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2 NewsBeat July 2017 NewsBeat A NEWSLETTER FOR NEW YORK'S COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS Published by the New York Press Association 621 Columbia Street Ext., Suite 100, Cohoes, NY 12047 518.464.6483 • 518.464.6489 fax • www.nynewspapers.com Executive Editor — Michelle K. Rea Layout & Design — Rich Hotaling PA NY Mark your calendar Thursday, September 14, 2017 NYPA/NYPS Boards of Directors Meetings NYPA Foundation Board of Directors Meeting The Westin Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Friday & Saturday, September 15 & 16, 2017 NYPA Fall Conference The Westin Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Friday, November 17, 2017 NYPA/NYPS Board of Directors Meetings NYPA Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Straus News, 333 Seventh Ave. (6th flr.), NYC Tuesday, January 9, 2018 NYPA Better Newspaper Contest Deadline Thursday, April 12, 2018 NYPA/NYPS Boards of Directors Meetings NYPA Foundation Board of Directors Meeting Gideon Putnam Hotel, Saratoga Springs, NY Friday & Saturday, April 13 & 14, 2018 NYPA Spring Convention and Tradeshow Gideon Putnam Hotel, Saratoga Springs, NY C L I P & S A V E NYPA's Fall Publishers' & Editors' Conference Friday & Saturday, September 15th & 16th The Westin, Buffalo We know you don't want to wish your summer away, but PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS for NYPA's Fall Publishers' and Editors Conference September 15th and 16th. We promise to deliver an amazing speaker lineup, a dazzling evening at the Wayne Gretzky Estates Winery and Distillery in the heart of Niagara-on-the-Lake, plenty of valuable networking time, an inspiring keynote speaker, and NYPA's Annual Meeting and election of officers. Here are some of the highlights: SPEAKERS: KEYNOTE: Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for the Washington Post, former public editor for the New York Times, and before that, editor of the Buffalo News, her hometown paper. WORKSHOPS: Al Getler: Helping Newspapers Execute Successful Marketing Strategies for Social Media, Digital and Traditional Media John Wihbey: Knowing the Numbers: Using and Interpreting Data, Statistics and Research in the Newsroom Bill Church: The Future of Newsrooms: When Change is Not Enough David Ho: News in Motion: Six Ways to be a Good Mobile Editor Mobile Isn't the Future: It Is Now Edward Rosenthal: Picture Problems: Protecting Your Company from Copyright Trolls Peter Wagner: Building a Better Community Newspaper – How to Take the Lead and Prosper Saving Classifieds!! Brad Thatcher: Changing the Local Media Narrative: Insights from a PR expert on how to reinvent and reposition your newspapers for your advertising community Matt Sheehan: The Science of Storytelling: What science and research tell us about what resonates, what may not work as well as we expect, and how to design content to break through the clutter Nick Birren: Solving the Production Problem: Meeting today's video content needs better, faster, cheaper. Plus, a blockbuster session on financial reporting — benchmarks, KPIs, expense ratios and more. THE SOCIAL SCENE: FRIDAY: Cocktails and dinner at Buffalo's famed Pierce Arrow Museum, which boasts an incredible collection of automobiles, bicycles, and memorabilia symbolizing a time of amazing growth, prosperity, innovation and ingenuity in Buffalo's industrial history. SATURDAY: A fabulous evening of wine, whisky, gourmet dining, ice wine and cigars at the Wayne Gretzky Estates Winery and Distillery. We'll enjoy a tasting of wine, whisky and grape based spirits and hors d'oeuvres, followed by a three-course dinner with winemaker's pairings in the barrel cellar. We'll end the evening toasting ice wine marshmallows over an open fire in the vineyard.

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