On-site Training Events
Groups of staff members from CNPA-member newspapers can organize and produce training events or conferences with help from the CNPA office.

CNPA staff can help with arrangements, publicity, coordinating presentations, registrations and financial assistance. To learn more, contact Jack Bates, Executive Director, at (916) 288-6006.

Archived Stories

Get discount on E&P interactive conference in June

May 19, 2010

CNPA members receive a $100 registration discount to Editor & Publisher's 21st Annual Interactive Media Conference coming up June 16-17 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

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Multimedia workshops in May, June at Cal

Mar 18, 2010

Mid-career journalists are invited to apply before March 26 for short-course multimedia training workshops in May and June offered by the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley.
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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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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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Summer workshop is free for high school advisers

Jan 18, 2010

Publishers and editors: Please remind your local high schools about the Reynolds High School Journalism Institute's all-expenses-paid, 12-day training program for new or established high school journalism educators.
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Circulation conference Oct. 23 in San Ramon

Oct 09, 2009

The Cal-Western Circulation Managers Association's Northern Sectional conference is 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23 at the San Ramon Valley Conference Center in San Ramon.

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Free stuff: Circulation workshop Oct. 16 in Riverside

Oct 07, 2009

Circulation personnel -- and their interested publishers -- are invited to attend the Cal-Western Circulation Managers Association-sponsored Southern Sectional meeting on Oct. 16 in Riverside.

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First Amendment Assembly Oct. 24

Sep 22, 2009

Alex S. Jones, "Losing the News" author, and Alexandra Berzon, 2009 Pulitzer winner, are part of the First Amendment Coalition's 14th Annual Free Speech and Open Government Assembly, Oct. 24 at Southwestern Law School's Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute in Los Angeles.

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Technology workshop Oct. 15-17

Aug 19, 2009

Kevin Slimp, whose technology column appears in CNPA's California Publisher quarterly, says a few spots remain for the Oct. 15-17 Institute of Newspaper Technology in Tennessee.

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Ad-sales training June 3-4 in Sacramento

May 14, 2009

CNPA will co-sponsor, with the Inland Press Association, two days of sales training June 3-4 in Sacramento. 
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Put revenues back in your advertising, Fowler says

Mar 24, 2009

Newspapers are a direct-response medium, yet 99 out of 100 ads don't contain the basic ingredients of effective direct-response newspaper ads, one expert says. "It's the effect of 'off-strategy' ads [rather than the Internet] that's killing newspaper ad revenues," says author and consultant David Fowler, who will talk about effective ad design on April 24 in Palm Springs.

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Next ad webinar March 25

Mar 12, 2009

Join CNPA and Borrell Associations for "Recruitment Online: What’s Next?" at 2 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, March 25. Newspapers felt the recruitment ad-spend squeeze as 2008 ended on a gloomy unemployment note. With forecasts for more massive job cuts in 2009, how bad will it be? And when will recruitment spending return?
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Sales training workshops postponed

Mar 03, 2009

Because of presenter illness, the sales training workshops scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday in Sacramento will be rescheduled. CNPA is a co-sponsor, with the Inland Press Association, of the Newspaper Sales Training Academy, featuring Tom Yunt and John Lindsay. New dates will be announced soon.

API newsroom workshop March 6 in Northridge

Feb 05, 2009

The American Press Institute will bring its New Newsroom Workshop to California State University, Northridge, on Friday, March 6. Featured speakers will be the API's Mary Glick; Mike Jenner, executive editor of The Bakersfield Californian; and Joe Howry, editor of the Ventura County Star.

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