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The annual Missouri Press Association / Associated Press Day at the Capitol program will include a reception with legislators on Wednesday and sessions with state officials and lunch at the Governor’s Mansion on Thursday. Sign up!

Newspapers all over the country will use the Missouri Press Foun-dation’s 2014 Reading Across Missouri story to entice readers of all ages. Is your newspaper among them?

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NIE Report 15Jean Maneke 17Obituaries 18

Chillicothe celebrates a documentary film about one of its claims to fame — sliced bread!

Longtime Dexter Daily Statesman employee worked her way to the back.

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Was anyone listening? We can only hope. More produc-tive were our meetings with sponsor and constituent after the hearing. There, it became clear neither had an animus against newspapers, which was refreshing. Both wanted to work with us

to find a solution to an essentially local problem.It turns out the sheriff ’s annual advertising tab

has averaged $2,833 over the past three years. That’s 0.035% of the Platte County sheriff ’s $7.9 million approved 2013 bud-get, or 0.014% of the county’s $19.6 mil-lion approved 2013 budget. We’re talk-ing hundredths of a cent on the county dollar, a small price to pay for transpar-ency, you’d think.

And mind you, one of the Sheriff Department notices sought bids for a $10 million capital expenditure.

The deputy said he incurred his biggest costs when the law forced him to run notices in his local dailies, The Kansas City Star or the St. Joseph News-Press. When Doug asked those Missouri Press members to review their Platte County invoices, we discovered Platte County had ordered up 10- and 21-time insertions for notices that needed to run just three times or fewer. Call it self-induced sticker shock.

We circled back with the bill’s sponsor, provided the fuller context, and he has volunteered to pull back his bill. So, it’s a

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It became clear that neither had an ani-mus against

newspapers ... Both wanted to work with

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essentially local problem.

A bid bill’s adieu

If the Missouri Press Association’s Feb. 12-13 Day at the Capitol isn’t on your calendar, please keep it in your heart—and your local legislator’s office number on

speed dial.It’s that time of year again, when cities, coun-

ties and things that go bump in the night go after the public’s right to newspaper notice. I wanted to tell you about my day at the Capitol last month and offer some takeaways. (Spoiler alert: One of them is to attend MPA’s Day at the Capitol.)

The new legislative session’s first salvo against public notice came in the form of House Bill 1202, dealing with county government bid notices. Instead of publishing bids in a quali-fied newspaper, HB 1202 would let county governments use “electronic means reasonably calculated to reach the general public and likely to reach prospective bidders… .”

That vague enough for you? The concept sprung from the Platte County sheriff and one of his deputies. The sheriff says he has better luck finding qualified bidders for his department’s needs through targeted online services, and they don’t cost the thousands of dollars he has spent with area newspapers. He took this to a local state representative, a former police chief, who saw the new language as a forward-thinking way to serve a constituent and save taxpayers money.

MPA Executive Director Doug Crews and I had the op-portunity to try to disabuse those notions in opposition

testimony Jan. 16. We pointed up the public-policy harms: the lack of independence in letting governments self-post their notices, the absurdity of their issuing themselves affida-vits to self-authenticate publication, the lack of a trustworthy archive (or any archive) of what they’ve published over the years, and the emptiness (and litigiousness) of the phrase “reasonably calculated” as a standard for public dissemination. (continued on page 16)Bill’s adieu

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Chief justice, state auditor on agenda for morning sessionMPA/AP Day at Capitol Feb. 12-13

Annual Day at the Capitol activities will be in Hear-ing Room 6 in the Capitol basement and at the Gov-ernor’s Mansion, where a Q&A ses-sion will be held after lunch.

The annual MPA/AP Day at the Capitol activities in Jefferson City will be Wednesday and

Thursday, Feb. 12-13. Register today at mopress.wufoo.com/forms/2014-mpaap-day-at-the-capitol-registration/.

The Missouri Press Association, Mis-souri Press Service and Missouri Press Foundation boards will meet at 1 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 12, at the

DoubleTree Hotel.A reception with legislators will be

held 5-7 p.m. Wednesday in the Double-Tree’s Bella Vista Room.

Friday’s activities will begin at 8 a.m. with the Associated Press Managing Editors Awards Breakfast at 8 in Hear-ing Room 6 in the Capitol basement. Cost is $10 for the breakfast; register with Connie White, (816) 421-4844,

[email protected] at 10 a.m., statewide offi-

cials will address guests, also in Hearing Room 6 in the Capitol basement.

Scheduled to participate so far are Missouri Supreme Court Chief

Justice Mary Russell and State Auditor Tom Schweich.

Lunch with Gov. Jay Nixon will be at noon in the Governor’s Mansion. A

Q&A session with the governor will be after lunch, and the program will end by 2 p.m.

Except for the APME Awards Breakfast ($10), all of these activities are free of charge. But, if you sign up to attend and do not attend, your newspaper will be billed

$25 per “no show” to help cover costs of food and material.

If you would like a room at the Dou-bleTree Hotel, call (573) 636-5101 and ask for the MPA rate of $109. The hotel is at 422 Monroe St. (The DoubleTree is the tall, circular building two blocks east of Highway 50/63 in downtown Jefferson City.)

Ad, Newspaper contests open for entriesThe templates for uploading en-

tries in the Missouri Advertising Managers’ Ad Contest and the

Missouri Press Foundation’s Newspaper Contest are open. Both of the contests will accept entries and be judged online like last year’s Better Newspaper Contest.

No categories in the Ad Contest require hard copies to be sent in for judging. In the Newspaper Contest, the General Excellence, Overall Design and Reporting Based on Public Notice require hard copies to be submitted for judging.

Entry Deadlines: Ad Contest, Feb. 14Newspaper Contest, March 31 (post-

mark deadline for hard copy entries). The templates will close automatically

at 11 p.m. on the deadline dates.The Newspaper Contest’s new cat-

egory, Reporting Based on Public No-tice, has a $250 prize for first place. All entries in this category will be judged together, and no Gold Medal points will be awarded. The winning entry will be forwarded to the national Public Notice Resource Center, where it will compete with other state winners for a $750 prize.

Rules, categories and instructions for entering the Ad and Newspaper

contests have been distributed to MPA member newspapers and are posted at mopress.com/contests.php.

One other category was added to the Newspaper Contest: Best News/Feature Obituary.

Best Ad Idea categories were moved to the Ad Contest.

If anyone has questions about either of the contests, contact MPA, (573)

449-4167, [email protected] (Ad Contest), or Kent Ford, [email protected] (Newspaper Contest).

Missouri Press encourages you to upload your Ad and Newspaper contest entries before the deadlines.

Members of the Colorado Press As-sociation will judge both of the contests.

The templates for both contests are administered by SmallTownPapers.


Publisher refutes statement‘Nobody reads newspapers’

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The Brunswicker, Salisbury Press-Spectator merge

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Dear KMOX Radio:Listening to KMOX Jan. 14, ...

I was surprised by a statement you made in a rather flippant tone, “Nobody reads newspapers anymore.”

I was disappointed in you. You are out of touch with reality. While metro dailies may have their problems, community newspapers are doing OK...

The comprehensive local news we give our readers is not available anywhere else — deaths, school honor rolls and menus, college honor rolls, news about servicemen and women, weddings, engagements, wedding anniversaries, news about local businesses, school board and city council coverage, county government, sheriff ’s departments, local police departments, activities about local clubs, much more, and of course, high school sports. People read our newspa-per. People read community newspapers.

Your credibility with me has nosedived!... Last year we had a readership

survey conducted by the University of Missouri. It revealed that in Franklin County we had 92 percent penetration with the print edition and our web page, and 85 percent penetration with just the print edition. Franklin County has a population of 101,000. Community newspapers are alive and well. We will be around for a long time. Our circulation is steady at about 15,000.

One other comment I hear is, “The young don’t read newspapers.” The fact is young people never did read newspa-per very often. When they marry, have children in school, and are in their 30s, that’s when they begin to read newspa-pers, and still do.

Sincerely,Bill Miller Sr., Editor/PublisherWashington Missourian

Beginning with the Jan. 2 issue, The Brunswicker and the Salisbury

Spectator merged with a new name, the Chariton County Journal.

In a story announcing the merger, owner and publisher Susan Baxley wrote that the newspaper would have offices in both communities, but the offices would have new hours.

The mailing addresses and phone numbers of the offices remain the same.

“We think this name best describes what we do for the communities we serve — keeping a journal of events, happenings, and important occasions in our readers’ lives,” Baxley wrote.

Glenda Weiseman is the editor of the Chariton County Journal, Theresa Armentrout is the sports editor.

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Constitution-Tribune editor Catherine Stortz-Ripley participated in the events surrounding the premiere of the film, which she said is a “slice of life.”

Any way you slice it,Chillicothe gets the whole loaf

Sheriff sues 911 board,alleges secret activities

Linn publisher usesSunshine request to get

reports on sheriff

B&B Grand Six Theatres in Chilli-cothe rolled out a red carpet to

welcome guests to the Nov. 21 premiere showing of “Slice of Life,” a PBS-pro-duced documentary about Chillicothe and its place in history as the home of sliced bread.

The 27-minute Kansas City Public Television documentary tells the story of how the bread slicing machine became a reality in Chillicothe 85 years ago. It was the idea of inventor Otto Rohwedder and baker Frank Bench.

Much of the film focuses on how Catherine Stortz-Ripley, editor of the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, found out that commercially sliced bread was invented in Chillicothe, and the efforts of the community to bring the world’s second bread slicing machine from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., to the Grand River Historical Society Museum in Chillicothe.

“The documentary truly is a slice of life,” Ripley said. “It’s a look at the people of Chillicothe, a reflection of life during the 1920s and how great inven-tions have, historically, come from rural areas. ‘Slice of Life’ is a story about an invention that revolutionized the baking industry. To think it began in our town is impressive.”

After the premiere, guests attended a premiere party at the Chillicothe Coun-

try Club.During several brief speeches, Mayor

Chuck Haney, who is a past president of the Missouri Press Association, thanked everyone for attending the premiere.

“I think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread,” Haney said of the film.(Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune)

Steve Franke, right, president and CEO of Midwest Gloves and Gear, speaks at the premiere party for “Slice of Life,” along with his fellow employees. Franke said his company was one of the major sponsors of the documentary because it was important to the community. (Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune photos by Calli Price)

Lewis County Sheriff David Parrish, acting as a sheriff and a taxpayer,

filed a lawsuit against the Lewis County 911 Board last fall. Two board members also were named in the lawsuit.

The lawsuit alleges the board did not provide notice of discussion of possible outsourcing of 911 services in meeting agendas and other sunshine law viola-tions, including votes of a board member not being recorded in the minutes.

The 911 Board had accepted a bid from Marion County 911 to take over dispatching services for Lewis County beginning Jan. 1. It had decided to have Marion County take over dispatching services before a Nov. 5 election on a sales tax, which failed, according to a report in the Lewis Press-News Journal.

Jerry Voss, publisher of the Linn Un-terrified Democrat, recently used a

Sunshine Law request to obtain reports of an investigation of the Osage County sheriff. Linn is the seat of Osage County.

The original reports involve the investigation of an incident last spring that resulted in a special prosecutor from Phelps County filing five criminal charges against the sheriff.

The sheriff of Maries County, the county south of Osage County, reported that he had received a call from the po-lice chief of Belle stating that the Osage sheriff “was harassing and stalking” his sergeant. In his report, the Maries County sheriff said he requested the Highway Patrol to investigate the com-plaint because of his friendship with the Osage County sheriff.

The Unterrified Democrat reported the charges against the sheriff were a felony charge of tampering with a vehicle and misdemeanor charges of sexual miscon-duct, assault, harassment and stalking.

Copies of the investigative reports were obtained from the Maries County Sheriff ’s Office when Voss submitted the Sunshine Law request.


Houston police chiefsays news story helped

solve two crimes Kr i s t in Hop- p a w i t h

t h e S t . Jo s e p h News-Press wrote a great article (in November) about the person that was shot in Amazonia by a Buchanan County sheriff ’s deputy.

The most interesting part to me was this, “Public information requests for the incident report in Andrew County and staffing payroll records with the Buchan-an County Sheriff ’s Department have been denied. The News-Press has filed a sunshine law complaint against the Andrew County Sheriff ’s Department and is in discussions with the Buchanan County Sheriff ’s Department attorney over requests for public records.”

...I found it equally perplexing that the name of the deputy that shot the alleged criminal was not released.

This is a very frustrating part of lo-cal government for media. While local public safety departments want coverage

for all their good deeds, they “lawyer up” pretty quickly when it comes to reporting some-thing that might

put their people in a more negative light.This is why government websites,

government Facebook pages and govern-ment twitter accounts are nearly useless except for “fluff news” and self promo-tion. They are never going to use those media vehicles to tell you something that shines negatively on their departments.

In this case, they make it seem cut and dried. Criminal ran from cops, criminal got caught, criminal presented threat, cop shot.

Why not release the details? Even if it is not that simple, the details should be released. There is no rational legal expla-nation except the micro management of their reputations, and wouldn’t the truth be better than a manipulated image? (Guy Speckman, Savannah Reporter)

Houston Police Chief Jim McNiell told The Licking News in Decem-

ber that an article in the previous week’s paper about two people writing bad checks allowed his department to solve two crimes in Licking.

The owner of a pawn shop recognized the people who had been arrested and connected their names to equipment that had been pawned at his store. He contacted the Licking police chief, who in turn contributed to the investigation under way in Houston.

The pawned equipment had been stolen from two businesses in Licking through the writing of checks on a closed account. Stolen items included a nail gun, air compressor and a chainsaw.

McNeill said, “You know, you put these stories out there and you never know if something’s going to come of them.”

Cops generous with ‘good news’ EditorialGUY SPECKMAN

Savannah Reporter

By JEAN E. BLACK / Publisher/Editor

The staff at SMSN (Slater Main Street News) apologizes for the late mailing of last week’s issue.

Our day at SMSN began at 8 a.m. Wednesday with a call from our courier, Jessica Brown, who was on the way to Carrollton to get the papers printed. She stated she swerved to miss hitting a deer in the Miami bottoms and ended up in a field with two busted tires.

A Carroll County sheriff ’s deputy had been called and was with her. She reportedly was unharmed and Mullins Wrecker Service out of Slater was on its way to retrieve her car.

Our shook-up courier, who is six months pregnant, ... reported her hus-band and father-in-law were on their way to pick her up. Then, new employee Henry Ellis was summoned to drive to Miami to pick up the pages in Jessica’s car.

With no cell service in that area, I couldn’t find out what was going on,

so I called the Carroll County Sheriffs Department and spoke with the nicest woman who then radioed the deputy to find out where the SMSN pages were (since we were now an hour late to the printer).

Luck i l y, she learned the SMSN pages were still in the wrecked car being towed back to Slater. The nice deputy retrieved the pages; Henry arr ived on the scene and pro-ceeded on to Car-rollton with the pages to get them printed into a paper.

Advertising manager Jim Stanfield drove in, after working all night helping to put the paper together, and was ready and set to do the mailing, since Jessica was sent home to rest.

In the meantime, the postmaster was

notified the paper would be late for mailing.

Back in the office, people were filing in to purchase their weekly paper and were constantly being told — “sorry!”

Once the paper arrived we thought we were home free, but before the end of the mailing, Jim, who had been passing kidney stones the week before, decided to pass number five stone.

The papers finally made it to the P.O. They were late, but they made it.

After a day like that, we entertained with our annual Christmas Party Dinner that evening, and remarkably, everyone showed up with a smile, ready to have a good time and a well-deserved meal.

A huge Thank You to Jessica Brown, Aaron Brown, Stephen Brown, Henry Ellis, Jim Stanfield, Brandy Swain, Carroll County Sheriff ’s Department, Mullins Wrecker, Frank Mercer and the Carrollton Democrat News staff.

It’s all about teamwork!!Merry Christmas!

Happy ending to rough day for weekly

The pages were still in the wrecked

car being towed back

to Slater.


Scrapbook• Bolivar — Newspapers in the

Neighbor News group in southwest Missouri have raised their single-copy price from 75¢ to $1, plus tax. Publisher Dave Berry, in a story about the increase, wrote this was the first bump in the single-copy price in nearly 17 years for some of the papers.

“While the single copy price has been the same for a long time, postal rate increases and other costs have forced more frequent increases in subscription prices,” Berry wrote. “And, yes, new postal rates coming this month are again forcing adjustments on subscription prices, also now in effect.”

Berry reminded readers that each issue of the papers is a valuable invest-ment.

“The potential is there in every issue ... to return far more in shopping value than the price of the paper,” he wrote.

• Lamar — In mid-December the Lamar Democrat delivered a paper to every home in Barton County. The newspaper told readers and advertisers that it planned to do a saturation mailing every other month.

• Lake Ozark — The Lake Today is continuing its “Our Lake Today” proj-ect. Students in Camdenton schools and School of the Osage in Lake Ozark produce content for four sections during the school year.

The Lake Today is a product of WE-HCO Media, which also publishes the Jefferson City News Tribune, The Fulton Sun and the California Democrat.

• Platte City — Bill Hankins, a longtime photojournalist for The Platte County Landmark, has published volume II of “Landmark People.” It contains feature stories Hankins has produced over the years about local people.

“Some of the older people remind me of my grandparents, while others I just knew all of us could identify with their integrity, their hard-working qualities, and the struggles they have in their life,” Hankins said in a Landmark story about his book.

“With all of my stories, I appreciate people letting me into their lives,” he said. “To me, these Platte County folks give off their own light, and I have been lucky to be given the opportunity to add their light to the world’s collective glow.”

Hankins taught journalism and pho-tography for three decades at Oak Park High School. He was inducted into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame in 2008.

• Lake St. Louis — An area chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution presented Huneke Publications, Inc., with the chapter’s first Community Press Award in November.

Huneke Publications produces two Community News editions and two news magazines in the St. Louis region. Donna Huneke, wife of publisher Rob-ert Huneke, accepted the award, which

recognizes the promotion of education, historic preservation or patriotism.

• Washington — Near the end of each year The Missourian recognizes longtime employees. Among those recognized in December were 25-year employees Kay Scheible and Bob Voss, and 20-year employee Alan Noelke.

• Washington — Missourian history columnist Sue Blesi signed copies of her books during an event on Dec. 22. Blesi writes the weekly “History of Franklin County” column for the St. Clair Mis-sourian.

She has published several volumes about area history, including two books in 2013.

• Kansas City — The Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch were fi-nalists in the 2013 Second Street Online Promotions Awards.

The Star was recognized for its Travel Clean Car Wash promotion in the Best Service Deal category. The Post-Dispatch


Individuals join the Society of 1867 with their donations and pledges. Newspapers join the Page Builders by pledging adver-tising space. Join the Society of 1867 or Page Builders, or both,

and pledge your support of Missouri newspapers. Installment payments may be made with a credit card.

All donations are 100% tax deductible.

The Missouri Press Foundation is the only organization that exists solely to champion the future and quality of Missouri’s newspapers,

including yours. To support that mission, the Foundation launched the Society of 1867 and Page Builder campaign in September at the annual Missouri Press Convention.

Society of 1867 membership is bestowed on partners who recognize the important history of Missouri newspapers and are dedicated to helping them meet the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

Newspapers can contribute through a Page Builder program, in which they pledge to donate annually the equivalent of a selected amount of advertising in the newspaper. Newspapers and individuals can make pledges to give annually at varying levels.

All members of the Society of 1867 will be recognized in Missouri Press News magazine. Privileges and recognitions for each level of giving are noted on the pledge flier at mopress.com/current_forms.php. They include special gifts, lapel pins and other recognition.

The flier also lists ways the Society of 1867 will work to build a solid future for your newspaper. Those include hiring a Foundation director, developing a Newspaper Toolbox you can use to demonstrate the value of your newspaper to your community and businesses, and training opportunities for you and your staff.

All Page Builder contributions and money donations to the Society of 1867 are 100 percent tax deductible.

Foundation seeks your support

Donations to Society of 1867Mr. and Mrs. William L. Miller, Washington

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was a finalist in the Best Large Market Deals Partner.

Second Street, based in St. Louis, provides online promotions platforms and other services for media companies. Its awards recognize contests, ballots and deals programs in 27 categories.

• West Plains — An article published in the Daily Quill resulted in the rescue of the annual Christmas meal served by the local AmVets post.

The Quill had reported that 310 meals were delivered in the Thanksgiving program, but a decrease in the amount of money generated through fundraisers was not enough for the Christmas meal.

After reading that AmVets Post 98 had to cancel its annual meal delivery for lack of funds, Shan VanAlst, with his Daily Quill in hand, and his sons paid a visit to the post to see how his family could assist.

VanAlst presented the post com-mander with a “sizable donation” that enabled the AmVets to deliver ham dinners on Christmas day and to serve meals at the post.

• Cape Girardeau — The Southeast Missourian recently placed third in the Local Media Association (LMA) News-paper of the Year contest. The LMA is a trade association that serves the subur-ban and community newspaper industry.

The Southeast Missourian placed in the 30,000 and under circulation class.

• Piedmont — Wayne County Journal-Banner publisher Harold Ellinghouse recently accepted a certificate of appre-ciation from Arnold Hodge American Legion Post 281. It recognized “out-standing service and assistance” to Le-gion programs.

• St. Louis — The Post-Dispatch has produced its first ibook. “The 2013 St. Louis Cardinals in Pictures” is a 94-page iPad- and Mac-only digital volume con-taining photos from last season.

To find the ibook, search “Post-Dispatch” in iBooks through an iPad, or in iTunes from a Mac. A direct link is tinyurl.com/cardsibook. It costs $3.99.

• St. Louis — The Federal Commu-nications Commission in December ap-


RJI seeks applicantsfor fellowships to test

ideas, products, services

Marilyn Tucker worked herselfall the way back at Dexter daily

Marilyn Tucker has worked herself from the front office to the back room since joining the Dexter Daily Statesman fresh out of high school. (Dexter Daily Statesman photo by Noreen Hyslop.)

proved Gannett Co.’s purchase of about 19 TV stations owned by Belo Corp.

Earlier, the Department of Justice approved Gannett’s purchase plan, but barred Gannett from buying Belo’s KMOV (Channel 4) in St. Louis. Gan-nett already owns KSDK (Channel 5) in St. Louis.

The Justice Department said the sale would give Gannett too much power in the local spot advertising market.

The FCC also approved Tribune Co.’s purchase of 16 TV stations, including Fox affiliate KTVI (Channel 2) in St. Louis and a station in Kansas City. Tri-bune already owns CW affiliate KPLR (Channel 11) in St. Louis.

A few weeks after Marilyn (Shipman) Tucker graduated from Dexter High School in 1968, she heard the local newspaper was looking

for a receptionist. She got the job and began greeting customers and doing a variety of other office chores for the Dexter Daily Statesman.

Forty-five years later, Tucker still goes into the newspaper office every morning. She heads the composition depart-ment, building pages and special editions for Rust Communications newspapers.

“Over the years it seems like I’ve just moved farther and farther back in the build-ing to different jobs,” she told managing editor Noreen Hyslop for a story in the Daily Statesman. “I’m in the very back these days, so I’m figuring the next step is out the door!”

The most significant change in her 45 years on the job has been the shift to digital, she said.

“While it made the work a lot easier, we’re not using nearly the staff that we once did,

so now there are only two of us who work full-time in the department.”She rarely sees only an eight-hour day, staying until every task is

completed. She laughs at the fact that her supervisor wasn’t even born when she began working at the paper.

“I’m working with a bunch of kids,” she said. “It’s been a fun ride, but I’m not quite done. Some day when I’m really

old, I might retire.” (From a Daily Statesman story by Noreen Hyslop.)

“I’m work-ing witha bunchof kids.”

The Donald W. Reynolds Journal-ism Institute (RJI) at the Missouri

School of Journalism is seeking appli-cants for 2014-2015 Reynolds Fellows.

The program gives people and institu-tions the time and space to create, test and measure strategies, products and services that will strengthen journalism.

RJI is particularly interested in people and institutions with ideas on how to connect citizens with news and adver-tising more efficiently, grow revenues, engage communities and ensure the industry is taking full advantage of new and emerging technologies.

Residential fellows spend eight months on the University of Missouri campus. Last year RJI introduced the non-residential fellowship, which gave people an opportunity to explore their ideas from their home or office.

Residential fellows receive an $80,000 stipend and a housing allowance. Non-residential fellows receive a $20,000 stipend, research and travel support. The institutional fellowship stipend – $20,000 – is paid to the company or institution and can be used to hire a freelancer or temporary contractor to fill in for your employee as needed or for other project needs.

The deadline to apply is Feb. 15. For more information and to apply for a fellowship go to rjionline.org/fellowship.


Missouri J School named best in nation by NewsPro poll

The 2013 NewsPro Top Journal-ism Schools poll of news profes-sionals selected the Missouri

School of Journalism as the top J-school in the country.

Missouri easily claimed the top spot, followed by Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, University of Georgia’s Grady College and Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Tied for fifth place were the Columbia University Graduate School of Journal-ism and the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State University.

The survey was distributed to mem-bers of the Radio Television Digital News Association, with 1,321 respon-dents participating.

The Missouri School of Journalism is known for its “Missouri Method” that enables students to receive hands-on training in real news media, including the school-owned KOMU-TV, the local National Public Radio station, “Radio Adelante,” a Spanish-language radio program and the school’s Columbia Missourian publications, which include a website, a digital suite of apps, a print publication and ebooks, and at “Vox

Magazine.”Asked why they selected a certain

school as their top choice, responses were quite detailed. The Missouri school time and again won praise for its real-world approach.

“The Missouri program ... offers the practical hands-on experience needed by young journalists looking for that first job. Two or three other schools have similar programs, but not at the same level,” wrote one of the school’s supporters.

(“NewsPro” is a TVWeek publication for news professionals.)

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Robinson worked as a reporter for the Press beginning in 2002. She returned in December 2012 as a reporter for the Democrat News in Fredericktown. In July the Farmington native was promoted to a position with the Daily Journal.

The Park Hills, Farmington and Fredericktown papers are owned by Lee Enterprises, which also owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Suburban Journals.

Robinson and her husband, John, have three children, ages 20, 16 and 14.

Former managing editor Renée Jean, who worked for the Farmington Press and the Daily Journal for about 20 years, has taken an editing job with the newspaper in Garden City, Kan.

• Washington — Joe Barker, 28, a na-tive of Pacific, has joined the news staff of the Washington Missourian. Barker graduated from Pa-cific High School in 2004 and from Truman State Uni-versity, Kirksville, in 2008 with a degree in communications.

Barker previously worked as a copy editor, sports reporter and then sports editor for the Hannibal Courier-Post. In 2010 he accepted a position with AOL and moved to St. Peters, where he was the local editor of St. Peters Patch, a local news website.

• Columbia — Chris Koukola, who led the University of Missouri’s com-munication efforts for nearly 28 years, retired on Jan. 31 as assistant to the chancellor for university affairs.

As the chief public affairs officer at Mizzou, she oversaw Constituent Re-lations, Legislative Liaison/Advocacy, Marketing Communications, MU News Bureau, Publications and Alumni Com-munication, University Events, Visitor Relations and Web Communications.

In 2009 Koukola received the Miz-zou Alumni Association’s Geyer Award, which recognizes a positive impact on

higher education and MU.Mary Jo Banken, executive director

of the MU News Bureau and a 25-year employee of the university, is serving as interim in Koukola’s position.

• Mexico — Former assistant edi-tor Brenda Fike, a longtime employee of the newspaper, has been named managing editor of The Mexico Ledger by general manager Martin Keller.

In other news-room changes, re-porter Jonathan Griffin has been moved to the sports department, and Al-len Fennewald has been hired as a re-porter.

Fike was hired in 1972 after she g radua ted f rom Gem City Business School. She worked in the production department until 1987, when she was moved to the Neigh-bors desk as editor. She was named assis-tant editor in 2000.

Fike and her hus-band, Larry, have two children and five grandchildren.

Griffin has been a reporter for The Ledger since Septem-ber. He has replaced sports reporter Der-ek Legg, who has entered Army officer training at Fort Benning, Ga.

Fennewald, of Martinsburg, is a 2013 graduate of the University of Missouri with a degree in English.

• Charleston — Alberta Bishop retired in December after writing the Dogwood community news for the Mississippi County Times and other local papers for more than 50 years.

In the 1960s Bishop worked two days a week at the East Prairie Eagle with her sister, Mary. She later worked for the Enterprise-Courier in Charleston and

(These items are from clips from the newspapers, which provided the photos.)

• El sberr y — The Democrat has a new reporter, Adam Pres swood, who worked the previous year part-time as a sports broadcaster for the Democrat’s online sports net-work.

Presswood had been studying journalism and history at Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, but has put that on hold for now.

Presswood grew up in Troy and Silex, graduated from high school in Silex in 1993, then earned bachelor’s and mas-ter’s degrees in communication disorders from Fontbonne University in St. Louis. He practiced as a speech and language pathologist for a decade, then decided it was time for a change.

• Cassville — Kyle Troutman has been named editor of the Cassville Demo-crat. He previously was a staff writer for The Daily Citizen in Searcy, Ark.

Troutman was ap-pointed by Demo-crat publisher Jacob Brower, who was Troutman’s editor at The Citizen. Trout-man was named publisher of the Democrat and The Monett Times a couple of months ago.

A graduate of Little Rock Central High School, Troutman graduated in 2012 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a degree in print journalism.

The Cassville and Monett newspapers are owned by Rust Communications.

• Farmington — Shawnna Robinson has returned to the Farmington Press as its managing editor. She’s also provid-ing Farmington news to the Park Hills Daily Journal.

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Adam Presswood

Kyle Troutman

Joe Barker

Brenda Fike

Jonathan Griffin

Allen Fennewald


then for the Mississippi County Times.

• Norborne — Staci Wood has joined the Norborne Democrat-Leader

as office manager. She replaced Linda Leabo, who held that position since 2009.

Wood is famil-iar with the news-paper operation. She worked for the weekly when it was owned by Margaret

Ann Brown. For the past five years Wood has managed Wood Insurance Agency. The newspaper and the insurance office share space. Wood will continue with her insurance work.

She and her husband, Kenneth, have four children.

• Kennett — Mike Buhler, who left the Daily Dunklin Democrat four years ago, returned at the beginning of this year to his previous position of sports editor. He had been sports editor from March 2006 to January 2010.

Since leaving the paper he worked for a time at Three Rivers College in Poplar Bluff, then at the Times-Sentinel News-papers in south-central Kansas.

• Joplin — Photojournalist T. Rob Brown has left The Joplin Globe for a graduate teaching assistant position at Pittsburg State (Kan.) Department of Communications. He’s working on a

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Kent Ford

Updated public notice guideavailable on MPA website

master’s degree in communication with photojournalism/multimedia.

Brown has a 20-year career in jour-nalism, the past 13 with The Globe. He plans to freelance for The Globe on weekends or as his schedule allows.

• Rolla — Doug Olsson, a 25-year newspaper veteran, has been named group publisher for several GateHouse Media newspapers in south-central Missouri. He arrived from Cincinnati, where he was vice president of sales for Sandusky Media.

Olsson is managing the operations of the Rolla Daily News, St. James Leader-Press, Waynesville Daily Guide and Cam-denton Lake Sun.

Before working for Sandusky, Olsson was the senior vice president for Har-vestINFO, a digital solutions provider to more than 300 media companies. He also has worked in advertising for The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Dallas Morning News.

Olsson has two daughters, one at-tending Marshall University in Hun-tington, W.V., the other a freshman at Texas State University in San Marcos.

His wife, Leslie, is a teacher.

• Columbia — Missouri Press As-sociation editor Kent Ford, who will be 66 on April 6, will retire on April 4. Ford joined the MPA staff in June 1989.

Ford and his wife, Sharon, owned and published the Or-egon Times-Observer before moving to Columbia . Mrs . Ford, a registered nurse, is the stan-dards coordinator at Boone Hospital Center.

Ford is a 1974 graduate of the Mis-souri School of Journalism. After J School he worked as a reporter for the Daily American Republic in Poplar Bluff for about seven years. He then was the city editor at The Nonpareil in Council Bluffs, Iowa, for a year before buying the weekly in northwest Missouri.

Ford served as president of the North-west Missouri Press Association in 1986.

The Fords have two children and six grandchildren.

MPA counselor Jean Maneke and her staff have updated the “Guide

to Public Notices Required by Missouri Statutes” that they first posted online in 2006.

The Guide provides an index to legal notices that must be published by cities, counties, school districts, fire districts, ambulance districts and all other gov-ernment agencies involving elections, zoning, finances and other issues.

The 80-page guide can be down-loaded from the Missouri Press website at mopress.com/publicnotice.php.


of preserving these newspapers. Today’s publishers are creating newspaper con-tent electronically, and preservation technology now creates microfilm direct-ly from these electronic files, eliminating the photographic process.

The Society collects some electronic files of the newspapers from Newz Group, resulting in the continued pres-ervation of Missouri’s newspaper heri-tage using the best available technology.

Newz Group has been administering the Missouri Press Association’s Public Notice Website for several years, and

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Two copies of each microfilm reel are created and stored in

separate, environmentally controlled locations to guard

against catastrophies.

Society continues microfilm archive

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MU Student Association wantsfree access to online Missourian

The Missouri Press Association is providing digital images of MPA newspapers to the State Histori-

cal Society of Missouri for microfilming and archiving.

The Society, with the cooperation of Missouri’s newspaper publishers, has been collecting and preserving Missouri’s newspaper heritage since 1898. Together the Society and Missouri newspapers have created a collection of newspapers that is unmatched by any other state.

In the early 1940s the Society began microfilming the newspaper collection. It has undertaken this project and cost because Preservation Microfilming will ensure the life of the newspaper for up to 500 years. Two copies of each microfilm reel are created and stored in separate, environmentally controlled locations to guard against natural or other catas-trophes.

New technology in newspaper pub-lishing and microfilm creation provided an opportunity to streamline the process

many MPA newspapers upload their editions directly to Newz Group. The MPA Board of Directors believes this website containing public notices from every newspaper is the best defense in the battle for maintaining public notices printed in newspapers.

These two goals — State Historical Society of Missouri archiving and the public notice website — make it impor-tant that all newspapers participate by uploading their content to Newz Group.

All MPA member newspapers are urged to upload their entire newspaper, every edition. Each newspaper has a log-in for uploading. A newspaper can access its log-in at http://www.newz-group.com/press_assoc_login.php and enter the username “mopress” and the password “mopress321.”

If you have any questions about up-loading to Newz Group, please contact Ian Buchanan, vice president of op-erations, 800-474-1111 or [email protected].

The Missouri Students Association wants free access to the digital edition of the Columbia

Missourian, the daily newspaper produced by students in the School of Journalism. If it can’t get free access, the Association wants the Mis-sourian to remove its print edition from Mizzou Readership Program racks, according to a story in the Missourian.

A digital membership to the Missourian costs $5.95 a month.

The Readership Program racks offer free copies of The New York Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, USA Today and the Missourian. The university buys the papers, and students pay about $2.08 per semester for the service, accord-ing to the story in the Missourian.

The Students Association says that fee should also cover the Missourian’s digital edition.

The Association gets about 400 free digital subscriptions to the digital content of The New York Times.


This year marks the 10th anni-versary of our Reading Across Missouri Campaign. We offered

“A Hunter’s Heart,” the first story, in 2004. But it wasn’t the first serialized story Missouri Press had produced, or even our first statewide effort.

Our first serial was “Han-nah’s Diary: A Tale of the Pony Express.” That story was a hit with Missouri newspapers, 81 of you pub-lished it in 2001.

Kay Hively wrote both of those stories, and through the years we’ve produced 32 historical fiction seri-als written by Kay. We’ve worked with other authors as well, and in total we’ve created 38 newspaper serials for young readers.

In addition to being good writers, our authors have shared another common trait – generosity. All of our Reading Across Missouri stories have been offered at little or no cost to news-papers. Everyone involved in this project has been committed to getting young people reading newspapers.

The topic of this year’s story is still fresh. “Lily’s Story” is the tale of a

dog that helped with the search and res-cue effort after the 2011 Joplin Tornado.

Less than a month into our 2014 Reading Across Missouri campaign, more than 72 Missouri newspapers had already downloaded the files.

For the fifth year, Mis-souri Press has part-nered with the National Newspaper Association to provide an oppor-tunity for newspapers beyond Missouri to join this project. More than

62 newspapers in 26 states have down-loaded “Lily’s Story.”

Already the emails and calls have been coming in from newspapers that have never reached out to young readers

before who want to use a serialized story for the first time. This project is a perfect tool to build a relationship with your schools.

Think of this project as an open house for your newspaper. Get them in the door, show them what’s inside. Once they know what the paper of-fers, they are more likely to visit and become regu-lar readers.

The Reading Across Missouri project has

tremendous value to edu-cators. It is non-fiction

reading. The activities within the chap-ters provide technology links, newspaper activities and are correlated to Missouri’s Learning Standards. The companion teacher guide also offers correlations and more learning extensions for each chap-ter. Your newspaper may post the guide on your website or email it to teachers.

Need to sell the project to your school district’s administrators? Tell them that using a newspaper in the classroom at least once a week raises standardized test scores. Tell them that newspapers are non-fiction, informational text reading, and that is something every grade level

in Missouri is focused on getting more of.

Tell them this en-tire project fits within Missouri’s Learning Standards and all of the correlations are pro-vided. And finally, and

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Join papers around country,publish ‘Lily’s Story’ serial

Dawn Kitchell is MPA’s NIE director. Contact her at (636) 932-4301; [email protected].

It’s an ‘open house’ for your newspaper

probably most important, tell them your newspaper connects young readers, their parents and their teachers to their community.

Here are the details on participating in the 2014 Reading Across Missouri project.

Visit www.mo-nie.com and use down-load code readmo14 to get:

• A promotional ad for the Reading Across Missouri campaign to personalize with your newspaper’s logo and the date you plan to begin the story.

• Eight PDF features, all created to 4 columns by 11 inches (PASS dimen-sions), ready to insert. Feel free to add an extra inch to the bottom of the feature to personalize with a local sponsor or your

newspaper’s logo.• A companion teacher guide to the

story that you may post on your website or print and distribute to local teachers.

All activities and teacher resources are correlated to Missouri’s mandated learning objectives.

• Photo and a story on Lily and her owner, Tara.

• Publishing guidelines for what you can and cannot post on your website.

Again this year we will publish a list of participating newspapers to celebrate Missouri’s community newspapers’ com-mitment to promoting reading and the importance of reading newspapers to our children.


happy ending for now.Some of the takeaways:1. To quote Woody Allen, “Showing

up is 80 percent of life.” If Doug and our legislative team, Harry Gallagher and Heath Clarkston, hadn’t flagged HB 1202 and seized the opportunity for us to testify in opposition, the bill may well have paraded through the full House and attracted a wish list of amendments from the cities and counties lobby.

It still might. 2. Takeaway No. 2 comes from that

other profound ob-server of the hu-man condit ion, Yogi Berra: “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” Bills don’t die dur-ing the session; they go into remission. They can come back any time, in any form, and with a vengeance, until the legislature ad-journs in mid-May.

We got lucky. Here we were able to work with rea-sonable parties and

reach a reasonable resolution that saved them and us legislative capital. That’s not often the case.

3. The legislature isn’t tilted in our fa-vor. An inordinate number of legislators got their start in local government. For many, that’s where their loyalties still lie, including on the issue of public notices.

4. Talking points and public policy are important but they’re not enough. Our strongest argument is an unspoken one—the influence we have in our com-munities and the relationships we have with our local legislators.

5. That’s where Day at the Capitol comes in. It provides the members of the Missouri Press Association the op-portunity to meet individually with local legislators and, by our turnout, to show the collective strength of Missouri’s community newspapers.

Did I mention 80 percent of life is showing up? We hope you will, Feb. 12-13.

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Our strongest argument is an unspoken one — the influence we have in our communities and the relationships we have with our local legislators.

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This year’s Missouri College Media Association (MCMA) Newspaper

Contest will be judged online for the first time. Only the Best Overall category will involve judging hard copies.

Volunteers are needed to judge the students’ work. MCMA will coordinate judging.

The entry deadline for the college contest is Feb. 3. Judging will occur through the latter part of February.

Missouri Press asks for your help judging these online entries. Categories in the MCMA contest, which has four enrollment divisions, typically don’t have too many entries.

Anyone can help judge — publishers, editors, reporters, ad reps, photogra-phers, page designers, column writers — from the metros to the small weeklies.

Please help if you can. Send the names of everyone from your newspaper who can help, and their email addresses, to Latonia Bailey at Crowder College ([email protected]). She is working

with the contest website. If you have a preferred assignment

— writing, photography, design, etc. — include that in your note to Bailey. She’ll do her best to accommodate you.

Missouri Press asks that judges write helpful comments on every entry. Com-ments need not be lengthy, but they should contribute to the education of the students. Tell the students what’s good about their work, and if you have sugges-tions for improving it, share that. That’s what the contest is about — feedback to students from people in the field.

Please lend a hand. Email to Bailey the names and email addresses of all in your shop who will help judge the col-lege contest.

If you can judge a division of the Best Overall entries, you can email Kent Ford at Missouri Press, [email protected]. Those entries will be shipped to you.

Missouri Press and the Missouri Col-lege Media Association thank you!


Time to talk with legislatorsabout rules on using drones

We are far behind with this technology

Jean Maneke, MPA’s Legal Hotline attorney, can be reached at (816) 753-9000, [email protected].

I was extremely disappointed in De-cember when the Federal Aviation Administration selected six sites

for research and testing of unmanned aircraft systems (drones), with its an-ticipated conclusions to be issued sometime after February 2017.

The FAA selected an airport, two state entities, and three universities for its research, based on “ge-ography, climate, location of ground infrastructure, research needs, airspace use, safety, aviation experi-ence and risk.”

Its goal: Development of standards for drone catego-ries, state monitoring and navigation, and safe drone operation; development of protocols and procedures for airworthiness testing; and testing of drone fail-ure, operational and technical risks. All clearly are highly complicated and scientific categories.

I’m a journalist at heart, and I could not imagine why the FAA wouldn’t want to use the University of Missouri as a test site, in order to see how its program is teaching journalists how to use drones for covering news. Instead, the FAA has told MU to cease its drone program.

Meanwhile, Congress has urged the FAA to issue its conclusions by

2015 because we are so far behind other nations in accepting this technology. One expert was quoted as saying this country is “lagging, not leading, the commercial drone boom.” Apparently drones have been used for 20 years to fer-tilize crops in Japan, with Australia and South Korea moving in that direction.

Farmers in the United States are mak-ing use of drones in many ways already, although, of course, the biggest concern is ensuring that these unmanned vehicles

are not on a collision course with piloted planes and that they have a mechanism to land if something goes wrong with their communication and guidance system.

Real estate photogra-phers are using drones to photograph properties for listing purposes. Law enforcement uses drones for surveillance. Com-mercial use is expected to grow exponentially as ideas proliferate, including photography of sporting events, destination wed-dings, delivery of Ama-zon purchases, and many other uses.

As government considers these issues, it

must consider also wheth-er it will allow the public to use these for the same purposes it permits for it-

self. If government uses drones to check for wrongdoing among citizens, should not citizens have the same right to use drones to check for wrongdoing within government?

For example, law enforcement pre-sently uses cameras on official vehicles to document citizen violence. Citizens have learned that cameras in their phones, similarly, can be used to docu-ment officer violence. Such a balance is an important check.

Ultimately, you are talking about First Amendment rights conflicting with Ninth Amendment privacy rights. This is not a new conflict. Back in 1986, for example, a plane flew over the backyard of a landowner and filmed marijuana plants being grown there. The U.S. Su-preme Court rejected the homeowner’s argument that this was his private space, not visible from any public street, noting that “[a]ny member of the public flying

in this airspace who glanced down could have seen everything that these officers observed.”

But in another case that same year, the same Court, holding that govern-ment surveillance of a private place was justified, noted in dicta that perhaps it might feel differently about highly sophisticated surveillance equipment, such as “satellite technology” being used for similar purposes.

And in one more case, from 1989, the Supreme Court felt that surveil-

lance of marijuana growing in a green-house, while not visible from a public place, was not an invasion of privacy because the owner had neglected to replace missing panels in the ceiling, leaving it visible to the public.

Okay, so what do I want you to take away from this? I want you to know that this battle is coming to your home town, immediately! At least one bill already has been introduced in the Missouri legislature this session, House Bill 1204, by Rep. Kenneth Wilson, of the Kansas City area, which would limit the use of drones for many purposes, including reporting.

Specifically, this bill says: “No person, group of persons, entity, or organization, including, but not limited to, journalists, reporters, or news organizations, shall use a drone or other unmanned aircraft to conduct surveillance of any individual or property owned by an individual or business without the consent of that individual or property owner.”

A House committee hearing in late January offered hope that an exemption for journalists may replace the prohibi-tion language in HB 1204.

It’s too early to know what will hap-pen to this bill. At present, the FAA

considers the use of drones by journalists as “commercial use,” and not permitted. But I think now is the time for Missouri Press members to begin talking to their state legislators about the history of case law allowing photography from the air and the potential good purposes that can come from the use of drones in stories.

State law allows the media access to closed drivers license records for public safety purposes, despite privacy con-cerns. Perhaps a similar exception might be the answer here.


Bud Jones, 65, Odessa, news editor of The Odessan, died on Jan. 12,

2014, at St. Joseph Medical Center in Kansas City.

Mr. Jones was ad-mitted to the hospi-tal in late December for surgeries to clear blockage of a carotid artery and heart by-pass.

Mr. Jones was born in Brookfield and attended the Missouri School of Journalism after graduating from high school in New Cambria. He worked for The Lexington News for many years before moving to Odessa in 2000 to work for The Odessan.

Survivors are his wife, Christy; five children, six grandchildren, a brother and a sister.

Russell J. Larkin, 91, St. Louis, a former co-owner and editor of The

Odessan in Odessa in 1948-49, died Nov. 27, 2013, in Clermont, Fla.

Survivors include his wife, Harriet; three children, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Moneta C. Selby, 94, Bethany, the secretary-bookkeeper for the

Bethany Republican-Clipper for more than 20 years, died Dec. 26, 2013.

Frank Casey Whitsitt, 86, Kansas City, editor of Farmalnd Industries’

Farmland News, died Dec. 24, 2013.Mr. Whitsitt was on the editorial staff

of The Kansas City Star for 14 years. He

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Obituaries

Bud Jones

Harold Nichols

In Memory of Bud JonesDoug and Tricia Crews, Columbia

Missouri Photojournalism Hall of FameWilliam L. Miller, Sr., Washington, Mo.

Washington Missourian Newspapers In Education ProgramAmerican Family Insurance, Casey Zastrow, Washington

These individuals and organizations made recent contributions to Missouri Press Foundation. To make a donation with a credit card,

call (573) 449-4167, or send checks to Missouri Press Foundation, 802 Locust St., Columbia, MO 65201.

moved up to the copy desk and became state editor before joining Farmland. After he retired in 1991 he wrote several articles for The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Whitsitt is survived by his second wife, Darlene, her four children and nine grandchildren, and his two daughters, a son, a sister and a brother.

Harold Lloyd Nichols, 77, Ashland, owner and operator of Witt Print

Shop in Columbia for 31 years, died Jan. 4, 2014.

Witt Print Shop is a tenant in the Missouri Press As-sociation building. Mr. Nichols and his crew have printed Missouri Press News magazine and many other jobs for MPA over the years.

M r. N i c h o l s leaves his wife, Shirley; two daughters, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Nominations are being taken now for three of the top awards of the Mis-

souri Press Association and Foundation:

• Missouri Newspaper Hall of Fame• Missouri Photojournalism Hall of

Fame• William E. James Outstanding

Young Journalist (one daily and one weekly recipient)

Anyone can nominate a person. Nominations for all three of the awards must be in the MPA office by April 30.

Nomination forms with the criteria for selection are at mopress.com/cur-rent_forms.php, or you can contact the MPA office and forms can be faxed or emailed to you, [email protected] or (573) 449-4167.

The Newspaper Hall of Fame and Outstanding Young Journalist awards will be presented at the MPA Conven-tion in September in Columbia. Photo-journalism Hall of Fame honorees will be inducted in October in Washington, Mo.

Nominate someonefor top awards from

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NORTHWEST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Mike Farmer, Rock Port; Secretary, Kathy Conger, Bethany; Treasurer, W.C. Farmer, Rock Port. Directors: Past President, Adam Johnson, Mound City; Jim Fall, Maryville; Dennis Ellsworth, St. Joseph; Jim McPherson, Weston; Chuck Haney, Chillicothe; Steve Tinnen, Plattsburg; Kay Wilson, Maryville; Steve Booher, St. Joseph.

SHOW-ME PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, John Beaudoin, Lee’s Summit; Vice President, vacant; Secretary-Treasurer, Sandy Nelson, Liberty. Directors: Dennis Warden, Owensville; Carolyn Trower, New London; John Spaar, Odessa; Linda Geist, University of Missouri Extension; Buck Collier, New Haven; and Bruce Wallace, Ashland.

OZARK PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Roger Dillon, Eminence; Vice President, Adam Letterman, Neighbor News; Secretary-Treasurer, Norene Prososki, Gainesville. Directors: Past President Keith Moore, Ava; Dala Whittaker, Cabool; Jody Porter, Ava; David Burton, Springfield; Sharon Vaughn, Summersville; Terry Hampton, West Plains; Matthew Barba, Bolivar.

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Amanda Layton, Perryville; First Vice President, Donna Denson, Cape Girardeau; Second Vice President, Randy Pribble, Ironton; Secretary-Treasurer, Michelle Friedrich, Poplar Bluff; Executive Secretary, Ann Hayes, Southeast Missouri State University; Historian, Peggy Scott, Festus. Directors: Gera LeGrand, Cape Girardeau; Kim Combs, Piedmont; H. Scott Seal, Portageville; Kate Martin, Perryville; Deanna Nelson, Sikeston; Ed Thomason, New Madrid.

MISSOURI CIRCULATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: President, Brenda Carney, Harrisonville; First Vice President, Jack Kaminsky, Joplin; Second Vice President, Steve Edwards, St. Joseph; Secretary, David Pine, Kansas City; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: Jim Kennedy, Bolivar; Ken Carpenter, Kansas City; Rob Siebeneck, Jefferson City.

MISSOURI ADVERTISING MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION: President, Jana Todd, Warrenton; First Vice President, Jeanine York, Washington; Second Vice President, Mark Maassen, Kansas City; Secretary, Suzie Wilson, Milan; Treasurer, Kristie Williams, Columbia. Directors: Jacob Warden, Owensville; Adam Letterman, Ozark; Curtis Simmons, Eldon. Past President, Jane Haslag, Jefferson City.

MISSOURI PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATORS: Co-Presidents, Linda Jarrett and Linda Briggs-Harty; Secretary, Peggy Koch, Barnhart; Online Editor, Fran Mannino, Kirkwood; Contest Director, Janice Denham, Kirkwood; Archivist, Dee Rabey, Granite City, Ill.; Past President, Colene McEntee, St. Charles.

MISSOURI PRESS SERVICE: President, Phil Conger, Bethany; Vice President, Joe May, Mexico; Secretary-Treasurer, Kevin Jones, St. Louis. Directors: Vicki Russell, Columbia, and Jack Whitaker, Hannibal.

MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION, INC.: President, Mrs. Betty Spaar, Odessa; First Vice President, Wendell Lenhart, Trenton; Second Vice President, Kirk Powell, Pleasant Hill; Secretary-Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: R.B. Smith III, Lebanon; James Sterling, Columbia; Edward Steele, Columbia; Dane Vernon, Eldon; Vicki Russell, Columbia; Bill Miller Sr., Washington; Tom Miller, Washington; Chuck Haney, Chillicothe; Dave Berry, Bolivar. Directors Emeritus: Mrs. Wanda Brown, Harrisonville; Wallace Vernon, Eldon; Rogers Hewitt, Shelbyville.

MISSOURI-KANSAS AP PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS: Chairman, Susan Lynn, Iola, Kan. Missouri AP Managing Editors: Chairman, vacant; Past Chairman, Carol Stark, Joplin.

MISSOURI COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION: President, Emily Battmer, Truman State University; Vice President, Katelyn Canon, Missouri Western State University; Secretary, DeJuan Baskin, St. Louis Community College-Forest Park; MPA Liaison, Jack Dimond, Missouri State University; Adviser, Don Krause, Truman State University.

Missouri Newspaper Organizations CALENDARFebruary

12 — MPA/MPS/MPF Board meeting, 1-4 p.m., DoubleTree Hotel, Jefferson City12 — Reception with Legislators, 5-7 p.m., DoubleTree Hotel, Jefferson City13 — APME Awards Breakfast, 8 a.m., Hearing Room 6, Capitol Basement, Jefferson City13 — MPA/AP Day at the Capitol, 10 a.m.-Noon, Hearing Room 6, Capitol Basement; Noon, Lunch at the Governor’s Mansion14 — Deadline for entering MAMA Best Ad Contest24-26 — Local Media Association Key Executives Mega-Conference, The Mirage, Las Vegas27 — NIE Committee meeting, 10:30 a.m., MPA office, Columbia

March

3-7 — Newspaper In Education Week12-13 — NNA Leadership Summit, Washington, D.C.16-22 — National Sunshine Week31 — Deadline for entering Better Newspaper Contest

April

11 — Sunshine Coalition Board meeting, 3 p.m., MPA, Columbia17-18 — Missouri Ad Managers’ Association, Columbia Marriott

June

26 — MPA Golf Tournament, Lake Ozark27 — MPA/MPS Board meeting in morning, Country Club Hotel and Spa, Lake Ozark27 — Show-Me Press Association meeting in afternoon, Country Club Hotel and Spa, Lake Ozark

July

11 — Sunshine Coalition Board meeting, 3 p.m., MPA, Columbia

September

25-27 — 148th MPA Convention, Holiday Inn Select, Columbia

October

10 — Sunshine Coalition Board meeting, 3 p.m., MPA, Columbia2-5 — NNA Annual Convention and Trade Show, San Antonio

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