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S peakers at the HSPA Annual Con ference bring decades of newspaper and advertising experi- ence to share with Indiana newspaper execu- tives and advertising staffs. Registration will begin in the coming days for the two-day event Sept. 15-16 at The Alexander Hotel in downtown Indianapolis. Watch your mailbox for a registration brochure. The lineup will include advertising sessions from trainer Mike Cen tor ani, co-founder of Sales Trans- formation Now. Centorani returns to the conference by popular demand, bringing two new presentations that draw from more than 25 years of print media experience combined with 10 years of search engine marketing expertise. Tom Yunt will address managers on "The State of Print in a Digital World." Yunt is chief operating officer for United Com- muni cations Corp., a family-owned community media company with daily and weekly newspapers, shop- pers and TV stations in Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Yunt also will lead a revenue ideas session designed to offer strategies managers can implement in the next year. Breakout session topics will include single copy sales, growing audience and revenue, digital services and solutions, and preprint. & Nominate for service, sunshine awards Overtime rules affect papers Honors presented in September Salary threshold set to double Don't miss out Sept. 15-16 T he Hoosier State Press Association invites news- paper professionals to sub- mit nominations for the Frank O'Bannon Sunshine Award and Distinguished Service Award. The honors will be presented during the HSPA and Founda- tion Annual Conference Sept. 16 in Indianapolis. The deadline for submitting nominations is Friday, July 29. Send a nominee's name, bio- graphical information, address and phone number, along with a letter explaining why you believe the nominee should receive a Sunshine or Distinguished Ser- vice award, to Steve Key, HSPA executive director and general counsel, at skey@hspa.com. Written rationales should not exceed 500 words. Include any supporting documentation with your nomination. Frank O'Bannon Sunshine Award This award is presented to an individual, group or organiza- tion that has demonstrated out- standing efforts to protect and enhance open government in Indiana. While not limited to public officials, HSPA hopes to rec- ognize worthy citizens, elected officials or public employees through this award. The award is named after the late Indiana governor who was an advocate of the people's right to know. Nominees may be: • Citizens who worked to ensure the Open Door Law or Access to Public Records Act are followed in their community. • Local or state officials who remained true to the philosophy of openness despite pressure to act in secret. Nomination guidelines: • An individual or an entire P ublishers have until December to determine the impact of a U.S. Department of Labor over- time rule and make necessary changes to personnel classifi- cations. The rule released May 18 doubles the salary threshold necessary for an employer to consider making an employee salaried rather than paid hourly. On Dec. 1, the threshold will double from $23,660 to $47,476. Any employee earn- ing less than the new yearly pay threshold must be paid overtime for work over 40 hours a week. This complicates sched- uling when editors try to avoid increased payroll costs due to overtime – particu- larly because breaking stories aren't confined to an 8-to-5 schedule. If a newspaper's policy is no overtime and a major story breaks early in the week, you might have an empty news- room by Friday. The existing overtime and minimum wage exemp- tion found in the Fair Labor Standards Act for newspapers with circulations less than 4,000 will remain in effect. Both the National News- paper Association and News- paper Association of America report they've heard nothing about any effort to change that exemption. Tonda Rush, director of public policy and gen- eral counsel for the National Newspaper Association, notes that the exemption applies only to individually owned newspapers. The federal government would aggregate the See Overtime, Page 5 See Awards, Page 5 Election ads: Send your political ad rates to make sure your newspaper is included in political proposals. Page 3 Micropayments: A Canadian paper tries charging users per article and reports on the results. Page 4 Hey, can they do that? Steve Key answers your legal questions. Page 5 Key Points: Prosecutors say rules bar them from releasing police video. Page 8 INSIDE Publisher The Indiana Volume 81, Issue 6 • June 9, 2016 Published on second Thursday monthly Thank you to everyone who registered staff for video, digital and print training! Wednesday JUNE 29 Indianapolis for Road Show Reporters A reporting workshop sponsored by HSPA Foundation and Indiana APME HSPA & Foundation Annual Conference Revenue resources Mike Cen tor ani Tom Yunt PHOTO BY THE ALEXANDER HOTEL Publishers, other newspaper executives, ad- vertising directors and sales reps will gather Sept. 15-16 at The Alexander Hotel for the HSPA Annual Conference. Mark your calen- dars and watch for registration materials in your mailbox.

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