry. The donation was proceeds from the newspaper’s City- Wide Garage Sale held in September.

• St. Louis — The St. Louis American received the Media Award from Legal Services of Eastern Missouri at the For the Common Good Annual Awards Reception on Aug. 28. The weekly was cited for “furthering equal access to justice.”

• St. Joseph — News-Press & Gazette Co., St. Joseph, in September bought three television stations in California Columbia Tribune top printer of New York Times from Cowles California Media: CBS The New York Times in August honored Tribune Publishing Co., the commercial printing division and Telemundo affiliates in Monterey of the Columbia Daily Tribune, for printing quality. Tribune Publishing was recognized as The and a FOX affiliate in San Luis Obispo. Time’s top single-wide, cold-web offset print site. Tribune Publishing hosted a reception on Aug. The Federal Communications Com- 22 to recognize its production staff members for their outstanding work. Dave Barker, regional mission must approve the sale. production manager for The Times, presented a trophy and plaque during the reception. In the bottom photo at left is Tribune publisher Vicki Russell. (Columbia Daily Tribune photos) NPG and Cowles also said they have agreed to a shared services arrangement for a CBS affiliate in Santa Maria. In 2012 NPG bought an ABC station in Santa Barbara. NPG, which owns a number of pub- Scrapbook lications in the Kansas City region, now has 10 television stations in the Midwest • Columbia — In addition to the book signing during the Liberal Prairie and West. It also offers Echo Cloud honor reported in the photos above, the Festival in September for his third book, Services secure data storage. Tribune won first place among all classes “Josie.” for its website design in the annual Best Cooper grew up in Liberal and was • Cape Girardeau — Jon Rust, co- In Digital Design Contest of the Local a teacher there before working for the president of Rust Communications, Media Association (LMA). Democrat. chaired the Local Media Association’s The LMA is a national trade group nominating committee for its Innovator with more than 2,000 community and • Troy — In September, The Lincoln of the Year award. suburban newspaper members. County Journal, a free weekly, inserted That award, established this year, was The judges said, “Not cluttered at all, postage-paid envelopes in the newspa- presented to Clark Gilbert, CEO of makes total sense the way it is laid out per. It asked readers for $10 “voluntary Deseret Digital Media and Deseret News, and VERY easy to navigate.” subscription payment” and comments Salt Lake City, at LMA’s Fall Conference they would like to make about the paper. in St. Louis in September. Gilbert was • Lamar — Richard Cooper, an em- Lakeway Publishers of Missouri owns the keynote speaker at the conference. ployee of the Lamar Democrat, held a The Journal, which has been distributed The LMA board recognized Gilbert

12 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2013 McCoy continues to work as a free- users to receive breaking news alerts on lance journalist. He has written more the paper’s news app. The PD Baseball than 20 novels, including four original app for the Cardinals already offers that Indiana Jones adventures licensed by breaking news feature. Lucasfilm and published by Random House. (The Joplin Globe) • Ozark — Reporter Aaron Hadlow of the Christian County Headliner News • Gainesville — The Ozark County received awards for editorials/columns Times will publish its “Ozark County and general coverage from the Missouri Cookin’” cookbook in its Nov. 20 issue. State Teachers Association. Plaques were It will contain photos and brief profiles presented Sept. 30 at the Southwest of selected cooks from around the Region Teachers Association meeting Marlene and Gary Dickens county and favorite recipes submitted in Springfield. by readers. Readers who submit recipes Viburnum ‘heroes’ will be entered into a drawing for $100. • Kennett — In observance of Breast Marlene and Gary Dickens, publishers of All proceeds from the sale of the Cancer Awareness Month in October, the Quad County Star in Viburnum, were cookbook, which will cost 75¢, will go the Daily Dunklin Democrat in Kennett the Grand Marshals for this year’s Old to the Ozark County Toy Drive and the and the Delta News Citizen in Malden Miners Days Parade on Oct. 5. Marlene Ozark County Food Pantry. Last year’s placed pink newspaper vending ma- and Gary, who have operated the weekly cookbook sales generated almost $1,000 chines on the sidewalks in front of their since starting it in 1966, also were chosen recently as the 2013 Farmers Insurance for each organization. offices. Unsung Heroes. A Viburnum insurance All proceeds from the sale of news- agent created the award a few years ago • St. Louis — The Post-Dispatch has papers from the machines went to the “to recognize ordinary people who do upgraded its mobile platforms to offer Individual Cancer Assistance Relief extraordinary things.” The Dickens also faster connection with more features. Effort (ICARE), a program that assists own Dickens Real Estate. They have their weekly printed at Missourian Publishing You can download the paper’s app for local cancer patients. Co. in Washington. (Photo submitted) Android, iPhone, Windows or Black- The Kennett and Malden newspapers berry by searching for Post-Dispatch in are owned by Rust Communications. your app store or by going to stltoday. They encouraged citizens to donate to largely due to his Harvard Business Re- com/apps. the effort even if they already subscribe view article “Two Routes to Resilience” Push notifications soon will allow to one of the newspapers. that addressed his dual transformation business model.

• St. Louis — Missouri Lawyers Weekly won third place General Excellence in its division in the National Newspaper Association’s annual Better Newspaper Contest. Awards were presented at the “Toast to the Winners” reception Sept. 14 during NNA’s Annual Convention Wyour advertisers and auWdience! & Trade Show at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix.

With Metro e-Connect, you have what you need to take the lead with multimedia advertising. • Joplin — Max McCoy, a former in- This integrated, flexible, cost-effective, multiplatform program is also easy to launch and vestigative reporter for The Joplin Globe, easy to manage. Providing your ad team with the resources it needs to deliver real solutions has been named the 2013 Distinguished for your advertisers’ evolving needs, while expanding audience engagement, Adviser for four-year newspapers by the Metro e-Connect translates into a win-win for all. College Media Association. McCoy is an assistant professor of journalism and Find out more now! Go online to metrocreativeconnection.com/e-connect, the faculty adviser to The Bulletin, the call 800-223-1600, email [email protected] or scan the QR code to campus paper at Emporia (Kan.) State see how you can immediately implement and benefit from Metro e-Connect. University. Before joining ESU in 2006, McCoy won numerous awards while working Metro e-Connect for The Globe reporting on unsolved The new multimedia ad program that is changing the way we connect. murders, serial killers and hate groups MOPAWOW2013 in the Ozarks. MOPAWOW2013

Missouri Press News, November 2013 www.mopress.com 13 Local election reporting Tezons retire after selling free workshop coming to Journalism Institute Caldwell County weekly he Reynolds Journalism Institute at Tthe School of Journalism will hold a he journalist who kept Caldwell County residents turning pages for local election reporting workshop called Tmore than three decades has turned a page of her own. After 30 years “Down-home Democracy” Thursday, running the Caldwell County News, Anne Tezon has retired. Jan. 30, through Saturday, Feb. 1, on Tezon and her husband, Marshall, sold the weekly to Steve and Stepha- campus in Columbia. nie Henry on Sept. 30. This free workshop is designed to give Mrs. Tezon graduated from high school in Grandview in 1967 and community newspapers practical tools earned a degree at the Missouri School of Journalism. She then earned and strategies needed to cover campaigns a master’s in communication thoroughly and constructively. Helping arts from the University of voters make informed decisions is one of Memphis. the most important jobs a community After serving with the Peace newspaper can do when it comes to Corps in Brazil for two years, contributions to local democracy. Tezon joined her husband in The tentative schedule for the work- his hometown of Hamilton. shop is at rjionline.org/downhomesched. They opened a cafe in nearby The workshop will cover reporting Kingston in 1974. Two years strategies, campaign finance reports, later Tezon joined the staff background checks, graphics and da- at the Hamilton Advocate- tabases, photography and multimedia, Hamiltonian. and engaging readers, all with a focus Anne and Marshall Tezon She became managing editor on local elections. of the paper in 1983, and her The workshop is free, but registration husband, Marshall, joined the staff in the mid-1990s. is required. Visit rjionline.org/down- “Before Marshall came on board we were trying to put the paper to- home for more information. gether on some of the first Radio Shack computers that came out,” Tezon said. “He became our in-house computer tech and trainer, bringing us into full page pagination.” Journalism grad student Before they married, Marshall owned a graphics arts company. He was a graphic designer for AARP, a national ballooning magazine and a receives Taft Fellowship travel magazine. uring the 2013 fiscal year Missouri “One of the things I tried to do ... was to promote countywide pride DSchool of Journalism graduate and cooperation. That has been hard and not very popular,” Tezon said. student Christopher Matthews received “People are understandably parochial, with some pretty long-standing $2,760 from the William H. Taft Ph.D. school and community rivalries. Fellowship in Mass Media History. “By combining the Braymer and Hamilton papers into one, we tried Matthews is a second-year doctoral to overcome some of those obstacles. It still meets with opposition...,” student who is studying the role of she said. humor and editorial cartoons in media “The county is composed of people in towns and the country, good criticism and media literacy. In 2012-13 people, hard-working, concerned people who want to make a difference... he presented his research at the confer- We will always be proud and grateful to Caldwell Countians for their ences of the American Journalism His- support and friendship over the past decades.” torians Association and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The William H. Taft Fellowship is Photo Workshop book on Troy available named for a 25-year School of Journal- ast fall the annual Missouri Photo able at The Lincoln County Journal office. ism faculty member and longtime friend L Workshop was held in Troy. The 176-page book has an introduction of the Missouri Press Association. Taft, University of Missouri graduate student that provides a history of the community who was 95 when he died in February Timmy Huynh produced a book about the in text and pictures. 2011, served as the Association’s histo- Troy workshop as his thesis project. It’s the The books sell for $25, plus tax. For rian for many years. He wrote several fifth in the series of MPW books. more information call the Journal office, books about Missouri newspapers and Copies of the book project were avail- 636-528-9550. newspaper people.

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his fall has been all about civic we’ll be adding another new feature to education for Missouri News- our collection of two features on the Bill Tpapers In Education, thanks to of Rights. Watch for that near the end our tremendous partnership with The of November (download code: rights). Missouri Bar. We have one more new civic se- We released a new Constitution ries planned for the spring celebrat- Day feature in September, giving our ing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I newspapers four different Have a Dream” speech. sized features on the U.S. The speech, calling for This is a story of hope and hometown Constitution. We also have an end to racism in the heroes, celebrating the courageous spirit a feature specific to the U.S., was delivered 50 of one very special dog. Missouri Constitution. Do years ago on the steps of Carolyn Mueller, a St. Louis author you think your readers — the Lincoln Memorial on and zookeeper, wrote “Lily’s Story.” young and older — know Aug. 28, 1963, to more Her first book, “Bubbles the Dwarf that Missouri has had four than 250,000 civil rights Zebu: A Story about Finding a Home constitutions? The fourth supporters. at the Saint Louis Zoo,” was published Missouri Constitution was Reading Across in 2012. Her second book, “Lily the adopted in February 1945. Missouri Rescue Dog: A Story of Courage and In October we released We’re hard at work on the Joplin Tornado,” from which the a feature on the Emancipa- the serialized story for serial was adapted, will be published in tion Proclamation. 2013 the 11th annual Reading 2014. You can learn more about her at is the 150th anniversary Across Missouri project. carolynelizabethmueller.com. of President Lincoln’s pro- Dawn Kitchell is MPA’s NIE This eight-chapter story he illustrator for Mueller’s picture clamation of human free- director. Contact her at will be available to Mis- Tbook, Nick Hayes, is providing the dom during the Civil War. (636) 932-4301; dawn. souri newspapers at no illustrations for our story as well. Hayes While your newspaper can [email protected]. charge beginning Jan. 1. lives above a flower market in East Lon- use this feature at any time, don’t miss Our goal is to have children across the don. He draws political cartoons for the the opportunity to use it during this state reading inside their newspapers in Guardian and the New Statesman and 150th commemoration year (download the new year. writes graphic novels. His latest book code: ep150). “Lily’s Story” is the tale of a Weima- is a study of the Dust Bowl in 1930s The right to a fair trial is something raner, Lily, that becomes a search and through the prism of Woody Guthrie, accused individuals in Missouri have rescue dog. Lily grows up in Joplin with the famous folk singer. You can learn only had for 50 years. This month we’ll her best friend and owner, Tara. Tara sees more about him at foghornhayes.co.uk. release two features on the landmark that Lily is smart and has an incredible The MPA Newspaper In Education Supreme Court ruling, Gideon v. Wain- sniffer! The two become a team, doing Committee will meet from 10:30 a.m. right, that ensured that right. their best to help people who are lost or to 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5, in eteran’s Day is Nov. 11. We have missing loved ones. Columbia. We are fortunate to have Vtwo terrific features that will be of One day Lily becomes very sick. She great participation on this committee interest to readers of all ages. Last year survives a mysterious illness with the from folks across the state who support we released a feature in partnership with help of veterinarians and Tara by her or directly deal with educational efforts The Missouri Bar specifically about Vet- side. Lily’s recovery is a miracle, but her at their newspapers. If you are interested eran’s Day (download code: veterans). challenges are far from over. in being a part of this committee, just We also have a great feature on flag mere month later, Joplin is hit by let me know. etiquette that would be appropriate to A a massive tornado! The search and At the meeting we’ll discuss programs use for this commemoration (download rescue dog’s bravery and resilience are put offered over the past year, share indi- code: usflag). to the test as she is called upon to help vidual successes and brainstorm ideas Bill of Rights Day is Dec. 15, and put her city back together, piece by piece. for the next school year.

Missouri Press News, November 2013 www.mopress.com 15 J School to seek permit Law allowing public officials to vote to resume using drones by video call will cloud transparency he Missouri School of Journalism Tplans to seek approval from the Fed- technologies, they argue. eral Aviation Administration to resume Our governor failed to win much the use of news-gathering drones. Editorial support for his commonsense position, The federal agency has ordered MU which encompasses both theory and and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln hat if you held a public meeting in practicality. Rather than improving to stop flying the drones outdoors until WMissouri and no one came? government, he contends, videoconfer- they obtain government authorization. A ... state law (that took effect in encing can create a “virtual distance” be- Scott Pham of Missouri’s university- October) ... allows public officials to act tween citizens and their representatives. owned station KBIA-FM said the school as if they are “present” when in reality Requiring someone to actually be will apply for a federal permit. they are not in the same room with their present when a vote is taken “provides Journalism researchers and their colleagues or constituents. assurances that our elected officials students were using drones to make Missouri lawmakers recently overrode are, at a minimum, approachable and photos and video from difficult-to-reach Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of this measure, available to their constituents at public news scenes. The Missouri program had which allows votes to be cast routinely meetings,” he said. produced stories on bird migration, via videoconferencing. Previously, ... Gov. Nixon noted that nothing in archaeological excavations and the use officials had to be present to cast votes the law limits how frequently officials of Missouri River water for fracking unless there was an emergency and a can vote remotely and nothing prevents operations in North Dakota. quorum was present. an entire board from participating by Pham said the FAA’s certification This change is regrettable in that it videoconference. In the minds of many, process draws little distinction between meets small needs and preferences while board requirements to regularly partici- military drones and those now being putting fundamentals of open gover- pate in meetings would be satisfied with tested by journalists, which he said more nance at risk. the video option. closely resemble “flying toys with an Proponents of this change cite in- It seems clear some elected officials iPhone attached.” He hopes the certifica- stances where an elected official might will take advantage of this opening. tion process will lead to better rules by be traveling for work or other reasons It falls to responsible boards and their 2015, the deadline Congress has set for when a vote on an issue is to be taken. members to resist the urge — and to the FAA to develop standards for com- This change makes government “more citizens to demand better. mercial drone use. (AP) efficient” and takes advantage of modern —St. Joseph News-Press

Google AdWords training in Columbia issouri Press Association and the MLocal Media Association (LMA) will hold a Google AdWords Certifi- hese individuals and organizations made recent contributions to cation Training on Nov. 14-15 at the TMissouri Press Foundation. To make a donation with a credit card, Stoney Creek Inn in Columbia. call (573) 449-4167, or send checks to Missouri Press Foundation, Google AdWords are links on the pag- 802 Locust St., Columbia, MO 65201. es that come up when someone searches the web using Google. Businesses pay to place those links on Google. The ads Versailles Leader-Statesman Newspapers In Education Program appear only in markets the businesses David J. Dear D.D.S., Versailles want, and the businesses pay only when someone clicks on their ads. Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame Amie Stein, LMA’s director of training William L. Miller, Sr., Washington, Mo. and development and Google certified Missourian Publishing Co., Washington professional, has trained more than 125 people since May to take their certification exams. She will conduct the Missouri Press Foundation Columbia session. Robert and Jennifer Plourde, Columbia A flier about the November training is at mopress.com/current_forms.php.

16 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, November 2013 conditions relating to your advertise- Treat public notices (legals) ments. And you need in it some language limiting the liability of the newspaper in case of a mistake in the ad. with respect they deserve Here are some samples of language you could use: “This newspaper will not be liable Timely publication critical to proceedings for any error in or any omission of any advertisement published or ordered to ecently, several papers in the state printed without typographical errors, as be published unless a proof of such ad- called the MPA hotline due to well as making it easier for the paper. I vertisement is requested by the advertiser R problems that have arisen with suspect many of you at times simply and said proof returned to the newspaper advertisers over typical land foreclosure scan a notice you receive on paper for office by deadline.” legal notices. The circumstances creat- the same reason. Use language like this if you don’t ing the issues ranged from But I don’t know how want to provide a proof to everyone the newspaper having to many of you send out but you want to protect yourself. Be change its publication date “proofs” to your custom- absolutely sure it goes out to every adver- from its standard day of ers for approval before tiser prior to or at the week due to a holiday the notice runs. I suspect the time the ad is to a newspaper failing to sending out proofs is more placed. Be sure start running a foreclosure something that is done the deadline is Those notice on the proper day. with an ad you create for given to the ad- It goes without saying a commercial customer, vertiser, prefer- placing that the legal notices you but I would suggest that ably in writing. run are some of the most it is a very good idea for But be aware notices important things you do your legal notice custom- that if a proof is should as a newspaper. A few state ers, too. requested and legislators every year think And in addition to then you fail to proof copy; that moving legal notices proofing the language you publish an ad, out of newspapers would Jean Maneke, MPA’s Legal have in the ad, I would you may be lia- rate card be a great idea for a variety Hotline attorney, can be suggest you have on the ble for additional reached at (816) 753-9000, should of reasons. Your association [email protected]. proof the dates the ad is damages, which constantly reminds them to run, and make sure the is why the fol- that moving notices out of customer signs off on that lowing language limit newspapers would be a very bad idea. so that there is no confusion as to when would also be liability I’m sure you don’t need a reminder the ad is to run. helpful to in- of all those reasons, including the per- hose of you who have been unfor- clude: for errors. manence of the printed page compared Ttunate enough to have missed the “The newspa- to the impermanence of an electronic start date of a foreclosure notice know per’s liability is image, the security of a printed page that the law firm placing those ads has limited to the cost of the advertisement compared to the lack of security of a a large amount of preparatory work in containing the error and in no event shall website, and the fact that newspapers place that hinges on those ads running the newspaper be liable for any general, are readily available to everyone, even on the correct dates. Some of you have special, or consequential damages what- folks who don’t have a computer, who at times had demands made on you to soever.” This language may cost you the don’t have internet access and who think pay a law firm’s expenses when a notice price of the ad if a mistake is made, but “Googling” is looking at someone with failed to start on the proper date and the it will protect you from claims for ad- “goggle” eyes. entire process had to be restarted. What ditional damages. s the hotline attorney, I’m very sen- do you do when that happens? There are other items that should be A sitive to the issues newspapers face The solution to this problem is to in your rate card, most especially lan- in running legal notices. As an attorney be sure you have in place prior to the guage that says the advertiser is respon- and “consumer” of legal notices, I have time the ad runs an agreement with sible for the originality of any material seen the other side of the legal notice your advertiser as to damages owed if a supplied to you for display advertising equation, too. Many times legal notices mistake runs in an ad. Every newspaper and also that the advertiser agrees to are placed directly by the courts. should have a “rate card” in place that defend and indemnify you in case of When I personally am responsible goes out to every person who places an a claim for damages arising out of any for placing a legal notice, I’ve taken to ad, whether a display ad, a legal notice or advertising you may publish. sending it to the newspaper electroni- just a classified ad. It should include the As always, if you want to discuss this cally because it helps ensure that it gets pricing schedule, and all the terms and issue further, give me a call.

Missouri Press News, November 2013 www.mopress.com 17 Mr. Redman leaves his wife of 54 years, several children and grandchil- Obituaries dren.

St. Charles Mr. Eppridge and his wife, Adrienne Mike Trask Aurichio, were working on the final Caruthersville ike Trask, 60, a reporter, colum- proofing of a book on the the Beatles Jewell Pierce Mnist and editor of the St. Charles that will come out early next year on the ewell Inez Pierce, 86, Caruthersville, County Business Record, died unexpect- 50th anniversary of Jan employee for more than 40 years edly Sept. 24, 2013, the group’s appear- of the Caruthersville Democrat-Argus, at his home. ance in New York. died Sept. 18, 2013. A native of St. He had spent more Mrs. Pierce started at the paper in Charles, Mr. Trask than a week photo- 1946 as a Linotype operator and later started work in 1990 graphing the musi- used Justowriters, Compugraphics ma- as a beat reporter cians while he was chines and computers. She worked for the Suburban a staffer for “Life” at the paper through two ownership Journals of Greater magazine. changes and two moves, and continued St. Louis. He joined He received the Bill Eppridge to work part-time after retiring in the the Business Record highest award pre- early 1990s. eight years later as sented by the National Press Photog- Mrs. Pierce is survived by two sons, Mike Trask its editor. raphers Association in 1996 and Presi- a brother, six grandchildren and three The Business Record is owned by Mis- dent’s Medal in 1995. The University great-grandchildren. souri Lawyers Media, whose president, of Missouri, from which he graduated Richard Gard, will be the president of in 1959, presented him with its Honor MPA in 2014. Medal for Distinguished Service in Mr. Trask left the Business Record and Journalism in 2009. Newspaper collects books worked as a freelancer for a few years and Mr. Eppridge leaves his wife and two he Springfield News-Leader chose a wrote his “Biz Bites” column about the sisters. Tlocal elementary school for its Make business and politics in St. Charles. He a Difference Day project in October. It returned to the Business Record in Janu- partnered with Care to Learn and held ary 2005, and he retired in February. Kennett a literacy fair and festival at Robberson Mr. Trask had earned a degree in 1975 Bob Redman Community School. from the Missouri School of Journalism. harles Robert “Bob” Redman, 76, The Gannett Foundation and the He had worked as a communications CKennett, former sports editor of News-Leader gave Care to Learn $5,000 specialist for a number of firms before the Daily Dunklin Democrat in Ken- to purchase books and ereaders for the settling into newspaper work. nett, died of pneumonia and pulmonary school. The News-Leader also provided Survivors are his wife, Patricia, a fibrosis on Sept. 29, 2013. T-shirts for all of the children. daughter and four siblings. Mr. Redman was a native of Dexter. Springfield ReManufacturing Cor- He became the sports editor in Kennett poration read about the News-Leader’s in 1966 and covered area activities for book drive and delivered a $500 check. New Milford, Conn. 20 years. He and his wife, Rita, operated The book fair at Barnes & Noble net- Bill Eppridge a photography business for 36 years ted 286 books. Book collections contin- ill Eppridge, 75, New Milford, until he retired and closed the business ued through Oct. 25 in the newspaper’s BConn., a 2009 inductee into the in 2007. lobby and at a HyVee supermarket. Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame, died Oct. 3, 2013. He had been in Dan- bury (Conn.) Hospital for several weeks Missouri Press Association / Missouri Press Service with a blood infection after a fall that 802 Locust St., Columbia, MO 65201-4888 injured his hand. (573) 449-4167 / Fax: (573) 874-5894 / www.mopress.com Mr. Eppridge studied photojournal- STAFF Doug Crews: Executive Director, [email protected] ism at the Missouri School of Jour- Mark Nienhueser, Advertising Director, [email protected] nalism. His work includes the iconic Kent M. Ford: Editor, [email protected] photograph of the 1968 assassination Connie Whitney: [email protected] of his friend and story subject Robert and Jennifer Plourde: [email protected]: Advertising Sales & Placement F. Kennedy and photo essays such as Karen Philp: Receptionist, Bookkeeping, [email protected] Kristie Williams: Member Services, Meeting Planning, [email protected] “Needle Park,” about heroin addiction, Jeremy Patton: Graphic design, [email protected] which was made into an award-winning Brittney Wakeland: Marketing, Advertising Sales, [email protected] movie.

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Missouri Newspaper Organizations CALENDAR NORTHWEST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Mike Farmer, November Rock Port; Secretary, Kathy Conger, Bethany; Treasurer, W.C. Farmer, Rock Port. 13 — MPI Making Newsroom Digital Directors: Past President, Adam Johnson, Mound City; Jim Fall, Maryville; Dennis First, Illinois Press Association, Ellsworth, St. Joseph; Jim McPherson, Weston; Chuck Haney, Chillicothe; Steve Springfield (mpi.org) Tinnen, Plattsburg; Kay Wilson, Maryville; Steve Booher, St. Joseph. 14-15 — MPA, Local Media Association Google AdWords SHOW-ME PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, David Eales; Vice President, Certification Training, vacant; Secretary-Treasurer, Sandy Nelson, News-Press & Gazette Co. Directors: Stoney Creek Inn, Columbia Dennis Warden, Owensville; Carolyn Trower, New London. December OZARK PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Roger Dillon, Eminence; Vice 1-2 — Missouri/Kansas Editors & President, Adam Letterman, Neighbor News; Secretary-Treasurer, Norene Publishers meeting, Kansas City Prososki, Gainesville. Directors: Past President Keith Moore, Ava; Dala Whittaker, Marriott Country Club Plaza Cabool; Jody Porter, Ava; David Burton, Springfield; Sharon Vaughn, Summersville; 5 — Newspaper In Education Terry Hampton, West Plains; Matthew Barba, Bolivar. Committee meeting, 10:30-2:30, MPA, Columbia SOUTHEAST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Amanda Layton, Perryville; First Vice President, Donna Denson, Cape Girardeau; Second Vice January 2014 President, Randy Pribble, Ironton; Secretary-Treasurer, Michelle Friedrich, Poplar 30-Feb. 1 — Election Reporting Bluff; Executive Secretary, Ann Hayes, Southeast Missouri State University; Workshop, RJI, Columbia Historian, Peggy Scott, Festus. Directors: Gera LeGrand, Cape Girardeau; Kim Combs, Piedmont; H. Scott Seal, Portageville; Kate Martin, Perryville; Deanna September 2014 Nelson, Sikeston; Ed Thomason, New Madrid. 25-27 — 148th Annual MPA Convention, Holiday Inn Select, MISSOURI CIRCULATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: President, Brenda Columbia Carney, Harrisonville; First Vice President, Jack Kaminsky, Joplin; Second Vice President, Steve Edwards, St. Joseph; Secretary, David Pine, Kansas City; October 2014 Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: Jim Kennedy, Bolivar; Ken Carpenter, 2-5 — NNA Annual Convention, Kansas City; Rob Siebeneck, Jefferson City. San Antonio

MISSOURI ADVERTISING MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION: President, Jana Todd, Warrenton; First Vice President, Jeanine York, Washington; Second Vice President, Post-Dispatch, Fox 2 Mark Maassen, Kansas City; Secretary, Suzie Wilson, Milan; Treasurer, Kristie Williams, Columbia. Directors: Jacob Warden, Owensville; Adam Letterman, collaborate on content Ozark; Curtis Simmons, Eldon. Past President, Jane Haslag, Jefferson City. he St. Louis Post-Dispatch and KTVI MISSOURI PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATORS: President, Colene McEntee, TFox 2 are sharing content in print, St. Charles; President-Elect, vacant; Secretary, Peggy Koch, Barnhart; Treasurer, over the air and online. Post-Dispatch Roxanne Miller, Ballwin; Public Relations Officer, Suzanne Corbett, St. Louis; editor Gilbert Bailon wrote about the Membership Officer, Linda Briggs-Harty, St. Louis; Contest Director, Janice collaboration in his Oct. 13 column. Denham, Kirkwood; Quest Awards Directors, Susan Fadem, St. Louis, and Marge The newspaper will provide in-depth Polcyn, St. Louis; Conference Director, vacant; Archivist, Dee Rabey, Granite City, Ill.; Past President, Fran Mannino, Kirkwood. reporting and expertise on various topics such as politics, sports and the economy. MISSOURI PRESS SERVICE: President, Joe May, Mexico; Vice President, Fox 2 will share its locally produced Kevin Jones, St. Louis; Secretary-Treasurer, Vicki Russell, Columbia. Directors: video and some community events. Jack Whitaker, Hannibal; Dave Bradley, St. Joseph. The Post-Dispatch produces its own MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION, INC.: President, Mrs. Betty Spaar, Odessa; online video, but the partnership will First Vice President, Wendell Lenhart, Trenton; Second Vice President, Kirk greatly increase the amount of local Powell, Pleasant Hill; Secretary-Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: video that readers will find on STLtoday. R.B. Smith III, Lebanon; James Sterling, Columbia; Edward Steele, Columbia; com, Bailon wrote. Dane Vernon, Eldon; Vicki Russell, Columbia; Bill James, Warrensburg; Bill Miller Fox 2 will provide weather reporting Sr., Washington; Tom Miller, Washington; Chuck Haney, Chillicothe; Dave Berry, Bolivar. Directors Emeritus: Mrs. Wanda Brown, Harrisonville; Wallace Vernon, for the newspaper and STLtoday.com, Eldon; Rogers Hewitt, Shelbyville. and its evening newscasts will provide exclusive headlines from the next day’s MISSOURI-KANSAS AP PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS: Chairman, Susan Lynn, Post-Dispatch. Iola, Kan. Missouri AP Managing Editors: Chairman, vacant; Past Chairman, The station also will provide live video Carol Stark, Joplin. from the newspaper’s newsroom that MISSOURI COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION: President, Emily Battmer, will include analysis and commentary Truman State University; Vice President, Katelyn Canon, Missouri Western from staffers. State University; Secretary, DeJuan Baskin, St. Louis Community College-Forest The partners will combine for exclu- Park; MPA Liaison, Jack Dimond, Missouri State University; Adviser, Don Krause, sive programming, special reports and Truman State University. in-depth reporting, Bailon wrote.

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