Hoosier State Press Association - The Indiana Publisher
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& other stormy assignments Elections, budgets ROAD SHOW FOR REPORTERS WORKSHOP Indiana The June 21 • Indianapolis Register now at Volume 77, Issue 12 • June 7, 2012 Publisher HSPAfoundation.org/ roadshow Published alternate Thursdays Training includes election coverage Send your reporters to the Road Show Journalists will learn about a variety of coverage topics during the 2012 Road Show for Reporters. The workshop June 21 in Indianapolis will emphasize the theme "Elections, Budgets and Other Stormy Assign ments." June 15. Registration ends Friday, Road Show for Reporters workshop What: "Elections, Budgets & Other Stormy Assignments," a workshop for beginning reporters and those who want to brush up on the basics When: 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 21 Where: The Indianapolis Star's Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors and HSPA Foundation sponsor the annu al seminar for beginning jour nalists and those who want to Pulliam Production Center, 8278 N. Georgetown Road, Indianapolis (not the downtown Indy office) Cost: $40; includes breakfast, lunch and a 2012 AP Stylebook Registration: HSPAfoundation.org/ roadshow brush up on skills. This year's event will take place at The Indianapolis Star's Pulliam Production Center, 8278 N. Georgetown Road, Indianapolis. Please note: This location is not the newspaper's downtown Indianapolis office. The cost is $40 per person. Break fast, lunch and a 2012 AP Stylebook are included. Register at www.HSPA foundation.org/roadshow. More information and the bro chure that newsrooms re ceived by mail also are avail able on the website. The Road Show will include sessions featuring: • A panel discussion with journalists who covered the deadly tornadoes that struck the state this year • Covering government budgets • Public access to information • Tips on reporting and writing election stories • Avoiding editing errors, especially in election coverage • AP style and updates in the 2012 Stylebook. HSPA explores content system A committee will hear pre sentations from five entities interested in working with the Hoosier State Press Association to create a contentmanagement system that should provide ben efits to Indiana newspapers and the association. Tina West, publisher of The Courier-Times (New Castle), is chairing the HSPA Board of Directors committee examining the proposals. If implemented, the process Pulliam intern would create electronic, word searchable archives of all Indiana newspapers. A reporter could use the archive to do quick research on a person or firm in the news. The system could allow HSPA Top: Samm Quinn, a student at Franklin College (center), interviews a press operator using a digi- tal recorder with a noise-reducing filter while other interns photograph the interview. Right: Jillian McCarter, a Butler university student, photographs a publication rolling off the press. Above: Ellen Kobe, a student at Depauw University (left), interviews an employee about the mail room facilities at the production center. To see more photos, visit www.HSPAfoundation.org. training The 2012 class of Eugene S. Pulliam interns learned about creating multimedia packages June 1 during a workshop at The Indianapolis Star's Pulliam Production Center. Students interviewed workers and photo- graphed the press and other areas of the facility. to build a better public notices website, www.indianapublic notices.com, to better ward off efforts to eliminate the publica tion requirement by organiza tions representing Indiana local government units. A contentmanagement See CONTENT, Page 4 INSIDE Public records no more: Causes of death kept quiet in southern Indiana county. Page 4 News Biz: Let's remind readers to do their civic duty. Page 3