April 2014

Orders for the “Blue Book” will be taken by the Press 11 Association beginning in April.

Missourians visit D.C. with National Newspaper Association Several representatives of the Missouri Press Association attended the annual Leader- ship Summit of Newspaper Association March 12-13 in Washington, D.C. They met with U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, shown here, U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, and U.S. Reps. Blaine Luetkemeyer, Jason Smith and Vicky Hartzler. Shown here with Sen. Blunt are, from front left, Brad Gentry, Houston Herald, MPA’s NNA representative; Richard Gard, Missouri Lawyers Media, St. Louis, MPA President; Gary Sosniecki, a past president of MPA, from LeClair, Iowa; Sen. Blunt; Bill Miller Sr., Washington Missourian, another past president of MPA; and two members of Sen. Blunt’s staff. Others in the Missouri group were Wallace, Joplin’s hero dog, Lily, at- Dane and Trevor Vernon of Eldon; Helen Sosniecki, LeClair, Iowa; and Doug and Tricia tended the Family Reading Crews, Columbia. (MPA photo by Doug Crews) Night in Washington, Mo. 17

Advertising sales expert scheduled to speak at Mis- souri Advertising Managers’ Association annual meeting April 17-18 in Columbia. 4 Missouri Press editor Kent Ford will retire April 4. 6

Regular Features President 2 NIE Report 16 Scrapbook 12 Jean Maneke 18 On the Move 9 Obituaries 10

Missouri Press News, April 2014 www.mopress.com A newspaperman’s newspaperman My interview with the interviewer: a tribute to Kent Ford pend any amount of time with Kent Ford and you still shrugs that, in the dark and the excitement, only two of can tell he has newspapering in his bones. You hear it his photos came out in focus. Sin his thrift with words, his wry drawl, his sly wit. I Kent will tell you a local publisher is a pillar of the com- had the occasion to turn the tables on Kent a few weeks ago munity. He speaks from experience and interview the interviewer as he approached retirement and by his own example. Back as the Missouri Press Association’s editor after in 1981, with a lead 25 years. from Doug Crews, Until their Kent started down his career path on a bicy- Missouri Press’s then- Compugraphic cle at age 12, delivering assistant director, and to some 30 customers in Grundy Center, Iowa, a small loan from a typsetting ma- circa 1960. It took him an hour a day, weather local banker, Kent permitting, got him a few dollars a week, give and his wife Sharon chine arrived, or take, and inked an indelible impression, no bought the weekly Kent and Sha- question. Times-Observer in Or- He marveled at how every day those single- egon, Mo., 30 miles ron spent a cou- folded flats of he placed inside Iowa northwest of St. Jo- ple of nights a storm doors held all the news of the community seph. and the world, plus sports, weather, and com- Richard Gard Until their Com- week composing ics. “I thought that was pretty cool the way that Missouri Lawyers Media pugraphic typesetting the newspaper happened,” Ford says. MPA President machine arrived, Kent He returned to the profession 14 years later, and Sharon spent a at their printer, after working on aircraft carriers in the Viet- couple of nights a nam War’s notorious Gulf of Tonkin and graduating from week composing the newspaper at the Maryville the University of Missouri School of Journalism on the GI their printer, the Maryville Daily Daily Forum. Bill in 1974. Forum. The Forum’s publisher, Joe Kent is at heart a community newspaperman. He sees the Sullivan, gave Kent the keys to the role of the local newspaper not as disinterested bystander building. Because those nights invariably turned into mornings, but active participant in the life of the community. Kent Kent and Sharon bundled up Katie and Justin, then 5 and 3, embodied that principle early in his reporting career at the and took them along for what amounted to a kids’ sleepover. Poplar Bluff Republic. Sent to check out a “We didn’t get rich or anything. We paid the bills,” says late-night fire, he helped rescue a firefighter. Kent. As the paper got on its feet, Kent stepped up to serve fter hearing the muffled boom of an explosion, he noticed as president of the local Jaycees and in 1986 of the Northwest A a man trapped in a pile of bricks that had spilled some 30 Missouri Press Association. to 40 feet into the downtown street. With his camera strapped The Fords sold -Observer in 1989, when Kent around his neck, stepping under a power line whipping over joined Missouri Press, taking the slot Crews vacated at the end the street, Kent helped the firefighter out of the debris and into a pickup truck that took him to a nearby hospital. Then Newspaperman Kent continued covering the story. Nearly 40 years later he (continued on page 7)

PRESIDENT: Richard Gard, DIRECTORS: Mark Maassen, The Kansas City Star. St. Louis, Missouri Lawyers Media Joe Spaar, The Odessan FIRST VICE PRESIDENT: Jim Robertson, Trevor Vernon, Eldon Advertiser Columbia Daily Tribune Bill Miller Jr., Washington Missourian SECOND VICE PRESIDENT: Dennis Warden, Jeff Schrag, Springfield Daily Events Owensville, Gasconade County Republican Carol Stark, The Joplin Globe VOL. 82, NO. 4 SECRETARY: Dennis Ellsworth, St. Joseph News-Press James White, Benton County Enterprise, Warsaw APRIL 2014 TREASURER: Donna Bischoff, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Darryl Wilkinson, Gallatin, North Missourian Official Publication of EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Doug Crews NNA REPRESENTATIVE: Brad Gentry, Missouri Press ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: Mark Nienhueser Houston Herald Association, Inc. EDITOR: Kent M. Ford

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Missouri Press News, April 2014 www.mopress.com 3 Ad staffers will meet in Columbia Sales expert to speak April 17-18; contest awards to be presented ind out what’s new in newspaper hueser will present several new revenue pany, Sales Training advertising sales at the Missouri opportunities available to newspapers. Plus, based in Tulsa. FAdvertising Managers’ Association Winners of MAMA’s Annual Best Ad The same year, she (MAMA) annual meeting this month. Contest will receive their awards, and joined the faculty Learn from newspaper sales expert Carol guests will celebrate with a fun night of the Southern Richer Gammell how to out in Columbia. Newspaper Publish- boost your sales. Don’t miss this oppor- ers Association and The meeting is scheduled tunity to learn from an conducted up to 20 April 17-18 at the Court- advertising expert. training workshops yard by Marriott, Highway Gammell served as as- per year, covering 63 and Grindstone Park- sociate publisher for Mac- topics such as nego- way, at the south edge of Donald Classified Services Carol tiation skills, tele- Columbia. from 1986 until Decem- Richer Gammell phone techniques, Not only is our speaker ber 2001. She has been a outbound calling skills, copywriting and excellent, but there are speaker at more than 350 ad design, and overcoming objections, many other reasons for you newspaper conventions among others. to attend, and to send your staff. The and has conducted training workshops In September 2013 Gammell was meeting will feature a Best Ad Ideas and onsite seminars for newspaper awarded the Jay Palmquist Award by session, where you can share your best advertising sales reps at more than 800 Western Classified Advertising Associa- ad revenue generators. newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. tion for her many years of service to the In another session, Missouri Press In January 2002 Gammell launched organization and to newspaper advertis- Service advertising director Mark Nein- her own training and consulting com- ing, particularly classified.

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4 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, April 2014 THURSDAY, APRIL 17 11AM | MAMA Board Lunch Meeting - MAMA Board Only | Bennigan’s

Noon | Registration | Salon B

1PM | Missouri Press Service Sales Director | Mark Nienhueser | Salon B MPS Network Selling Opportunities

1:30PM | Mark Nienhueser and MAMA President Jana Todd | Salon B Best Ideas Session | Bring your best ad ideas and share and possibly win $

2PM - 5PM | Featured Speaker | Carol Richer Gammell | Salon B Initiating an outbound calling program • Rationale • Making the commitment • Designing the curriculum • Skills training

Est. 2:45PM | Break | Salon B

6PM | Awards Dinner | Salon C

Shuttle to leave hotel est. 8:00PM | Entertainment | DÉJÁ VU COMEDY CLUB FRIDAY, APRIL 18 8AM | Breakfast Buffet | Bennigan’s Restaurant

9AM-12Noon | Featured Speaker | Carol Richer Gammell | Salon B Training your inside sales staff: Ten basic skills • Covers listening, voice control and tone • Preparing sales presentations • Asking the right questions, up-selling, cross-selling • Handling objections and customer complaints • Closing the sale and call backs

Est. 10:30 | Break

Missouri Press News, April 2014 www.mopress.com 5 Parting thoughts of retiring MPA editor People in your community appreciate what you do

By KENT M. FORD / MPA Editor My wife, Sharon, a nurse by training, that grain rides augers into the massive hanks to all of you for doing what kept the books and gathered accounts of bins of the elevator at the edge of town. you do. the social comings and goings that filled News doesn’t break often in a small T They don’t realize it, but your our little weekly with the names of our town, but it did that day. towns and cities, the people who live readers. Late on Tuesday nights, when After a detour through Forest City there and the public officials who con- the pasted-up pages got their final read, to get a photo and some details (the found us all, need you. So do the mer- she made me fix typos when all I wanted buried people survived), I hit the road chants. They depend on you most of all. to do was get a couple of hours’ sleep to Maryville. It’s been my privilege The Forum staff, to answer your calls for working on that the past 25 years. April day’s paper, let me 4 will be my last day use the darkroom in with Missouri Press As- exchange for a photo sociation. (I’ll be 66 on of the massive grain April 6.) Bryan Jones elevator that had split of Versailles is the new open. That picture editor. Read about him bumped a front-page in this issue, too. photo in the Times- Many memories ac- Observer of an elderly cumulate over 25 years, woman who had cre- but a couple of anec- ated a quilt for a local dotes from my years fundraiser. producing the Times- The grain elevator Observer in Oregon, story lingered with Mo., will better express lawsuits of one kind how deeply proud I am or another, but that’s to have worked with not what mattered to you all. me. It meant some- The local I-H farm thing special that a equipment dealer, a reg- local businessman Missouri Press Association editor Kent Ford poses at his desk in the association build- ular advertiser, ran an ing in Columbia. Ford joined MPA on June 19, 1989. He will retire on April 4. He can be would watch for me, extra-large notice about contacted at [email protected]. (MPA photo by Bryan Jones) knowing I would pass his annual fish fry, a big by early that morn- deal in a small town. A free meal will before driving the pages to the Maryville ing, and flag me down. draw a crowd in a rural community. It’s Daily Forum for printing. ll of you have similar anecdotes. It’s an excuse to gather and gab. She knew I wanted the Times-Ob- A my hope they reveal to you like Gather they did, by the hundreds, in server to be as perfect as a two-person they did to me that what you do is spite of the fact the big ad didn’t have staff could make a newspaper. I love important. People notice, and whether the date of the fish fry. Panic and self- her for that. they say so or not, they appreciate what loathing beat me up. The dealer sensed One Wednesday in autumn, as I you do. I know what you do, too, and my humiliation as I apologized for my drove past the courthouse square in I appreciate it. incompetence. the predawn darkness, headed toward Sharon, who is the nursing standards Ignoring my agony, he said simply, Maryville, a local character stepped out coordinator at Boone Hospital Center in “Anyone who never makes a mistake isn’t of a storefront and waved me down. He Columbia, will work until next summer. doing very much.” told me a seam in the grain elevator at She had planned to retire this spring too, People notice what you do and how Forest City had burst, burying several but the timing at her job isn’t right. hard you work. Most don’t have an op- people in corn. So I’ll work at golf, play at fishing and portunity or a reason to say thanks. Forest City clings to the edge of the help around town for a while. We’ll see hat small-town implement dealer Missouri River bluff two miles west of you on occasion at MPA meetings and Tshowed me that he valued what my Oregon. Flat fields of gumbo spread out events. I’ll be in the lounge. newspaper did for his community. You from there, in most years yielding train- Thanks for your friendship over the do that for your town. loads of soybeans and corn. Much of years, and — the best!

6 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, April 2014 New editor worked for Vernon Publishing ryan Jones, 44, Versailles, joined ing me to the world Bryan Jones studied the Missouri Press Association of newspapers. That Bstaff on March 17. He will suc- has allowed me to at New Mexico State Univ. ceed editor Kent Ford, who will retire grow and succeed Jones was raised in the rural moun- Friday, April 4, after nearly 25 years of as a member of tains of the southwestern United States service. and meet and enjoyed an uncomplicated upbring- “I am grateful for the MPA’s confi- many quality peo- ing. He enjoys travel and has been to dence in hiring me for the position, and I ple in journalism,” Guatemala, Mexico, England, Scotland, am looking forward to serving Missouri’s Jones said. Wales and Ireland. He’s kissed the Blar- newspapers,” Jones said. “I am keenly Jones has a B.A. ney Stone, but says he probably didn’t aware I have some big shoes to fill, and I Bryan Jones degree in communi- really need the help. will do my best to carry on in that spirit cation studies from New Mexico State He enjoys books and reading, base- of excellence.” University in Las Cruces. ball, classic movies, old cars, antiques, Previously Jones worked for Vernon His weekly editorial, “Nickels and a good cigar or pipe, outdoor activities, Publishing, Inc., as managing editor Sense,” was recognized in 2012 by the history, atlases and dictionaries, and col- of The Versailles Leader-Statesman, the MPA and in 2009 and 2010 by the lecting. He is a drummer and recently Morgan County Press in Stover, and the National Newspaper Association. formed Dixieland Garage, a brass band Highway Five Beacon, a free shopper. He published his first children’s book, playing old-school jazz. He had been with Vernon Publishing “Somebody Stole My Yawn!,” in 2009. Jones and his wife, Angela, have a since 2004. His one-act play “It All ADS up!” was a blended family. He has two stepdaugh- “I am indebted to my former pub- winner in the Ozark Writers’ Guild play- ters, Bailey and Brittany, son Brandon, lisher, Dane Vernon, and the Vernon writing contest. The romantic comedy daughter Tiffani, three small dogs, some family, for investing in me and introduc- is set in a small-town newspaper office eccentric felines, a rabbit and a yard full in the 1940s. of moles, squirrels and birds. Newspaperman

(continued from page 2) of that year to succeed Bill Bray as MPA’s executive director. As editor, Ford produces all our pub- lications and press releases. He fields publisher queries from around the state and other states. He’s our photographer and our contest czar. He’s our institu- tional memory, keeper of the faith, and fanner of the flame that inspired us all to get into this business. What has made Kent so effective, says Doug of the man he considers his right hand: “He’s been in the shoes of the editors and the publishers around the state.” Kent says each day on the job he has kept in mind the personal sacrifice newspaper people make to keep their local communities informed. “The work they’re doing is really important,” Kent says. “Those guys are my heroes.” And you are ours. We wish Kent a happy, healthy retirement, and grati- tude for all he’s done to make Missouri newspapers and, in turn, Missouri com- munities stronger.

Missouri Press News, April 2014 www.mopress.com 7 Kahoka publisher seeks access to files in Clark County homicide ike Scott, publisher of The Edina MSentinel and the The Media in Ka- hoka, on Feb. 13 provided circulation in- formation for a trial in a homicide case. Scott appeared before Judge Gary Dial in Clark County Circuit Court at the Scotland County Courthouse in Memphis. He submited subscription information and website traffic informa- tion subpoenaed in a case against a man who is accused of murder. The newspaper’s information was subpoenaed as a result of The Sentinel’s publication of a story about a public document, “Defendant’s Motions In 3 generations of Vernons in D.C. Limine,” in its Oct. 30 edition. Representatives from three generations of the Vernon family were among the Missourians who attended the annual National Newspaper Association Leadership Summit in Washing- The paper also provided a copy of ton, D.C., in March. From the left are Trevor Vernon, publisher of the Eldon Advertiser, Wallace the document, along with the state’s Vernon, Eldon, publisher emeritus of Vernon Publishing, and Dane Vernon, Eldon, president response to it, on its website. Inside of Vernon Publishing. Wallace was president of the Missouri Press Association in 1973, Dane the document was a list of evidence the was president in 2002. Trevor is a director on the MPA board. Dane serves on the board of the defense wanted kept out of the jury trial. Missouri Press Foundation, of which Wallace is a director emeritus. (MPA photo by Doug Crews) A few days after the story was pub- lished and the documents were made available online, a judge ordered the case sealed and requested the paper remove Former Mexico Ledger writer the documents from the website, which Scott agreed to do temporarily. Since that time, several motions for a on college football committee change of venue have been filed by the Missouri native and former sports cember about Wieberg and his appoint- defense, but Dial ruled to continue the writer for The Mexico Ledger ment to the committee. trial until April 7 and seal the case to the A and USA Today will be on the Next season will be the first time the public as an “alternative” to a change of committee that chooses which college committee selects four teams to play in venue. football teams will play for the national national championship semifinals. The Later a change of venue was granted. championship next season. system has replaced the Bowl Champi- Just before the latest hearing in the Steve Wieberg, 59, a native of Mar- onship Series, which began selecting the case, Scott requested the court unseal the tinsburg now living in Lawson, was national champion in 1998 using various case to the public, citing any coverage of named to the College Football Playoff polls and computer formulas. the case in the Sentinel would no longer Selection Committee last year. He is the Wieberg began writing for The be a conflict. Dial agreed to consider only former journalist to serve on while attending high school in opening the case. 13-member committee. Martinsburg. After graduating in 1972 Others on the committee are current Wieberg went to the Missouri School or former football coaches, players and of Journalism. He continued to write administrators. Its only female member for The Ledger. until 1982. He accepted a position with is former Secretary of State Condoleeza “I would drive back on Friday nights ’s new USA Today and covered Rice. to help with high school football,” college sports out of Washington, D.C. Wieberg said Rice oversaw athletics Wieberg said. “Friends of mine at MU Over the next three decades Wieberg when she was provost at Stanford Uni- thought I was nuts because I wasn’t got to know many of the nation’s top versity, her father was a football coach getting paid. But it was the smartest college coaches and administrators. He and she is an ardent follower of college thing I could have done. I was getting moved his family back to Missouri in football. She will be “the smartest person experience.” 1989, settling in Lawson. He now writes in the room” when the committee meets. Wieberg wrote news for The Ledger for the Kansas City Public Library. The Ledger published a story in De- after graduating from MU and stayed (From a story by Ted Farnen)

8 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, April 2014 and Rich Hill Mining Review. Brown is originally from Hermitage. On the Move After high school he entered Midwest Baptist Theological Seminary in Kan- • Monroe City — Trevor Lewis has an advertising sales representative with sas City. He currently serves as a youth joined the staff at The Lake Gazette in Sac-Osage Publishing, Inc., of Osceola. minister at Vista Baptist Church south Monroe City as a He serves advertisers in St. Clair and of Osceola. He enjoys bowling. reporter. He is from Bates counties, working with the St. Brown and his wife, Mindy, have been Rochester, N.Y., and Clair County Buyers Guide, St. Clair married three years and are expecting received a journalism County Courier, Appleton City Journal their first child. degree in December 2013 from SUNY Brockport. Lewis began cov- ering women’s soccer for his school paper, later becoming news Trevor Lewis editor. He completed internships at Inked magazine in New York and City Newspaper in Rochester. Individuals join the Society of 1867 with their donations and He enjoys sports and is a Chicago pledges. Newspapers join the Page Builders by pledging adver- Cubs fan. He also enjoys playing guitar, tising space. Join the Society of 1867 or Page Builders, or both, music, art, reading and travel. and pledge your support of Missouri newspapers. • Columbia — Jacob Barker, a re- Installment payments may be made with a credit card. porter and Street Talk business colum- All donations are 100% tax deductible. nist for the Daily Tribune, has taken a position with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He started there March 24.

• Hamilton — John Deatherage has been named editor of The Caldwell County News. Foundation seeks your support Deatherage began his journalism ca- he Missouri Press Foundation is the only organization that exists reer in 1999 as a reporter with the West Tsolely to champion the future and quality of Missouri’s newspapers, Plains Daily Quill after graduating from including yours. To support that mission, the Foundation launched Missouri State University with a degree the Society of 1867 and Page Builder campaign in September at the in mass media. annual Missouri Press Convention. His plans for the paper include rein- Society of 1867 membership is bestowed on partners who recognize troducing key elements of design and the important history of Missouri newspapers and are dedicated to expanding sports coverage. helping them meet the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Newspapers can contribute through a Page Builder program, in • Osceola — Terrance Arnold has which they pledge to donate annually the equivalent of a selected joined the staff as a reporter at the St. amount of advertising in the newspaper. Newspapers and individuals Clair County Courier in Osceola. can make pledges to give annually at varying levels. Arnold, 44, earned a bachelor’s degree All members of the Society of 1867 will be recognized in Missouri in journalism with a minor in history Press News magazine. Privileges and recognitions for each level of giving from the University of Central Missouri are noted on the pledge flier at mopress.com/current_forms.php. They in Warrensburg. include special gifts, lapel pins and other recognition. He most recently worked three years The flier also lists ways the Society of 1867 will work to build a at the Higginsville Advance. Prior to that solid future for your newspaper. Those include hiring a Foundation he taught journalism for two years at director, developing a Newspaper Toolbox you can use to demonstrate Knob Noster Middle School and worked the value of your newspaper to your community and businesses, and at the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal training opportunities for you and your staff. for 11 years. All Page Builder contributions and money donations to the Society Arnold enjoys traveling, cookouts of 1867 are 100 percent tax deductible. and reading. Mike Brown recently began work as

Missouri Press News, April 2014 www.mopress.com 9 was the people and living editor of . Obituaries Mrs. Campbell served as president of Missouri Press Women and received 1956 edition of Collier’s magazine in an more than 40 state and national awards. Bowling Green article titled “The Vanishing Cowboy.” She continued writing a recipe and food After he retired from the paper in column after her retirement in 1984. Helen Jennings 1986 he served from 1990 to 2007 on She was involved in civic, social, elen (Grote) Jennings, 69, Bowling the first board of trustees for Ozarks volunteer and church organizations and HGreen, died Feb. 27, 2014. She Technical Community College. enjoyed travel and playing gin rummy. was the office manager at the Bowling She spent her 80th birthday anniversary Green Times. Crane whitewater rafting in Glacier National She also performed duties such as Park. proofreading, selling office supplies and Mary Kuyper Mrs. Campbell’s husband, Virgil, died ads, and more. She was employed at the ary Kuyper, 73, Crane, died Feb. in 2010. She is survived by two sons, a Times from 1977 to 2006. M13, 2014. She was a columnist for daughter, five grandchildren and eight Mrs. Jennings is survived by her hus- the Crane Chronicle/Stone County Repub- great-grandchildren. band, Vernon, and a son. lican for more than 30 years. After writ- ing for another paper, she began writing Lee’s Summit Windsor for the Chronicle/Republican in 1983. She was involved in the D.A.R.E. pro- Nancy Vilmer Paul Singer gram; started the Stone County National ancy Ann Vaughan Vilmer, 77, aul Singer, 52, Windsor, died Day of Prayer event; served on the Reeds NLee’s Summit, died Dec. 17, 2013. PFeb. 21, 2014, in Kansas City. He Springs school board for 10 years and She was women’s editor at worked for the Warrensburg Daily Star worked election polls for several years. in Independence for more than 10 years. Journal, the Sedalia Democrat and, most She interviewed President Harry Tru- recently, as an assistant advertising man- Fredericktown man, Paul Newman, Ginger Rogers, ager at The Clinton Daily Democrat, The Burt Reynolds and other public figures. KAYO, and The Clinton Eye. He also was Frank Hunter She also won numerous writing awards. a published freelance writer. rank Addison Hunter III, 82, Fred- Mrs. Vilmer was born in Lamar and Mr. Singer graduated in 1979 from Fericktown, formerly of St. Louis, graduated in 1954 from Smith-Cotton Windsor High School. He earned an died Feb. 19, 2014, of complications High School in Sedalia. She was a associate’s degree in journalism from of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. journalism major at the University of State Fair Community College in Sedalia He was the longtime entertainment Missouri. and a bachelor’s degree in journalism writer and editor at the St. Louis Globe- She married Larry Vilmer in 1956 and graphic arts from the University of Democrat. in Sedalia. He survives, along with two Central Missouri in Warrensburg. Mr. Hunter worked for the Globe- daughters and two grandchildren. He was a member of and writer for Democrat from 1960 to 1986 covering the Chilhowee Antique Farm Machinery movies and theater productions and Nevada Collectors Organization. interviewing such stars as Sophia Loren Mr. Singer is survived by two brothers and Richard Burton. Rusty Murry and a sister. He joined the Globe-Democrat as usty Murry, 56, died March 12, an assistant entertainment editor and R 2014, after battling cancer for more Willard became editor in 1978. than 20 years. After the Globe-Democrat closed in Mr. Murry was a reporter and photo- Frank Farmer 1986, Mr. Hunter worked until 1989 grapher for the Nevada Daily Mail where rank Farmer, 89, Willard, died Feb. writing reviews for the Suburban Jour- he covered county government and law F17, 2014, at his home. He was a nals. He moved to Fredericktown in enforcement and wrote columns and reporter for the Springfield News-Leader 2011. blogs about the outdoors. for 29 years, beginning as a cub reporter He is survived by his former wife, a Mr. Murry won a number of awards in 1957. He often wrote about farmers daughter, a son, a stepson, a sister, two and was a National Press Foundation and agricultural issues. grandchildren and a great-grandson. Fellow in 2010. He also won the Mis- Mr. Farmer was born on a 200-acre souri Police Chief Association’s Mary dairy farm. His father was a magazine Springfield Phelan Media Award in 2011. He has writer from the 1920s to 1940s. Mr. been a staff writer or stringer for several Farmer and his wife, Helen, were mar- Mary Campbell newspapers and magazines, newsletters ried 71 years. She died Jan. 18, 2014. ary Alice Campbell, 91, Spring- and literary journals. Mr. Farmer was featured in the May Mfield, died Feb. 25, 2014. She

10 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, April 2014 Mo. Photo Workshop to visit Platte City he 66th Missouri Photo Work- are expected to gather in Platte City to shop (MPW) is scheduled for photograph stories about people and About 40 journalists TSept. 21-27 in Platte City. their activities. expected for MPW visits a Missouri town each year The workshop, directed by David to learn and practice photojournalism by Rees and Jim Curley from the Missouri Sept. 21-27 training documenting everyday life. About 40 School of Journalism, along with other photographers from around the world MPW faculty members from around the country, focuses on the fundamentals of researching, shooting and editing photos while emphasizing ethical practices. “The City is very honored to be named the host community for the 66th Annual Missouri Photo workshop,” said Platte City Mayor Frank Offutt. Offutt organized a group of local lead- ers and business people to help prepare for and promote the workshop. “We think the photojournalists from around the world will be very impressed with our facilities, our city, and the sto- ries of the people that will be presented during the workshop,” he said. he workshop headquarters will be Tin the Platte City Civic Center. Organizers of this year’s event expect a number of international photographers to make the trek to Platte City. The workshop has historically been The last printed Official Manual, or Blue Book, was printed for 2009- 2010. Since then the contents have been available only online. a blend of young photographers look- Missouri Press Association is gathering bids to produce the book. ing to gain experience and mid-career Ordering information will be announced this month. professionals hoping to sharpen and refresh their skills. The workshop faculty is composed of 11 veteran editors and Missouri Press will print photojournalists who advise the pho- tographers throughout the week. Faculty ‘Blue Book’ for secretary of state members represent the top publications in the news industry. ecretary of State Jason Kander announced a new partnership be- A group of 17 University of Missouri Stween his office and the Missouri Press Association (MPA) to print photojournalism students will staff the the 2013-2014 Official Manual, State of Missouri, commonly known workshop. They will download, archive as the Blue Book. Since 2011 the book has been available only online. and print approximately 400 of the “The Blue Book provides Missourians with invaluable information roughly 16,000 digital images made about our local, state and federal governments,” Kander said. “I’m during the week. Those 400 photos pleased to join with the Missouri Press Association to ensure this will form an exhibit for Platte City area important guide to Missouri is available in print once more.” residents Sept. 27. MPA will handle the production and distribution of the new printed Many of the participants will travel edition, which has been available online since last December at www. great distances at considerable expense. mobluebook.com. Platte City residents are being asked The Blue Book, which is published by the secretary of state every to provide lodging and bicycles for the two years, is the definitive source of information about Missouri state week. government. Information about MPW and photo “We look forward to putting this comprehensive resource back into stories from previous workshops are at print,” said Doug Crews, executive director of the MPA. “Interacting mophotoworkshop.org. with elected officials and government agencies is vastly easier with a The Missouri School of Journalism, Blue Book at your fingertips.” the Missouri Press Foundation and Nikon are the workshop sponsors.

Missouri Press News, April 2014 www.mopress.com 11 Messages” to share information. The data can be filtered by location Scrapbook and topic and viewed on a map or in a list. • Joplin — The Joplin Globe called the paper for demanding the documents out Joplin City Council members for regarding the contract be made available • Columbia — Bill Clark, a longtime ignoring a contract that established under the Missouri Sunshine Law. Columbia Daily Tribune columnist, is guidelines for an investigator hired to one of four people to receive the Beacon examine three ethics questions. • Columbia — The Columbia Daily of Light lifetime achievement award The paper contends the decision Tribune on March 16 unveiled a new from the Columbia African American could cost taxpayers an additional data-mapping website called Neighbor- Association. Clark was recognized March $37,000 on top of a $45,000 cap agreed hoods that offers residents an easy way 15 for his promotion of diversity in to last fall. The city agreed to pay inves- to see what is happening where they live. Columbia. tigator Tim Loraine a certain hourly rate The site features arrest reports, emer- with a $45,000 cap, unless more was gency dispatch activities, Tribune news • Hannibal — Missouri School of approved by the council. stories, restaurant inspections and more. Journalism student Trevor McDonald Certain councilmen were praised by Users of the site also can post “Neighbor recently served as an intern for one week

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12 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, April 2014 at the Hannibal Courier-Post. Students The Democrat’s sister publications, diminishing use of landline telephones work with community newspapers as The Higginsville Advance and Lexington contributed to its demise. part of a class taught by Jim Sterling. News, also dropped Friday editions and McDonald is from Hannibal and is will publish only on Wednesday. • St. Louis — Amy Goodman, co- majoring in print and digital news. He host of the radio program “Democracy also worked as an intern reporter for the • Concordia — Gary L. Beissenherz, Now!,” was the featured speaker March Moberly Monitor-Index for a year and was former editor and publisher of The Con- 29 at a dinner and First Amendment co-editor for Moberly Area Community cordian, has published a history of the celebration benefitting the Gateway College’s Greyhound Express. first 100 years of the St. Paul’s Lutheran Journalism Review. The publication is He has covered the local government Church in Concordia. The congrega- the successor to the St. Louis Journalism beat for the Columbia Missourian. He tion will celebrate its 175th anniversary Review. Ray Hartmann, co-owner of hopes to become involved in automotive in 2014-2015. St. Louis Magazine, was the master of journalism. Beissenherz began collecting infor- ceremonies. mation and photographs for the book • Kansas City — The sports section in 2004. • Kansas City — Lewis Diuguid, of The Kansas City Star has been named columnist and editorial writer for The one of the best in the country. “Sports • Potosi — The children and grand- Kansas City Star, was the first recipi- Daily” finished in the top 10 for large- children of the late Hugh and Ruby E. ent of the Dr. Julia Hill Future Legacy circulation newspapers for its daily, (Weber) Richards have established a Civil Rights Award. The award was Sunday and special sections. ’s scholarship trust fund in their memory. presented at a Founding Fathers Induc- new Royals reporter, Andy McCullough, A $500 scholarship will be awarded an- tion Ceremony Jan. 14 at the NAACP’s also won a top-10 award for work done at nually to a Potosi High School senior new South Central Correctional Center his former paper, the Newark Star-Ledger who plans to become a teacher. Branch in Licking. (Newark, N.J.) for his coverage of the Ruby Richards served as co-publisher Diuguid has reported about prison Yankees in 2013. at The Independent Journal for 44 years. branch functions, civil rights, urban Before that she was a teacher at vari- public education and diversity issues in • Poplar Bluff — Publisher Don ous one-room schools. Hugh Richards his columns for more than 25 years. He Schrieber decided not to publish the worked 31 years as a printer’s devil, joined the staff at The Kansas City Star- Monday and Tuesday editions of the typesetter, printer and finally co-owner/ Times in 1977. Daily American Republic after a winter publisher of The Independent Journal. storm hit southeast Missouri, closing • Springfield — The Springfield schools, businesses and government of- • Columbia — Officials at the Mis- News-Leader, a Gannett paper, in its fices. Concern for the safety of employees souri School of Journalism plan to Feb. 12 edition announced it had ex- and delivery drivers prompted cancella- close a program that conducted polling panded the paper by at least 68 pages tion of the issues, Schrieber said. research, according to the Columbia every week. The expansion was billed Daily Tribune. The Insight and Survey as “the most sweeping expansion of the • Lincoln — James White was one of Center within the Reynolds Journalism print edition…since 2002” and shows a six people recently elected to the board Institute will be cut, resulting in three “commitment to print.” of directors of the Bothwell Regional full-time staff members and some part- The expansion includes content Health Center Foundation. White, who time employees being laid off. from Gannett’s USA TODAY, including serves on the board of the Missouri Press The center primarily conducted national and world news, along with Association, is publisher of the Benton telephone surveys for clients, but the additional local news, community news, County Enterprise in Warsaw. He is vice president of the Democrat Publishing Company, Inc., which publishes the Missouri Press Association / Missouri Press Service Clinton Daily Democrat, Clinton Eye and 802 Locust St., Columbia, MO 65201-4888 The Kayo. (573) 449-4167 / Fax: (573) 874-5894 / www.mopress.com

• Carrollton — The Carrollton STAFF Doug Crews: Executive Director, [email protected] Democrat early in March dropped its Mark Nienhueser, Advertising Director, [email protected] Friday edition and now publishes only Kent M. Ford: Editor, [email protected] on Wednesday. Publisher Frank Mercer Bryan Jones, Assistant Editor, [email protected] cited the continuing downturn in the Connie Whitney: [email protected] economy and the ever-increasing costs and Jennifer Plourde: [email protected]: Advertising Sales & Placement Karen Philp: Receptionist, Bookkeeping, [email protected] of mailing and production. Kristie Williams: Member Services, Meeting Planning, [email protected] “This move allows us to go forward Jeremy Patton: Graphic design, [email protected] without a hefty rate increase to our sub- Brittney Wakeland: Marketing, Advertising Sales, [email protected] scribers,” he said.

Missouri Press News, April 2014 www.mopress.com 13 investigative reports, business news, worries cause tension in Columbia’s offer input about business and economic digital and social media highlights and youth football community.” concepts and content to be included sports news. For Beat Writing under 30,000 cir- in the News-Leader. Each member also “While we continue to adapt and of- culation, Brendan Meyer won for his will write one column per year for the fer more digital content, today’s edition coverage of Missouri basketball. Sunday business edition. represents a re-commitment and major The paper placed in the top five for investment in our print edition,” said Daily Sections and Sunday Sections • St. Louis — The St. Louis Post-Dis- David Stoeffler, executive editor of the under 15,000. An honorable mention patch editorial department, in an effort Springfield News-Leader. also was garnered in the Sunday Sections to spark community conversation, re- under 30,000-circulation category. cently created a four-part series, “A Great • Cameron — The Cameron Citizen- St. Louis: Schools, Jobs, Unity,” with the Observer recently presented a check for • Springfield — The Springfield goal of encouraging engagement and $300 to the Parkview Elementary School News-Leader recently formed an Eco- leadership through a combination of art department. The money donated nomic Forum, a quarterly gathering of “advocacy, original reporting, and strong comes from the proceeds of the paper’s business and community leaders rep- opinion writing.” The series is just one Christmas edition, which featured resenting various sectors of southwest example of “community conversation.” Christmas drawings from the students Missouri’s economy. The idea originated from interac- at the elementary school. Linda Ramey-Greiwe, president and tion between the regional chamber of publisher of the News-Leader Media commerce office and the paper’s edito- • Ashland — The Boone County Group, along with David Stoeffler, rial board, which the paper said haven’t Journal celebrated its 45th anniversary executive editor, invited more than 20 always “seen eye-to-eye” about issues in February. people to join an advisory committee to affecting St. Louis. The paper’s original owner, Dan Fishel, recalled days when getting a paper out was more difficult. “For the first sev- eral months, I had the paper printed on a sheet-fed press…in Columbia,” Fishel said. “Ashland had a population of 800 residents when I started there.” Today, the Boone County Journal serves the area’s nearly 4,000 residents with a circulation of 2,150. The paper has its roots in the Ashland Bugle, which was printed in Ashland for can yoHu capture more advertWisers and audience? 61 years by Jim Wilcox. Fischel sold the paper in 1986, and it went through a series of owners until With Metro e-Connect, you have what you need to take the lead with purchased by Jane and Dick Flink, who owned it until 2001. The paper claims multimedia advertising. This integrated, flexible, cost-effective, to be the first Missouri weekly to convert multiplatform program is also easy to launch and easy to manage. production to desktop publishing. Providing your ad team with the resources it needs to deliver real Bruce Wallace is the current publisher. solutions for your advertisers’ evolving needs, while expanding audience engagement, Metro e-Connect translates into a win-win for all. • Columbia — Student journalists with the Columbia Missourian recently won national awards in the Associated Find out more now! Call 800-223-1600, go online to Press Sports Editors competition. metrocreativeconnection.com/e-connect, email Roxana Pop and Meredith Turk [email protected] or scan the QR code to see how you won in the Multimedia under 500,000 unique web visitors category for their can immediately implement and benefit from Metro e-Connect. story “Missouri’s Miss Teen Rodeo rides again.” In the same category, Timmy Huynh and Katie Alaimo won for their article “Upward Basketball League about Metro e-Connect more than winning.” The new multimedia ad program that is changing the way we connect. Andrew Wagaman won in the Ex- planatory under 30,000-circulation MSPAHOW2013 category with his article “Concussion

14 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, April 2014 In addition, the “conversation” will Louis American and then in New York newspaper staff is considering funding a continue with its own Twitter feed to City. Wittaker is spending a year travel- print edition through advertising sales. encourage debate, and the Post-Dispatch ing before attending Cambridge. will host live online chats with newsmak- Stuckenschneider met Wittaker last • Fulton — Joe Link, former editor of ers and other community members. summer during a trip to England. the Fulton Daily Sun and a career rural and agricultural writer, was the guest • St. Louis — The St. Louis Post- • Washington — The Missourian of honor March 25 at William Woods Dispatch, recently announced editorial Media Group donated $1,000 to the University’s 109th annual Kingdom of page editor Tony Messenger and deputy campaign to raise money for uniforms Callaway Supper. Link earned a degree editorial page editor Kevin Horrigan for the Naval Junior ROTC program at the Missouri School of Journalism have won the Walker Stone Award for to begin at Washington High School and served 1977 to 1982 at the Fulton Editorial Writing in the national Scripps this fall. Daily Sun. Howard awards competition. The drive was conducted by the As managing editor at Missouri The award will be given May 22 and Washington Chapter 324 of the Korean Ruralist, he received the American Ag- includes a trophy and a $10,000 prize. War Veterans Association, KWVA. Bill ricultural Editors’ Association Writer The judges wrote, “The work of Miller, Sr., publisher of the Washington of the Year award. While at HBJ Farm Tony Messenger and Kevin Horrigan… Missourian and a member of KWVA, Publications, Link oversaw 11 state farm stands out for its detailed reporting that and Bill Miller, Jr., Missourian general magazines in Florida. informs strong opinions on a range of manager, presented the donation. He later was managing editor at The important topics…their editorials on Progressive Farmer and won an Oscar for education reform, heath care, poverty • Fulton — The student newspaper his five-part series “Turning the Cen- and political extremism embody a spirit at Westminster College, Fulton, The tury.” He began a freelance photography dedicated to the public welfare.” Columns, may lose more than half of its and writing career in 2008. $8,000-per-year budget after the Stu- • St. Louis — Elisa Crouch, a re- dent Government Association recently • Springfield —News-Leader report- porter at the Post-Dispatch, on Feb. 26 recommended the cut. er Hank Billings on March 15 received received the St. Louis Newspaper Guild’s The association suggested the paper the Writers Hall of Fame Quill Award at 2013 Terry Hughes Award for writing. either convert to an online-only publi- a dinner held at the Tower Club. Crouch, 40, has been a reporter at the cation and cut pay for the adviser and Billings has been a reporter, editor Post-Dispatch for 10 years. staff or have the newspaper operate as a and columnist at the News-Leaders since Crouch’s stories about students at class, with the adviser earning pay but 1943. He still writes a weekly column. urban schools were recognized by the staff receiving only class credit. The Hughes Award judges. Hughes was a Post-Dispatch columnist who died of breast cancer in 1991 at age 36. A NEW PARTNERSHIP • Washington — Washington Missou- rian columnist Chris Stuckenschneider recently hosted in her home an intern from England, Nell Wittaker. Wittaker, 19, spent time in the Mis- sourian office before interning atThe St. AT THE INTERSECTION OF DIGITAL AND PRINT

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Missouri Press News, April 2014 www.mopress.com 15 Newspaper In Education Report team, doing their best to help people find their missing loved ones. One day, Lily becomes very sick. The dog’s recovery is a miracle, but her challenges are far Join papers around country from over. A month later, Joplin is hit by a mas- sive tornado. The search-and-rescue using ‘Lily’s Story’ free dog’s bravery and resilience are put to the test as she is called upon to help put her Virginia publisher lands major sponsor city back together, piece by piece. This is a true story of hope and hometown his month marks the halfway Edwards said Smithfield Foods, the heroes, celebrating the courageous spirit point in the Reading Across area’s largest industry, agreed to cover the of one very special dog. TMissouri campaign. Newspapers printing cost each week. The newspaper’s To access “Lily’s Story,” visit mo- have until June 30 to use the serial “Lily’s weekly cost is the space for the camera- nie.com and used download code: Story” at no cost. ready PDF. readmo14. In addition to our project in Mis- “We have now published six of eight *** souri, newspapers across chapters of ‘Lily’s Story,’ and or the 85 or so Missouri newspapers the nation have access to the response has been phe- Fthat have already published “Lily’s the story through MPA’s nomenal,” Edwards said. Story,” here are some resources to finish partnership with the Na- “Elementary schools have out the school year. tional Newspaper As- sent T-shirts to the paper “First Ladies sociation. That effort is in appreciation. One class of America” called Reading Across the of third graders drew little is 12 features Nation. newspapers and included a b o u t t h e Features Here is what a Virginia “thank you” notes for offer- wives of our publisher, John Edwards, ing the story and, last night, earliest presi- available on of the Smithville Times I was invited to attend a dents. It is (circ. 5,500) had to say school board meeting to available at first ladies, about the project: “The have the paper recognized mo-nie.com Smithfield Times has nev- for partnering in what was using down- Earth Day, er had the resources to described as an exceptional load code: la- implement an effective Dawn Kitchell is MPA’s NIE reading program.” dies. Memorial Newspapers In Educa- director. Contact her at In addition, the county’s A p r i l 2 2 (636) 932-4301; dawn. tion project, but this year [email protected]. reading specialist plans to is Earth Day, Day decided to use NNA’s have students participate in and MPA has a Reading Across the Nation project in an essay project at the conclusion of the terrific feature an effort to reach school children. It series, and the paper will publish the win- about “The Big Muddy.” This feature has turned out to be the most effective ning essays. “As far as I am concerned, teaches readers about the Missouri River outreach project we’ve undertaken in the availability of ‘Lily’s Story’ alone has and the importance of keeping it and its years, and with very little cost or effort.” justified my NNA dues for this year,” entire watershed clean (download code: he newspaper downloaded “Lily’s Edwards said. bigmuddy). TStory” from the NNA site and sent May 22 is the third anniversary of the e’re slipping in an unscheduled them to county Joplin tornado, on which “Lily’s Sto- Wfeature for Memorial Day. The public schools ry” is based. response was outstanding to the Veterans and to a private I f y o u r Day and Flag Etiquette features – hun- academy. Ed- ne wspa- dreds of newspapers used them – so The wards reported, per didn’t Missouri Bar agreed to partner with us “Reading special- take ad- on a feature to commemorate Memo- ists with both were vantage of rial Day. Watch for this new feature in delighted with the this story early May. quality of writing in January, Two other spring series are available as well as the upbeat message in the now is a terrific time to get started. from the archives: “Amazing Soil,” a series. With their help, we targeted third- “Lily’s Story” is about a dog that gardening series, download code: gar- through seventh-grade students and de- grows up in Joplin, with her owner, Tara. den; and “Lost Ladybugs,” a two-part termined we would need approximately Tara sees that Lily is smart and has an science series teaching about ladybugs, 2,200 additional papers each week to incredible sniffer, so she trains her dog download code: lostlady. supply every student with one.” in search and rescue. The two become a

16 www.mopress.com Missouri Press News, April 2014 Man convicted in killing of Columbia editor files $100 million suit he man who spent nearly 10 years Tin prison after being convicted of murdering the sports editor of the Columbia Daily Tribune has filed a civil rights lawsuit seeking $100 million. Ryan Ferguson, who was released from prison in November, names seven police detectives, a prosecutor (now judge) and a former police chief. He claims they bullied witnesses and ig- nored leaders in the investigation of the Oct. 31, 2001, killing of Kent Heitholt in a parking lot beside the newspaper building in downtown Columbia. The suit also names the city of Co- lumbia, its police department, Boone Joplin’s hero dog visits Washington, Mo. County and two investigators for the Lily, Joplin’s hero Weimaraner, chews a treat at the Family Reading Night March 7 at county prosecutor’s office. Washington Middle School in Washington, Mo. More than 700 people attended the event, erguson was released from prison where author Carolyn Mueller debuted her children’s book, “Lily: A True Story of Courage & the Joplin Tornado.” The book is about Lily, a search-and-rescue dog who helped after the Fafter an appeals court ruling that May 2011 tornado struck Joplin. Lily attended Reading Night with her owner, Tara Prosser, prosecutors withheld evidence from left. Mueller’s book inspired “Lily’s Story,” a serialT:4.75” children’s feature published in more than 170 the defense. Missouri’s attorney general newspapers across the country. (Washington Missourian photo) chose not to retry Ferguson, who has moved to Florida. The suit says, “Ryan’s new identity upon walking out of prison is that of a 29-year-old uneducated, jobless man without health care or funds for psy- Get the facts from us. chological counseling. For years he was branded as a brutal murderer, and those scars cannot be excised.” The county prosecutor in the Fer- guson case is now a circuit judge in Columbia. He and a former Columbia police chief are accused in the suit of making defamatory comments affirming their belief in Ferguson’s guilt after his release. (from an AP report) T:5”

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For up each day. of “fair use.” Such a use a long time there Legal Recently, a newspaper would be deemed to be an have been articles in the state was covering exception to a copyright there that are re- Hotline has a homicide story. While infringement claim. ally helpful (in searching for photos to go (Yes, the newspaper particular, an a Google with the story, it happened may charge for its print article on legal onto a photo on Facebook edition or for access to notices from July Search box of one person involved in its website and therefore 2003 I have fre- the incident. The paper some revenue is gener- quently referred that allows staff was puzzling over ated, but there is existing callers to). whether to use the photo Jean Maneke, MPA’s Legal case law around the coun- Now the Le- you to search in its coverage online and Hotline attorney, can be try that supports that gal Hotline page reached at (816) 753-9000, in its print edition. [email protected]. the primary purpose of a (www.mopress. all the Could it legally use that journalistic endeavor is to com/legal.php) photo? Other newspapers cover news, not solely to has a Google uploaded appeared to be using Facebook photos, make a profit, so courts have recognized Search box that the staff determined, but online re- this “fair use” as unrelated to depriving allows you to columns for sources left them questioning the legality the copyright owner of revenue.) search all the up- of using those photos. oes its placement on Facebook loaded columns specific Questions like this raise layers of Dcreate any issues? The answer to for specific con- issues, particularly those related to that is found in the Facebook Terms of tent. I’ve had oc- content. copyright. We’ve discussed some of this Use, which are online. There you will casion a couple before. You know that the first issue is find, “When you publish content or of times lately to who owns the copyright to the original information using the Public setting, it use the search mechanism, and I’m really photo and are there defenses, particularly means that you are allowing everyone, excited by how well it works. “fair use,” that would permit you to use including people off of Facebook, to ON’T QUIT calling the hot- the photo? Knowing that it’s posted on access and use that information, and to Dline! I’m still here for you! But Facebook, how does that impact this associate it with you...” That’s about as at times, if you think you remember issue? clear a statement as one needs. reading something about a subject, you f you have information on a copyright Feel free to make use of Facebook might check out the search box. There Iholder of the photo, the “best prac- photos online and in your print editions is a lot of good information in articles tices” argument would be that giving without concern. (But it still is a good contained in the magazine in past years, credit is always a proper thing to do. But idea to identify Facebook as your source and I’m hoping this additional resource I realize most Facebook photos are obvi- for the photo, so it’s clear you make no will benefit you. ously candid shots. Can a newspaper use claim of ownership.) Finally, thank you to Kent Ford for such a photo without permission? The The next question I want to address editing the column all these years. We’ll doctrine of “fair use” as a defense for a has a similar answer. Can a newspaper miss you, Kent! A good editor makes claim of unauthorized use of a photo is, make use of material found on YouTube? all the difference in the world for a in truth, a complex one. There are many All of the arguments above apply, but writer. Without them, we’re nothing!

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Missouri Newspaper Organizations CALENDAR April NORTHWEST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Mike Farmer, 11 — Sunshine Coalition Board Rock Port; Secretary, Kathy Conger, Bethany; Treasurer, W.C. Farmer, Rock Port. meeting, 3 p.m., MPA Directors: Past President, Adam Johnson, Mound City; Jim Fall, Maryville; Dennis 17-18 — Missouri Advertising Ellsworth, St. Joseph; Jim McPherson, Weston; Chuck Haney, Chillicothe; Steve Managers’ Association meeting, Tinnen, Plattsburg; Kay Wilson, Maryville; Steve Booher, St. Joseph. Columbia Marriott

SHOW-ME PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, John Beaudoin, Lee’s Summit; May Vice President, vacant; Secretary-Treasurer, Sandy Nelson, Liberty. Directors: 1 — Missouri Press Foundation Dennis Warden, Owensville; Carolyn Trower, New London; John Spaar, Odessa; Board meeting, 1:30 p.m., MPA office Linda Geist, University of Missouri Extension; Buck Collier, New Haven; and 1 — MPA Past Presidents and Spouses Bruce Wallace, Ashland. Dinner, DoubleTree Hotel, Columbia

OZARK PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Roger Dillon, Eminence; Vice June President, Adam Letterman, Neighbor News; Secretary-Treasurer, Norene 26 — MPA Golf Tournament, Eldon Prososki, Gainesville. Directors: Past President Keith Moore, Ava; Dala Whittaker, 27 — MPA/MPS/MPF Board meeting Cabool; Jody Porter, Ava; David Burton, Springfield; Sharon Vaughn, Summersville; in morning, Country Club Terry Hampton, West Plains; Matthew Barba, Bolivar. Hotel and Spa, Lake Ozark 27 — Show-Me Press Association SOUTHEAST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Amanda Layton, meeting in afternoon, Country Perryville; First Vice President, Donna Denson, Cape Girardeau; Second Vice Club Hotel and Spa, Lake Ozark President, Randy Pribble, Ironton; Secretary-Treasurer, Michelle Friedrich, Poplar Bluff; Executive Secretary, Ann Hayes, Southeast Missouri State University; July Historian, Peggy Scott, Festus. Directors: Gera LeGrand, Cape Girardeau; Kim 11 — Sunshine Coalition Board Combs, Piedmont; H. Scott Seal, Portageville; Kate Martin, Perryville; Deanna meeting, 3 p.m., MPA, Columbia Nelson, Sikeston; Ed Thomason, New Madrid. September MISSOURI CIRCULATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: President, Brenda 25-27 — 148th MPA Convention, Carney, Harrisonville; First Vice President, Jack Kaminsky, Joplin; Second Vice Holiday Inn Select, Columbia President, Steve Edwards, St. Joseph; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: Jim Kennedy, Bolivar; Rob Siebeneck, Jefferson City. October 2-5 — NNA Annual Convention MISSOURI ADVERTISING MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION: President, Jana Todd, and Trade Show, San Antonio Warrenton; First Vice President, Jeanine York, Washington; Second Vice President, 10 — Sunshine Coalition Board Mark Maassen, Kansas City; Secretary, Suzie Wilson, Milan; Treasurer, Kristie meeting, 3 p.m., MPA, Columbia Williams, Columbia. Directors: Jacob Warden, Owensville; Adam Letterman, Ozark; Curtis Simmons, Eldon. Past President, Jane Haslag, Jefferson City.

MISSOURI PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATORS: Co-Presidents, Linda Jarrett and Linda Briggs-Harty; Secretary, Peggy Koch, Barnhart; Online Editor, Fran Mannino, Kirkwood; Contest Director, Janice Denham, Kirkwood; Archivist, Dee Rabey, Granite City, Ill.; Past President, Colene McEntee, St. Charles.

MISSOURI PRESS SERVICE: President, Phil Conger, Bethany; Vice President, Joe May, Mexico; Secretary-Treasurer, Kevin Jones, St. Louis. Directors: Vicki Russell, Columbia, and Jack Whitaker, Hannibal. MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION, INC.: President, Mrs. Betty Spaar, Odessa; A contribution to the First Vice President, Wendell Lenhart, Trenton; Second Vice President, Kirk Powell, Pleasant Hill; Secretary-Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: R.B. Smith Missouri Press III, Lebanon; James Sterling, Columbia; Edward Steele, Columbia; Dane Vernon, Eldon; Vicki Russell, Columbia; Bill Miller Sr., Washington; Tom Miller, Washington; Foundation Chuck Haney, Chillicothe; Dave Berry, Bolivar. Directors Emeritus: Mrs. Wanda Brown, Harrisonville; Wallace Vernon, Eldon; Rogers Hewitt, Shelbyville. is a wonderful way to

MISSOURI-KANSAS AP PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS: Chairman, Susan Lynn, recognize an Iola, Kan. Missouri AP Managing Editors: Chairman, vacant; Past Chairman, associate or to honor Carol Stark, Joplin. his or her memory. MISSOURI COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION: President, Emily Battmer, Truman State University; Vice President, Katelyn Canon, Missouri Western State University; Secretary, DeJuan Baskin, St. Louis Community College-Forest VISA, MasterCard, Park; MPA Liaison, Jack Dimond, Missouri State University; Adviser, Don Krause, Discover accepted. Truman State University. (573) 449-4167

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