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  • Texas Center for Community Journalism to host March 10-12 workshops

    TPA eBulletin
    Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 14:47
    There's nothing more basic to what the Texas Center for Community Journalism does than help journalists write well or write better, and then teach page design that showcases that writing. This March (Wednesday night through Friday noon) March 10-12, the ...

  • Texas Better Newspaper Contest: Call for entries

    Front Page News
    Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 13:17
    The Texas Better Newspaper Contest Committee met Jan. 21 at the Texas Press 2010 Midwinter Conference & Trade Show in Galveston. The committee set Friday, March 12, as the postmark deadline for mailing or shipping contest entries to the Texas Press A...

  • Jan. 31 is deadline to submit report on use of recycled newsprint

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 29 January 2010 09:00
    To promote paper recycling, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality annually surveys Texas newspaper printers and publishers on their use of recycled newsprint and newsprint with postconsumer recycled content. Deadline for the next survey is Jan. 31...

  • Conference to feature critical information delivered by experts

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 15:34
    Texas Press members will gather Jan. 21-23 at the Moody Gardens Hotel, Spa and Convention Center in Galveston for the 2010 Midwinter Conference and Trade Show. A highlight of the meeting will be the Texas Newspaper Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Frid...

  • Winners named in scholastic journalism contest

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 15:34
    Six winners were named Jan. 7 in the 9th annual Lone Star Journalism Writing Contest sponsored by the Texas Press Association and the Interscholastic League Press Conference. In the Small School category, the $125 first place award went to Chase Wade, Cr...

  • Best for Texas: A strong Open Meetings Act

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 15:33
    As surprising as this may sound, there was a time when this writer wasn’t as concerned as perhaps he should have been whenever local government officials sat down to conduct the public’s business. My feeling back in 1973 when our family moved to Fred...

  • Use checklist to evaluate, advocate, cover sensitive issues

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 15:32
    By Jim PumarloHow many editors have faced reporting bad news — or, put another way — making an uncomfortable news decision? Pressed by a reader for the rationale, you’ve replied, “That’s our policy,” or “It doesn’t meet our guidelines.” ...

  • Newsmakers January 2010

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 15:31
    The Navasota Examiner welcomed Scott McDonald as publisher on Dec. 7. He succeeds Dave Kucifer, who retired after a 45-year newspaper career. McDonald, 36, comes to Navasota from Cedar Park, where he was editor of the Hill County News for three years. Rai...

  • News Briefs January 2010

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 15:29
    Knight Foundation to help pay for FOI lawsuitsThe John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has approved a new $2 million, three-year grant to the National Freedom of Information Coalition to launch the Knight FOI Fund and support state open government group...

  • Flimsy-flats proposal threatens mailing rates for newspapers

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 15:26
    POSTAL TIPS by Max Heath Higher rates for basic carrier route newspapers and shoppers are in the works, if a new USPS proposal prevails. The National Newspaper Association is working to turn it back.The Postal Service, acting in response to complaints fr...

  • Obituaries January 2010

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 15:23
    Gene BlessingShirley Gene Swart Blessing, 70, died Dec. 7, 2009, at home following a short battle with cancer. Born at Littlefield in 1939, she graduated from Littlefield High School in 1958. Two days after graduation she married John Edd “Jedd” Bless...

  • Editor and Publisher magazine is back in business

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 15 January 2010 13:01
    Editor and Publisher has resumed publication in print and online following its sale Jan. 14 to Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc., a California-based magazine and newspaper publisher. The 126-year-old publication chronicles the many aspects of the newspaper busine...

  • TPA Libel Hotline

    other articles
    Created: Monday, 11 January 2010 14:36
    You'll speak with John K. Edwards when you call the TPA Libel Hotline, available from Jackson Walker L.L.P. Edwards is based in the firm's Houston office. Contact him at 713-752-4319 (direct). The hotline is for libel calls only. For example, ne...

  • New Knight grant will help fund open government lawsuits

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 08 January 2010 08:23
    The Columbia, Mo.-based National Freedom of Information Coalition on Jan. 4 announced the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has approved a new $2 million, three-year grant to the NFOIC to launch the Knight FOI Fund and support state open government g...

  • Deadline for TexSCAN registration

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 05 January 2010 06:58
    Have you registered? (If not, it's time!) The Texas Press 2010 Midwinter Conference and Trade Show is set for Jan. 21-23 at Moody Gardens Hotel, Spa and Convention Center in Galveston. Each member newspaper that participated in the TexSCAN program throu...

  • Action Memo: Deadlines for Midwinter Conference at hand

    TPA eBulletin
    Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 09:34
    The 2010 Texas Press Midwinter Conference and Trade Show is set for Jan. 21-23 at Moody Gardens Hotel, Spa and Convention Center in Galveston. Please take the appropriate action with these fast-approaching deadlines in mind:1. The deadline to sign up for ...

  • Drop by Postal Solutions booth at trade show

    TPA eBulletin
    Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 13:44
    The TPA team of Periodicals Consultants will have a booth at the 2010 Texas Press Trade Show on January 21-22. Harley Hitchcock and Joel Allis will be available to answer postal questions, address concerns, review documents, and perform an “angle of de...

  • Volunteer judges needed: Time for resolve

    TPA eBulletin
    Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 15:14
    We've got 16 people who've volunteered to judge, and they're coming from far and wide. But Georgia Press has such a big better newspaper contest, we need more members follow suit and sign up. Even though the contest judging in Austin isn't until Thursday,...

  • Murdoch: Quality journalism is not free of charge

    TPA eBulletin
    Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 14:16
    For those of us who missed News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch's opinion published by the Wall Street Journal on Dec. 8, he wrote that there's much to look forward to in the news business and says it's all about giving people what they want. He als...

  • Stats show smaller newspapers fared better than some in 2nd quarter

    TPA eBulletin
    Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 10:10
    Source: National Newspaper Association Community newspapers reported an average 12.4 percent advertising revenue decline in the second quarter of 2009, compared to a more than double national industry average decline of 29 percent for the same period. T...

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