Hoosier State Press Association - The Indiana Publisher
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" I f your newsroom could use some new talent and fresh ideas for 10 weeks this summer, consider applying for a 2016 intern through the HSPA Foundation. Editors just need to provide a mentor and an educational expe rience for a student. Both students and newspapers must apply by Feb. 26, 2016. Visit www.HSPAfoundation.org/registration and click on the Editors tab in the menu bar to fill out the simple electronic form. The Eugene S. Pulliam Internship Program offers work at daily and nondaily newspapers in Indiana to college students who will have at least one term of coursework remaining after completion of the internship. Student applicants must be residents of Indiana or attend an Indiana college or university. Graduate students and former HSPA Pulliam interns are not eligible. Publisher The Indiana Volume 81, Issue 1 • January 14, 2016 Published on second Thursday monthly Apply for 2016 editorial, advertising interns Editors, make request by Feb. 26 Ad directors, register by Jan. 29 T he Hoosier State Press Foundation and the Indiana Newspaper Advertising Executive Associ ation are launch ing the 2016 Advertising Internship Program. Advertising directors and publishers can register for access to the pool of applicants at www.HSPAfoundation.org/registration. Click on the Ad Directors tab. The deadline is Jan. 29, 2016. The HSPA Foundation and INAEA will solicit qualified college students from the Midwest region for advertising directors to evaluate as potential interns for their newspaper. HSPA and INAEA will organize the application and selection process and provide sales training for the students before they begin their internships. Newspapers that sign up for the program agree to offer at their own expense a competitive wage (at least minimum wage of $7.25 an hour) and commission for a minimum of six weeks at See Editorial, Page 4 See Advertising, Page 4 INDIANA GENERAL ASSEMBLY Foundation Front: Retired director bids HSPA family farewell before visiting family in Miami. Page 3 Annual reports: Don't miss local government publication requirements for county, school and other reports. Page 3 Letters to the editor: Committee recommends state's newspapers have policy. Page 4 Key Points: Records requests needn't be handled by attorneys. Page 8 INSIDE Who's policing body cameras? Bill would put public notices in free papers Under current revision, law enforcement has all control H SPA made no headway in initial efforts to change a bill giving police departments total discretion on the release of police car and body camera video. The House Govern ment and Regulatory Reform Committee voted unanimously (13 0) to pass H.B. 1019 without any amend ments. A day later, Indiana House Demo crats discussed potential amendments to the bill that HSPA favored. The bill's original language came from the Interim Committee on Govern ment, which met last summer. Rep. Kevin Mahan, RHartford City, authored the bill. The bill establishes law enforcement video as subject matter that police have the discretion to keep confidential. Steve Key, executive director and general counsel for HSPA, said that under existing law, police have to at least claim videos are "investigatory records." He said law enforcement has no legal incentive to make video available to the public under H.B. 1019 unless it exon erates the officer involved. L egislation giving cer tain free publications the authority to publish public notice advertising has resurfaced. HSPA opposes language in H.B. 1017, filed by Rep. Jerry Torr, RCarmel. The bill match es his effort in the Indiana House last year. HSPA objected to language in the 2015 bill that would allow the publisher of a free circulation newspaper to use one standard mail permit to service multiple mastheads. The move is an attempt to be the highercirculation newspa per of record in towns served by paidcirculation newspapers. Sen. Jim Buck, RKokomo, initially blocked Torr's bill last year until lawmakers agreed in a conference committee report for S.B. 369 to include lan guage that limited free newspa pers to one office per standard mail permit. This matches the U.S. Postal Service requirement for paid circulation newspapers. The rule is one newspaper office per Internships from HSPA Apply Fill out a form at www.HSPAfoundation. org/registration. Deadlines Advertising deadline is Jan. 29. Editorial deadline is Feb. 26. Details Click Internships tab at HSPAfoundation.org Rep. Jerry Torr, R-Carmel It's disappointing that greater concern was raised by some committee members over how video requests might put officers in a bad light than the public's ability to bring poor behavior by police officers to light." – HSPA's Steve Key Rep. Kevin Mahan, R-Hartford City See Notices, Page 7 See Cameras, Page 7 HSPA Foundation's bicentennial series will test readers' knowledge about their state in a free 15-part series. Topics include famous Hoosiers, the Civil War, land- marks, food, muse- ums and much more. Use ready-made half- and quarter- page layouts, or design your own to mark Indiana's 200th birthday. See Page 7 and watch your email for download details. Think you know Indiana?