CALENDAR August 22 — Hotel Room Deadline for MPA No. 1302 — 15 August, 2014 Convention 30 — MPA Tailgate, 11 a.m. at BBC II restaurant, Columbia; Mizzou kickoff, 2:30 p.m. 148th MPA CONVENTION! September 25-27 —148th MPA Convention, Holiday Inn Select, Columbia Holiday Inn Executive Center October 1 — Postal Form 3526 Deadline September 25-27, 2014 Columbia, Mo. 2-5 — NNA Annual Convention and Trade Show, San Antonio Registration Deadlines Near! November 6-7 — Russell Viers Workshop, Columbia 20-21 — Potter Conference at RJI, Columbia Up, Up and Away! Missouri Press Association is rising to new heights to help our members! Some great reasons for you to attend: Upcoming Webinars Great sessions and speakers InDesign 301: Working with Images and Graphics On-site newspaper design consultation Thursday, August 21 Presenter Russell Viers, Atomic News Tools Business and Leadership Panel Discussion Salesperson vs. Professional Visitor: Breaking through the sales cycle Tour, Dinner at Les Bourgeois Winery in Rocheport Friday, August 29 Presenter Tim Smith Hall of Fame Banquet and Contest Awards Register at onlinemediacampus.com Presented in partnership with: ...and Much More! Missouri Press Association See details, speaker information, registration form, High-quality, low-cost web conferences complete schedule of events in this Bulletin! that help media professionals develop new job skills without leaving their offi ces. Registration forms for coming MPA activities can be found at mopress.com/current_forms.php. Missouri Press Association Bulletin, August 15, 2014, Page 2 Missouri Press Newspapers in Education Membership Applications Calendar Inspires Learning All Year The Missouri Press Association Summer is winding has received an application for “Friend of Missouri Press” down and back-to-school membership from Newstime, stories are hitting your http://www.newstime-mo.com, newspapers. published by Kathy Colbert, Do your fall plans in- Lakeway Publishers, 11102 clude reaching out to young Veterans Memorial Parkway, Lake St. Louis, MO 63367. (1st notice) readers in your community? Membership applications are Missouri Press Associa- considered by the MPA Board of tion has just released another calendar of great resources that will help you reach Directors at its first meeting after and teach readers -- young and older -- inside your newspaper. Check out the cal- this notice has been published in endar at the MPA website: http://www.mopress.com/NIE_Calendar.php Con- at least three issues of the MPA Bulletin or eBulletin. tact Dawn Kitchell, NIE and Education Director, at [email protected] The next meeting of the or 636-932-4301. MPA board is scheduled Sept. The first new feature on the calendar celebrates International Literacy Day 25 during the Missouri Press Sept. 8. Association’s annual convention For this year’s celebration, “Lift Off to Literacy,” the International Reading As- in Columbia. Anyone with comments sociation has joined NASA and Story Time From Space to inspire a literacy habit about the applications should in students. Educators can pledge to add an extra 60 seconds of literacy activities email them to Doug Crews, in the classroom for 60 days. Executive Director, MPA, at Not sure what to do for those extra 60 seconds? We’ve got you covered! Sign up [email protected]. at the ILD website (www.reading.org/ILD) to pledge participation and receive an activity kit of 60 fun, cross-curricular 60-second activities; by signing up, you’ll be entered to win an out-of-this-world prize pack from NASA! Bring Two Proven Ideas, Leave with 40 Have you successfully implement- All participants will be permitted to ed an idea at your news organization bring up to three colleagues from their in the last year and thought, “Wow, I outlet or media group. could use 20 more like that”? We can We’re looking for 40 unique ideas, help. not 40 versions of the same idea. So, The Donald W. Reynolds Journal- compile your ideas NOW and apply, ism Institute is inviting industry pro- before someone takes your spot! Sub- fessionals to mit several the second ideas to in- Walter B. crease your A contribution to the Potter Sr. chances Conference for par- Missouri Press this fall and ticipation. the price of Seating is Foundation admission is limited. two successful ideas - proven winners Those who make it to the confer- is a wonderful way to that generated revenue, boosted read- ence will return home with access to all ership or improved your operation. innovations presented, including de- recognize an The Potter Conference will bring to- tails on how you can implement them gether community news executives and at your organization. associate or to honor leaders at the Missouri School of Jour- To apply, go online to: https:// nalism in Columbia for an exchange www.eventbrite.com/e/application- his or her memory. and dialogue of best practices that will for-walter-b-potter-sr-conference- help sustain local journalism, especially 2014-tickets-12511124109 VISA, MasterCard, in small and rural markets. More information is available at: Discover accepted. The two-day event is scheduled Nov. http://www.rjionline.org/events/ (573) 449-4167 20-21 at RJI in Columbia, Missouri. potter14#sthash.x4LpBaTb.dpuf Need help with a newspaper issue? Check the links at mopress.com/reporterslinks.php. Missouri Press Association Bulletin, August 15, 2014, Page 3 Print and digital circulation can now be reported on one form USPS statement to count e-subs (National Newspaper Association) -- For paid newspapers, there will be one Missouri Press Association Newspapers will for the first time in 2014 unified 3526 with print and e-sub reporting. be able to claim e-subscriptions on a single Likewise, for requester periodicals, there will Missouri Press Service form reporting circulation to the U.S. Postal be a unified 3526-R for print and e-request- 802 Locust St. Service. ers. Both hardcopy forms are already posted Columbia, MO 65201-4888 Form 3526, the annual Statement of on the Postal Explorer website. Scroll down (573) 449-4167; FAX (573) 874-5894 Ownership, Management and Circulation is the left blue toolbar to “Postage Statements,” www.mopress.com due to local post offices by Oct. 1 each year. then “Periodicals forms” and you will see the Digital subscriptions have been counted by updated 3526 and 3526-R dated 7-2014. MPA PRESIDENT: Richard Gard, an addendum to the form for the past several The new form allows combining the total Missouri Lawyers Media years. But, for the coming cycle, newspapers paid print and electronic copies for both “Is- FIRST VICE PRESIDENT: Jim will be able to report all circulation figures – sue closest to filing date” and “Average copies Robertson, Columbia Daily Tribune print and digital – on one form. for previous 12 months,” achieving NNA’s SECOND VICE PRESIDENT: Dennis Warden, Gasconade County Republican, “Although this was the way NNA envi- goal to get recognition for electronically-ful- Owensville sioned it when asking for this rule change filled subscriptions or requester copies added SECRETARY: Dennis Ellsworth, back in the last decade, bureaucratic sna- for those newspapers for whom the State- St. Joseph News-Press fus, release schedules, and personnel retire- ment of Ownership is their legal proof of TREASURER: Donna Bischoff, ments at the U.S. Postal Service all com- circulation for advertisers, advertising agen- St. Louis Post-Dispatch bined to thwart our efforts even after the cies, and public notices. MPA DIRECTORS: Mark Maassen, The Kansas City Star. approval three years ago,” said Max Heath, This change will include accessibility of Joe Spaar, The Odessan postal chairman for the National Newspaper a single automated online form that can be Bill Miller Jr., Washington Missourian Association. completed electronically visa PostalOne!. Jeff Schrag, Springfield Daily Events Confusion ensued as papers dealt with Many NNA members prefer to file the docu- Carol Stark, The Joplin Globe multiple forms and requirements. The new ment electronically rather than hardcopy. Trevor Vernon, Eldon Advertiser form should streamline the process, Heath And, in other news, NNA is working on a James White, Benton County Enterprise, Warsaw said. new proposal to eliminate the “marked copy” Darryl Wilkinson, North Missourian, Form 3526 is due from each newspaper for Periodicals. Instead, publishers would be Gallatin that has a postal permit by Oct. 1. Newspa- able to keep their marked copies on file for NNA REPRESENTATIVE: Brad Gentry, pers issued daily must publish the statement later audit. This streamlined compliance rule Houston Herald in their pages by Oct. 10; papers issued less will aid publishers in timely filing of their frequently must publish the statement by the mailing statements. MPS PRESIDENT: Phil Conger, Bethany Republican-Clipper end of October. VICE PRESIDENT: Joe May, Mexico SEC-TREAS.: Kevin Jones, St. Louis American MPS DIRECTORS: Vicki Russell, Your newspaper could WIN $100 Columbia Daily Tribune; Jack Whitaker, Hannibal The Missouri Press Association 148th Annual Convention and Trade Show is scheduled Sept. 25-27 in Columbia. The trade show returns this year Sept. 26 STAFF and convention sponsorship opportunities are available at different contribution Doug Crews: Executive Director, levels. Rewards for sponsorship are detailed on the sponsorship form which can [email protected] be found attached or at: http://www.mopress.com/CURRENT_FORMS.php Mark Nienhueser: Ad Director, [email protected] Bryan Jones: Editor, [email protected]