Hoosier State Press Association - The Indiana Publisher
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May 10, 2012 New HSPA president knows the news biz G will serve as the HSPA board president for the next year. My day job is president of IBJ Media and publisher of Indianapolis Business Journal. I've been with IBJ for the past 21 years. IBJ Media is a locally reetings. For those who don't know me, I'm Greg Morris, and I News Biz By Greg Morris owned news and informa tion company with offerings in print, digital and mobile platforms. Indianapolis Business the Indianapolis Legal Aid Society. I'm an IU Bloomington guy and have been a lifelong resi dent of Carmel, Ind. I've been married for 34 Journal is a weekly news paper serving the central Indiana business community. In addition, the company publishes Indiana Lawyer, a statewide biweekly news paper targeted to legal professionals, and Court & Commercial Record newspa per, which publishes public notices for Marion County three days a week. IBJ Media also operates a years to a wonderful woman, Joyce, who keeps me in line and works as manager of pri vate banking at the National Bank of Indianapolis. We have three adult sons living and working in the Indianapolis area. Despite knowing all of this in advance, your HSPA board put me in this position of leadership anyway. So blame them. My goal during the next custom publishing division specializing in book publish ing. My original occupation was in the sales end of the radio business, and I worked at WIBC Radio in Indianapolis for many years. In fact, our current news month, and we'll continue the discussion about how HSPA can be of service to newspa pers. But don't wait for a col umn. Please contact me any time via email or cell phone. My email address is gmorris@ibj.com, and my cell number is (317) 9464626. Let me know what's on your mind and how I may be of service to you. I'll close with my pitch to ask for your participation in HSPA Foundation's annual golf outing. This year it's the North vs. South Challenge. Rust Communications' Randy List is heading up the North team, and the Evansville Courier & Press' Jack Pate is leading the South team. The outing is Thursday, year is to work with the HSPA board and staff to further our mission in these challenging times. I've known HSPA Executive paper company had common ownership in three radio stations in Indy until selling those entities in 2006. I did double duty and ran the sales end of those radio stations while performing my newspa per company job. Doing several jobs at once duties, my other board work includes United Way of Central Indiana, American Court and Commercial Newspapers, working hand in hand with the Public Notice Resource Center – two national professional trade organizations – and TRAINING Continued from Page 1 Stylebook are included. Journalists can register by filling out the online form at www.HSPAfoundation.org/ roadshow. Other information and the brochure that news rooms received by mail in April also are available on that website. To download a brochure, visit www.HSPAfoundation. org/roadshow. The annual workshop pro vides excellent training at a low cost for HSPA members. Road Show speakers have a variety of experiences to share with attendees. The panel of journalists Director and General Counsel Steve Key for many years, and I have every confidence in his leadership. Hmmm, executive director and general counsel – there's that essential multitasking trait again. I have the same level of News in brief Publisher heads papers in Texas Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. promoted Tribune-Star publisher B.J. Riley to senior vice president and division manager of the company's Sun Belt Division of Texas publications. The promotion will allow Riley to remain publisher of the Terre Haute news paper and continue living in the Wabash Valley city, while also overseeing 12 daily and four nondaily publications in Texas. In addition to his wife, Mary, Riley's family in cludes four sons, two of whom are grown. Riley's 25year career in newspapers began at age 25, when he accepted an advertising sales position at the Daily Telegraph in his hometown of Bluefield, W.Va. His career path has Page 3 led him to publications in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana and to corporate leadership roles in Florida. – Tribune-Star (Terre Haute) Check out watchdog workshop MidAmerica Press June 7 at Southern Dunes Golf Course on the southside of Indianapolis. Shotgun start is at 1 p.m., In sti tute and Investi gative Reporters and Editors Inc. will hold a oneday Watchdog Journalism workshop May 31 at The Indianapolis Star. Mark Horvit, executive and the cost is $135 per player. Register by Friday, May 25 many guests as you like. It's a fun day, and the at www.HSPAfoundation.org/ golfouting. Register just yourself or as proceeds help fund the great work of the HSPA Foundation. More details and registra is a required trait for all of us these days, right? In addition to my HSPA confidence for the entire HSPA staff. It's a great team of people working together on behalf of your interests. My thanks go out to HSPA tion materials can be found online at www.HSPA foundation.org/golfouting. Even if you can't play, board leaders who've led the way – Randy List, Don Hurd and most recently Tim Timmons. Their great passion for the newspaper business and their ongoing efforts inspire me to match their contributions to the organiza tion and our industry. I'll be writing a column in The Indiana Publisher once a director of IRE, will lead sessions on "Web for Watch dogs," "Key Docu ments You Can't Live Without," "Open Records," and "Quickhit Watchdog Investigations." Horvit, who also teaches investigative journalism as an associate professor at the University of Missouri, was a longtime IRE member before becoming the executive director. He formerly served as projects editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telgram. He also has worked on proj ects teams at newspapers in Texas, North Carolina, Missouri and Florida. The workshop will begin includes lunch. Register by contacting John Ryan, executive director of MPI, via email at jmryan@ eiu.edu or phone at (217) 5817939. Apply for free military workshop there's a way to donate and be a part of a virtual four some. Thanks in advance for your support. I hope to see you at the A weeklong program for journalists about covering the military includes lodging, meals and airfare to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The workshop from golf outing, and I'll be back in June for another edition of "News Biz." of directors president, is presi dent of IBJ Media and publisher of Indianapolis Business Journal. Greg Morris, HSPA board tive director and general counsel, will present a ses sion on the Open Door Law and Access to Public Records Act during lunch. A panel of experts on elec Sept. 2328 will be based at the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center in Kansas. Journalists who attend should be early to mid career reporters or editors working near military bases, beat reporters covering the military, or journalists who have an interest in covering military issues. The program is for journalists who have little or no background Sign up for the Road Show for Reporters at www.HSPA foundation.org/roadshow. who covered the tornadoes in their communities includes Chuck Branham, chief pho tographer for the News and Tribune (Jeffersonville), where he has been on staff for 10 years; Stephanie Taylor Ferriell, who has been editor of The Salem Leader and The Salem Democrat since 2000 and has 19 years of news experience; and Braden Lammers, the Clark County reporter for the News and Tribune (Jeffersonville) since 2009. Pam Coleman, Steuben County auditor since 2007, will discuss coverage of coun ty tax figures, budget hear ings and other financial sto ries. Steve Key, HSPA's execu tion coverage will include Tom LoBianco, the Indiana political reporter at The Associ ated Press; Brian Vargus, Ph.D., a professor of political science at IUPUI; and Lesley Stedman Weiden bener, assistant bureau chief for The Statehouse File, a Franklin College news bureau, who has covered four Indiana governors and 16 ses sions of the state General Assembly for two newspapers. Tracy Warner, editorial page editor at The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne) and a 28year journalism veteran, will address how to avoid irk some reporting errors. Patrick McDowell, The AP's assistant chief of bureau for Illinois and Indiana, will cover AP style. For more information, visit www.HSPAfoundation.org/ roadshow or call (317) 803 4772. covering the military and with no activeduty military experience. It is designed to help reporters learn more about today's military. Members of the press will embed with Army Majors going through com mand training and will live a day in the life of a soldier preparing for duty. at 10 a.m. and will finish by 3 p.m. Thursday, May 31. Registration is $25 and Journalists will attend workshops with senior general officers and have the opportunity to interview officers who will be stationed at military bases in the reporters' hometowns. mailed 201112 advertis ing contest packets to member newspapers. The HSPA Foundation Enter advertising contest now HSPA Foundation has and the Indiana Newspaper Advertising Executives Association sponsor the annual ad contest to recognize the best in the state in 24 categories and three over all awards of excellence. A savethedate card included in the mailing asks ad directors and staff to mark their calen dars for Friday, Sept. 28 for "Don't Stop Believin': A Totally Awesome '80s Advertising Conference & Awards Gala." The rules brochure includes detailed expla nations for entering the contest through www.betterbnc.com. The HSPA Foundation must receive all elec tronically submitted and mailin entries by 5 p.m. Friday, June 8. The contest period cov ers ads designed from June 1, 2011, to May 31, 2012. More information on the advertising confer ence and awards gala will follow this summer. Send promotions, announcements, staff changes and other corporate news to mtuley@hspa.com.