Ozark Press Association officers April 2010

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April 2010
National Poetry Month
“I cannot go to school today,”
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
“I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I’m going blind in my right eye. …
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Ozark Press Association officers
Missouri Advertising Managers’ Association to meet.
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Ozark Press Association elected officers at its annual meeting March 18-19 in
Branson. Seated are, at left, Regina Wynn, Gainesville, Vice President; and Sharon
Vaughn, Summersville, President (re-elected). Standing are Chris Case, Cuba,
Director; Roger Dillon, Eminence, Director; Keith Moore, Ava, Director; and Dala
Whitaker, Cabool, Secretary/Treasurer. Other Directors are Brad Gentry, Houston;
Jeff Schrag, Springfield; and Tianna Brooks, Mountain View. The Missouri Society
of Newspaper Editors (MSNE) met along with Ozark Press Association. MSNE
decided to disband because of continued low attendance at meetings. 4
Regular Features
President 2
Scrapbook 13
NIE Report 16
Obituaries 17
On the Move 15 Jean Maneke 18
Missouri Press News, April 2010
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Now is time for you to act
Tell legislators that Senate Bill 756 would defeat purpose of public notices
T
he beginning of April means there are six more weeks however, it has not stood the test of time. There is no certainty
of Missouri’s legislative session before the scheduled that what is put up today will be there for review a month from
adjournment on May 14 in Jefferson City.
now, let alone years from now.
At the top of Missouri Press Association’s worry list is SenThere are thousands of homes without Internet access in the
ate Bill 756, a proposal that would allow public governmental state of Missouri. Newspapers are readily available to everyone.
entities to post certain city financial statements and election
Newspapers provide sworn affidavits for public notice as
notices on their own government web sites instead of publish- proof of publication. Affidavits of publication have been tested
ing the notices in legally qualified newspapers.
in the courts without question. Who will verify
This is an issue that raised its head in Jefferson
a city’s own Internet postings?
City during the 2009 legislative session, and it’s
Public notices in local newspapers make a big
back in 2010.
difference in keeping city government accountIf you haven’t talked to your local legislators
able. Is that why cities want them eliminated
about this legislation, NOW is the time. You
from local newspapers? f the Municipal League says it is the fees
can be certain that members of the Missouri
charged by the newspapers that pushes them
Municipal League, a supporter of the legislation,
toward Internet notices, then you should urge
are talking to their local legislators.
all citizens to ask for the city checkbook and
I can’t stress how important it is for MPA
review how the city spent every penny of their
members to contact their legislators on this mattax money. Citizens would find other expenses
ter. If SB 756 becomes law, it will represent a first
that could be cut before notices providing acstep in allowing every public notice throughout
Kevin Jones
countability are eliminated.
Missouri to be posted on the Internet. St. Louis American
On a related topic, publisher Bob Foos of the
Think of the mischief that could result from
MPA President
Webb City Sentinel provided some interesting
hackers disrupting Internet notices about bond
information from a survey conducted in his
elections, planning and zoning hearings, foresouthwest Missouri community. In October
closures, property taxes, tax sales, and the list
2009, UNICOM-ARC conducted a telephone survey, completgoes on and on.
overnment web sites do not accomplish the same things ing 300 interviews with Webb City residents. The purpose of the
as a newspaper notice. They are not independent of survey was to learn about public perceptions of and priorities
the political forces that run them. Newspapers have several for the city’s downtown area.
centuries of history in building public notice readership. No
Local newspapers (39.3 percent) and word-of-mouth (22.3
one can say that about any government web site.
percent) were the most common ways that respondents received
An independent third party — the newspaper — must be news about downtown Webb City.
responsible for publishing public notices, not the government
The Chamber of Commerce web site was mentioned by a
entity publishing a notice on its own government web site whopping 1.3 percent of respondents as their main source of
— the fox guarding the hen house scenario.
downtown information.
Archiving separates newspapers from all other media, inNewspapers still have power for news and advertising — and
cluding the Internet. The Internet is an emerging medium; public notices.
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VOL. 78, NO. 4
APRIL 2010
Official Publication of
Missouri Press
Association, Inc.
PRESIDENT: Kevin Jones, St. Louis American
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT: Joe May, Mexico Ledger
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT: Phil Conger,
Bethany Republican-Clipper
SECRETARY: Steve Fairchild, Mount Vernon,
Lawrence County Record
TREASURER: Walt Gilbert, Louisiana,
Lakeway Publishers of Missouri
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Doug Crews
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: Greg Baker
EDITOR: Kent M. Ford
DIRECTORS: Vicki Russell,
Columbia Daily Tribune
Brad Gentry, Houston Herald
Joe Spaar, The Odessan
Richard Gard, St. Louis, Missouri Lawyers Media
Jon Rust, Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian
Dennis Warden, Gasconade County Republican
Kate Martin, Perry County Republic-Monitor
Mark Maassen, The Kansas City Star
Arnie Robbins, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
NNA REPRESENTATIVE: Jeff Schrag,
Springfield Daily Events
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How much did the county pay
the local newspaper
to publish its detailed financial statement
this year as required by state law?1
Let’s just say $2,000
(as noted in the published statement)
(Your county’s financial statement will have the actual number.)
Let’s suppose just one person read
that statement. What did the county
get for its money (besides the 5,000
pages of newsprint and delivery to
2,000 subscribers)?
For its money, the county provided to you — a taxpayer — a
valuable service. It gave you an indelible, hacker-proof, easily
accessible, inexpensive, verifiable accounting of how it spent
YOUR tax dollars.
How much is that worth to county officials who are proud of
their service and don’t like to have their integrity questioned?
How much is it worth to you — a taxpayer — to know county
officials must put down in black and white in a local newspaper how they spent your money along with an oath that the
numbers are correct?
If you believe publication of your county’s detailed financial
statement is money well spent, tell your county officials and
your state legislators before they switch to loading the information onto the Internet. (When you order meatloaf at the
diner, you expect it to be brought to you. You shouldn’t have to
go searching for it in the kitchen.)
It’s tax time. Do you know where your money is?
1. RSMo. 50.800.
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Sharon Vaughn, publisher of the Summersville Beacon and President
of the Ozark Press Association, draws names for door prizes at the
Ozark Press meeting at the Chateau on the Lake in Branson. The
organization met in tandem with the Missouri Society of Newspaper
Editors on March 18-19. The Branson Chamber and Visitors Bureau
provided dinner and show tickets on Thursday evening.
Ozark Press,
Editors Society
meet in Branson
Russell Viers, right, demonstrated tools in
InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator at the Ozark
Press meeting. Viers will give another workshop
on layout and design tools on Thursday, April 8, in
Warrenton. Contact the MPA office to register.
Newspaper technology trainer Kevin Slimp, left, visits with
Felicia and Donald Dodd of Salem after his presentation.
Slimp talked about digital journalism, new software and
hardware for newspapers and quick ideas for making money
with a website. In the lower left photo, Jim Hamilton of
Buffalo, right, visits with Lindsay Haymes, managing editor
of Ozarks Farm and Neighbor, and David Burton of University
of Missouri Extension. Haymes talked about her publication,
which serves livestock producers in the southwest Missouri
region. Burton had a slide presentation about rural schools in
Greene County. Below, Cathy Ripley of Chillicothe, President
of the Missouri Society of Newspaper Editors, receives
the Past President’s plaque from Dennis Ellsworth, Vice
President, of St. Joseph. The officers and directors of MSNE
who attended the Branson meeting decided to disband the
organization because participation has fallen.
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Sunshine Coalition honors ‘Local Heroes’
T
Reporters discuss difficulty of getting records from state agency
he Missouri Sunshine Coalition,
a year-old organization that
promotes open government,
awarded its first Local Heroes Awards
during a program at the Missouri School
of Journalism on March 15.
Coalition secretary Jean Maneke,
an attorney from Kansas City who is
an expert on Missouri’s Sunshine Law,
presented the awards to: Deborah Marshall, publisher of the Boonville Daily
News; John Chasnoff of St. Louis and
Ed Golterman of St. Louis.
Marshall was recognized for “promoting transparency in government at her
newspaper and in her community.”
Golterman, a former radio and TV
news reporter, earned the honor for “tireless reporting on political contributions
… that demonstrated the power of money” while working to save the Kiel Opera
House property
in downtown St.
Messenger has Louis from redevelopment.
suggestion for
As a private
citizen, John
improving
Chasnoff wanted
see the records
Sunshine Law. to
connected with
the disciplinary
action against police officers who confiscated World Series
tickets from scalpers for their own use.
He began efforts to get the records in
2007. In 2009, Chasnoff became program director for the ACLU for Eastern
Missouri.
Local Hero recognition is a program
of the American Society of Newspaper
Editors. The Missouri recipients were
submitted to the ASNE for consideration as the national Local Hero winner.
After the awards presentation, a panel
of journalists talked about their experiences covering the Missouri Department
of Natural Resources, in particular the
story about E. coli contamination at
the Lake of the Ozarks. David Shorr, a
Columbia/Jefferson City attorney with
Lathrop & Gage and former director of
DNR, moderated the panel.
Panelists were reporters Karen Dillon
Participating in the Sunshine Coalition panel discussion on March 15 were, from left, Chad
Livengood of the Springfield News-Leader, Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and
Karen Dillon of The Kansas City Star. David Shorr, right, a central Missouri attorney and former
director of the Department of Natural Resources, moderated.
of The Kansas City Star, Chad Livengood
of the Springfield News-Leader, and Tony
Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
They told about bureaucratic shuffling
and political gamesmanship they’ve had
to endure when seeking public records
from the DNR.
Shorr asked the panelists how the
Sunshine Law could be improved.
Messenger, a self-proclaimed Sunshine
Law purist — a public record should
be public, period — had a suggestion.
Rather than allowing a government
agency to make the decision to close a
public record, the agency should have
to show the record to a judge and convince the judge that the record should
be closed.
Sunshine Coalition vice president Jo
Sapp of Columbia invited those attending the meeting in Gannett Hall to join
the Coalition. Dues are $25. Checks can
be mailed to the Sunshine Coalition at
802 Locust St., Columbia, MO 65201.
Dues of current members of the Coalition are due.
95-year-old weekly in K.C. Northland closes
S
t. Joseph-based NPG Newspapers
Inc. ceased publication of its 95-yearold Sun Tribune on Feb. 24.
The Sun Tribune, which reported a
weekly circulation of 26,000, covered
parts of Clay and Platte counties, mostly
in Gladstone, Parkville and Kansas City,
North.
Lee Sawyer, the general manager for
NPG’s newspaper division, said more
than 10 employees were let go.
NPG, which publishes the St. Joseph News-Press and other newspapers,
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continues to publish papers in Liberty,
Smithville and Kearney.
NPG bought the Sun Tribune, Liberty
Tribune, Raytown Tribune, The Wednesday and other papers in the Kansas City
area from Townsend Communications
Inc. in 2004. It bought Sun Publications
Inc. in Johnson County in 2005. NPG
closed the Raytown Tribune in 2008.
The Sun Tribune started printing in
1915. It was known as the DispatchTribune when NPG bought it.
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Who doesn’t want more money?
A
meeting has been scheduled at
Lake of the Ozarks exclusively
for Missouri newspapers that
would like to generate more revenue.
If you’d like to see more dollars coming
in, register for the annual meeting of the
Missouri Advertising Managers’ Association (MAMA).
The meeting will be held Thursday
afternoon and Friday morning, April
22-23, at The Lodge of Four Seasons,
Lake Ozark.
Everyone interested in generating
revenue is welcome to attend. Here’s
the agenda:
Thursday, April 22
Noon — Registration in Hotel Lobby
1 p.m. — Political Advertising: Learn
from representatives of the state Democrat and Republican parties and from
campaign representatives what you need
to do to get the most revenue during this
election year.
2:45 — Legal issues affecting newspaper advertising, with Jean Maneke.
3:30 — Great Idea Session: win $50,
$75 or $100 for your Best Advertising
Idea! Email your entries to Greg Baker
at Missouri Press ([email protected])
before the meeting or take 50 copies of
your idea to the meeting.
6 p.m. — Dinner: Presentation of
MAMA Better Ad Contest awards.
Friday, April 23
8 a.m. — Breakfast buffet in HK’s
Restaurant.
8:45 a.m. — MAMA & MPA Presidents Roundtable discussions.
10 a.m. — Opportunities for Tourism
Sales: Bob Smith, Missouri Division of
Tourism.
10:45 a.m. — Texting for Newspapers: How this technology can push your
newspaper ahead of the curve. Presentations by Dean Mathiason of TMR Network Inc., Bill Ganon of Verve Wireless,
and Eric Lazar of Cellit Marketing.
registration form can be down
loaded at http://www.mopress.
com/current_forms.php.
The registration fee for this meeting
has been held to just $99, which includes
Thursday dinner and Friday breakfast.
Unless your newspaper already is
making enough money, at least one
person from your staff should be at this
meeting. (Two or more people would
be even better — they can start coming
up with great projects on the way to and
from the meeting.)
Contact Your
Local Newspaper
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If you have questions or need assistance, contact Kristie Williams at Missouri Press Association, (573) 449-4167
or [email protected].
Don’t forget to email your Great Ideas
to Greg Baker!
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‘Breaking News,’ ‘Video’ added to contest
Entry deadline April 30; rules online, in Bulletin;
prints may be entered in photography categories
A
ctive member newspapers of
Missouri Press have two new op
portunities to win awards in this
year’s Missouri Press Foundation Better
Newspaper Contest. Categories for “Best
Breaking News Story” and “Best Video”
were added by the Contest Committee.
A few other minor changes to the
rules and entry regulations were made
when the committee met by conference
telephone call on Feb. 19.
No Gold Cup points will be counted
in the Best Video category, but plaques
and certificates will be awarded. It’s a
probationary category to determine
interest.
You may enter any video created by
your staff for your website. Entries consist of links to videos on your website or
in your archives.
The Best Breaking News Story category is for coverage of events that begin
to occur within 24 hours of deadline.
Gold Cup points will be counted.
All of the additions and changes to the
rules are explained in the entry guidelines and category listing. No categories
were deleted.
The contest entry deadline is April 30.
Here are other changes made by the
Contest Committee:
• Best Special Section language has
been changed slightly to instruct the
judges to put more emphasis on the
cover design.
• Some categories, as
in the past, require entries from specific dates
chosen at random each
year by the MPA staff.
• Prints up to a maximum size of 8x10, along
with tearsheets, may be
entered in Photo categories. Photos also may
be entered as full-page
tearsheets or as photocopies of tearsheets.
• In the General Excellence categories, judges
will be instructed to comment only on the winning entries rather than all entries.
• Best Headline Writing entries will
be five headlines — three from specific
periods chosen at random by the MPA
staff and two headlines of choice.
Participating in the Contest Com-
mittee meeting were Dan Steinbeck,
committee chair, Canton Press-News
Journal; Lora Wegman, Columbia Daily
Tribune; Bill Dalton, The Kansas City
Star; Buck Collier, New Haven Leader;
Dave Marner, Gasconade County Republican, Owensville; Ric Jackoway,
St. Louis, Missouri Lawyers Media;
Jack Miles, Warrensburg Daily StarJournal; Diane Lowery,
Trenton RepublicanTimes; Kent Ford and
Michael Daugherty,
Missouri Press Association.
Other committee members who
reviewed the rules
and participated
in the process were
Dan Wehmer, Webster County Citizen,
Seymour; Michelle
Brooks, Jefferson City
News Tribune; David
Eales, Monroe County
Appeal, Paris; Kevin
Jones, St. Louis American; Becky Holloway, Tipton Times; Jeff Grimes, Centralia
Fireside Guard; Pam Ulitschan, Platte
County Citizen; Rick Rogers, Neosho
Daily News; and Carol Stark, The Joplin
Globe.
Best Video
category will
not award Gold
Cup points. It’s
a probationary
category to
gauge interest.
Suit claims Post-Dispatch broke federal law
M
issouri Lawyers Media (March
2) — A federal lawsuit claims
eight companies, including
the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, broke a federal law aimed at protecting the privacy
of drivers’ personal records.
The class action lawsuit, filed in February in U.S. District Court in Kansas
City, says the companies acquired the
personal data of Missouri drivers and
identification card holders without their
permission.
The Driver Privacy Protection Act of
1994 made it illegal to disclose personal
information in motor vehicle records
without the driver’s consent. Marketers
can obtain the information only if they
have written consent from the person
the record describes.
According to the lawsuit, the state of
Missouri sells personal information to
people or companies that certify they
have a lawful purpose for the information and have obtained the necessary
written consent forms. However, the
suit claims, once a company certifies
that it can see some of the information,
it is granted access to a database containing all the personal information of
all Missouri drivers and identification
card holders.
The case was brought on behalf of
seven Missouri residents from various
parts of the state. It was not clear how
large the potential class might be.
No state agency was named as a party
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in the suit.
The lawsuit said it would seek $2,500
per member of the class, plus punitive damages. The suit was brought by
Timothy Bosler, of the Bosler Law Firm
in Chillicothe. His office referred comments to Jeremy Wilson, an attorney
with The Corea Law Firm in Dallas.
Also participating in the suit are the
Dallas firms Ostott & Jamison and the
Law Offices of Joseph H. Malley.
The suit also names SAMBA Holding
Inc. among the defendants. According
to the lawsuit, SAMBA Holding’s registered agent in Missouri is attorney Ben
Lipman, who also represents Missouri
Lawyers Media.
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Peter Wagner on Show-Me program
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how-Me Press Association has
shaken up its meeting schedule in
an attempt to get you to attend. It’s
also beefed up the program, and you’ll be
able to attend the entire program with
only one night away. If you’re squeakytight for time and cash, you can still get
the meat of the program by attending
only on Friday.
Show-Me Press wants you to attend.
It’s bringing community newspaper
mastermind Peter Wagner from Iowa
to share with you some of his street
experience, practical insight and profitable ideas.
how-Me Press will meet Thursday
and Friday, June 10-11, at The
Resort at Port Arrowhead, Lake Ozark.
Wagner will speak Friday morning and
afternoon.
The Missouri Press Association board
of directors will meet Thursday morning, June 10. The Porter Fisher Golf
Classic will be held that afternoon at
The Ridge Golf Course at The Lodge
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At breakfast on Friday, a number of
Missouri newspaper people will share
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their newspapers
have sponsored that
have generated lots
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Me Press meeting
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Here’s the agenda for the Show-Me
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Thursday, June 10
9:30 a.m. — MPA Board meeting.
1:30 p.m. — Porter Fisher Golf Classic at The Ridge.
6 p.m. — Reception in hospitality
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7 p.m. — Buffet dinner on the deck.
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Friday, June 11
8 a.m. — Show-Me Press business
meeting and open discussion about
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9:30 a.m. — Peter Wagner: Newspapers Aren’t Dead But Some Salespeople
Might Be.
Noon — Lunch, speaker to be determined.
1 p.m. — Peter Wagner: Special Sections That Will Build Circulation and
Increase Revenue; Advertising Promotions To Increase Sales.
4:30 p.m. — Adjourn.
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Can’t find Shelbina news on phone
... the weekly newspaper will always offer
those things other news outlets won’t
Thad Requet
The Shelbina Weekly
n this day and age of technology
ruling our every move, I sometimes
hear radio and television advertising
(especially radio) ripping on newspapers,
saying the day of the weekly newspaper
has come and gone. I just don’t buy that
claim, and I hope you don’t either.
I think it’s ridiculous to think the
weekly newspaper won’t have a place in
society. Although you can go just about
anywhere at anytime and find out what
is going on in the world thanks to the
internet, the weekly newspaper will
always offer those things other news
outlets won’t. That is local news. In
our case, the news that is happening in
Shelby County.
I
The only time you will find something on the radio or television about
Shelby County is when something major
has happened.
… The local newspaper is a unique
news outlet that is suited for each and
every small community it represents. I
also feel it’s very important to be able
to have a record of what is going on in
our community. It’s important to be at
the city council meetings and the school
board meetings to keep our elected officials accountable to the taxpayers.
When radio stations start attending
those meetings and covering them in
detail, then they might have a point
when they talk about the worth of the
weekly newspaper. I’m not talking about
getting a summary of the meeting from
a city or school official and summarizing
it on the radio the next day, but going
to the meeting and reporting everything
that takes place ... the good as well as the
bad. Taxpayers invest a lot of money into
local government and have a right to
know what is happening in those meetings and what decisions are being made.
Some people might say, “if they want
to know bad enough, they can attend
the meetings themselves.” They can’t if
they are elderly and in poor health, or if
they work during a shift that is the same
time as the meetings take place.
don’t think the weekly paper’s purpose
is to have state or national news in
it, it’s to have local news from our local
community in it. The rest of that stuff
can be read, watched, or listened to just
about anywhere else in the world. I was
actually checking the weather forecast
from my cell phone … from my deer
stand. Couldn’t find any local news on
Shelbina on that phone though.
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Candidate’s online comments
removed from paper’s website
candidate’s) comment history.
Tribune policy says that online users
agree their comments will be included
in a “publicly accessible archive in perpetuity.” Robertson said the Tribune
does not allow people to delete their
accounts and comment histories; however, not all employees were aware of the
rules. The employee “thought he was
doing a friend a favor,” Robertson said.
(The candidate) said she asked the
employee to delete her entire account
because she did not have time to review
each comment. Although she used a
handle to comment, she said it would
have been fairly easy for someone to
figure out her identity.
“Several things I wrote, I’m proud of
and would say anywhere,” she said. But
a lot of the comments “were just silly
and trivial. ... I didn’t want to spend time
talking about the times I was a smartass
on the Tribune.” She also said she made
personal comments unrelated to local
politics that she did not want to become
issues during her campaign.
(The candidate) uses her full name to
comment on the Columbia Missourian’s
website — as required by that publication’s policy — and has not requested
that those comments be removed, executive editor Tom Warhover said. The
Missourian does not allow users to delete
comments.
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Columbia Daily Tribune employee violated policy
C
olumbia Daily Tribune (Feb. 24) —
Before announcing for the Fourth
Ward city council seat, (a Columbia
candidate) had a Tribune employee
delete her online account, wiping clean
a comment history she did not want to
surface during her campaign.
The employee is a neighbor of (the
candidate) and works in the newspaper’s
information technology department. He
did not consult editors before removing
the account, Tribune managing editor
Jim Robertson said. Editors discovered
the policy breach when searching for (the
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‘First in Print’ delays
posting of best stories
R
eaders of the Springfield NewsLeader now get some of the news
before readers of the company’s website.
“News-Leader, First in Print” gives
readers of the Sunday issue the first
look at some of the most interesting
and important stories on the front page,
executive editor Don Wyatt wrote in a
story about the new policy.
“Every company in the information
industry … is experimenting with new
content, revenue and distribution models,” Wyatt wrote.
“When the internet came along, the
News-Leader provided unfettered access
to our web content in the same cycle
as our print publications appeared on
newsstands and doorsteps.
“We’re rethinking that strategy now,
as are others,” he wrote.
The best page one stories in the
Sunday issues now are not posted until
Monday morning. “First in Print” will
be expanded to other section fronts later
this year, Wyatt wrote.
“First in Print” stories carry a special
label so readers know the content is
available only in the print edition of the
News-Leader.
Editorial — Call Newspapers, St. Louis
Applause for online audio of meetings
T
he city of Crestwood once was a
statewide leader in transparent and
open government.
The city’s policy of tape recording
closed sessions of the Board of Aldermen
involving litigation and real estate matters perhaps is the only one of its kind
in the state.
… But thanks to Ward 3 Alderman
Paul Duchild, Crestwood has taken a
huge leap in becoming more transparent
as residents now will be able to listen to
audio recordings of Board of Aldermen
meetings on the web.
Alderman Duchild ... rightly contended that making those audio files
available online likely would increase
citizen participation in — and the transparency of — city government.
Aldermen voted unanimously (in December) to establish the policy requiring
the city to post audio recordings of all
board meetings on its website at www.
ci.crestwood.mo.us.
… We applaud Alderman Duchild
and the entire board for voting to approve this policy and encourage residents
to listen to the meeting audio. By listening, they ... will learn firsthand which
elected officials are doing what’s best for
the city and those who are undeserving
of the public’s trust.
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St. Louis writers
win national awards
S
t. Louis — Robert Cohen and Bill
McClellan of the Post-Dispatch
were honored Feb. 17 as finalists in
the 2010 American Society of News
Editors awards. The national awards are
presented for distinguished writing and
photography.
Cohen was a finalist for the Community Service Photojournalism Award.
His entry was a portfolio of photographs
about hotels in St. Charles County that
are being used by the homeless.
McClellan was a finalist for the distinguished Writing Award for Commentary/Column Writing. He was honored
for five columns from 2009 on a variety
of topics.
Tom Uhlenbrock has won five awards,
including a grand prize, from the North
American Travel Journalists Association,
for stories that appeared last year in the
Post-Dispatch.
Uhlenbrock won two first prizes, two
awards of merit and the grand prize,
which was presented for his body of
work.
Uhlenbrock, a longtime travel writer
for the paper, joined the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in February, where he writes about state parks
and historic sites.
Feature stories he writes about Missouri state parks and other attractions
will be available to newspapers to use
free, beginning soon.
Schofield, Shelly efforts win
for K.C. Star’s opinion pages
T
he Kansas City Star opinion pages
won two of seven national awards
for 2009 presented by the Association
of Opinion Page Editors.
“A Good Exit: Leaving Iraq,” an eightday editorial project published June
14-21, won the best series award. Less
than two weeks before the United States
began to withdraw troops from major
cities in Iraq, The Star’s opinion pages
presented an analysis of what would
constitute a “good exit.”
Editorial board member Matthew
Schofield wrote the series based on his
reporting from Iraq, Germany, Turkey,
Washington, D.C., and Kansas City.
The Star’s second award, for best op-ed
feature, went to Barbara Shelly, editorial
board member and columnist, for a July
12 column, “The bills came due and his
coverage vanished.”
Shelly profiled a local man, George
Baggett, whose insurance company reneged on his policy after a major health
expense. (The Star)
O
It has a population of about 685. The
News reported circulation of 625 in the
2010 Missouri Newspaper Directory.
Liberal News celebrates 100th
n Feb. 25 The Liberal News celebrated the 100th anniversary of
its founding. The weekly was started in
1910 by J.P. Moore, a former employee
of the Liberal Enterprise, and L.C. DeLissa. Moore soon bought out DeLissa.
Moore sold the newspaper in 1946 to
Hal McDowell. Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Savage bought it in 1955 and published
it until 1975, when they sold to Willis
and Billy Strong of Fort Scott, Kan.
The Strongs sold The Liberal News to
Larry and Patsy Brownlee of Osceola in
1986. The Brownlees sold it to the current publishers, Darvin and Ruth Ann
Weaver, in 1987.
Liberal is in Barton County in Southwest Missouri, near the Kansas state line.
Ava weekly honors
employee of 60 years
AVA — The Douglas County Herald
honored Tony Jenkins recently for his
60 years of service to the newspaper.
Jenkins was hired by the Herald in 1948
while still in high school. Except for two
years of military service, he worked at the
paper until he retired.
Managing editor Keith Moore presented Jenkins with a plaque from the
Missouri Press Association that noted
his dedication to the newspaper business.
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• Washington — The Missourian
honored special education teacher Maria
Kerr as its 2009 Missourian in Education
Teacher of the Year. The award was presented in Kerr’s classroom at the Franklin
County Special Education Co-Op in St.
Clair on Feb. 3.
Dawn Kitchell, educational services
director for The Missourian, presented
Kerr with a framed feature that appeared in the newspaper in December,
a cash award and a subscription to The
Missourian.
dishes of their choice. Members of the
audience chose their favorites.
The champion chefs also reviewed
written recipies submitted for inclusion
in this year’s Lawrence County Record
Cookbook. Their favorites will carry
“Chefs’ Choice” designations in the
cookbook.
Those submitting recipes for the book
were encouraged to include any family
stories or anecdotes associated with the
recipes.
mobile phones or email.
The service is free to users unless their
mobile provider charges a texting fee.
The service also provides coupons
and news headlines. It also allows community organizations to partner with
the newspaper to provide event updates
and reminders.
Users receive only the messages they
sign up for.
• St. Louis — Pauline Masson, Pacific
section editor of The Washington Missourian, has been named 2010 chair of
the executive advisory committee of the
East-West Gateway Council of Governments.
The committee shapes the
agenda for the board of directors. The Gateway Council
serves eight counties in Missouri and Illinois. Its board
approves projects and handles
business for the regional transportation planning agency.
• Festus — The 16th annual
Leader Wedding Fair brought
in $1,961 for this year’s chosen
charity, the Jefferson County
chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
The event, held Jan. 31 at
the Best Western in Festus,
drew more than 850 people.
Seventy-eight vendors displayed wedding-oriented products and services.
The second annual Jefferson
County Business Expo was
held March 6. The Jefferson
County Growth and Development Association joined Leader
Publications in sponsoring the Hewitts’ work appreciated
Expo, which invited vendors Recipients of this year’s Clarence Cannon “Grass Roots”
to showcase their products and Worker of the Year award were Rogers and Jerri Hewitt, left, of
Shelbyville. They are former publishers of the Shelby County
services.
• St. Louis — Jim Gallagher, business columnist
at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
and treasurer of Newspaper
Guild/CWA Local 36047,
received the 2010 Guilder of
the Year Award at the union’s
annual banquet Jan. 29 at
Busch Stadium.
Other Post-Dispatch Guild
members recognized at the
banquet were society columnist Deb Peterson, obituary
Herald in Shelbyville. The award was presented March 6 during writer Denice Santangelo
• Cameron — At a Cham- the 39th annual Democrat Days in Hannibal. Attending the and reporter Bill Smith (25
ber luncheon in February, awards presentation were the Hewitts’ daughter, Paula Perry, years of Guild membership);
son-in-law, Jim Perry, of Bethel. (Photo submitted by the
Cameron Newspapers unveiled and
reporter Elizabethe Holland
Shelby County Herald.)
plans for an expanded website,
(Terry Hughes Award for writMyNWMO.com, which will
ing); Deni Fleming, advertisbe an umbrella site for four area news
• Independence — The Examiner ing services (Activist of the Year Award);
sites serving Cameron, Hamilton, held its annual Bridal Show on Feb. 20
Sean Sullivan, advertising sales (StewMaysville and Gallatin.
at The Pavilion at John Knox Village.
ard of the Year Award); Newspaper
The website will cover areas that
More than 350 people attended to see Guild/CWA International RepresentaCameron Newspapers covers with its the fashion show and check out the vari- tive Jay Schmitz (special recognition for
Shopper advertising paper.
ous catering, decorating, flower, photo helping Local 36047 achieve its goals);
and music services.
fashion writer and shop steward Karen
• Mt. Vernon — The Lawrence
Deer (special recognition for work on
County Record invited the public to help
• Hermann — The Advertiser-Courier Guild social events), and copy editor
judge recipes at the Grand Chef Tasteoff has begun “Missouri TXT Alerts,” a Linda Eardley (40-year member of the
on Feb. 18 at the local senior center.
service that allows its readers to get Guild).
Grand champions from recent Record breaking news, weather warnings, school
St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor
recipe contests were invited to prepare closings and other messages sent to their Tribune sales staff members Lauren
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Supreme Court hears ‘Sunshine’ case
S
outheast Missourian (Jefferson City)
— Cape Girardeau County Commissioner Jay Purcell took his lawsuit
against his fellow commissioners before
the Missouri Supreme Court in February
in his last chance to prove that an April
2008 meeting violated the state Open
Meetings and Records Law.
Judges repeatedly questioned the way
Purcell raised his objections to the meeting and whether there was any remedy
available if the court did determine the
commission broke the law. For several minutes, the court also focused on
whether Purcell’s case was flawed from
the beginning because he sued only the
county commission as a body, not the
individual members.
Chief Justice Ray Price Jr. asked attorney Tom Ludwig, who represented
the commission, how the courts should
act to hold public bodies accountable
under the law.
The best and only legal way to do so,
Ludwig replied, is to “sue the individual
commissioners who are the offending
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Marshall, Dan Braun and Bob Whitehead were given Solidarity awards for
their work during contract bargaining
in 2008.
Cape County Commission
parties.”
But attorney J.P. Clubb, representing
Purcell, argued that the Open Meetings and Records Law clearly allows
for lawsuits that name only the public
governmental body accused of violating
the law.
urcell lost his lawsuit at the trial
court level, and his case was dismissed by the Eastern District of the
Missouri Court of Appeals because it
listed only the commission, not the
individual members, as defendants. The
Missouri Supreme Court took the case
and could establish that commissions
and other public bodies may be sued,
and — Purcell hopes — that the April
2008 meeting violated the law.
At the trial level, Associate Circuit
Judge Stephen Mitchell of Stoddard
County ruled that while the closed
discussion “wandered off ” from approved subjects, there were no knowing
violations.
Purcell is asking the court to declare
that the notice of a closed meeting
was too broad and that the discussions
within the meeting went far beyond
what is allowed in closed sessions. The
court should listen to a recording of the
P
A
Cape daily produces webcast
of Supreme Court arguments
• Rich Hill — The Mining Review
began its 130th year of publication earlier this year. The weekly is owned by
outheast Missourian — The first webSac-Osage Publishing, a regional group
cast of arguments before the Misof four weeklies and three shoppers.
Michael Crawford is the publisher and souri Supreme Court, produced by the
Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian,
managing partner.
created new issues for cameras in the
• Rogersville — The South County courtroom, said court spokeswoman
Mail in February observed the 10th an- Beth Riggert.
The Southeast Missourian discussed
niversary of its founding.
The Mail is a Neighbor Newspapers technical and legal issues with the court
for more than a week before permission
of Missouri publication.
was granted to put live pictures from the
• Maryville — The Feb. 25 issue of court on the internet.
The court has provided live and
the Nodaway News Leader began the
15th year of publication for the weekly. archived feeds of audio from oral arguKay Wilson founded the paper and ments for several years.
“The court is certainly interested in
continues as its publisher.
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meeting to decide for itself whether the
notice and the meeting itself adhered to
the Sunshine Law.
Purcell had concealed a digital recorder in his jacket pocket. A little more
than a week after the commission meeting, Purcell wrote an e-mail to his fellow
commissioners that he had concerns that
the meeting violated the Sunshine Law.
Purcell revealed he had made a recording — a crime if the meeting was legally
closed.
Purcell is not asking for fines, which
could only be imposed for a knowing
violation of the law, or attorney fees.
He is asking for a declaration that the
meeting violated the law.
ruling that a violation took place
would put the commission on notice, Clubb argued. Purcell is asking the
court to say “that the law means what it
says it means,” Clubb said.
A key to the county’s defense is that
a lawsuit under the Sunshine Law must
name individual members of the body
being sued. Ludwig said the rule that
individual members of a governmental
body must be sued, not just the body
itself, was well established in Missouri
when the Sunshine Law was written in
the 1970s. “Surely our legislature did not
intend to throw out 100 years of law,”
Ludwig argued.
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making its procedures accessible to the
public,” Riggert said. “There are cost
considerations, whether it is something
we can support.”
The court agreed to the Southeast Missourian’s request to webcast arguments in
Purcell v. Cape Girardeau County Commission as an experiment, Riggert said.
The court knew that Southeast Missouri
had a high interest in the case.
Missouri court rules on cameras in the
courtroom were put in place in 1992.
“I think it is something where the
court is at least interested in exploring
what is possible,” Riggert said.
Editorial
On the Move
• Independence — Dale Brendel,
executive editor of The Examiner in
Independence since
1999, has been promoted to the new
position of general
manager of The
Leavenworth Times.
Both of the papers
are owned by GateHouse Media of
Fairport, N.Y.
Dale Brendel
Brendel is a former sports editor of The Examiner.
Longtime Examiner editor Sheila Davis
is directing the newsroom as managing
editor.
Examiner publisher Steve Curd recently was given the added duty of
publisher in Leavenworth, and he then
named Brendel GM there.
Curd said most of his time is being
spent in Independence, while Brendel
is in charge in Leavenworth.
• Bowling Green
— Alex Harness,
24, has been named
editor/reporter of
the Bowling Green
Times. He is a 2004
graduate of Bowling
Green High School
and a 2009 graduate of Hannibal-LaAlex Harness
Grange College with
a degree in communication arts.
While in college Harness worked at
the student newspaper and interned at
the Hannibal Courier-Post.
• Hannibal — Deanne St. John
has been named page one editor and
Joe Barker has been named sports editor of the Hannibal
Courier-Post.
St. John, a native
of Edwardsville,
Ill., is a May 2008
graduate of Illinois
State University,
Normal, with a degree in English. She
has been with the
Deanne St. John
Courier-Post since
Joe Barker
ber 2008.
September 2008.
Barker is a December 2008 graduate of Truman State
University, Kirksville, with a degree
in communication/
journalism. He’s a
native of Pacific and
has been with the
paper since Decem-
• Moberly — Marsha Hargus has
been promoted from ad sales rep to ad
sales manager of the Monitor-Index. She
succeeds Judy Orton, who announced
her retirement Feb.
9 after nearly 48
years of service to
the newspaper.
Hargus is a graduate of Moberly High
School, Moberly
Area Community
College and the
Missouri School
of Journalism. She
Marsha Hargus
started working for
the Monitor-Index in 1977.
Hargus and her husband, Stephen,
have two children.
Some follow
Sunshine Law,
others ignore it
W
e were pleased during a special
meeting of the Lindbergh Board
of Education (recently) when Superintendent Jim Simpson took the time to
give a presentation about the Missouri
Open Meetings and Records Law, also
called the Sunshine Law.
… While we were pleased Dr. Simpson took the time to make the presentation, we can say unequivocally that
Lindbergh officials already have an
outstanding grasp of the Sunshine Law
as do current Mehlville School District
and Mehlville Fire Protection District
officials.
And while (these) officials aren’t the
ones in need of a Sunshine Law refresher,
some local elected officials are. They either don’t understand the law, or worse,
they understand it and elect to ignore it,
sometimes aided by a willing attorney
who’s more interested in keeping his or
her job than in following the provisions
of the law. …
—Mike Anthony,
Call Newspapers, St. Louis
Your newspaper could help find
children by using AMBER Alerts
O
ne tool that helps find missing or
abducted children is the AMBER
Alert program, an often misunderstood
program by members of the media.
“That’s why the Missouri Press Association is allowing us to conduct a
free, four-hour workshop on April 23,”
said Randy Covington, lead instructor
from the University of South Carolina.
“The seminar is being taught to help
the media in Missouri better understand
missing children cases, especially when
an AMBER Alert is called or not called.”
Instructors from the University of
South Carolina’s School of Journalism
and Mass Communications have been
conducting workshops for the past five
years at their campus in Columbia, S.C.
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Under a grant from the Department of
Justice, they are taking the Children in
Jeopardy course on the road.
The seminar puts media and law enforcement into a scenario derived from
actual cases. Participants use Interactive
Response Devices to respond to the developments incorporated in the scenario.
The workship will be 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Friday, April 23, at Missouri State Highway Patrol General Headquarters Building, 1510 East Elm St., Jefferson City.
Register at fvtc.edu/apps/mytraining/
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Terri Moorer with your name, title, organization, address, email, cell, gender
and DOB by calling or emailing: 803348-0445, [email protected].
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Newspaper In Education Report
Start search for teacher
for summer NIE course
‘Living Textbook’ July 15-16 at M.U.
I
f you want a partnership with your tion programs may take the course for
schools to get kids reading your undergraduate credit as well. There are
newspaper, you need to send a additional university fees to the educateacher to this summer’s
tor for taking advantage of
Living Textbook workthese college credits, but
shop at the University of
your scholarship greatly
Missouri.
offsets those fees.
If you have a partnership with your schools,
but think there is more
the school could do to
support your efforts, you
need to send a teacher
to this summer’s Living
The deadTextbook workshop.
line to register
If you aren’t sure where
your newspaper
to begin to approach your
to participate in
school about a partnerThe Living Textship, you need to send a Dawn Kitchell is MPA’s NIE
director. Contact her at
book is May 28. You must
staff person to this year’s (636) 932-4301; kitchell@
reserve a spot by this date
Living Textbook work- yhti.net.
– even if you don’t have
shop.
The Living Textbook workshop will a specific teacher selected. Beyond this
be held July 15-16 at the University of date, we won’t be able to offer overnight
Missouri in Columbia. This year’s course lodging to your participant.
To select a teacher, some newspapers
will begin at 10 a.m. Thursday and
conclude at 3:30 p.m. Friday. The class contact their school administrators.
will be held in the Reynolds Journalism Others publish an ad provided by MisInstitute, and one night lodging will be souri Press or publish a story offering
provided at the Hampton Inn & Suites. a scholarship and requesting letters or
What makes this course successful is calls of interest. Sometimes you have to
our Teacher Ambassador program. By beat the bushes to find those interested
sending a teacher or staff person, you teachers – but they are there and the
provide a scholarship that covers the rewards are great.
Here are some comments from past
University seminar course fees, parking,
materials, meals and one night lodging. participants:
“This entire workshop has been a
In return, teachers agree to share what
they have learned with you and their wonderful experience. Possibly the most
beneficial workshop I have attended. I hope
peers back in your community.
his year’s scholarship cost has been to go back to school and get our teachers as
reduced to $260. Newspapers pay excited as I am to use newspapers in their
this directly to the Missouri Press Foun- classrooms.”
dation on the teacher’s behalf.
“This has been one of the best workshops
The course again will be available that I have attended. I cannot wait to share
for graduate college credit, and new the wealth of information and resources
this year, students in teacher educa- with other teachers within my district.”
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“This course was fantastic! I learned so
much and can’t wait to go back to my classroom and utilize the newspaper. Thank
you for the wonderful opportunity. ... What
a valuable asset in the classroom – an asset
most teachers do not utilize. Wow!”
Registration forms to secure a spot
for a teacher or staff person from your
community to attend are available on
the Newspaper In Education page at
mopress.com or by contacting me at
[email protected]. The deadline to submit that form is May 28!
***
April is National Poetry Month, and
the Newspaper Association of America
Foundation is offering newspapers the
opportunity to serialize 11 poems of Shel
Silverstein along with matching
artwork. You may
use the poems in
any grouping
or order. Visit
naafoundation.
org/Curriculum/
NIE/Shel-Silverstein.aspx for
information and the downloadable files.
***
NAAF is offering Partnership Grants
to middle and high schools to partner
with newspapers in their communities
to start, re-launch or revitalize student
newspapers, whether online or in print.
Grants are available to public and
private schools serving grades 7 through
12. Schools also can include a university
or college in the partnership. NAAF welcomes applications from rural schools,
as well as urban and minority-majority
schools. Grant funding is up to $5,000
in the first year, an additional $2,500
in the second year, and can be used for
equipment, software, adviser training
and printing.
he deadline to apply for 2010 grants
is April 15. Visit naafoundation.
org/Grants/Student-Journalism.aspx for
more information and an application.
***
There is still time to take advantage of
the Missouri Press Foundation serial “A
Fine Fella” available free through the National Newspaper Association in a special
partnership. The Kay Hively story, about
President Abraham Lincoln, and companion teacher guide are available until
Aug. 1. Visit nnaweb.org/?/nnaweb/
content01/925/ for more details.
T
Former Missourian heading press group
T
he New England Newspaper
and Press Association, a trade
group comprising 460 daily and
weekly newspapers across six states, has
hired its first executive director, a 30year newspaper veteran with nationwide
experience in advertising, circulation,
strategic planning and consulting to the
newspaper industry.
Obituaries
Springfield
L
Larry Hazelrigg
arry Spiers Hazelrigg, 72, a sports
reporter and copy editor for the
Springfield News-Leader for 38 years,
died after a long illness on Feb. 13, 2010.
Mr. Hazelrigg earned a journalism
degree at the University of Kansas. After
serving in the Army, he joined the staff of
Springfield Newspapers, Inc. He retired
in 2001.
He is survived by his wife, Carolyn.
Urbandale, Iowa
S
Saundra Wells
aundra Wells, 72, Urbandale, Iowa,
the mother of Boonville Daily News
publisher Deborah Marshall, died of
lung cancer and lung disease on Feb.
24, 2010.
Other survivors are her husband,
another daughter, a son, four grandchildren and a brother.
Kahoka
J
Juanita Watson
uanita Rose Watson, 85, Kahoka,
a longtime employee of the Clark
County Courier and Gazette-Herald,
died Feb. 21, 2010, in Kahoka.
Mrs. Watson went to work for the
newspapers in 1960 and worked for a
long succession of editors as typesetter, columnist and feature writer. She
worked at the paper until retiring.
Mrs. Watson is survived by her husband of 64 years, James; three sons, three
daughters, many grandchildren and
great-grandchildren, and a sister.
Dan Cotter, a
former employee of
the St. Louis PostDispatch, began
his duties March
8 at NENPA’s offices on the Northeastern University
campus in Dedham,
Mass. He succeeds
Morley Piper and Dan Cotter
Brenda Reed, who had each led separate
newspaper associations before the two
groups merged last summer to form
NENPA. Reed had also continued as interim
head of NENPA for eight months while
NENPA searched for a leader of the
combined organization.
That wide-ranging search led NENPA to select Cotter, who most recently
served for almost 10 years as the head
of one of the newspaper industry’s top
research and consulting firms. As chief
operating officer of Sharon, Mass.based Urban and Associates, Cotter
worked with a wide range of newspapers
throughout the United States, Canada
and Latin America, helping them to
develop strategies for increasing audience
and advertising market share.
Before moving to Urban and Associates in late 1999, Cotter worked 16
years for the Pulitzer Publishing Co. He
worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as
marketing and research manager and
later as vice president of circulation.
Cotter served as vice president of marketing and circulation for Pulitzer’s chain
of papers in Chicago and as director of
marketing and strategic planning for
the entire Pulitzer group. For two years
he was president publisher of the Santa
Maria Times in California.
City of Odessa charging for meeting packets
T
he city of Odessa has begun charging The Odessan for the packet of
information provided before meetings
of the board of aldermen. Agendas are
provided free, but all other papers in the
packet cost 10¢ each.
The Odessan estimated the packets will
cost from $3 to $10.
None of the other boards of aldermen, school boards, water or fire district
boards that The Odessan covers charge for
their information, The Odessan reported.
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donations
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hese individuals and businesses made recent contributions to Missouri
Press Foundation.
Donations to the Foundation are tax deductible. Consider a contribution in honor of or in memory of an associate or friend. All donations are
greatly appreciated: Missouri Press Foundation, 802 Locust St., Columbia,
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Marketing Solutions Group, Oklahoma City,
for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
www.mopress.com
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Streaming video from
Missouri’s high court
Newspaper handles experiment
S
o many things happened in the decision.
last month or so that I want to
Beth Riggert, communications counmention that I hardly know where sel for the court, speaking of the histo begin. Two are law-related, while the torical event, noted, “We granted
third is advertising-related. I’ll talk about the request as an experiment, and we
the law things first and end with the ad- hope people will take advantage of this
vertising matter, although
free opportunity to watch
it’s law-related, too. You
the arguments over the
advertising folks hang in
Internet. We always are
’til the end.
interested in ways to make
The biggest news began
the work of the Court be
with a historic argument
as open and transparent
at the Missouri Supreme
to the public as possible.
Court. It was a sunshine
While our budget does
law case. Some of you are
not permit us to underaware of the case that origitake activities like this on
nated in Cape Girardeau,
our own at this time, we
filed by a county commiscertainly will consider any
sioner against the county
future media requests for
commission.
live video streaming on
The case involved, in Jean Maneke, MPA’s Legal a case-by-case basis. We
part, a discussion held in a Hotline attorney, can be
look forward to learning
closed meeting that alleg- reached at (816) 753-9000,
more about the use of this
edly was not listed in the [email protected]. technology to bring the
meeting notice or voted
Court’s proceedings closer
on with a reason for the closed meeting. to people throughout the state.”
eanwhile, the oral argument itself
Indeed, it allegedly was not even a proper
was fascinating. There’s a whole
subject for a closed meeting.
Jay Purcell, the commissioner filing science among lawyers in listening to the
the suit, first was told by the circuit judges’ questions and trying to deduce
court that the law was not violated. His where the court will go with its decision
attorney, J.P. Clubb, filed an appeal, and based on the questions.
The court seemed quite interested
the Eastern District Court of Appeals,
in upholding the circuit court, actually in the fact that Purcell had sued the
made its decision on the basis that the county commission as an entity (which,
case should not have been filed against of course, includes him suing himself )
the county commission as a body, but as opposed to the practice of suing each
against the individual county commis- member individually and in their official
sioners. The attorney appealed again to capacity as members of the body.
Judge Michael Wolfe, at one point,
the Supreme Court, and the case was
asked one of the attorneys involved in the
argued on Feb. 24.
hat was so important about argument, “Show where in the statute
this case to all of us is that the it says you can’t sue the body?” On the
Southeast Missourian, feeling that this other hand, Judge Ray Price commented,
argument was of great importance to its “I think it’s nonsense when a group sues
community, asked the court if it could itself. If you are a member, how else
“live stream” video of the oral argument. would you pursue the matter (than sue
And the court agreed, a ground-breaking the members individually)?”
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All I can say, after listening to the
argument, is that the judges have some
clear differences to sort out as to the
way a public body is sued. The decision,
which usually is issued in about three
to four months, will probably touch on
that issue.
Speaking of legal issues, if you have
an iPhone, there’s a FREE app from the
Missouri Bar and the Missouri Press-Bar
Commission you need NOW. Go to the
App Store and search for Missouri Bar.
The app is called the News Reporter’s
Legal Glossary. Several members of the
Press-Bar Commission, including your
hotline attorney, helped in editing the
project.
t’s an incredible legal dictionary of
terms you hear lawyers and the court
throw around that mean nothing to you
and which you can’t begin to spell (it
wouldn’t matter because they probably
aren’t in your Webster’s Dictionary anyway — like “damnum absque injuria.”
Get the app and look it up!).
Finally, for you patient advertising
folks, did you read about the U.S. Supreme Court opinion regarding political
advertising? The Supreme Court issued a
decision allowing companies to pay for
political advertising. And at the same
time, it also held that attribution on
those ads will not be required.
Experts have said this will make it
possible for corporations and unions
to donate to various groups, who will
take the money and then purchase ads,
without showing where the funds came
from for the ad. Indeed, just last week
I heard a radio ad that at the end noted
it was paid for by an organization “on
behalf of the entities it represents.”
his decision will relate only to advertisements for federal issues (for
example, Congressional campaigns).
However, don’t forget that you, as the
newspaper, can always set your own
requirements for political ads you run.
Non-federal ads will still have to meet
the traditional state attribution requirements. If you run federal campaign ads,
you can either rely on this and accept ads
with the vague new attributions, or you
can tell the advertiser that you require
the more strict attribution requirements
that exist on the state level. It’s up to you.
Of course, if the advertiser isn’t happy,
he may take his ad elsewhere.
I
T
Missouri Newspaper Organizations
NORTHWEST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Matt Daugherty, Smithville/
Kearney; Vice President, Phil Cobb, Maryville; Secretary, Kathy Conger, Bethany; Treasurer,
W.C. Farmer, Rock Port. Directors: Past President Jim Fall, Maryville; Dennis Ellsworth, St.
Joseph; Leslie Speckman, Savannah; Jim McPherson, Weston; Chuck Haney, Chillicothe;
Adam Johnson, Mound City; Steve Tinnen, Plattsburg; Jamey Honeycutt, Cameron; Kay Wilson,
Maryville; Steve Booher, St. Joseph.
SHOW-ME PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Judy Spaar, Odessa; First Vice President, Linda
Geist, Monroe City; Secretary-Treasurer, Sandy Nelson, News-Press & Gazette Co. Directors:
Dennis Warden, Owensville; David Eales, Paris; Past President/Director, Stacy Rice, Drexel.
OZARK PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Sharon Vaughn, Summersville; Vice President,
Regina Wynn, Gainesville; Secretary-Treasurer, Dala Whittaker, Cabool. Directors: Roger Dillon,
Eminence; Brad Gentry, Houston; Jeff Schrag, Springfield; Keith Moore, Ava; Chris Case, Cuba;
Tianna Brooks, Mountain View.
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Gera LeGrand, Cape Girardeau;
First Vice President, Betty Watkins, Dexter; Second Vice President, Sherry Greminger, Farmington;
Secretary-Treasurer, Michelle Friedrich, Poplar Bluff; Executive Secretary, Ann Hayes, Southeast
Missouri State University. Directors: Kim Million-Gipson, Piedmont; Peggy Scott, Festus; Judy
Schaaf-Wheeler, Ironton; H. Scott Seal, Portageville; Kate Martin, Perryville.
DEMOCRATIC EDITORS OF MISSOURI: President, Richard Fredrick, Paris; First Vice
President, Bob Cunningham, Moberly; Secretary, Beth McPherson, Weston; Treasurer, Linda
Geist, Monroe City.
MISSOURI CIRCULATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: President, Brenda Carney,
Harrisonville; First Vice President, Jack Kaminsky, Joplin; Second Vice President, Steve Edwards,
St. Joseph; Secretary, David Pine, Kansas City; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors:
Jim Kennedy, Bolivar; Ken Carpenter, Kansas City; Rob Siebeneck, Jefferson City.
MISSOURI ADVERTISING MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION: President, Suzie Wilson, Milan;
First Vice President, Stacy Rice, Drexel; Second Vice President, Dennis Warden, Owensville;
Secretary, Jeanine York, Washington; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: Jane Haslag,
Jefferson City; Bruce Wallace, Ashland; Joe Jordan, Poplar Bluff; Lisa Miller, Camdenton. Past
President, Trevor Vernon, Eldon.
MISSOURI ASSOCIATED DAILIES: President, Joe May, Mexico; Vice President, vacant;
Secretary, Shelly Arth, Marshall; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia; Past President, Larry Freels,
Kirksville. Directors: Jack Whitaker, Hannibal; Arnie Robbins, St. Louis; Don Wyatt, Springfield;
Dan Potter, Columbia.
MISSOURI PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATORS: President, Colene McEntee, St. Charles;
President-Elect, vacant; Secretary, Peggy Koch, Barnhart; Treasurer, Roxanne Miller, Ballwin;
Public Relations Officer, Suzanne Corbett, St. Louis; Membership Officer, Linda Briggs-Harty, St.
Louis; Contest Director, Janice Denham, Kirkwood; Quest Awards Directors, Susan Fadem, St.
Louis, and Marge Polcyn, St. Louis; Conference Director, vacant; Archivist, Dee Rabey, Granite
City, Ill.; Past President, Fran Mannino, Kirkwood.
MISSOURI PRESS SERVICE: President, Jack Whitaker, Hannibal; Vice President, Dave
Bradley, St. Joseph; Secretary-Treasurer, Steve Oldfield, Adrian. Directors: John Spaar, Odessa;
Gary Sosniecki, former co-publisher in Vandalia.
MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION, INC.: President, Mrs. Betty Spaar, Odessa; First Vice
President, Wendell Lenhart, Trenton; Second Vice President, Kirk Powell, Pleasant Hill; SecretaryTreasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: R.B. Smith III, Lebanon; Rogers Hewitt, Shelbyville;
James Sterling, Columbia; Mrs. Avis Tucker, Warrensburg; Edward Steele, Columbia; Robert
Wilson, Milan; Dane Vernon, Eldon; Vicki Russell, Columbia; Bill James, Harrisonville; Bill Miller
Sr., Washington, Tom Miller, Washington. Directors Emeritus: Mrs. Wanda Brown, Harrisonville;
Wallace Vernon, Eldon.
MISSOURI-KANSAS AP PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS: Chairman, Susan Lynn, Iola, Kan.
Missouri AP Managing Editors: Chairman, vacant; Past Chairman, Carol Stark, Joplin.
MISSOURI COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION: President, Nate Taylor, University of Central
Missouri; Vice President, Jonathan Ernst, Saint Louis University; Secretary, Lisa Crawford,
Missouri Western State University; MPA Liaison, Bob Bergland, Missouri Western State University.
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CALENDAR
April
8 — Russell Viers InDesign Workshop,
Warrenton
22-23 — Missouri Advertising
Managers’ Association, The Lodge
of Four Seasons, Lake Ozark
23 — AMBER Alert Media Workshop,
Highway Patrol HQ, Jefferson City
23 — Media Law Seminar, Kansas City
May
6 — Missouri Press Foundation
Board meeting, MPA building
6 — Past Presidents and Spouses
Dinner, Columbia Country Club
14 — Southeast Missouri Press
Association, Southeast Missouri
State University, Cape Girardeau
June
10 — MPA/MPS Board meeting,
Resort at Port Arrowhead,
Lake Ozark
10 — MPA Porter Fisher Golf Classic
10-11 — Show-Me Press Association
meeting, Resort at Port Arrowhead,
Lake Ozark
July
15-16 — Missouri Press Living
Textbook Course, UMC
September
30-Oct. 3 — 124th NNA Convention
and Trade Show, Hilton, Omaha
October
14-16 — 144th MPA Convention,
The Lodge of Four Seasons,
Lake Ozark
Nomination
forms for the
Missouri Newspaper
Hall of Fame
and the Missouri
Photojournalism
Hall of Fame
are at mopress.com/
current_forms.php.
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Ozark Press Association officers April 2010

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