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Page 2 HSPA calendar Feb. 4 Feb. 16-17 Feb. 17 Feb. 24 March 1 March 9 April 20 Spring Sept. 28 Dec. 1 APME-HSPA Foundation Job Fair, Ball State University, Muncie Annual Meetings & Government Conference, Indianapolis Marriott Downtown HSPA Foundation board meeting, Indianapolis Marriott Downtown Pulliam internship application deadline for newspapers and students Pulliam intern selection committee meeting, Indianapolis INAEA board meeting HSPA board meeting, Indianapolis Circulation Conference, date and place to be announced Advertising Conference Newsroom Seminar, Indianapolis February 2, 2012 Observer owners enjoy break after newspaper's long run By Milissa Tuley HSPA staff J oe and Karen Good set tled on Dec. 29, 2011, for the final edition of their longrunning Thursday weekly. At 71 and 69, respectively, the couple stopped the press es of The Observer after 44 years of telling the stories of their Kewanna community. "We decided it would be a good time to retire," Mr. Good said. "Not because we were forced to or anything like that. We just decided it would be a good time." Their inhouse production operation, however, refused to go gentle into that good night on Dec. 28. "We had trouble with the HSPA Board of Directors HSPA Officers President: Tim Timmons, The Paper of Montgomery County (Crawfordsville), The Times (Noblesville) Vice President: Greg Morris, IBJ Corp. Secretary: Robyn McCloskey, Pharos-Tribune (Logansport), Kokomo Tribune Treasurer: Jon O'Bannon, The Corydon Democrat HSPA Board Members Randy List, Rust Communications Dailies Bill Masterson Jr., The Times of Northwest Indiana (Munster) Tina West, The Courier-Times (New Castle) 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: Henry Bird, The Herald Bulletin (Anderson) Vice President: John Rumbach, The Herald (Jasper) Secretary: Pat Lanman, Vevay Newspapers Inc. Treasurer: Jeff Rogers, Home News Enterprises HSPA Foundation Board of Directors Linda Chandler, Ripley Publishing Curt Jacobs, The Madison Courier Barbara King, North Vernon Plain Dealer & Sun Mayer Maloney, Hoosier Times Inc. Jack Pate, Evansville Courier & Press Neal Ronquist, Paxton Media Group Gary Suisman, Journal and Courier (Lafayette) Courts Continued from Page 1 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 public to view the action of a real court without negatively impacting the dispensing of justice, said Steve Key, HSPA executive director and general counsel. "If the evaluation is suc cessful, it might open the door to a real understanding of how a courtroom operates as opposed to a perception cre ated by television crime dra mas," he said. The Times proposed the initiative and will pay for webcasting equipment and installation. The paper will provide a link to the webcasts at www.nwi.com during the 18month project. The initiative is another step in the evolution of the way newspapers provide news and information to the public on multiple platforms, said Times Managing Editor Paul Mullaney. "We think allowing the public to view these trials will help demystify the process, provide a better understand ing of what goes on in a courtroom and increase the public's trust in the judicial process," he said. "We hope the pilot program serves as a springboard to a permanent process." Three Lake County judges agreed to participate in the Member notices Employee sought 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 Subscriptions $25 per year. Ad rates furnished upon request. Digital/print advertising manager – Immediate opening for an ad director at Register Publications (www.thedcregister.com), head- quartered in Lawrenceburg, Ind., about 35 miles southwest of Cin- cinnati. The ad director reports directly to the publisher and is responsible for all sales: ROP, classifieds, digi- tal, legals, national accounts and inserts. He or she will personally handle key accounts in Indiana, Cincinnati and northern Kentucky and will supervise two full-time outside sales representatives and a telemarketer/administrative assis- tant. Register Publications is comprised of five paid weekly newspapers, plus a shopper and two monthly niche products. Each of the paid newspapers has its own web site, and a background in digital sales, including mobile and tablet, is a crucial prerequisite for the job. This is a salary-plus position, and based on past experience the sal- ary of $25,000 represents less than half of the ad director's gross annual earnings, with an equal or greater amount coming in the form of commissions and bonuses. Contact Tom Brooker, publisher, The Register Publications, at (812) 537-0063 or publisher@ registerpublications.com. (1) Send member notices to mtuley@ hspa.com. Postings will be listed as space permits in print and in full at www.hspa.com. project: Circuit Judge George C. Paras and Superior Court Judges Calvin D. Hawkins and John R. Pera. "The media informs the public about the decisions rendered by the courts and the impact those decisions have on those who come before the court and soci ety in general," Paras said. "Therefore, it is necessary for the media to have access to the courts so the public can have confidence that our tri als are open and fair." Valparaiso School of Law professors and students will evaluate the project. The assessment will include inter views with jurors, witnesses and attorneys. press, and we weren't sure we were going to get the last issue out," Mrs. Good said. "That was kind of scary." One of the two press motors shorted out and ran the wrong direction, Mr. Good said. After working on it himself to no avail, Mr. Good called in a technician for a second opinion. That didn't faze the petu lant press at first, but they kept fiddling with it. Suddenly the motor started turning the right way. Just like that, the press was rolling. "It just finally caught," Mr. Good said. "Minor hiccup there ..." Mr. Good started working at The Observer as a high school senior. "The guy who owned the newspaper called the school and wanted someone with quick hands, and I wasn't doing anything other than I got in there and never got out. I got that " printer ink on me, and it stuck." Joe Good, retired owner of The Observer (Kewanna) milking cows and farming," he said. He intended the job to last through the summer of 1959, when he would head off to Purdue University. That was 53 years ago. "I got in there and never got out," Mr. Good said. "I got that printer ink on me, and it stuck." Mrs. Good married into the business. From the time they bought The Observer in 1967, the couple produced the paper themselves with some help from family members. When they switched from a letter press to offset in the early 1980s, they didn't have a folder for the new paper size. "It got to be a family opera tion on Thursday mornings," Mr. Good said. "We hand folded for about a year until we found a folder." With the offset press, the Goods did layouts on a com puter, printed them out and then pasted up everything onto pages. From there, Mr. Good photographed the pages and made plates. "It's a pretty big jump from letter press to offset when you learn on your own," he said. "We were up there six days a week a lot, but that's what happens when you own your own business and you're doing the work yourself." The Goods ended The Obser ver's run with a circu lation of 550, down from a high of about 700 in the late 1960s. When the local high school consolidated in 1982, the Goods had fewer sports and other school news to cover, Mr. Good said. Not as many people took the paper. The northcentral Indiana community of Kewanna has had a local newspaper since the late 1800s, Mrs. Good said. At one time The Observer press printed five newspapers and two shoppers. "I figure we lucked out when we got into the business at the right time," Mr. Good said. "It worked out for us." The Observer has been for sale for a year and a half. Someone is looking at it, but they've had no offers. The Goods' adult son and daughter have careers outside of the newspaper industry. "We raised our kids there … that's probably why they don't want any part of it," Mr. Good said, bringing a laugh from him and his wife. The Goods said they are happy with retirement. They might travel this summer. "We don't have any dead lines to meet," Mr. Good said. "That's basically what we're enjoying." Community response to the paper's end has been strong. "We've had so many emails, phone calls, thankyou notes, cards," Mr. Good said. "People are going to miss it, miss the hometown news."