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  • From TCU's Texas Center for Community Journalism:

    Front Page News
    Created: Wednesday, 25 August 2010 09:48
    If you've always wanted to know how to shoot and edit simple video pieces for your website -- and for ads, too -- then we have a deal for you. It's our Video on the Go workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25. Spend a Saturday at the Texas Ce...

  • Nominations sought for Gish award

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 13:09
    The Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues is accepting nominations for the 2010 Tom and Pat Gish Award, recognizing exemplary rural journalists. Tom and Pat Gish, who published The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Ky., for more than 51 years,...

  • TPA offers mobile-first training

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 12:41
    The use of smart phones is growing rapidly. It's not enough to think web-first anymore. That's why Texas Press Association is co-sponsoring a new online training opportunity for journalists on how to become mobile-first.“Developing a Mobile-First Strate...

  • Nominations sought for Gish award

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 13 August 2010 11:54
    The Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues is accepting nominations for the 2010 Tom and Pat Gish Award, recognizing exemplary rural journalists. Tom and Pat Gish, who published The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Ky., for more than 51 years, w...

  • Postal Service eliminates manual card option for address sequencing

    Front Page News
    Created: Thursday, 05 August 2010 10:24
    By Joel Allis, TPA Periodicals ConsultantThe U.S. Postal Service published a proposed rule in the Federal Register on July 19 to eliminate the manual card option for electronic address sequencing service in January 2011. This service has been one of the o...

  • Arrest reports: What is considered public information?

    Front Page News
    Created: Thursday, 05 August 2010 07:31
    Q: Exactly what information contained in an arrest report is public information? Where can I find a list of those things?A: Let’s look at three places where you can find what you’re looking for. Here’s the first one. It takes three steps to...

  • Paper Man

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 08:52
    Departing from the norm By BOB BRINCEFIELDTPA President 2010-2011 I was aware one of the duties of the TPA president was to write a monthly column for the Texas Press Messenger, but when Ed Sterling told me I also needed to come up with a moniker for th...

  • Time is money when it comes to hardware and software updates

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 08:50
    By KEVIN SLIMP When I was younger, I owned a graphic design business. It started out small, but grew to a few employees and bigger clients as the years went on. As much as we enjoyed our work, like most businesses, making a profit was a priority. One of...

  • For Their Eyes Only

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 08:47
    After five years and $254,000, DPS keeps Capitol video hidden By DAVE MANNThe Texas ObserverThis story first appeared in The Texas Observer on June 17.It all started with a rumor. Late in the 2005 legislative session, a contentious floor debate was rili...

  • AG files motion for summary judgment in open meetings lawsuit

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 08:45
    Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on July 12 filed a brief defending the constitutionality of the Texas Open Meetings Act. A number of Texas cities and local officials are working to avoid compliance with the law by challenging its constitutionality in f...

  • Summer Convention Highlights

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 08:41
    Left to right: Steven Bridges, Debra Bridges, Amber Bridges, Tammarrah Pledger, Bo Mackey, Becky Gray, Isaiah Pledger, Georgie Bridges and Frank Bridges from The Goldthwaite Eagle used the convention as an opportunity for team building. The Goldthwaite ...

  • Newsmakers

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 08:40
    Terry Slavens joined Eastland County Newspapers as sports editor. Amy Adams joined the Castro County News as a page designer and reporter. Adams is a student at West Texas A&M University. She is majoring in English education and language and aspires to be...

  • News Briefs

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 08:39
    DE LEON – The De Leon Free Press celebrated its 120th birthday June 27-28. The paper was founded during the railroad boom of the 1890s. Local merchants established the Free Press through a stock corporation and chose the name “Free Press” to signify...

  • -30-

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 08:38
    Warren Flowers, 87, died June 1 at a veterans nursing home in Bonham. Flowers was a former publisher of the Gainesville Daily Register. He started working for the Register as a paperboy in 1936. Eleanor Dozier, 86, died June 5 after a prolonged illness. D...

  • Golf Action!

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 08:37
    Left to right: John Hudson, Eric Buskirk, Marshall Day and Mike Graxiola. From left: Frank Bridges, Jim Bardwell, Phil Major, Jonathan McElvy, Dwight McKenzie, Rick Craig, Marshall Day, Greg Shrader, Bob Brincefield and Ted Rickenbacher played in t...

  • Alamo City hosts TPA's 131st summer convention

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 19 July 2010 10:55
    TPA elects Brownwood publisher as president By LAURA KINGMessenger Editor Bob Brincefield, vice president and regional manager of American Consolidated Media, vice president of Brownwood Newspapers Inc. and publisher of the Brownwood Bulletin, was elect...

  • Texas Press Association Bylaws

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 19 July 2010 10:42
    As amended June 19, 2010 NAMEARTICLE I. This Association shall be known as the “Texas Press Association.”OBJECTSARTICLE II. Objects of the Association are to promote the welfare of, encourage ethical practices in, and protect the interests of the pub...

  • Bundle up

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 19 July 2010 10:32
    By DWIGHT MCKENZIETPA Advertising DirectorMany a discussion has and is taking place about developing a rate structure that includes bundling. When a company has multiple products, newspaper, niche publications, web, TMC products or others, bundling rates ...

  • Now’s time to head off potential new taxes on Texas newspapers

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Thursday, 10 June 2010 11:38
    By DOUG TONEYOur state’s multi-billion-dollar budget deficit looms as the dominant issue of the 2011 session of the Texas Legislature.The House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Finance Committee are already scrutinizing current tax exemptions,...

  • Donnis Baggett named publisher of Waco daily

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Thursday, 10 June 2010 11:38
    Veteran Texas newspaperman Donnis Baggett was named publisher of the Waco Tribune-Herald, effective June 1, Gordon Robinson, president of Robinson Media, announced in the newspaper’s May 13 editions.Before joining the Waco daily, Baggett, 57, was editor...