TAlaPressaHE N EWSLETTER OF THE A LABAMA P RESS A SSOCIATION APRIL 2017 Important Dates APA Summer Convention returns to Orange Beach Online Media Campus APA says farewell to two “Rural Journalism: Tracking Agriculture” staff members Category: Editorial Thursday, May 18 Presenter: Al Cross Clayton Record sold “What Would Sammy Do?” Top Priorities For Sales Today Goldsmith wins Chopped Junior Category: Revenue Thursday, May 25 Presenter Sammy Papert Advocate receives Media Excellence Award “Building a Strong Service Directory to Increase Revenue” Category: Revenue Wednesday, June 7 Progressive Era sold out Presenter Janet DeGeorge Gulf State Park Lodge on track for 2017 APA Summer Convention July 6-8, 2017 2018 opening Orange Beach, AL APA Journalism Foundation board meets at Miles College APRIL 2017 AlaPressa 2 APA Summer Convention returns to Orange Beach Alabama Press Association Alabama Newspaper Advertising Service Inc. 3324 Independence Drive Suite 200 Birmingham, AL 35209 (205) 871-7737 (205) 871-7740 (fax) www.alabamapress.org Board of Directors Perdido Beach Resort Michele Gerlach, Chairman of the Board Andalusia Star-News APA will return to the Alabama Gulf from the hotel. Scott Brown, President Coast and the Perdido Beach Resort Programs include: for the 146th summer convention, July • Mind Your Niches – Learn how to The Decatur Daily 6-8. make more money with specialized Kenneth Boone, First Vice President Join us Thursday evening as we print products - Bill Ostendorf Tallapoosa Publishers Inc. kick off the weekend with a two-hour • Quick and easy videos with tools you Horace Moore, Second Vice President sunset dolphin cruise aboard the Wild probably already have - Dan Meissner The Northwest Alabamian Hearts, a 53-foot open-ocean sail boat. see Summer convention pg 3 Robert Bozeman, The Evergreen Courant NO MORE BUS RIDES! The boat will Dee Ann Campbell depart from a pier across the street The Choctaw Sun-Advocate Terry Connor, The Cullman Times APA says farewell to two staff Bob Davis, The Anniston Star Eddie Dodd, The Abbeville Herald members Denise DuBois, The Citizen of East Alabama Chris and dedication in his new job, and we Tricia Clinton-Dunn McDaniel and wish him well.” The Fort Payne Times-Journal Amy Metzler Metzler is relocating to the Atlanta Jim Rainey, The Tuscaloosa News will be leaving area, and has accepted a position with APA at the end the Sandy Springs (Ga.) Convention and Parks Rogers, Gulf Coast Newspapers of this month. Visitors Bureau. She joined APA in 2015, Darrell Sandlin, TimesDaily McDaniel and has been instrumental in building Brad Shurett, The Daily Sentinel started at APA the print and digital networks offered by Steve Smith, The Dothan Eagle when he was ANAS. a student at Metzler is a Chris McDaniel UAB, working 2013 graduate part time and of the Universi- later returning full time in 2010, working ty of Alabama. APA Staff in network sales. In 2014, he became While in school Felicia Mason, Executive Director the member services coordinator, work- at UA, she Brad English, Advertising Manager ing with the Better Newspaper Contest, worked as the Leigh Leigh Tortorici, Senior APA’s two conventions and other ser- special proj- Marketing Representative vices offered to APA members. ects account Dennis R. Bailey, General Counsel He is joining the staff of FIS, a fi- representative Amy Metzler nancial technology solutions company for The Crim- Scott Goldsmith, APA Accountant located in Birmingham. son White, the student newspaper. “Chris has been a tremendous as- “Amy has really done a great job co- set to the APA team, and we will miss ordinating our newtworks and providing him,” APA Executive Director Felicia exemplary service to her clients. We’ll Mason said. “He is always willing to help miss her and wish her the best,” APA ad our members. He knows them, and he manager Brad English said. knows our industry. I have no doubt that he will provide the same level of service APRIL 2017 AlaPressa 3 • Classified: The Next Big Thing for 2017 Better Newspaper Contest. Newspaper - Bill Ostendorf Registration materials will go out • “Revolution, rights and rock ‘n’ soon, but you can BOOK YOUR HO- Summer roll: The hidden history of the First TEL ROOM NOW at: https://www. Amendment,” an interactive presen- perdidobeachresort.com/alabama- convention tation that will challenge and inspire. press-association. -Ken Paulson from pg 2 The convention concludes with the recognition of the winners of the Clayton Record sold Rebecca Beasley has sold The papers in 24 states, and visited nine clined and has filled the role of editor Clayton Record to Blake Gumprecht, papers in seven states. “I was imme- and publisher since 1998. a college professor from New Hamp- diately taken by Barbour County when shire. I visited last December,” Gumprecht “I was immediately tak- Gumprecht grew up in Wilmington, wrote in his column. “I like the look of Delaware. His first venture into jour- the place, the quintessentially South- en by Barbour County nalism was a hand-written newspaper ern landscape and architecture, and he sold door-to-door as a young boy in the pace of life here.” when I visited last De- his neighborhood. Beasley’s family has owned The As a journalism student at the Uni- Clayton Record for 102 years. Her cember. I like the look versity of Kansas, he worked at the grandfather, William Lee Gammell, student newspaper and earned intern- served as editor and publisher of The of the place, the quint- ships at The Chicago Tribune and the Clayton Record from 1915 until 1954. essentially Southern Los Angeles Times. Her grandmother, Pearl Gammell, For the last 14 years, he has been followed her husband as editor and landscape and archi- a professor in the Department of publisher. In 1960, Miss Bertie, Beas- Geography at the University of New ley’s mother, took over the reins of the tecture, and the pace Hampshire. He also taught at the Uni- newspaper and remained active with versity of South Carolina. both the paper and the Clayton com- of life here.” Gumprecht says he decided to munity until her death in 1998. - Blake Gumprecht return to journalism, and started his Beasley, who has worked at the search to find a newspaper to buy newspaper since she was a teenager, last summer. He looked at 122 news- took over as her mother’s health de- Goldsmith wins Chopped Junior er’s family to help offset the demands of “I always hoped I would treatment of childhood cancer. He also plans to take his family on a vacation. be healthy enough to Goldsmith was diagnosed with be on the show one acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2007, at the age of 3. He had spent long day, and now this is a hours at Children’s of Alabama hospital in Birmingham, undergoing three years dream come true,” of chemotherapy which led to a remis- sion, then three more years of chemo, - Fuller Goldsmith followed by spinal surgery to correct problems from medication, and a bone- Fuller Goldsmith, a 13-year-old from marrow transplant in 2014 that has Tuscaloosa, took home the top prize shown positive results. recently from the Food Network show, On the show, which aired April 25, Chopped Junior. Fuller is the son of Goldsmith said he has spent many APA Accountant Scott Goldsmith and hours watching the Food Network while his wife, Melissa. he was in the hospital. “I always hoped Goldsmith says he already has I would be healthy enough to be on the plans for the $10,000 cash prize. He show one day, and now this is a dream plans to donate a portion of the money come true,” he said. to Fuller’s Fund, a fund started by Full- Congratulations, Fuller! The Goldsmith family APRIL 2017 AlaPressa 4 Progressive Era sold out What happens when the hometown girl becomes the governor? Her home- town newspaper sells out of every printed copy in the county. That’s what happened in Camden earlier this month when Lt. Governor The Greenville Advocate received the Alabama Rural Electric Association’s 2017 Media Excellence Kay Ivey became the 54th (and only the Award. Pictured from left to right is Pioneer Electric Executive Vice President and General Manager second female) governor of Alabama. Terry Moseley, AREA Vice President of Communications Lenore Vickrey, Greenville Newspapers Ivey is a Camden native and a favorite Publisher Tracy Salter and Pioneer Electric Communications Specialist Casey Rogers. (Advocate in her hometown. photo/Jonathan Bryant) Advocate receives Media Gulf State Park Excellence Award Lodge on track It was a big afternoon for The cation audiences through their website Greenville Advocate as the newspa- and social media sources with a local for 2018 opening per was recognized as one of the top presence, and professional quality that By David Rainer, Alabama Department community newspapers in the state by rivals larger newspaper sources,” said of Conservation and Natural the Alabama Rural Electric Association Terry Moseley, Pioneer Electric’s exec- Resources (3/16/17) (AREA) during the 70th annual meeting utive vice president and general man- Now that spring break is in full swing of AREA, held April 13 at the Renais- ager. on the Alabama Gulf Coast, loads of sance Hotel and Convention Center in “The Greenville Advocate strives beachgoers are traveling between Gulf Montgomery. to report the news of our community Shores and Orange Beach. And it’s al- The Greenville Advocate was rec- honestly, fairly and with integrity,” said most certain that most are wondering ognized as the recipient of AREA’s Greenville Newspapers Publisher Tra- about all that construction adjacent to 2017 Media Excellence Award. cy Salter. the Gulf State Park Pier.