TAlaPressaHE N EWSLETTER OF THE A LABAMA P RESS A SSOCIATION JANUARY 2016 Important Dates Online Media Campus Cox and Moore will receive APA Lifetime Social Journalism: The Achievement Award keys to connecting with your audience Pulitzer-winning co-author of ‘Race Beat’ will Friday, February 12 Presenter: Dr. Carrie Brown, speak at Troy University next on Feb. 11 City University of New York Summit to feature first-ever Personalizing the Alabama Products Showcase Customer Journey Thursday, February 18 Presenter: Allan Barmak, APA Journalism Summit program recognizes The Barmak Group Alabama Pulitzer winners Hall of Honor Hall of Honor set for January 30, 2016 Auburn, AL Saturday, Jan. 30 Gulf State Park convention center 2016 APA Journalism Summit challenged in lawsuit February 18-19, 2016 Tuscaloosa, AL Series available for young readers 2016 APA Summer Convention June 16-18, 2016 Sandestin, FL JANUARY 2016 AlaPressa 2 Cox and Moore will receive APA Lifetime Alabama Press Association Alabama Newspaper Advertising Achievement Award Service Inc. ersville Town Council, on the board 3324 Independence Drive of Riverbend Mental Health Center, Suite 200 and is a member of the Rogersville Birmingham, AL 35209 Jaycees, and a member of the First (205) 871-7737 Baptist Church of Rogersville. (205) 871-7740 (fax) Jim and Phyllis have two sons, www.alabamapress.org Brady and Wesley, and they are proud that both are part of the fam- ily business. Horace Moore is a native of Board of Directors Winston County and started his newspaper career in 1964. His Mike Marshall, Chairman of the Board company, Mid-South Newspa- Tommy McGraw, President pers owns two bi-weekly newspa- Sumter County Record-Journal pers, the Northwest Alabamian in Michele Gerlach, First Vice President Haleyville and the Journal Record, Andalusia Star-News which has offices in Hamilton and Scott Brown, Second Vice President Jim Cox Winfield, and three weekly news- The Decatur Daily papers, the Times-Record in Fay- Kenneth Boone, Tallapoosa Publishers Inc. ette, the Pickens County Herald in Robert Bozeman, The Evergreen Courant APA President Tommy McGraw Carrollton and the Winston County Terry Connor, The Cullman Times announced recently the recipients News in Double Springs. His com- Bob Davis, The Anniston Star of the 2016 Lifetime Achievement pany also operates a large grocery Horace Moore, The Northwest Alabamian Award. Honorees are James B. store commercial printing opera- Tim Prince, The Clanton Advertiser (Jim) Cox, publisher of The East tion, produced by the company’s Russell Quattlebaum, The Southeast Sun Lauderdale News in Rogersville, three presses. Jim Rainey, The Tuscaloosa News and Horace Moore, publisher of Moore is known for his innova- Darrell Sandlin, TimesDaily Mid-South Newspapers based in tion and belief that technology ad- Brad Shurett, The Daily Sentinel Haleyville. vances work efficiency and quality. Steve Smith, The Dothan Eagle Jim Cox began his working ca- Joe Thomas, The Tri-City Ledger reer in 1970 after graduating from see Lifetime Achievement pg 3 Florence State University, now University of North Alabama. He taught math and English at Lauder- APA Staff dale County High School, and at Felicia Mason, Executive Director the same time worked at the East Brad English, Advertising Manager Lauderdale News where his wife, Leigh Leigh Tortorici, Senior Phyllis, also worked. Jim bought Marketing Representative the paper from Morgan Beasley Chris McDaniel, Member Services Thompson, and in 1977, became Coordinator/Network Sales the full-time editor and publisher. Dennis R. Bailey, General Counsel In his almost 40 years in that Scott Goldsmith, APA Accountant role, Cox has covered all parts of life in the northwest Alabama com- munity of Rogersville. His newspa- per is known for its charm and hu- man interest stories. He particularly enjoys interviewing World War II and Vietnam veterans. Horace Moore Outside of his newspaper work, Cox served three terms on the Rog- JANUARY 2016 AlaPressa 3 quickly ditched the darkroom when an active member of the Winston digital cameras came on the scene. County Deputy Reserve. He will also put on coveralls and Horace and Patty have two sons, Lifetime fix the press when there is a break Shane and Mike. Mike is the general down. manager of the newspapers. Achievement His service to the community The honorees will be recognized goes beyond his newspapers. He co- at the APA Journalism Summit on founded the Industrial Association of Feb. 18, 2016, at the new Embassy from pg 2 Winston County to help bring industry Suites in downtown Tuscaloosa. A to the area, and in 2003 was named registration form for the Summit is Citizen of the Year by the Haleyville enclosed. Also visit the convention Civitan Club. He and his wife, Patty, website at: http://winter.alabamapre- His newspapers were among the are members of the New Prospect ss.org. first to use Apple computers, and he Baptist Church. He also is currently Pulitzer-winning co-author of ‘Race Beat’ will speak at Troy University on Feb. 11 that segregation imposed on black Southerners as well as black report- ers. “It shows us how good journalists do their work and what a difference they can make.” Klibanoff worked 36 years in newspapers in Mississippi, Boston, Philadelphia and Atlanta, where he was managing editor for news of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He lives in Atlanta. His first taste of professional journalism came in 1970, when he worked a summer at the Florence Times-Tri-Cities Daily as a reporter. Klibanoff earned his bachelor’s Hank Klibanoff degree in English at Washington Uni- versity in St. Louis and his master’s Journalist Hank Klibanoff, a Flor- University (coldcases.emory.edu), for in journalism at the Medill School of ence native who co-wrote a Pulitzer which undergraduates are examining Journalism at Northwestern Univer- Prize-winning book about press cov- unsolved or unpunished racially moti- sity in Evanston, Illinois. Both univer- erage of the civil rights movement, vated murders. sities have honored him as a distin- will speak Feb. 11 at Troy University. “The Race Beat,” published in guished alumnus. Alabama journalists and the public 2006 by Knopf, describes the roles of Troy University’s M. Stanton Ev- are invited to the event at 10 a.m. in the black press, the Northern press, ans Symposium on Money, Politics the ballroom of the Trojan Center. Ad- the Southern liberal and segregation- and the Media is named for a Troy mission is free. ist press, television and photojournal- faculty member who was a national Klibanoff and Gene Roberts wrote ism in awakening the American con- columnist, commentator, book author “The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil science through coverage of the civil and editor of the Indianapolis News. Rights Struggle, and the Awakening rights struggle in the South from the Stan Evans held the university’s Bu- of a Nation,” which won the 2007 Pu- 1930s through the late 1960s. chanan Chair of Journalism from litzer Prize in history. “The book is rich with stories of re- 1980 until his death in 2015. Klibanoff’s topic for the sympo- porters overcoming obstacles to ob- More information is available from sium will be “The Race Beat: Then tain and report the news,” said Steve Stewart at [email protected] and Now.” Stewart, a Troy assistant professor of or 334-672-3192. He is a professor of journalism journalism. “It describes the influence and director of the Georgia Civil of emerging technology, especially Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory TV news. And it shows the cruelty JANUARY 2016 AlaPressa 4 Summit to feature first-ever Alabama Products Showcase The 2016 APA Journalism Sum- mit will feature an Alabama Products Showcase on Thursday, Feb. 18 in Tuscaloosa from 4 – 8 p.m. The event will include the reception prior to the Lifetime Achievement banquet. Companies from across Alabama will be on hand to display their goods. “We want to be a part of a statewide effort to promote Alabama products,” APA Executive Director Felicia Ma- son said. “We hope our delegates will help build awareness among their readers of all of the diverse products we have right here at home.” Partici- pants include: • Alaga Syrup • G-Momma Cookies • Revival Coffee • Bama Wise • Kelly Foods popular Wine Pull. Proceeds from the • Orbix Hot Glass entire event will benefit the APA Jour- • Back 40 Beer nalism Foundation. • Black Belt Treasures • Sonic Suitcase Make sure you are a part of the • Emerald Distilling • Initial Outfitters special event. • Chicken Salad Chick • Conecuh Sausage • Bourbon Pens • Jala Jala Foods The reception will also feature the APA Journalism Summit program recognizes Hall of Honor set for Alabama Pulitzer winners APA is partnering with the Alabama Saturday, Jan. 30 Humanities Foundation to bring Pu- M. Hollis www.alabamapress.org/2015/12/17/ litzer Prize winners to our programs Curl, former two-weekly-publishers-will-be-induct- to celebrate how their work has el- publisher of ed-into-the-hall-of-honor/. evated our democracy, shaped our The Wilcox The Hall of Honor ceremony will culture and improved countless lives. Progres- be held at Auburn’s Ralph Brown This is part of an effort by the Pulitzer sive Era in Draughon Library on Jan. 30, 2016. Board to commemorate the centennial Camden, The program will begin with registra- year of the awards. It is an opportu- and Joel P. tion at 10 a.m. and the ceremony at nity to share the stories of their work across the nation, by initiating thought- Smith, for- 10:30 a.m. followed by a light lunch. provoking discussions in newsrooms, mer pub- If you have classrooms, libraries, bookshops, lisher of The not received community theaters and beyond. Hollis Curl Eufaula Tri- an invitation Pulitzer winners on the Summit bune, will be from Auburn program include Rick Bragg, Hank inducted into the Alabama Newspa- and wish Klibanoff, Joey Bunch and Tommy per Hall of Honor during ceremonies to attend, Deas.