Hoosier State Press Association - The Indiana Publisher
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Newsroom Seminar Dec. 1, 2012 u Indianapolis Indiana The & Awards Luncheon Volume 77, Issue 22 • October 25, 2012 HSPA contracts to add services T Offerings include public notice site, e-tearsheets work with the Wisconsin Newspaper Association and press technology company Tecnavia to create a compre- hensive content management system. The system should benefit member newspapers, the association and newspaper readers. The program will create he Hoosier State Press Association Board of Directors will a more robust and complete statewide public notice advertising website than the current one found at www. indianapublicnotices.com. When fully implemented, Publisher Published alternate Thursdays Get great training at Newsroom Seminar Sign up by Nov. 9 for reduced rates F public notices published in newspapers by local and state government agencies will be searchable on the website. The system will allow HSPA to create a clipping service that will let clients see what the Indiana news media has published, broad- cast or posted about them. The service should become the 46th annual Newsroom Seminar offers something for everyone. Registration has opened for the Dec. 1 event rom a journalist who reported on the civil rights movement and served as a foreign editor to a veteran sports photographer, at the Indianapolis Marriott North. Charles Gusewelle, now a Sunday columnist for The Kansas City Star, will share lessons learned during his storied career with the news- paper. He traveled in Europe, the Middle East, the Soviet Union and Africa while foreign editor for the paper. Damian Strohmeyer began his career at the Topeka Capital Journal in Kansas and The Denver Post before joining Sports Illustrated 20 years ago. "This year's seminar combines traditional jour- Newsroom Seminar & Awards Luncheon What: Workshops on writing, photography and more, plus the awards luncheon When: Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 Where: Indianapolis Marriott North Cost: $65 if regis- tered by Nov. 9 (payment may fol- low); registration fee increases after that date a revenue source for HSPA and possibly member news- papers. The system also will build a computer-searchable archive of all HSPA-member newspa- pers. This becomes a tool for each paper's newsroom and may be the source of other ways to centralize content for Indiana newspapers. The process also will allow newspapers to create elec- tronic tearsheets to simplify billing for advertisers. The HSPA board voted on the contract during its October meeting. Members heard recommendations from the board's Content Management Committee, chaired by Tina West, pub- lisher of The Courier-Times (New Castle). Other committee members nalism with the latest digital strategies to pro- vide training our broad audience can appreciate," said Darron Cummings, chairman of the News - room Seminar Committee and staff photogra- pher for The Associated Press' in Indianapolis. Editors can register their staffs or download a brochure at www.HSPAfoundation.org/events. Along with national journalists, 11 of See SEMINAR, Page 3 Registration: Go to www.HSPA foundation.org/ events to register online, or return the form news- rooms received. Seminar sched- ule and speaker information: Download a bro- chure at www. HSPAfoundation. org/events or request one by sending an email to Shawn Goldsby at sgoldsby@ hspa.com. Information: (317) 803-4772 or sgoldsby@hspa. com NNA pushes for postal proposal T Rate would save newspapers money Service for a simplified high- density process. The proposal would allow newspapers to use simplified addresses for copies to non- subscribers distributed on the same day as a periodicals class newspaper rather than require exact labeled address- es for each non-subscriber. Max Heath, postal chair- he National Newspaper Association has made a pitch to the U.S. Postal man for the National Newspaper Association, said newspapers would pay the applicable rate for these simplified copies, most likely high-density or saturation carrier-route sort. Only the labeling method would change. He said the Postal Service is analyzing the proposal. Heath explained why the proposal should be accepted: "While postal competitors See NNA, Page 4 Editors, reserve your space now for Journalism Job Fair When: Saturday, Feb. 2 Where: Franklin College, Franklin, Ind. Registration deadline: Sign up by Nov. 16 for the early-bird rate and inclusion in an official list of newspapers sent to colleges. Final deadline is Jan. 18. Cost: $25 per paper if registered by Nov. 16; $50 after that date (pay- ment may follow for both deadlines) were Robyn McCloskey, pub- lisher of the Pharos-Tribune (Logansport) and Kokomo Tribune; Kim Wilson, pub- lisher of the South Bend Tribune; and Kathy Tretter, publisher of the Ferdinand See SERVICES, Page 4 How to register: Complete the form at www.HSPAfoundation.org/ jobfair Information: Contact Shawn Goldsby at (317) 803-4772 or sgoldsby@hspa.com REGISTER AT HSPAfoundation.org/events Great training! u Newspaper awards!