Hoosier State Press Association - The Indiana Publisher
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March 28, 2013 Page 2 HSPA calendar April 12 Indiana NIE Advisory Board & Foundation Meeting April 26 HSPA Board of Directors Meeting May 3 HSPA Foundation Board of Directors Meeting June 6 HSPA Foundation North v. South Golf Challenge, Southern Dunes, Indianapolis HSPA Board of Directors HSPA Officers President: Greg Morris, IBJ Corp. Vice President: Robyn McCloskey, Pharos-Tribune (Logansport), Kokomo Tribune Secretary: Jon O'Bannon, The Corydon Democrat Treasurer: Tina West, The Times (Noblesville) HSPA Board Members Dailies Bill Masterson Jr., The Times of Northwest Indiana (Munster) Randall Shields, Home News Enterprises Tim Timmons, The Paper of Montgomery County (Crawfordsville), The Times (Noblesville) Kim Wilson, South Bend Tribune Nondailies John Haley, Pulaski County Journal (Winamac) Don Hurd, Benton Review (Fowler) Kathy Tretter, Dubois-Spencer County Publishing Co. Inc. Shannon Williams, Indianapolis Recorder HSPA Foundation Board of Directors HSPA Foundation Officers President: John Rumbach, The Herald (Jasper) Vice President: Pat Lanman, Vevay Newspapers Inc. Secretary: Jack Pate, Evansville Courier & Press Treasurer: Jeff Rogers, Home News Enterprises HSPA Foundation Board of Directors Henry Bird, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Michael J. Christman, Fort Wayne Newspapers Nancy Grossman, Leader Publishing Curt Jacobs, The Madison Courier Barbara King, North Vernon Plain Dealer & Sun Mayer Maloney, Hoosier Times Inc. William "B.J." Riley, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Gary Suisman, Journal and Courier (Lafayette) HSPA staff Steve Key, executive director and general counsel skey@hspa.com • (317) 624-4427 Karen T. Braeckel, HSPA Foundation director kbraeckel@hspa.com • (317) 624-4426 Pamela Lego, MAP advertising director plego@hspa.com • (812) 350-7711 Milissa Tuley, communications specialist mtuley@hspa.com • (317) 624-4430 Yvonne Yeadon, office manager yyeadon@hspa.com • (317) 624-4433 Shawn Goldsby, advertising coordinator sgoldsby@hspa.com • (317) 803-4772 The Indiana Publisher is published bi-weekly by Hoosier State Press Association, 41 E. Washington St., Suite 301, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, (317) 803-4772. ISSN 0019-6711 USPS 058-730. Periodicals-class postage paid at Indianapolis, Ind., and at additional mailing office. Postmaster: Send address changes to 41 E. Washington St., Suite 301, Indianapolis, IN, 46204, (317) 803-4772, Fax (317) 624-4428. Website: www.hspa.com Using code advances effort to preserve public notices P ublishers are asked to take note of the Hoosier State Press Association's request to start coding public notice advertis ing as soon as possible as part of an upgrade to HSPA's www.indianapublicnotices.com. The association designed the website to collect in one place all public notices from member newspapers. The HSPA Board of Dir ectors voted to change the information-collection process to increase the participation level, and the asociation is now at the start of the transition to a public notice site operated by Tecnavia Press Inc. The Board of Directors requests that member newspapers include a short code – hspaxlp – at the end of each public notice they publish. This will allow Tecnavia to identify newspaper pages that contain public notices and include them on www.indianapublicnotices.com. Newspapers should inform Gag Continued from Page 1 Nineteen people disagreed with Holdman and testified against SB 373. Opponents were most con cerned with the policy impli cations that would reduce public knowledge of agricul tural and industrial practices. Public knowledge leads to public discourses, said Steve Key, executive director and general counsel of the Hoosier State Press Association. "Caustic discourse is a hallmark of this nation," Key said. "Moreover, history has shown that legal practices may be just as distasteful as illegal practices once the pub lic is made aware." Key pointed to examples of widely circulated photographs of once-legal practices – such as children working in fac tories and coal mines in the early 1900s and discrimina tion during the Civil Rights Movement – that led to changes in U.S. laws. Opponents repeatedly invoked the First Amend ent, m emphasizing that SB 373 limits the ability to publish speech. Dan Byron, an attorney with Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP in Indianapolis, attacked the bill for its failure to include a true defense of accuracy provision. Defamation necessarily Subscriptions $25 per year. Ad rates furnished upon request. Contact Advantage Newspaper Consultants today to learn more about creating NEW annual revenue with your existing core products. Fayetteville Observer's Platinum TV ad package exceeded revenue goal in less than a week! Ask us about our digital editions! 910-323-0349 | info@newspaperconsultants.com | www.newspaperconsultants.com When: Please start printing the code now. Where: The code should go at the end of each public notice. Why: The code will allow soft ware to copy the public notice from a PDF for posting online. HSPA requests information The HSPA Board of Directors will soon ask member newspapers to upload PDF files of their pages to an FTP site in order to post public notices at indianapublicnotices.com. To prepare for that update, HSPA asks publishers to please send the following information to Shawn Goldsby at sgoldsby@hspa.com: • Your newspaper name. • Your publication days. • Names of employees who will upload PDFs. • Those individuals' phone numbers and email addresses. If a newspaper by chance doesn't create PDFs of its pages in the production process, please let HSPA know. Publishers can direct questions about this project to Steve Key, HSPA executive director and general counsel, at skey@hspa. com or (317) 624-4427. their billing departments that if the code adds a line to a public notices, they should not charge for that extra line. It's vitally important that newspapers include "hspaxlp" in all public notices to make the website a viable weapon in the fight to preserve public notice publication requirements, said Steve Key, HSPA executive director and general counsel. entails publishing deliber ate falsehoods, Byron said. However, if an individual takes accurate photographs or recordings of an agricul tural or industrial operation, publishing those images or sounds could violate SB 373 regardless, he said. Opponents also said current laws already protect owners of agricultural and industrial operations from concerns such as trespassing, civil defama tion and invasion of privacy. Erin Huang, director of the Humane Society in Indiana, said additional limitations put on citizens by SB 373 could provide a safe haven for owners to engage in danger ous or illegal practices. Barbara Sha Cox, a fourthgeneration farmer from Richmond, summarized the opposition sentiment. She said the restrictions on speech created by SB 373 will make the agriculture industry more dangerous. Cox showed no concern over the possibility that individu als could photograph or record her farming operation, declar ing defiantly that if anyone came to take pictures on her farm, "they would see cows with hay up to their eyeballs." The bill's proponents were primarily representatives of agricultural and industrial business associations. Bob Kraft, director of state government relations for Indiana Farm Bureau, said those in favor of the bill don't want agricultural and indus trial operations to be discred ited by photos or films. Josh Trenary, director of business development for the Indiana Pork Advocacy Coalition, said photographs and recordings are typically used as propaganda tools to attack the agriculture indus try rather than to correct potential abuses. Other proponents reemphasized the privacy con cerns previously expressed by the author of the bill and argued that there is little incentive for farmers to abuse livestock or fail to comply with agricultural regulations. Two creative arguments from proponents of the bill came from Ed Roberts of the Indiana Manufacturers Association and Mark Shub lak of the Indiana Agri cultural Business Council. Roberts said that allowing individuals to photograph or record agricultural or industrial operations could potentially permit industrial espionage. Shublak said public access to agricultural operations could breach biosecurity mea sures by potentially introduc ing contaminants to livestock and machinery. At press time, the commit tee was scheduled to amend and vote on the bill March 28. Check www.hspa.com for updates. Member notices Employees sought Without publishing anything new, the Fayetteville Observer ad package created new, year-long revenue in just one week! Help protect public notices HSPA requests that member papers print a code – hspaxlp – with every public notice. Managing editor – Immediate opening for managing editor of small daily. This position does it all from meeting coverage to obits to photos to features to pagination. Ideal for weekly editor wanting to move to daily. Email resume to Managing Editor at jobs@thepaper24-7.com. (1) Reporter – The Michigan City News-Dispatch is seeking a general assignment reporter, experience preferred, to join our staff. Journalism degree preferred, photo experience helpful. Job requires working weekend and night shifts. Send resume, clips and three references to Julie McClure, managing editor, The News-Dispatch, by e-mail at jmcclure@thenewsdispatch.com or by mail at 121 W. Michigan Blvd., Michigan City, IN 46360. (1) Owner – Strong southern Indiana weekly for sale. Established in 1873. Current owner preparing for retirement after 49 years. Local business community is growing in response to new Interstate 69. Solid advertising base. Steve Key, HSPA executive director and general counsel, will forward serious inquiries. Contact him at skey@ hspa.com. (2) Send member notices to mtuley@hspa.com. Postings will be listed as space permits in print and in full at www.hspa.com.