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Missouri Press Association will hold itsannual Convention and Trade Show inSpringfield in September.

Missouri Press Association won the award for Best Newspaper In EducationState Program at the Newspaper Association of America’s NIE Conferencein Los Angeles in May. Accepting the award for Missouri were Dawn Kitchell,center, MPA’s NIE state director; Angie Clark, right, St. Louis Post-DispatchNIE coordinator; and Jim Sajevic, NIE coordinator for The Kansas City Star.This is the second year MPA received this award. In this year’s contest StatePrograms were moved from the Category section to the General Excellencesection. So, instead of submitting a portfolio of 50 pages, Kitchell had tosubmit a 100-page portfolio detailing our entire program.

Southeast MissouriPress Associationwill meet June 25in Cape Girardeau.

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PRESIDENT: Gary Sosniecki, The Vandalia LeaderFIRST VICE PRESIDENT: John Spaar, The Odessan, OdessaSECOND VICE PRESIDENT: Steve Oldfield,

The Adrian JournalSECRETARY: Sandy Steckly, Harrisonville

Cass County Democrat-MissourianTREASURER: Dan Wehmer, Seymour Webster County CitizenEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Doug CrewsADVERTISING: Michael SellEDITOR: Kent M. Ford

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VOL. 72, NO. 6JUNE 2004

Official publication ofMissouri Press

Association, Inc.

News ethics must be taught

Gary SosnieckiThe Vandalia LeaderMPA President

How well do you know your reporters?

Jack Kelley never covered a cops beat. He never covered a citycouncil. Those omissions in his resumé jumped off thepages of the April/May American Journalism Review as I read

its extensive coverage of our industry’s latest scandal.Don’t know who Jack Kelley is? You need to, especially if

you’re a publisher who trusts your newsroom to run on autopi-lot.

For much of his 21-year career there, JackKelley was the biggest name on the nation’s big-gest newspaper, USA Today. “For years USA To-day star Jack Kelley filed amazingly vivid reportsfrom virtually every major international scene,”AJR wrote. “And for just as long, doubts sim-mered about his work.”

A year ago, the newspaper got serious aboutchecking into those doubts. The doubts grewinto allegations, the allegations grew into scan-dal. Kelley, who resigned in January as the evi-dence against him mounted, was a liar, a fabrica-tor and a plagiarist.

In a full-page report of an independent inves-tigation in the April 22 USA Today, the newspa-per reported that Kelley “fabricated and plagia-rized stories for at least 12 years, often wrapping his own con-trived accounts around the legitimate work of journalists fromrival publications...” He “made up parts of at least 20 stories”and “lifted at least a hundred passages from other publications.”

Fresh out of college, Kelley worked at USA Today from the pa-per’s startup in 1982. He rose from a news assistant to full-

fledged staff reporter in four years. While most young reporterswere cutting their teeth covering cops and courts, school boardsand city councils, Kelley was cutting his teeth on national storieslike the Challenger disaster and, in an irony apparent nearly twodecades later, the fall of televangelist Jim Bakker.

Chances are that Jack Kelley never had an angry small-town

mayor chew his butt over a city-council story. Chances are he’snever argued with a school superintendent over a closed meeting.

Chances are he’s never had his car pulled over and surroundedby sheriff ’s deputies at night after writing a story the sheriffdidn’t like. Chances are he’s never been given a grammar lessonby a judge he misquoted; the bad grammar was a giveaway.

All those thingshave happened to me,and I became a betterreporter, a more-accu-rate reporter and amore-careful reporterbecause of them. JackKelley — and JaysonBlair before him —didn’t have the oppor-tunity to become betterreporters because theywere rushed throughtheir respective news-rooms. They didn’t cover the beats that begin-ning reporters need to master.

How well do we know the reporters in ournewsrooms? Are they accurate? Do they do their own work? Dothey understand basic newsroom ethics? Do they respondpromptly and courteously to reader complaints about errors?

Just as importantly, do our newspapers take the time to teachthese qualities to the talented — and the not-so-talented — re-porters in our newsrooms? Or are we so busy getting out thenext edition that we miss the red flags that tell us somethingabout a reporter’s story is amiss. (I plead guilty to that offense,too.)

I feel fortunate to have had good editors early in my careerwho taught me journalistic right from wrong. I feel sorry forJack Kelley that he didn’t have them, too.❏

... are weso busygetting outthe nexteditionthat wemiss thered flags ...

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Plenty of southern Missouri enter-tainment and newspaper talkawait you at the Missouri Press

Association Convention and Trade Showthis fall.

MPA President Gary Sosniecki ofVandalia will be the host for the 138th

Annual MPA meeting to beheld Sept. 9-11 at the Uni-versity Plaza Hotel inSpringfield.

Fun events will be a golfouting, a tour of FantasticCaverns with a barbecuedinner and bluegrass music,entertainment by ragtimepianist Gary Ellison andOzark storyteller MitchJayne.

Several people will be in-ducted into the MPA News-paper Hall of Fame, andawards will be presented tothe winners of the MissouriPress Foundation BetterNewspaper Contest.

Slipped in among the funstuff will be some educa-

tional sessions.Jean Maneke, MPA’s Legal Hotline

counselor, is organizing a panel of report-ers and public officials who will talkabout hypothetical but common situa-tions they face.

Cliff Schiappa, assistant bureau chief

for the Associated Press in Kansas City,will give a presentation on digital pho-tography.

The MPA Newspaper In EducationCommittee will meet. It also will have asession for people involved with NIE attheir newspapers.

A candidate forum willbe held to give those upfor statewide election inNovember an opportunityto talk about their posi-tions on the issues.

Speakers will includePeter Herschend, whosefamily founded SilverDollar City; and ReidAshe, president of MediaGeneral.

The Trade Show willbe open Friday only.

Complete registrationinformation and agendadetails will be provided asthey become firm. It allwill be available on theMPA website, mopress.com.❏

See you in Springfield Sept. 9-11

Here is the tentative schedule ofevents for the Convention. The TradeShow will be open all day Friday only.

Thursday, Sept. 98 a.m. — MPA / MPS Board

breakfast8 a.m.-Noon — Trade Show

Vendors set up10 a.m. — Nominat-ing Committee11 a.m. — Registra-tion opensNoon — Golf at Rivercut Golf

Course5:30 p.m. — Buses begin departing

for Fantastic Caverns6 p.m. — Tour of Caverns, Barbecue

138th MPA Convention will be enlightening and entertaining

Dinner, Wires & WoodBluegrass Music

8 p.m. — Buses return to hotel,hospitality suite open

Friday, Sept. 108 a.m. — Registra- tion opens

8 a.m. — Breakfast in theTrade Show: Speak-er, Peter

Herschend9 a.m. — Candi-

dates Forum9 a.m.-Noon — NIE TrainingNoon — Lunch in the Trade Show:

Speaker, Reid Ashe; MPA BusinessMeeting, Election of Officers

1:30-4 p.m. — Trade Show Roundup

and Foundation Silent Auction6 p.m. — Hall of Fame Reception:

Ragtime Pianist Gary Ellison6:45 p.m. — Hall of Fame Banquet,

Gary Ellison to Perform

Saturday, Sept. 118 a.m. — Registration opens8 a.m. — Weeklies / Dailies breakfasts9 a.m. — Concurrent Sessions

Digital Photography: Cliff SchiappaPanel: Open Meetings/Records

10:30 a.m. — Concurrent SessionsNewspapers In Education(Session not yet firm)

11:30 a.m. — ReceptionNoon — Awards Luncheon:

Humorist Mitch Jayne.❏

The atrium of the University Plaza Hotel in Springfield will becomefamiliar to those who attend the MPA Convention there in September.

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Writer and humorist MitchJayne gives talks around thestate, telling of life in the

Ozarks and the people who live there.He’ll be telling some of his whoppers

and bawdy tales during the Awards Lun-cheon at the MPA Convention this fall.

Jayne has settled in Southeast Missou-ri, where he writes columns for Today’sFarmer magazine and The Current Wavenewspaper in Eminence. He’s a formermusician who played with The Dillards,the group that appeared as the Darling

story. Along the roomy, brightly lit pas-sageways, visitors can see thousands ofspeleothems — cave formations that in-clude stalactites and stalagmites, tinysoda straws, cave pearls, massive columnsand flowstones, thin and delicate draper-ies and more. These distinctive forma-tions, each one like no other, and all cre-ated by water a drop at a time, take usback though the ages to a day when nohuman footstep was heard here.

Since the tour is entirely by tram,families with small children, senior citi-zens and the physically challenged can allsit back and enjoy the ride. Temperaturesinside the cave always hover around 60degrees, making it a wonderful adventureregardless of the season.❏

Boys on the AndyGriffith TV show.

Jayne taught inone of the last one-room schools,where he learnedthe customs and di-alects from his stu-dents. In a 1993 Missouri Conservationistarticle, Jayne wrote of the “Pure Spense-rian English, saved in this remote pocketof time by people who were satisfied withtheir mountains and saw no need to bor-row words from strangers when theirsserved so well.”

Later Jayne became a radio personalityin Salem, where his program “HickoryHoller Time” became a hit. During this

time he met the Dillard brothers, andthey began performing around the coun-try, including in Los Angeles and at Car-negie Hall as guests of Arlo Guthrie.

Jayne had two novels published inCalifornia. His latest book, “HomeGrown Stories and Home Fried Lies,”was published in May 2000 by Wild-stone Media, St. Louis.

An Arkansas Democrat book reviewerwrote of it: “When a compendium asbeautiful as Mitch Jayne’s book arrives onthe scene, … it provokes delicious plea-sure in encountering again those rare andquaint but infinitely expressive old Ozarkwords, and that tradition of the Ozarkstoryteller who can make you laugh oneminute and sob the next.”❏

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The International Society of WeeklyNewspaper Editors will hold its 50th

anniversary annual conference June 30-July 4 at Pere Marquette State Park nearGraffton, Ill.

Details of the meeting can be found atiswne.org, or you can email Nancy Slepi-cka at The Montgomery County News,[email protected], or ClydeWills at The Metropolis Planet,[email protected].

The Society has its headquarters atMissouri Southern State University inJoplin. Dr. Chad Stebbins is the secretaryof the Society.❏

Stories of Ozarks for awards luncheon

Cave site for cool MPA reception

Weekly editors will meetJune 30-July 4 in Illinois

Jane was aDarlingBoy onAndyGriffith.


As visitors board a comfortableJeep-drawn tram for the 55-minute tour of America’s ride-

through cave, they begin a journey backin time.

Fantastic Caverns, just northwest ofSpringfield, is one of more than5,600 known caves that dotthe Missouri landscape. Ofthese, just 18 are open tovisitors — and only oneoffers a riding tour.

Guests at the MPA Con-vention will tour the cave Thursdayevening, Sept. 9, and have a barbecuedinner on the grounds. The bluegrassband Wires & Wood will entertain.

Riding wasn’t even an option back in

1867, when the first known explorersvisited Fantastic Caverns. They were 12women who, equipped with ropes andladders, ventured inside to answer theowner’s advertisement for cave explorers.

With only flickering torch-es or lanterns for light,

they surely sawonly a hintof the cave’ssplendors asthey groped

their way alongits dark and slippery passages. It is un-likely that anyone else had been there be-fore them — the cave shows no signs ofhuman habitation.

Today’s riding tour tells a different

New legal and legislative issues facingnewspapers will be discussed

during the Ozark PressAssociation’s annual meeting9 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday, June11, at the Clarion Hotel,3333 S. Glenstone,Springfield.

Political candidateshave been invited tospeak to the group. Otherdiscussion will be onpostal issues, ethics andnew legal issues facingnewspapers. Newspapersare asked to take copies oftheir mailing forms.

Cost of the meeting is $40 pernewspaper. That covers attendance forone person from the newspaper.Additional people from the paper may

attend for $25 each.Non-member registrants will pay $50

for the first person and $35 for eachadditional person.

Fees cover lunch and any other costs.If you would like to stay

overnight, call 800-756-7318 to reserve aroom at theClarion.Send your meeting

registration to OPA,C/O Jeff Schrag, TheDaily Events, PO Box1, Springfield, MO65801.Ozark Press asks you

to take copies of your newspaper to themeeting for an exchange table. You’realso asked to take an item for the doorprize drawings.❏

Bill Novelli, executive director andCEO, AARP, will be the keynote

speaker for the National Newspaper As-sociation’s 118th Annual Convention inDenver this fall.

Novelli will discuss the impact thatthe aging baby boomer population willhave on the newspaper industry, citingPeter Drucker’s observation that “The

youth market isover — the

fastestgrowinggroup inthe U.S. isaged 55and over.”He will

discuss whatAARP has learned

about its membership’s preferences inpopular culture, their leisure activities,and their responses to marketing initia-tives, and how these forces will impactthe newspaper industry.

NNA’s Convention will be Sept. 15-18.❏

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — TheShelbyville Times-Gazette, owned by

the same family for nearly 128 years, hasbeen sold to Rust Communications, thenewspaper announced April 30.

The paper, which publishes Mondaythrough Friday afternoons and has a cir-culation of 8,200, had been owned byDavid and Nina Gay Segroves.

Cape Girardeau-based Rust is a pri-vately held media company publishing50 newspapers in seven states, includingthe State Gazette in Dyersburg, Tenn. Italso is partial owner of 17 radio stationsin Missouri and Illinois.

Hugh Jones, a Murfreesboro, Tenn.,native, is the paper’s new publisher andpart owner. All full-time employees ofthe Times-Gazette were offered positionswith the company, he said❏ .

Ethics, postal issues on agendafor Ozark Press in Springfield

Rust buys newspaperin Shelbyville, Tenn.

Director of AARPwill speak at NNAmeeting in Denver


Ozark Press Association2004 Annual Meeting

9 A.M. - 2 P.M. • Friday, June 11Clarion Hotel, 3333 S. Glenstone, Springfield

Come and join us for a day all about newspapers in the Ozarks.We are planning sessions on:• New legal and legislative issues facing newspapers with Jean Maneke• One-on-one postal forum with Ron Cunningham (bring a copy of you postal form)• Ethics of letters to the editor with David Burton, Missouri ExtensionAnnual business meeting and luncheonPlus, we have invited candidates for statewide office to address the group_____________________________________________________Only $40 registration for OPA member newspapers and one employee, and $25 for eachadditional registrant from your newspaper. You have a menu choice – roast sirloin of beefor chicken cordon bleu. (Be sure to note your choice below)._____________________________________________________BRING COPIES OF YOUR NEWSPAPER – WE'LL SET UP AN EXCHANGE TABLE!_____________________________________________________

OPA ANNUAL MEETING REGISTRATIONNewspaper: ________________________________________________ Chicken Beef

First Registrant ___________________________________________ @$40 _____ _____

Second Registrant ___________________________________________ @$25 _____ _____

Third Registrant ___________________________________________ @$25 _____ _____

Fourth Registrant ___________________________________________ @$25 _____ _____

Each registrant from non-OPA member newspaper

First Registrant ___________________________________________ @$50 _____ _____

Second Registrant ___________________________________________ @$35 _____ _____

Total enclosed: ___________

Send registration with payment by May 28, 2004, toOPA, c/o Jeff Schrag, The Daily Events, PO Box Box 1, Springfield, MO 65801

Can you donate something from your newspaper or town for a door prize?If so, tell us what and we'll list your newspaper in the program. Prize: _________________________

A small block of rooms has been set aside for those whishing to stay overnight on June 10 or June 12 at aconvention rate of $59.95 per night plus tax. Please make reservations on you own, requesting the OPA rate.Please phone 1-800-756-7318.


✒ MarthasvilleMarthasvilleMarthasvilleMarthasvilleMarthasvilleMary Schaper is the new advertising

manager at The Marthasville Record. Shestarted May 6.

A Missourinative, Schaperis a 10-year vet-eran of the AirForce/Air Na-tional Guard.She served inOperationDesert Stormand the GreatFlood of 1993.

Schaper andher husband,Robert, havethree children.

✒ HumansvilleHumansvilleHumansvilleHumansvilleHumansvilleSusan Walthour has replaced Marion

White as the reporter/receptionist of theHumansville Star Leader.

Walthour served in the navy from1983-1994. She has worked in a numberof jobs in Humansville and served a two-year term on the Board of Aldermen.

In addition to her reporting duties,Walthour will be on duty at the newspa-per office from 8 a.m. until noon onMondays and Fridays.

✒ LexingtonLexingtonLexingtonLexingtonLexingtonMark Lamoree has joined the news

staff of The Lexington News.Lamoree grew up in Kansas City and

graduated from Rockhurst High School.He earned a degree in political science atLoyola University in Chicago.

He served four years in the MarineCorps and now serves in the Air ForceReserve.

✒ SpringfieldSpringfieldSpringfieldSpringfieldSpringfieldMichaela Brunmeier is the News-Lead-

er’s new advertising sales manager forweekly publications. She formerly was addirector at the Gannett Co.’s newspaperin Muskogee, Okla. She will managePennypower and Guidon.

Brunmeier previously worked at theNews-Leader, a Gannett newspaper, start-

ing as an ad sales representative and laterbecoming the online manager before be-ing promoted to the Muskogee position.

✒ Reno, Nev.Reno, Nev.Reno, Nev.Reno, Nev.Reno, Nev.Former St. Louis Post-Dispatch manag-

ing editor Cole C. Campbell has beennamed dean of the University of Nevada-Reno’s Reynolds School of Journalism,effective July 1.

Campbell worked at the Post-Dispatchfor 3-1/2 years, leaving in April 2000.

✒ AdvanceAdvanceAdvanceAdvanceAdvanceAfter traveling around the country in

various jobs, Gary Carrington has re-turned to Southeast Missouri where hegrew up. Carrington is the manager ofthe Advance office of the the North Stod-

dard Countian.He was born

in Morehouseand deliveredthe SikestonStandard there.He worked atMacDonnellDouglas in St.Louis for a timeand then joinedthe MarineCorps.

Carringtonand his wife,Warnell, settled

in St. Charles after he left the Corps.They lived in a cabin at Lake of theOzarks for several years before moving toAdvance in 2003.

✒ BrunswickBrunswickBrunswickBrunswickBrunswickJacie DeWeese, who began writing the

Indian Grove Area News for The Brun-swicker when she was in fifth grade, hasresigned. She has graduated from highschool and will attend the University ofMissouri.

✒ Ash GroveAsh GroveAsh GroveAsh GroveAsh GroveDiana Trent is the new manager for

the Ash Grove Commonwealth.Trent, her husband, Don, and their

son, Shawn, moved to Ash Grove three

years ago.

✒ BolivarBolivarBolivarBolivarBolivarKatie Dun-

can, educationreporter andNewspaper InEducation coor-dinator for theBolivar Herald-Free Press, hasbeen named as-sociate editor.She has workedfor the weeklysince July 30,2003.

Duncan is a 1999 graduate of South-west Baptist University. She replacedCharlotte Marsch, who resigned in Feb-ruary.

Duncan has experience working at theCedar County Republican in Stockton andthe Daily Dunklin Democrat in Kennett.

✒ MaryvilleMaryvilleMaryvilleMaryvilleMaryvilleLiberty

Group Publish-ing has namedKelley YagelBaldwin manag-ing editor of theMaryville DailyForum. She suc-ceeded CodySnapp, who re-signed to com-plete a collegedegree.

Baldwin is anative of Brook-field and a graduate of Northwest Mis-souri State University. She worked atKMBC-TV in Kansas City and then asmedia relations specialist for NorthwestMissouri State.

✒ Marble HillMarble HillMarble HillMarble HillMarble HillSarah Gowen is the new ad sales repre-

sentative for The Banner Press in MarbleHill. She is a 2000 graduate of LeopoldHigh School and attended East CentralCollege, where she earned an associate’sdegree in May 2002.

Gowen expects to graduate in Decem-ber from Southeast Missouri State Uni-versity with a degree in sports manage-ment.❏

On the Move

Katie Duncanhas worked inStockton andKennett.

Kelley Baldwinworked atKMBC-TV inKansas City.

Gary Carringtonhas returned tohis native area.

Mary Schaperserved inOperation DesertStorm in Iraq.


From Jab’s GabBenton County Enterprise, Warsaw

One of our more pleasurablechores is doing the “Of DaysGone By” column each week.

The March 1933 editions of The En-terprise gave a bit of insight as to themood of area residents during and imme-diately following President Roosevelt’s“bank holiday” after his inauguration inthe depths of the Depression.

Remember, there was literally nomoney.

In the March 17, 1933, newspaper,Calbert Hardware in Warsaw ran the fol-lowing advertisement: “Yes, we are backin the good old days when men tradedgoods for goods without the medium ofmoney. We have hardware. What haveyou? Come in. Let’s see if we can’t trade.The American people have never beenwhipped and we aren’t now by a big shot!We are in the dawn of a new era. Comeon! Let’s Go!”

And this assurance from Ryan MotorCompany here: “Everything’s going to beall right. Do you have something youwant to trade for motor goods — Let’stalk it over!”

The Model Cleaners had this to say:“We will accept anything we can use inexchange for cleaning and pressingclothes. Look your best and keep yourspirits high!”

During a school board meeting thismonth, Superintendent Floyd Ray wasrehired at an annual salary of $1,500.That was a cut from the $2,400 he hadreceived the previous year.

Teachers also accepted a cut in paywith good grace. Grade instructors

received $75 a month and high schoolteachers were paid $85.

The board also voted unanimouslynot to employ any women teachers thatwere married. The married women, itwas felt, could be supported by their hus-bands.

And everyone was looking for ways tosave a penny. My dad had this to say inhis “Much About Nothing” column:

“Here’s a tip on sharpening used safetyrazor blades — take a large tumbler andput a few drops of water on the bottom.Rub the blades gently several times overthe moist surface of the glass and youwill immediately have a blade as sharp asa new one. Confidentially, I followed theabove instructions to the letter and itonly made the blade duller if that is pos-sible.”

The sale of 3.2 beer had just been le-galized (Prohibition would end that

December) and the main topic of con-versation among the “sporting set” waswhether a bottle of brew was going tocost 10¢ or 15¢.

In a front page story, the newspaperheadlined that the first shipment of sudswas to arrive at the Warsaw depot at 9a.m. April 7 on the Missouri Pacific.❏

Depression didn’t stop advertisers


The Southeast Missouri Press As-sociation will meet at SoutheastMissouri State University, Cape

Girardeau, on Friday, June 25. Sessionswill be in the Seabaugh PolytechnicBuilding. Registration begins at 10 a.m.

SEMO Press urges its members andanyone interested to attend. A registra-tion form is on the facing page.

SEMO Press postponed its annualmeeting, which had been scheduled forApril 16.

David Chase, general manager of theMemphis Redbirds and a former editorof The Sporting News, will speak at lunchand during a session on sports reportingand writing tips.

Other sessions will be a roundtablediscussion of selling political advertisingand a session for advertising sales peopleand graphic designers about newspaper

Missouri Press Association past presidents, their spous-es and guests gathered at the Country Club of MissouriMay 6 in Columbia for their annual dinner. Hosting thisyear’s event were 1999 MPA president Bob Wilson, Mi-lan Standard, and his wife, Suzie. Attendees included(from left, seated) Bob Wilson, Betty Spaar, and RogersHewitt. Middle row: Ralph Clayton, Wendell Lenhart,

ads and special sections that work.Elected officials have been invited to

participate in a legislative forum. Themeeting will close with a roundtable andsocial hour at 3:30.

An optional tour of the Cape Gi-rardeau Southeast Missourian’s new print-ing plant also is on the agenda. It will beconducted along with the business meet-

ing at the beginning of the day’s activi-ties.

The registration fee is $65 per news-paper or business for SEMO Press dues,plus $15 per person for lunch.

To register, contact Michelle Friedrichat the Daily American Republic, P.O.Box 7, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901, (573)785-1414.❏

Gary Sosniecki, Dave Berry, R. B. “Bob” Smith, Bill Mill-er, Sr., Tom Miller, Dane Vernon, Dr. William H. Taft, RayVickery, Jim Sterling, Ed Steele, and Chuck Haney. Up-per row: Don Warden, Ken Cope, Dean R. Dean Mills,Bill Williams, Harold Ellinghouse, Robert Blosser, Wal-lace Vernon, and Bill James.


Southeast Press will meet June 25Memphis Redbirds executive will talk about sports reporting

A bit of Missouri Press Associationhistory returned in April when John

Bell donated items from his grandfather,Ovid Bell, to the Association. Ovid Bellwas MPA president in 1913.

John Bell, of The Ovid Bell Press,Inc., Fulton, delivered to the MPA officephotos and memorabilia of the Associa-

tion, its past presidents and the MissouriSchool of Journalism. The collection in-cluded Journalism Week programs, MPAConvention programs and an MPA Con-vention medal.

MPA will lend some of the material tothe School of Journalism for use in its100th anniversary observance in 2008.❏

Memorabilia donated to Missouri Press

Past Presidents gather


Join SEMO Press Association112th Annual Conference—Friday, June 25, 2004

Southeast Missouri State University, Cape GirardeauSeabaugh Polytechnic Building

10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Company Name

Address

City

State, Zip Code

Telephone

Fax

E-mail, Web site

Membership to SEMO Press Association• Admission to all sessions for all employees

Lunch … $15 per person• Presentation of the Millie Wallhausen

Friend of SEMO Press Award • Annual business meeting

• Election of 2004-2005 Officers

Number to attendLuncheon

$65

Lunch Cost

$Total Investment

Please send registration and payment to:

Michelle Freidrich, The Daily American Republic, P.O. Box 7, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901. (573) 785-1414.

On Tap for the Conference

• Business Meeting / Optional tour ofthe Southeast Missourian’s newprinting plant.

• Awards Luncheon with David Chase,General Manager and President ofthe Memphis Redbirds.

• How to Sell Political Ads.• Special Sections That Work!• Sports Reporting / Writing Tips

Names of all who will attend:

x $15

David Chase


Newspaper In Education report

Missouri wins national award!No Child Left Behind program should benefit NIE

Dawn Kitchell isMPA’s NIE statedirector. Contact herat (636) 390-2821;[email protected]

In May I attended the NationalNewspaper In Education Conferencein Los Angeles. This conference is

organized by the Newspaper Associationof America, and draws NIE professionalsfrom across the United States and manyother countries.

For the second year, Missouri PressAssociation was honored atthe conference for havingthe best state program inthe nation! It was a privi-lege to represent MPA,Missouri Press Foundationand our member newspa-pers in receiving the award.

May marked the be-ginning of my fourth yearleading our association’syouth initiatives, and I’mproud of what we’ve ac-complished. But we can’trest on our laurels — wehave work to do!

Some Missouri news-papers aren’t making an ef-fort to reach out to youngreaders. I don’t believe any-one can make an argument against theimportance of youth readership. So Ihope this year we find ways to encourageeven more participation.

A week’s worth of keynotes, break-outs and networking can lead to brainoverload. So I’ll share more in depth onthe conference later. But this month, Ithought I’d share a few highlights fromL.A.

Dr. Darla Shaw, an educator at West-ern Connecticut State University,

works in our industry to tie NewspaperIn Education into educational trends.Shaw presented a pre-conference sessionon No Child Left Behind Legislation andhow it could be an asset for newspaperreadership.

Shaw said the focus of NCLB Actand its Reading First initiative is on pro-cess — the process children use to read

and learn. She said NCLB promotes us-ing newspapers and other periodicals andtrade books and putting textbooks on theback burner.

“Kids don’t read because they areoverwhelmed,” Shaw said. “They thinkthey have to read and remember every-thing.” Shaw said newspapers are great

because a child doesn’t haveto read the whole story. Theinformation gets less andless important at the end, sothey’ve gotten all the facts atthe beginning.”

Shaw gave several ex-amples of ways the newspa-per can be used to teach theprocess of reading, andbased on her description ofthe legislation, newspapersare a key tool in the NCLBclassroom.

Another strong compo-nent of NCLB is involvingparents. The newspaper isan affordable and accessibleresource for families andtruly, to complete the circle,

isn’t that where we’d like our newspapersto end up?

Gregg Jones, chairman of NAA andco-publisher of the Greeneville (Tenn.)Sun, opened the conference with remarks

on newspaper readership. Jones said the future of the newspa-

per industry is all about the readers —keeping them and attracting them.

He said people don’t just wake upone day and read newspapers — “habits

start early.”The industryused to de-pend on “co-hort replace-ment,” hesaid, but thatrate has de-clined.

“Our in-dustry hasn’tdoneenough,”Jones said.“Today if wewant youngreaders, we’re

going to have to go get them.” “NIE is the single-most effective

tool we have to start a newspaper readinghabit,” Jones said.

According to research by NAA, NIEprograms touch 40 percent of all chil-dren in America. And Jones said what webelieve in Missouri, that the opportunitymay be even greater in smallcommunities.❏

“Todayif we wantyoungreaders,we’re go-ing tohave to goget them.”

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COLUMBIA — James W.Goodrich, executive director ofthe State Historical Society of

Missouri, has retired from the positionhe has held since 1985.

He also served as di-rector of the WesternHistorical ManuscriptCollection and as an ad-junct professor in theUniversity of Missouri-Columbia Departmentof History. Goodrich,reared in Sedalia and agraduate of Central Mis-souri State University,Warrensburg, receivedhis PhD in history from the Universityof Missouri-Columbia.

After a brief term as state archivist in1966, Goodrich joined the State Histor-ical Society staff as assistant to the direc-tor in 1967. Prior to his appointment asexecutive director following the retire-ment of Richard S. Brownlee, Goodrichhad also served as the Society’s assistant

director and associate director. He wasonly the fifth director of the Society in its106-year history.

Goodrich was associate editor and edi-tor of the Missouri Historical Review, the

Society’s award-winning schol-arly quarterly, throughout histenure.

Under Goodrich’s adminis-tration, the Society, foundedby the Missouri Press Associa-tion in 1898 and a trustee ofthe state since 1901, continuedto add to its outstanding refer-ence and newspaper libraries.He was also responsible for ac-quiring significant additions to

the collection of George Caleb Binghamartworks held by the Society and for es-tablishing an oral history program.

In the late 1980s, the Society becamethe host institution for the National His-tory Day in Missouri program. A ferventadvocate of the importance of state andlocal history, Goodrich believed that theHistory Day program, which involves stu-

dents in grades 6-12 in historical research,was an excellent means of interestingyoung people in the history of their localarea, state, and nation.

Active as a scholar, Goodrich editedone book and co-edited and contributedto three others. He wrote numerous arti-cles for historical journals and encyclope-dias. An avid collector of duck decoys, healso contributed articles on Missouri de-coy carvers to several sporting magazines.Renowned for his extensive knowledge ofMissouri history, Goodrich served as a re-source for scholars, students, and localand family historians.

The State Historical Society honoredGoodrich with its Distinguished ServiceAward and Medallion at the 2003 annualmeeting. The Society’s executive commit-tee has established the James W. Good-rich Fund in the former executive direc-tor’s honor. Interest from the corpus ofthe fund, which currently totals over$25,000, will be used to support the mis-sion of the Society and the Western His-torical Manuscript Collection.❏

Goodrich retires from Historical Society

Goodrich wasalso responsiblefor acquiring sig-nificant additionsto the collectionof George CalebBingham art-works.


MARYVILLE — Sarah Newton, agraduating senior at Central High

School in St. Joseph, has been selected asthe winner of the inaugural Marilyn(Stephens) Farmer Me-morial Journalism Schol-arship.

The $500 scholarshipis being awarded for thefirst time by the North-west Missouri Press Asso-ciation, according toPresident Kay Wilson,publisher and editor ofthe Nodaway News Leaderin Maryville.

Applications wereopen to high school se-niors from the 19-county region servedby the press association. Students werejudged on their educational experiences,including work on a school newspaper oryearbook, and a required essay discussingwhy the student plans to pursue a career

in journalism.Newton, the daughter of Ken and

Connie Newton of St. Joseph, plans tostudy journalism at the University of

Missouri-Columbia. Her essayincluded a discussion abouthow during her career shehopes to inspire and informher readers about current af-fairs. Her closing passage not-ed, “I don’t want to write justto write. I want my writing tomake a difference.”

William W. Farmer, theformer publisher of the Atchi-son County Mail in Rock Port,made an initial gift in 2002 toestablish the scholarship fund

in memory of his late wife, Marilyn. Fur-ther gifts from William Farmer and hissons, W.C. and Mike Farmer, and otherdonations recently brought the fund to apoint where it could begin offeringscholarships.❏

Northwest Missouri Press awards firstMarilyn Farmer Memorial Scholarship

William W.Farmer, theformer publisherof the AtchisonCounty Mail inRock Port, madean initial gift in2002 to establishthe scholarship.

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Above and beyond the call of dutygoes to general manager Denelle Spear.

We have a client who frequently drivesto the front of the building and honksfor us to come out and hand deliver a pa-per. Everyone in the office has takenturns to serve this 90+ year old.

But an incident today takes the cake.Appar-entlyshehadbeen

honking for us to come out, but we didnot hear her. She came inside, a bit up-set. She asked for Ms. Spear. She had ashort meeting with her and left happy.Denelle came out of the office astonishedthat the reason the elderly woman hadcome to the paper today was because sheneeded a tick removed from her back.

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Knowing that Chamber of Commerce affairs can become a bit boring,publisher Walt Gilbert of the Louisiana Press-Journal and Martha SueSmith determined to do something about it. The pair, regular emceesof the banquet, dressed up in various outfits during the annualChamber dinner in April. As part of the evening’s salute to theLouisiana Public Library, Gilbert and Smith portrayed Beauty and theBeast, Scarlet O’Hara and Rhett Butler, Roy Rogers and Dale Evansand Mother Goose and Little Miss Muffet. They changed while awardswere presented. (Louisiana Press-Journal photo)

Scrapbook✒ AuroraAuroraAuroraAuroraAurora

More than 60 people participated inthis year’s Traditional Easter/Spring Col-oring Contest sponsored by The AuroraAdvertiser/Marionville Free Press and oth-er local businesses.

Winners stopped by the newspaperoffice to pick up Easter baskets full ofgoodies and to have their pictures taken.

✒ HarrisonvilleHarrisonvilleHarrisonvilleHarrisonvilleHarrisonvilleLinda Manlove-Braxton, a lawyer in

the Kansas City office of the Missouri at-torney general, gave a presentation onthe Sunshine Law April 24 at the Harri-sonville branch of Cass County PublicLibrary.

✒ Kansas CityKansas CityKansas CityKansas CityKansas CityNearly 300 people attended The Daily

Record’s inaugural K.C. Legal Leaders of

the Year program April 13 at the HyattRegency Hotel.

Ten people were honored at the lun-cheon for their contributions to the legalcommunity and the community at large.

Attorney Carl Holmes of Jamaica,N.Y., was the speaker. Holmes worked asa volunteer legal researcher for theNAACP in preparing final arguments forBrown v. Board of Education.

Ginger Lamb, publisher of The DailyRecord, said, “As we mark the completionof 115 years of service to the legal com-munity, it was a perfect time to honorsome of the most dedicated individualsin the Kansas City legal community.”

✒ LebanonLebanonLebanonLebanonLebanonAfter a truck hit and demolished a sig-

nificant portion of its building in April,the Lebanon Daily Record sought public

input on what the rebuilt structureshould be like.

Owner Dalton Wright said, “We feltlike it would be interesting to see whatthe community’s desire was as far as re-building the building — whether tobuild it back the way it originally was, orto try to put in a more glass-and-metalstructure, like an atrium, or perhaps gowith some other look.”

Wright said the publishing company isworking to replace the damaged sectionwith a functional structure as quickly aspossible.

✒ DexterDexterDexterDexterDexterThe Daily Statesman, under the direc-

tion of special projects coordinator An-nabeth Miller, is producing a book withstories from hometown veterans ofWorld War II. Volumes will be producedfor Stoddard and Dunklin counties.

The books will have three sections. Inthe first section will be photos and mem-orabilia from local veterans and theirfamilies. Photos of service people in uni-form and information about their servicewill be in the second section.

Obituaries from local newspapers ofthose who died during the war and first-person accounts from some veterans willbe in the third section.

✒ LibertyLibertyLibertyLibertyLibertyA year after a tornado struck Liberty

on May 4, 2003, the Liberty Tribune isback in its building on Main Street. Thenewspaper held a grand opening on theone-year anniversary of the tornado.

The Tribune has been on the townsquare since its founding in 1846. TheTownsend Communications weekly isone of the oldest newspapers west of theMississippi River.

✒ FayetteFayetteFayetteFayetteFayetteJohn Hert, editor-publisher of the

Fayette Advertiser and Democrat-Leaderfor 35 years, was among five CentralMethodist College alumni who receivedAlumni Awards during reunion ceremo-nies at the college in April.

Hert began working at the newspapersin 1938 while attending CMC. Aftergraduation and a number of journalismjobs, he returned to Fayette to become apartner in the newspaper with Virt andBertie McClinitic Mitchell in 1948. He

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became sole owner in 1964.He sold the papers to H. Denny and

Barbara Davis in 1984. Hert still lives inFayette.

✒ WashingtonWashingtonWashingtonWashingtonWashingtonStudents from Four Rivers Career

Center in Washington are working withThe Washington Missourian to create avideo to promote the Book Buzz YouthLiteracy project. The students filmedtestimonials from teachers, parents,school librarians and representatives ofservice clubs sponsoring the literacyproject.

✒ St. LouisSt. LouisSt. LouisSt. LouisSt. LouisThe Post-Dispatch Newspapers In Ed-

ucation program is offering free newspa-pers and curriculum material in June,July and August to all teachers in ses-sion.

The summer NIE program is offeringthe serial story “Noodles Makes a Boo-Boo,” written by the same authors of lastsummer’s serial story, “Luke in a ReallyBig Pickle.”

Chapters will appear in the Post-Dis-

patch on Tuesdays and Thursdays June17-July 8.

✒ ChillicotheChillicotheChillicotheChillicotheChillicotheMore than 75 exhibitors participated

in the Constitution-Tribune’s Spring Expo’04 April 17 in the high school gym.

✒ AuroraAuroraAuroraAuroraAuroraKim McCully, editor of the Aurora Ad-

vertiser/Marionville Free Press, was marriedApril 3 in Aurora to Brian Allen Mobley.

The bride was given away by her son,Jake.

A reception in the old Masonic Templein Aurora featured cajun food.

✒ Kansas CityKansas CityKansas CityKansas CityKansas CityPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick

Atkinson spoke at the 2004 Ernest Hem-ingway Writing Awards scholarship lun-cheon, sponsored by The Kansas City StarApril 17.

More than 1,200 entries from 46 statesand India competed for this year’s awards.The Star awards the $2,500 college schol-arships to promote journalism excellencein feature, news, sports and commentary

writing at high school publications.Winners of this year’s awards:•Alexandra Auld, Prosser High School,

Prosser, Wash., feature writing.•Anna Messinger, Lakota East High

School, Liberty Township, Ohio, newswriting.

•Alisa Cox, Century High School, Bis-marck, N.D., sports writing.

•Daniel Ross-Rieder, Horace MannHigh School, The Bronx, N.Y., commen-tary writing.

✒ Kansas CityKansas CityKansas CityKansas CityKansas CityThe Star’s Food section has been nomi-

nated for a 2004 James Beard FoundationJournalism Award.

Named for the father of American gas-tronomy, the awards are considered theOscars of food journalism.

The nomination is for best newspapersection with a circulation under 300,000.Jill Wendholt Silva is editor of the sec-tion. She has been food editor at The Starsince 1993.

Wendholt Silva was nominated for aBeard award in 2002 in the newspaperseries category.

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✒ LamarLamarLamarLamarLamarCarolyn Head, who writes news about

the Dade County Commission for theLamar Democrat, is no longer reportingthe commission news.

Head is a candidate for the commis-sion, and it is the newspaper’s policy thatanyone running for or serving in anelected office cannot report on that of-fice. Head continues to report othernews.

✒ HannibalHannibalHannibalHannibalHannibalThe Courier-Post in April held its

Newspapers In Education Silent Auction.Dozens of area merchants donated itemsfor the fund-raiser. Proceeds will buynewspapers for area classrooms.

✒ West PlainsWest PlainsWest PlainsWest PlainsWest PlainsFrank Martin III, editor and publisher

of the West Plains Daily Quill, was a pan-elist for a community forum in Marchon the topic “Foreign Policy and How ItImpacts Our Local Economy.”

The other panelist was Dr. Jay DeeMartin, professor of economics at South-west Missouri State University-WestPlains.

Lyle Wright with the SMSU SmallBusiness Development Center in WestPlains moderated. Host for the event wasthe Ozark Citizens Awareness Project.

✒ CubaCubaCubaCubaCubaA bone marrow drive was conducted

at Cuba High School May 1 in hopes offinding a donor for a 14-year-old Cubagirl.

Funds were raised for 100 people tobe tested to become potential donors.The Cuba Free Press pledged to pay foranother 40 people to be tested.

✒ Kansas CityKansas CityKansas CityKansas CityKansas CityArthur S. Brisbane, president and

publisher of The Kansas City Star, wasnamed to the Union Station’s board ofdirectors in April.

The Star reported Brisbane joined theboard at a pivotal time, as Union Sta-tion’s collection of restaurants, shops andscience museum is losing millions of dol-lars a year. Its plans for financial stabilitycalls for generating new revenue streamsfrom Kansas City residents or throughregional taxes.❏

Gary Rust, left, and his wife, Wendy, are congratulated on receiving theFriend of the University Award by Southeast Missouri State UniversityPresident Kenneth Dobbins at The President’s Council Dinner April 23 inCape Girardeau. (Southeast Missourian photo)

Cape Girardeau newspaper ownerGary Rust and his wife, Wendy, re-

ceived the 2004 Friend of the Universityaward from the Southeast Missouri Uni-versity Foundation at an annual dinnerApril 23.

The award recognizes those who sup-port and are closely associated with themission, plans and programs of South-east Missouri State University, school of-ficials said.

Dr. Ken Dobbins, university presi-dent, presented the awards at the dinnerat the Student Recreation Center.

“Gary and Wendy have made manycontributions to the university over theyears,” Dobbins said, “including gener-ous gifts to help build Dempster Hall forthe Harrison College of Business and theRiver Campus.”

In 2004, the Rusts finalized a six-fig-ure gift to the foundation to help buildand furnish a 200-plus-seat theater at theRiver Campus arts school.

Gary Rust served on the university

foundation board of directors for 13years and became a director emeritus in2000.

Wendy Rust is a long-time supporterof arts and theater education at the uni-versity. She served as president of theUniversity School Parent-Teacher Associ-ation when her children attended thelaboratory school on campus.

Mrs. Rust also supervised the land-scaping and maintenance of the JohnsonFaculty Center at Southeast.

Gary Rust is founder and chairman ofRust Communications, a media compa-ny headquartered in Cape Girardeau.The company owns 18 daily newspapers,including the Southeast Missourian, andmore than 30 weekly newspapers, 20websites and several niche magazines inseven states. It also has part ownership inMississippi River Radio.

Rust has been inducted into the Mis-souri Press Association’s Newspaper Hallof Fame.❏

Southeast Missouri State Univ.honors Gary and Wendy Rust


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Missouri Press Association again thisyear will provide a scholarship for

a photographer from a member newspa-per to attend the Missouri Photo Work-shop. The 56th annual version of thisworld-famous workshop will be heldSept. 19-25 in Hermann.

The workshop is an intense trainingprogram, with professionals as instruc-tors and mentors, on the skills and tech-niques of telling stories with photo-graphs.

An information sheet is included inthis magazine. You don’t need to have theMPA scholarship to apply or to attend.

Applications must be in by July 30.The application form has a place for youto check if you want to apply for theMPA scholarship.

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Fourth graders who receive free is-sues of The Republic-Monitor twiceeach week decided to try making

their own newspaper — and itwasn’t easy, they say.

Koenig News was a classproject for Emily Koenig’sfourth grade class at PerryvilleElementary School.

“We’ve been reading TheRepublic-Monitor all yearlong,” Koenig said, “and thenwe read a book called ‘TheLandry News.’ All the while, Iknew we’d try making our ownnewspaper.”

The class is part of The Republic-Mon-itor’s Newspapers in Education program.

Koenig served as editor-in-chief andassigned students to various tasks.

The class’s favorite story was about thebirth of Aubrey Lorene Wortmann,whose parents both work at the school.Other stories were about homework, Su-

perbowl Sunday, the school’s AcceleratedReading program, and a blackout thathappened during the school day.

The students struggled with problemsmost newspaper people encoun-ter.

“I was a cartoonist for ourpaper,” said Michelle Daume.“It was fun overall, but thehardest thing about it was whatto base the cartoon on.”

Sam Brown said, “I was athinker and Anna wouldn’t takeany of my ideas!”

Cody Rulevish struggledwith his ideas, too. “It was sort of hard todo at some times because I ran out ofideas,” he said.

Austin Vincent, who wants to be aprofessional singer or joker, said “It feltreally cool” to make a newspaper.

The final editing job, according toMrs. Koenig, was brutal.

“We kind of missed our deadline tohave our newspaper finished,” she said,“so by the time it came out in March wehad a lot of Valentine’s Day stuff in it.

“I had to cut a lot because of that andto fit it all in the space I had.”

Editor Kayla Mitchell was a toughcritic. “It was an okay newspaper,” shesaid. “It was hard to correct the papersfrom the writers.”

Writer Anna Nice said, “It wasn’t themost easiest thing to be! I felt a little dis-appointed that all my words had beentwisted or were missing.”

“I did the jokes,” said Joshua Stevens.“Like: Why did the cookie go to the doc-tor? Because he felt crumb-y. That wasn’tin there.”

Katlyn Lukefahr, who said she doesn’tlike school in general, did enjoy workingon the class newspaper. “It was verygood. My class worked really hard on it,”she said.❏

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Access to recordshad a bad month

State, federal decisions uphold access limits

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The right of access to publicrecords has received some signifi-cant battering in the last month

or so, both in Missouri and on a nationallevel.

Recently, the Western District Courtof Appeals in Kansas City handed downa long-awaited opin-ion regarding towhat extent thecourts must maketheir computerizeddata available to thepublic. Many of youuse Case.Net regu-larly to seek infor-mation about partic-ular cases in circuitcourts in Missouri.

In addition to what is available to youon the internet, cases are entered into thecourt’s data system under a variety of cat-egories, meaning that theoretically itwould be possible to access a list of allcases by, for example, case type. You andI cannot now sort and pull cases basedon this criteria under Case.Net.

Instead, the court’s own rules limit ac-cess to this data bank to only four cate-gories: Case Number, File Date, PartyName and Calendar Date.

Kennedy F. Jones, a Jackson County

resident, wanted to access this data ac-cording to case type. His attorney arguedto the Court that the information waspublic and that on that basis, the Courtshould be ordered to produce this datalisting in the format requested.

He presented evidence to the trialcourt that it was in-deed both technicallyand economicallyfeasible to providethese records in theformat he requestedand that the Court’sfailure to do this wasa violation of theSunshine law.

The Court of Ap-peals acknowledged that it was possibleto provide the access that the plaintiffsought because this information was in-deed available. But, the Supreme Court’srules have restricted access to courtrecords “except on a case by case basis ...”“Nothing in the Sunshine Law requiresthe Circuit Court to make the informa-tion contained in these electronic caserecords retrievable by any search methodrequested.

“Likewise, nothing in the SunshineLaw requires the Circuit Court to makethe information available in a format

other than that in which it exists,” theAppellate Court said.

In short, Mr. Jones lost. And so haveyou and I. The beauty of computerizingrecords is that it allows manipulation ofdata. Access via computerization is oflimited value when one must still gatherdata elements case by case.

While the Court’s ruling may be tech-nically correct, it pierces to the heart themandate in the Sunshine Law that thestate’s public policy is grounded in a lib-eral slant that records of public bodies beopen to the public.

In other news, last month the U.S.Supreme Court issued a much-awaitedopinion on the right of the public (andthe media) to access death-scene photo-graphs held by the government.

A Freedom of Information requestwas filed seeking the photographs of

Vincent Foster, Jr.,’s body. The govern-ment claimed that these photographswere exempt from disclosure under theexception for records or informationcompiled for law enforcement purposesif the release of the photos could be seenas an unwarranted invasion of personalprivacy.

The Supreme Court had already ruledthat a person could assert a privacy inter-est that would prohibit disclosure under5 U.S.C. Section 552, Exemption 7(C).The case of National Archives v. Favish,however, involved the issue of whetherthis right could extend to the family ofFoster. If it did, then the court had toweigh whether that privacy claim wasoutweighed by the public interest in dis-closure.

The West Plains Daily Quill agreed topay a $1,500 penalty on a charge of

discrimination in connection with a forrent classified advertisement published inNovember.

The Metropolitan St. Louis EqualHousing Opportunity Council accusedThe Quill of discrimination and the issuewas reported to the Missouri Commis-sion on Human Rights (MCHR).

The ad asked for renters age 50 andolder, (emphasis added) and was pub-

lished four times before it was discoveredby The Quill and pulled from further

printings. Officialswith the newspapertold the advertiserthe ad was illegaland would no long-er be published.

Members of thecouncil assessed a

penalty of $5,000, which was negotiated.The Quill countered with $1,500, and

it was accepted.Quill manager Jerry Womack said be-

cause of staff turnover and incompletetraining, the advertisement was inadvert-ently allowed to be published. Upon dis-covery, publication was suspended andthe customer was contacted for a revisionof the advertising. The revision requestwas refused. We consequently canceledthe remaining insertions of the advertise-ment.

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Lower court rulings on this matterhad concluded that the privacy interestsof the Foster family outweighed the pub-lic interest in disclosure. The plaintiffwho was seeking disclosure argued thatthe exemption covered only a personalprivacy interest and that it belonged toFoster, not to his family.

But the Supreme Court said that wastoo narrow an interpretation. The familyseeks “to be shielded by the exemption tosecure their own refuge from a sensation-seeking culture for their own peace ofmind and tranquility, not for the sake ofthe deceased,” the Court said.

This was not to say that the rights offamily members were equal to the

rights of a private individual. Rather, thecourt focused its attention on the tradi-tional rights of family members to con-trol disposition of the body of a deceasedfamily member.

“Family members have a personalstake in ...objecting to unwarranted pub-lic exploitation that, by intruding upontheir own grief, tends to degrade therights and respect they seek to accord to

the deceased person ...”

The Court noted also a common lawright of privacy dating back to the

19th Century in this country and a long-standing history of opinions of lowercourts allowing exemptions to disclosurewhere the sensitivities of family memberswould be affected by the public disclo-sure of certain information relating to adeceased family member.

Then, addressing the balancing testcontained in exemption 7(c) in caseswhere personal privacy is an issue, theCourt noted that a citizen must show asignificant public interest is sought to beadvanced and that access to the informa-

tion is likely to do that.The Court stated that “Exemption

7(c)’s public interest requirement is thatthe information is necessary to show theinvestigative agency or other responsibleofficials acted negligently or otherwiseimproperly in the performance of theirduties,” setting a clear standard or testfor when the public interest may rise toovercome this personal privacy right.

“Only when the FOIA requester hasproduced evidence sufficient to satisfythis standard will there exist a counter-weight on the FOIA scale for the courtto balance against the cognizable privacyinterests in the requested records.”❏

Across Kansas City about 1,600 vol-unteers flagged down motorists at

busy intersections and sold special edi-tions of The Kansas City Star to raisemoney for the 17th annual Greater Kan-sas City Day.

Held on the day of the Royals’ firsthome game of the season, the event raises

money to benefit the Rotary YouthCamp Foundation and local children’sprograms.

This was the third time the eventraised more than $100,000.

Among the volunteer newspaperhawkers was Sluggerrr, the Royals’mascot.❏

Sale of special Stars raises more than $100k


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Teen Survey offershope for industry

Housekeeping

95 percent believe newspapers are important

Congratulations to Dawn Kitchell,MPA’s Newspaper In Educationstate director, and to Missouri

newspapers. The Association’s NIE pro-gram won the top award for state pro-grams again this year at the NewspaperAssociation of America’s National NIEConference.

Dawn and other Missouri-ans attended the conference inLos Angeles and accepted theaward.

You can help MPA keep itswebsite up-to-date by check-ing the links from the site toyour newspaper.

Links from the MPA web-site — mopress.com — toMissouri newspapers can befound in two locations. Nearthe top center of the websiteyou’ll see a drop-down menutitled “MPA Newspapers.”Clicking on that title will openan alphabetical list of member newspa-pers. Names in that list link to newspa-per websites or to an email address if apaper doesn’t have a website.

Also on the front page of the website,on the right side near the bottom, is asmall map of Missouri. If you click onthat map you’ll see a larger map that isdivided into counties.

Clicking on a county will bring up alist of the newspapers in that coun-

ty. Clicking on the newspaper names issupposed to link to the website or emailaddress of that newspaper.

If you find a missing link, or if youremail address or website URL haschanged, please contact MPA and we’llget the link fixed.

The “2003 Teen Survey: Teens &Newspapers” offers hope for our indus-try.

USA Weekend magazine conducted thesurvey with help from the American So-ciety of Newspaper Editors, the Newspa-per Association of America Foundationand YouthNOISE.com.

More than 65,000 youths ages 13-18participated in this survey.

Keep in mind that this sur-vey was conducted by a maga-zine that appears in newspa-pers. That skews the results,but responses warrantthought.

Only 18 percent of thekids said they get most oftheir news from newspapers.Television provides 48% ofthem with most of theirnews.

That’s not a particularlyhopeful response for newspa-pers. But this one is: 79 per-cent of them think they willread a newspaper when theyare adults. That’s a higher

percentage of readers than today’s adults!Here’s another interesting num ber: 57

percent of the youths think newspapersare very important, and another 38 per-cent said newspapers are somewhat im-portant for an informed citizenry and de-mocracy.

Together, those numbers total 95 per-cent!

Here are top answers to what theywould like to see more of in their localnewspaper:

• News by and for teens• Entertainment/celebrities• Weekend activities• Fashion• Editorials/opinionDo you have any material in your

newspaper produced by teenagers?Have you ever run a feature story

about tattoos or body piercing, not fromthe angle of being potential health haz-

ards, but from the angle of being trendythings that young people are doing?

Your older readers wonder why tattoosare popular. Ask some people who havethem.

Do you know the names of today’spopular musical artists or groups? Doyou run locally written reviews of theirwork?

Commenting on the USA Weekendsurvey, Nicholas Lemann, dean of Co-lumbia University’s Graduate School ofJournalism, said, “Teenagers … are notentirely different from adults in their ap-proach to newspapers. They read instru-mentally, looking for material that is per-sonally useful to them: sections explicitlyabout teenagers for high schools, movielistings, fashion stories, horoscopes.”

As much as it might disgust you, haveyou ever had a feature story with lo-

cal folks commenting on what’s happen-ing on TV’s “Survivor” or “Fear Factor?”

Features with comments from localpeople about popular culture and nation-al and international stories will always beof interest to readers of all ages.

A remodeled news focus with a freshperspective on lay-out and design thatkeeps pace withchange will do asmuch as anythingto retain currentreaders and attractnew ones.

It’s not too earlyto make plans toattend the MPA

Convention this fall. We’ll gather Sept.9-11 in the University Plaza Hotel inSpringfield.

Although the schedule is not firm, it’sthickening, and you can read about themeeting and see the agenda in thismonth’s magazine. You will receive con-tinuous updates and information aboutthe Convention. All of it will be on thewebsite mopress.com.

MPA President Gary Sosniecki, co-publisher with his wife, Helen, of TheVandalia Leader, will be the host at theConvention.

With the Convention only a fewweeks before the November elections,and with statewide candidates invited tospeak, it should be interesting.❏

79 percentof themthink theywill read anewspaperwhen theyare adults.


Nostalgia

Missouri

Press News1 9 4 41 9 4 4June

✒ MaryvilleMaryvilleMaryvilleMaryvilleMaryvilleThe Maritime Commission has an-

nounced that Liberty ships being built atRichmond, Calif., will be named forCharles J. Colden and Henry J. Waters.

Colden was one of the founders of theNodaway Forum and once publisher ofthe Parnell Sentinel. He was serving ascongressman from the 17th Californiadistrict at the time of his death in 1938.

The late Henry J. Waters was an edi-tor of The Kansas City Star. He was awidely known agricultural scientist andbefore editing the Star he was dean of theCollege of Agriculture at the Universityof Missouri and at Kansas State College,Manhattan. Henry J. Waters, Jr., is pub-lisher of the Columbia Tribune.

✒ TrentonTrentonTrentonTrentonTrentonMiss Faye Birdsong, who has been edi-

tor of the Trenton Republican-Times for alittle over a month, was recently praisedby the St. Joseph News-Press for being a“one-mam” newspaper.

Miss Birdsong, a 22-year-old graduateof the Missouri School of Journalism,puts her paper to press six days a week,aided only by a part-time junior collegestudent and a society writer.

✒ SedaliaSedaliaSedaliaSedaliaSedaliaTwo former Sedalia Democrat-Capital

reporters, now in the armed service, hada surprise meeting in New Guinea in theSouth Pacific. They are Lt. Jack Reuter, amember of the Capital force, and Lt. Ed-ward Lawson, who was with the Demo-crat before his work with the AssociatedPress.

The good friends write they are “keep-ing everything under control.”

✒ Knob NosterKnob NosterKnob NosterKnob NosterKnob NosterBert Saults and James Wolfe, who are

succeeding R.E. Thurston on the KnobNoster Gem, are probably the youngesteditors in the state. Saults, a junior in theKnob Noster high school, is 17, and

Wolfe, a student at Central MissouriState Teachers College in Warrensburgand editor of the college paper, is 18.

✒ WarrensburgWarrensburgWarrensburgWarrensburgWarrensburgPfc. Robert L. Baker makes good use

of his copies of the Warrensburg Star-Journal when he receives them at his sta-tion in the Southwest Pacific. He writes:

“The papers I get aren’t wasted. After Iand several others read them I give themto the natives who use the papers to rollcigarettes. They make them at least a footlong and it surely looks funny. About ahundred went by here yesterday and theyjust about drove me crazy saluting.”

✒ MexicoMexicoMexicoMexicoMexicoThe files of the Mexico Ledger, daily

and weekly editions, for the past 68 yearsare being microfilmed so that they maybe properly preserved. It is believed thatthe Ledger is the first small city daily inthe country to have its files microfilmed.

✒ St. JosephSt. JosephSt. JosephSt. JosephSt. JosephThe St. Joseph News-Press, which dates

back to May 3, 1879, published a 75th

anniversary edition May 30, paying trib-ute to the territory it serves by writingexhaustive stories of businesses, organiza-tions and people who had served theircommunities 50 years or more.

✒ UnionUnionUnionUnionUnionA.A. Steinbeck, editor of the Union

Franklin County Tribune and president ofthe Missouri Press Association, was aguest of the Ontario, Canada, govern-ment on a recent week-long tour of theprovince. He was a part of the group of36 state press association presidents mak-ing the trip.

✒ Lake TaneycomoLake TaneycomoLake TaneycomoLake TaneycomoLake TaneycomoSixty-five Northwest Missouri editors

and their friends deserted the northwestJune 11-13 to meet at Lake Taneycomofor their annual outing. Senator and Mrs.Freeland of the Tri-Lakes Press were hosts

for the annual fish fry.

✒ HermannHermannHermannHermannHermannA new engraving plant is now in oper-

ation at the Hermann Advertiser-Courier,according to J.J. Graf, editor. The firstpicture to be engraved and used in thepaper was printed June 4 and was a cutof the Memorial Day parade at Her-mann.

✒ SeymourSeymourSeymourSeymourSeymourJoe Stanard, publisher of the Seymour

Webster County Citizen, has patented a V-Belt Drive for Linotypes and Intertypeswhich is really good. Hundreds of ma-chines in Missouri are equipped with hisquiet, inexpensive drive and more areadding it every day.

✒ WashingtonWashingtonWashingtonWashingtonWashingtonFor the eighth time in nine years the

Washington Missourian was judged win-ner in the General Excellence categoryfor weekly newspapers having more than2,000 circulation. It also was presentedthe Gold Cup award for scoring the mostpoints in the Better Newspaper Contest.

In the daily field, the Gold Cup waspresented to the Independence Examiner.

✒ DrexelDrexelDrexelDrexelDrexelMr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Thomas of In-

dependence are the new owners and pub-lishers of the Drexel Star. The weekly wasbought from Orlyn F. Fleenor, who hasannounced his retirement.

✒ TarkioTarkioTarkioTarkioTarkioMrs. George H. Kaufman has an-

nounced the sale of the Tarkio Avalancheto Mr. and Mrs. Raymond C. Henry.Henry has been business manager of theAvalanche for the past 10 years.

✒ North Kansas CityNorth Kansas CityNorth Kansas CityNorth Kansas CityNorth Kansas CityThe Clay County Publishing Co. in

North Kansas City, publisher of the Dis-patch newspapers, has been purchased byHarold G. Townsend Jr., a Californianewspaper executive.

Former owners were George I. Sand-ford, Loren Lamoreaux and EugeneLewis.❏

Missouri


Missouri



PRODUCTS / SERVICES

By DR. WILLIAM H. TAFTMPA Historian

During the nearly 200 years of news-paper publishing in Missouri, four

editors have been killed in the line ofduty. One was murdered by an employ-ee. Two were killed while writing copyfor the next edition. An-other was beaten todeath by a young man.

The first editor to bekilled on the job wasDr. A.B. Thornton ofthe Boonville News in1881. The city marshalwas charged with theshooting that occurredin the editor’s officewhile Thornton waspreparing copy for thenext weekly edition.

In 1907 the editorialoffice of the Kansas CityPost was the scene of ashooting when an edito-rial writer shot editorHiram J. Groves be-cause he had been fired.Groves’ condition wasnot termed serious at first. However, hedied at his home several days later. Theco-owner was also shot, but suffered noserious wounds.

Charles P. Vandiver of Keytesville wasthe next to lose his life. In 1910 the edi-tor of the Chariton County Courier was

beaten up by a young man who stronglyobjected to the writer’s articles opposinga women’s group being formed in thecommunity. Vandiver lived for severaldays following the attack.

The fourth martyr is the best knownhistorically. Wesley L. Robertson of the

Gallatin Democrat waskilled in 1919 by a citizenwho objected to the editor’s“caustic pen” commentsabout his drinking habits.Before witnesses he enteredRobertson’s office and shothim.

Each individual had astory to tell. Each was wellknown in his community.And in each case the causeof the conflict was locallyoriented.

In each instance, editorsacross the state, includingmembers and officers of theMissouri Press Association,were pallbearers. Manywrote editorials about theloss of such a prominent in-dividual, known far and

wide for his newspaper career, his workwithin the community, and his interestsin MPA.

(Dr. Taft has written accounts of eachof the killings. They will be printed inlater issues of Missouri Press News.)❏

“Back to Basics” is the theme for theCentral States NIE Conference,

which will be Thursday-Friday, June 24-25, in Springdale, Ark. The Morning

News in Springdale will bethe host.

Discussion topicswill include curriculumguides and how to use

them, key points in so-liciting sponsors for Newspa-

pers In Education, and a “how to” onteachers workshops.

A group of local teachers who use NIEwill hold a Q&A session.

On Thursday evening, guests willtravel to the Daisy Air Rifle manufactur-ing plant in Neosho, Mo. They’ll be ableto put together their own numbered,commemorative Red Ryder B.B. gunsand take them home.

Conference guests may arrive Wednes-day evening, June 23, for a social gather-ing in the hotel. Meetings will end aboutnoon on Friday.

Registion is $50. Room rates at theAmeri-Suites Hotel in Rogers, Ark., are$59. Call (479) 633-8555 at the hotel orAmeri-Suites at (800) 833-1516 to re-serve a room.

The hotel is one block east of I-540on Walnut St., Exit 85.

For more information or to register,contact Ralph Franklin, NIE coordinatorat The Morning News, (479) 872-5059,[email protected]❏

Wesley L. Robertson waspresident of Missouri PressAssociation in 1901.

Through years 4 editors killedbecause of newspaper work

Springdale, Ark., a goodplace to be, if your paperhas someone for NIE

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Joplin

William ‘Bill’ Howsmon71 — Former publisher

William “Bill” Howsmon, formereditor and publisher of the Seneca

News Dispatch, Wheaton Journal andPierce City Leader-Journal, died after ashort illness May 22, 2004, at a Joplinhospital.

Mr. Howsmon served on the board ofdirectors of the Missouri Press Associa-tion in 1980-81. He retired in 1990.

His wife, Wilma, died in 1998. Survi-vors are a son, two sisters, three grand-children and two great-grandchildren.

St. Louis

Sally Thran Gunter65 — Former reporter, editor

Sally Thran Gunter, a former Post-Dis-patch reporter and assistant city edi-

tor, died of complications of cancer April7, 2004, at her home.

Mrs. Gunter spent the mid-1960sworking as a reporter and copy editor atthe St. Louis Review, a Catholic newspa-per. She joined the Post-Dispatch in 1969and became one of the first women to

cover hard local news at the paper.She was married in 1978 to Raymond

T. Gunter, the newspaper’s letters editor.Mrs. Gunter was promoted to assistantcity editor before she resigned in 1979 todevote time to her family.

Recently she had been a writing coachand teacher at Aquinas Institute of The-ology in St. Louis.

Survivors are her husband, a son, adaughter and a granddaughter.

Festus

Helen J. ‘Donnie’ Wright83—Former owner

Helen J. “Donnie” Wright, whoowned with her husband, Harold

“Doc” Wright, the Festus Daily NewsDemocrat for a number of years, diedApril 12, 2004.

The Wrights moved to Festus in 1952when they bought the newspaper. Theyowned and operated it until the mid-1970s. They bought the local radio sta-tion in 1972 and ran it until 1989.

Mrs. Wright is survived by her hus-

Obituariesband, a son and two grandchildren.

Bolivar

Veta Steinshouer82 — Publisher’s mother-in-law

Veta Steinshouer, the mother of Bren-da Berry, Bolivar, died May 16,

2004. She was the mother-in-law ofDave Berry, vice president of Communi-ty Publishers, Inc., Bolivar.

Berry was president of Missouri PressAssociation in 2003.

Columbia

Evadna KniesMother of MPA associate

Evadna Knies, the mother-in-law ofMPA advertising manager Mike Sell,

died May 6, 2004. Her husband, PaulKnies, died in February.

Survivors are her daughter, Barbara;two sons, four granddaughters and sever-al great-grandchildren. GranddaughterJennifer Plourde, the daughter of Mikeand Barbara Sell, also works at MPA.❏

Join award-winning journalist andwriting coach Dick Weiss on Saturday,

June 12, in Columbia for Master the Sto-ry.

You’ll study the techniques of the bestjournalists in the business and learn howthey can be applied to stories you write.

Editors: Here’s an effective way to pro-vide training for your writers at a modestprice. Reporters: You can learn new ap-proaches, sharpen skills and get the feed-back that you crave.

The worskhop will be held from 10a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Columbia Daily Tri-bune, 101 North 4th St., Columbia. Costis $65. For a registration form go toweisswrite.com/masterthestory-columbia061204.htm. For informationemail Dick Weiss at [email protected].❏


Writing workshopJune 12 in Columbia

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NORTHWEST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Kay Wilson, Maryville;First Vice President, Jamey Honeycutt, Cameron; Second Vice President, Steve Tinnen,Plattsburg; Secretary, Kathy Conger, Bethany; Treasurer, Chris Boultinghouse, MoundCity. Directors: Dennis Ellsworth, St. Joseph; Kathy Whipple, Kearney; Becky Sellars,Smithville; Chuck Haney, Chillicothe; W.C. Farmer, Rock Port; Wendell Lenhart, Trenton;Tim Larson, Maryville.

SHOW-ME PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Dick Fredrick, Paris; First Vice President,Charlie Fischer, Sedalia; Second Vice President, Jeff Hedberg, Centralia; Secretary-Treasurer, Sandy Steckly, Harrisonville. Directors: Jack Whitaker, Hannibal; Rob Viehman,Cuba; Mark Cheffey, Palmyra; Linda Oldfield, Adrian; John Spaar, Odessa; DennisWarden, Owensville.

OZARK PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Keith Moore, Ava; Vice President, FredHall, Crane; Secretary-Treasurer, Jeff Schrag, Springfield. Directors: Dala Whittaker,Cabool; Rosemary Hailey, Mount Vernon; Brad Gentry, Houston; Roger Dillon, Eminence;Frank Martin III, West Plains. Past President: Helen Sosniecki.

SOUTHEAST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Annabeth Miller, Dexter;First Vice President, Scott Moyers, Cape Girardeau; Second Vice President, BarbieRogers, Doniphan; Secretary-Treasurer, Michelle Friedrich, Poplar Bluff; Historian, Mrs.Mildred Wallhausen, Charleston; Executive Secretary, Ann Hayes, Southeast MissouriState University. Directors: Kim Million-Gipson, Piedmont; Peggy Scott, Festus; MarkYoung, Marble Hill; H. Scott Seal, Portageville.

DEMOCRATIC EDITORS OF MISSOURI: President, Richard Fredrick, Paris; First VicePresident, Bob Cunningham, Moberly; Secretary, Beth McPherson, Weston; Treasurer,Linda Geist, Monroe City.

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

MISSOURI ADVERTISING MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION: President, Beth Durreman,Lebanon; First Vice President, Kevin Jones, St. Louis; Second Vice President, JaneHaberberger, Washington; Secretary, Steve Hutchings, Gainesville; Treasurer, DougCrews, Columbia. Directors: Debbie Chapman, Marshfield; Trevor Vernon, Eldon; PhilSurratt, Branson; Lisa Lynn, Sedalia; Mike Vivion, Jefferson City.

MISSOURI ASSOCIATED DAILIES: President, Larry Freels, Kirksville; Vice President,Wally Lage, Cape Girardeau; Secretary, vacant; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia; PastPresident, Will Connaghan, St. Louis. Directors: Joe May, Mexico; Mahlon Miles, Clinton;Tom Turner, Camdenton; Ernest Hunt, Kennett; Ben Weir, Independence.

MISSOURI AFFILIATE, NATIONAL FEDERATION OF PRESS WOMEN: President,Karen Glines, Des Peres; Vice President, Holly Berthold, Eureka; Finance Director, KarenZarky, St. Louis; Co-Secretaries, Peggy Koch, Barnhart, and Kathie Sutin, St. Louis;Committee Chairs: Alice Handelman, Village of Westwood, Publicity; Christy James,Richmond Heights, Membership; Gina Kutsch, St. Charles, Newsletter; Dee Raby,Granite City, Ill., Archivist; Pamela Walter, Clayton, Meetings; At Large Board: JuneBecht, St. Louis; Anne Heinrich, St. Louis; and Elly Wright, Kirkwood. Past President:Janice Denham, St. Louis.

MISSOURI PRESS SERVICE: President, Dane Vernon, Eldon; Vice President, WendellLenhart, Trenton; Secretary-Treasurer, William L. Miller, Sr., Washington; Directors:William E. James, Harrisonville; Robert Wilson, Milan.

MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION, INC.: President, Tom Miller, Washington; First VicePresident, David Lipman, St. Louis; Second Vice President, Mrs. Betty Spaar, Odessa;Secretary-Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: R.B. Smith III, Lebanon; WallaceVernon, Eldon; Rogers Hewitt, Shelbyville; James Sterling, Bolivar; Mrs. Wanda Brown,Harrisonville; Mrs. Avis Tucker, Warrensburg; Edward Steele, Columbia; Robert Wilson,Milan; Ralph Clayton, Caruthersville; Kirk Powell, Pleasant Hill.

MISSOURI AP PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS: Chairman, Charlie Fisher, Sedalia; ViceChairmen, Gary and Helen Sosniecki. Missouri AP Managing Editors: Chairman,Dennis Ellsworth, St. Joseph; First Vice Chairman, Diane Raynes, Trenton; Second ViceChairman, Oliver Wiest, Sedalia; Past Chairman, Buzz Ball, Neosho.

MISSOURI SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER EDITORS: President, Buck Collier, St. Louis;First Vice President, Buzz Ball, Neosho; Second Vice President, Cathy Ripley, Chillicothe;Secretary-Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: Chris Wrinkle, Lebanon; DennisEllsworth, St. Joseph; Dale Brendel, Independence; Diane Raynes, Trenton, and GregOrear, Brookfield.

MISSOURI COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION: Dana Fecho-Al Hilali, Central MissouriState University; Vice President, Brad Shelton, Longview Community College; Secretary,Dee Dee Nilsen, Southwest Missouri State University; Adviser, Charles Fair, CentralMissouri State University; MPA Liaison, Pat Sparks, Longview Community College.

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June

3 — MPA/MPS Board meeting,Holiday Inn, Lake Ozark

3-5 — Show-Me PressAssociation meeting, HolidayInn, Lake Ozark

4 — MPA Porter Fisher GolfClassic, Sycamore Creek GolfCourse, Osage Beach

10-11 — Inland Press AssociationAdvertising ExecutivesConference, RadissonHotel & Suites, St. Louis

11 — Ozark Press Associationmeeting, Springfield

24-25 — Central States NIEConference, Springdale, Ark.

25 — Southeast Missouri PressAssociation Annual Meeting,Southeast Missouri StateUniversity, Cape Girardeau

July

30 — Northwest Missouri PressAssociation summer outing

September

9-11 — 138th Annual MPAConvention & Trade Show,University Plaza Hotel &Convention Center, Springfield

15-18 — 118th Annual NationalNewspaper AssociationConvention, Denver, Colo.

January 2005

20-21 — Northwest MissouriPress Association annualconvention

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Documents

Missouri Missouri NewsNews - Missouri Press Association · Jack Whitaker, Hannibal Courier-Post Vicki Russell, Columbia Daily Tribune Phil Conger, Bethany Republican-Clipper NNA REPRESENTATIVE: