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  • Friday March 12: Golden opportunity to get high quality sales training

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 09 March 2010 08:02
    Texas Press Association encourages members to tap into high quality yet economical advertising sales training -- The Self-Starter's Toolbox: Building a Sales Approach -- this Friday, March 12. Cost is only $35. Sign up today by clicking:  Online Media C...

  • Don't let contest entry deadline sneak up and surprise you

    TPA eBulletin
    Created: Tuesday, 23 February 2010 09:39
    Friday, March 12, is the postmark deadline for TPA member newspapers to mail or ship 2010 Better Newspaper Contest entries. Why wait until the last minute? To view the rules, please click: RULESIt takes a swap to get a contest judged. So, on Feb. 18, so...

  • Big Lake votes to withdraw from lawsuit that seeks to decriminalize violations of state’s open meetings law

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 15:11
    The city of Big Lake on Jan. 21 voted not to go along with the cities of Rockport, Sugar Land, Wichita Falls, Pflugerville and 15 individual city officials in their lawsuit seeking to strip criminal penalties from the Texas Open Meetings Act. Plaintiffs ...

  • Midwinter conference: Fine turnout in Galveston

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 15:10
    Some 276 people attended the Texas Press 2010 Midwinter Conference and Trade Show, Jan. 21-23, at luxurious Moody Gardens Hotel in Galveston. The trade show brought in exhibitors representing companies and organizations from coast to coast. All are ident...

  • Hunt for contest entries leads to reverie

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 15:09
    I was hanging out in our newspaper morgue the other day, working on 2010 contest entries when I got distracted and started paging through some of our publication’s really old issues. Just about everyone knows how valuable a newspaper’s back-issues ar...

  • My suggestion: Prepare your newspaper for release of iPad

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 15:09
    By KEVIN SLIMPKeeping in mind that I wrote about the rumored tablet device by Apple three months ago, it was with some satisfaction that I listened to Steve Jobs’ announcement concerning the iPad on Jan. 27. As I visited with attendees at a newspaper c...

  • Newsmakers February 2010

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 14:57
    Granite Publications announced the hiring of Dan Moore as publisher of The Liberty Vindicator and The Anahuac Progress, effective Feb. 15. Prior to a short time out of the newspaper business, Moore served as general manager and marketing manager for Blueb...

  • News Briefs February 2010

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 14:48
    Morris Publishing Group to file for bankruptcyMorris Publishing Group, based in Augusta, Ga., will file a “prepackaged” reorganization plan under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and the Amarillo Globe-News announc...

  • Trade show exhibitors meet TPA members in Galveston

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 14:47
    Trade show exhibitors make a special effort to meet with Texas Press Association members every year at the annual trade show. Contact information for companies that participated in the Jan. 21-22 trade show during the Texas Press 2010 Midwinter Conference...

  • Obituaries February 2010

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 15 February 2010 14:42
    Joe BeanJoe Patrick Bean, 51, of Austin, died Dec. 24, 2009, at University Medical Center Brackenridge in Austin.  He was hospitalized Dec. 17 after suffering a severe head injury in a fall in the parking garage where he worked, and died eight days later...

  • Kevin Slimp to conduct training in Round Rock

    Front Page News
    Created: Wednesday, 10 February 2010 09:19
    Computer software skills trainer Kevin Slimp will be in Round Rock on Friday, March 5, to present a workshop for Texas Community Newspaper Association. TCNA invites Texas Press Association members to register for the training, which will include sessions...

  • 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 ...

  • SPJ offers March 5-6 conference in Austin

    TPA eBulletin
    Created: Wednesday, 03 February 2010 13:45
    Sign up now to attend the Society of Professional Journalists Region 8 Spring Conference, March 5-6, in Austin at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center on the University of Texas campus. The conference theme is "How to Save Journalism."...

  • 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...

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