The Indiana Volume 76, Issue 11 • May 26, 2011Publisher Published alternate Thursdays They Legislative roundup: Access HSPA tracked dozens of bills dur- 2011 session roundup citizens to ask for email notification ing the 2011 session of the Indiana of meetings. HSPA worked with dozens of bills affecting General Assembly. newspapers in the 2011 session Sen. Sue Landske, R-Cedar This issue and the June 9 edition of Lake, filed S.B. 70 without any asked The Indiana Publisher include infor- In this issue: Public access to information prompting by HSPA. The bill was Taxes, public notice advertising mation on public access-related bills Online: assigned to the Committee on Public that HSPA worked with. and miscellaneous issues, which ran in The Indiana Publisher May 12. Policy, chaired by Sen. Ron Alting, Publishers and editors, take note R-Lafayette. for it of actions local legislators took that HSPA worked with Landske, Sen. Daniels scoop not for deliberate violations of the state’s were favorable or unfavorable to Travis Holdman, R-Markle; and Rep. access to information laws, the ability coincidence for Star the positions HSPA adopted on your Milo Smith, R-Columbus, on posi- for the Indiana public access coun- behalf. tive amendments to the original bill By Milissa Tuley selor to review redacted documents S.B. 70 contained public access when Alting decided not to give HSPA staff concepts HSPA has been pushing for for compliance with the Access to Editors at The Indianapolis several sessions, including a civil fine Public Records Act and the ability for See Access, Page 3 Star didn’t just hope for an exclusive when Mitch Daniels announced his decision about running for president. They lobbied for it. Top management talked Register with the governor and his advisers about it several times in the past few months, now to said editor and vice president Dennis Ryerson. He and others reminded the brush up Daniels camp of their desire to not get beat on the story by an out-of-state news organiza- on beats Journalists will learn how tion or website, he said. to maximize their beats “I felt we would have been at the derelict had we not made our 2011 Road Road case,” Ryerson said. Show for The strategy was simple yet Show for Reporters. effective, said Star political Reporters Two near- columnist Matt Tully. When: June 16 ly identical “We got the scoop because in Bloomington workshops we asked for it,” he said. and June 23 in will empha- Ryerson learned of the pend- Rochester size the ing announcement – but not Beat Basics Registration: hspafoundation. what the decision was – about theme of org/events 3:30 p.m. Friday in a call from the annual the governor, he said. Spot-on seminars sponsored by He was meeting in his office Indiana Associated Press with some staffers. Video Editing Managing Editors and HSPA See Scoop, Page 2 Journalists and others gath- Foundation. ered at Ball State University The first Road Show will May 19 to learn editing be June 16 at Chapman’s techniques for web video. Above: Steve Leer, a com- Restaurant in Bloomington. munications consultant with The second will be June 23 Leader has Purdue University, gets help at the Geneva Center in from classroom assistant Josh Rochester. Smith. Left: Instructor John Both workshops will advertising Strauss, right, talks with Jaclyn include sessions on the edu- Goldsborough of Fort Wayne cation beat, covering courts background Newspapers. Below: Instructor and police, photography for A former Gannett newspa- Tim Underhill, right, leads a reporters and public access to per manager has been named session for Mac users. information. the new presi- The cost is $30 per person dent and pub- by the early-bird deadline of lisher of the May 27 for the Bloomington South Bend Road Show and June 3 for Tribune. the Rochester one. After Kim Wilson that, fees of $40 per per- will replace son are due by June 10 for David Ray, Bloomington and June 17 who retired in for Rochester. Lunch will be April after 11 Kim Wilson provided. years as publisher. Journalists can register Wilson, 41, was president by returning the brochure and publisher of the Fort mailed to newsrooms or by Collins Coloradoan and Gan- downloading a brochure at nett’s Colorado Media Group HSPAfoundation.org/events. for more than two years before leaving that position in December. Play with a purpose She spent her 20-year career with Gannett news- Register now to support HSPA Foundation during the annual golf outing June 9. papers in places such as Visit www.hspafoundation.org/events to sign up. Louisville, Ky.; Huntington, W.Va.; and Pensacola, Fla. Wilson graduated from Penn State University with a degree in advertising. Page 2 May 26, 2011 2011 Calendar Journalist served his country Decorated U.S. Army vet- nalism from Ball State Army Commendation Medal, June 9 HSPA Foundation Golf Outing, Southern eran and longtime journalist University. Bronze Star Medal and an Dunes Golf Course, Indianapolis; register Pat rick J. McKeand, 69, of In 1964 McKeand joined overseas bar. Before leaving at www.hspafoundation.org/events Indian apolis, died May 12, the U.S. Army as a member the service, McKeand was June 10 Deadline for entering advertising contest 2011. of the 25th infantry division promoted to captain. He served his country in and served a tour of duty in After his military career, June 16 Road Show for Reporters, the Vietnam War and then Vietnam. McKeand worked for sev- Bloomington worked at newspapers and He was on the front lines eral newspapers, many of June 23 Road Show for Reporters, Rochester as a journalism professor at reporting on the war as which he served as manag- IUPUI before his retirement. the officer in charge of the ing editor for, including The July 29 HSPA Foundation board meeting, McKeand majored in Tropic Lightning News, a Anderson Herald. Eugene S. Pulliam Interns Luncheon and journalism at Indiana weekly publication about the Survivors include his Better Newspaper Contest deadline University, where he was infantry. brother, William D. (Judi) Sept. 30 Advertising Conference (with INAEA), editor of the student news- He received several mili- McKeand; sisters, Marjorie Ball State University paper and graduated in the tary awards, including the Melson, Carolyn S. Miller top of his class in 1963. In Vietnam Campaign Medal, and Jacquelyne F. (James Fall Circulation Conference (with ICEA) 1983 he graduated with Vietnam Service Medal, M.) Bronkella; and several (Sept. 30 proposed) a master’s degree in jour- National Defense Medal, nieces and nephews. Oct. 6-7 HSPA & HSPA Foundation joint board meeting, Nashville, Ind. Dec. 3 Newsroom Seminar, Indianapolis Marriott North Marine veteran worked in circulation James M. Hansen, 61, of starting as a district sales He was a 1971 graduate of Dec. 9 HSPA board meeting Princeton, died Saturday, manager in his hometown of the State University of New May 7, 2011, at Deaconess Rochester, N.Y. Before join- York at Brockport. Gateway Hospital in New- ing the Clarion, he worked in He leaves his wife, Vicki; burgh after a short illness. Iowa and was operations man- children, Jenny (Chris) Fabri Born Sept. 10, 1949, in ager for Shaw Newspapers of Evanston, Ill.; Erin (Greg) HSPA Board of Directors Rochester, N.Y., he was in Illinois. He was formerly Oliver of Crystal Lake, Ill.; HSPA Officers the son of Carl and Betty owner and publisher of the Eric (Chandra) Hansen of President: Tim Timmons, The Paper of Montgomery County Nowicki Hansen. Crystal Lake Times in Illinois. Crystal Lake, Ill.; step-son, (Crawfordsville), The Times (Noblesville) Jim was the circulation He was a U.S. Marine Craig Matthews of Fort Vice President: Greg Morris, IBJ Corp. Secretary: Robyn McCloskey, Pharos-Tribune (Logansport), manager at the Princeton Corp veteran and a member Branch; a sister, Jeanne Kokomo Tribune Daily Clarion since 2000. of the American Legion and (Frank) Passamonte of New Treasurer: Jon O’Bannon, The Corydon Democrat Jim had been in the news- the Patoka United Method- York; grandchildren; and paper business since 1973, ist Church. nieces and nephews. HSPA Board Members Dailies Jim Kroemer, Goshen News Eric Holcomb, chairman change its city edition dead- Randy List, Rust Communications Bill Masterson Jr., The Times of Northwest Indiana (Munster) Scoop of the Indiana Republican lines, he said. Knowing the Tina West, The Courier-Times (New Castle) Continued from Page 1 Party, and Mark Lubbers, announcement was coming, a close adviser to the gov- staffers weeks ago prepared Nondailies “My administrative assis- ernor, arrived at The Star’s advance stories. John Haley, Pulaski County Journal (Winamac) tant knocked on my office Kathy Tretter, Dubois-Spencer County Publishing Co. Inc. employee entrance to meet The Star saw a 1.8 percent Shannon Williams, Indianapolis Recorder door, opened it and said the with Ryerson, Tully and Star increase in single-copy sales governor wanted to talk to political writer Mary Beth Sunday in the Indianapolis me,” he said. “So it was no Schneider. metro area compared to a secret here that something Holcomb and Lubbers year ago, said Bill Bolger, HSPA Foundation Board of Directors was up.” started the conversation by vice president for operations HSPA Foundation Officers Ryerson alerted key man- laying out the background and information technology. President: Henry Bird, The Herald Bulletin (Anderson) agers Friday to begin plan- on how Daniels got to this The paper didn’t increase Vice President: John Rumbach, The Herald (Jasper) ning. point and making a case for the single-copy draw Sun- Secretary: Pat Lanman, Vevay Newspapers Inc. The Star agreed that noth- why he had a shot to get the day, he said.