September 2014 - Tennessee Press Association

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Books from Birth 10th Anniversary Tour will
visit 50 Tenn. counties; TPA media partner
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Tennessee Newspaper
Hall of Fame accepting
applications
Submitted to The Tennessee Press
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Trott meets with
Pulliam; gets copy of
book autographed
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TPA Member News
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Several newspapers announce
website overhauls, delivery
changes and staffing shuffles
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Joe Officer:
70 years at The Sun
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No. 3
September 2014
Volume 78
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Obituaries
Vivian Malcolm-Williams,
Georgia Ruth (Bible) (Ailshie)
Rhines Baglio, Mary Josephine
McKinney, William C. ‘Bill’
Simonton Jr.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation (GBBF) launched its “Books
from Birth 10th Anniversary
Tour” on Aug. 26 in Johnson
County and will conclude at the
Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville on Sept. 30, visiting some 50
counties across the state in a 45foot decorated touring coach.
For a complete list of tour dates
and locations, please visit http://
www.governorsfoundation.org/
News/August-2014/GOVERNORS-BOOKS-FROM-BIRTH-CELEBRATES-10TH-ANNIVE/
The “Books from Birth 10thAnniversary Tour” is being made possible in part through the generous
support of the program’s bus tour
“The Tennessee Press
Association was the
original media partner
10 years ago, and we
have now renewed our
commitment to this
important initiative
to combat illiteracy
in Tennessee.”
Janet Rail
Chair of the TPA
Journalism, Education
& Literacy Committee
partner, Delta Dental of Tennessee.
The purpose of the “Books from
Birth 10th Anniversary Tour” is to
celebrate the 10th anniversary of
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
in Tennessee and the more than 20
million books mailed to children
since the program began.
“The Tennessee Press Asso-
ciation was the original media
partner 10 years ago, and we have
now renewed our commitment to
this important initiative to combat
illiteracy in Tennessee,” said Janet
See TOUR , Page 3
Sherrill elected president of Newspaper Assoc. Managers
By ROBYN GENTILE
TPA Member Services Manager
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Memphis’ Teen Appeal
going strong
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Press association executive
directors from the United States
and Canada met at the Newspaper Association Managers
(NAM) Annual Convention Aug.
5-8 in Nashville.
Greg Sherrill, executive
director of Tennessee Press
Association, was elected president of NAM, succeeding Mike
MacLaren, executive director of
Michigan Press Association.
Sherrill has served on the
NAM Board of Directors since
2009.
The NAM annual conference offers a chance for press
association managers to share information including newspaper
industry trends, opportunities
and challenges affecting press
associations and their members.
Forty-three associations were
represented at the conference.
NAM was established in
1923. NAM sponsors the annual
National Newspaper Week,
which is held the first full week
of October.
Sherrill was named TPA’s
executive director in 2002. He
joined the staff in 1996 as member services manager.
Photo by Dave Bordewyk • South Dakota Newspaper Association
At left, Mike MacLaren, executive director of the Michigan Press Association, who served as Newspaper Association Managers president for 2013-14, passed the ceremonial cup to Tennessee Press Association Executive
Director Greg Sherrill, the newly installed president of NAM, at a banquet in Nashville on Friday, Aug. 8.
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Page 2 • The Tennessee Press • September 2014
2nd annual Border War just days away
By AMELIA MORRISON HIPPS
(USPS 616-460)
Published monthly by the
TENNESSEE PRESS SERVICE, INC.
for the
TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIATION, INC.
435 Montbrook Lane
Knoxville, Tennessee 37919
Telephone (865) 584-5761/Fax (865) 558-8687/www.tnpress.com
Subscriptions: $6 annually
Periodicals Postage Paid At Knoxville, TN
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Tennessee Press,
435 Montbrook Lane, Knoxville, TN 37919.
The Tennessee Press is printed by The Standard Banner
in Jefferson City, Tenn.
Greg M. Sherrill ................................................................................................................................. Editor
Amelia Morrison Hipps ...................................................................................... Managing Editor
Robyn Gentile .......................................................................................... Production Coordinator
Angelique Dunn ....................................................................................................................... Assistant
The Tennessee Press
is printed on recycled paper
and is recyclable.
The Tennessee Press can be read on
www.tnpress.com
OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIATION
TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIATION
Vacant..................................................................................................................................................President
Joel Washburn, The McKenzie Banner ........................................................................ Vice President
Jack McElroy, Knoxville News Sentinel ........................................................................ Vice President
John Finney, Buffalo River Review, Linden ...........................................................................Treasurer
Greg M. Sherrill, Knoxville ...................................................................................... Executive Director
DIRECTORS
Keith Wilson, Kingsport Times-News ................................................................................... District 1
Carl Esposito, The Daily Times, Maryville ............................................................................ District 2
Chris Vass, Chattanooga Times Free Press ........................................................................... District 3
Scott Winfree, Carthage Courier ............................................................................................. District 4
Hugh Jones, Shelbyville Times-Gazette ................................................................................. District 5
Jesse Lindsey, The Lebanon Democrat ................................................................................... District 6
Mark Palmer, The Daily Herald, Columbia .......................................................................... District 7
Brad Franklin, The Lexington Progress ................................................................................. District 8
Daniel Richardson, Magic Valley Publishing, Camden ................................................... District 9
Eric Barnes, The Daily News, Memphis ...............................................................................District 10
Lynn Richardson, Elizabethton Star .......................................................Immediate Past President
TENNESSEE PRESS SERVICE
Victor Parkins, The Milan Mirror-Exchange ......................................................................President
Ralph C. Baldwin, Jones Media Inc., Greeneville ................................................................ Director
David Critchlow Jr., Union City Daily Messenger ............................................................... Director
Jeffrey D. Fishman, Tullahoma News ....................................................................................... Director
Jana Thomasson, The Mountain Press, Sevierville ............................................................. Director
Greg M. Sherrill ............................................................................................... Executive Vice President
TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
Gregg K. Jones, The Greeneville Sun .......................................................................................President
Victor Parkins, The Milan Mirror-Exchange ............................................................ Vice President
Richard L. Hollow, Knoxville ...................................................................................... General Counsel
Greg M. Sherrill ......................................................................................................... Secretary-Treasurer
CONTACT THE MANAGING EDITOR
TPAers with suggestions, questions or comments about items in The
Tennessee Press are welcome to contact the managing editor. Call Amelia
Morrison Hipps, (615) 442-8667; send a note to 1260 Trousdale Ferry Pike,
Lebanon, TN 37087, or email [email protected]. The deadline for the
October issue is Monday, Sept. 8.
TTP Managing Editor
On the third Thursday of September, the second annual Border
War Golf Tournament between the
Tennessee Press Association Foundation and the Kentucky Journalism
Foundation will tee-off.
And the deadlines to register,
make hotel reservations and submit
your entry fee or sponsorship payments are rapidly approaching.
Players from Tennessee and Kentucky newspapers will gather on
Sept. 18 at Crooked Creek Golf Club
in London, Kentucky. The deadline
to register for the tournament is
Friday, Sept. 5.
“While some are driving up the
day of the tournament, others are
planning to overnight and play a
round on Wednesday, before the
tournament, or on Friday, the day
after the tournament,” said Bob
Atkins, tournament co-chair with
David Thompson, executive director
of the Kentucky Press Association.
Atkins asks players who wish to
play either day to let him know so
the golf pro at Crooked Creek can
make tee-times.
In addition, hotel reservations
will need to be made. The recommended hotel is Comfort Suites,
an all-suites hotel, located at 1918
Kentucky 192, London 40741, off
Interstate 75, exit 38, the same exit
as the golf course.
Atkins has blocked 12 rooms
(kings or doubles) for Wednesday,
Sept. 17, and Thursday, Sept. 18,
on first come, first served basis. To
make your reservation for either
date, or both, call Comfort Suites
at 606-877-7848. Ask for a room out
of the Bob Atkins’ block of rooms
for the Border War tournament. The
cutoff date on the block is Monday,
Sept. 15.
Laurie Alford, controller at the
Tennessee Press Service, mailed
email invoices in mid-August for the
$75 entry fee and for any sponsorships. She asks that payments get to
her by Wednesday, Sept. 10.
The $75 per player entry fee
Second Annual Border War Golf Tournament
Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014
Crooked Creek Golf Community
London, Kentucky
Who: Players from Tennessee Press and Kentucky Press
newspapers, associate members and other interested parties.
Registration: $75 per player includes green fee, cart fee, range balls,
beverage cart, lunch and awards reception. Fees are considered a donation to the newspaper foundations and are tax deductible. Deadline:
Friday, Sept. 5
Link to tournament registration information:
http://www.tnpress.com/bulletin_images/BORDER_WAR_2014.pdf
or use the QRC below.
Times: Registration begins at 10 a.m. (Eastern) Lunch, provided by
Hawg-Heaven Barbeque Catering, will be available at 11 a.m. with
range and putting practice available. There will be a shotgun start at
12:30 p.m.
Format: Scramble format with four-person teams. For more information about the course, visit www.crookedcreekgolfky.com
Players and Sponsors: Please contact Bob Atkins, (615) 347-8653, or
email him at [email protected], or co-chairman Joe Albrecht at
(931) 260-6126 or email him at [email protected].
Sponsorships are considered donations to the Kentucky and Tennessee
journalism foundations, which are 501(c)3 nonprofits and tax-deductible.
Hotel: Block of 12 rooms for Wednesday, Sept. 17, and Thursday,
Sept. 18, at Comfort Suites, an all-suites hotel, located
at 1918 Kentucky 192, London 40741, off Interstate 75,
exit 38, the same exit as the golf course. Phone: 606877-7848. Ask for a room out of the Bob Atkins block
of rooms for the Border War tournament. Deadline:
Monday, Sept. 15
Deadline for registration fees and sponsorships:
Wednesday, Sept. 10, to Laurie Alford, controller at TPA, 435 Montbrook
Lane, Knoxville, TN 37919; Phone: (865) 584-5761, Ext. 102.
includes green fee, cart fee, range
balls, beverage cart, lunch and
awards reception. Registration will
begin at 10 a.m. Lunch, provided by
Hawg-Heaven Barbeque Catering,
will be available at 11 a.m., with
range and putting practice available.
The shot-gun start will begin at
12:30 p.m. (Please note, all times are
Eastern Time.)
“This year, Kentucky wants to
do a regular four-person scramble,”
Atkins said.
Thompson said the team with the
lowest score will be declared the
winner – both individually and for
their state.
“If there’s a tie, the golf pro will
go backwards on the scorecard until
he finds the hole where the tie was
broken,” Thompson said.
Fees and sponsorships are considered donations to the newspaper
foundations and are tax deductible.
Tenn. Newspaper Hall of Fame accepting nominations
By ROBYN GENTILE
The Tennessee Newspaper Hall of Fame honors
those who have made an outstanding contribution to
Tennessee newspaper journalism or who have made an
extraordinary contribution to their communities and
region, or the state, through newspaper journalism.
Nominations are being accepted through Oct. 31,
2014, to be considered for induction in 2015. Fifty-five
honorees have been inducted since the Hall of Fame
was established in 1966 as a joint project of TPA and
the University of Tennessee. All inductions are made
posthumously.
Information about the Tennessee Newspaper Hall of
Fame, biographical sketches of the honorees and nomination information can be found at www.tnpress.com/
halloffame.html.
All nominees must be deceased five or more years
prior to the nomination. A selection committee of
five TPA past presidents will review nominations and
announce whether an induction ceremony will be held
in 2015. Plans are underway to extensively renovate the Tennessee Newspaper Hall of Fame gallery in the Communications Building of the University of Tennessee.
The newly renovated interactive Hall of Fame will be
capable of including photos, videos and other historical
material on each of the inductees.
We encourage those submitting nominations to consider including as much material about the nominee as
possible. Materials may be submitted electronically by
contacting TPA headquarters.
September 2014 • The Tennessee Press • Page 3
News Sentinel to be
part of new venture
Submitted to The Tennessee Press
CINCINNATI — The E.W. Scripps Co. will say goodbye to newspapers, including the Knoxville News Sentinel, and hello to radio
in a merger and spinoff transaction with the parent company of the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper.
The deal calls for Milwaukee-based Journal Communications Inc.
to merge its 13 television stations and 35 radio stations into Cincinnati-based Scripps. Both companies will spin off their newspaper assets
into a new publicly traded company, Journal Media Group.
The deal is subject to the approval of shareholders and regulators.
It is expected to close in 2015.
The newly formed newspaper company will be based in Milwaukee, employ about 3,600 and generate annual revenue of more than
$500 million. The deal will make Scripps the nation’s fifth-largest
independent broadcasting company. It will remain in Cincinnati and
be controlled by the Scripps family.
The boards of both companies have approved the transaction. The
Scripps family has agreed to relinquish its 130-year control of Scripps
newspapers as part of the deal.
“We are excited about what this merger offers. These are two great
companies with strong journalistic and business traditions,” News
Sentinel Publisher Patrick Birmingham said. “The new arrangement
will allow the newspaper company to focus what newspapers do
best, serving the information needs of their communities while reinventing themselves for the digital future.”
The leader of Scripps’ newspaper division, Tim Stautberg, will be
CEO of the newly formed newspaper company, while Journal Communications CEO Steve Smith will be its non-executive chairman.
Stautberg said the company will be a “focused local media
business with a print tradition” that will have the ability to expand
beyond its 14-market footprint following the merger.
“I think it’s Scripps’ way of giving its newspapers the best opportunity to enter a new chapter of their life, free of debt, free of substantially all of the pension obligations,” Stautberg.
Scripps CEO Richard Boehne said the split should enable both
companies to grow their respective media platforms through acquisitions and capital investments. Journal Media Group will emerge from
the deal with no debt. Scripps will have less debt than its peers in the
broadcasting industry. Scripps is also retaining the pension liabilities
of newspaper employees as part of the transaction.
“It’s a big opportunity for Scripps and Scripps shareholders,”
Boehne said. “It makes us a much larger television company, a much
larger digital company and we also get back into the radio business.
We’ll be financially a much bigger and stronger company.”
On the broadcast side, Scripps will be a “coast-to-coast news organization” with 34 television stations in 24 cities that reach 18 percent
of U.S. households, said Brian Lawlor, Scripps senior vice president of
television. It will own 35 radio stations in eight cities, including five
markets with TV and radio combos.
See NEWS SENTINEL , Page 9
TOUR, from Page 1
Rail, chair of the TPA Journalism,
Education & Literacy Committee
and publisher of the Independent
Appeal in Selmer, Tennessee.
Bus stop activities will include:
enrolling children, recognizing the
work of volunteers and donors and
engaging communities in support
of the program. The GBBF will
provide reading-themed giveaways
for children at each stop.
“This is truly an amazing
state-wide outreach effort that will
celebrate and build awareness for
Books from Birth,” said First Lady
Crissy Haslam. “It is critical that
our children are exposed to books
and reading at the earliest possible
age.
“Tennessee’s Imagination
Library program, supported by
the Governor’s Books from Birth
Foundation, is a proven and essential component of our state’s early
childhood development initiatives.”
“This program has made a
significant impact in Tennessee
over the past decade, especially due
to the loyal support of hundreds
of dedicated volunteers in each
county,” Gov. Bill Haslam said.
“The First Lady and I encourage
communities across the state to
Photos by Greg Sherrill
FOR YOUR CALENDAR
Walter Pulliam autographs
“A History of Tennessee
Newspapers” for Louisa Trott,
project director of the
Tennessee Newspaper
Digitization Project.
SEPTEMBER
Trott meets with Pulliam;
gets copy of book autographed
By ROBYN GENTILE
Walter Pulliam, a retired former newspaper owner and publisher, wrote
the section on East Tennessee newspapers for “A History of Tennessee
Newspapers,” which was edited by Jack Mooney, Ph.D.
The book was published in 1996 by Tennessee Press Association in
celebration of Tennessee’s Bicentennial.
Louisa Trott, project director of the Tennessee Newspaper Digitization
Project (TNDP), asked TPA Executive Director Greg Sherrill to arrange a
meeting with Pulliam, which took place at his residence on July 22.
Pulliam also served as president of TPA in 1965-66.
Trott was impressed with Pulliam’s work and found it to be very useful
in her work for the TNDP. Her copy of the book is well-used.
TNDP is part of the National Digital Newspaper Program, a long-term
effort to develop an Internet-based resource providing access to digitized
historical newspapers. It is maintained at the Library of Congress and
accessible at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
The first phase of the TNDP covers Tennessee newspapers published
during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. The date range will be
extended as the project progresses.
celebrate their hard work.”
The Governor’s Books from Birth
Foundation (GBBF) was created in
2004 to give every child in Tennessee from birth to age 5 access to receiving Imagination Library books
at no cost to families, regardless
of income. With funding support from the Tennessee General
Assembly, foundations, individual
donors and corporations, the GBBF
matches all funds raised by each
county’s Imagination Library affiliate – a public-private partnership
unique to Tennessee.
“We are thrilled to visit over
50 counties in late August and
September to thank everyone who
has contributed to this program’s
success,” said Theresa Carl, president, GBBF. “Statewide impact
studies show that children who
have received these books are
better prepared for kindergarten,
have increased reading skills, and
develop a love of reading.” About the GBBF
The GBBF currently delivers more than 224,000 books
per month to enrolled children
statewide. Since 2004, more than
400,000 children have graduated
from the program, having turned
five. To enroll a child, visit www.
GovernorsFoundation.org.
4-6: National SPJ Excellence
in Journalism Conference,
Nashville
4-6: The National Federation
of Press Women annual
convention
9-11: Inland Press Association
Group Executives Conference,
St. Louis Regional Chamber
Conference Center in the
Metropolitan Square Building,
St. Louis, Missouri
13-16: Asian American
Journalism Association 25th
Annual Convention at the
Renaissance Washington, D.C.,
Downtown Hotel.
14-16: SNPA’s Carmage Walls
Leadership Forum, Galveston,
Texas
15-17: American Society of
Newspaper Editors Annual
Conference at Chicago
18: 2nd Annual Kentucky/
Tennessee Border War Golf
Tournament “The Battle at
Crooked Creek,” Crooked
Creek Country Club in
London, Kentucky
21-23: Inaugural NAA Retail
Revenue Exchange
Conference, Chicago
OCTOBER
6-8: SNPA 2014 News Industry
Summit, Charlottesville, Va.
10: TPA Board of Directors
Meeting, Nashville
16-18: 18th Institute of
Newspaper Technology,
UT campus, Knoxville
Family Owners & Next
Generation Leadership
Conference, Chicago
129th Annual Meeting,
Chicago
29-Nov. 1: College Media
Advisors National Fall College
Media Convention at the
Philadelphia Marriott,
Philadelphia, Penn.
FEBRUARY 2015
4-6: TPA Winter Convention,
Nashville
MARCH 2015
18-20: National Newspaper
Association’s Leadership
Summit, Crystal City Marriott,
Washington, D.C.
TPA MEMBER NEWS
The Greeneville Sun
launches redesigned
website
The Greeneville Sun re-launched
its website on July 10 to feature
more local content from the pages of
the newspaper.
The expanded GreenevilleSun.
com will provide Sun content that
had never been widely available
online, said Steven K. Harbison, the
Sun’s general manager.
While the website has provided
major community news and sports
coverage since 1998, GreenevilleSun.com will now also deliver extra
content, including “It Happened
Here” police reports, court reports
and features from the newspaper’s
ACCENT, Living, Health and other
sections, he added.
GreenevilleSun.com will continue
popular online-only features such
as photo galleries, videos and the
Greeneville Marketplace directory
of more than 2,000 local businesses,
he said.
The general manager said that
unique, new content on GreenevilleSun.com will include stock market
reports, area gasoline prices, crossword puzzles and Sudoku.
The website has been under
redevelopment since last year, and
the newspaper has plans to add
and improve features in the weeks
ahead, Harbison added.
While all content on GreenevilleSun.com will be free to six-dayper-week subscribers of The Greeneville Sun, others may view up to 30
stories per month on the website at
no charge.
“Individuals may view six complete stories a month for free, before
being asked to register on the website,” said Brian Cutshall, the Sun’s
director of online operations.
Registration will consist of
inputting basic information, such as
name and email address.
“Then, after registration, those
web visitors may view an additional 24 full stories per month at no
charge,” Cutshall said.
Much of the website’s content will
not be “metered” (or included in the
30-story count).
“GreenevilleSun.com has always
allowed visitors to view obituaries
on the website at any time with no
restrictions,” Cutshall said. “We
plan to continue that.”
Website visitors may also view
photo galleries, legal notices, classified advertising and other content
without limitations.
Along with changes to GreenevilleSun.com, the newspaper is simultaneously beefing up its Greenevillemarketplace.com, a local
directory of more than 2,000 local
businesses, Cutshall said.
“All Greeneville and Greene
County businesses are eligible for
free directory listings on Marketplace with basic information,
including their address, phone
number and maps,” according to
Cutshall.
Even after the enhanced Greenevillesun.com launches, the newspaper will continue to provide its
online e-Edition as a free service to
paying six-day-per-week newspaper
subscribers.
With the e-Edition, individuals
may view pages of the newspaper
online, exactly as they appear in the
printed edition.
The e-Edition will not be accessible to those who do not subscribe
to the newspaper six days a week,
although a sample edition is available to everyone at GreenevilleSun.
com/sample.
The newspaper has offered an
e-Edition since 2010.
The Greeneville Sun
July 10, 2014
Commercial Appeal rolls
out new website design
On July 15, The Commercial
Appeal rolled out a new responsive
design of its website that will fit on
any device – smartphone, table,
laptop or desktop.
Readers also have an improved
search function, locating information by category, time and keyword.
Subscribers are able to comment on
stories for the first time using their
mobile devices.
Additionally, commercialappeal.
com has a cleaner, simpler design
that is easier to navigate and more
visual. Photo galleries and videos
are easier to browse.
While the focus will continue to
be on all things Memphis, the new
website also has new offerings on
national and international news,
along with a feature unique to its
site, Decode DC, an aptly named
column that helps explain events in
Washington, D.C.
The Commercial Appeal
(Memphis)
July 13, 2014
TheLeafChronicle.com
gets new look
On July 17, The Leaf-Chronicle
heralded a new beginning for its
digital customers with the launch of
the completely redesigned TheLeafChronicle.com on desktops,
smartphones and tablets.
The re-imagined digital experience is a faster, more elegantly
simple and more visually dynamic
digital presentation of the paper’s
stories, photos and videos.
When users log in, they will
notice that the photos are larger,
the navigation is more logical and
distinct, and everything about the
presentation is fluid and responsive.
The content readers told the
NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW
TPA Board to meet in
October in Nashville
The TPA Board of Directors have
set their fall meeting for Friday, Oct.
10, at the Hilton Garden Inn Nashville Airport location in Nashville.
The meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m.
Ads for 2015 TPA
Directory sought
In less than a month, it will be
time to submit data for the 2015
Tennessee Newspaper Directory,
the annual resource for information
about TPA member papers.
It is an important tool for advertisers seeking information about
Tennessee newspapers.
Listings provide basic information such as paid circulation,
frequency of publication, page sizes,
contact information, addresses and
phone numbers.
However, newspapers may also
buy ads to provide additional information to advertisers. Vendors to
the newspaper industry also should
consider directory advertising as a
tool to reach Tennessee newspapers.
Tennessee Press Service, publisher of the directory, provides directories to clients, potential advertisers,
elected officials and TPA members.
Friday, Oct. 10, is the deadline for
directory updates, while just a week
later, Friday, Oct. 17, is the deadline
for ad orders.
A correction form will be sent to
TPA members the week of Sept. 1.
Updates can also be made online.
Links to the online version are
available at www.tnpress.com.
Questions about advertising
should go to David Wells, TPS advertising director, at (865) 584-5761,
x108, or [email protected].
Ownership statement
deadline is Oct. 1
All periodicals, including newspapers, must file their Statements
of Ownership with the U.S. Postal
Service by Oct. 1.
The statements must also be
published in the newspaper. Dailies
must publish it by Oct. 10 and
non-dailies by Oct. 31.
The two-page form is called P.S.
Form 3526-R Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation.
The PDF can be downloaded at
http://about.usps.com/forms/
ps3526.pdf.
paper they value most from Clarksville and Montgomery County is
featured: breaking local news,
entertainment, government actions,
Fort Campbell, business, fitness and
sports.
The site also links directly to USA
Today’s national and international
news articles, photos and videos,
providing a one-stop experience.
Additionally, it is now easier to find
job listings and purchasing opportunities for cars, home and more.
The smartphone app was updated
as well.
One of the most exciting improvements is the new tablet app. Unlike
the old one, this is a true app,
meaning it was made to work on a
tablet. It’s available for both Android
and iOS devices.
The new tablet experience is
more visual, with full-screen views
for video and photo galleries.
There are also two views to
choose from on the tablet. The list
view feels more like a newspaper on
an iPad, while the grid view is more
visual, with photos and graphics
anchoring most stories. The design
also lets readers find things more
easily.
The Leaf-Chronicle (Clarksville)
July 17, 2014
Commercial Appeal,
Chalkbeat Tennessee
partner
The Commercial Appeal in
Memphis has formed an education partnership with Chalkbeat
Tennessee, a nonprofit news site
covering educational change in
public schools.
The partnership means that
Chalkbeat reporters’ work will be
immediately available for the CA to
use on mobile devices, their website
and in print. CA education reporters
will also be available for use on
tn.chalkbeat.org, but stories that are
metered or paid content will only
include several paragraphs and then
link to our site.
As part of the partnership, the CA
will coordinate with Chalkbeat on
coverage of education.
“We’re in the midst of an unprecedented expansion of educational
choice in Memphis, particularly
with six suburban school districts
opening their doors Aug. 4. By
partnering with Chalkbeat we can
provide comprehensive coverage.
Readers will see an immediate
impact online and in print,” said CA
Editor Louis Graham.
The Commercial Appeal
(Memphis)
July 18, 2014
New Knoxnews.com
geared to mobile era
The Knoxville News Sentinel
rolled out a new website designed
with the mobile Internet in mind on
July 22.
The site has a whole new look
that will display perfectly on smartphones, tablet and desktop computers alike, thanks to a technology
called “responsive design.”
For the first time, too, readers will
be able to comment on stories using
mobile devices.
Overall, the site has a cleaner,
simpler look. Navigation is easier,
with quick access to weather info
linking to a 12-day forecast and
alerts.
The search function has been
much improved. Archived stories
were moved to the new website and
indexed for searching. However,
because a new commenting system
will be implemented, the comments
from the old stories won’t transfer.
See MEMBER NEWS, Page 11
TRACKS
Holtsclaw leaves
Elizabethton Star
for Chicago
Wes Holtsclaw, who worked as
a sports writer for the Elizabethton
Star, for more than 13 years, left the
newspaper in July for a new job in
Evanston, Illinois.
Holtsclaw, who started working
part-time at the newspaper while
a junior at Cloudland High School,
accepted the position as associate
director of communications for the
Sigma Chi Foundation.
Elizabethton Star
July 4, 2014
Daily Times names Sisco
as assistant editor
Veteran journalist Mike Sisco has
been named assistant news editor at
The Daily Times in Maryville.
Sisco is a 1991
graduate of Eastern
Kentucky University and a U.S. Navy
veteran.
Prior to originally joining The Daily Times in 1999,
Sisco worked at the
Sisco
Mountain Citizen
and Martin County
Sun (both in Inez, Kentucky); Logan
Banner and the Lincoln Journal,
both in West Virginia.
He left the area in 2001 for a 10year stint at the St. Croix Avis in the
Virgin Islands before returning to
The Daily Times in 2011.
The Daily Times, Maryville
July 25, 2014
Standard Banner receives
5 awards from NNA
The Standard Banner was
recognized among the nation’s
top non-daily newspapers after receiving five awards in the National
Newspaper Association’s 2014 Better
Newspaper Contest.
The Jefferson City newspaper
received two first place and two
second place awards, along with
an honorable mention with other
non-daily newspapers with circulation of 6,000 or more.
Winners will be recognized at
the award reception Saturday, Oct.
4, during NNA’s 128th Annual
Convention and Trade Show at the
Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Oct. 2-5.
First place awards were received for Best Education/Literacy
Story and Best Feature Photo, while
second place awards were for Best
Breaking News Story and Best Local
News Coverage. The honorable
mention award came in Best Photo
Essay.
Steve Marion wrote the first
place Best Education/Literacy Story,
entitled “Reach for Reading” with
Ronnie Housley providing photographs.
The winning Best Feature Photo
was taken by Dale Gentry and was
titled “Could it be sibling rivalry?”
showing two sisters competing in a
dairy cattle show at the County Fair
with one sticking her tongue out at
the other’s calf.
Marion also wrote the second
place story in Best Breaking News
about a Talbott man who was saved
from his burning home.
The paper’s entire staff contributed to the second place award for
Best Local News Coverage. And
Marion and Housley combined for
the photos in the Best Photo Essay
Honorable Mention award, which
focused on Old Time Saturday.
The Standard Banner,
Jefferson City
July 22, 2014
Fry leaves Bulletin-Times
Richard Fry, publisher of The Bolivar Bulletin-Times and Hardeman
County Shopper, left the newspapers
in early August to accept “an unexpected opportunity” that his family
“couldn’t say no to” in New Orleans,
according to his last column.
Fry returned to the publisher
position in February 2012, 15 years
after leaving in 1997. He first came
to Bolivar in 1987 and served as the
publisher and vice president of the
Bulletin-Times for 10 years.
Bulletin-Times, Bolivar
July 30, 2014
Eddie Thurman
joins DNJ ad team
The Daily News Journal has
added a new face to its advertising
team, announced Taylor Loyal,
editor and general
manager.
Eddie Thurman
comes to The DNJ
from the digital
marketing world
and hopes to use
his experience to
help local busiThurman
nesses build their
brands.
The new advertising representative graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 2000 with a
degree in business administration
and minor in entrepreneurship. He
then went on to serve in the U.S.
Marine Reserves and spent 2004 in
Iraq.
“We’re so happy to have Eddie
as a part of The DNJ,” Loyal said.
“With our newly redesigned print
edition and the new look of dnj.
com, he comes to The DNJ during
an exciting time for us. His presence here will help us further our
mission as Rutherford County’s top
source for local news and advertising.”
Thurman said his discipline from
the military, experience with a digital marketing firm and educational
background helps him relate to the
trials of owning a small business.
“I think my background can help
local businesses grow by getting the
word out to Rutherford County both
digitally and in print,” he said.
Thurman hails from Nashville
and grew up reading The Tennessean. He knows his way around
Murfreesboro well after living here
for seven years and is impressed by
the direction of The DNJ, he said.
“I like the fact that there are local
opportunities for advertisers in The
Daily News Journal,” Thurman
said.
Thurman’s two brothers and parents live in Nashville. His girlfriend,
Angela Petty, is from Murfreesboro.
Thurman can be contacted at 615893-5860 or ethurman@tnmedia.
com.
The Daily News Journal,
Murfreesboro
Aug. 3, 2014
Southard joins The Daily
Times sports staff
Dargan Southard has joined The
Daily Times sports department as a
part-time sports reporter.
The Maryville
High alum is
currently a senior
at the University
of Tennessee in
Knoxville and
serves as assistant
sports editor at The
Daily Beacon.
Southard
Southard began
freelancing for The
Daily Times at the start of the year
and quickly became a popular baseball beat writer covering preps, the
Vols and the Tennessee Smokies.
The Daily Times, Maryville
Aug. 8, 2014
Kile named Regional
Manager for Tennessee
operations
Dan Sykes, executive vice president of Landmark Media Enterprises LLC, announces that Kevin Kile
is now the regional manager of all
Tennessee Operations.
Kile has been leading Roane
County News and Morgan County
News since being named publisher/
general manager in January 2012.
As regional manager, Kile assumes responsibility for LaFollette
Press, which had been reporting to
Sykes.
A Tennessee native and a University of Tennessee graduate with a
degree in marketing education, Kile
worked as an ad director for Jones
Media Inc. before joining the Roane
County News as advertising director
in 2007.
Under Kile’s leadership, the
Roane leadership team has identified and implemented operational
improvements.
He lives in Sweetwater, Tenn.,
with his wife, Sarah, and children,
Elise, 10, and Evan, 6.
Submitted to TTP
Aug. 3, 2014
Rouse named Courier
News (Ark.) publisher
Kennett native Shelia Rouse has
assumed the publisher position of
the Blytheville Courier News, as
well as the Osceola
Times, the Steele
Enterprise and the
Democrat-Argus in
Caruthersville, all
in Arkansas.
It will be an expanded role within
Rust CommuniRouse
cations for Rouse,
who has been
publisher of the State Gazette in
Dyersburg, Tennessee, since 2001.
She also serves as publisher for the
Daily Dunklin Democrat in Kennett,
the Daily Statesman in Dexter, the
Delta News-Citizen in Malden, the
Missourian-News in Portageville,
and the North Stoddard Countian in
Advance-Bloomfield, all in Missouri.
She will continue as publisher in
Dyersburg.
“I am really excited about accepting this position in northeast Arkansas,” Rouse said. “The Courier News
has always been an integral part of
the community, with an excellent
news product, and I look forward to
being involved in that tradition in
the future.
“The staff and I are committed to
providing an outstanding newspaper for our readers and advertisers.
We also will be working hard to
continue to develop our digital
media presence as we provide a
wide range of news and advertising
services.”
Among the projects in the immediate future are a pre-season football
magazine, due out by the end of
the month, a text alert system and
expanded website services.
Rouse replaces David Tennyson
as publisher of the Courier News.
Tennyson recently retired from the
post.
“Although I’m retired, I’m still
hanging around the house cleaning garages and such, and (Editor)
Andy (Weld) asked me for a comment on Shelia assuming my former
position,” Tennyson noted.
“Although she doesn’t know
how to spell ‘Sheila,’ Mrs. Rouse is
still a strong newspaper woman.
The girl knows her stuff, and even
though she’s got a lot on her plate, I
feel confident that with the current
staffs in place at Blytheville, Osceola, Caruthersville and Steele, all will
be well in my former little empire,”
Tennyson added.
Rouse is a 1983 graduate of
Kennett High School and studied
journalism at both Williams Baptist
College in Walnut Ridge and Mississippi County Community College
(now Arkansas Northeastern College) in Blytheville. She is married
to Jimmie Smith Jr., formerly of
Kennett.
Rouse has been involved in numerous civic activities in Dyersburg,
including service as president of
the Coats for Kids Program and the
Business and Professional Women’s
Foundation. She is a member of the
Rotary Club. She is a graduate of the
Dyer County Leadership Class, the
Dyersburg Citizens Police Academy,
the FBI Citizens Academy and the
Center For Sales Strategy.
Active in numerous newspaper
organizations, she has served on the
board of the SEMO Press Association and the advertising/circulation
committees of the Missouri Press
Association and the Tennessee Press
Association. She also is a member of
the Southern Newspaper Publishers
Association, Inland Press, Local
Media Association and PAGE.
Prior to accepting her first publisher position, Rouse worked as advertising director at the Dyersburg
News. She also served as general
manager at the Democrat Argus in
Caruthersville, advertising director
at Malden and was an advertising
executive at Kennett.
Also joining the staff at the Courier News is Lisa Bryant, who is serving as regional advertising manager.
Bryant has worked the last 13 years
as the general manager at the Democrat-Argus in Caruthersville.
Blytheville Courier News
Aug. 21, 2014
70 years at The Sun and going strong
Colleagues honor
Joe Officer – at
work! – on his
85th birthday
By The Greeneville Sun Staff
July 17, 2014
When Joe Officer started work
at The Greeneville Sun, Franklin
D. Roosevelt was President of the
United States.
The month was June 1944. And
young Officer had not yet celebrated
his 15th birthday.
In some years, the age of 14
might have been too young to be
considered for a job in a Greeneville
business, especially one using
equipment that was complicated
and could even be somewhat dangerous if not used carefully.
But it was a difficult time to find
employees. In both Europe and
Asia, World War II was at a critical
stage, and many, many Greene
Countians – especially men, but
numerous women as well – were
serving in the armed forces or
working in war-related industries.
The massive Normandy invasion
of Nazi-held Europe on June 6, 1944
– known to history as D-Day – had
taken place just a short time earlier.
A year of bitter fighting in western Europe would follow before the
victory over Hitler’s Germany was
secured in May 1945.
In the Pacific, the struggle with
the Empire of Japan was equally
intense. One of those involved was
a future Sun Publisher named John
M. Jones, who in the spring of 1944
was serving behind Japanese lines
in Burma with a U.S. Army outfit
that came to be known as Merrill’s
Marauders.
Meanwhile, here in Greeneville,
the staff of the Sun numbered only
about 15 people, and then-Publisher
Edith O’Keefe Susong badly needed
another staff member in production
to help get the paper out six days a
week.
She ran an advertisement for the
position. Young Joe Officer’s mother
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Photo by Tammy McGinnis
The Greeneville Sun held a special birthday celebration for Joe Officer,
second from left, on Monday. Officer turned 85 and is celebrating 70
years as an employee of the Sun. Shown with Officer, from left, are Sun
Co-Publisher and Jones Media Inc. President/CEO Gregg K. Jones, former
longtime Sun employee Frank Riley, and Sun General Manager Steven K.
Harbison.
saw the ad and suggested that he
apply for the job. He did so, and was
hired – part-time for the brief period
until he turned 15, then full-time.
He smiled today as he said the
memory of his hiring by Mrs.
Susong is as clear in his mind as if it
were yesterday.
He came to work at the Sun for
the first time in June 1944 – a little
more than 70 years ago – and has
been a continuous member of the
staff of the newspaper ever since,
with one exception.
The exception came in the early
1950s, when he served in the Army
during the Korean War. Ten months
of that time he spent in Korea itself.
His job was waiting for him when
he returned.
‘Hooked’ on newspaper
work
Fellow employees have quickly
learned through the years – and
decades – that he is both highly
capable and so regular and steady in
his work style that others can practically set their watches by him.
In the early years of his employment, he recalled, he had to walk
one mile to the bus stop to come to
and from work.
In those days he lived not far
from the current location of the WalMart Regional Distribution Center
at Midway.
He grinned as he remembered
that, if he hung around after work
playing pool and missed the bus,
that one-mile walk turned into a
12-mile hike.
He said recently that he started
at the Sun as a teenager but stayed
because he married, and he and his
wife, Martha, became the parents of
five children. (A daughter, Cherie, is
the wife of state Sen. Steve Southerland, of Morristown.)
Besides, Officer said, he became
“hooked” on newspaper work over
the years and wouldn’t know what
to do with himself if he didn’t get up
and come in every day.
A lot of changes
Needless to say, he has seen a
great many changes while working
for the Sun over the last seven decades of dramatic – even revolutionary – technological development in
the newspaper industry.
His first 20-plus years were in the
newspaper’s “hot metal” days.
At first, he said, he worked in a
variety of assignments related to the
production and circulation aspects
of the paper, from helping on the
press to taking copies of the paper
to the post office to be mailed out to
subscribers.
Later, he became a compositor – a
person who had a key role in creating pages of the newspaper.
His role: to take stories that had
been typed on paper and then converted into lines of lead type, and
position those columns of typeset
stories within flat, rectangular steel
forms (called “chases”) that were
the size of newspaper pages.
His job changed dramatically in
1967 when the Sun converted from
“hot metal” to “cold type,” more
properly known as offset printing.
When that happened, the process
of actually printing the newspaper
stopped involving lead type and
became essentially photographic.
Officer took over the graphic camera
room: a crucial part of the new, very
different production process.
He quickly mastered the new
technology, and in later years, as
newspaper technology kept evolving, he has taken the changes in
stride, learning the new skills and
mastering the new equipment.
In addition, besides handling his
primary responsibilities at the newspaper, he long ago became known
at the Sun for his exceptional
ability to fix pretty much anything
electronic or mechanical – or invent
something to make a task easier.
He continues to work five
mornings a week in the pre-press
production department, where he is
a valued staff member.
Seven decades have turned part
of his black hair gray, but otherwise he looks basically as he has
“always” looked – much to the
good-natured chagrin of fellow employees who find they are showing
the years a good deal more than he
is.
Turned 85 on Monday
Officer turned 85 on Monday,
July 14, and fellow employees of
The Greeneville Sun as well as local
staff members of Jones Media Inc.,
the newspaper’s parent company,
surprised him in the pre-press room
at mid-morning with a big, specially
decorated cake, a chorus of “Happy
Birthday,” and even some balloons
– all coordinated by his supervisor,
Sun Circulation and Printing Director Dale Long.
Publisher John M. Jones, who
succeeded Mrs. Susong, his mother-in-law, in that position at her
death in 1974, sent his best wishes
although, at 99, he is no longer able
to be active at the Sun. So did his
wife, Arne Jones, also 99.
Former Sun Associated Press
Wire Editor Frank Riley, now
retired at 80 and living in Russellville, enthusiastically made the trip
to Greeneville to join the birthday
celebration for his longtime friend
and co-worker.
Sun Co-Publisher and Jones
Media President/CEO Gregg Jones
voiced the appreciation and admiration of the company and the group
for Officer and his long, excellent
service, and Long added his own
words of praise.
Although all who crowded into
the pre-press room knew well that
Joe is extremely modest and hates
to be the center of attention, they
ignored those facts and celebrated
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Gail Kerr’s legacy lives on in award and homeless fund
Homeless fund raises $50K
Award named for columnist
By Andy Humbles
By Adam Tamburin
The Tennessean, July 9, 2014
The Tennessean, July 20, 2014
Longtime Tennessean columnist Gail Kerr’s vision for helping the homeless became a reality July 7.
More than 300 donors contributed nearly $50,000 to Gail Kerr’s House the
Homeless Fund, which was established shortly after her death in March.
The Tennessean and Kerr’s husband, Les Kerr, hosted a thank-you
luncheon for the contributors at the Music City Center. A $49,635 check was
presented to the Metropolitan Homelessness Commission, which will use
the money to help the homeless move into long-term housing.
Les Kerr said he would add the difference to round up the total to
$50,000, which far exceeded Gail Kerr’s initial goal of $10,000.
The House the Homeless fund was based on a project Gail Kerr proposed
last fall but was unable to launch before she died after her third bout with
cancer.
The Metro Human Relations Commission on July 21 honored four
community members with a new award named after beloved Tennessean
columnist Gail Kerr.
The Gail Kerr HRCules award is meant to trumpet local “heroes” who
“embody Gail’s passion and spirit for Nashville and all of its residents,” the
commission wrote in a prepared statement.
“The goal is to highlight what people are doing right in the community in
the hope that others will follow their lead,” the statement read. “The award
was named in Gail Kerr’s honor because she was a champion for those
whose voices needed to be heard.”
The commission plans to honor one member of the community each
month. On July 21, it celebrated honorees from the months of March
through July.
Kerr
KNS’ Tom Humphrey retires after 30 years
Compiled by Staff
Tom Humphrey, the Nashville
bureau chief for the Knoxville News
Sentinel, retired on July 31.
News Sentinel Editor Jack
McElroy made the following statement about Humphrey’s retirement
to KnoxViews:
“We are going to miss Tom immensely. He’s been the dean of the
statehouse press corps and one of
the News Sentinel’s most productive
and authoritative journalists. He’s
also a really nice guy.
“Happily, he will continue to
write columns and stories for us on
a freelance basis and will maintain
Photo from Knoxville News Sentinel
Retiring News Sentinel Nashville Bureau Chief Tom Humphrey posted
this on his Facebook page about his retirement gift from cartoonist
Charlie Daniel: “Getting cartooned by Charlie, a Great American, is the
nicest thing that’s happened to an old coot in a while. It’s now hanging
on the wall in the Bell Buckle ‘work-in-progress’ house.”
his popular ‘Humphrey on the Hill’
blog. For the time being, we will be
relying on Rick Locker, who covers
state government for our sister
paper in Memphis, The Commercial
Appeal, for capitol correspondence.
That may change in the future.”
Below are Humphrey’s own
words about the next chapter in his
life as posted on his blog, “Humphrey on the Hill.”
The News Sentinel had a farewell luncheon for me yesterday,
the highlight being presentation
of a Charlie Daniel cartoon drawing of yours truly with a caption
saying, “Remember, it’s Humphrey on the Hill, not Humphrey
over the hill.”
I will continue the blog and
writing a Sunday column for the
News Sentinel, plus some other
stuff from time to time. I’ll also be
helping out a bit at The Tennessee
Journal. So I’ll still be around,
just not quite as busy as in the
past 30 years of working for the
News Sentinel as a full-time
employee.
Some fellow bloggers have had
kind things to say about my exit
from the full-time scene, including fellow KNS blogger Frank
Munger and Knoxviews.
The Nashville Scene raises the
question of who will follow me in
the News Sentinel Nashville position. The answer, at the moment,
is no one. The position is frozen,
and the Commercial Appeal’s
Rick Locker will be sending stuff
to the KNS as well as the CA on
a more regular basis. That has
developed in the last week or so,
since Tom Chester talked with
Steve Cavendish, who penned
the piece and who once was a
very good student in a journalism
class I taught.
And I’ve had many folks wishing me well. Thanks to everyone
who has done so.
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OBITUARIES
Vivian Malcolm-Williams
Vivian “Viv” Malcolm-Williams,
60, resident of Adairville, Kentucky,
former resident of the Somerville
Community, died on July 9, 2014 at
the TriStar Horizon Medical Center
in Dickson, Tennessee.
Born to William Howard Malcolm and Rosalie Mary Favazza
Malcolm in Cumberland, Maryland,
she moved to Tennessee at an early
age with her family. Her vocational
interests were numerous varied,
including a time as media sales
representative for the former Fayette
County Review newspaper.
Mrs. Malcolm-Williams was preceded in death by her parents and a
brother, John William Malcolm.
Survivors include: two daughters, Marty (Joe) White of Somerville and Amanda (Brian) Moody
Thompson of Adairville, Kentucky;
her sister, Pamela Malcolm of
Somerville; two brothers, Gerald
(Dixie) Malcolm of Ponca City,
Oklahoma and James (Christa)
Patrick Malcolm of Edmond,
Oklahoma; six grandchildren, one
great-granddaughter and several
nieces, nephews and cousins.
Funeral services were held July
22 at the St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in the Warren Community. A private interment was held
in Maryland.
The Fayette Falcon (Somerville)
July 23, 2014
Georgia Ruth (Bible)
(Ailshie) Rhines Baglio
Georgia Ruth (Bible) (Ailshie)
Rhines Baglio, 86, died Aug. 8, 2014.
Mrs. Baglio played the piano,
worked with the Morristown
Crewettes at the
Sun and the Daily
Gazette Mail in
Morristown and
at the Knoxville
News Sentinel
where she was
an interpreter for
the deaf. She also
Baglio
worked at J.C.
Penney.
She was preceded in death by her
true parents, Charlie and Emma
Ailshie, and her birth parents,
Nevy and Winnie Bible; her two
husbands, Tennessee “Edward Tennessee” Rhines and Rocco Baglio,
and her grandson, Charles Edward
“Charlie” Rhines; her sisters Kate
Dunsmore and Myrtle Wright; and
brother, James Bible.
Survivors include: her sons, Ray
(Doey) (Lisa) of Nashville, Charles
Morton (Toddy) (Robin D.), and
Edward Tennessee Jr. (Jody) (Robin
A.) of Morristown; and stepson,
Rocco (Sue) Baglio of New Hampshire; four grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were Aug. 12
at Westside Chapel Funeral Home
with the Rev. Kenny Cole officiating. Interment was Aug. 13 at
Jarnigan Cemetery.
Citizen Tribune (Morristown)
Aug. 12, 2014
Mary Josephine
McKinney
Mrs. Mary Josephine McKinney,
92, of Rockwood died Aug. 12, 2014.
Born Oct. 31, 1921, to Henley
Preston and Carrie Suddath Ramsey, the family lived in the Swan
Pond community of Harriman, but
later moved to Rockwood in 1941.
Mrs. McKinney was a charter
member of the Chevront Methodist
Church and was involved in many
community activities, including the
Roane County Farm Bureau.
She wrote the “Round Rockwood”
column for The Rockwood Times
and later the Roane County News
for many years. She was selected as
a “Roane County Treasure” in 2012.
In addition to her parents, Mrs.
McKinney was preceded in death
by her twin sister, Margaret Ramsey
Peters and her beloved husband,
Eugene McKinney.
Survivors include: sons, David
(Wanda) McKinney, Lenoir City;
Steve (Bonnie) McKinney and Joe
(Kathleen) McKinney, all of Rockwood; daughter, Nina (Randy) Swafford, Crossville; eight grandchildren,
and 16 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were Friday,
Aug. 15, at the chapel of Evans Mortuary with the Rev. Brenda Poole
officiating. Interment was Saturday,
Aug. 16, at Oak Grove Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the
Swan Pond Methodist Church Cemetery Fund.
Roane County News
Aug. 14, 2014
William C. ‘Bill’
Simonton Jr.
William C. (Bill) Simonton, Jr.,
85, former editor of The Covington
Leader, died at
Baptist Memorial
Hospital East on
Friday, Aug. 15,
2014. Born to William
Christopher and
Emma Long
Simonton in Covington, he attended
Simonton
local schools and graduated from
Byars-Hall High School. He continued his education at Centre College,
Danville, Kentucky, and graduated
in 1950.
He began work at the Leader in
1936 as a part-time bindery assistant
and at various times operated most
of the production equipment. In
1950, he became news editor, and in
1957, editor, a position he held until
he resigned in 1975. During his editorial time, the
Leader was a consistent award winner in state and national excellence
competition. He also administered
the conversion of the Leader from
letterpress to offset printing in
1961. It was the first weekly newspaper printed on a web offset press
in West Tennessee.
Upon leaving the Leader, Simonton joined Clopay Corporation as
Quality Assurance Manager. He
subsequently served the City of Covington as Manager of Purchasing
and Personnel until his retirement
in 1991.
In civic affairs, he was a charter
officer of the Covington Chamber
of Commerce and of the Covington
Country Club. He later served as
Chamber president, and subsequently became chairman of the
Industrial Development Committee
for the Chamber.
He was a member of the Covington Board of Education from 1957
to 1972 and served as chairman
during the desegregation of the city
school system during the 1960s.
Simonton played seven years of
varsity football at Byars-Hall High
School and Centre College. After
graduation, he became an official of
the Tennessee Secondary Schools
Athletic Association (TSSAA) and
worked high school, college and
junior high football games for the
next 35 years.
He also officiated basketball and
soccer for briefer periods. He later
served as clock operator for local
high school games for another 10
years and was an unpaid assistant
football coach at both Crestview and
Covington Grammar Schools for
seven years.
He was a life-long member
of First Presbyterian Church of
Covington, where he was a choir
member, soloist and Sunday school
teacher for 60 years.
After he retired, he attended
Dyersburg State Community College
for a number of years, auditing a
wide assortment of courses.
He was preceded in death by his
parents and his wife of 55 years,
Jane Butler Simonton. Survivors include a daughter,
Gail M. Simonton of Alexandria,
Virginia; a son, Kevin W. (Fonda)
Simonton, and a grand-daughter,
Savannah Simonton, all of Cordova,
Tennessee; and his two beloved
canine companions, Little Girl and
Star. He also leaves Sylvia Burnett
and Vickie Drain, who cared for
him in his home with kindness and
compassion.
Funeral services were Aug. 19 at
First Presbyterian Church officiated
by the Rev. Scott Sealy.
Memorials may be sent to Centre
College, Danville, Kentucky; Dyersburg State Community College in
Covington, or to an organization of
the donor’s choice.
At his request, his body has
been donated to the University of
Tennessee Health Science Center for
research. Burial will be in Munford
Cemetery, Covington, at a later date.
The Covington Leader
Aug. 18, 2014
Longtime Roane County News columnist,
‘Miss Josephine’ McKinney dies at 99
By CINDY SIMPSON
Roane County News, Aug. 14, 2014
A longtime Rockwood columnist for the Roane County News
died Tuesday.
Josephine McKinney, 92,
affectionately known as “Miss
Josephine” to many, wrote “Round
Rockwood” for the Rockwood
Times and later the Roane County
News.
She was a community columnist
sharing the goings-on of friends and
family, whether it be who came to
dinner, who was sick, or who had a
new bundle of joy on the way.
“They’d call her with any news
they wanted printed,” said Steve
McKinney, her son. “She pretty well
kept a hand on the pulse of the com-
munity and knew things through
the grapevine,” His brother David said their
mother often got her information
through selling fresh eggs around
town.
“If she had eggs to peddle, she
could go half the day, taking eggs
to people’s houses and getting the
scoop. That is how she gathered up
some of her newspaper stories,” said
David McKinney. Her family remembers a loving
woman who took time to listen.
“She was a very outgoing person.
She was a hard worker but if she
got a phone call she’d sit down and
talk to somebody 15 minutes if
they needed to talk that long – get
behind on her work to do it – do
whatever it took to let somebody
blow off steam or let them know she
cared about them,” David said.
“She was just a loving and giving
person. She hardly ever got mad at
anybody I am aware of.”
The farmer’s wife of the late
Eugene McKinney was active with
Roane County Farm Bureau and
other community activities. She
greatly missed her late husband
after his death in 2011. “She was quite a woman and very
supportive of Dad and anything he
wanted to do,” David said. The couple had been married 70
years, joining their lives as teenagers in 1940. See MCKINNEY, Page 9
TnQPN catches on like wildfire with papers
In the blink of an eye summer is
gone. The biggest project Network
Advertising has undertaken this
summer is the start of Tennessee’s
NEW Quarter Page Network,
TnQPN. By the time this is printed,
TnQPN will be launched!
Tennessee Press Association
members stepped up and joined
the Network so quickly it was
amazing! TnQPN started with just
a handful of newspapers then grew
so quickly, there wasn’t enough
space to list all of the newspapers
that have joined.
Thank you all for your support!
In addition to starting TnQPN,
David Wells, TPS Director of Ad-
NETWORKS
ADVERTISING
MANAGER
BETH ELLIOTT
vertising, and I had the opportunity to visit with the sales staff at the
Elizabethton Star. We talked about
the services that TPS provides and
in particular how their sales staff
can sell the Network ads to their
local clients.
It was a great visit, beautiful
drive through the country, and an
enthusiastic group. Thank you for
the invite and the hospitality!
So what do these two things
mean to you and your newspaper?
In one word, revenue! Your sales
staff can up-sell the TnQPN ads to
your local clients that need to reach
a wide audience.
In other words, your local clients
can get their ad in newspapers
across the state or region through
your sales staff.
Here’s a quick tutorial on selling
the Network ads.
• Tell your clients about the ads.
They can’t buy a Network ad if
they do not know about it.
• Send the ad to TPS for placement.
• Collect the money from your
client.
• Not really a fourth step except
that your newspaper keeps a
great commission and TPS does
all the legwork.
For more information on selling
the Network ads or to become a
participating newspaper, please
contact TPS at 865-584-5761 ext.
117.
This could be the new source of
revenue you’ve been looking for to
close out this year.
FYI - CONTACT INFO
Tennessee Press
Association
Mail: 435 Montbrook Lane,
Knoxville, TN 37919
Phone: (865) 584-5761
Fax: (865) 558-8687
Web: www.tnpress.com
Email: (name)@tnpress.com
Those with boxes, listed
alphabetically:
Laurie Alford (lalford)
Pam Corley (pcorley)
MCKINNEY, from Page 8
She was also a charter member
of Chevront United Methodist
Church, serving many years as a
Sunday school teacher and pianist.
When no longer able to attend
by herself, she often attended Swan
Pond United Methodist Church
with her family. In addition to her column, Miss
Josephine also wrote in to contests,
winning a few prizes here and
there, particularly in the 1950s.
Those prizes ranged from small
cash awards to products such as
soap.
“One time she won a living room
suite. When it came, it was made
out of (glued) cardboard,” said
David McKinney.
She even won a pair of toy
pistols, a holster and hat for young
David at one time as well. She got her knack for social
writing from her mother, Carrie
Ramsey, who wrote a column
called the “Abel’s Valley News” for
The Rockwood Times, which was
the name of the column until Josephine moved to Rockwood in 1989.
After many decades, Miss
Josephine decided to call it quits on
“Round Rockwood” in 2013. “He is part of my own earliest
memories of the Sun as a child in
the late 1940s. My brothers and
sisters and I grew up knowing him
and his wife, Martha, as friends.
“Decades later, when I came
to work here myself on a regular
basis, I came to see him also as a
highly-valued colleague, very much
liked, respected and relied on by
everyone at the paper.
“In his knowledge and intuition
about electronics and machinery,
his impressive ability to master
new technology and new skills,
and his calm, cheerful, can-do
attitude, he has been – and is – a
wonder and an encouragement to
all who work with him.
“But I think his impact as a person has been even greater than his
invaluable service as an employee.
All of us who know him here at the
paper value and admire him as a
man of integrity, genuineness, and
unselfishness.
“We are privileged to have him
as a colleague and friend.”
Added Gregg Jones:
“In the 70 years since Joe
started at The Greeneville Sun, the
technology required to publish the
newspaper has changed repeatedly
and significantly.
“During that evolution, a very
gifted Joe Officer proved himself
to be a master of adapting to every
new bend in the road and excelling
at whatever was needed. And, as
Joe learned, he also cheerfully
taught many others, like yours
truly, how to become competent in
the new skills of the day.
“I join the staff of the Sun, past
and present, in expressing deep
respect and admiration for Joe, and
gratitude for his friendship and the
ability to work with him.”
Angelique Dunn (adunn)
Beth Elliott (belliott)
Robyn Gentile (rgentile)
Frank Gibson (fgibson)
Earl Goodman (egoodman)
Kathy Hensley (khensley)
OFFICER, from Page 6
for him and with him anyway.
He seemed not to mind too
much. After all, it was his 70th
year at the paper, and he was 85,
even if he hardly looks 70.
Memories & admiration
“There is no way to adequately
sum up what Joe Officer has meant
to The Greeneville Sun and its
people over the years,” Editor John
M. Jones Jr. said this week.
Whitney Page (wpage)
Greg Sherrill (gsherrill)
Kevin Slimp (kslimp)
Kayretta Stokes (kstokes)
Alisa Subhakul (asubhakul)
David Wells (dwells)
Tessa Wildsmith (twildsmith)
Heather Wright (hwright)
Advertising email:
NEWS SENTINEL, from Page 3
“It will allow us to really tell the stories of
what’s impacting America on a national scale,”
said Lawlor. “Many of our digital investments …
we’ll be able to scale those across almost 20 percent of the country. That creates a great business
opportunity.”
Boehne, a former business reporter for the
Cincinnati Post, said the decision to exit newspapers was “enormously difficult” because of its
deep history in the industry but he thinks it is
a business that “deserves scale and needs size”
in order to grow. Edward Scripps founded the
company as Cleveland’s Penny Press in 1878.
“We thought it was time to take the newspapers and put them into a dedicated company so
they could grow and pursue their own strategy
and take advantage of opportunities that they
couldn’t do inside this company,” he said.
The companies expect to gain about $35
million in “combined transaction synergies,” but
Boehne said it will take months to determine
how the deal will affect employees.
For Scripps shareholders the deal will bring a
one-time dividend of $60 million, or roughly $1
per share. It will be a tax-free transaction that
makes shareholders of both companies owners
of the surviving entity.
Scripps shareholders will own 59 percent of
the newspaper company following the transaction and 69 percent of the post-merger broadcast
company.
[email protected]
Tennessee Press
Service
Knoxville, TN 37919
Phone: (865) 584-5761
Fax: (865) 558-8687
Web: www.tnadvertising.biz
Tennessee Press
Association
Foundation
Knoxville, TN 37919
National Newspaper Week (NNW) is set for Oct. 5-11 this year. NNW is an annual observance held in the first full week of October and is sponsored by the
Newspaper Association Managers. This year’s theme is “Newspapers – The Foundation of Vibrant Communities.” Editorials, cartoons and more will be
available on www.nationalnewspaperweek.com beginning Monday, Sept. 22. TPA will send notifications to members when the materials are available. This
year marks the 74th annual NNW observance.
Phone: (865) 584-5761
Fax: (865) 558-8687
Web: www.tpafoundation.org
Many high school newspapers folding,
but Memphis’ Teen Appeal going strong
By TOM HRACH
University of Memphis
With high school newspapers
around the country being eliminated due to school budget cutbacks,
an innovative program in Memphis
is thriving and continuing to show
teenagers that newspaper journalism has a bright future.
The 17th edition of The Teen
Appeal launched this summer, offering 50 high school students in the
Memphis area a chance to become
journalists.
“I would say this is a success because it not only introduces students
to journalism, but it also introduces
them to the paper and lets them get
to know about the policies and procedures in the newspaper business,”
said Jerome Wright, editorial page
editor of The Commercial Appeal.
“It also has improved their writing,
and that helps them – even if they
don’t go into journalism.”
The Teen Appeal is published
eight times during the school year
and distributed to about 30 high
schools in the Shelby County School
District. It has a circulation of about
15,000, and students also show their
work on the website teenappeal.
com, said Elle Perry, Teen Appeal
coordinator.
Some of the content is hard-hitting, such as an award winning story about a student protest at Carver
High School and another about
bullets found in a school bus. Other
stories are softer, such as features
about applying for college or how to
accessorize a school uniform.
The program begins in the summer with a week-long camp, which
this year was July 21-25, at the
University of Memphis journalism
department. The week concludes
with a tour of The Commercial
Appeal where the students get to see
reporters, editors and photographers
in action.
“I was always interested in writing, and at first I wanted to major in
English in college. But now I think I
am going into mass communication
or journalism,” said Kayla Lee, 17,
a senior at Memphis’ Hillcrest High
School and current Teen Appeal
staff member. “I’ve always wanted
to work at a magazine.”
Lee said she plans to apply to
Middle Tennessee State University,
the University of Memphis and Fisk
University for college next year. She
credited The Teen Appeal summer
camp with helping to convince her
to go into journalism.
“I have become a much better
writer after only a few days,” Lee
said. “Journalism is a lot different
than writing an English paper.”
Photo by Tom Hrach • University of Memphis
Students of the Teen Appeal gather for a group photograph in the front lawn of The Commercial Appeal.
Erin Aulfinger of Central High School in Memphis works on an article for
the next edition of the Teen Appeal newspaper while at the University of
Memphis.
Jerome Wright, editorial page editor at The Commercial Appeal, gives
a tour of the Commercial Appeal newsroom to students of the Teen
Appeal.
Her classmate Latara Watkins, an
18-year-old senior at Hillcrest High,
agreed after only three days at the
summer camp that her writing has
improved significantly.
“I certainly learned how to make
my writing more interesting,”
Watkins said. “I know now not to
use so many adjectives – but keep
it short and sweet so everyone can
understand it.”
The Teen Appeal is thriving
while other high school journalism
programs are folding. For example, Detroit’s FreepHigh, which
produced a high school newspaper
for the past 29 years, was eliminated this summer due to the lack of
money from the local newspaper.
Yet in Memphis, The Commercial Appeal, the Scripps-Howard
Foundation and the University of
The Commercial Appeal and the
U of M journalism department,”
Sanford said.
The Scripps foundation provides
a $72,000 annual grant while The
Commercial Appeal prints and
distributes the paper. The Memphis
journalism department provides
space, equipment and covers other
costs. Scripps announced in July it
would spinoff its newspapers into
a new company, but that change
would have no immediate effect on
The Teen Appeal at least for this
year, said David Arant, chair of the
Memphis journalism department.
“One of the benefits has been that
we’ve been able to introduce young
people of color into journalism,”
Sanford said. “Look at the groups
we’ve had. There is always lots of
Memphis have committed to keeping The Teen Appeal a vibrant and
strong program.
In the 17 years of the program, it
is estimated that more than 1,000
young people have been introduced
to journalism, said Otis Sanford,
former editor at The Commercial
Appeal, who is now a journalism
faculty member at the University
of Memphis.
Teen Appeal staff members are
now working at daily newspapers
and magazines around the country
as writers and photographers. One
former staff member is a successful
playwright. Others have gone into
public relations and other communication fields.
“Our success speaks for itself.
We’ve got a winning formula with
the support from Scripps-Howard,
diversity in the schools so that is
reflected in our program.”
Shelby County Schools, which
now includes all of Memphis, is
expected to have about 117,000
students this school year with the
majority being minority students,
mostly African American, and 80
percent eligible for a free or reduced
lunch program.
Last year, three Teen Appeal staff
members were recognized with
Tennessee High School Student
Press Association awards. The
program also offers two college
scholarships every year to Teen
Appeal staff members.
Tom Hrach is an associate professor of journalism at The University of
Memphis.
Lawsuit probes secrecy in economic development project
The city-owned utility of Chattanooga charged a University of
Tennessee-Chattanooga student
$1,767 to view its public records on
advertising spending – an amount
that the state’s Open Records Counsel said is not in line with the law.
Despite counsel Elisha Hodge
telling Electric Power Board of
Chattanooga (EPB) that it could not
charge labor fees to compile records
for a citizen to inspect, the utility
stood by its decision in a story in the
Chattanooga Times Free Press and
tried to justify its action by saying
the student was working with a
national think tank.
If it can happen to a citizen, it can
happen to your newspaper, too.
Student Ethan Greene on March
24 requested to inspect EPB’s advertising records from January 2012
to March 2014 including contracts,
advertising expenditure checks and
copies of emails including terms
such as “television ad.”
Greene told Tennessee Coalition
for Open Government that he got
involved because he was concerned
about the cost of his EPB service
and the huge amount of advertising
that it seemed the utility was bombarding its customers with.
He said he was a marketing-political science major, wanted to act
upon his studies and connected
with the libertarian group Taxpayers Protection Alliance, which
researches government waste while
on campus.
No matter the purpose of a citizen’s request, the Tennessee Public
Records Act clearly states that a
“records custodian may not … assess a charge to view a public record
unless otherwise required by law.”
MEMBER NEWS, from Page 4
With a livelier, more visual
presentation, photos, videos and
slideshows are highlighted, and the
various elements of stories – text,
pictures, videos, maps and graphics
– are integrated for easy reading.
The paper’s special franchise
content will be readily available,
too. Previously, Vols and “things
to do” coverage were on separate
GoVolsExtra.com and Knoxville.
com websites. Now that content is
built right into Knoxnews.com.
As in the past, some of the content on the new site will be available
to all visitors, while subscribers will
have access to the entire site and be
able to comment on stories as well.
Knoxville News Sentinel
July 20, 2014
Tomahawk blue boxes
popping up everywhere
Many local Tomahawk subscribers will soon be receiving
TN COALITION
FOR OPEN
GOVERNMENT
DEBORAH FISHER
But EPB didn’t see it that way,
and in a May 2 letter, told Greene
that they would not pull the records
and make them available for him to
inspect until he wrote a check for
$1,767 to cover their labor hours for
compiling the records.
Greene went down to the utility
office and wrote a check, which was
cashed by EPB on May 16.
The utility said it would take 10
days to compile the records after
receiving Greene’s money. But
after more than 10 days had come
and gone, and he couldn’t get EPB
to give a new estimate on when
he might get the records, Greene
contacted the state’s Office of Open
Records Counsel.
He wasn’t calling about the fee,
but when Hodge heard his story, she
told him he could not be charged to
look at the records – the law only
provides for reimbursement of labor
charges for compilation if a citizen
wants copies of records.
She also reached out to the attorneys at EPB and explained the law
to them.
“The attorneys for EPB disagree
with my analysis and feel that they
have the legal right to assess you
for the request to inspect,” she told
Greene in an email.
Hodge also talked with EPB about
responding to the request to inspect,
their Tomahawk newspapers on
Wednesdays.
According to Publisher Bill
Thomas, The Tomahawk launched
its new hand delivery service this
month. Johnson County subscribers
have always received their papers
in the mail on Thursday each week,
but soon blue newspaper boxes will
be popping up in the more densely
populated areas of the county.
Carriers will be delivering the
weekly publication to homes on
Wednesdays immediately following
printing.
“We have had this in the planning stages for some time now, and
we are very excited that it’s about to
become a reality for our subscribers,” said Thomas of the improved
service.
“Our goal is to get local news in
the hands of our readers, and especially readers who subscribe to The
Tomahawk, as quickly as possible.”
The earlier delivery service was
scheduled to be in effect by mid-August.
Greene
prompting an EPB lawyer to contact
Greene on June 3 telling him it
was taking much longer than they
thought to compile and they needed
until June 19 to have everything
ready.
EPB finally on June 19, nearly
three months after his request, told
Greene the records were ready for
him to inspect.
By then, Greene had contacted
lawyer John Anderson of Grant
Konvalinka & Harrison, who had
written a letter to EPB on his behalf
protesting the charges. The utility’s
legal department responded by
mid-July that they agreed with the
position that Greene was entitled to
view the records and EPB was not
entitled to charge him for compiling
the records.
However, EPB continued to assert
it could charge the cost of redaction,
and a new accounting would be
forthcoming.
Greene said in early August that
he still has not received a new accounting, he can’t afford to continue
The Tomahawk (Mountain City)
July 30, 2014
Tennessean newspaper
to make cuts, reshuffle
staff
The Tennessean newspaper in
Nashville announced it will make
cuts and reshuffle its newsroom.
The move comes as parent company Gannett divides its print and
broadcast divisions into separate
companies.
Executive Editor Stefanie Murray
told WPLN-FM that The Tennessean
hit a “turning point” after years of
incremental cuts.
Almost everyone will have to
reapply for new jobs. There will be
fewer managers, more reporters and
columnists and a larger investigative team.
But ultimately, the newsroom will
shrink by 15 percent.
The Tennessean (Nashville)
Aug. 6, 2014
to pay a lawyer, and he doesn’t
expect EPB to refund the $1,767, so
he wants to go ahead and pay any
additional amount to get a copy of
the documents, which had been
scanned by the utility as PDFs
The taxpayer group reimbursed
him for the $1,767 and he begins
his junior year this fall at UT-Chattanooga.
For those who care about citizen
access to government records, the
fee issue is a huge one.
The runaround Greene received,
despite help from the Office of Open
Records Counsel and a private law
firm, shows the depth of resources
and determination possessed by a
government-owned entity like EPB
to keep the public from looking
under its hood.
Someone asked me once what’s
the hardest record to get from government.
My answer: The record they don’t
want you to have.
And simply put, there is no quicker way to block a citizen’s access to
government records than to charge
fees.
Deborah Fisher is executive director of TCOG. You can read her blog
and become a supporting member on
TCOG’s website, www.tcog.info.
2014-2015 TPA committee chairs
Advertising Committee
Leslie Kahana, Chattanooga Times Free Press
Audit Committee
John Finney, Buffalo River Review, Linden
Circulation Committee
Frank Maier, Chattanooga Times Free Press
Contests Committee
Terri Likens, Roane County News, Kingston
Government Affairs Committee
Co-Chairs: Jack McElroy,Knoxville News-Sentinel
and Eric Barnes, The Daily News, Memphis
Journalism, Education and Literacy Committee
Janet Rail, Independent Appeal
Membership Committee
Daniel Richardson, Magic Valley Publishing
Nominating Committee
Lynn Richardson, Elizabethton Star
Press Institute 2015 (Winter Convention)
Committee
Joel Washburn, The McKenzie Banner
Keeping my promise to pen a question/answer column
So much to write about, so little
space. That’s my dilemma this
morning.
I’ve had people writing and calling, wanting my thoughts concerning some quotes from well-known
industry “experts” about changes at
Gannett and Scripps. Readers have
been asking what I think about The
Times-Picayune adding two print
delivery days – that’s back up to five
days a week delivery – plus returning to a full broadsheet page.
Our industry must be in a freefall. Or is it? Not so fast. Our papers
in Tennessee seem to be doing just
fine. And, from what I see in the
reports, sales at TPS are way up.
My dilemma doesn’t revolve
around those things, however. I
promised to pen a question/answer
column this month, and I keep my
promises. I might have to write a
second column later, but for now
here are a few questions I’ve received over the past few weeks from
readers.
Q: From Heidi, in Iowa:
Our publisher suggested I email
you with an InDesign question
that we have. Occasionally, we will
receive pre-built ads in pdf format
that were built in InDesign. When
we pull the PDF onto our pages in
InDesign and the PDF the page to
send to press, sometimes a white
box will appear on the ad or part of
the art will be whited out. Do you
know what could be causing this?
A: I still get asked about these
white lines all the time, Heidi. Karen wrote a couple of days after you,
putting it like this: “What causes
the white lines in a PDF? This
inquiring mind wants to know. I got
one from a client this morning and
it was loaded with them.”
These white lines come during
the creation side of the PDF process.
THE
NEWS
GURU
KEVIN SLIMP
So, there’s not a lot you can do to
keep it from happening, other than
hoping your advertiser stops sending you PDF files with white lines.
I have a couple of pieces of good
news for you, though.
First, these lines are due to issues
with transparency. Those issues
have decreased over time and are
much less common than they were
a few years ago. As your advertisers
upgrade their software, this will
happen less often. Second, these
lines don’t print most of the time.
They are “visual elements” that
don’t exist when printed.
Should it still concern you that
you have lines on your page, there
are a few fixes on your end. One of
the easiest is to turn off the “Smooth
Line Art” option in Acrobat. A
second fix is to open the PDF file in
Photoshop at a high resolution (600
or higher) and save the file from
there.
Q: From Jim, in Chicago:
I’ve been very happy with our
NewEdit/Quark newsroom pagination set up. However, in the process
of purchasing new hardware and
software I learned that Baseview
had priced themselves out of our
market. So we are now about to
use In Copy/In Design. (We’ve
purchased and installed the new
Macs, and shortly will begin to
switch over). Any suggestions,
comments and advice you can offer
in this process would be greatly
appreciated.
C
M
Y
K
Those pesky white lines continue to pop up in PDF files from time to time. Fortunately, there are ways to work
around them.
A: First, let me congratulate you
on making the move to new hardware and software. You should see a
tremendous increase in productivity, after a few days of growing pains
while you learn the new software.
The best advice I can give to you
is to have an expert trainer come in
to work with your staff for two days.
Learning InDesign and InCopy is
simple, with good training. Without
it, I’ve seen staffs work at a snail’s
pace for months and years, never
really getting a grasp on how to use
the software efficiently. Good trainers pay for themselves in no time.
Q: From Carrie in North Carolina:
My publisher asked me to ask
you if there is any open source software, in place of Adobe and Quark
products, available that would
work to produce our publications.
So I’m asking. Is there?
A: No, Carrie. There isn’t. Sure,
you could use Gimp to replace
Photoshop, but anything beyond
that would require a significant
investment in time.
There are many good open source
apps out there, including OpenOffice, Inkscape and Gimp.
But there is a reason Adobe and
Quark products aren’t cheap.
If you want to create a quality
publication, investing in quality
hardware and software is a necessity.
Kevin Slimp is Technology Director
for the Tennessee Press Service.
Firefox and GIMP are two examples of worthwhile open source
applications. While you might find some open source apps to enhance your workflow, you’d be ill advised to count on them for your
most important design work.
C
M
Y
K

September 2014 - Tennessee Press Association

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