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Mark your calendar for Annual Conference Reporters can get tips via free apps Sept. 17-18 event includes sessions on revenue, digital P lan to be in downtown Indianapolis for business and pleasure Sept. 17-18, when the Hoosier State Press Association and Foundation kick off the Annual Conference. The training and networking event is for everyone involved with the business side of newspapers: publishers and other newspaper executives, including editors; advertising and audience development directors; and ad sales staff. Watch your mailbox and inbox for registration materials in the coming weeks. The lineup begins in the after - noon Thursday, Sept. 17 as advertising sales represen tatives gather at The Alexander Hotel for training in print and digital ad sales. While sales staffs are at the hotel, others in town for the conference can hit the links to support the HSPA Foundation. An annual fundraising golf outing will be at Coffin Golf Club just north of downtown Indy. That evening, plan to attend the Annual Conference opening reception and dinner at The Alexander. Advertising Contest awards will follow the meal. Training sessions for pub- lishers and other managers begin after breakfast on Friday, Sept. 18. Session topics will include advertising management, digital landscapes, training and keeping good employees, building audiences, and revenue ideas. A vendor fair will be open both days. For conference sponsorship details, call (317) 803-4772. "We look forward to a great event with publishers, newspaper managers, and advertising staffs together," said Steve Key, HSPA executive director and general counsel. See Apps, Page 6 Foundation Front: Indiana newsrooms will welcome 10 promising student-journalists as interns this summer. Page 3 25 Under 35: Editor & Publisher named two Indiana newspaper managers to its list of young leaders. Page 4 Key Points: A state school district wants to redact audio of a public meeting. Page 8 Hey, can they do that? Steve Key answers your legal questions. Page 8 INSIDE Publisher The Indiana Volume 80, Issue 4 • April 9, 2015 Published on second Thursday monthly A w r i t i n g a n d r e p o r t i n g w o r k s h o p s p o n s o r e d b y H S PA F o u n d a t i o n a n d I n d i a n a A P M E Save the date! JUNE 18 Indianapolis for Road Show Reporters T he Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has launched three new mobile apps to help journalists in the field with answers regarding the right to record, cover schools, or access information from police and courts. The new apps – which also provide tools to collect audio, still and video images, and text for stories – were made possible by a grant from the Gannett Foundation. They join the Reporters Committee FirstAid app, intro- duced in 2013, which provides access to open government laws and information, and iFOIA, launched in 2014, which allows journalists to file and track freedom of information requests online. Made possible by a grant from the Gannett Foundation. Drawing on the three topic areas journalists most inquire about when reaching out to the Reporters Committee hotline, the free apps cover: Cops and Courts – Police departments can be less than Reporting apps are available in the Apple, Google and Amazon app stores. 2015 INDIANA GENERAL ASSEMBLY HSPA continues push for notices Bill to preserve publication of budget hearing notices passes Senate, stalls in House committee T ime may be the killer for HSPA's effort to preserve the publica- tion of budget hearing notices. The House Local Govern- ment Committee assigned S.B. 288 to the House Ways and Means Committee following its 11-2 passage. This is the final week for committee hearings, but Ways and Means Chairman Rep. Tim Brown, R-Crawfordsville, declined to add the bill to the agenda. S.B. 288 will die, but the lan- guage preserving the publica- tion of budget hearing notices can be added to another bill because it was passed by the Senate, said Steve Key, HSPA executive director and general counsel. Brown's committee pushed through legislation during the 2014 session that eliminates the notice of budget hearing publication this year. Rep. Dan Leonard, R-Hunting ton, who was carrying the bill for the state Department of Local Government Finance, authored that bill. Key believes the Department of Local Government Finance was driven by the desire to eliminate its responsibility to make sure local government agencies properly published the notices. Now HSPA's task is to find another bill that can accept the S.B. 288 language as an amendment. Prior to the current road- block, S.B. 288 had sailed through the House Local Gov- ern ment Committee. Com- mittee Chairman Rep. John Price, R-Greenwood, joined the bill as a co-sponsor. Speaking for the bill in addi- tion to Price was the author, Sen. Sue Glick, R-LaGrange; sponsor, Rep. Bruce Borders, R-Jasonville; and co-sponsor, Rep. Sheila Klinker, D-Lafayette. Rep. Clyde Kersey, R-Terre Haute, is also a sponsor. Sen. Jean Breaux, D-Indianapolis, is the co-author. Besides HSPA, Debbie As berry of the League of Women Voters – Indiana, Katrina Hall of Farm Bureau, Indiana resident Barbara Sha Cox, and publisher Chuck Wells of Home News Enter- prises testified in favor of the bill. Opponents who spoke were representatives of the Indiana Association of Cities and Towns and Association of Indiana Counties. Voting for S.B. 288 were: Watch for registration details by mail & email See Notices, Page 6

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