AlaPressaHE EWSLEttER OF THE LABAMA RESS SSOCIatION T N A P A SEPTEMBER 2020 Important Dates Statement of ownership due in October National Newspaper Week 2020 America’s Newspapers Webinars October 4-10 Content available for your news Digital Selling Skills for products through Alabama Power Sales Executives Foundation/APA Journalism Sept. 30, 11 a.m.-noon Foundation grant Nominate someone for APA’s NNA.org/convention Lifetime Achievement and Emerging October 1-3, 2020 Journalist awards #NNAathome Ozark editor marks 63 years National Newspaper Week on the job October 4-10, 2020 APA Journalism Foundation internship with Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc. Join NNA’s online convention SEPTEMBER 2020 AlaPressa 2 Statement of ownership filing due The publisher of each publication mailed distribution is produced: sending Periodicals Class Mail must file • Not later than Oct. 10 for publications USPS Form 3526 by Oct. 1 of each year at issued more frequently than weekly. the original entry post office. • Not later than Oct. 31 for publications The information issued weekly or provided on Form less frequently, but 3526 allows the U.S. more frequently than Postal Service to monthly. determine whether the publication meets • For all other publications, in the first Alabama Press Association the standards of Periodicals mailing issue whose primary mailed distribution is Alabama Newspaper Advertising Service Inc. privileges. Newspapers with electronic produced after Oct. 1. 600 Vestavia Parkway, Suite 291 subscriptions to claim will also use Form Please send a copy of your Statement Vestavia, AL 35216 3526x. of Ownership to the APA office at: 600 (205) 871-7737 The required information must appear in Vestavia Parkway, Ste., 291, Vestavia, AL. (205) 871-7740 (fax) an issue of the publication whose primary or email to [email protected]. www.alabamapress.org Nominate someone for APA’s Lifetime Board of Directors Achievement and Emerging Journalist Horace Moore, Chairman of the Board Mid-South Newspapers awards The APA board of directors is seeking The Emerging Journalist Award recognizes Terry Connor, President nominations for the Alabama Press a young journalist with excellence in the field The Dothan Eagle Association Lifetime Achievement and and someone who maintains high standards K.A. Turner, 1st Vice President Emerging Journalist Awards for 2021. of quality and ethics. The award aims to Alabama Media Group The Lifetime Achievement recognizes reinforce the importance of a journalist’s Dee Ann Campbell, 2nd Vice President outstanding service and accomplishments role by recognizing and nurturing talent to The Choctaw Sun-Advocate spanning a career in journalism in Alabama. promote quality journalism. Denise DuBois, The Citizen of East Alabama Tricia Clinton-Dunne For Lifetime Achievement, APA Nominees must be an employee or members may nominate any person who, regular contributor to an APA-member The Fort Payne Times-Journal at the time of selection, is a living, present newspaper. This award is open to nominees James Phillips, Daily Mountain Eagle or former newspaper executive or employee younger than 30 with less than five years Parks Rogers, Gulf Coast Newspapers of a newspaper in Alabama. Nominees must of experience writing professionally for a Teresa Woodruff, The Moulton Advertiser have spent a significant percentage of their newspaper. Robert Jackson, Consolidated Publishing newspaper careers in Alabama. Nominees The selection committee will consist of Glenda Curl, The Wilcox Progressive Era must also have a minimum of 25 years of APA’s four officers and two additional board Dan Starnes, Starnes Publishing service in the newspaper industry and may members. Nominations are due by Nov. 12. Caroline Quattlebaum, The Southeast Sun not be nominated by a family member. Areas Nomination forms are available on the APA Johnny Adams, Union Springs Herald of service include production, editorial, website HERE (EJ) and HERE (LA). Steve Baker, The Outlook/Alexander City advertising and circulation. Robert Bozeman, The Evergreen Courant APA Staff National Newspaper Week - October 4-10 Please plan to celebrate National Felicia Mason, Executive Director Newspaper Week by downloading these Brad English, Marketing/Governmental materials and devoting as many column Affairs Director inches as possible to remind readers of Leigh Leigh Tortorici, Senior the important role our journalists play in our Marketing Representative communities and in our country. Jaclyn Langan, Membership Coordinator Please also make it local by editorializing Meegan Maxwell, Network Coordinator about your newspaper’s unique relevance. Shaina Ehmke, Tearsheet Clerk This can be about your duties as government Dennis R. Bailey, General Counsel watchdog, your role as a community Scott Goldsmith, APA Accountant forum and coverage of community events, National Newspaper Week 2020 will be publication of timely public notices, etc. observed Oct. 4-10. The 80th annual NNW is sponsored by Newspaper celebration marks the impact of journalists Association Managers, Inc., the consortium in their communities. of North American trade associations This year’s theme is “America Needs representing the newspaper industry. Journalists.” Material, including editorials, APA has paid a fee so that members can cartoons, promotional ads and more, is now download the information at no cost. available at no cost to APA members HERE. SEPTEMBER 2020 AlaPressa 3 Content available for your news products through grant Last month, we announced a grant on BamaNet located in the “Journalist Newspapers should credit the story and program funded by the Alabama Power Grant Articles” folder. It is the “Jasper Mall any photos used (cutlines are provided) Foundation and administered by the APA story” and contains several photos to go and be sure to include the editor’s note, Journalism Foundation for journalists to with the story. identifying the source of the story. write stories of statewide interest for use in “We appreciate the opportunity to help This story and others that will follow are APA newspapers. These are for journalists our journalists and help our newspapers for your use to provide feature stories for that have been struggling due to layoffs, who need content at the same time,” APA your newspapers and websites. Contact furloughs or reduced wages during this Executive Director Felicia Mason said. “We Felicia ([email protected]) or pandemic. currently have three other stories in the Leigh Leigh ([email protected]) The first story that is now available for works that will be available soon.” with any questions. Please let us know you to use is about what one community, Leigh Leigh Tortorici, who is managing when you use these stories. We will share Jasper, is doing with their abandoned mall. the project for the APA office, said she it with the journalists and use in our grant Many communities in Alabama have retail appreciates Steve Stewart’s guidance use report. space sitting unused and abandoned. The and willingness to work one-on-one with Several grants are still available at $500 story is written by Nicole Smith and edited the journalists. “We are relying on Steve’s each, so please encourage any of your by retired journalism professor, Steve expertise to make sure we are providing staff that would qualify to apply: https:// Stewart. high quality stories from inception to www.alabamapress.org/2020-journalist- You can find this first story and photos publication to our members,” Tortorici said. grant-program/. APA Journalism Foundation internship with Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc. By Abby Driggers people doing extraordinary things weekly. to appreciate the people of Alexander City Editor’s Note: The APA Journalism However, the moment I realized I was and their commitment to their local news Foundation awarded eight $1,500 among special individuals was my first organization. internships over the summer. Here is week in the office. In a time where print is declining and a report from Abby Driggers, summer The Alabama Press Association national publications swoop in to report on intern for Tallapoosa Publishers. This is awards were announced my second day in small towns throughout America, I have just one example of the benefits of your Alexander City, as I switched from remote to renewed faith in community journalism. support of the Foundation. If you have not in-person in late June. What I have learned during my internship made a pledge this year, please consider During the virtual ceremony, I remember is the Tallapoosa Publishers’ newsroom joining other APA member newspapers in seeing everyone’s faces wait in anticipation serves their community well because they supporting the Foundation. of the categories, cheering one another on care. Good journalism doesn’t come easy. and taking a much-deserved moment to Within the organization, there is It takes effort to ask the right questions, acknowledge their accomplishments. a collective responsibility to tell their to cultivate subject-matter expertise, to Later that evening, I read a column neighbors’ stories, keep cities safe and hold continuously tune into the police scanner, to from the managing editor titled Each long government accountable. stay late writing in the office, to write a story day in the newsroom is worth it. I felt as if My internship was a wonderful blend of that surprises, inspires or provokes. all of my sentiments toward journalism had education and application, and one where I Good journalism takes a village, and I been taken from my psyche and published leave more empowered to continue to report am proud to have been a part of the one at word for word. At that moment, I became on the happenings of my fellow Alabamians. Tallapoosa Publishers. cognizant of the opportunity I have received. There is much work left to be done, and The newsroom, including the advertising I made a point to grab a copy the next I leave confidently knowing TPI will continue and circulation team, has a committed staff day, and I cut the column out for my bulletin its efforts to do just that.