The Indiana Publisher

June 12, 2014 Page 7 News in brief Send promotions, announcements, staff changes and other corporate news to mtuley@hspa.com. Journalists honored for service Courier-Times has new publisher Reporter joins Times staff William S. and Sarah O. Wilson were named the Fulton County Cham ber of Com- merce's Com- munity Service Award winners. She is publisher of The Rochester Sentinel. He is editor. The award is given annually by the chamber to honor extraordinary service to the community over a period of years. The Wilsons are the seventh husband and wife team to win the award. They were recognized for their professional work of keeping their com- munity informed and for their volunteerism. Sarah served on the Fulton County Public Library board for two terms, part of one as president, through the hiring process for a new director and a major expansion. She also is a charter member of the Woodlawn Hospital Foun- dation. She serves as chair of the special events com- mittee and is a member of the executive committee. In 1985, shortly after moving their young family to Rochester, the Wilsons instituted the Sentinel Scholars program to regularly recognize the academic pursuits of high school students through- out Fulton County. Bill also has been an elementary school mentor. Bill was an embedded reporter with the U.S. Army during the Iraq invasion as a 50-year-old. Sarah served three, three-year terms on the HSPA Foundation board of directors from 2000- 2009 and is currently president of the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame board. Bill serves on the Hoosier State Press Association Foundation Newsroom Seminar Com- mittee and is a member of the Indiana Debate Commission. Sarah was managing editor of Indiana Univer- sity's Indiana Daily Student and later The Alaska Journal of Com- merce and then spent two years as a staff writer for The Associated Press. Bill served as editor in chief of the Indiana Daily Student. He worked in Anchorage, Alaska, for The Times and The Daily News. Prior to moving to Rochester, he worked at The Kansas City Star, where he was a member of a reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize. – The Rochester Sentinel Bob Hansen, a 35-year veteran of the newspaper business, has been selected to lead The Courier- Times staff as publisher. He has been editor at the paper since September 2013. David Holgate, Indiana- Michigan Group President for Paxton Media Group, made the announcement to the newspaper's staff. "Bob has been a valued member of our management team and is absolutely the right person to lead our team in New Castle," Holgate said. Hansen came to The Courier-Times after serving three years as editor of The News- Examiner in Connersville. He has been publisher or editor at several other newspapers, including 13 years as co-owner and editor of The Hagerstown Exponent. He served as president of the Hoosier State Press Association in 1995-96. Hansen replaces Kelly Miller. She left to become publisher at a newspaper in West Virginia. Joseph Paul joined The Times (Frankfort) staff as an education reporter. Paul, a recent Indiana State University grad- uate, said he's always been a news nerd. "I grew up reading newspapers," he noted. "My parents always had one on the table." Paul earned his degree in media communications with a concentration in journalism. He said he is anxious to learn about the Clinton County community and the people who live there. Paul and his fiancee live in Lafayette. – The Times (Frankfort) Bob Hansen Sarah O. Wilson William S. Wilson Journalist named Sportswriter of Year T he sports editor at the Daily Journal (Franklin) received one of the most prestig- ious awards in state sports journalism. Rick Morwick was named Sports- writer of the Year by the Indiana Sports- writers and Sportscasters Association. The award is given each year to the best sportswriter in the state, regardless of newspaper circulation. Morwick has been sports editor at the Daily Journal since 2004 and started at the newspaper as a sportswriter in 1991. His work goes beyond the action on the playing field and takes readers into the work, training, victories and challenges of athletes, the issues involved in coaching sports today and the big money involved in sports at all levels. Morwick has written about Larry Bird as a player, coach and team president. He has covered nearly every high school sport and multiple state final competitions and brings readers stories, features and analysis from the Indianapolis Colts, Indiana Pacers and Franklin College. He has covered the NCAA Tournament, the NBA Finals, and two Super Bowls. In his 23-year career, Mor- wick has won 23 first-place awards from the HSPA Foundation and Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors. – Daily Journal (Franklin) Remote office might be easier than you think I first met Mike Mathes in 2012 when he invited me to visit the North Woods of Wisconsin to speak during an annual retreat for newspaper publishers. Mathes is president of Delta Publications, a group that includes two free publications, Tempo and Verve, and one paid newspaper, Tri-County News, in Eastern Wisconsin. Having worked with Mathes in the past, I wasn't entirely surprised when I got an email from him about assisting with a couple of technical challenges. The first was simple enough. Like many newspapers, Delta's publications go through the hands of multiple editors and designers before they go to press. And like in many production offices, fonts were an issue. Even though each of the computers had the same fonts on each computer, InDesign would pop up the dreaded "Font not loaded" message on a regular basis when a file created on one computer was opened on another. The second challenge was a bit more interesting. Mathes said producing their publications would be much more efficient if he, along with others who sometimes worked away from the office, could connect to the office network from remote locations. But he went a little further than that. Not only did they want to connect to their servers, they wanted to be able to work from home or wherever exactly the same way they did at the office. This meant if a staff member worked on a desktop at the office, they would have the exact same experience when working from at home. He had tried with limited success – OK, not much success at all – to use tools like LogMeIn and Dropbox to accomplish the task. But those, while good products, don't allow what Mathes and his staff wanted. They didn't want to take control of a computer at the office or simply transfer files back and forth. They wanted the freedom to be able to work at home or on the road with no limitations. The more I thought about it, the more it seemed like something I could accom- plished remotely, without making a trip to Wisconsin. I recruited my friend John McNair, an IT guru at the University of Tennessee, to help. Three weeks later, we met at my home and began the work of creating a remote office for the Delta staff. Delta staffer Klaudia Schnell worked with us from the company's office in Wisconsin while we worked in Tennessee. Creating the remote office involved a four-step process. First, we used LogMeIn to get access to each of the computers and the server at the Delta offices. While inside the server, we noted information that would be needed to create a DNS entry, which would allow Mathes and others to access the server remotely. DNS, or Domain Name System, is the component of the Internet that converts human-readable domain names (kevinslimp.com) into computer-readable IP addresses (66.18.125.171). It does this according to DNS zone files that reside on servers and tie domain names to IP addresses. Next, we used a service to create a DNS entry for an Apple Mac Mini server. Once we had a DNS entry, we took control of the router at Delta and opened up a port (geek note: AFP uses port 548). A port allows a remote user to "forward" from the router to the server if they have the necessary credentials. After some trial and error on the number for port forwarding, we finally entered the magic number and – BOOM – we were connected. McNair and I high-fived on the spot. Our four hours of work had been a complete success. After a break for lunch, I met with Schnell online, and we discussed a couple of possibilities for fixing the font issues. She had been experiment- ing with moving entire font lists from computer to computer to eliminate the issue. We looked at a quicker solution involving moving particular fonts to the InDesign Fonts folder. It worked. We took turns, her in the Delta office and me at my home via LogMeIn, moving files back and forth until we were both confident that the process would work. She continued the process after we finished our conversation. I heard from Mathes via email after our work was finished: "As a follow up to last week's work, I am producing my Tri-County News layouts this morning from home, accessing our server with ease from the remote location. I will also confirm that we have the font issue solved! "If I didn't love my co-workers so much, I might never have to report to the office again!" Many of the folks who read this column are of the small, community breed of newspapers who often think technological advances are beyond their scope or budget. I've worked with papers as small as two employees – including the publisher – with staff who felt chained to their desks because they needed to be there late at night, getting stories written and pages designed. This project – completed from start to finish in one day, without the expense of flying in a consultant – allows Delta Publications to have a lot more flexibility. At least when they're working late at night they can be at home in their pj's. Kevin Slimp works as a newspaper industry trainer, speaker, writer and consultant. News guru Kevin Slimp Rick Morwick

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