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April 9, 2015 Page 3 News in brief Send promotions, announcements, staff changes and other corporate news to mtuley@hspa.com. Top students prepare for summer internships Elkhart product receives honor Scripps finalizes merger, spinoff NAA president will leave post Elkhart Truth Pub- lishing received an award of excellence for its Flavor 574 tablet magazine in the Society for News Design's "Best of Digital Design" competition. The contest for the 2014 calendar year brought in more than 900 entries, making it the largest body of work since the contest was established in 2002. About 20 percent of entries received recognition with either a gold medal, silver medal or award of excellence. Judging was conducted at the Ball State University Indianapolis Center earlier this year. Truth Publishing is a family-owned media company whose core products include The Elkhart Truth (elkharttruth.com), a daily newspaper founded in 1889, and Flavor 574 (flavor574.com), a quarterly food magazine centered on Michiana food culture. Other products include The Truth's annual Business and Industry magazine and special coverage of local happenings like the Elkhart County 4-H Fair, as well as seasonal publications around home improvement, healthy lifestyles and wedding planning. To view the full results of the Society for News Design contest, visit http://www.snd.org. The E.W. Scripps Company has completed the merger of its broadcast assets with those of Journal Communications and the spinoff of their respective newspapers. Scripps and Journal simultaneously spun off and merged their newspaper operations to form Journal Media Group and merged their broadcast operations, making Scripps one of the nation's largest independent TV station owners. "The platform for our quality journalism and information products is a diverse group of local media brands – television, radio and digital – and we will reach nearly one in five U.S. television households," said Rich Boehne, Scripps chairman, president and CEO. Shareholders of Scripps class A and common voting shareholders of record as of close of business on March 25 received a one-time cash dividend of $1.0297 per share and 0.25 share in Journal Media Group for each Scripps share they owned. Journal Communic- ations' class A and class B shareholders received 0.5176 Scripps class A common shares and 0.1950 shares in Journal Media Group for each Journal Communications share they owned. Newspaper Association of America President and CEO Caroline Little announced she is stepping down from her position effective Aug. 31. Little was named president and CEO of the industry's largest trade organization in 2011. NAA lobbies on issues critical to the industry, advocating on behalf of the industry, and shares best practices, research and training among members. Little led the successful merger of the American Press Institute with the NAA Foundation in 2012. Under her direction, NAA worked with mem- bers of Congress and other government organ- izations to pre serve the free flow of information to the public and legal protection for journalists. The association recently played a key role in Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to revise the Department of Justice's media guidelines and subpoenas. Little has nearly 30 years of executive and legal experience, previously serving as CEO, North America of Guardian News and Media Ltd before her role at NAA. Prior to that, she was publisher and CEO of Washington Post Newsweek Interactive, where she led the division to its first year of profitability. She plans to join her family in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Caroline Little W e recently heard an editor say, "Wait! Let me do a dance on my desk." A personal celebration of spring? No. She just got word that one of the 10 talented Eugene S. Pulliam interns would join her staff this summer. The 2015 class came from 55 applicants attend- ing 20 colleges and will serve internships at HSPA- member newspapers. To qualify, each stu- dent must either reside in Indiana or attend an Indiana college or university and have at least one semes- ter of coursework remaining. (The committee reviewed 35 completed and eligible appli- cations.) The females outnumbered the males again this year six to four. At least half of the interns – both male and female – have extensive experience in sports report- ing and editing. Seven attend Indiana University, while the other three students come from Ball State, Butler and the University of Southern Indiana. Eight call Indiana home. One comes from Michigan and another from Ohio. Danielle Grady majors in journalism/telecommuni- cations news at Ball State. She currently serves as the features editor at the Daily News with other stints as an enterprise reporter, chief features reporter and staff reporter. After spending a sum- mer in a factory with no air conditioning, she looks forward to a paid internship to expand her experience and portfolio. Shea Van Hoy will give her the opportunity at the News and Tribune in Jeffersonville. Alison Graham's par- ents, understanding the importance of an internship, agreed to drive their daugh- ter from the northside of Indianapolis to Avon every day. After her freshman year at IU, she interned at the International Press Institute in Vienna, Austria. Only a sophomore, she has managed the campus and arts desks at the Indiana Daily Student. This summer she will learn community journal- ism under the tutelage of Kathy Linton and staff at the Hendricks County Flyer, the 2014 HSPA Foundation Nondaily Blue Ribbon win- ner. Bradie Gray from the University of Southern Indiana served as sports editor and features editor at The Shield. One semes- ter she carried a full load and interned in the sports department of the Evansville Courier and Press. She will work at The Courier-Times in New Castle under Lisa Perry. The newspaper celebrates its 175th anniversary this sum- mer, and archival research awaits. Lyndsay Jones, an IU student, will work at another award-winning nondaily. She will intern under Sara Clifford at the Brown County Democrat in Nashville. She earned her internship through her sto- rytelling skills. She began as a general assignment reporter at the IDS, and her adviser says she carved out her own niche on the region desk. She possesses a knack for examining people, places and things that go unno- ticed. Each year the selection committee tries to identify one intern interested in photojournalism and multi- media. Tae-Gyun Kim from IU will fill that slot this year. A native of South Korea, he attended high school in Bloomington. He interned at the sec- ond largest newspaper in Uganda in 2014 and pub- lished a photo story about three HIV-positive families. His photojournalism pro- fessor calls him exception- ally talented. He will work at the Kokomo Tribune with Jeff Kovaleski and the staff photographers. Grace Palmieri comes from West Lafayette and attends IU, where she majors in journalism. In the fall of 2014 she served as sports editor of the IDS. The year before she worked as a beat writer for IU football, women's basketball and men's and women's swim- ming and diving. She knows stories are everywhere and recently delved into crime report- ing. She will intern at the Herald-Journal in Monticello with Daniel Thompson. Katelyn Rowe, a photog- rapher and one of the young- est art directors ever at the IDS, will move a little west of home in Georgetown, Ind., to the Ferdinand News to help Kathy Tretter and staff on their 175th and other special sections. Her main contribution will be on the design side of things. Andrew Vailliencourt (the first of two Andrews in this class) hails from Michigan and will intern in northern Indiana at the Pharos-Tribune in Logansport. This IU student works in sports at the IDS as the beat writer for IU baseball, men's soccer and women's volleyball. He also has a lot of radio experience – mostly in sports. Matthew VanTryon, managing editor for The Butler Collegian, began as a sports reporter and worked his way up to sports editor. His freshman year he wrote an investigative piece with detailed allegations from former women's basketball players against their head coach. She was fired within a week of the publication. He also covered Carmel elected officials off cam- pus. He will learn the ropes of a daily newspaper this summer while work- ing with Tina McGrady at the Journal Review in Crawfordsville. Andrew Wittry from Ohio also majors in journal- ism at IU and began his career as (you guessed it) a sports reporter and beat writer for women's tennis, IU football, the Indy 500 and men's basketball. He became sports editor before assuming the Bloomington Police Department beat. An Ernie Pyle Scholar, he traveled to London last summer to intern with the United Kingdom Sports Association. He will call The Madison Courier home this summer and work with Elliot Tompkin. We wish interns and newspaper staffs alike a summer filled with great educational experiences and professional growth. * * * HSPA Foundation board member Curt Jacobs of The Madison Courier recently was diagnosed with thymus cancer at the Mayo Clinic. He will start chemo at the IU Medical Center for this rare type of the disease. His mother, Jane, is also quite ill in a Louisville hospital. Please remember the Jacobs family in your thoughts and prayers. Karen T. Braeckel is director of the HSPA Foundation. LIKE THE HOOSIER STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION ON FACEBOOK FOR INDUSTRY NEWS, DEADLINES AND OTHER UPDATES. Foundation Front By Karen T. Braeckel

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