CNPA Bulletin
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Upcoming Inland webinars: Weeklies' websites, compensation, online video
Mar 18, 2010
CNPA members receive the Inland rate of $75 for Inland Press
Association webinars. They offer an efficient way to stay informed and
competitive. You need a computer with Internet connection and
telephone, a clear block of time and a resolution to learn.
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Clark-Johnson joins ASU journalism faculty
Mar 18, 2010
Sue Clark-Johnson, former president of Gannett Co.'s newspaper group, has joined the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, the Phoenix Business Journal reports.
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Encourage grant applications by April 23
Mar 17, 2010
Just over one month remains until application deadlines for the CNPA Foundation's equipment grants and high school adviser grants.
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In Vallejo, Facebook fans count
Mar 17, 2010
An experiment in cross-pollination is enlivening the opinion sections online, in print and on Facebook for the Vallejo Times-Herald.
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In Memoriam: Malcolm Glover, 83
Mar 17, 2010
Malcolm "Scoop" Glover, who was a teenage gardener at William Randolph Hearst's Wyntoon estate in McCloud before becoming a photographer at The Examiner in San Francisco, then pursued a lifelong career on the cops beat, died March 1 of congestive heart failure. He was 83.
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Cameron retained as Cal-JEC chair
Mar 16, 2010
Delegates to the California Journalism Education Coalition on March 12 reappointed Richard Cameron to a two-year term as chair of Cal-JEC.
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Summit discount extended to March 19
Mar 16, 2010
"Your attendance at CNPA's 2010 Press Summit is an opportunity to invest
in our future with a great ROI for you," say CNPA's president and president-elect. "And to ensure that ROI and
encourage you to register now, we are extending special
registration savings through Friday, March 19 -- so that you can benefit
from the great programs that will be presented."
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Your opinion counts! Watch for CNPA Member Survey
Mar 16, 2010
Watch your email for the 2010 Member Survey, designed to provide the CNPA Executive Committee, Board and staff with the information necessary to meet your needs as a member, both now and in the future.
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CNPA members speak out for Sunshine Week
Mar 15, 2010
This is Sunshine Week, during which newspapers and other media remind consumers about the importance of open government and freedom of information.
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National honors for college newspapers
Mar 15, 2010
The Associated College Press named Best of Show winners at its recent national convention. They include several CNPA members.
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Sonoma Valley Sun changes owners
Mar 12, 2010
Ownership has changed at the weekly Sonoma Valley Sun, the news company reports in a message from founder and former Publisher Bill Hammett and a note from the new owners.
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Items listed for April 16 auction
Mar 11, 2010
Proceeds from the CNPA Foundation auction will go toward equipment grants for California high
school and college newspapers. Donors will be recognized in the auction
program.
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Circulation conference April 21-23
Mar 11, 2010
The Cal-Western Circulation Managers Association is accepting registrations for its 91st Sales Conference, coming up April 21-23 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Sacramento.
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Coats quits Scripps, newspapers
Mar 10, 2010
Rusty Coats, whose early career was spent in California newspapers, has resigned his post as the head of Scripps Interactive and is leaving the newspaper business.
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Three papers bolster content
Mar 10, 2010
Good news comes from three CNPA-member newspaper regarding the restoration of content that had been reduced in recent years.
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Councilman resigns over legal-ad vote
Mar 10, 2010
A Grand Terrace city councilman has resigned his post, acknowledging that he should not have voted to approve payments of city funds to his wife's newspaper, The Press-Enterprise in Riverside reports.
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Rosenberg joins CNPA ad staff
Mar 09, 2010
Wolf Rosenberg, a veteran California newspaper executive and former member of the CNPA Board of Directors, has been hired to assist Sharla Trillo with management functions relating to CNPA Ad Services.
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CNPA seeks nominees for FOI Award
Mar 09, 2010
CNPA is seeking nominees for its 2010 Freedom of Information Award to be given at the CNPA Press Summit, April 15-17 at the Monterey Plaza Hotel.
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Compensation survey deadline March 12
Mar 09, 2010
CNPA members are encouraged to participate in the Newspaper Industry
Compensation Survey conducted by the Inland Press Association. CNPA is
a co-sponsor of the survey. The revised deadline is March 12.
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CNPA participates at two high school events
Mar 08, 2010
CNPA staff took part recently in high school outreach events at two universities.
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Response to 'Mad Hatter' ad less than cheery
Mar 08, 2010
The four-page wraparound ad promoting "Alice in Wonderland" March 5 in the Los Angeles Times drew plenty of response from readers, according to Deirdre Edgar, The Times' readers representative.
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API/Poynter newsroom seminar next week
Mar 05, 2010
The American Press Institute invites West Coast editors to "Beyond the Newsroom," an intensive workshop March 22-24 in Reston, Va.
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SPJ awards announced north and south
Mar 04, 2010
Recipients of awards have been announced by Society of Professional Journalists chapters in Northern and Southern California.
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CNPA members collect business-content awards
Mar 04, 2010
Winners of awards in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers' Best in Business Journalism contest include several CNPA members.
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Judge OKs MediaNews' Ch. 11
Mar 04, 2010
A U.S. bankruptcy court judge has approved a "prepackaged" Chapter 11 filing for the holding company of Denver-based MediaNews Group.
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Craft to opinion editor at VC Star
Mar 03, 2010
Mike Craft is now opinion editor at the Ventura County Star. He succeeds Marianne Ratcliff.
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Crescent City knows mobilization
Mar 03, 2010
You can't beat local media to provide the latest from authorities during a disaster watch, Daily Triplicate Editor Richard Wiens writes from Crescent City.
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Ram & Olson is Silver Sponsor
Mar 02, 2010
Ram & Olson LLP is a Silver Sponsor of the CNPA Press Summit in Monterey.
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Complete Summit program posted
Mar 02, 2010
The CNPA Press Summit program has been published in the Spring issue of California Publisher, which is in the mail and now online.
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Palo Alto rich with newspapers
Mar 01, 2010
A relatively strong advertising base helps to support three newspapers in Palo Alto, The New York Times reports.
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Community hopes to save the Rafu
Mar 01, 2010
Community members have mobilized in concern for the struggling Rafu Shimpo newspaper in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood.
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Mobile, e-readers focus of new AP unit
Mar 01, 2010
With its new AP Gateway business unit, the Associated Press, a CNPA Allied member, aims to help its members to sell their products in the growing mobile and e-reader markets, said Tom Curley, the AP's chief executive.
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Lund to publisher at Lincoln News-Messenger
Feb 26, 2010
Jean Lund was named publisher of the Lincoln News-Messenger in Placer County. She had been general manager.
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Law-reporting fellowships offered
Feb 26, 2010
Journalists who cover the law are invited to apply for Journalist Law School fellowships at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
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Five named to Freedom board
Feb 26, 2010
James D. Dunning Jr., a former president of Rolling Stone, will chair the five-member board of Irvine-based Freedom Communications Inc., The Orange County Register reports.
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Free print paper works for Shah
Feb 25, 2010
The Community Voice, a free weekly in Rohnert Park, Sonoma County, is turning 18. No cake, says Publisher Yatin Shah. Doughnuts will do.
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Demographic survey part of banner network
Feb 24, 2010
Participants in the CNPA Banner Ad Network will benefit from an ItzBelden survey of readers in local markets.
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California Gannett Newspapers join Summit Hosts
Feb 24, 2010
California Gannett Newspapers -- The Desert Sun, Palm Springs; The Salinas Californian and the Visalia Times-Delta -- have joined the Host Sponsors for the CNPA Press Summit in April in Monterey.
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VMIX Media Inc. joins Silver Sponsors
Feb 24, 2010
VMIX Media Inc. is a Silver Sponsor of the CNPA Press Summit in April. Michael Glickenhaus is CEO.
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GP Plastics is Silver Sponsor
Feb 24, 2010
GP Plastics Corporation is a Silver Sponsor of the upcoming CNPA Press Summit.
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Girardot to editor in Pasadena
Feb 23, 2010
Frank Girardot becomes editor of the Pasadena Star-News. He continues as senior metro editor for the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group.
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Paduganan covers the competition at Summit
Feb 22, 2010
On April 16 at the CNPA Press Summit, Dawn Paduganan will show how to thrive alongside the competition.
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New wedding mag for South Orange County
Feb 22, 2010
Picket Fence Media, publisher of weekly newspapers in San Clemente, Dana Point and San Juan Capistrano, introduces South Orange County Bridal Guide, a 30,000-circulation glossy magazine.
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Littlejohn, Thomas promoted at Signal
Feb 22, 2010
Lila Littlejohn was promoted to executive editor at The Signal in Santa Clarita, while Morris Thomas was named administrative director.
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Banish to ad director at SLO Tribune
Feb 19, 2010
Terrie Banish is now advertising director at The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, the newspaper reports. She had been advertising sales manager.
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Rodriquez to editor at Vista Magazine
Feb 19, 2010
Marissa Rodriquez becomes editorial director for Vista Magazine, a CNPA Allied member.
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SPJ writing workshop May 8 in Santa Clara
Feb 19, 2010
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tom Hallman Jr. will lead a narrative-writing workshop on Saturday, May 8 at Santa Clara University.
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L.A. Press Club contest open for entries
Feb 19, 2010
Journalists and publications from 10 counties are encouraged to enter the Los Angeles Press Club's 52nd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.
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Member discounts for PINC webinars
Feb 19, 2010
Upcoming webinars offered by Printing Industries of Northern California cover preflighting files, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash and typography.
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Canalis to editor of Daily Pilot
Feb 18, 2010
John Canalis becomes editor of the Daily Pilot in Costa Mesa, Independent in Huntington Beach and Coastline Pilot in Laguna Beach, The Daily Pilot reports.
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LANG partners with AutoTrader.com
Feb 18, 2010
The Los Angeles Newsaper Group's new partnership with AutoTrader.com provides the company's nine websites with access to new vehicle-classifieds traffic and will allow local advertisers on AutoTrader to access new viewers.
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Cox Newsprint Supply is Silver Sponsor
Feb 17, 2010
Cox Newsprint Supply is a Silver Sponsor of the CNPA Press Summit in April.
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McGrann Paper is Silver Sponsor
Feb 17, 2010
McGrann Paper Corp. is a Silver Sponsor of the upcoming CNPA Press Summit in Monterey.
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API's Davis to share doctrines at Summit
Feb 16, 2010
During the CNPA Summit Welcome Luncheon on Thursday, April 15, API President and Executive Director Drew Davis will look at the current state and future of the news industry through the lens of five doctrines and will share API's most recent research on experimentation by innovative companies.
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Parade is Premiere Sponsor of Summit
Feb 16, 2010
PARADE Publications is a Premiere Sponsor of the upcoming CNPA Press Summit. Jack Findley is senior vice president.
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PCF, Inc. joins Summit sponsors
Feb 16, 2010
Publishers Circulation Fulfillment, Inc. is a Silver Sponsor of the upcoming CNPA Press Summit. Robert Bouchard-Hall is director of distribution.
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College business side convenes in March
Feb 11, 2010
The national College Newspaper Business & Advertising Managers association convention is March 24-28 at the Universal Hilton in Universal City.
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Daily Planet goes online-only
Feb 11, 2010
The Berkeley Daily Planet will suspend its print operation for an undefined period, publishers Becky and Mike O'Malley explain in this week's issue.
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L.A. Times joins Summit Hosts
Feb 11, 2010
The Los Angeles Times, Eddy Hartenstein, publisher, is a Host Sponsor of the CNPA Press Summit in April.
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Light named editor of Union-Tribune
Feb 11, 2010
Jeff Light becomes editor and vice president of The San Diego Union-Tribune, President and Publisher Ed Moss announced.
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Carl to editor at Roseville Press-Tribune
Feb 11, 2010
Michelle Carl is the new editor of The Press Tribune in Roseville, the newspaper reports.
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Bakersfield niche products repositioned
Feb 10, 2010
The Bakersfield Voice becomes a larger-circulation publication reaching a broader demographic, reports Logan Molen, chief operating officer at The Bakersfield Californian.
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USA WEEKEND is Silver sponsor
Feb 10, 2010
USA WEEKEND Magazine is a Silver Sponsor of the upcoming CNPA Press Summit. Ed Graves is senior vice president, Newspaper Relations; Ed Tiles is regional director.
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Announcement of BNC winners
Feb 10, 2010
Better Newspapers Contest winners will be posted online after midnight Friday, April 16.
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American Circulation Innovations joins sponsors
Feb 09, 2010
American Circulation Innovations (ACI) is a Platinum sponsor of the 2010 CNPA Press Summit in Monterey. David Morel is director-Strategic Planning.
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Columnist: Papers need to document their evolution
Feb 05, 2010
The evolution of newspapers such as The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa never has occurred under much of a spotlight, columnist Gaye LeBaron writes.
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Women Executives Breakfast invitation
Feb 05, 2010
Publisher Cheryl Brown invites women executives from all newspaper departments to join her for the Women Executives breakfast during the CNPA Press Summit in April.
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Lockyer Governmental Affairs Day video posted
Feb 04, 2010
Video of state Treasurer Bill Lockyer's keynote address from our Jan. 27 Governmental Affairs Day is now posted for viewing.
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Bullard retires at USA Weekend
Feb 04, 2010
Charles Gabrielson, publisher of USA Weekend magazine, a CNPA Allied member, will add the title of president and chief executive when Marcia Bullard retires at the end of March, the Associated Press reports.
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Printing plant gets LEED certification
Feb 03, 2010
Transcontinental Printing Inc.'s NADEV Printing Facility in Fremont, which prints the San Francisco Chronicle, has earned LEED Silver certification.
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Signal Tribune rebounds after roof collapse
Feb 03, 2010
The weekly Signal Tribune in Signal Hill, Los Angeles County, moved to an adjacent building following the collapse of its roof during a heavy rainstorm, Publisher Neena Strichart reports.
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Online revenue, member survey on Board radar
Feb 03, 2010
Speaking to the CNPA Board of Directors on Jan. 28, President Tony Allegretti reported that the CNPA Web Consortium task force would become a standing committee, chaired by Eric Johnston, The Modesto Bee.
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McClatchy joins Summit hosts
Feb 02, 2010
The McClatchy Company has become a Host Sponsor for the upcoming Press Summit in Monterey. Frank R.J. Whittaker is vice president of operations.
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Publishing Group of America is Silver Sponsor
Feb 02, 2010
Publishing Group of America is a Silver Sponsor of the 2010 CNPA Press Summit in Monterey. Chris Kreidel is regional director.
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CIPS Marketing Group is Silver Sponsor
Feb 02, 2010
CIPS Marketing Group is Silver Sponsor of the 2010 CNPA Press Summit in Monterey. Kennedy
Higdon is director of business development.
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A.H. Belo is Summit Host
Feb 02, 2010
A.H. Belo Corporation is a Host Sponsor for the upcoming Press Summit in Monterey. James M. Moroney III is executive vice president.
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Watch video from Governmental Affairs Day
Feb 01, 2010
Video coverage of the Jan. 27 CNPA Governmental Affairs Day is available for viewing.
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Business editors conference March 19-21 in Phoenix
Feb 01, 2010
Among the speakers at the upcoming Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference in Phoenix will be Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., president of The New York Times Co.; and Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post.
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Foundation receives $50,000 grant for high school support
Feb 01, 2010
A $50,000 grant from the McCormick Foundation will help to provide
training and support for advisers and journalism students at 10 high
schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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N.C. Times reduces page width
Jan 29, 2010
Page-width reductions began the week of Jan. 10 in the North County Times, Escondido; and The Californian, Temecula, The Times reported.
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Inform your advisers of production grants
Jan 29, 2010
The CNPA Foundation will provide 15 $200 grants to California high school newspaper advisers this spring to learn about newspaper production.
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Gelbman to ad director at Sierra Sun
Jan 28, 2010
Michael Gelbman in December joined Swift Communications' Sierra Nevada Media Group as advertising director, overseeing revenue for the Sierra Sun, North Lake Tahoe Bonanza, Lake Tahoe Action and related websites.
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News-Press firings can stand, judges rule
Jan 27, 2010
The Santa Barbara News-Press does not have to reinstate employees it fired following a conflict in 2006 and 2007 between the publisher and staff over control of content, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
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Whitley joins San Diego Business Journal
Jan 27, 2010
Scott Whitley is now associate publisher of the San Diego Business Journal, that paper reports. He previously was chief revenue officer at The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Edgar is L.A. Times reader rep
Jan 27, 2010
Deirdre Edgar is now readers' representative at the Los Angeles Times. She had been national copy-desk chief.
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Davis Wright Tremaine sponsors Summit
Jan 26, 2010
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP is a Premiere sponsor of the 2010 CNPA Press Summit in Monterey.
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Freedom reaches deal to resolve debt
Jan 25, 2010
Irvine-based Freedom Communications has reached an agreement with its creditors to emerge from bankruptcy by late March, The Orange County Register reports.
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Paid-content discussion set for Summit
Jan 22, 2010
The Stockton and Chico moves into online pay walls will be covered
during a general session at the 2010 CNPA Press Summit in Monterey.
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Placer Sentinel shuttered 'for the time being'
Jan 21, 2010
The Sentinel, an Auburn-based weekly, is closing its doors, Publisher Janice Forbes says, until publishing conditions improve.
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Chico E-R staffers power up during outage
Jan 21, 2010
It was deadline by lantern light for newsroom personnel at the Chico Enterprise-Record, which lost all power and connection during the big storm Jan. 20.
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Magazine: Brehm Sr. is 'people's publisher'
Jan 21, 2010
"You can't replace hometown journalism," Bill Brehm Sr. tells Senior Magazine for a profile in its current issue.
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Garment & Citizen got scoop, L.A. Times columnist says
Jan 21, 2010
Jerry Sullivan, publisher of the Los Angeles Garment & Citizen, asked the right questions and got the big story about country clubs and tax rates, Los Angeles Times columnist Hector Tobar writes.
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Four newspapers join Summit Hosts
Jan 21, 2010
Four more newspapers have registered as Host sponsors for the CNPA Press Summit in April in Monterey.
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Nominating Committee selects directors, officers
Jan 20, 2010
CNPA's Nominating Committee has selected 10 candidates and five officers for election to the CNPA Board of Directors in April.
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Catalyst Paper sponsors Summit
Jan 20, 2010
Catalyst Paper is a Silver sponsor of the 2010 CNPA Press Summit in Monterey.
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MediaNews holding company in restructure plan
Jan 19, 2010
The holding company of MediaNews Group's newspapers has made a "prepackaged bankruptcy" filing that allows Chairman and CEO William Dean Singleton and management to retain 20 percent control of the company.
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Tablets? Fidler's seen 'em all
Jan 19, 2010
The coming shakeout in e-tablets is nearly upon us. Or is it? Roger Fidler, who has tracked the stop-start evolution of the portable reading device for two decades, updates Matt Mansfield at SND.org on the latest line.
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Gary Moore joins Summit program
Jan 18, 2010
Veteran sales consultant and trainer Gary Moore is the latest addition to the 2010 CNPA Press Summit, set for April in Monterey.
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Orange County publisher rescues E&P
Jan 15, 2010
Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc. of Irvine, publisher of The Log newspaper and other boating-related publications, has acquired Editor & Publisher, E&P's website reports.
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Front-page ads not so prevalent
Jan 15, 2010
Front-page ads, at one time considered the next big premium position, aren't as numerous as you'd think, Newsosaur Alan Mutter says after a tally.
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Contreras: 'Gold standard' online measure needed
Jan 15, 2010
Publishers and their clients have got to find agreement on the measurement of online audience, says Mark Contreras, senior vice president for newspapers for E.W. Scripps and incoming chairman of the Newspaper Association of America.
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Editors Hazelwood, Hall promoted at Times-Delta
Jan 13, 2010
Mike Hazelwood is now daily editor at the Visalia Times-Delta, while Adriane Hall becomes digital editor, The Times-Delta reports.
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Change-maker Paton: Legacy companies have head start
Jan 13, 2010
John Paton, newly named CEO of Journal Register Co., offers insight on the future of newspapers.
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Summit speaker Wilkinson to bring urgent message
Jan 12, 2010
Be advised that April's CNPA Press Summit will feature a presentation by Earl J. Wilkinson, executive director and CEO of the International Newsmedia Marketing Association.
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Bill would protect charter-school journalism
Jan 12, 2010
Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, is introducing a bill that would bar charter school administrators from unlawful attempts at censorship, The Orange County Register reports.
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Campaign data reorganized on FPPC site
Jan 12, 2010
The California Fair Political Practices Commission's website now provides new search functions and links to the most-used items requested by news media, PublicCEO reports.
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Production proceeds amid quake chaos
Jan 11, 2010
The Saturday earthquake that rattled the North Coast knocked out power at the Times-Standard in Eureka. "Employees quickly gathered their wits and set up an impromptu command center in their parking lot with one operable laptop and headlamps from employee vehicles providing light to work by," The Times-Standard reports.
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BANG wants tax returns from governor candidates
Jan 08, 2010
The San Jose Mercury News and other BANG newspapers have
requested 10 years of tax returns from California gubernatorial
candidates and plan to post the returns online, The Mercury News reports.
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L.A. Times' OC plant to close
Jan 08, 2010
The Los Angeles Times will produce a late-news section, reduce its page width and close its Orange County printing plant, The Times reports.
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None hurt in fire at Compton Bulletin
Jan 07, 2010
An electrical fire at the weekly Compton Bulletin did $30,000 to $40,000 in damage, Editor Allison Jean Eaton reports.
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FOI fund fills in gaps
Jan 07, 2010
A Knight Foundation grant will provide state open-government groups
with the up-front costs of litigation in freedom of information cases.
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North Coast Journal succession plan set
Jan 06, 2010
The weekly North Coast Journal in Arcata, begun 20 years ago as a monthly, has created a succession plan that makes Editor Hank Sims, Sales Manager Mike Herring and A&E Editor Bob Doran minority shareholders, co-founder and Publisher Judy Hodgson reports.
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Belo's Moroney joins Summit program
Jan 06, 2010
James M. Moroney III, executive vice president of A. H. Belo, will be the luncheon speaker on Friday, April 16 during CNPA's 2010 Press Summit in Monterey.
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Publisher seeks clarity on Triplicate's 130th
Jan 04, 2010
In Crescent City, Publisher Michele Thomas is trying to fill in the blanks of her Daily Triplicate's 130-year history.
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Red Bluff revamps digital edition
Jan 04, 2010
The new digital edition of the Red Bluff Daily News will be more than an uploaded interactive copy of the daily paper, Publisher Greg Stevens says.
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Sonoma Index-Tribune opens shopping 'mall'
Dec 28, 2009
The Sonoma Index-Tribune's new Shop Sonoma Mall provides an
easier way to shop locally, reports Index-Tribune Publisher Bill Lynch.
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Top newspaper trends for 2009
Dec 23, 2009
"2009 might well be remembered as a year of cutbacks and closures, but also a year when newspapers started to fight back, make changes and began to reassess unsatisfactory aspects of their business models," begins the EditorsWeblog recap of top newspaper trends in 2009.
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E&P editor's top 10 business stories
Dec 23, 2009
"We saw mobile sprint forward, print decrease, employees give back, and some familiar faces depart," Editor & Publisher Senior Editor Joe Strupp writes in his recap.
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Toss one back for charity
Dec 22, 2009
The East Bay Express is launching a live-music venue downstairs from its office. It's also rolling out its own brand of locally brewed lager.
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Thanks for reading; now tip your carrier
Dec 22, 2009
Newspaper delivery people really appreciate a little something from customers for their year of silent service, Jocelyn Y. Stewart writes in the Los Angeles Times.
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Some quotes on the year nearly gone
Dec 22, 2009
Before the holiday door slams, a few final words ...
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Allison to COO at Greenspun
Dec 21, 2009
Bryan Allison becomes chief operating officer at Greenspun Media Group, the Las Vegas Sun reports. he had been vice president of VEGAS.com.
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Signal drops column over plagiarism issue
Dec 21, 2009
Similarities between a columnist's work and the work of another writer led The Signal in Santa Clarita to discontinue use of the column, the paper reports.
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Stockton Record to charge for content
Dec 21, 2009
The Record in Stockton in January will require paid subscriptions for unlimited access to content on Recordnet.com.
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Don't lose sense of place, ex-paperboy says
Dec 18, 2009
When news becomes homogenized, you lose a sense of place, writes Robert Price, opinion editor at The Bakersfield Californian. And you lose a diversity of viewpoints.
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Civility is all we ask, editor says of comments
Dec 18, 2009
Editor Silas Lyons at the Record Searchlight in Redding outlines steps the staff is taking to keep the quality in -- and the rabble out -- of the online conversation.
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In Memoriam: George Kane, 96
Dec 17, 2009
George Robert Kane, former publisher of the old Los Gatos Times-Observer, died Nov. 28 of natural causes, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports. He was 96.
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Contest entries prepped for judging
Dec 17, 2009
CNPA has received entries from 174 member newspapers in its Better Newspapers Contest. Total entries are down about 20 percent from 2008.
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Lodi's Hanner is 2009 Champion of Journalism Education
Dec 17, 2009
The California Journalism Education Coalition's 2009 honoree as
Champion of Journalism Education is Richard Hanner, editor of the Lodi News-Sentinel. The honor was announced Dec. 17 at The News-Sentinel.
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Still undecided on Droid? Here's insight
Dec 16, 2009
After months of deliberation, comparison shopping and kicking of virtual tires, The Bakersfield Californian's Logan Molen has gone with the Motorola Droid.
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Final shopping? These might work
Dec 16, 2009
View 20 useful gifts for picky journalists.
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Holiday schedule at CNPA
Dec 16, 2009
Next week, the CNPA offices will close at noon on Thursday, Dec, 24 and reopen Monday, Dec. 28. New Year's Eve, the office will close at noon and reopen on Monday, Jan. 4.
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Back in time: 1999 Internet guide
Dec 15, 2009
A guide to the Internet published 10 years ago shows us that we've come a long way since.
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Kuykendall to publisher at Merced Sun-Star
Dec 15, 2009
Debra Kuykendall becomes president and publisher at the Merced Sun-Star, the paper reports. She had been interim publisher following the November departure of Hank Vander Veen.
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VC Star to publish local Navy paper
Dec 14, 2009
Publication of The Lighthouse, a 12,000-circulation weekly newspaper covering Naval Base Ventura County, will be handled by the Ventura County Star beginning in January.
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E&P: The local angle
Dec 14, 2009
Everyone has their E&P moment. Newbies or veterans, newspaper
people of all stripes soaked up the context of the business by reading
Editor & Publisher.
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All Auburn routes impacted during storm
Dec 11, 2009
The Sunday snowstorm and freeze that whomped the Northern Sierra impacted all 63 of the Auburn Journal's delivery routes, Circulation Director Kelly Leibold told the paper.
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Cal-JEC Lifetime Achievement goes to Sylvia Fox
Dec 10, 2009
Sylvia Fox, a CSU Sacramento journalism professor and founder of two California journalism associations, received a lifetime achievement award on Dec. 9 in Sacramento.
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Parent company folds E&P
Dec 10, 2009
Editor & Publisher, the magazine (and website) that has covered the newspaper industry for more than a century, is being shuttered by yearend, parent company The Nielsen Co. said.
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Palo Alto Daily News is 15
Dec 09, 2009
The Palo Alto Daily News was launched in 1995, a look back says. "The first issue
had eight pages, a circulation of about 3,000, and was entirely
produced and distributed by the three men who started it."
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Sonoma Index-Tribune: 130 years in 3 parts
Dec 09, 2009
The Sonoma Index-Tribune, which is 130 years old, is documented in a three-part history.
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Bean elected Redlands mayor pro tem
Dec 08, 2009
Jerry Bean, CEO of Century Group Newspapers, and CNPA's 2006 president, was elected Redlands mayor pro tem.
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Eight CNPA Foundation interns confirmed
Dec 08, 2009
Following interviews last week, representatives of the CNPA Foundation
have confirmed the qualifications of eight college journalism students
who seek internships at CNPA-member newspapers.
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Elliott to editor at Porterville Recorder
Dec 07, 2009
Claudia Elliott is the new editor at the Porterville Recorder, the newspaper announced. She had been editor and publisher of the Southern Sierra Messenger, which has closed.
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San Diego weeklies groups combine
Dec 03, 2009
Two weekly newspaper groups in San Diego County's coastal area are merging to form Mainstreet Communications, the La Jolla Light reports.
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Editors interview intern candidates
Dec 03, 2009
Editors from Marysville,
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Divisions combined at Las Vegas Sun
Dec 02, 2009
All divisions of The Greenspun Media Group, including the Las Vegas Sun and LasVegasSun.com, will be combined, the company announced.
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Lumberjack marks 80 years at Humboldt State
Dec 02, 2009
The student newspaper at Humboldt State University began as a four-pager called the Rooter, with hand-drawn illustrations, that included local stories, book reviews and sports. Today, The Lumberjack is celebrating its 80th year.
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How long until a major paper quits comics?
Dec 02, 2009
Guess when the first daily newspaper will ditch its print comics entirely, a poll at the Comic Riffs blog suggests.
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Lewis to head advertising at Sacramento Bee
Dec 01, 2009
Francesca Lewis will rejoin to The Sacramento Bee as senior vice president of advertising, The Bee reports. She succeeds Al Autry.
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In memoriam: Chuck Thomas, 83
Dec 01, 2009
Chuck Thomas, a former editor and columnist at the Ventura County Star, died Nov. 30, 2009, in Ventura, The Star reports. He was 83.
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90-year subscriber is front-page news
Dec 01, 2009
Sadie Jauch started reading the Lodi News-Sentinel for free -- her brother was a carrier in 1920. She's now 102 and has been a subscriber for 90 years.
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Winner to close out career at U-T
Dec 01, 2009
Karin Winner, who has been editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune for 15 years, announced that she will retire at year-end, The Union-Tribune reports.
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Merced publisher played fair, editor says
Nov 30, 2009
Merced Sun-Star Publisher Hank Vander Veen was even-tempered, fair and good with numbers, Executive Editor Mike Tharp writes in a send-off column upon Vander Veen's departure.
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Kids seeking N.Y. fortunes look different
Nov 30, 2009
Just as the face of media is changing, the crop of young people seeking their fortunes in New York looks different, writes media columnist David Carr of The New York Times.
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Vander Veen resigns in Merced; Kuykendall interim publisher
Nov 24, 2009
Debbie Kuykendall will be interim publisher of the Merced Sun-Star upon the resignation of Publisher Hank Vander Veen, The Sun-Star reports.
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Turlock Journal marks its 105th
Nov 24, 2009
The Turlock Journal wasn't the first newspaper to serve the Stanislaus County community, but it's been around the longest: 105 years, as a recent history piece explains.
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Palo Alto Weekly offers 'virtual edition'
Nov 20, 2009
The Palo Alto Weekly's newly launched "virtual edition" allows users to flip through the paper electronically, turning pages and zooming in on specific stories or ads and to print out pages of interest, The Weekly reports.
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'Shop local' means plenty to hometowns
Nov 19, 2009
"It costs too much to shop there," St. Helena Star Publisher Doug Ernst has heard. He debunks that myth and others in a holiday "shop local" explainer.
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Editor: Don't ask to review the story
Nov 19, 2009
A New York high school newspaper shouldn't have let Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's office review its quotes from Kennedy's visit, says Mark Vasché, editor of The Modesto Bee.
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In Memoriam: George Golding, 84
Nov 18, 2009
George E. Golding, who worked at newspapers in Riverbank, San Bernardino, Gustine, Eureka, San Francisco and San Mateo, died Nov. 14, 2009, in San Mateo from complications due to a stroke, the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club reports. He was 84.
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ImpreMedia outsourcing ad, page production to Mexico
Nov 18, 2009
ImpreMedia, which publishes La Opinion in Los Angeles, will outsource the production of its advertising and editorial pages to Business News Group (BNG), a company in Mexico, Editor & Publisher reports.
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Flanzraich named editor at Tahoe daily
Nov 17, 2009
Annie Flanzraich is now managing editor at the Tahoe Daily Tribune in South Lake Tahoe. She succeeds Elaine Goodman.
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Kletke to McClatchy regional VP
Nov 17, 2009
Walt Kletke becomes regional vice president of finance for four McClatchy properties: The Modesto Bee, The Fresno Bee, Merced Sun-Star and The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.
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New website for Chino weeklies
Nov 17, 2009
Champion Newspapers' newly launched website offers syndicated features along with news highlights for Chino and Chino Hills, Publisher Bruce Wood reports.
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Metro offers online spec-ad tool
Nov 16, 2009
Metro Creative Graphics, a CNPA Allied member, introduces MiAD: Metro interactive Ad Designer, a web-based, content-driven ad makeup system that will allow sales reps to create spec ads in minutes.
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Mercury News is Host sponsor for Summit
Nov 16, 2009
The San Jose Mercury News, Mac Tully, president and publisher, has signed up as a Host sponsor of the CNPA 2010 Press Summit in April 2010 in Monterey.
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National awards for high school papers
Nov 16, 2009
High school newspapers from Gilroy, Hayward, San Jose, Cupertino, Larkspur and North Hollywood collected Pacemaker awards on Nov. 14 at the National Scholastic Press Association/Journalism Education Association convention in Washington, D.C.
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C.K. McClatchy to Hall of Fame
Nov 13, 2009
The 2009 inductee to the California Newspaper Hall of Fame will be C.K. McClatchy, grandson of the first C.K. and president of the company from 1978 to 1989.
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BANG, Examiner partner on ads
Nov 12, 2009
A new advertising partnership called the "San Francisco Bay Area Buy" includes the Bay Area News Group newspapers and The Examiner, the Denver Business Journal reports.
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O.C. Register launches revised site
Nov 11, 2009
The new OCRegister.com is the most extensive remake of The Orange County Register's website since its 1996 launch, Publisher Terry Horne said in a statement.
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Your one-stop guide to publishing online
Nov 11, 2009
To start your own online news empire, Robert Niles says at the Online Journalism Review, you need a brand, a blog, a promotional plan, a tracking tool ... and a revenue stream.
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Temple in when Kelley exits Las Vegas Sun
Nov 11, 2009
John Temple, former Rocky Mountain News editor and publisher, will serve in a consulting role for Greenspun Media when Las Vegas Sun Managing Editor Michael J. Kelley retires at year end, Editor & Publisher reports.
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With donor help, she sailed the sea of debris
Nov 10, 2009
Reporter Lindsey Hoshaw files a video thank-you to those who donated the funds to help her do the story about the giant, floating trash heap in the Pacific. Her story is now in the New York Times.
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Glossy pages debut in S.F. Chronicle
Nov 09, 2009
Section fronts and other pages of the San Francisco Chronicle appeared in color on glossy paper beginning on Nov. 9.
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Web five years out: 15 predictions
Nov 09, 2009
In five years, web consumers will utilize plenty more micropayments, they'll view horizontally scrolling content on wider screens, and online content will be a lot more interactive.
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Prizes not enough to save paper
Nov 09, 2009
The East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Ariz., slated to close later this year, didn't suffer for accolades, notes David Sullivan in his "That's the Press, Baby" blog.
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Pension records are public, judge says
Nov 06, 2009
A Stanislaus County judge has ruled that the Stanislaus Employees' Retirement Association must release --by name -- data regarding pensions for public-service retirees, The Modesto Bee reports.
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Youngest in charge is not 24
Nov 06, 2009
We have some responses to last week's inquiry from Dr. Gary Rice about the youngest-in-charge editor of a California newspaper.
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California colleges collect ACP Pacemakers
Nov 05, 2009
California colleges and universities that collected Newspaper Pacemakers -- considered tops in the nation -- at the recent Associated College Press convention in Austin, Texas, are: CSU Chico; Southwestern College, Chula Vista; Contra Costa College, San Pablo; and Santa Barbara City College.
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Malibu council won't change days
Nov 05, 2009
Following up on a previous Bulletin item, the Malibu City Council will not change its meeting day from Monday to Tuesday, The Malibu Times reports.
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Valley Voice starts 30th year
Nov 05, 2009
The Valley Voice began in November 1979 with a 32-page first monthly issue. "There were no color photographs," Publisher Rick Elkins explains an anniversary piece on the Tulare County paper.
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In Memoriam: Ross Game, 80
Nov 04, 2009
A memorial will be held Friday, Nov. 20 in Napa for Ross P. Game, former editor and publisher of the Petaluma Argus-Courier and, earlier, editor of The Napa Valley Register. Game died Oct. 18 in Napa.
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Redesigned SignOnSanDiego debuts
Nov 04, 2009
The San Diego Union-Tribune's redesigned SignOnSanDiego website has new features and better navigation, reports Mike Hodges, general manager of SignOn San Diego and vice president of interactive for The Union-Tribune.
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In San Francisco, The Gate turns 15
Nov 04, 2009
It's been 15 years for SFGate, the San Francisco Chronicle's online component. And what a time it's been.
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Verican launches mobile application
Nov 03, 2009
Verican Inc., a CNPA Allied member, has launched a mobile application to distribute local news, calendar events, local weather information and classifieds to consumers' iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
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Crews named Newspaper Executive of Year
Nov 03, 2009
Tim Crews, publisher since 1991 of the Sacramento Valley Mirror, will receive the Justus F. Craemer Newspaper Executive of the Year award from the California Press Association at its Winter Meeting on Dec. 4 in San Francisco.
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Tully: Evolution to multimedia continues for Merc
Nov 02, 2009
San Jose Mercury News Publisher Mac Tully, in a report card to readers, encourages them to heed readership numbers along with circulation stats.
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Valley Sun back to broadsheet
Nov 02, 2009
The Valley Sun in La Cañada Flintridge will return to a broadsheet format with its Nov. 5 edition, Editor Carol Cormaci tells readers.
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Where's the youngest-in-charge editor?
Oct 30, 2009
Dr. Gary Rice, a journalism professor at Fresno State, believes a recent student who is now editor of a local weekly at age 24 may be the youngest editor of a California newspaper. Who can challenge Rice on that?
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Reed to publisher at Idyllwild
Oct 30, 2009
Grace Reed is now publisher of the Idyllwild Town Crier, the paper reports. She had been advertising sales manager and succeeds Publisher-Editor Becky Clark, who is retiring.
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Editors find inspiration amid change
Oct 30, 2009
Restructuring, consolidation and social media were topics covered at the Oct. 28-30 Associated Press Managing Editors training conference in St. Louis.
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More columnists more often
Oct 29, 2009
We have begun to add content from our California Publisher contributing columnists to CNPA.com. They will preview on the homepage and reside on the California Publisher page.
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Banner-ad network steers toward launch
Oct 28, 2009
Efforts to enroll member papers in the California Banner Ad Network continue. During the past weeks, culminating at the Oct. 16 CNPA board meeting, there was heightened commitment to ramp up the emphasis on the network and ensure that a launch would occur no later than the end of the year.
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TownNews, AP team up on microformat
Oct 28, 2009
TownNews.com and the Associated Press, both CNPA Allied members, will utilize hNews, which will allow for digital watermarking of online content. "Meaning what?" some asked.
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Business filings: Don't be duped
Oct 28, 2009
A CNPA Allied member suggests that members be wary of official-looking solicitations that encourage businesses to remit business fees and documents to a third party.
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Niese to receive McCombs Achievement Award
Oct 27, 2009
William A. Niese, retired vice president and general counsel of The Times Mirror Co., will receive the 2009 Philip N. McCombs Achievement Award during the California Press Association Winter Meeting on Dec. 4 in San Francisco.
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Mainstreet Media is Host sponsor for Summit
Oct 27, 2009
MainStreet Media Group, Anthony Allegretti, president and CEO, has signed up as a Host sponsor of the CNPA 2010 Press Summit in April 2010 in Monterey.
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Anderson to publisher of Oregon daily
Oct 26, 2009
N. Christian Anderson III, a former publisher of The Orange County Register in Santa Ana, is now publisher of The Oregonian in Portland, The Oregonian reported.
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Winners of E&P photo contest named
Oct 26, 2009
Winners in Editor & Publisher's 10th Annual Photos of the Year Contest include the Antelope Valley Press, Palmdale; Las Vegas Sun and Santa Maria Times.
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Grass Valley's Union marks 145 years
Oct 26, 2009
As The Union in Grass Valley marks its 145th year, contributor Bob Wyckoff takes readers through its ownership, innovation and printing.
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Las Vegas weeklies close, open
Oct 23, 2009
A day after the Las Vegas Sun's owner shuttered its Boulder City, Nev., weekly, the Las Vegas Review-Journal's parent opened a new one.
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In Memoriam: William Kamrath, 89
Oct 23, 2009
William "Bill" Kamrath, a 30-year journalism instructor at Torrance's El Camino College, and the 1968 CNPA honoree as instructor of the year, died Oct. 22, 2009, in Torrance, The Daily Breeze reported. He was 89.
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Meeting switch would stymie papers
Oct 22, 2009
The Malibu City Council will consider moving its meeting night from Monday to Tuesday, saying that it will allow city staff an extra day to prepare for the meeting. That won't work for The Malibu Times and the Malibu Surfside News.
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45 years of good news at Hughson Chronicle
Oct 22, 2009
Publisher John Derby recalls that many told him a newspaper that looked for the positive just couldn't make it, that readers would want their stories of crime and mayhem. Forty-five years later, the Hughson Chronicle is still at it.
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Ventura daily launches new website
Oct 22, 2009
More local features and less clutter are found in the newly launched VCStar.com, the online home of the Ventura County Star.
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In Memoriam: Jack Nelson, 80
Oct 21, 2009
Investigative reporter Jack Nelson, whose work during the civil-rights era helped to transform the national reputation of the Los Angeles Times, died Oct. 21, 2009, of pancreatic cancer in Bethesda, Md., The Times reported. He was 80.
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Young returns as editor in Atascadero
Oct 21, 2009
Heather Young returns to head the newsroom at the Atascadero News, Publisher Jason Cross reports, while Josh Petray becomes editor of the Paso Robles Press.
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81% read local paper each week, NNA reports
Oct 21, 2009
Eighty-one percent of those surveyed read a local newspaper each week, the National Newspaper Association says, reporting results of a survey commissioned through the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism.
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CNPA Board focuses on revenue, mission
Oct 20, 2009
Highlights of the Oct. 16 CNPA Board of Directors meeting in Burbank.
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Budget cuts can't faze Facebook-era newspaper staff
Oct 20, 2009
At Hart High School in Newhall, cuts to the printing budget have led staffers at the Smoke Signal to cover what advertising doesn't with fund-raisers such as a bowling night, The Signal reports.
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In Memoriam: Kenneth Manning, 84
Oct 20, 2009
Kenneth W. Manning, former publisher of the Cupertino Courier and 10 other San Jose-area weeklies, died Oct. 4, 2009, the San Jose Mercury News reported. He was 84.
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The Reporter and its sister papers in Vallejo and Woodland have a new publisher.
Oct 19, 2009
Jim
Gleim has been named Group Vice President for the Northern California
Newspaper Group and Publisher of The Reporter, the Vallejo Times-Herald
and the Woodland Daily Democrat.
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In Memoriam: Helen Hays Yeager, 88
Oct 19, 2009
Helen Hays
Yeager, who quietly advanced the quality of life for the city she
raised her family in and its institutions, including UC Riverside, has
died. She was 88.
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In Memoriam: J Lloyd Boles Sr, 86
Oct 19, 2009
J Lloyd Boles Sr., an
investigative reporter who was nominated by the Oakland Tribune for a
Pulitzer Prize for his 1970s probe of statewide welfare abuses, died
Saturday after a long battle with Parkinson's disease, his son said. He was 86.
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Hudon to publisher at Wyoming weekly
Oct 16, 2009
Joe Hudon, formerly of The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, becomes associate publisher of the Buffalo (Wyo.) Bulletin, the latter paper reports.
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Global newspaper trade show draws 6,700
Oct 16, 2009
The just-completed IFRA Expo in Vienna, Austria, drew 6,700 attendees from 78 countries, the World Association of Newspapers reports.
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In Memoriam: Lionel Horwitz, 86
Oct 15, 2009
Lionel Horwitz, editor and publisher of the old Walnut Creek News and Livermore News in the 1950s and 1960s, died Sept. 29 in San Francisco, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. He was 86.
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Powerless on deadline at MC Weekly?
Oct 15, 2009
The Oct. 13 rainstorm didn't keep the Monterey County Weekly's staff from getting the paper out, Deputy Editor Mark Anderson wrote.
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In Memoriam: Andrew Mace, 88
Oct 14, 2009
Andrew C. Mace, who founded the San Diego Press Club in 1971, died Sept. 12, 2009, of congestive heart failure, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. He was 88.
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Online marketplace offered free
Oct 13, 2009
Open-source code for an online marketplace and business directory is available free to CNPA members, said Joe Boydston, new-media vice president at Fairfield-based McNaughton Newspapers.
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Apply by Dec. 15 for Knight digital grants
Oct 13, 2009
Entrants in the Knight News Challenge now have until Dec. 15 to submit their ideas for digital news experiments that transform community life. The deadline has been extended by two months.
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Button ads offered on CNPA.com
Oct 13, 2009
A new button-size ad has been added to positions offered to advertisers on CNPA.com. Providers of goods and services to California newspaper companies are invited to place their messages on a by-the-month basis.
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Hasse returns to LANG
Oct 12, 2009
Ron Hasse, a former Los Angeles Newspaper Group executive, returns to LANG to oversee circulation and marketing, Gary Scott reports.
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What about when the grant runs out?
Oct 12, 2009
Amid all the talk about grant-funded news gathering, Tammerlin Drummond at The Oakland Tribune has a reminder.
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For design ideas, visit Henninger blog
Oct 12, 2009
Ed Henninger, a design consultant who writes a column carried in California Publisher, invites readers to visit his blog, where editors and designers at community newspapers can submit pages for review and comment by their peers.
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County to pay $500K in open-records suit
Oct 09, 2009
Santa Clara County must pay a $500,000 settlement to a First Amendment Coalition lawsuit that sought public access to the county's electronic maps, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
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Orion: No one covers campuses like college papers
Oct 08, 2009
College newspapers that rely on campus funding are destined to appear online only -- or disappear, says an editorial in the self-funded Orion at California State University, Chico.
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Southern Litho is Summit sponsor
Oct 07, 2009
Southern Lithoplate is a Gold Sponsor for the 2010 CNPA Press Summit in Monterey. Gil Green is strategic accounts manager.
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Birmingham named publisher in Knoxville
Oct 07, 2009
Patrick J. Birmingham, former general manager of the Ventura County Star, becomes president and publisher of the Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel, the News Sentinel reports.
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Newsprint scarce at Online News conference
Oct 06, 2009
The Online News Association convention Oct. 1-3 in San Francisco was a sold-out show, and the Twitter storm was fierce, though print sightings were rare.
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Mobile ad standards updated
Oct 06, 2009
The Mobile Marketing Association has updated its guidelines for mobile advertising, DMNews reports.
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FTC calls for freebie disclosures
Oct 05, 2009
The Federal Trade Commission has ruled that web writers who review products must disclose any freebies or payments they received from companies, the Associated Press reports.
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Newspapers are committed, not trendy
Oct 05, 2009
Over the years, Nevada has had as many as 450 newspapers, Nevada Press Association Executive Director Barry Smith writes in recognition of National Newspaper Week.
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LAT-WP news service disbands
Oct 02, 2009
The long-lived Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service, which syndicated the two companies' content to some 600 clients, has broken up, the Associated Press reports.
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Web unity needed, 'Doonesbury' creator says
Oct 02, 2009
Running a news business is not his forte, "Doonesbury" artist Garry Trudeau tells the Greensboro (N.C.) News-Record. He has enough trouble keeping track of his cantankerous gang of characters.
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Information must circulate, Knight report says
Oct 02, 2009
A new report commissioned by the Knight Foundation offers 15 ways to help people meet their local information needs, Editor & Publisher reports.
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Myles Mellor Theme Crosswords is Summit sponsor
Oct 02, 2009
Myles Mellor Theme Crosswords has signed as a Silver Sponsor for the 2010 CNPA Press Summit.
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Walters, Deutsch at Cal Press on Dec. 4
Oct 01, 2009
Syndicated columnist Dan Walters will be the featured luncheon speaker at the California Press Association's 132nd Annual Meeting on Dec. 4 in San Francisco. The dinner speaker will be Linda Deutsch, veteran Associated Press correspondent.
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Sure, customer; we'll follow you
Oct 01, 2009
Taking a clue from consumer movements is how digital media companies are finding their niche in the fragmented online world, attendees learned at the UC Berkeley Media Technology Summit, held at Google in Mountain View.
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Five-day daily gets by
Sep 30, 2009
A daily newspaper in upstate New York benefits from being, small, local and private, a Wall Street Journal profile says.
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Free stuff: Tools for transparency
Sep 30, 2009
Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik highlights several online tools that allow reporters to make quick sense of governmental data.
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Manteca Sun-Post goes dark
Sep 29, 2009
The weekly Sun-Post in Manteca and Lathrop has suspended publication after four years.
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Dickerson named CEO at Modesto's Gallo Center
Sep 29, 2009
Lynn Dickerson, former vice president of operations for The McClatchy Co., becomes chief executive officer of the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto, The Modesto Bee reports.
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Gallagher to ME/Online at L.A. Times
Sep 29, 2009
Sean Gallagher becomes managing editor for online at the Los Angeles Times, The Times reports.
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CNPA members earn SPJ NorCal awards
Sep 28, 2009
Winners of the 2009 Excellence in Journalism Awards, given by the Society of Professional Journalists Northern California Chapter, include The Oakland Tribune, The Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News and SF Weekly.
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St. Helena Star is 135
Sep 28, 2009
To mark the 135th year of the St. Helena Star, Publisher Doug Ernst visited the local historical society to see how his newspaper figured in the Napa County town's history.
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Sciacqua to editor of Daily Breeze
Sep 28, 2009
Toni Sciacqua becomes editor of the Daily Breeze in Torrance, Publisher Linda Lindus announced. She succeeds Philip Sanfield.
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Lemoore Advance signs off at 121
Sep 25, 2009
Farewell opinions and fond remembrances filled the final edition Sept. 24 of The Lemoore Advance, a 121-year-old Kings County weekly owned by Lee Enterprises.
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No bailout for newspapers, NAA chief says
Sep 25, 2009
The nation's newspapers don't need a bailout, Newspaper Association of America President and CEO John Sturm told a joint congressional committee on Sept. 24. But he said some relief on taxes and pension obligations would be helpful, Reuters reported.
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Smith to VP at American Profile parent
Sep 24, 2009
Steven B. Smith becomes vice president of publisher relations at Publishing Group of America, Editor & Publisher reports. Smith had been vice president of Northern California community newspapers for the California Newspapers Partnership.
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Dunn departs Sonoma Sun company
Sep 24, 2009
Stephanie Dunn has departed as president of Three House Multimedia in Sonoma, publisher of the weekly Sonoma Sun, The Sonoma Index-Tribune reports.
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Call for entries for the 2009 Print Quality Contest
Sep 23, 2009
The competition is open to any print newspaper. Enter by Nov. 2.
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Holtville weekly turns 105
Sep 23, 2009
Though his weekly Holtville Tribune, in Imperial County, has been around for 105 years, Publisher Steven Larson says, he's been on the masthead just since 1990.
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Publisher: Newspapers get the job done
Sep 23, 2009
The newspaper can motivate the community, says Jeff Ackerman, publisher of The Union in Grass Valley. He cites the quick distribution of free tickets for an upcoming concert: 1,600 gone in five hours.
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Healthcare reporting center opens at USC
Sep 23, 2009
Backed by the California HealthCare Foundation -- and a three-year $3.285 million grant -- a new center for health reporting has opened at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC.
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S.F. Chronicle is 2010 Summit host
Sep 22, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle, Frank Vega, publisher, is the first confirmed Host sponsor of the 2010 Press Summit, to be held April 15-17, 2010, in Monterey.
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Faison to ME in Fairfield
Sep 22, 2009
Glen Faison becomes managing editor of the Daily Republic in Fairfield, reporting to Editor and Publisher Bill James.
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Wilcox to publisher at Daily News Group
Sep 22, 2009
Justin Wilcox is the new publisher of the Daily News in Palo Alto and general manager of the Silicon Valley Newspaper Group, Milpitas Post and Pacifica Tribune, The Daily News reported.
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We're not going away, U-T message says
Sep 21, 2009
New marketing messages from The San Diego Union-Tribune declare that the newspaper is "Here to Stay," the San Diego Business Journal reports.
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Staff excelled during fire, editor says
Sep 21, 2009
A wildfire earlier this month that destroyed 63 homes and businesses stretched Auburn Journal Editor Deric Rothe's staff to the limits.
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Concerned carrier aids ailing customer
Sep 18, 2009
A Livermore newspaper carrier is credited with rescuing a subscriber who had fallen ill while in the bathtub, the Contra Costa Times reports.
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Goldberg to opinion editor at L.A. Times
Sep 18, 2009
Nicholas Goldberg becomes editor of the editorial pages at the Los Angeles Times, The Times reports.
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Danville Weekly going online-only
Sep 18, 2009
The Danville Weekly will become an online-only publication following its Oct. 2 edition, the paper reports.
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High school Pacemaker finalists named
Sep 17, 2009
High school newspapers in Cupertino, Fullerton, Gilroy, Hayward, Lake Forest, Larkspur, North Hollywood, Redondo Beach, Rolling Hills Estates, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose and Stockton are finalists for Newspaper Pacemaker awards given by the National Scholastic Press Association.
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Six O.C. papers in marketing partnership
Sep 17, 2009
Times Community News' papers in South Orange County will partner with Picket Fence Media's three newspapers to offer a one-stop cross-selling opportunity.
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Idyllwild Publisher Clark to retire
Sep 16, 2009
Becky Clark has announced plans to retire Nov. 13 as publisher-editor of the weekly Idyllwild Town Crier in Riverside County.
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National honors for high school adviser Kandell
Sep 16, 2009
Paul Kandell, journalism adviser at Palo Alto High School, was named the 2009 National Journalism Teacher of the Year by the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund.
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In Memoriam: Chuck Governale, 70
Sep 15, 2009
Chuck Gaetano Governale, a city editor and sports editor at the Whittier Daily News in the 1960s and 1970s, died Sept. 5, 2009, The Daily News reported.
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Religion, other specialty beats shrinking
Sep 15, 2009
Reduced beat coverage of religion at daily newspapers is not a specific indication of religion coverage being targeted, the head of the Religion Newswriters Association tells the Boston Globe.
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California Watch's first report widely published
Sep 15, 2009
The first investigative report by the California Watch initiative, on the use and misuse of Homeland Security funding in local areas, was published in several California newspapers the weekend of Sept. 11.
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In Memoriam: Dick Fogel, 86
Sep 14, 2009
Richard Henry Fogel, co-founder and president of Bay City News Service, a CNPA Allied member, died Sept. 9, 2009, in Thousand Oaks. He was 86.
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In Memoriam: Michael Rosenthal, 56
Sep 14, 2009
Services were held Sept. 13 for Michael Rosenthal, publisher and co--founder of the weekly Santa Monica Mirror, who died Sept. 9, 2009, the Santa Monica Daily Press reported. He was 56.
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Nominate top executive by Sept. 20
Sep 14, 2009
The California Press Association still seeks nominations for the Newspaper Executive of the Year.
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In Memoriam: Sydney Kossen, 93
Sep 10, 2009
Sydney Kossen, a former political writer and editor at the old San Francisco Examiner, died Sept, 2, 2009, in Danville, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. He was 93.
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Shine, little rack card ...
Sep 10, 2009
Glow-in-the-dark rack cards promoting the new film "9" are appearing in 11,000 La Opinion news racks, MediaPost reports.
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Online newspaper is juggling act
Sep 09, 2009
Howard Owens, formerly an online VP in Ventura and then Bakersfield, keeps two desks in the office housing The Batavian, the online news site that he and his wife run in Batavia, N.Y.
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Editor: We watchdog when you can't
Sep 09, 2009
Conveying the doings of local government to residents is one of the most important things a community newspaper does, Turlock Journal Editor Kristina Hacker writes.
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In Memoriam: Edward Nichols, 88
Sep 09, 2009
Edward "Nick" Nichols, a former associate editor at the San Diego Union, died Aug. 22, 2009, of congestive heart failure, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. He was 88.
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All skills on deck, nonprofit's editor says
Sep 08, 2009
Stephen Engelberg, managing editor of the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica, counts himself among the last of the old-school copy boys.
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What's your comics-reading method?
Sep 08, 2009
How do you go about reading the daily comics? Are you an Orthodox Left-to-Righter (starting with the first strip you come across)? Or are you a Free-Spirited Grazer (you float, you gaze, you graze, drifting toward whatever strips look the most appealing and fresh)?
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UC Sacramento Center to close
Sep 08, 2009
The UC Sacramento Center, which gave university students insight into California government, will close because of funding cutbacks, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Online Journalism Award finalists named
Sep 04, 2009
The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, Los Angeles Times, LasVegasSun.com. and the Chauncey Bailey Project are among the finalists for the 2009 Online Journalism Awards, sponsored by the Online News Association.
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Free stuff: SPJ Convention handouts
Sep 04, 2009
From the just-completed Indianapolis convention of the Society of Professional Journalists, check out 12 handouts from professional development sessions.
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Study 'Anatomy of a Newspaper'
Sep 04, 2009
Now open at News University is "Anatomy of a Newspaper," a free online course that covers everything you need to understand how newspapers operate as businesses.
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No funding for FACS programs
Sep 03, 2009
The nonprofit Foundation for American Communications, or FACS, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection after contributions to support its no-charge seminars dried up, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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Free stuff: Customizable promo ads
Sep 03, 2009
Multi-Ad is offering editable templates for several ads to promote the value of newspapers. Any newspaper can use one or all of the six ads, which are offered as Creator Professional, InDesign, QuarkXPress or EPS files.
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No defeat, no surrender, publisher says
Sep 03, 2009
In a recent Auburn Journal column, Gold Country Media Publisher Tony Hazarian covers all the topics you'd need for either a civic speech or a newspaper message about the vitality of newspapers.
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Paid online working for some
Sep 02, 2009
Its 200-copy boost in rack sales is sizable, this week's Newsweek story on the Newport Daily News says. Some other dailies weighed in at PaidContent.com on how their online-revenue campaigns are working.
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Street Sheet tells hidden stories
Sep 02, 2009
The Street Sheet newspaper hawked for a dollar by homeless people helps them in their individual plights, the San Francisco Bay Guardian reports. It also reports issues that other media miss.
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Free crosswords for Banner Network members
Sep 01, 2009
Participating CNPA Banner Ad Network newspapers and newspapers that join the network will be eligible to receive free online interactive daily crossword puzzles.
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Leavenworth to opinion editor at Sacramento Bee
Sep 01, 2009
Stuart Leavenworth becomes editorial-page editor at The Sacramento Bee. He had been associate editor.
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View Fall issue of California Publisher
Sep 01, 2009
The Fall 2009 issue of California Publisher, CNPA's official quarterly newspaper, is in the mail and now online.
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Freedom files for Chapter 11
Sep 01, 2009
Irvine-based Freedom Communications Inc., which publishes The Orange County Register and several other California newspapers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Tuesday in Delaware, The Register reported.
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Hodell receives Flying Cross
Aug 31, 2009
Former publisher and newspaper broker Mel Hodell has collected an honor that he had earned six decades ago: the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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Editors promoted at Sonoma West
Aug 31, 2009
Matthew Hall is now managing editor of interactive media at Sonoma West Publishers Inc., Publisher Rollie Atkinson said in The Windsor Times.
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Bulletin goes silent at CSU Dominguez Hills
Aug 31, 2009
With the closure of the Bulletin newspaper, California State University, Dominguez Hills becomes the only CSU without a student newspaper, The Daily Titan at CSU Fullerton reports.
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Journalism coalition sets agenda
Aug 28, 2009
At its Aug. 28 meeting, the California Journalism Education Coalition, comprising representatives of high school, college and university journalism associations, with support from the California newspaper industry, set its agenda for the remainder of 2009.
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Berkowitz to publisher at Highland weekly
Aug 28, 2009
David Berkowitz is now publisher at the Highland Community News, the paper reported.
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In Memoriam: Roy Wilson, 74
Aug 27, 2009
Roy Wilson, a longtime Riverside County supervisor and a former college journalism adviser, died Aug. 26, 2009, in Palm Desert, The Press-Enterprise reported. He was 74 and had recently resigned his post because of failing health.
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Weeklies publisher charged with tax fraud
Aug 27, 2009
A U.S. grand jury has indicted the publisher of several Contra Costa County weeklies with under-reporting of income, the Contra Costa Times reports.
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Times, Star partner on inserts
Aug 27, 2009
The Los Angeles Times and Ventura County Star have partnered on a total-market coverage product, called "Star Shopper," to be distributed in three Ventura County communities, Editor & Publisher reports.
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Scripps revamps newspaper oversight
Aug 26, 2009
The E.W. Scripps Co., with California newspapers in Ventura and Redding, has named new national and regional leadership as part of a restructuring that aims to "create more uniformity across the company among its 13 daily newspapers while driving local content and better advertising sales," the Ventura County Star reports.
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Goldbeck returns to Mid Valley group
Aug 26, 2009
Will Goldbeck became editor of the Orange Cove and Mountain Times and the Parlier Post, both products of Mid Valley Publishing, The Reedley Exponent reported.
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Former daily reporters join investigative team
Aug 25, 2009
Journalists formerly with The San Diego Union-Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee, Los Angeles Times, Contra Costa Times and The Orange County Register are part of the team staffing the California Watch initiative at the Center for Investigative Reporting.
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In Memoriam: Bob Liggett, 85
Aug 25, 2009
Robert Liggett, managing editor for 20 years of the Imperial Valley Press in El Centro, died Aug. 23, 2009, following complications from a brain tumor, The Press reported. He was 85.
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Lemoore Advance to close Sept. 24
Aug 25, 2009
After 121 years, The Lemoore Advance will cease publishing with its Sept. 24 edition, said Manuel Collazo, interim publisher at Lee Central Valley Newspapers.
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Scout your 2010 Foundation intern
Aug 24, 2009
The CNPA Foundation will provide seven $1,000 internship grants in 2010 to college students with an eye on newspaper careers. Your newspaper might be able to secure an intern, but it takes a little outreach on your part.
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Readers trust newspaper, editor confirms
Aug 24, 2009
People have solid reasons for continuing their print newspaper habit, Rick Green, editor of The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, discovered during a cross-country trip.
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Watch your costs for printer ink
Aug 24, 2009
This one's about saving on ink. Not that by-the-barrel kind, but the desktop printer variety.
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Wave goodbye to movie listings?
Aug 21, 2009
Movie theaters are reducing the amount of print space they buy for listings of their show times, the Associated Press reports.
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Free stuff: Tweak your Facebook strategy
Aug 21, 2009
Even the smallest media company can leverage the strength of its brand and its trust relationship with readers on Facebook, says a tutorial on the NewsCloud blog.
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What do college kids take for granted?
Aug 20, 2009
Kids entering college this year aren't worried by technological evolution -- or dozens of other cultural aspects that worry their elders, The Beloit College Mindset report says.
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Aggregating is customer service, Wolff says
Aug 20, 2009
Michael Wolff, founder of Newser.com, debunks critics who say his site's news summaries are taking money from the originating sites.
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Sports-sharing model has its pluses
Aug 20, 2009
The 49-plus newspapers who've join a national alliance to share sports stories will be limited in their online use of the material, Editor & Publisher reports.
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Displaced editor thinking forward
Aug 18, 2009
Marking a year since departing the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Steve Smith files an upbeat eight talking points that might help in your own soul-searching (or community evangelizing).
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Free stuff: Evaluation template
Aug 18, 2009
John McIntyre is a former copy-desk chief for the Baltimore Sun. He shares an evaluation plan that your editors might use, whether or not you have a defined copy desk or your folks handle that as part of a combined role.
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Readers fine with Bakersfield tab, designer says
Aug 17, 2009
The Bakersfield Californian has launched its weekday tabloid. As reported here previously, Saturday and Sunday editions will remain broadsheet.
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Sentinel staff fire-seasoned
Aug 17, 2009
Santa Cruz Sentinel staffers covering wildfire return to the office smelling of smoke, but safe, Editor Don Miller writes.
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Interns wrap up summer service
Aug 14, 2009
The CNPA Foundation's 2009 interns are wrapping up their internships. We've updated the Foundation page with where they've served.
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Direct + network ads a good mix, online exec says
Aug 14, 2009
A study released by the Online Publishers Association plays up the effectiveness of brands advertised on "premium" sites. But ...
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LATimes.com launches new design
Aug 13, 2009
LATimes.com has a new look that, editors say, promises easier navigation and enhanced access to multimedia.
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Three ways to promote local business
Aug 13, 2009
Helping merchants to move goods and services is a key goal of newspaper promotions in San Andreas, Elk Grove and Marysville.
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Sorry paper's late; have an ice cream
Aug 13, 2009
When a packaging glitch delayed newspaper delivery, Montana Standard Publisher Randy Rickman treated affected customers to an ice cream.
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E&P names 10 That Do It Right
Aug 12, 2009
On Editor & Publisher's list of "10 That Do It Right" this year are The Daily Independent in Ridgecrest, Las Vegas Sun and East Bay Express.
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We're doing OK, small publishers say
Aug 12, 2009
Less competition for news and revenue has saved smaller newspapers from brutal downsizing, an Associated Press story says.
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Examiner moves to larger space
Aug 11, 2009
The Examiner moved into San Francisco office space that is 25 percent larger, the paper reported.
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In Memoriam: Fred Kinne, 83
Aug 11, 2009
Fred Kinne, who served as managing editor of The San Diego Union and as editor of The Tribune before retiring from newspapers in 1981, died Aug. 9, 2009, in La Mesa, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. He was 83.
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In Memoriam: Jeff Prugh, 69
Aug 11, 2009
Jeff Prugh, who served as executive editor at the Foothill Leader, Burbank Leader and Glendale News-Press before joining the Marin Independent Journal as opinion editor, died of cancer Aug. 8, 2009, in Tennessee, The Independent Journal reported. He was 69.
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Low enrollment, high cost sink high school paper
Aug 10, 2009
After 88 years, the newspaper at Lodi High School will not appear this fall, the Lodi News-Sentinel reports.
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Canyon Call classes eliminated
Aug 10, 2009
The Canyon Call newspaper at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita will become a club with the cancellation of classes that produce it, The Signal reports.
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In Memoriam: Harold Snider, 61
Aug 10, 2009
Harold Snider, an advocate for the blind who helped to develop a free dial-to-listen service that includes more than 250 publications, died June 26 in Maryland, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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New posts for former California executives
Aug 07, 2009
Glen Nardi, former senior vice president of operations at the San Jose Mercury News, is now publisher at the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss. Tim Dowd, former publisher at The Salinas Californian and the Times-Standard in Eureka, is now publisher at the Cherry Hill (N.J.) Courier-Post.
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Free stuff: Better home-page design
Aug 07, 2009
Here are 30-plus pointers to creating an optimized landing page.
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SLO's Tribune marks 140 years
Aug 07, 2009
In commemorating the 140th year of The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, Executive Editor Sandra Duerr notes that the paper is the oldest continuously operating business in the city of San Luis Obispo and one of the oldest enterprises in the county.
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Herald Printing going silent
Aug 06, 2009
Herald Printing Co., once a major player in Northern California printing, will close Friday after nearly 60 years in operation, The Sacramento Bee reports.
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How to be a smart media consumer
Aug 06, 2009
An enlightened consumer of media will need to be skeptical of everything, says journalism evangelist Dan Gillmor, but "not equally skeptical of everything."
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Klunder to publisher at Daily News
Aug 06, 2009
Jack Klunder begins next week as publisher of the Daily News in Woodland Hills. He had been president of the Los Angeles Times and is a former circulation executive at the Los Angeles Newspaper Group.
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Bakersfield going to weekday tab
Aug 05, 2009
Monday-through-Friday editions of The Bakersfield Californian will appear in a tabloid format beginning Aug. 17, Californian President and CEO Richard Beene announced.
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Two promoted at Mountain Democrat
Aug 05, 2009
Richard Esposito is now publisher at the Mountain Democrat in Placerville. Life Newspapers and the Georgetown Gazette, McNaughton Newspapers President Foy McNaughton announced.
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Lindus to publisher in Torrance, Long Beach
Aug 05, 2009
Linda Lindus was named publisher of the Daily Breeze in Torrance and Press-Telegram in Long Beach, The Breeze reports.
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Behold the new world of 'RoboCop editors'
Aug 04, 2009
Check out the job description for a hybrid journo-techie called a "RoboCop editor."
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Whitney Shaw to CEO at ACBJ
Aug 04, 2009
Whitney Shaw becomes president and CEO of American City Business Journals, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal reports.
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Three promoted at L.A. Times group
Aug 04, 2009
Scott McKibben becomes executive vice president of strategic partnerships at Los Angeles Times Media Group. He had been executive vice president and chief revenue officer.
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Lee Enterprises readying local promos
Aug 03, 2009
With a tagline of "First. Best. Today. Tomorrow," Lee Enterprises plans to roll out a campaign in September to promote its newspaper properties, Editor & Publisher reports.
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Click pride doesn't last
Aug 03, 2009
When a news aggregator excerpts your work and drives up your website's hit count, you likely feel a little proud, Washington Post reporter Ian Shapira writes. But ...
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My week with a Kindle
Aug 03, 2009
Columnist Dan Bernstein at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside takes a Kindle for a spin and reports back about his trial outing.
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Promotional ads running, Allen's says
Jul 31, 2009
Several CNPA-member newspapers have published this ad from the Newspaper Project. We know this because Allen's Press Clipping Bureau, a CNPA Allied member, has monitored the appearance of promotional ads for a few weeks.
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Government help? No way, P-E says
Jul 31, 2009
News companies will never need a government bailout, says an editorial in The Press-Enterprise, Riverside.
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Pasadena Weekly marks 25 years
Jul 31, 2009
Pasadena Weekly Editor Kevin Uhrich and others commemorate the paper's first 25 years.
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In Memoriam: John Holoman, 70
Jul 30, 2009
John Holoman, publisher of the now-defunct Herald Dispatch in Los Angeles, died July 24 in Los Angeles. He was 70.
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Palo Alto Daily going broadsheet
Jul 30, 2009
The Palo Alto Daily News, which currently prints a squarish tabloid, will convert to 21-inch broadsheet, the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club blog notes.
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News racks as community art?
Jul 30, 2009
We're looking for examples of newspaper racks that have been artistically decorated.
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Nagel named VP at Los Angeles Times
Jul 29, 2009
Bill Nagel becomes executive vice president of business services at the Los Angeles Times. He had been senior vice president of business channels at The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Times to deliver Register
Jul 29, 2009
Los Angeles Times carriers will supply The Orange County Register to racks and subscribers, The Register reports.
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ABC has audit plan for smaller papers
Jul 29, 2009
A yearly Audit Bureau of Circulations plan starting at $2,000 called the Community Newspaper Audit would help newspapers under 25,000, MediaPost reports.
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Niche magazines for three counties
Jul 28, 2009
New quarterly magazines covering health, home decor and weddings are part of the targeted publications produced by Northern California Publications for audiences in Butte, Tehama and Shasta counties.
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Hansen named Tri-County editor
Jul 27, 2009
Todd Hansen has been named managing editor of Tri-County Newspapers -- the Colusa County Sun-Herald, Orland Press-Register, Corning Observer and Willows Journal, The Journal reported. He succeeds Michael Green.
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Bakewell heads national Black press
Jul 27, 2009
Danny J. Bakewell Sr., publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel, is the new chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association.
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Customization coming, Register publisher says
Jul 24, 2009
In Orange County, readers soon will find website content that's customized and aggregated to individual users, says Terry Horne, publisher of The Orange County Register in Santa Ana.
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Scholarship winner revived college paper
Jul 24, 2009
A Sierra College student whose work revived the campus newspaper has earned the 2009 Jim Janssen Memorial Scholarship, funded in part by Gold Country Media, which operations The Press-Tribune in Roseville.
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CNPA members win at NNA, AASFE
Jul 24, 2009
CNPA-member newspapers are among the winners in the National Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Contest and Better Newspaper Advertising Contest. The Antelope Valley Press will collect 41 awards, including General Excellence.
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Kuntz heads Tahoe Daily Tribune
Jul 23, 2009
Kimberly Kuntz becomes advertising director at the Tahoe Daily Tribune in South Lake Tahoe. She succeeds Mary Jurkonis.
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Times, Register partner on insert
Jul 23, 2009
The Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times Media Group have partnered on a targeted Friday advertising insert that will distribute to Orange County audiences, The Register reported.
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Wilkinson returns to Sierra Star
Jul 22, 2009
Brian Wilkinson begins his second stint as editor of the Sierra Star in Oakhurst, The Star reports. He succeeds Elizabeth Gabriel.
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Placerville's Webb to retire
Jul 22, 2009
James C. Webb, who has been publisher of The Mountain Democrat in Placerville for 24 years, will retire July 31.
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Ali named editor in South County
Jul 21, 2009
Mark Ali is the new editor of News Media Corp.'s South County Newspapers Group, the Greenfield News reported. He succeeds Richard Sitts, who has moved to New Mexico.
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Editor MacMillan adds Sierra Sun
Jul 21, 2009
Kevin MacMillan has added day-to-day oversight of the Sierra Sun in Truckee to his duties at the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza, The Sun reported.
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SCAN rebates total $108,567
Jul 21, 2009
Participating newspapers in the CNPA statewide networks are being rebated $59,591 for the classified and $48,976 for the display ad networks.
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Harvey, Thurber move up at Times
Jul 21, 2009
Randy Harvey, who became associate editor at the Los Angeles Times, will oversee the creation of a news department that operates across print, web, mobile, television, radio, Twitter and Facebook, The Times reported. Jon Thurber becomes managing editor for print.
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Tenants sought for CNPA building
Jul 21, 2009
The CNPA Board of Directors has authorized CNPA staff to seek new tenants for the leased wing of its Sacramento building. The lessor space, some 8,000 square feet, had been occupied by a county-funded nonprofit agency.
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Shield Law covers student photographer, judge says
Jul 20, 2009
The California Shield Law applies to a photojournalism student who was at the scene of a San Francisco street killing, a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled.
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Councilman's votes benefited wife's paper, charges say
Jul 20, 2009
A Grand Terrace city councilman was arrested on a felony conflict of interest charge that links his votes to the placement of legal advertising in a local newspaper owned by his wife. (corrected city 7/28/09)
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In Memoriam: Ray Shaw, 75
Jul 20, 2009
Ray Shaw, chairman of American City Business Journals, died Sunday of complications from a bee sting, the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal reported.
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In Memoriam: Barbara Gnoss, 66
Jul 17, 2009
A memorial service is scheduled for Tuesday, July 28 in Belvedere for Barbara Gnoss, co-publisher and -editor of The Ark newspaper in Tiburon, Marin County, who died July 7 after a battle with cancer. She was 67.
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Added duties for Ramona publisher
Jul 17, 2009
Ramona Sentinel Publisher Jeff Mitchell adds to his duties the oversight of the Poway News Chieftain and the Rancho Bernardo News Journal.
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Burke to editor at Press-Banner
Jul 17, 2009
Peter Burke succeeds Chuck Anderson as managing editor of the Press-Banner in Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz County.
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The Stockton Record reports Police monitored phone calls
Jul 15, 2009
The Stockton Record reports that its telephone calls were among those
secretly monitored by police who were investigating the murder of
8-year-old Sandra Cantu of Tracy.
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Former Los Angeles Times TV critic Cecil Smith dies at 92
Jul 15, 2009
Cecil Smith, a former longtime Los Angeles Times television critic who
covered the TV and entertainment scene for The Times from the 1950s to
the 1980s, has died. He was 92.
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San Francisco Chronicle newsstand price going to a dollar
Jul 15, 2009
Stores that sell the San Francisco Chronicle have been told that the paper's
Monday-Saturday price will go from 75 cents to $1 effective July 27. The Sunday cover price will remain unchanged.
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Texas Daily is First Freedom Paper to Charge for Online
Jul 13, 2009
The Valley Morning Star of Harlingen, Texas, will become the first
Freedom Communications daily paper to charge for access to its Web
site, the paper reported Monday.
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San Jose Mercury News Photographer Len Vaughn-Lahman Dies
Jul 13, 2009
Photographer Len Vaughn-Lahman, who spent nearly three decades at the
San Jose Mercury News, died July 10 at age 55 after a lengthy battle
with cancer. His death was reported Friday by the Mercury News, which
described him as a "sweet-souled bear of a man."
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SPJ honors publications and journalists with First Amendment Awards
Jul 10, 2009
The Society of Professional Journalists is pleased to honor three recipients of the 2009 First Amendment Award.
The Oklahoman/NewsOK.com, the Detroit Free Press and two journalists from The Sacramento Bee, Marjie Lundstrom and Sam Stanton, will be presented the award Aug. 29 at the 2009 SPJ Convention and National Journalism Conference in Indianapolis.
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Perp Gets Life for Killing 'Davis Enterprise' Circ Manager
Jul 10, 2009
A 22-year-old man convicted of gunning down a newspaper circulation
manager in Sacramento during a robbery attempt has been sentenced to
life in prison without parole.
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Reuters Handbook of Journalism goes online
Jul 09, 2009
The handbook is "the guidance Reuters journalists live by," and until now, it hasn't been freely available to the public.
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Changes at The San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group
Jul 09, 2009
The San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group - the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News and Whittier Daily News - has fused together its weeklies and special section staffs to create what is called "custom publications" and promoted Pia Orense to oversee them.
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Newspapers As Supermarket Loss Leaders?
Jul 09, 2009
Apart from hotels and the like giving away newspapers very seldom does one find the newsstand price discounted.
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Orange County Register expands self-serve ad tool
Jul 08, 2009
Our self-serve advertising platform
serving mom-and-pops and those with a “do-it-yourself” mindset, now
accommodates three additional sections of The Orange County Register:
Business, Sports and Saturday’s Home & Garden.
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The Newspaper Project releases latest ad
Jul 07, 2009
The Newspaper Project has released its latest ad that newspapers can
run gratis online or in their pages from July 9-12.
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San Diego officials, Union-Tribune reporters clash over public records
Jul 07, 2009
A showdown last month between a pair of Union-Tribune staffers and San
Diego city officials over financial records housed at City Hall has led
city officials to post "authorized employees only" signs on the seventh
floor.
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Longtime Copley newspaperman Herb Klein dies
Jul 07, 2009
Herb Klein, 91, who spent more than a half century with Copley Newspapers, died on Thursday, July 2. He was 91.
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San Francisco Chronicle shifts to new printing presses
Jul 06, 2009
The San Francisco Chronicle got out of the newspaper printing business today after
more than a century of producing the paper in-house, shifting tonight's
production to new presses in Fremont owned and operated by Canada's
Transcontinental Inc.
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Single copy's a buck in outlying areas
Jul 02, 2009
In Spokane, Wash., the Spokesman-Review is raising single-copy prices for its Monday-through-Saturday editions to $1 per copy in zones outside its core distribution area, the paper reported.
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Jung to Santa Cruz Sentinel publisher
Jul 02, 2009
Mike Jung becomes publisher at the Santa Cruz Sentinel, the paper reported. He had been vice president of advertising and marketing for Bay Area News Group-East Bay.
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AP's Butler to VP of newspaper markets
Jul 02, 2009
Kate Lee Butler becomes vice president of newspaper markets at the Associated Press, a CNPA Allied member.
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Summertime, and here's your homework
Jul 01, 2009
If a news company adopted some of the 10 franchise-strengthening ideas suggested by John Temple, former editor of the
now-defunct Rocky Mountain News, well, it'd be a leg up on shops that didn't.
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Snyder to CEO at PAGE Co-op
Jun 30, 2009
John Snyder will become chief executive officer of PAGE Cooperative, a CNPA Allied member, effective July 1.
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Censorship discussed at columnists' conference
Jun 30, 2009
Jim Ewert, CNPA legal counsel, was part of a panel discussion, "Fighting Censorship in Student Journalism," during the National Society of Newspaper Columnists
2009 Conference June 25-28 in Ventura.
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Free stuff: YouTube Reporters' Center
Jun 29, 2009
Name-brand journalists from all media offer tips for aspiring citizen journalists on YouTube's new Reporters' Center.
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Stephens buys Mesquite Local News
Jun 29, 2009
Stephens Media LLC, publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, has acquired the weekly Mesquite Local News, a formerly online-only news portal in Mesquite, 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
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Newport Beach news portal marks 2 weeks
Jun 29, 2009
William Lobdell, a onetime editor of the Daily Pilot in Newport Beach, beats the drum for the two-week-old news portal he's created with former Daily Pilot Publisher Tom Johnson.
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Publisher heralds Times-Delta on its 150th
Jun 26, 2009
The Visalia Times-Delta, begun June 25, 1859, as the Tulare County Record and Fresno Examiner, turns 150 today.
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Pacifica street named for former publisher Drake
Jun 26, 2009
Bill Drake, editor and publisher of the Pacifica Tribune from 1959 to 1989, gets a street named for him: Bill Drake Way.
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In Memoriam: Joseph Houghteling, 84
Jun 26, 2009
Joseph Cannon Houghteling, former publisher of the Gilroy Dispatch and several other community newspapers in the Santa Clara Valley, died at home June 23 in San Francisco after a short illness, his daughter told CNPA. He was 84.
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Mr. Boydston builds a web widget
Jun 25, 2009
Joe Boydston won a $10,000 grant to create a desktop application that allows drag-and-drop publishing of text stories to the Internet.
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Parade to appear in all Freedom papers
Jun 25, 2009
As announced in March, Parade magazine, a CNPA Allied member, will appear in all newspapers owned by Freedom Communications Inc.
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Opting in for TV book is easy
Jun 25, 2009
Ukiah Daily Journal Publisher Kevin McConnell makes it easy to opt in for the weekly TV supplement.
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Era of the stringer recalled
Jun 24, 2009
Correspondents who were compensated by the inch tended to stretch to fill space, writes Robert V. Liggett, former managing editor of the Imperial Valley Press.
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Newsosaur (and associate) at your service
Jun 24, 2009
Alan Mutter, who used to be a curmudgeonly San Francisco Chronicle editor, is reaching an audience with his Confessions of a Newsosaur blog. Ridgely Evers is his business partner in a venture called ViewPass.
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Only the brave buy newsstands?
Jun 24, 2009
"That the newspaper and magazine industries are teetering on the brink of extinction, confronted with the sharp edge of the technological sword, didn't enter her mind," Stockton Record columnist Lori Gilbert writes upon visiting with the owner of Dick's News Stand in Tracy.
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Allegretti restructures CNPA officer ladder
Jun 23, 2009
With the resignation of Harold W. Fuson Jr., who had been
president-elect, CNPA President Anthony Allegretti has revised his
ladder of officers.
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Room block expiring for Sacramento meeting
Jun 23, 2009
Today, June 23, is the deadline for room reservations for the July 16-17 CNPA quarterly meeting in Sacramento at Embassy Suites.
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2010 Press Summit sponsorship campaign launched
Jun 23, 2009
Under the leadership of Becky Clark, Idyllwild Town Crier, the 2010 Press Summit Sponsorship Campaign kicked off last week. Sponsors are invited to connect with a pre-qualified, captive audience of prospects and show them the value of their products and services.
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Publisher input sought on USPS service
Jun 22, 2009
The Postal Service has asked Congress for permission to eliminate Saturday mail delivery. No decision has been made yet. The debate in Washington will begin this summer. The National Newspaper Association seeks your help to understand how the loss of Saturday mail delivery would affect you. Your participation in this very brief online survey will help inform ongoing discussions with the Postal Service.
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Mannis starts new San Diego paper
Jun 22, 2009
David Mannis has announced the launch of the San Diego Uptown News, a 21,000-circulation biweekly delivered door-to-door to 10,000 addresses in several distinct San Diego neighborhoods.
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Publisher wins suit against court
Jun 22, 2009
Sacramento Valley Mirror Publisher Tim Crews wanted to see how Glenn County went about contracting for the remodeling of a courthouse interior in Orland. He sued the Glenn County Superior Court to obtain the court's spending records, especially those pertaining to a remodeling of a county courthouse. He won.
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In Memoriam: Rodger Sterling, 72
Jun 22, 2009
Rodger Sterling, publisher of the Valley News Group in Woodland Hills, died May 31 after a stroke. He was 72.
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San Diego startups profiled
Jun 19, 2009
Chris Jennewein, new president of San Diego News Network, in an interview with KPBS Radio: "We're going back to an earlier day in journalism, a more entrepreneurial day, when a small staff worked very hard looking for the latest and most creative angle."
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Thoroughfare named for Wallace
Jun 19, 2009
In Winters, the alley behind the Winters Express is now known as "Newt's Expressway." It's named for Newt Wallace, publisher emeritus of the paper, who just turned 90.
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In Memoriam: Bob McGraw, 81
Jun 19, 2009
Bob McGraw, a former editor at the Santa Maria Times and former bureau manager for the Santa Barbara News-Press, died May 21 from complications of Parkinson's disease, The Times reported. He was 81.
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Entry-level ad gets 163 replies
Jun 19, 2009
When Harry Saltzgaver put the word out to fill an entry-level newsroom opening at The Gazette newspapers in Long Beach, he got 163 resumes ... in three days.
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Collazo interim publisher in Hanford
Jun 18, 2009
Manual Collazo, director of circulation for Iowa-based Lee Enterprises, will serve as interim publisher for Lee Central California Newspapers, The Hanford Sentinel reports. He succeeds Randy Rickman.
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Million-plus archived pages online
Jun 18, 2009
More than a million archived newspaper pages are now available for viewing online as part of the Library of Congress' Chronicling America site, the Associated Press reports.
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A first: Las Vegas Sun's online work in print
Jun 18, 2009
The Las Vegas Sun, whose website collected an Editor & Publisher EPpy award, and whose print staff won a Pulitzer, is cross-publishing web journalists' work in print.
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Evolving associations press on
Jun 17, 2009
Professional associations, a veritable alphabet soup of specialties, all are evaluating their services and memberships in these tougher, evolving times, a survey piece at Poynter shows.
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How'd they vote? Database clarifies
Jun 17, 2009
Following the creation by the Legislative Counsel's Office of a machine-readable database of how state lawmakers have voted, a suit filed by the California First Amendment Coalition and MAPLight.org has been settled.
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Osborne to interim CEO at Freedom
Jun 17, 2009
Burl Osborne, a Freedom Communications Inc. independent director, becomes interim chairman of the Irvine-based Freedom. He succeeds Scott Flanders.
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Editorial: Legal-notice bill won't save money
Jun 16, 2009
Printing information to inform inquisitive consumers isn't cheap, and the newspaper should know, says the Red Bluff Daily News, editorializing against AB 715, which will be heard in committee Wednesday.
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Swift files final Patterson column
Jun 15, 2009
Ron Swift, publisher emeritus at the Patterson Irrigator, signs off after 47 years of Fast Talk columns.
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Cal Press seeks Executive of the Year nominees
Jun 15, 2009
Mort Levine, publisher emeritus of the Milpitas Post, and the California Press Association are requesting nominees for the Justus F. Craemer Newspaper Executive of the Year Award.
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In Memoriam: Gerri Warren, 62
Jun 15, 2009
Gerri A. Warren, co-publisher of The San Diego Voice & Viewpoint, died June 8, 2009, in San Diego, She was 62.
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Crescenta Valley Sun to close
Jun 12, 2009
Times Community News announced that the final issue of the Crescenta Valley Sun will appear July 3, after which staff at the Glendale News-Press will cover news of that area.
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Lambert, Hunt promoted at San Gabriel
Jun 12, 2009
Steve Lambert becomes editor and publisher of the San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group, the San Gabriel ValleyTribune in West Covina reported. Steve Hunt becomes senior editor.
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In Memoriam: Jim Schurz, 76
Jun 12, 2009
James M. Schurz, senior vice president of Schurz Communications Inc. in South Bend, Ind., which owns the Imperial Valley Press in El Centro, died June 10 near Williamsport, Ind. He was 76 and had lung cancer.
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Editor: 'We're not dead yet'
Jun 11, 2009
In Vacaville, The Reporter Editor Robin Miller brings Monty Python and Mark Twain to the table.
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Keeping it cool with the comments
Jun 11, 2009
Editor Tom Bolton reviews the rules of commenting on stories at SantaMariaTimes.com.
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In Memoriam: Daniel Munoz, 81
Jun 11, 2009
Services will be held June 20 in San Diego for Daniel L. Munoz, who founded La Prensa San Diego in 1976. Munoz died May 31 in San Diego. He was 81.
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New webinars cover revenue, distribution, blogs
Jun 10, 2009
Coming up at NewsU in June and July are webinars including new revenue, mobile strategies and blogs.
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Three essays for the content side
Jun 10, 2009
Three contemplations on the journalism business trump three sullen eulogies to the business any day. Find a quiet, uninterrupted corner if you can. Maybe a hammock on your weekend.
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Sanfield to interim publisher at Daily Breeze
Jun 10, 2009
Editor Phillip Sanfield adds publisher to his duties at the Daily Breeze in Torrance, the paper reported. He succeeds Mark Ficarra.
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Free stuff: Videos document 5 ethics seminars
Jun 09, 2009
View five videos from panel discussions at The Future of Ethical Journalism Annual Conference, held in May at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Who's got a good mobile-ad widget?
Jun 09, 2009
We can anticipate a 26 percent jump in mobile marketing spending this year, the Mobile Marketing Association says.
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Online-directories webinar June 17
Jun 09, 2009
The next online-revenue webinar, "Directories Online: Ad Revenue Success," is at 11 a.m. Pacific on Wednesday, June 17.
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Tribune returns O'Reilly, scouts for more voices
Jun 08, 2009
When it cut its Saturday opinion page, The Tribune in San Luis Obispo had to drop the Bill O'Reilly column. Editors later asked readers if they missed him.
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Ottaway Newspapers name goes away
Jun 08, 2009
Ottaway Newspapers, of which The Record in Stockton is a property, will be known as Dow Jones Local Media Group Inc. starting July 1, Editor & Publisher reports.
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Ficarra to VP-Sales at Union-Tribune
Jun 08, 2009
Torrance and Long Beach Publisher Mark Ficarra will join The San Diego Union-Tribune as vice president of sales and marketing, The Daily Breeze and Union-Tribune report.
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Rainey shines on The Week
Jun 05, 2009
A limit on ad space is a good thing in The Week, that magazine that aggregates news in a nifty way, Los Angeles Times columnist James Rainey says.
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Print papers keep their dignified presence
Jun 05, 2009
The print newspaper knows how to behave, columnist Diane Sayre writes in The Hanford Sentinel: "It will not set off technicolor light shows on the edge of the page you're reading in order to distract you from the story."
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Connect the dots, somebody
Jun 05, 2009
In April in San Diego, publishers rattled sabers over uncompensated content usage. In May, large media companies joined the Fair Syndication Consortium. And then came the presentation of the API-coordinated Newspaper Economic Action Plan. Are you keeping up with all this?
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Jennewein back to San Diego
Jun 05, 2009
Chris Jennewein, former SignOnSanDiego chief, is departing his online publisher post at LasVegasSun.com to become president of San Diego News Network.
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Robinson to ME at Mercury News
Jun 04, 2009
Bert Robinson was named managing editor of the San Jose Mercury News. He had been interim ME since the departure of David Satterfield in November 2008.
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In Memoriam: Charles Brown, 93
Jun 04, 2009
Charles B. "Charley" Brown, former owner of the Palisadian-Post in Pacific Palisades, died May 2 in Irvine, the paper reported. He was 93.
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View summer issue of California Publisher
Jun 04, 2009
The Summer 2009 issue of California Publisher, CNPA's official quarterly newspaper, is in the mail and now online.
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Start charging online, document urges
Jun 03, 2009
Talking point No. 1 of the API Newspaper Economic Action Plan, presented last week at a Chicago gathering of newspaper corporate executives: "True Value. Establish that news content online has value by charging for it. Begin 'massive experimentation with several of the most promising options.'"
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Paper partners with radio on Hispanic weekly
Jun 03, 2009
The Ventura County Star reports success in partnering with a local radio broadcaster in the production and marketing of a Spanish-language weekly.
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In Memoriam: Richard Ek, 82
Jun 03, 2009
Richard Ek, retired Chico State journalism professor, died of a gunshot wound May 12 at his home in Chico, the Chico Enterprise-Record reported. He was 82.
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Classified group forges ahead with September conference
Jun 02, 2009
The Western Classified Advertising Association has released the program for its annual sales conference, coming up Sept. 13-16 in Las Vegas. The content and the in-person experience make the event a valuable consideration for classified personnel as well as online-revenue executives, WCAA's president says.
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Class compromise preserves Cerritos' Talon Marks
Jun 02, 2009
Citing low enrollment, trustees at Cerritos College in Norwalk sought to eliminate the class that produces the print edition of the Talon Marks. But a curriculum compromise this week will allow the print edition to continue, its adviser said.
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Editor: Thanks for the letters
Jun 01, 2009
The number of letters posted on a letters blog since 2005 has exceeded 10,000, Ventura County Star Editor Joe Howry writes in praise of their writers and readers.
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Racks still good business, Kaspar says
Jun 01, 2009
Kaspar Sho-Rack sold its millionth newspaper vending machine back in 1985, and a diversified customer base will keep the company rolling, company president Don Kaspar tells CNN.
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Equipment grants go to 19 campus papers
Jun 01, 2009
Nineteen CNPA-member campus newspapers will receive grants from the CNPA Foundation to improve their production hardware and software. A total of $11,000 is being distributed in grants ranging from $500 to $1,500.
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Cal Press seeks award nominees
May 29, 2009
The California Press Association is still seeking nominations for the Philip N. McCombs Achievement Award. The award, presented at the association's annual winter meeting in San Francisco, honors distinguished newspaper executives who are no longer fully active in the industry.
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Tab switch a plus for Alpenhorn News
May 29, 2009
Alpenhorn News Publisher Dennis Labadie says a switch earlier this year from broadsheet to tabloid is paying off with happier readers and customers.
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Charities get portion of Acorn voluntary pay
May 29, 2009
At the Acorn newspapers in Los Angeles and Ventura counties, the company is pairing its push for voluntary pay with a contribution to charity.
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On the take? Yeah, right
May 28, 2009
Folks who think the editor has become too chummy with the good ol' boys club don't have a clue how newspapers work, writes Red Bluff Daily News Editor Chip Thompson.
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Editorial: Loan sets bad precedent
May 28, 2009
The North Carolina newspaper that borrowed $50,000 from its town council has set itself up for trouble, an editorial in the Patterson Irrigator warns.
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Knape handles circulation in Lodi
May 28, 2009
Stephen Knape is the new circulation manager at the Lodi News-Sentinel, The News-Sentinel reported.
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Is your online megaphone working?
May 27, 2009
Publishers wary of news aggregators swiping their content can install code to foil those pesky spiders, Google executives have said. But better yet, why not exploit those links? Tom Grubisich asks at the Online Journalism Review.
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San Diego startup hits rough patch
May 27, 2009
A rough economy has forced the online news portal San Diego News Network to cut back its editorial stipends, reduce its ad help and eliminate its freelance budget.
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We're starting from scratch, Johnston says
May 26, 2009
The industry that used to be newspapers has to start its reinvention from scratch, said Eric Johnston, president and publisher of The Modesto Bee, who delivered the graduation address Friday to the Mass Comm. Class of 2009 at CSU Fresno. "For too long we have protected and preserved old-school methods of production and delivery, and now is the time for us to reinvent ourselves," he said. "Newspapers are in a firestorm, but we are seeing new shoots emerge from the ashes -- including more efficient operations, the increases in our online audiences and the development of new revenue streams."
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Burns to ME in Merced
May 26, 2009
James Burns is now managing editor at the Merced Sun-Star, Editor Mike Tharp and Publisher Hank Vander Veen announced. He had been sports editor.
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Sting snares newsroom bandits in Banning
May 26, 2009
A simple video-surveillance setup caught a pair of suspected burglars at the Record Gazette in Banning, the paper reports.
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CNPA meeting July 16-17 in Sacramento
May 26, 2009
All CNPA members are invited to attend the CNPA Quarterly Meeting scheduled for July 16-17 at the Embassy Suites Sacramento Riverfront Promenade.
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Van Dongen departs Santa Cruz
May 22, 2009
Mario van Dongen, publisher of the Santa Cruz Sentinel since October 2008, will become advertising director of The Oregonian, The Sentinel reported.
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Educator-publisher to NAHJ hall of fame
May 22, 2009
Juan Gonzales, San Francisco publisher and journalism professor at City College of San Francisco, will be inducted into the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Hall of Fame.
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Editor to oversee two Acorns
May 22, 2009
Kyle Jorrey, editor of the Simi Valley Acorn, will assume oversight of the Moorpark Acorn, the Moorpark Acorn reported. He replaces Steve Carlson, who has taken a position with the Moorpark Chamber of Commerce.
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My so-called life without print
May 21, 2009
Mind you, few who give up the print product will be as deliberate, descriptive and helpful when they do it. But here begins Mark Glaser's diary of a kicked print newspaper habit, in which he lists pluses and minuses of his action.
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Newsies eulogize fellow reporter
May 21, 2009
Daily Breeze news people channel their tributes to colleague Vu Nguyen, 34, through columnist John Bogert.
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They're charging, for what it's worth
May 21, 2009
Media companies are testing, focus-grouping and appliance-inventing their way to some clarity in the fog of online-revenue generation. going ahead with pay walls and installing micro-payment baskets, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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So what about cable, guy?
May 21, 2009
How about we license the Internet service providers' access to our websites and sweep in macro-payments instead of micro-? an Editor & Publisher piece suggests.
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Local-news portal works for salary-less publisher
May 20, 2009
In David Boraks' North Carolina town, he is the hyperlocal news source. He's the editor and publisher. And he doesn't take a salary.
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Giving readers what they want can backfire
May 20, 2009
The paradox for news providers is that old "eat your peas" quandary. "If all you do is give the public what it thinks it wants, you aren't doing your job," journalism professor Edward Wasserman writes. "But if you ignore those wishes, you won't have a job."
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In Memoriam: Keith Fuller, 83
May 20, 2009
Keith Raymond Fuller, former director of employee relations at The McClatchy Co., died May 16 of complications from surgery, The Sacramento Bee reported. He was 83.
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Santa Clarita weekly debuts
May 19, 2009
The first issue of the SCV Independent weekly, mentioned here previously, has appeared in the Santa Clarita Valley. There's no website yet, but the SCVTalk blog provides a flip-through of the hard-copy version.
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Former publisher Hiller to head foundation
May 19, 2009
David Hiller, publisher of the Los Angeles Times from 2006 to 2008, is now chief executive officer of the McCormick Foundation, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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None of your business, huh?
May 19, 2009
Sixty percent of executives believe that they should have a say in how employees portray the company on their own social-media sites, says a Deloitte LLP survey, covered in the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
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Obit photos skew young, study finds
May 15, 2009
A study of obituary photos in the Cleveland Plain Dealer found that, on average, the photos of the decedents were taken 15 years before their deaths, U.S. News & World Report says.
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Better skip that OT ... and lunch
May 15, 2009
About 52 percent of participants in a poll admitted that "self-imposed pressure" was the main reason for working overtime, while 44 percent cited "meeting project or performance goals," the San Francisco Business Times reports.
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Training grants go to 9 high school advisers
May 15, 2009
High school newspaper advisers from Anaheim, Fremont, Lakewood, Oakland, Pittsburg, Roseville, San Francisco and Vacaville will receive $200 CNPA Foundation training grants to learn about production of student media.
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Hanford's Rickman to Montana
May 14, 2009
Randy Rickman, publisher of Lee Central California Newspapers, will become publisher of The Montana Standard in Butte and the Independent Record in Helena, The Hanford Sentinel reported.
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Online users warming to paid, WAN study says
May 14, 2009
Two-thirds of consumers in a global survey are willing to pay for online content, says a new study for the World Association of Newspapers by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. All said they are willing to pay for it in print.
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Hey, cinemas: Buy an ad already
May 13, 2009
The newsprint space that contains movie reviews is what's left over from selling ads to the cineplex or the movie studio. So enough with the public-service squawk about newspapers running showtimes gratis, an Orlando Sentinel writer says.
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Here's your 'TV's hurting, too' story
May 13, 2009
A falloff in election and automotive advertising has resulted in at least a 20 percent quarterly drop in television-station revenue, the New York Times reports.
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The free model works for some
May 13, 2009
Free works for two New Jersey newspaper execs who wrote an op-ed piece for the online Christian Science Monitor.
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In Memoriam: Everett Landers, 76
May 13, 2009
Everett S. Landers, former executive editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal, died April 27 in Medford, N.J. He was 76.
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Two Silicon Valley weeklies close
May 12, 2009
The West San Jose Resident and the Los Gatos Weekender cease publication this week, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
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Hamilton to head LANG
May 12, 2009
Fred Hamilton becomes president and publisher of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, The Daily News-Los Angeles reported. He had held that position with the company's Inland Division in San Bernardino.
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Moss to publisher of Union-Tribune
May 12, 2009
Ed Moss will become president and publisher of The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Union-Tribune reported. He had been chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group.
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Santa Rosa, San Jose, Las Vegas sites take EPpy awards
May 11, 2009
Sites affiliated with The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa; San Jose Mercury News and Las Vegas Sun are among the winners of EPpy Awards, which honor the best websites in the media world.
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New promotional ads available
May 11, 2009
The Newspaper Project has released a new set of industry promotion ads to be run nationwide later this week. These industry promotion ads should run: Thursday, May 14; Friday, May 15; or Sunday, May 17.
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Senator to honor Signal Tribune publisher
May 11, 2009
Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, will honor Neena Strichart, publisher of the Signal Tribune, as a 2009 Small Business Honoree from the 27th Senate District on May 26 at the California Small Business Day Luncheon.
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In Memoriam: Ellen Revelle, 98
May 11, 2009
Ellen C. Revelle, San Diego philanthropist and publisher emerita of The Daily Transcript, died May 6, The Transcript reported. She was 98.
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Irrigator goes to once a week
May 06, 2009
The Patterson Irrigator will halt its Saturday edition on May 16 and combine its print content into one Wednesday paper the following week, Publisher Robert Matthews said.
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Las Vegas Sun sweeps AP awards
May 06, 2009
The Las Vegas Sun's Pulitzer-winning work on death rates among construction workers took top prizes in the 2009 Associated Press California/Nevada Newswriting and Photo Contest.
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Peninsula's Daily News alters format
May 06, 2009
The Daily News, a free daily published in Menlo Park, has reduced its height and increased its width, the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club reports.
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Kindle 2: We're getting closer
May 05, 2009
The new, larger version of Amazon's Kindle e-reader may catch publishers' attention for its larger screen, but there's a good reason to remain skeptical.
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Paul Bridwell interim head at Union-Tribune
May 05, 2009
With its acquisition of The San Diego Union-Tribune complete, Platinum Equity has named Paul Bridwell as chief restructuring officer, The Union-Tribune reported.
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In Memoriam: Doug Hawkes, 80
May 05, 2009
Douglas Hawkes, former publisher of the Grapevine Independent in Rancho Cordova, died April 21 after a short illness. He was 80.
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Online spending up just 6%, Borrell says
May 04, 2009
Look for local online spending to increase just 6 percent in 2009, says a Borrell Associates report.
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In Becker's 43 years, 12 publishers
May 04, 2009
Before retiring in mid-April, Stockton newsman Harley Becker had served 43 years in a half-dozen positions, The Record reported.
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Bergin to VP/Advertising at Chronicle
May 04, 2009
Jeff Bergin becomes vice president of advertising at the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate.com, The Chronicle reported.
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In Memoriam: Don Kay, 62
May 01, 2009
Services are pending for Don Kay, retired vice president of operations at The Sun in San Bernardino, who died April 30 of a probable heart attack, The Sun reported. He was 62.
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Former Chico publisher to TV Media
May 01, 2009
Wolf Rosenberg, former publisher of the Chico Enterprise-Record, has joined the marketing department of TV Media, a producer of television listings.
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Harn launching Santa Clarita tabloid
May 01, 2009
Jay Harn, former publisher of The Signal in Santa Clarita and the Red Bluff Daily News, is working to launch a new 30-to-40-page tabloid weekly, he tells the SCVTalk blog.
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Gillmor: Supply's OK; now work on the demand
Apr 30, 2009
Dan Gillmor, the citizen-journalism evangelist and former San Jose Mercury News columnist, says citizens aren't hurting for sources of information. There's no shortage. But consumers of media need to demand better.
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Warning: Kindle users trend older
Apr 30, 2009
Seventy percent of the users of Amazon's Kindle device who were tabulated in an unscientific poll are over 40. More than half are over age 50.
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Indictment in slaying of Oakland editor Bailey
Apr 30, 2009
Following his indictment Wednesday by a grand jury, the leader of a now-defunct Oakland bakery will receive a prison sentence of about 25 years in connection with the slaying of Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey, The Oakland Tribune reported.
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Best of the West winners posted
Apr 29, 2009
The Best of the West journalism contest, open to newspapers and their
websites in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho,
Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, has announced the 2009 winners.
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Editor: Sun-Bulletin's best days were in '90s
Apr 29, 2009
Editor Bill Morem, signing off for the Sun-Bulletin in Morro Bay, writes that the voluntary-subscription model was in full effect and working in the early 1990s.
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Pretty ads are great, if they get results
Apr 29, 2009
That's the philosophy behind David Fowler's new book. And newspaper
executives who made it out April 24 for Fowler's presentation on why
ads work and don't work found plenty of thought-fodder.
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David Pearlman still on the job at 90
Apr 28, 2009
"I've been a newspaperman all my life and I don't want to do anything else," San Francisco Chronicle science writer David Pearlman, 90, says in a New York Times profile.
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Mind your punctuation ... and your Jonases
Apr 28, 2009
"Without trusted newspapers, anonymous and agenda-driven news sources will only take us further from the truth," a Philadelphia Inquirer columnist writes.
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Four papers' writers win Gruner awards
Apr 28, 2009
Journalists from the Merced Sun-Star, The Selma Enterprise, The Hanford Sentinel and The Bakersfield Californian collected prizes at the George F. Gruner banquet Monday night in Fresno, The Bee reported.
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'We missed the story,' business press admits
Apr 27, 2009
Panelists at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference concurred that the business press missed the mark in covering the money meltdown in a way that media consumers could understand.
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Appeal-Democrat goes to 75 cents
Apr 27, 2009
"Coffee lovers are willing to pay more for their favorite beverage," Marysville Publisher Dave Schmall says, announcing the Appeal-Democrat's Monday-through-Saturday single-copy price increase to 75 cents, "and I'm convinced our loyal readers will spend the additional coin on their favorite newspaper to know what's happening in their communities."
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Six bits scan: More dailies now at 75 cents
Apr 24, 2009
Among the latest dailies to now charge 75 cents for a Monday-Saturday copy is the Santa Barbara News-Press.
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Guide to watchdog news sites compiled
Apr 24, 2009
Included in a nationwide overview of local watchdog news portals posted by Mark Glaser at PBS Mediashift are The Public Press, Spot.us, The San
Francisco Appeal and Voice of San Diego.
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Economy sinks fledgling Kingsburg weekly
Apr 24, 2009
Because of the economy and weak advertising, the weekly Kingsburg
Press, which launched in October 2008, will cease printing with its
April 28 issue, The Fresno Bee reported.
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Before you send that press release...
Apr 23, 2009
Editors will tell you that the newspaper contains news, and it contains information. Those who would target their press releases toward the information spaces of the newspaper ought to see it from the receiving editor's point of view, an editor says.
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Twitter: It's the new duct tape
Apr 23, 2009
Think of Twitter as modern-day duct tape, says Steve Mullen, former managing editor at The Bakersfield Californian, now editor of The Commercial Dispatch in Mississippi.
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Staff made News & Review's 20 years, GM says
Apr 23, 2009
In its 20th anniversary issue, Deborah Redmond, "co-founder and director of nuts and bolts" at the Sacramento News & Review, highlights the work and dedication of many behind-the-scenes staffers.
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Oakland, Los Angeles receive New Voices grants
Apr 22, 2009
Hyperlocal community journalism portals in Oakland and Los Angeles are among eight proposals to be funded by the New Voices program of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism.
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Local topics rule this opinion page
Apr 22, 2009
Tips for potential contributors to The Signal's opinion pages include guidance on audience, composition and goal-setting. Managing Editor Lila Littlejohn also wants contributions to her Santa Clarita newspaper to be fresh, logical and local.
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Second Pulitzer 'mind-blowing' for Breen
Apr 21, 2009
Steve Breen, editorial cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune, on winning a second Pulitzer Prize for his work: "I thought God was looking after me when I won one Pulitzer, but to win two, it really is mind-blowing."
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Reminder: Ad-design workshop Friday in Palm Springs
Apr 21, 2009
A reminder that author and advertising-design consultant David Fowler will talk
about the components that make your advertisements work from 8 to 9
a.m. this Friday morning at the Hilton Palm Springs. It's part of the
quarterly CNPA Board of Directors meeting. RSVP by calling Debbie
Foster at CNPA, (916) 288-6018.
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Advice from an editor's consumer side
Apr 20, 2009
Some consumer insight for newspaper publishers comes from a features editor in New York who trades her journalist's hat for a consumer cap.
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New publishers at News Media papers
Apr 20, 2009
Jason Cross will oversee the Atascadero News with the departure of Publisher Jeremy Burke, who has joined the Newport (Ore.) News-Times. Cross continues as publisher of the Paso Robles Press and general manager of News Media Corp.'s South County Newspapers. Tom Cross, publisher of the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian, will oversee the company's northern papers.
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Papers run Monday, Tuesday classifieds online only
Apr 20, 2009
BANG-East Bay newspapers including the Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times have moved their Monday and Tuesday classified liner ads to online only, the papers said in front-page notices to readers.
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Esposito new GM at Mountain Democrat
Apr 17, 2009
Richard Esposito becomes general manager of the Mountain Democrat in Placerville, Publisher Jim Webb announced. Esposito had been publisher of the Oak Ridger in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and is a former associate publisher of The Union in Grass Valley.
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Less coverage no advantage, editor says
Apr 17, 2009
When a competitor pulls back its coverage, it's not a time for cheering, says Chip Thompson, editor of the Red Bluff Daily News, upon the Record-Searchlight's announced suspension of its Tehama Today weekly wrap.
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San Jose State to honor Bentel, 100
Apr 16, 2009
The Spartan Daily at San Jose State University has appeared, without missing a scheduled issue, for 75 years. Dwight Bentel, who just turned 100, started it all. The school's journalism building is named for him, and he'll be honored April 23.
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Online journalism symposium starts Friday
Apr 16, 2009
Online streaming of the two-day 10th International Symposium on Online Journalism begins Friday morning from the University of Texas at Austin. Topics will include delivery platforms, business models, citizen journalism, transforming newsrooms and international perspectives.
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It's all about volume, says Twitter exec
Apr 16, 2009
Value comes first, says the co-founder of Twitter, in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News. With that comes volume, which turns into revenue, says Biz Stone.
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Study: At high schools, class + paper helps
Apr 15, 2009
A new study of high school journalism in Southern California, commissioned by the McCormick Foundation, has found that high school student newspapers are more likely to be published at schools that offer journalism classes.
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In Memoriam: Roy Grimm, 83
Apr 15, 2009
Royden A. "Roy" Grimm, former managing editor of the Oakland Tribune, died April 11 from frontal lobe dementia, The Tribune reported. He was 83.
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Battle of the e-readers will pay off
Apr 14, 2009
The post-Kindle scramble to create a market-leading digital news-reader will sort itself out in time, says an Ars Technica piece.
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In Memoriam: Jerry Gillam, 77
Apr 14, 2009
Jerry Gillam, a former Sacramento Capitol reporter who spent nearly 40 years covering state government, died April 11, the Associated Press reported. He was 77.
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Merced adopts a 'Sun Dog'
Apr 14, 2009
In Merced, trust is important. Apparently, so is a little nuttiness. Put them together to get Merced Sun-Star Editor Mike Tharp's appointing of a local man with no journalism experience as his new ombudsman.
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Annual conference shifts from October to April
Apr 14, 2009
By direction of the CNPA Board of Directors, CNPA's annual Press Summit, originally scheduled for October 2009, is changing to April 2010.
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Downtown News posting more often
Apr 13, 2009
Along with a new website design, the Los Angeles Downtown News is posting news when it happens vs. once a week, according to Blogdowntown.com.
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In Memoriam: Frank Eckblom, 81
Apr 13, 2009
Frank Ralph Eckblom, former publisher of the Valley Springs Daily News in Calaveras County, died March 27 in San Andreas, the Calaveras Enterprise reported. He was 81.
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Three military base papers cease printing
Apr 13, 2009
Newspapers at Camp Pendleton, Miramar Marine Corps Air Station and San Diego naval facilities have stopped printing, the North County Times reports. The three publications circulated about 75,000 copies total.
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Commemoration of Latino media April 15
Apr 10, 2009
A reception, short documentary film trailer and panel discussion April 15 at Stanford University will commemorate the bicentennial of the first Spanish-language newspaper published in the United States.
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In Memoriam: Helen Bale, 88
Apr 10, 2009
Helen Tierney Bale, editor of the Auburn Journal from 1972 to 1981, died March 20. She was 88.
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Two press clubs offer scholarships
Apr 09, 2009
Two Northern California press clubs' deadlines are April 30 to apply for journalism scholarships: The San Francisco Peninsula Press Club and the Sacramento Press Club.
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In Memoriam: Stan Barker, 90
Apr 09, 2009
Private services were held for William Stanley Barker, a former owner of the Mountain Democrat in Placerville, who died March 8 in Yuba City, The Mountain Democrat reported. He was 90.
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Sun-Bulletin to close April 15
Apr 09, 2009
The weekly Central Coast Sun-Bulletin in San Luis Obispo County will cease publication on April 15, Publisher Bruce Ray said, citing the continued economic downturn.
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New website at Patterson Irrigator
Apr 08, 2009
Print readers might not have noticed how the Patterson Irrigator's website has evolved in recent years, Editor James Leonard notes in an article announcing a new remake. "Our goal was to turn PattersonIrrigator.com into a product that stood apart from our print edition — which has changed quite a bit itself over the past five or six years, if you haven’t been paying attention — and served our readers in unique and ever-changing ways."
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Newspapers need someone's help, Google CEO says
Apr 08, 2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, at the Newspaper Association of America convention on Tuesday in San Diego, suggested more creative delivery of content and bigger display ads as two innovations that could help news websites to capture audience and dollars.
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In memoriam: Jim Alexander, 83
Apr 08, 2009
Jim Alexander, the first adviser to the Daily Titan at California State University, Fullerton, died April 2 of pneumonia. He was 83. CNPA named Alexander the four-year journalism instructor of the year in 1975.
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We forgot the comics; yeah, it's a big deal
Apr 07, 2009
Leaving out the comics was a darn-fool blunder, a community newspaper editor says, taking it on the chin. But it happens.
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Media freight train slow to change course
Apr 07, 2009
Jack Myers, who just gave the keynote speaker at the America East Newspaper Conference in Hershey, Penn., says the economic path for media executives is leveling a little, though there's still some trudging to do. One bump will be changing the old mindset of traditional marketing.
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Enter California Journalism Awards by April 17
Apr 07, 2009
California journalism produced between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2008, is eligible for entry in the 15th Annual California Journalism Awards, sponsored by the Center for California Studies at California State University, Sacramento and the Sacramento Press Club. The postmark deadline is April 17.
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Salinas daily adds reporters
Apr 06, 2009
In a spot of less-dreary news, The Salinas Californian has hired three reporters, Editor Anjanette Delgado told readers in a weekend column.
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Will Google chief offer aid to newspapers?
Apr 06, 2009
When Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivers his keynote speech Tuesday at the Newspaper Association of America convention in San Diego, will he make good on his own expressions of concern for newspapers' economic stability? Poynter's Rick Edmonds hopes so.
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Legislative Directory sent to members
Apr 06, 2009
CNPA last week mailed to member publishers the California Legislative Directory, a pocket-size guide to contact information for state legislators and staff, the governor and constitutional officers and the state congressional delegation.
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This publisher's down with the new lingo
Apr 03, 2009
Chino/Chino Hills Champion Publisher Emeritus Al McCombs translates for us some current teen lingo, and revisits some bobby-sox-era phrases, in a recent column: "The 'cool it' of days gone by is now 'chill.' But if you're 'chillin'," life is good and you're relaxin'."
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Stanford Daily dedicates new building
Apr 03, 2009
The Stanford Daily dedicated its new Lorry Lokey Stanford Daily building on Thursday with a keynote address from Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times.
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In Memoriam: Robert Huttenhoff, 88
Apr 03, 2009
Robert Huttenhoff, publisher of The Salinas Californian from 1972 to 1984, died March 27 in Carlsbad. He was 88.
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Spanish monthly to launch in O.C.
Apr 02, 2009
Picket Fence Media, publishers of the San Clemente Times, Dana Point Times and The Capistrano Dispatch, will launch a Spanish-language monthly in South Orange County this summer.
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Former Santa Cruz editor starts column
Apr 02, 2009
Tom Honig, former editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, is beginning a column for the Good Times weekly in Santa Cruz.
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SPJ-LA to honor CNPA's Newton, Ewert
Apr 02, 2009
The Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will honor CNPA's Tom Newton and Jim Ewert for their efforts in increase government transparency and improve and protect First Amendment freedoms.
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Free Easy Voter materials available
Apr 01, 2009
Free Easy Voter Guide materials on the May election are available for newspaper reprint.
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PAGE Co-op marks 25 years
Apr 01, 2009
PAGE Cooperative, a CNPA Allied member, is celebrating is 25th year as a purchasing cooperative.
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Mustang Daily best in nation, CNBAM says
Apr 01, 2009
The Mustang Daily at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, received honors as Best College Newspaper of the Year, under 40,000 circulation, at the recent convention of the College Newspaper Business & Advertising Managers in Charlotte, N.C.
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Mariposa Gazette goes 'laptop' with tall tab
Mar 31, 2009
The Mariposa Gazette, starting this week, appears in a tall-tab format that Publisher R.D. Tucker refers to as "going laptop."
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BNC entry materials to members
Mar 31, 2009
Publishers and editors should check their mail for 2009 Better Newspapers Contest entry materials, which were mailed last week.
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CNPA launching banner-ad network
Mar 31, 2009
After much conversation with newspaper associations across the country, online consultants and online vendors, CNPA announces the start of an online advertising program that will benefit participating newspapers and their association.
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Editors don't always get excused from jury duty
Mar 30, 2009
Editors who've gone years without serving on a jury might find the experience a mixed bag of aggravation and insight. Joe Howry, editor of the Ventura County Star, did his time recently.
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Narrower page at Santa Maria Times
Mar 30, 2009
Publisher Cynthia Schur didn't sugarcoat the Santa Maria Times' move to a narrower page width this week.
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New format, new editor at Ledger-Dispatch
Mar 30, 2009
The Amador Ledger-Dispatch in Jackson will change from broadsheet to tabloid later in April, the paper reported. And Mayra Jimenez becomes editor of the paper. She had been features editor.
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Cuts will shortchange baseball fans
Mar 27, 2009
With fewer beat reporters, coverage of Major League Baseball is destined to lose its depth of coverage, Jim Caple writes at ESPN.com.
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Cross-country effects and memories
Mar 26, 2009
A former editor in Maine connects the end of the print Seattle Post-Intelligencer to the pending sale of his local newspapers and mixes in some paperboy memories.
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In Memoriam: George Gambill
Mar 26, 2009
Services are set for Thursday, March 26 for George "Buzz" Gambill, publisher of The Valley Breeze in Desert Hot Springs, Riverside County, The Desert Sun reports. Gambill died March 20.
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SPJ president OK with small-town roots
Mar 26, 2009
Dave Aeikens is from a small Minnesota town with a newspaper that still runs a story for as long as it needs. The Albert Lea Tribune does just that with its profile of the current president of the national Society for Professional Journalists.
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Monitor editor outlines game plan
Mar 25, 2009
In a webinar Tuesday, Editor John Yemma detailed how the online Christian Science Monitor would operate. "Our journalists are going to be very busy. They're going to write a bit shorter and much faster," he said.
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In Memoriam: Everett Johannes, 86
Mar 25, 2009
Everett Johannes, a former editor and longtime columnist at the Alameda Times-Star, died March 24, 2009. he was 86.
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Executive reorganization at Bakersfield daily
Mar 25, 2009
Olivia Garcia becomes vice president of content at The Bakersfield Californian, CEO and President Richard Beene announced Tuesday. Also promoted were Logan Molen and Motoko Komatsubara.
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Fresno Bee consolidates sections
Mar 24, 2009
The Fresno Bee has consolidated sections and eliminated Monday-through-Saturday color comics from its pages, Executive Editor Betsy Lumbye told readers.
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Hunt named publisher at The Recorder in San Francisco
Mar 24, 2009
Brian Hunt becomes publisher at The Recorder in San Francisco and its CalLaw website, according to a release from Incisive Media, The Recorder's parent company.
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Texas honors former Ventura GM Birmingham
Mar 24, 2009
Patrick Birmingham, former general manager of the Ventura County Star, has been named newspaper leader of the year by the Texas Daily Newspaper Association.
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Best in Business winners named
Mar 24, 2009
The Los Angeles Times; The Orange County Register, Santa Ana; The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa; The Sacramento Bee; San Francisco Business Times and San Jose Mercury News
are among winners of the 14th Annual Best in Business Awards, sponsored
by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Inc. View the
winners at the SABEW website.
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Hands-on solutions to revenue issues
Mar 23, 2009
Ideas to monetize online display advertising, classified, iPhone communication and to support small business are part of the manifesto posited by RevenueTwoPointZero, a weekend gathering of hands-on news people focused on revenue.
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Slump's cause is obvious, letter writers say
Mar 23, 2009
Letter writers pin newspaper's fiscal woes to any number of causes, the San Francisco Chronicle's John Diaz writes.
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Madison Awards go to reporters, advocates, students
Mar 20, 2009
Reporters, journalism advocates and three high school newspapers received James Madison Awards on March 18 in San Francisco from the Society of Professional Journalists' Northern California Chapter.
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Oakland Tribune saluted at 135
Mar 20, 2009
The Oakland Tribune is still pounding it out at 135, columnist Angela Hill muses. Elsewhere, lifetime "Tribbie" Dave Newhouse recalls infamous copyboys and legendary publishers.
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Filmmaker acquires Borrego Sun from Copley
Mar 20, 2009
Patrick Meehan has acquired the Borrego Sun, a 3,000-circulation paid weekly in Borrego Springs, San Diego County, from The Copley Press Inc. The purchase price was not disclosed.
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Running a news site is full-time work
Mar 18, 2009
The idea of an online news outlet is not new to the Pasadena area, Larry Wilson writes in The Star-News.
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How will this online-only paper pencil out?
Mar 18, 2009
The question everyone is asking about the online-only Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "What's the business model?" Poynter's Rick Edmonds ponders that briefly.
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Dan Evans to editor of Glendale News-Press
Mar 18, 2009
Dan Evans becomes editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader, The News-Press reported. He had been online news editor at the Hollywood Reporter and succeeds Danette Goulet.
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Private-equity firm acquires Union-Tribune
Mar 18, 2009
The San Diego Union-Tribune will be acquired by Beverly Hills-based Platinum Equity, The Union-Tribune reported. The sale price was undisclosed.
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Smaller dailies adapt, focus on strengths
Mar 17, 2009
Newspapers in the Central San Joaquin Valley are up to the multiple
challenges of economy and changing consumer habits, according to a Lodi News-Sentinel piece that included comments from several newspaper executives.
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Board meeting room deadline Friday
Mar 17, 2009
The deadline to reserve a hotel room for the April 23-24 CNPA Quarterly Meeting at the Hilton Palm Springs is this Friday, March 20. Registration form Questions? Diane Donohue; (916) 288-6017.
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Look on the bright side, publisher says
Mar 16, 2009
Your fellow community leaders are bound to notice your body language, Auburn Journal Publisher Tony Hazarian writes, even if you're not feeling bummed out.
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Editorials highlight Sunshine Week
Mar 16, 2009
In recognition of Sunshine Week, which emphasizes the importance of
open government and freedom of information, here is how some California
newspapers are spreading the word on their editorial pages.
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Popularity pays (they hope) at San Diego startup
Mar 12, 2009
Another online news portal set to launch in San Diego bases content compensation on popularity, a San Diego CityBeat article explains.
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Bakersfield's Printcasting in beta, in news
Mar 12, 2009
The beta launch of Printcasting, The Bakersfield Californian's experiment in providing the publishing platform for citizen entrepreneurs, is highlighted in a Business Week article that also examines other online monetization projects.
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Open government: One man's cost
Mar 12, 2009
Rich McKee is a true believer in open government and the right to know. Now he could lose everything.
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CNPA.com opens ad space to Allieds
Mar 12, 2009
Special introductory rates have been offered exclusively to CNPA Allied
members who wish to include their advertising messages on the new
cnpa.com website. The by-the-month spots will launch on the newly
revised website beginning in April.
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If 'Doonesbury' tweets, should we follow?
Mar 11, 2009
"Doonesbury" readers who are following along as news correspondent Roland Hedley tweets on the job may appreciate the rigors of Sasha Cagen's look into the curious world of the "Twitterati."
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Industry is in transition, NAA's Sturm says
Mar 11, 2009
The newspaper brand is in transition between old and new industry, writes Newspaper Association of American CEO John Sturm in a Las Vegas Review-Journal guest piece during the NAA's mediaXchange trade show there.
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Miller to managing editor in Vacaville
Mar 11, 2009
Robin Miller will be the new managing editor of The Reporter in Vacaville, the paper reported. She had been city editor.
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In Memoriam: Jim Bellows, 86
Mar 10, 2009
James G. Bellows, an editor whose knack for giving struggling newspapers a shot of life inspired many, died March 6, 2009, of Alzheimer's disease in Santa Monica. He was 86.
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Brenneman to oversee LANG Metro advertising
Mar 10, 2009
Joe Brenneman, general manager of the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, will oversee the sales divisions of the Daily News in Woodland Hills, Daily Breeze in Torrance and the Press-Telegram, all of which are parts of the LANG Metro Division.
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Summer activity pages from Kid Scoop
Mar 10, 2009
Kid Scoop, a CNPA Allied member, has produced a 12-week series of pages for children's summer activities.
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TownNews releases BLOX content management system
Mar 09, 2009
TownNews.com, a CNPA Allied member, announces the release of its
BLOX content management system, which the company says will allow users
to place programmable, movable blocks of content anywhere on the
newspaper's website.
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Journalism education delegates meet Friday
Mar 09, 2009
Delegates to the California Journalism Education will meet Friday, March 13 at Cerritos College in Norwalk. Cal-JEC includes representatives from California's high school, community college and university newspaper journalism programs, institutes and workshops.
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Sunshine Week resources available
Mar 09, 2009
Sunshine Week, which emphasizes the importance of open government and freedom of information, is March 15-21.
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In Memoriam: Bill Akers, 88
Mar 06, 2009
William W. "Bill" Akers, a former editor of Watsonville's Register-Pajaronian and the Delano Record, died Feb. 21 after a long illness. He was 88.
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Weekly Sacramento Union folds
Mar 06, 2009
The Sacramento Union, free weekly that was the second restart of
the storied California nameplate, has published its last issue, The Sacramento Bee
reported Thursday.
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In memoriam: Dick Klein, 69
Mar 05, 2009
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, March 6 in Ontario for
Richard Klein, a veteran circulation executive who worked for the
Progress Bulletin in Pomona, The Daily Report in Ontario and for
Century Group Newspapers.
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New website for Brentwood Press
Mar 05, 2009
Brentwood Press and Publishing Corporation in February launched its new website, thepress.net, which Publisher Greg Robinson said will help his company strengthen its connection with the communities in Eastern Contra Costa County.
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Lodestar launches in three counties
Mar 04, 2009
The Calaveras Enterprise has launched Sierra Lodestar, a 21,000-circulation weekly entertainment and events guide for Calaveras, Amador and Tuolumne counties.
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National, in-state college newspaper winners announced
Mar 04, 2009
Nearly 20 CNPA-member university and community college newspapers collected awards last week at the Associated College Press convention in San Diego. View winners at the ACP website. The California College Media Association, representing four-year university newspapers, also announced its contest winners at the convention. Details at the CCMA website
Threshie to oversee self-serve ads at OC Regiser
Mar 03, 2009
David Threshie becomes manager of Self-Serve Advertising at Orange County Register Communications, a new position.
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Support for legacy, not product?
Mar 03, 2009
Hearst columnist Phil Bronstein heard from someone who is concerned
about the role of newspapers, but not as worried about getting a
newspaper.
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Idyllwild weekly sells spots before movies
Mar 03, 2009
The new owner of the local movie theater suggested that the Idyllwild Town Crier create a pre-movie advertising reel to market local merchants. Patterned after similar slide shows at metro multiplexes, it was a challenge that The Town Crier, a 3,700-circulation weekly in eastern Riverside County, could not pass up.
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LANG papers outsource printing to Southwest, OC Register
Mar 02, 2009
San Gabriel Valley Newspapers now will print at The Orange County Register in Santa Ana, while the Daily News and Long Beach's Press-Telegram will move to Southwest Offset in Gardena.
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Connect your local advisers to equipment grants
Mar 02, 2009
The deadline is April 24 to apply for CNPA Foundation equipment grants to upgrade campus newspapers' production equipment. Only CNPA's high school- and college-member newspapers may apply.
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High school grants help advisers learn production
Mar 02, 2009
The CNPA Foundation will provide 20 $200 grants to California high school newspaper advisers to learn about newspaper production.
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Rocky Mountain News eulogized
Mar 02, 2009
Silas Lyons, editor of the Record Searchlight in Redding, had
just given a talk to students at Shasta College when he got word of the
Rocky Mountain News' pending closure.
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Leno files major Brown Act bill
Mar 02, 2009
Sen. Mark Leno (D-San
Francisco) filed legislation late last week to limit secrecy associated
labor negotiations between a local public agency and public employees
under the Ralph M. Brown open meeting law.
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National editors group cancels convention
Feb 27, 2009
The American Society of Newspaper Editors has canceled its annual convention, which had been scheduled for April 26-29 in Chicago.
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Papers informed residents of bike race
Feb 27, 2009
When the AMGEN bicycle race rolled through Oakhurst, a business owner who had not known about it contacted the Sierra Star, wondering what was up.
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Tech firms give online display ads a makeover
Feb 27, 2009
The effectiveness of online display ads long has lagged behind search-based text ads, a San Jose Mercury News article explains.
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Rainey: News portal can't cover it all
Feb 26, 2009
Writers for the Voice of San Diego, an online journalism portal, cover
mostly government, education, law enforcement, real estate and science,
writes James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times.
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Tri-County papers trade Friday for Saturday
Feb 26, 2009
Tri-County Newspapers in Willows, Corning and Colusa have moved
publication days from Wednesday and Friday to Wednesday and Saturday.
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Two news pros, one building remembered
Feb 25, 2009
A tribute to Bill Brand, revered by fellow Oakland reporters and fans of his beer column; old-school reporter Woody Lockwood's advice to a cub reporter in San Diego; and how an old hand remembers the now-former Daily Breeze building.
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The Record part of Ottaway's mobile rollout
Feb 25, 2009
New mobile websites launched by Ottaway Newspapers include The Record in Stockton.
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Broad reaction to S.F. Chronicle closure threat
Feb 25, 2009
The Hearst Corp.'s threat to close the San Francisco Chronicle if it cannot achieve cuts of $1 million per week has drawn reactions from around the country.
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Latino journalism history project updated
Feb 24, 2009
Journalism professors Juan Gonzales and Felix Gutiérrez provide an update on their work on a project to chronicle the history of the Latino Press in the United States.
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Daily News cuts Monday opinion, business
Feb 24, 2009
The Daily News in Woodland Hills has cut opinion and business pages from its Monday edition and moved some features to its A section on Mondays and Tuesdays.
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In Memoriam: Mary Jacobus, 52
Feb 23, 2009
Mary Jacobus, a former California newspaper executive, died Feb. 20 in Tampa, Fla., of a cerebral hemmorhage. She was 52.
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Save the date: CNPA Press Summit Oct. 15-17
Feb 23, 2009
The planning committee for CNPA's annual meeting has selected Oct. 15-17 in San Francisco for the 2009 Press Summit.
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Stick up for your product, editor says
Feb 20, 2009
TV stations have a long-lived habit of ripping and reading from newspapers. Karen Peterson, executive editor of the News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash., tracks down this uncredited borrowing, courteously, of course, and asks that the station include the newspaper's name with the item.
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Questions to ask before writing stories
Feb 20, 2009
Politico magazine editors created a list for writers to ask before fashioning that next compelling story.
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Sharing works for five N.J., N.Y. papers
Feb 20, 2009
Five newspapers in New Jersey and New York have begun a content-sharing consortium.
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Four California papers win SND awards
Feb 19, 2009
The Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News collected awards in the Society for News Design's 30th Design Competition.
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In Memoriam: Don Baxter, 86
Feb 19, 2009
Don Baxter, a former editor at the Mill Valley Record and Alameda Times-Star, died Feb. 6 in Petaluma. He was 86.
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Readers need to help out, Daily Planet says
Feb 19, 2009
The Berkeley Daily Planet shares its own financial struggles and ideas with its readers and asks for help in this week's issue.
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Small businesses lag in online visibility
Feb 18, 2009
Recent research by Webvisible and Nielsen indicates that there's plenty
of opportunity to help small businesses with their marketing and
outreach projects.
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Helping consumers is March 1-7 theme
Feb 18, 2009
Media observers of National Consumer Protection Week, March 1-7, can
offer readers help with consumer skills and protecting their personal
information.
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Davis Enterprise cuts Monday print edition
Feb 18, 2009
The Davis Enterprise will suspend its Monday print edition and will offer all readers free access to its Monday online content.
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Gilroy Dispatch offers Spanish-language content
Feb 17, 2009
The Dispatch in Gilroy has launched a Spanish-language translation of its news content online using translation services from Google.
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In memoriam: James O'Brien, 80
Feb 13, 2009
James Edward "Bud" O'Brien, former editor of The Register-Pajaronian in Watsonville, died Feb. 11 in Santa Cruz. He was 80.
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Three named to CNPA Board
Feb 13, 2009
CNPA President Tony Allegretti has appointed three newspaper executives to fill vacancies on the CNPA Board of Directors.
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Four new members approved
Feb 13, 2009
The CNPA Board of Directors on Feb. 11 approved two Campus members and two Allied members.
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Regional SPJ conference April 3-4
Feb 13, 2009
Members of the Society for Professional Journalists will gather for
their Region 11 Spring conference April 3-4 at Arizona State's Walter
Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Governmental Affairs Day: Bound and determined
Feb 11, 2009
Newspaper people found inspiration and straight talk from presenters Wednesday at Governmental Affairs Day. After seeing the legislative perspective, the editorial-page view and the big picture from a statehouse veteran, CNPA members left the event a little more hopeful than before.
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Sacramento Bee editorial: Lobbying isn't a luxury
Feb 10, 2009
Cities are scrutinizing their lobbying costs, an editorial in The Sacramento Bee says. It cautions that there's a steep price to pay for those who eliminate their lobbying efforts.
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A.G. Jerry Brown to speak at G.A. Day
Feb 10, 2009
Attorney General Jerry Brown will be interviewed by Los Angeles Times Editorial Page Editor Jim Newton at Governmental Affairs Day.
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First e-newspaper will lack color
Feb 09, 2009
A Financial Times writer tests out Plastic Logic's electronic newspaper appliance and finds that it's still a work in progress.
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Open mapping database, court rules
Feb 09, 2009
A California appeals court has ruled that access to a county mapping
database that shows real estate parcel boundaries, appraisals, and
other property data cannot be blocked.
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Actual numbers in comics polls not a laughing matter
Feb 06, 2009
Polling the readers when it's time to reduce comics space or cull the old-school stock seems an easy task. But there are hazards in the editor's traditional comics poll.
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Don't blame the Internet, editor says
Feb 06, 2009
Online news consumers are grazing, not reading, says Tom York, editor of the San Diego Business Journal, who defends the
diligent use of telephone and shoe leather to pursue a story that's
worth their time.
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Isaacson: For it to pay, you've got to charge
Feb 05, 2009
A Time magazine cover story details the ins and outs of charging for online content.
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Lambert named editor, GM of San Gabriel group
Feb 04, 2009
Steve Lambert was named editor and general manager of San Gabriel Valley Newspapers. He replaces Fred Board. Lambert had been editor of The Sun in San Bernardino and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Ontario. He will continue as vice president of news for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group.
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Pine to top news post at Sun, Daily Bulletin
Feb 04, 2009
Frank Pine became executive editor of The Sun in San Bernardino and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Ontario.
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Daily Sound drops Mondays
Feb 04, 2009
The Daily Sound in Santa Barbara has cut Mondays from its publishing schedule.
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L.A. Times to cut 'California' section
Feb 02, 2009
In March, the Los Angeles Times will eliminate its stand-along second section, "California," and will merge state and local content into its A section.
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Book paper takes up slack, Norpac says
Feb 02, 2009
The Weyerhaeuser Norpac paper mill in Longview, Wash., has made up for reduced demand for newsprint by printing paper for blockbuster books.
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Daily Breeze moves to new offices
Feb 02, 2009
After 44 years, the Daily Breeze in Torrance has moved to a new office down the street from the old one.
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Editor, ad manager to cover publisher duties at SVCN
Jan 30, 2009
With the recent departure of David Cohen as publisher of Silicon Valley Community Newspapers, their editor and advertising manager will share those duties in addition to their own.
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Another virtual trade show in works for E&P
Jan 30, 2009
About 600 users logged in for the "virtual expo" staged Jan. 22 by Editor & Publisher, and there are plans for another later in the year.
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Governmental Affairs Day: Editors with the answers
Jan 30, 2009
Secretary of State Debra Bowen will ask the questions of four newspaper
editorial writers as part of CNPA Governmental Affairs Day on Feb. 11
in Sacramento.
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Tahoe paper drops two days
Jan 30, 2009
The Tahoe Daily Tribune in South Lake Tahoe, formerly a Monday-through-Friday paper, now will publish Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, Publisher Mary Jurkonis said.
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California Aggie cuts Friday edition
Jan 29, 2009
The California Aggie at the University of California, Davis, has omitted its Friday edition, citing a mounting deficit.
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S.F. Chronicle moves sections
Jan 29, 2009
Several formerly weekday features will appear in the revised Sunday San Francisco Chronicle starting Feb. 1.
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How ad-tolerant are online viewers?
Jan 29, 2009
Online users differ from TV viewers in that they're "snacking" on
video, as opposed to settling in for a half-hour or one-hour program.
Does the 30-second ad apply? Or even a 15-second spot online?
What users should reasonably endure in a pre-roll video ad is the
subject of testing and research.
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Web visitors not staying long, Nielsen says
Jan 28, 2009
Numbers of visitors to the top 10 news websites are increasing, a Nielsen Online report says, but they're not staying for long.
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Signal photo editor is 4th-generation news photographer
Jan 28, 2009
Dan Watson, whose great-uncle was the Los Angeles Times' first news photographer, returns to The Signal in Santa Clarita as photo editor.
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New publisher, price for Pt. Reyes Light
Jan 27, 2009
Robert Plotkin has transferred publishing duties of the Point Reyes Light to his wife, Lys, and will concentrate on his company's Coastal Traveler monthly.
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Mariposa Gazette, 155, boosts web product
Jan 27, 2009
The Mariposa Gazette, which has just marked its 155th year, started 2009 with an enhanced website that Publisher R.D. Tucker said would provide daily news, with the weekly print product adding detail and context.
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Governmental Affairs Day: Feed your opinion page
Jan 27, 2009
Along with the publishers invited to Governmental Affairs Day on Feb.
11 in Sacramento, CNPA has included editorial-page editors and opinion
writers. The vitality of your opinion page can only be enhanced by this
day of immersion in the Capitol's workings (or non-workings).
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Proctor to managing editor at S.F. Chronicle
Jan 26, 2009
Stephen Proctor is now managing editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. He had been deputy managing editor for news and succeeds Robert Rosenthal, who left The Chronicle in 2007.
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In Memoriam: Marybeth Varcados, 68
Jan 26, 2009
Marybeth Varcados, a former managing editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, died Jan. 23, 2009, of leukemia. She was 68.
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Moss adds Daily News to LANG duties
Jan 26, 2009
Edward R. Moss, president and CEO of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, has reassumed the publisher role at the Daily News in Woodland Hills.
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Original content continues to boost ad effectiveness
Jan 23, 2009
Watsonville paper cuts publication days
Jan 23, 2009
The Register-Pajaronian in Watsonville will publish on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays beginning Feb. 3, citing loss of major advertising.
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Davy named Suburban Newspapers editor of year
Jan 23, 2009
The Suburban Newspapers of America trade association has named Kent Davy of the North County Times in Escondido its daily newspaper editor of the year.
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Las Vegas paper offers Obama DVD in collector package
Jan 23, 2009
The Las Vegas Review-Journal offers a commemorative DVD featuring video of the Obama campaign in Nevada along with a commemorative print edition of the newspaper.
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Yucaipa, Highland papers move to Fridays
Jan 22, 2009
The Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror and Highland Community News will change from Thursday to Friday publication starting Feb. 6, Publisher Toebe Bush announced.
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Wenninger sells, Agner buys Trinity Journal
Jan 21, 2009
An ownership change of the Trinity Journal in Weaverville, Trinity County, is set to close Feb. 6. Michael Wenninger is selling The Journal to Wayne Agner, a longtime California editor who most recently was managing editor of the Mohave Valley Daily News in Bullhead City, Ariz.
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Illinois Press Assn. offers localized Obama poster
Jan 21, 2009
Plenty of sources are offering commemorations of the Obama inauguration, but to get the local flavor, you've got to go to the new president's home state.
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NIE gets slice of press-plate proceeds
Jan 21, 2009
At the North County Times in Escondido, where extra copies of the Jan. 21 newspaper are offered, the paper notes that the Newspaper In Education program will receive a portion of proceeds from sales of $25 aluminum press plates.
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Governmental Affairs Day: Small-town publisher says so
Jan 20, 2009
"The representation of as many newspapers as possible at Government Affairs Day sends an important message to our elected officials, the very people in a position to carry our message to the state level," says Sharon DiMauro, publisher of the Fort Bragg Advocate-News and The Mendocino Beacon and regional representative for the National Newspaper Association.
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NIE conference April 15-17 in Ft. Worth
Jan 20, 2009
Planning note: BNC deadline May 4
Jan 19, 2009
Following inquiries from contest coordinators at member newspapers, be advised that the postmark deadline for the CNPA Better Newspapers Contest is Monday, May 4. Entry materials will be available in late February.
Cal-SCAN/Cal-SDAN rebates nearly $190K
Jan 19, 2009
CNPA has mailed out rebate checks totaling $189,180 to newspapers participating in the statewide classified and display network programs for the period July-December 2008.
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New publishers for Chico, Vallejo papers
Jan 16, 2009
Gregg McConnell will become publisher at the Chico
Enterprise-Record, while Steve Smith, a MediaNews vice president,
will take over at the Vallejo Times-Herald.
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Editor Slizewski returns to Yreka paper
Jan 16, 2009
Managing Editor Mike Slizewski has returned to the Siskiyou Daily News in Yreka.
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It's three quarters to buy L.A. Times
Jan 14, 2009
The Los Angeles Times' single-copy price is now 75 cents for Monday through Saturday.
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Governmental Affairs Day: Jefferson said so
Jan 14, 2009
"The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being," reads a lesser-known quote from Thomas Jefferson.
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Does guilt work with lapsed readers?
Jan 14, 2009
Your local talking point this week comes from the Waterbury (Conn.) Republican-American, where columnist Tracey O'Shaughnessy recently swapped guilt with the dental hygienist. "Plenty of people don't read the newspaper anymore - but they typically have the good sense to feel guilty about it," O'Shaughnessy writes. "'I really should,' they confess, as if newspaper reading were a bit like flossing."
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Tip of the hat to Pacifica publisher emeritus
Jan 14, 2009
Elaine Larsen, publisher and editor of the Pacifica Tribune, tips the hat to Publisher Emeritus Bill Drake, now in his 80s, who first hired her way back when.
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SPJ-NorCal seeks Madison entrants
Jan 14, 2009
Can't blame us for trying
Jan 06, 2009
Newspapers have always dabbled in innovative technologies, says Jack Shafer in a Slate column. He counts off a list of platforms and approaches to communication delivery through the years, among them fax editions, Viewtron, audiotext and piggybacking upon online services.
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Video explains Printcasting function
Jan 06, 2009
Printcasting, the digital publishing tool under development by a division of The Bakersfield Californian, will permit citizen journalists to be citizen publishers. A video demo shows how advertisers can select a publication and design their own ads.
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New roles for a new year
Jan 06, 2009
AsianWeek suspends print publication
Jan 06, 2009
Bay Area weekly AsianWeek published its final print edition on Jan. 2, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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New law protects journalism advisers
Jan 06, 2009
California's adviser protection law, which went into effect Jan. 1, is explained by articles in the Los Angeles Times and The Sacramento Bee.
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Short time left for resolutions
Dec 30, 2008
We should resolve to quit evoking obsolescence in describing the ink-on-paper industry: As in: “gone the way of the buggy whip” and "gone the way of the five-cent candy bar.”
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Cost-cutting made the news in 2008
Dec 30, 2008
In 2008, newspaper people at all levels watched as many colleagues moved on. Nationally, it's estimated that nearly 16,000 jobs in all departments were erased in 2008.
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Time spent on websites down
Dec 30, 2008
Unique visitors to the top newspaper websites are up, but the amount of
time viewers spend on the sites, compared to a year ago, is down,
Editor & Publisher reports. LATimes.com was down more than 2 minutes per visit, while SFGate.com was up nearly a minute, the results show.
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Got your paper in local businesses?
Dec 30, 2008
Make sure your local businesses have your newspaper on hand, John Pappas suggests in a guest piece for the Anderson Valley Post.
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Monterey daily launches destination magazine
Dec 30, 2008
The Monterey County Herald has launched Adventures Monterey Bay, a new quarterly magazine with information on dining, arts, family activities, unique places, historical attractions and cooking.
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Know your way around Capitol issues
Dec 30, 2008
An editorial in the California Publisher of January 1939, concerning the new legislative season in Sacramento: "Newspaper publishers are always besieged with requests by outside interests to intercede for them with their local legislators on all sorts of bills having no direct bearing on newspapers themselves. This, of course, is in line with the public responsibility of the hometown newspaper as the guardian of the welfare of its community, county and state; but, to remain effective, independent leaders of their communities, it is important that hometown newspapers give some thought and action to the protection of their own profession and business."
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Start 2009 with crucial insights via webinar
Dec 23, 2008
Webinars from the Inland Press Association offer an efficient way to stay informed
and competitive.
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What secret formula?
Dec 23, 2008
At the Claremont Courier, Publisher Peter Weinberger details some company traditions that haven’t changed in the paper’s 50-plus years of family ownership.
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Website offers content from six L.A. publications
Dec 23, 2008
Six newspapers, including CNPA members L.A. Watts Times and Los Angeles Garment & Citizen, are part of LA Beez, an online network of ethnic journalism, MediaShift Idealab reports.
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Support CNPA's Capitol effort Feb. 11
Dec 23, 2008
Eighty years ago, a winter meeting of newspaper people in Sacramento included discussion of taxes, business issues and views from the governor and state legislators.
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Preprint network closes year on high note
Dec 23, 2008
CNPA Advertising Services, which administers a number of national
preprint and run-of-press networks, ends 2008 well ahead of budget and
positioned for success through its fiscal year, which ends March 31,
2009.
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Eight CNPA Foundation interns named
Dec 17, 2008
After interviews in Northern and Southern California, eight students from CNPA-member colleges have been confirmed for CNPA Foundation internship grants.
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Cal Press bestows annual honors
Dec 17, 2008
The California Press Association honored newspaper leaders from Yucaipa, Claremont and Glendale on Dec. 12 at its 131st Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
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Watch for roadblocks following FERPA revision
Dec 17, 2008
The U.S. Department of Education’s interpretation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) will enable school districts, colleges and universities to further limit the amount of information available about educational activities.
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Gag order with time delay? No way, says Star
Dec 17, 2008
Following a superior court’s decision to lift a gag order against it, the Ventura County Star published an article online and in print about a man being held in the murder of a 6-year-old boy, but the paper noted that the judge delayed the vacating of the gag order until 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17.
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Paper not so well-preserved, curators find
Dec 17, 2008
Time-capsule technology circa 1896 wasn’t enough to preserve the contents of a small box buried in Novato, the Marin Independent Journal reports.
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People: Recent changes at the corporate level
Dec 17, 2008
Ch. 11 for the best, L.A. Times publisher says
Dec 09, 2008
The Tribune. Co.’s filing Monday for Chapter 11
bankruptcy protection from creditors will have little impact on the Los Angeles
Times product, Times Publisher Eddy Hartenstein said in a letter to readers.
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Pulitzer Prizes to allow online-only entries
Dec 09, 2008
Original reporting produced at least weekly and published
online only will be eligible for consideration for the Pulitzer Prize.
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How will you be paying for that news?
Dec 09, 2008
Have a look at
Rick Edmonds’ five themes to consider when budgeting for the production of
news.
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Jurkonis to publisher at Tahoe Daily Tribune
Dec 09, 2008
Mary Jurkonis becomes publisher of the Tahoe
Daily Tribune in South Lake Tahoe. She succeeds Gail Powell-Acosta, who has
left the newspaper.
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In Memoriam: Jerry Parker, 88
Dec 09, 2008
Jerry Parker, news editor for 23 years at The
Sonoma Index-Tribune, died Nov. 19, 2008, in Sonoma. He was 88.
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Cassidy named editor in Sonora
Dec 05, 2008
Craig Cassidy is now editor at The Union Democrat in Sonora. He had been managing editor for news and succeeds Teresa Chebuhar, who had been editor since June 2007.
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In Memoriam: Budd Brockett, 74
Dec 05, 2008
Foundation intern prospects announced Dec. 16
Dec 04, 2008
Finalists for the CNPA Foundation’s 2008 Internship Grants Program will be announced in the Dec. 16 CNPA Bulletin.
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Layoffs of three not illegal, NLRB says
Dec 04, 2008
The National Labor Relations Board decided that Bay Area News Group-East Bay did not act illegally when it laid off three newsroom workers who were involved in labor activities as part of 29 newsroom layoffs in June
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Outsourcing is working for Pasadena publisher
Dec 04, 2008
Maureen Dowd, the New York Times columnist, interviews James Macpherson, the publisher of the Pasadena Now news website who first outsourced his local-government reporting to an offshore site in 2007.
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It takes a lifer to bring back an old weekly
Dec 04, 2008
The Port Hueneme Pilot, closed since 1963, is in print again, the Ventura County Star reported.
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Judges needed for university journalism contest
Dec 04, 2008
Tough advice for the taking
Dec 04, 2008
Steve Outing, who’s beaten the digital drum at Editor & Steve Outing, who’s beaten the digital drum at Editor & Publisher since before the magazine went monthly, posts an 11-point checklist for today's newspaper executive.
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Gannett adds social-media firm Ripple6
Nov 14, 2008
The Gannett Co. Inc.'s acquisition of the social-media firm Ripple6 adds to its arsenal of digital technology and service tools.
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Examiner takes holidays from print
Nov 14, 2008
The San Francisco Examiner didn't print an edition on Veterans Day or Labor Day. Executive Editor Jim Pimentel says the paper won't print an issue when readership is low.
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Top trends in news website design
Nov 13, 2008
Smashingmagazine, an online portal and resource for web designers and developers, runs down the top trends in news website design.
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Add relevancy, copy chief advises
Nov 12, 2008
Make yourself more useful, copy-desk guru John McIntyre advises desk scribes.
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Best in nation to college papers, websites
Nov 12, 2008
The Associated College Press’ Pacemaker Awards, which are national honors for college newspapers, were awarded recently to CNPA members.
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Newspaper ads small part of outsourcing in India
Nov 12, 2008
The San Jose Mercury News visited the Chennai, India, shops of 2AdPro Media Solutions, where outsourced print advertisements are created.
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Orange County Register opens self-serve ad portal
Nov 12, 2008
The Orange County Register’s self-service advertising tool provides easy classification, design, placement and accounting for small businesses to run classified or display ads in The Register’s community newspapers.
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Watsonville paper upgrades press
Nov 12, 2008
A press upgrade will permit more color and better efficiency for the Watsonville Register-Pajaronian and its job-printing clients.
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Eureka Reporter closes after five years
Nov 12, 2008
The Eureka Reporter heralded its “successful, prize-winning run” in announcing that Nov. 8 would be the final issue of the five-year-old daily.
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Election souvenirs are hot items
Nov 12, 2008
Newspapers’ commemorations of the Nov. 4 election include t-shirts, mouse pads, coffee cups and duplicate press plates. Thousands of extra newsprint copies rolled off dailies’ restarted presses, and souvenir-hunters found scarcity in local news racks.
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In Memoriam: Bill Stall, 71
Nov 05, 2008
William R. Stall, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorialist at the Los Angeles Times and a former Sacramento Bureau chief for The Associated Press, died Nov. 2 of complications from pulmonary disease.
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IAB focuses on efficient online ads
Nov 05, 2008
The Internet Advertising Bureau has released new guidelines to streamline online media buying and ad-serving.
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HP unveils a digital web press
Nov 05, 2008
Hewlett-Packard’s new Inkjet Web Press aims to make it cheaper to do small-volume press runs, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
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From hot metal to here and now
Nov 05, 2008
After 44 years at the Chico Enterprise-Record, Gary Tuggle heads out the door, but not before telling some tales.
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Anything out there but election news?
Nov 05, 2008
Judging from Tuesday's California papers on this day of decisions, there were to be long morning lines at the polls.
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