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Journalists have an improved right to cover courtroom proceed-ings with cameras under a new rule adopted by the Arizona Supreme Court that took effect on January 1, 2009.

Rule 122 of the Arizona Su-preme Court requires judges – before they can limit or prohibit camera access – to issue “specifi c, on-the-record fi ndings” that the likelihood of harm outweighs the public benefi ts of camera coverage. The new rule, which was adopted by the Supreme Court last Sep-tember, also makes judges’ denials of requests for camera coverage reviewable by a special action.

KPNX Broadcasting Co., the NBC affi liate station in Phoenix, fi led a petition to amend Rule 122 in the Arizona Supreme Court in November 2007 after fi nding that courts were denying requests for camera coverage at an increasing rate, often without explanation or hearing. Many of these denials occurred in high-profi le cases of acute public interest. KPNX’s peti-tion sought to add basic procedural safeguards to a rule that had not been altered since its inception 25 years ago.

Drawing on recent decisions in Mississippi and New Hampshire, KPNX’s petition cited numer-ous studies that found signifi cant benefi ts and few measurable harms attributable to cameras in the courtrooms. The petition identifi ed four other states – Florida, Mas-sachusetts, Tennessee and Wash-

ington – that either presumptively favor camera coverage of courtroom proceedings, or require courts to make specifi c factual fi ndings and consider less restrictive alternatives before prohibiting coverage.

During a comment period that lasted more than six months, KPNX enlisted the support of the Bar-bara Rodriguez Mundell, Presiding Judge of the Maricopa County Su-perior Court, who suggested a few additional changes to the station’s proposal. For example, Judge Mun-dell suggested that judges consider the “timeliness of the request” in deciding whether to allow camera coverage. Under the new Rule 122, most requests to tape or photograph

Arizona Supreme Court strengthens its rule allowing cameras in the courtBy David J. Bodneyand Chris MoeserSteptoe & Johnson LLP

a proceed-ing must

be made “no less than two days in

advance of the hearing.” Journal-ists should pay special attention to this portion of the new rule, which requires requests for camera cover-age to be submitted “to the judge of the particular proceeding suffi -ciently in advance of the proceeding or portion thereof as not to delay or interfere with it.”

Photographers and report-ers also should pay close atten-tion to section (l) of the new rule, which prohibits audio recording and photography “in any part of the court building where a judicial proceeding is not being conducted.” Unless the court expressly agrees, “there shall be no audio recording

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call for entries for their news writing and photography contest with the ANA Better Newspapers Contest. With many like cat-egories, we were able to merge these two contests by adding 4 new categories to the ANA contest. New in 2009 will be Best Multimedia Storytelling, Sports Columns, Investigative Reporting and Story of the Year. BNC/APME contest packets will be sent out in mid-May with a June 30th deadline. There will be no price increases to enter this contest in 2009.

Also being merged will be the FOI Awards from the APME with those of the ANA at our Annual Zenger/FOI Lun-cheon to be held as part of the ANA Fall Convention. We are excited about this partnership and co-branding of our news-room contest. Dates for the ANA Fall Convention are October 9-10, 2009.

This partnership will also allow us to work with APME on future training opportunities. It is our goal to assist with newsroom training in the most cost effec-tive manner.

ANA’s 2009 contests will be (almost) paperlessEntry packets were recently sent out

for the 2009 Excellence in Advertising competition. Major changes were an-nounced for our annual contests. The opportunity to upload entries via PDF directly to our contest website will begin this year by using the SmallTownPapers contest module. By shifting to an almost paperless contest, ANA will be able to eliminate most of the mailing and ship-ping costs for judging and will prevent the opportunity for lost entries. Judges will be able to log in directly to the web-site and judge their categories without leaving their offices.

If a newspaper cannot upload a PDF, ANA will photograph the tearsheets and upload them for the member newspapers for 2009 only. Several categories will still require the mailing of entries such as Best Special sections and Best Classified Section. Deadlines for the Excellence in Advertising contest are Feb 20, 2009.

Another major change for 2009 will be the combining of the Arizona Associ-ated Press Managing Editors (APME)

“Major changes

were announced

for our annual

contests.”

Paula CaseyExecutive Director

Publishers: We still need city financial data In the Fall 08, after we learned newspapers could lose public notices, we asked publishers to find some

information for us to use in our fight to keep Public Notice in newspapers. We did not receive enough to make it useful. So we are once more calling for your help.

• What was your city’s budget for the year ending June 30, 2008?• How much did the city spend on Public Notices for that same year?• Does that number match the number you received for Public Notice Ads from that city for that same year?Pretty simple. It is in your best interest to provide the informa-

tion. Paul Barger in Holbrook told us that the Navajo County bud-get totaled about $119 million. The county spent a little more than $9,000 on public notices. That is 8 one-thousandth of one percent of the budget.

We know when it comes to budget cuts everything is on the table. But we need to tell the legislature that this change in the law does more harm to the general public if it is passed. Send the information you find directly to j.fearing@ananews.com. The public and the newspaper indus-try depend on you!

Interested in getting involved? Join our Legislative Committee, which meets by conference call every Friday during the legislative session. Contact John Fearing for more info.

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Last month, HP and the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University announced the first proto-type of affordable, flexible electronic displays.

Flexible displays are paper-like computer dis-plays made almost entirely of plastic. This technol-ogy enables displays to become easily portable and consumes less power than today’s computer displays. Popular applications for the technology could include electronic paper and signage.

The production feat is a milestone in the indus-try’s efforts to create a mass market for high-resolu-tion flexible displays. Plus, from an environmental standpoint, the displays leapfrog conventional display processes by using up to 90 percent less mate-rials by volume.

Mass production of such displays can enable production of notebook computers, smart phones and other electronic devices at much lower costs since the display is one of the more costly compo-nents.

The unbreakable displays were created by the FDC and HP us-ing self-aligned imprint lithography (SAIL) technology invented in HP Labs, HP’s central research arm. SAIL is considered “self aligned” because the patterning information is imprinted on the substrate in such a way that perfect alignment is maintained regardless of process-induced distortion.

SAIL technology enables the fabrication of thin film transistor arrays on a flexible plastic material in a low-cost, roll-to-roll manufacturing process. This allows for more cost-effective continuous production, rather than batch sheet-to-sheet production.

“The display HP has created with the FDC proves the technology and demonstrates the remarkable inno-vation we’re bringing to the rapidly growing display market,” said Carl Taussig, director, Information Sur-faces, HP Labs. “In addition to providing a lower-cost

ASU demos flexible, unbreakable displaysprocess, SAIL technology represents a more sustain-able, environmentally sensitive approach to producing electronic displays.”

The first practical demonstration of the flexible displays was achieved through collaborative efforts between the FDC and HP as well as other partners in-cluding DuPont Teijin Films and E Ink. To create this display, the FDC produces stacks of semiconductor materials and metals on flexible Teonex® Polyethyl-ene Naphthalate substrates from DuPont Teijin Films.

The SAIL process integrates E Ink’s Vizplex™ imaging film to produce an active display on plastic. E Ink’s Vizplex bi-stable electrophoretic imaging film

enables images to persist without ap-plied voltage, thereby greatly reducing power consumption for viewing text.

“Producing a photolithography-free, flexible active-matrix display is an excellent example of the Flex-ible Display Center’s world-class develop-ment and manufactur-ing infrastructure,” said Shawn O’Rourke, director, Engineering, Flexible Display Cen-ter at ASU. “It demon-strates how multiple industry partners can collaborate on in-

novative solutions, including roll-to-roll compatible technology that addresses the rapidly growing market for flexible electronics.”

“Flexible electronic displays are playing an increasingly important role in the global high-tech industry, serving as the crucial enabling technology for a new generation of portable devices,” said Vinita Jakhanwal, principal analyst, Small and Medium Dis-plays, iSuppli. “We expect the flexible display market to grow from $80 million in 2007 to $2.8 billion by 2013. The Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University is a key participant in helping to develop the technology.”

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As part of its ongoing mission to increase news-paper readership, the Missouri Press Association has launched a new series of ads, available for use with-out charge by newspapers throughout the country. The theme of the campaign, “Read A Newspaper. Know It. All.” focuses on the value local newspapers bring to their readers and presents a compelling case for readership in a straightforward and sometimes humorous manner.

The ads are posted on the MPA website along with an overview of the campaign. All materials may be downloaded free of charge from http://mopress.com/know_it_all.php. The promotional ads are in .PSD format and you may modify them at will.

This campaign makes the point about the impor-tance of newspapers without a direct civics appeal. Let people know how important a free press is.

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French papers set for bailout

President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that the French govern-ment will double its advertising output in the country’s newspapers and on their related Web sites, in order to mitigate an “emergency” in the press sector caused by falling ad revenues.

Following a three-month review of the challenges facing news-papers, the government will also increase its funding for print media for the next three years.

Other provisions include giv-ing 18 year-olds free subscriptions to a print title of their choice – an inititiative being jointly-funded by publishers – and providing tax breaks for delivery services.

Says Sarkozy: “It is the state’s primary responsibility to respond to an emergency, and there is an emer-gency caused by the impact of the collapse of advertising revenue.”

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Bills would let legal notices be published online

Two bills in the state Legis-lature, one of them introduced by Yuma State Rep. Russ Jones, would give local governments the option of posting their legal no-tices online instead of having them published in local newspapers.

“It’s not a shall, it’s a may,” Jones said of the wording in the bill. “It doesn’t preclude mu-nicipalities from still publishing in newspapers if they choose to continue doing so, it just removes the requirement that requires them to do so.”

Jones said the intent of the bill is to save cities and towns money and give them the flexibility in how they choose to make the notices available to the public. But the Arizona Newspapers Associa-tion contends it shields the gov-ernment’s business from public view and deprives the public of some very important information.

“It modernizes the process of how municipalities decide to dis-seminate information,” Jones said. “It allows them greater flexibil-ity in deciding what format they would like to use.”

The bill, which has not been assigned to a committee or heard yet, would allow cities and towns to post all public notices electroni-cally on a Web site if they have one, instead of paying to have them published in local newspa-pers.

Jones said a second bill intro-duced in the House would allow county governments to forgo the

legal notice announcement require-ment. He said he did not know the sponsor of that bill.

Jones added that things such as publishing public notices is some-thing that can be done electroni-cally online, and may turn out to be more convenient.

Jones proposed the bill in con-junction with the Arizona League of Cities and Towns, of which the City of Yuma is a member.

John Fearing, deputy executive director of the Arizona Newspapers Association, says the bill does not serve the public and the association will oppose the legislation.

“Public notices are another form of public records, so why hide them from the public,” Fearing said. “This information is consid-ered so important that legislators in the past have passed laws that require it be published in newspa-pers so the public doesn’t have to go looking for it.”

Dave Nash, spokesman for the city of Yuma, said the city was not prepared to comment on the pro-posal of the bill at this time.

Although the legal advertising is a revenue source for newspapers, Fearing pointed out that there is more at stake than money, saying it is about whether the public will

be able to get the information and where they are going to find it.

He said many Arizonans don’t own computers or are not comfort-able using them, or may not have Internet access at home.

So if the public notices weren’t published in newspapers, Fear-ing said, many residents would be deprived of vital information.

“Publishing public information in newspapers creates a permanent record,” Fearing said. “The infor-mation will never change, the link won’t go away and the ink will never fade. It becomes a piece of history.”

Fearing said there is no law prohibiting municipalities from also posting the information online if they choose, and if they aren’t they are shirking the responsibility of keeping the public informed.

“So why do they need permis-sion to do something they should already be doing?” Fearing asked.

However, it would be du-plicating a service that is al-ready provided by a newspaper industry-created Web site: www.publicnoticeads.com. Fearing said newspapers from Arizona and 17 other states already publish public notices on that Web site, which al-lows free searching by the public.

Jones said that not only would publishing the information elec-tronically be more convenient for municipalities, it will also produce a cost-saving, especially at a time when cities and towns are facing budget constraints.

By James GilbertThe Sun

“It modernizes the process.” - Russ Jones

“Why do they need permission to do something they should already be doing?” - John Fearing

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Cameras in Arizona’s courts

Contribute to the 2009 Arizona Newspapers Foundation 3for3 Scholarship Fund and help a young journalist pay for college. We can’t do it without YOUR help! Without your support, this worthy program is in danger of being cancelled. Your donations are tax-deductable.

A very special thank you from ANA to The Tribune-News (Holbrook), the Arizona Capitol Times and The Catholic Sun for being the first ones to step up and make a donation.

In 2008, the ANF selected two worthy students to receive a $1,000 scholarship to Arizona State University, the University of Arizona or Northern Arizona University.

If you are ready to donate or have questions regarding this fundraiser, please contact Sharon Schwartz at (602) 261-7655 ext. 108 or s.schwartz@ananews.com. Both individual and corporate donations are welcome. Fill out the slip below and mail it to us with your donation, today!

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or broadcasting of conferences in the court building between attorneys and their clients, between attorneys, of jury interviews or in any part of the court building where a judicial proceeding is not be-ing conducted.” In other words, it is now essential to secure the judge’s permission before taking photographs or using record-ing devices to tape interviews in the court building “where a judicial proceeding is not being conducted.”

The new rule places no limits on tra-ditional reporting or newsgathering in the court building that does not involve the use of cameras or recording devices

During the petition’s comment period, the Supreme Court received 13 favorable submissions – includ-ing comments from The Arizona Republic, the Tucson Citizen, the E.W. Scripps Company, state Rep. Jonathan Paton, R-Tucson, KGUN-TV, KOLD-TV, KVOA-TV,

the First Amendment Coalition of Arizona, the Arizona Broadcasters Association, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and former Arizona Supreme

Court Chief Justice Frank Gordon, who pre-sided over the televised impeachment trial of former Governor Evan Mecham.

Judges in Cochise, Mohave and Pima Counties, together with the Pima County Bar Association, filed objections. In fact, one judge in Mohave County opposed a more focused lens in its courtrooms because “[s]ome of our non-lawyer JPs and Magis-trates may not truly reflect the highest levels of professionalism or knowledge, which

would reflect poorly upon the judiciary as a whole.”Under the new rule, reporters and the audiences they

serve will know the basis of a judge’s decision to ban camera coverage – and be permitted to challenge these decisions as appropriate.

nal drive, the click means it’s time to do an immediate backup - on the chance that you can still save your data. It was too late for mine. � ere was no saving the data on this drive. Fortunately, I have an-other backup drive with the same data, so I’m OK. But I am forced to purchase a replacement drive. Yes, with my own money.

While we’re discussing the backup drive, you might be inter-ested in knowing that I had two brands of drives connected to my iMac. One was a Lacie, the brand I always recommend to my friends and clients. � e other was a West-ern Digital. You guessed it. � e La-cie drive is � ne.

So this morning, with credit card in hand, I ordered a Lacie Tri-ple-Interface (Firewire, USB, eSA-TA) drive. For $100 plus change, I ordered a 500 Gigabyte drive that should work quite nicely. � e La-cie drives work well with both PCs and Macs.

Donations can be sent to my usual address.

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Man, I hate having to spend my own money on computer stu� . I get used to receiving software, utilities and other gizmos from companies all the time to review. It can get addictive. � en something breaks or gets old and I have to come back down to reality.

A couple of times a year I’m forced to spend money, out of my own pocket, for some necessary products. � at happened twice this week. I can feel your expressions of empathy. � anks.

Fortunately, I saw the � rst one coming. When you’re in the busi-ness of speaking about the latest computer products, people expect you to own the latest and greatest yourself. So once a year, whether I need one or not, I buy a new com-puter. So what does the “technolo-gy guru” buy when he has to spend his own money? My choice was a 15” MacBook Pro. I was tempted to go with the 17-inch model, but decided to practice what I preach. � e 17-inch model is just too big to carry through airports several times a month.

I was visiting with a PC-using colleague by phone yesterday and mentioned that I’d just purchased the new computer. His response was, “I could buy three PC laptops for that much money.”

Truth be told, I could have bought a couple of MacBooks

for the same money (yes, I was tempted), but I’ve learned the hard way that you get what you pay for. � at’s not just true of cars and phones. I need a computer that works every time. I don’t have time to worry about � xing a computer. I need a computer that’s not sus-ceptible to viruses. I need a com-

puter that doesn’t need upgrading every few months with new service packs. I need a computer that still speeds through applications after it gets some wear and tear.

� at’s why I recommend iMacs for my clients who are purchasing desktop computers. Sure, they could buy a couple of cheap PCs for the $1,200 they’ll

spend on an iMac, but they won’t have to worry about computers breaking down, virus attacks and more over the years.

So my � rst purchase was the MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, I didn’t see the second one coming.

If you read my column regu-larly, you know that I’m a big be-liever in backup drives. You can’t have too many of them. I keep two of them connected to my primary desktop (yes, it’s an iMac). You

might even remember that I always keep at least two backup drives, because they tend to break down after two or three years. � e bet-ter drives tend to last a little longer. You guessed it. Yesterday, I was in the middle of backing up my sys-tem when the secondary backup drive started clicking. Hardware gurus refer to this as the “click of death.”

When you hear the click of death, you know a drive is history. Whether it’s an external or inter-

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PresideNtDick Larson, Western News&Info, Inc. One-Year Dir./Daily

First Vice PresideNtTeri Hayt, Arizona Daily StarTwo-Year Dir./At-large

secoNd Vice PresideNtGinger Lamb, Arizona Capitol Times Two-Year Dir./Non-Daily

third Vice PresideNtDon Rowley, Arizona Daily Sun Two-Year Dir./Daily

secretAry/treAsurerRick Schneider, Eastern Arizona Courier One-Year Dir./Non-Daily

directorsTom Arviso, Navajo Times Two-Year Director/Non-Daily

Nicole Carroll, The Arizona Republic Two-Year Director/Daily

Elvira Espinoza, La Voz Two-Year Dir./At-large

John Naughton, Payson Roundup One-Year Dir./Non-Daily

Jody VandenHeuvel, East Valley Tribune One-Year Dir./Daily

Pam Mox, Green Valley News and Sun Past President

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Now is the time to embrace change

Perri CollinsANA Communications Manager

As many of you know, I am in my last semester at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Through-out my years there, I have felt a building excitement among the faculty and students about the current state of journalism. Ideas flow over hasty breaks at the Starbucks on the corner, class projects turn into vi-able entrepreneurial under-takings.

Students are trained to be flexible, think outside the box and jump on the hottest new technologies.

As communications manager for ANA, I attend many conventions, happy hours and networking events. I speak with jour-nalists, editors and pub-lishers all the time about the change that is taking place in our industry. But it seems that people are too busy wringing their hands and complaining to see that the glass if half-full. Now is a great time to start experimenting, to try new technologies, to be innova-tive and engage your com-munities.

Many new internet resources are free and easy to use. What’s stopping you from setting up a Facebook page, tweeting breaking news from Twitter or uploading videos to YouTube? Take the time to test what works for you. Don’t be afraid to learn new things.

Circulations are declining, but more people than ever are devouring the news. Now is the time to jump in with both feet. Now is the time to blow your readers away.

How are you embracing change? Graduating students – your future employees – are ready for the transformation. Are you?