Hoosier State Press Association - The Indiana Publisher
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February 2, 2012 News in brief Newspaper in Education Week in March, Indiana NIE will offer a new opportunity this year – a free webinar that shares models of cre ative opportunities for using newspapers in the class room. The training will highlight both digital and print edi tions. Kriss Johnson, Newspaper in Education/eedition super visor for the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader will present two sessions Feb. 28. The first at 3:45 p.m. will cover material appropri ate for teachers of Grades 3 through 5. The second at 4:45 p.m. will target middleschool teach ers. "In the past Indiana NIE created tabloids filled with activities for use in the classroom," said Karen T. Braeckel, director of the HSPA Foundation. "Now as young people spend more time on computers, we need to change our focus to include eeditions. "Kriss is a nationally rec ognized authority in NIE and recently became responsible for marketing Lexington's eedition." Teachers can earn a half point of credit toward their Professional Growth Plan as an added incentive to par Bills Continued from Page 1 requirement that outofstate insurance companies pub lish a statement of financial condition in Indiana newspa pers. Lehman agreed to drop that provision in return for a pledge by HSPA to work with the insurance depart ment to see if the process can be streamlined to ease the paperwork burden on the state agency. • Sen. Ron Alting, RLafayette, filed a bill that would allow school districts to have an executive session to discuss strategy in rela tion to school consolidation. The bill was suggested by the Indiana School Boards Association. HSPA testified that the Meetings Continued from Page 1 Foundation website. The Annual Meetings will include information on Media $ales Basics, a webbased advertising training program available free for HSPA member newspapers in 2012. Publishers should plan to invite their state repre sentatives and senators to the Legislative Luncheon on Thursday, Feb. 16, when HSPA presents the Frank O'Bannon Sunshine Award. HSPA will provide invita tions for newspapers to Bill Ferguson brings available on the HSPA Foundation's website at www. HSPAFoundation.org after the original airing. Newspapers may encour age teachers in their reader ship areas to participate. Registration information will follow soon. The HSPA Foundation, Indiana State Reading Association, the Indiana Newspaper in Education Foundation and the Indiana Department of Education sponsor this year's program. Newspaper promotional video available The Indiana Newspaper in Education Foundation funded the creation of a video to encourage teens to read the newspaper – online as most do. It offers a teenfriendly look at why students need information from their local paper. Visit the HSPA or HSPA Foundation website to view it: www.hspa.com or www.HSPAFoundation.org. Newspapers that want to post the video on their web sites should contact Milissa Tuley at mtuley@hspa.com. The NIE Foundation sug gests including your news paper's website with infor mation about the video. proposal contained in S.B. 259 is a fair request but is troubled by testimony of the school boards association, which indicates that orga nization believes the excep tion could be applied more broadly than HSPA's inter pretation. • HSPA is working with Rep. Suzanne Crouch, REvansville, on H.B. 1003, which would set standards for how statewide commis sions can incorporate com munications technology to allow some members to par ticipate in meetings via long distance. Crouch successfully offered a second reading amendment to the bill that contained suggestions from HSPA. • Sen. Vanetta Becker, REvansville, introduced a bill that would have set stan send lawmakers. The Distinguished Service Award honoree will receive the traditional winner's cup at the Governor's Reception on Feb. 16. Attorney General Greg Zoeller will speak. Session speaker Chris Lee, executive vice president and publisher for the Deseret News (Salt Lake City), will address upheavals in con sumption, costs and culture in the news industry on Feb. 17. His presentation also will include a focus on ideas for cost reductions. Lee, a Harvard Business School graduate with a News paper Association of America Foundation that incor porate newspapers in the classroom are available to download at www.HSPAFoundation.org/ newspapereducation. Papers are encouraged to alert teachers in their areas about the free materials and post a link on their web sites. The lesson plans, dubbed Give Them the Keys, is a cur riculum first introduced in 2002 that has been updated to include standardized lesson plans which include common core standards, technology standards, leveled activities and assessments. The lessons are organized by units, so teachers can pick and choose what works in conjunction with their cur riculum and students. Each unit includes several lessons that can be taught consecutively or used inde pendently. Each lesson is designed to include instructional objec tives, applicable standards, a list of materials, an anticipa tory set, instructional pro cedures, a formative assess ment for each lesson within a unit and other resources associated with that particu lar lesson, if applicable. dards for the singing of the national anthem with a pos sible fine for failure to meet those standards. The bill raised First Amendment issues for HSPA. Becker withdrew the bill (S.B. 1122) while it was in committee. • Sens. Travis Holdman, RMarkle, and Frank Mrvan, DHammond, both filed bills (S.B. 294 and S.B. 103, respectively) that closely resembled the public access bills now moving in the House and Senate. Holdman and Mrvan are now supporting S.B. 92, authored by Sen. Beverly Gard, RGreenfield, which would add civil fines as a remedy against public offi cials who deliberately violate the Open Door Law or Access to Public Records Act. master's degree in busi ness administration, previ ously was chairman and chief executive officer at Heritage Makers, a marketer of web toprint personalized photo products. Other topics of discus sion will include libel, postal changes affecting newspa pers, and state legislative issues. One attendee will win an iPad 2 during an ideasharing session. For more information, con tact HSPA at (317) 8074772 or sgoldsby@hspa.com or visit www.HSPAFoundation.org/ annualmeetings. more than 30 years of expe rience to his new position as publisher at The Sun- Com mercial (Vin cennes). Fergu son said he hopes to market the company's print edition, online con tent and niche products. He also wants to put greater focus on the news paper's website and build its online content. "Print will always be king, but (online) has advantages both to read ers and advertisers, and using them both just makes sense," he said. Ferguson started his career in newspapers in 1981 as a sales repre sentative in his native Keokuk, Iowa, at the Page 3 Webinars, other tools promote newspapers to young readers Sun-Commercial gets new leader As schools prepare for ticipate, Braeckel said. The webinar will remain Newspaper in Education Week materials Free lesson plans from the Daily Gate City. He was named the newspaper's advertising director before leaving to accept his first position as publisher at a weekly newspaper in Carthage, Ill. After two years, he returned to the Daily Gate City to serve as publisher. He was publisher at the Estes Park Trail Gazette in Estes Park, Colo., for the past 12 years. "Bill has a wealth of skills that will serve the newspaper well as we con tinue to develop new ways to meet the needs of read ers, advertisers and the community," said Gayle R. Robbins, the paper's editor. – The Sun-Com mercial Editor named vice president Mizell Stewart III, who has been the editor of the Evansville Courier & Press since 2007, has been named vice presi dent of content for the E.W. Scripps Co. As chief content officer, forms in the 13 Scripps newspaper markets. All Scripps editors will report to him. Last month the Courier Mizell Stewart III Stewart will be responsi ble for developing content strategy and directly over seeing the creation and production of news, infor mation and entertainment for print and digital plat & Press was named Indiana's best daily newspaper for 2011 by the Hoosier State Press Association, earning the Blue Ribbon Award. The Courier & Press was a finalist for the same award in 2009 and 2010. Before coming to Scripps, he was managing editor of the Akron Beacon Journal. Stewart also held a number of newsroom management posts in Akron from 1994 to 2000. Digital editor promoted The Herald-Times (Bloomington) promoted Sarah Morin to digital manager. She had served as lead digi tal editor for more than a year before her new title took effect Jan. 1. Morin has a journal Sarah Morin ism degree from Indiana University and a graduate degree in journalism from New York University. She returned to Indiana The American Press Institute and the News paper Association of America Foundation will merge to create a new organization focused on meeting newspapers' multimedia training and development needs. The boards of direc tors of both organizations have approved the merger agreement. Over the course of the next several months, lead in 2001 and worked for a year for the Bloomfield Evening News before being hired by The Herald-Times in 2002. Before moving to a digital role at The Herald- Times, she was respon sible for several differ ent beats as a reporter, including city govern ment, public education and an experimental youth beat. She was editor of INstride magazine, cross trained as a copy editor and has been involved in the paper's digital efforts for about four years. Newspaper organizations merge ership of the new entity will map out the specifics of integrating existing API and NAA Foundation programs into the new organization. Organizational and related details will be addressed through a review process under the direction of a board of governance that will be drawn from the NAA Foundation and API boards. Send promotions, announcements, staff changes and other corporate news to mtuley@hspa.com.