Volume 74, Number 10 - October 2003 - Published by Kentucky Press Association/Kentucky Press Service

OctoberNews & NotesLewis OwensCommunity ServiceAward

Each year, the LexingtonHerald-Leader honors a newspa-per person, or a newspaper staff,by presenting its CommunityService Award. The award wasrenamed the Lewis OwensCommunity Service Award in1996.

Presented annually by theLexington Herald-Leader, theAward recognizes outstandingcommunity service by a Kentuckynewspaper person or staff.

The award was originally estab-lished in memory of Edwards M.Templin, promotion director of theLexington Herald-Leader andpresident-elect of the KentuckyPress Association when he died in1967.

It was later renamed to honorand memorialize Lewis Owens forhis many years of service to com-munity service organizations andto Kentucky’s newspaper industry.

The award will be presented inJanuary at our 2004 KentuckyPress Association Convention atthe Embassy Suites in Lexington.

If you wish to nominate some-one for this award, you can get anomination form by contactingTom Caudill at (859) 231-3301.

Nomination deadline is Nov.14.

KPA Photo ExhibitAt the 2004 KPA Convention,

scheduled for Jan. 22-23 at theEmbassy Suites in Lexington, wewill display photos from Kentuckynewspaper photographers thatwere taken in 2003. These are ondisplay during our Trade Show

Deadline for Excellence in KentuckyNewspapers competition is Oct. 10

It’s time once again to begin gather-ing your entries together for the 2003Excellence in Kentucky NewspapersCompetition.

Last year was the first year for thecompletely revised contest which com-bined the best of the Fall Newspaperand Better Newspaper contests. Thisyear’s competition has been tweakedagain slightly.

This year the entry fee is $5 perentry raised from the $4 fee, which hadbeen the same since 1983.

Individuals may have their nameson only two entries in each categoryinstead of the previous three.

A Special Sections category in theDesign competition, per the request ofseveral members, has been added. TheSpecial Section must be news-oriented,however.

The Photo Illustration category hasbeen deleted because it did not gener-ate a lot of entries and many of thoseentered should have been placed in the

Best Graphics category, which remainsin the competition.

There are 26 categories for theExcellence in Kentucky Newspapers –2003 competition and these are divid-ed into Writing, Photography andDesign.

A packet, including eligibility infor-mation, category names and numbers,

an entry form and the labels that are tobe affixed to each tearsheet, was sentout to newspapers in August. Thisinformation can also be downloadedfrom our Web site atwww.kypress.com

All issues published between Oct. 1,2002 and Sept. 30, 2003 are eligible forentry in this competition. The awardswill be announced and presented atthe 2004 Kentucky Press Associationconvention awards banquet, scheduledfor Friday, Jan. 23, at the EmbassySuites Hotel in Lexington. The conven-tion itself is Thursday, and Friday, Jan.22 and 23.

Entry deadline is Friday, Oct. 10and entries must be postmarked bythat date. Due to the judging schedule,we are unable to extend the deadline.The Mississippi Press Association willjudge the competition.

If you have any questions about thecompetition call Sue Cammack orDavid Thompson at (800) 264-5721.

Internship program a success storyfor the Kentucky Press Association

In the summer of 2004, KPA andthe Kentucky Journalism Foundationcelebrates the 10th anniversary of oneof its most successful programs —internships for college students.

The program came about onlybecause of one question, from thenboard member Steve Lowery. At asummer board meeting, we werereviewing the old foundation scholar-ship program. At the time, KPA wasawarding 28 $1,000 scholarships tostudents. It only required some mini-mum requirements and as long as thestudent met the criteria, the scholar-ship was renewable until the studentgraduated.

During the board meeting, Steveasked, “Do we know where the schol-arship recipients are today or whatthey’re doing?” The response was“no.” We hadn’t kept track of themafter graduation.

That led to KPA/KJF trackingdown as many scholarship recipients

as possible. We were able to identify58 recipients since 1984 and contactedthose students. Of the 58, a grand totalof four (yes, 4) were in the newspaperbusiness. Two of those were inKentucky, one was in South Carolinaand the fourth was in Alabama. Theother 54? Well, you could say theyused our foundation money to financetheir education and then went off intoother fields. Some became teachers, afew were attorneys, several were inradio/TV and one of the best of those58 was a sales associate at JC Penneyin Louisville (“I can make more moneyas a retail clerk with JC Penney than I

See INTERNSHIP on Page 10

On SecondThought

By David T.ThompsonKPA Executive Director

See NEWS on Page 10

Foster becomes managingeditor of Central KentuckyNews Journal

PublisherRichard RoBardsannonced lastmonth that BethFoster, who hasbeen news editorfor the past three

years, will now hold the title of editorof the Central News Kentucky Journal.

"The title change reflects the signifi-cant contribution that Beth makes toour newspaper, not only in news butin so many other ways," RoBards said.

Foster, from Russell Springs and a1997 graduate of CampbellsvilleUniversity, has been employed by theNews-Journal's parent company -Landmark Community Newspapers

Inc. - for 5 1/2 years, 2 1/2 with TheLebanon Enterprise. She has alsoworked at non-Landmark operationsin Somerset and Russell Springs.

While at the News-Journal, Fosterhas led a redesign, assisted with thepaper's strategic plan and championedseveral other special projects - themost recent being the JanuaryFreedom of Information Seminar heldin conjunction with the Big Dawg andCampbellsville University.

Foster tutors literacy students,coaches student journalists, is a mem-ber of the Kettering Foundation'sCommunity Politics Team and is amember of Greater CampbellsvilleUnited's Cultural Diversity FestivalCommittee.

Mattingly to leave LCNI atthe end of October

LCNI Editorial Director AlanMattingly has announced that he willbe leaving LCNI at the end of Octoberto join his wife, who has accepted aposition with the International Herald-Tribune in Paris, France, part of theNew York Times’ operation.

Susan Mattingly spent this summerworking on the copy desk of the IHT.Alan enjoyed a month’s leave with herin the country, and since returning,both of them have been asked to rejointhe New York Times organization.

Mattingly has been with LCNInewspapers for nearly 2 1/2 years.

Grant County hires ad repJane Ashley Inman has been hired

as the new advertising representativefor the Grant County News.

Inman is a native of Campbellsvilleand graduated from the University ofKentucky with a Bachelor of Sciencedegree in integrated communicationswith a minor in political science. Whileat UK, Inman worked for the KentuckyKernel student newspaper and com-pleted three internships, including asales internship at FOX-56 inLexington.

Upon graduation, Inman took aposition with Kentucky Oil & GasAssociation as a lobbyist.

LEO owner selects CEO,publisher

The Times Publishing Co. Inc., ofErie, Pa., which acquired TheLouisville Eccentric Observer lastmonth, has named James E. Dible asCEO, president and publisher.

Dible has been vice president/gen-

eral manger of the company since1996. He replaces Michael Mead, whois retiring but will continue to serve onthe board of directors.

The Community Recordernames Remke new editor

Andrea Remke has joined TheCommunity Recorder’s Florence officeas editor of The Kenton CommunityRecorder, The Campbell CountyRecorder, The Campbell CommunityRecorder and the Fort ThomasRecorder.

Remke, 27, has been with TheCommunity Press/Recorder paperssince December 2000. She worked atthe Kentucky office as a reporter in2001 before being promoted to presen-tation editor at the central office inCincinnati.

Remke grew up in South Bend, Ind.and graduated from St. Mary’s Collegein Notre Dame, Ind. She has worked incopy editing and page design at dailynewspapers including The SedaliaDemocrat, in Sedalia, Mo., and for theSouth Bend Tribune in South Bend,Ind.

Oldham names staff writerNate Kissel recently joined the staff

at The Oldham Era in LaGrange as astaff writer/photographer.

Kissel is a recent graduate of CentreCollege, where he received a B.A. inEnglish and history.

Slinker joins LaRueCounty Herald News’ staff

Johnathan Slinker, of Mt. Sherman,joined The LaRue County HeraldNews staff as a part-time reporter.

He previously worked as a corre-spondent for the paper and has writtena weekly column entitled “JustSlinkin.”

He also covered girl’s basketballand softball games.

Slinker will be assisting EditorLinda Parker with feature and newsstories.

A 2003 graduate of LaRue CountyHigh School, he will attendElizabethtown Community Collegeand plans to major in journalism.

News-Enterprise hiresBoutwell for inside sales

Danielle Boutwell, a native ofElizabethtown, has been hired by the

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OfficersKentucky Press Association

President - Sharon Tuminski, Winchester Sun

President-Elect - John Nelson, Danville Advocate Messenger

Vice President – David Thornberry,Somerset Commonwealth Journal

Treasurer - Charlie Portmann, Franklin Favorite

Past President - Dave Eldridge, Jessamine Journal

Board of DirectorsDistrict 1 - Alice Rouse, Murray Ledger andTimes

District 2 - Jed Dillingham, Dawson SpringsProgress

District 3 - Donn Wimmer, HancockClarion

District 4 - Charlie Portmann, FranklinFavorite

District 5 - Ron Filkins, Kentucky Standard

District 6 - Arthur B. Post, LouisvilleCourier-Journal

District 7 - Kelley Warnick, Gallatin CountyNews

District 8 - Ken Metz, Bath County NewsOutlook

District 9 - Mark Maynard, Ashland DailyIndependent.

District 10 - Edmund Shelby, BeattyvilleEnterprise

District 11 - Glenn Gray, ManchesterEnterprise

District 12 - Jeff Neal, SomersetCommonwealth Journal

District 13 - Tom Caudill, LexingtonHerald-Leader

District 14 - Teresa Scenters, Berea Citizen

State At-LargeChris Poore, Kentucky KernelTony Maddox, Madisonville MessengerPatti Clark, Owenton News HeraldTaylor Hayes, Kentucky New Era

Division ChairmanNews Editorial Division - JohnShindlebower, Spencer Magnet

Advertising Division - Cheryl Magers,Central Kentucky News Journal

Circulation Division - Kriss Johnson,Lexington Herald-Leader

Associates Division - Cliff Feltham,Kentucky Utilities

General Counsels - Jon Fleischaker, KimGreene, Dinsmore & Shohl, Louisville

Kentucky Press Association StaffDavid T. Thompson, Executive DirectorBonnie Howard, ControllerTeresa Revlett, Director of SalesDavid Greer, Member Services DirectorDana Ehlschide, News Bureau DirectorDavid Spencer, New Media DirectorBuffy Sams, Bookkeeping AssistantReba Lewis, Research/MarketingCoordinatorSue Cammack, Administrative AssistantRachel McCarty, Advertising AssistantHolly Willard, INAN Business ClerkMark Sheridan, INAN Account ExecutiveTami Hensley, Tearsheet Clerk

Staff members, Officers and Directors maybe reached by e-mail using the individual'sfirst initial, full last name@kypress.com.There is no space or punctuation in the e-mail address.

Kentucky people, papers in the news

See PEOPLE on Page 11

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Multi-cultural growth in Kentuckypresents new opportunities

The world ischanging. It’schanging right herein Kentucky at anastonishing rate.Some astute news-paper publishersand entrepreneurshave already recog-nized the businessopportunities and others are certain tofollow.

I’m referring to the rapidly growingHispanic population in Kentucky. Wealready have at least three Spanish-language publications in the state andit seems certain that more will follow.Also, a Louisville AM radio stationrecently ditched its syndicated all-sports format to go all-Spanish all-the-time. The change grabbed newspaperand broadcast headlines as a Kentuckyfirst.

While reading the latest AssociatedPress Industry News capsule, I noticeda new category – Hispanic Media. Itdetailed the acquisition of one majorSpanish-language broadcast companyby another – a $3 billion deal.

The world is changing. It’s chang-ing right here in Kentucky at an aston-ishing rate.

A couple of weeks ago, my wifeand I stopped at a Shelby Countyindoor flea market along I-64 as we

drove fromFrankfort toLouisville. The fleamarket is com-prised of at leastfive buildings thatconnect with oneanother. As wewalked up anddown the aisles of

the buildings, I was impressed at thesignificant number of patrons whowere speaking Spanish. I still remem-ber a little Spanish from studying it fortwo years in junior high more thanthree decades ago. Sometimes it comesin handy.

Somewhere between the concreteyard ornaments and the used video-tapes booth, I began seeing severalsigns written in Spanish. More thanone touted that if a person subscribedto a certain satellite TV service, therewere 29 channels available in Spanish.That junior high Spanish was payingoff.

It seems to me that any Kentuckyjournalists who are fluent in Spanishcould have a bright future. Indeed, oneof the KPA Journalism Boot Camp par-ticipants this year has a double majorin college – journalism and Spanish.She’s got the right idea.

Many years ago, Spanish was a hotforeign language. It was taught in

countless high schools and collegesnationwide. Then educators began todiscourage its study with some ofthem counseling students that in thefuture it might be better to speakJapanese, Russian or German. But thenthe Japanese economy cooled, the ColdWar thawed and the Germans reunit-ed and suddenly Spanish, thanks tothe growing numbers of Hispanicsentering the United States, became hotagain.

Of course, Shelby County and theurban areas of Louisville andLexington are not the only areas ofKentucky experiencing a significantgrowth in Hispanic residents. It’s hap-pening in many communities through-out the Bluegrass.

Maybe the flea market attorney hadthe right idea. Somewhere between thesalsa booth, the booth selling fancycowboy hats and another with TV setsand stereos for sale sat a distin-guished-looking man. At the moment,his nose was buried in a book. Signson his table said he was an attorneylicensed in Kentucky and Indiana.Another sign listed the legal serviceshe offered. Sometimes you have tolook for opportunities in unusual waysand places. Hmmm, I wonder if there’sa lesson there for those of us in thenewspaper business?

Oh, By TheWay

By David GreerKPA Member Services

Director

DeathsLong-time GraysonJournal Enquirercolumnist dies

Ollie Lambert, a long-timecolumnist for the Grayson JournalEnquirer and Olive Hill Times diedAug. 18 at the King’s DaughterMedical Center in Ashland. Shewas 78.

Lambert, of Grayson, spentmany weeks of her life gatheringlocal community news for her col-umn entitled “Carter CountyCorrespondence.”

Her columns would includebirthdays, deaths, reunions, prayerrequests and general news in thelives of her neighbors, friends andcommunity.

Former Courier-Journalstringer dies

Lucile Schergens, 95, a retiredcolumnist and former Tell Citynewspaper co-owner, died Aug. 25at Oakwood Health Campus in TellCity following an illness. She was95.

She and her husband, Edgar,owned The Tell City News andCannelton News until their sale onSept. 1, 1972.

A Kentucky native, Schergensfirst started in the newspaper busi-ness as a stringer for the EvansvilleCourier, Louisville Courier-Journaland Indianapolis Star, and over theyears worked beside her husbandin their many accomplishmentswith their newspapers.

Retired Messenger-Inquirer telegraph editor dies at 100

Bernyce B. Gasser, ofOwensboro, died Aug. 30 atDogwood Retreat in Hartford. Shewas 100.

The Hartford native was aretired telegraph editor for theMessenger-Inquirer. She was amember of Fist PresbyterianChurch. She was preceded in deathby her husband, Lawrence D. (L.D.)“Birdie” Gasser, the writer of thecolumn “Birdie’s Breezy Bits” inthe Messenger-Inquirer, who diedin December 1979.

Lessons on avoiding advertising scamsAdvert is ing

rules and regula-tions wereexplained at aseminar “GreenLights and RedFlags: FTC Rulesof the Road forAdvertisers” onSept. 9 atB e l l a r m i n eUniversity in Louisville. The eventwas sponsored by the Better BusinessBureau serving Louisville, SouthernIndiana and western Kentucky, theFederal Trade Commission MidwestRegion and the Kentucky AttorneyGeneral’s Office.

During the day long session, adver-tising claims were examined and thosein attendance were told how to displayclaims clearly and conspicuously. Asession on the national do-not-call ruleand how it could affect our businesswas also on the agenda.

Scams were dis-cussed that may offerlow interests loans topeople with less thanperfect credit. “Thesebusinesses are some-times open only fourweeks,” said SteveWernikoff, attorneyfor the FTC MidwestRegion. Another scam

could involve stolen credit cards andonce the business is targeted, the oper-ation would pack up the shop andmove to another location, avoidingcriminal prosecution.

A warning was given of a sweep-stakes event where the consumer istold that a prize has been won. Anappointment is made to bring theprize to the consumer. Then the scamis that the winner is told as a citizen ofthe United States there is an exorbitanttax on the item. At times the persondelivering the prize walks away with

$2,000 in “fees and taxes.”Credit cards are being set up over

the telephone with the salespersonasking for a valid checking accountnumber. Before the credit card arrivesthe consumer finds out that the check-ing account has been drained of allfunds.

During the breakout sessions in theafternoon, automobile advertising,substantiating health and safety claimsand home improvement services wereall discussed. Anyone who wantscopies of the handouts from the meet-ing can give me a call and I will try tohelp.

Also, keep watching for the sched-ule of the KPA winter convention inJanuary when representatives fromthese sponsoring groups will be onhand to conduct seminars for ourmembers.

More information is available aboutthe various scams and legal ramifica-tions at the FTC website www.ftc.gov

AdvertisingPlus

By Teresa RevlettKPS Director of Sales

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‘I can trust that lawyer...Can’t I?By KIM GREENE KPA GeneralCounselDinsmore & Shohl

Last week youpublished a storyreporting that SamSmith, an area busi-nessman, wascharged with illegaldrug trafficking. You quote a lawenforcement official as saying that hewas part of a regional ring of cocainepurveyors, many of whom were alsocharged at the same time. This weekyou get a letter and a phone call froman irate attorney representing an evenmore irate Sam Smith. The attorneytells you you have made a grave mis-take which is likely to have a horren-dous impact on his client’s personalreputation in the community as wellas his business. He says Sam Smithwas not charged with anything, amatter which would be simple for thenewspaper to confirm, and certainlyis not part of any drug traffickingring.

You get off the phone stunned.You call your reporter and editor in toask about the news article. Were wecorrect? Did we make a mistake?How did it happen?

After doing some legwork, thereporter confirms to you that, in fact,Smith was not charged with drug traf-ficking. He acknowledged never hav-ing seen an official document, butrelying upon his source within thepolice department. When he calledthe source back, that person said, “Isaid Sam Smith to you? I meant SamSimmons, who is going to be charged.The paperwork just hasn’t gonethrough yet.”

Sam Smith’s attorney has demand-ed a correction, so you participate in aconference call with Smith and him.You listen to the attorney vent for awhile. You answer a few pointedquestions. You agree to allow Smithand his lawyer to “assist” with thedrafting of the correction and youagree to let them preview it before itis published.

After the conference call, you dis-cuss how to handle the correctionwith your editor and reporter. You’dsure like to keep Smith and his attor-ney from following through on theirthreat to sue you. Therefore, youwant to draft something that is a clearacknowledgement of the mistake andnot a wishy-washy non-apology. And

maybe you can go even a little fartherthan you might ordinarily in your cor-rection, since Smith and his lawyergave every indication that they wouldrather not sue. They left you with thedistinct impression that a good strongcorrection and apology is really whatthey want. Just clear the air.

You draft the correction basedupon Smith’s and his attorney’s vehe-ment representations to you that he isa solid citizen who has never had any-thing to do with drugs. Your correc-tion says, among other things, that thenewspaper has no reason to believethat Sam Smith is in any way associat-ed with any cocaine trafficking ring.

You telecopy the draft correction toSmith’s attorney who calls you backlater that day to say it sounds fine.You publish and sigh a deep collec-tive sigh of relief. Crisis averted.

Or was it? About eleven months later you

receive the complaint and summonsin the mail. Despite the attorney’srepresentations that he and Smithwere satisfied with the correction theyhelped you draft, they have filed alawsuit against you. The lawsuitalleges that you defamed Smith intwo ways: (1) when you said he wascharged and (2) when you said hewas part of a regional cocaine traffick-ing ring.

Once again you are stunned and,this time, you’re also angry. Yougave those guys the very correctionthey wanted. Doesn’t that mean theyare barred from suing you?

Unfortunately, it doesn’t. Thestatute concerning demands for cor-rection is KRS 411.051. It states that anewspaper sued for defamation mayplead that its publication of a correc-tion should mitigate the damagespayable to the plaintiff. The statutealso says that the newspaper is pro-tected from a punitive damagesaward if it made a “conspicuous andtimely” correction and if the plaintiffcannot prove that the newspaperknew of the falsity of its news articlewhen it was published or publishedwith reckless disregard for the truthor falsity of the article. This, ofcourse, is the actual malice standardthat is also required of public officialsand public figures who sue newspa-pers.

Unfortunately, the statue does notsay that publishing a conspicuous andtimely correction upon demand insu-lates the newspaper from a lawsuit.

That means that it is important to takecare in the drafting of a correction.You must always be aware that a law-suit might follow. In your genuineeagerness to apologize for a mistake,you should be careful not to overdothe mea culpa lest it come back to biteyou.

How might that happen here?And why should you worry about it?After all, you did make a mistake.Isn’t the best, most honest, most ethi-cal, most professional approach toadmit that forthrightly?

Certainly, when a mistake such asthis one is made, the best approach isto acknowledge it. Something like:“Newspaper erroneously reportedlast week that . . . “ or “the September15 news article incorrectly stated thatSam Smith was charged with drugtrafficking. No such charge has everbeen made against Mr. Smith. Thenewspaper sincerely apologizes for itsmistake.”

There is no need, however, to gothat extra step of stating that “thenewspaper has no reason to believethat Mr. Smith has ever been involvedin any cocaine trafficking ring.”Sometimes we like to beat ourselvesup when we’ve made a mistake wethink we shouldn’t have. This sen-tence certainly serves that purpose.But it isn’t necessary to make yourpoint and it certainly could become aproblem in the litigation.

In the eleven months since youroriginal news article, your policedepartment source has told you offthe record that the police have beenwatching Smith very carefullybecause of their suspicion that he isinvolved in the cocaine ring. Notonly that, you’ve received a couple ofanonymous tips about Smith’sinvolvement. One of the many legaldefenses that you might want toassert in the lawsuit would be that allor part of the news article was sub-stantially true. Truth, of course, is anabsolute defense to a defamationclaim. You may not know for certainthat Smith is involved in the cocainetrafficking ring, but the informationyou’ve received since your news arti-cle ran gives you leads to follow-up,so you don’t want to throw thedefense of truth away. But have youdone that already by stating unequiv-ocally in your correction that you“have no reason to believe . . . ?”

Anytime you receive a demand fora correction, you should treat it as a

serious threat to sue you. No matterhow convincingly the person or hisattorney leads you to believe a strongcorrection is all they want, you shouldnever lose sight of the danger of self-flogging. Check with your own attor-ney or, of course, you’re welcome tocall your Hotline attorneys. We willhelp you analyze the demand for cor-rection and come up with wordingthat corrects the error and satisfiesyour obligations under the correctionstatute, while simultaneously protect-ing your ability to defend yourselffully in the event of a lawsuit.

Some things you need to knowabout KRS 411.051:

•The individual must make a “suf-ficient demand for correction.” Thestatute defines that as a demandwhich is in writing, signed by theplaintiff or his attorney. The demandmust specify the statements claimedto be false and defamatory and muststate how they are false, setting forththe facts.

•A satisfactory correction may beeither: (1) publication of youracknowledgement that the statementsare erroneous or (2) publication of theplaintiff’s statement of the facts (as setforth in his demand for correction) ora fair summary of them. You have aright to edit any content which isdefamatory, obscene or otherwiseimproper for publication.

•A daily newspaper must publishthe correction within 10 business daysafter receiving the demand for correc-tion. Any other newspaper must pub-lish the correction by the next regularissue which is published after the10business day period.

•The correction must be “substan-tially as conspicuous” as the newsarticle containing the allegedly falseand defamatory statements. Thatmeans, if the news article in questionwas front page above the fold, thecorrection should be, as well.

If you have any questions aboutdemands for correction generally orwish to discuss a specific demand forcorrection, don’t hesitate to call yourHotline attorneys.

Jon L. Fleischaker: 502/540-2319Kimberly K. Greene: 502/540-2350R. Kenyon Meyer: 502/540-2325Ashley C. Pack: 502/540-2385

DINSMORE & SHOHL, LLPSwitchboard: (502) 540-2300Facsimile: (502) 585-2207

The Kentucky Press, October 2003 - Page 5

Longtime Winchester newspapereditor brings career to a closeReprinted with permission from TheWinchester Sun

William S. "Bill" Blakeman retiredas editor of The Winchester Sun, effec-tive Oct. 1.

Blakeman assumed editorship ofThe Sun on May 4,1963, succeeding thelate W.C. "Bill" Caywood Jr. who leftthe paper to join the JournalismDepartment at the University ofKentucky after serving more than 25years as editor.

At the time, Blakeman, who joinedthe paper as a reporter in May, 1960,and who was later named associateeditor, was one of the youngest dailynewspaper editors in Kentucky at theage of 25.

He has served as editor of The Sunlonger than any other editor andaccording to David Thompson, execu-tive direcotr of the Kentucky PressAssociation, is one of the longest-tenured daily editors in Kentucky, ifnot the longest.

A native of Louisville, Blakeman, agraduate of Lexington's Henry ClayHigh School, received his journalismdegree from the University ofKentucky in 1960.

During Blakeman's editorship, TheSun's newsroom operations wereexpanded to include a full-time sportseditor, full-time photographer, a cityeditor and additional reporters to pro-vide more extensive coverage of localnews.

The newspaper began publishingfive locally written editorials a week aswell as local columns, some written bymembers of the newspaper's staff, oth-ers by members of the community.Increased emphasis was given publica-tion of local letters to the editor.

Under Blakeman's leadership TheSun won numerous general excellenceand first-place awards from theKentucky Press Association in its bet-ter newspaper contests and also wasnamed one of the country's Blue

R i b b o nNewspapersby theN a t i o n a lE d i t o r i a lFoundation.

Blakemanhas beenactive onn u m e r o u slocal boardsand servedas presidentof TheK e n t u c k yAssoc ia tedPress Editorson three separate occasions. Currentlyhe is on the Advisory Committee forEastern Kentucky University'sDepartment of Mass Communicationsand vice president of the BluegrassHeritage Museum's board of directors.

He will become editor emeritus ofThe Sun and work part-time.

William S. Blakeman

The World Affairs JournalismFellowships are intended for expe-rienced journalists and editors fromAmerica’s community-based dailynewspapers. The goal is to givethem an opportunity to establishthe connections between local-regional issues and what is hap-pening abroad.

Fellows will conduct overseasresearch and then submit articles totheir local papers in an effort to“internationalize” America’s localpress. The fellowships are foundedon the belief that local news is notlimited to one’s immediate commu-nity and that enterprising reportersand editors can find good interna-tional stories in their own back-yards. The program is aimed atnews managers, editors, commen-tary writers and other “gatekeep-ers”—those desk editors largelyresponsible for selecting newsagency and correspondent-initiatedstories.

By supporting overseas researchand writing projects for up to threeweeks, the fellowships encouragethe writing and selection of newsarticles, analysis, features, andcommentary in the local press thatwell enhance American under-standing of the relationshipbetween local and internationalissues.

The program is jointly adminis-tered by the International Centerfor Journalists, the World AffairsCouncils of America and theNewspaper Association Managers.The fellowships are funded by agrant from the John S. and James L.Knight Foundation in Miami andEthics and Excellence in JournalismFoundation in Oklahoma City.

Up to 12 fellows from the UnitedStates will be selected and provid-ed support to develop projects thatwill lead to articles in their homenewspapers or in other U.S.-basedpublications. The articles will shedlight on global issues that have adirect impact on their local commu-nities. The World Affairs

Journalistscan travelwith WAJFellowships

See WAJ on Page 10

September was high school journalismmonth for many Kentucky students

More than 800 high school journal-ism students and their teachers attend-ed regional high school workshops inSeptember. Both events were co-spon-sored by the Kentucky High SchoolJournalism Association. KHSJA isunder the guidance of the KentuckyPress Association and was co-foundedalong with the Kentucky BroadcastersAssociation.

On Sept. 19, about 500 students andteachers attended a workshop atEastern Kentucky University. AlanMattingly, editorial director forLandmark Community Newspapersand former copy editor at The Courier-Journal, Chicago Sun-Times and NewYork Times, was the keynote speaker.

As he spoke, Mattingly tossed bun-dled newspapers around the room fordramatic effect.

“It’s the sound of a miracle drop-ping on your doorstep every morn-ing,” he said.

Mattingly grew up on a tobaccofarm near Springfield in WashingtonCounty, Ky., but knew he wantedanother life. His first newspaper job asa teen was covering sports for RichardRoBards, then-publisher of The

Springfield Sun. Internships at papersin Bardstown and Ashland followed.After graduating from WesternKentucky University, Mattingly wentoff to Vincennes, Ind., to be a sportseditor.

Along the way, he changed fromsports to news and began a journalismjourney that took him from the weeklyin Kentucky to the foreign desk of TheNew York Times.

During the EKU workshop, printstudents attended a variety of break-out sessions while broadcast studentstoured a TV mobile news van from aLexington station. EKU’s Dr. LizHansen played a key role in organiz-ing the event.

A week later, on Sept. 26, two stu-dents from Warren County took tophonors in the Journalism Scholars Daywrite-off competition at WesternKentucky University.

Eugenia Greer of Bowling GreenHigh School won first place and a $150in scholarship to attend Western.Brooke McCloud of Greenwood HighSchool placed second earning $100.

Held in Western’s new Mass Media& Technology Hall, Scott Couch ofWTVF-TV, Nashville, kicked off the

Journalism Scholars Day’s events. Hisremarks concluded with an on-the-spot speech story competition. Sixteenstudents were given 45 minutes towrite a news story based on Couch’skeynote address.

Tthe write-off required that stu-dents type their stories on computers,self-edit and turn them in all in underan hour, just like in a real newsroom.About 350 students and their advisersfrom 14 Kentucky high schools attend-ed the WKU event.

Greer and McCloud weren’t theonly winners. The half-day workshopconcluded with the presentation ofawards for Western’s chapter of theSociety of Professional JournalistsMark of Excellence Yearbook contest.

Staffers and their advisers attended21 breakout sessions with topics rang-ing from broadcasting and photogra-phy to technology and feature writing.

JSD, directed by Jackie Bretz, is co-sponsored by the School of Journalism& Broadcasting, the Kentucky HighSchool Media Partnership, Western,Western’s Chapter of Society ofProfessional Journalists and theKentucky High School JournalismAssociation.

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Right: Bob McDonald, Deputy Directorof Communications for Gov. Paul Patton,presented David T. Thompson with anacclamation from the Governor’s officecelebrating Thompson’s 20 years of ser-vice to the Kentucky Press Association.The print was framed for Thompson byCelia Creal McDonald, and BettyBerryman, both past presidents of KPA.Far right, top: Jim Edelen, center, publish-er of the Shelbyville Sentinel News, andDon White, publisher of the AndersonNews in Lawrenceburg, talked with thecrowd during the anniversary celebrationfor David Thompson on Sept. 26. Farright second from top: Bill Blakeman,editor of the Winchester Sun, talked withDavid Thompson at the anniversaryreception. Later in the day, Blakeman cel-ebrated with his staff for his 43 years ofservice to the citizens of Winchester andClark County. Blakeman is going intosemi-retirement and plans to work about20 hours each week in Winchester.

Above: David Stamps, Executive Director of theHoosier State Press Association, Indiana, gaveDavid Thompson a “Knight - My Story” book andIU hat. The Wildcat fan had trouble displaying thered colors. Top middle: Cheryl Magers, advertisingdirector at the Central Kentucky News Journal,Campbellsville, and Dorothy Abernathy, ofLandmark Community Newspaper, Inc., wereamong those attending the reception. Bottom mid-dle: Stan Lampe, of Marathon Ashland PetroleumLLC, presented David Thompson with a gas can forhis 20th anniversary. Right, third from top: CliffFeltham, public information officer for KentuckyUtilities, visited with everyone at the reception forDavid Thompson during the celebration for his 20years of service as Executive Director of KPA.Rightbottom: Steve Austin, publisher of the HendersonGleaner, left, and his wife, Pam, were among thecrowd visiting during the reception.

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Staff members celebrated with David Thompson on Sept. 26 at a reception forThompson at the KPS / Ad Staff office in Frankfort. Shown are, left to right:Buffy Sams, Reba Lewis, Bonnie Howard, David Spencer, Sue Cammack, RachelMcCarty, Holly Willard, Teresa Revlett and David Greer; Thompson is seated.Dana Ehlschide was attending the West Kentucky Press Association meeting inDraffenville. Tami Hensley and Mark Sheridan were absent from the photo.

Left: The Thompson family enjoyed visiting with friends during the anniversary celebrationon Sept. 26. Shown are Symmi Thompson, Marilyn and David Thompson and Kalli Gilbert.Above left: Guy Hatfield, owner of two Kentucky newspapers and past president of KPA,stopped by the KPS office on Sept. 26 for the anniversary celebration. Above right: MarkSheridan, Indiana Newspaper Advertising Representative for KPS, shows off the redIndiana University colors with KPA/ KPS Executive Director David Thompson.

Far left: Don Towles served on the com-mittee when David Thompson was hiredas Executive Director for KPA in 1983.Towles served as KPA president in 1982.Left: David Hawpe, KPA president in 1990,was one of the first visitors at Thompson’sreception. Hawpe works for the CourierJournal. Below left: Ken Metz, publisherof the Bath County News Outlook,stopped by to congratulate DavidThompson on his 20 years of service.Below right: Kriss Johnson, chairman ofthe KPA circulation division, visited withThompson at the reception. Johnson worksfor the Lexington Herald-Leader.

Left: Steve Vest, publisher of Kentucky Monthly,Frankfort, came by the reception to wish Thompson well.Above: Kim Greene and Jon Fleischaker, attorneys forKPA, were among the visitors at the reception honoringDavid Thompson.

Left: SharonTuminski, finan-cial manager atWinchester Sunand currentboard president,presented DavidThompson with aclock commemo-rating his time asexecutive direc-tor. BettyBerryman, pub-lisher of theWinchester Sun,was on the boardof directors whenThompson washired.

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Kentucky Standardmoves to Sunday

Beginning Oct. 5 residents ofBardstown began getting their news aday earlier.

The Kentucky Standard added aSunday newspaper to its lineup dis-continuing the Monday newspaper.Other publications days, Wednesdayand Friday, remain unchanged keep-ing the newspaper at a three-times-a-week format.

“We wanted to give our readersand advertisers a better product,”Publisher Ron Filkins said. “We spentconsiderable time studying theprospect of a Sunday newspaper andcame to the conclusion a Sundaynewspaper could better serveBardstown and Nelson County.”

Having a Sunday publicationmeans the addition of new carrierroutes. Home delivery for a majorityin the rural parts of the county willnot only be on Sundays but the otherdays as well.

Additional features are in the plan-ning stages as well.

A national, four-color Sunday mag-azine, American Profile, is beingadded to the newspaper. It containsregionalized editorial content cele-brating the interests, values andevents of life in America’s home-towns.

The newspaper will also adopt a

two-section format on Sundays. Thefirst section will include news andsports, while the second section willbe geared toward lifestyles and classi-fieds.

The editorial page is being expand-ed to include an op-ed page. Two syn-dicated columnists, including WalterCronkite, are being added.

The newspaper will also have neweditorial cartoonists. The KentuckyPress Association’s News Bureauadding a regular piece is also beingconsidered.

A weekly full-page feature spreadwill anchor the second section. TheStandard will also be adding a comicspage.

The Sunday second section willcarry weddings and engagements aswell as club news. Other lifestylesitems in the works include teencolumnists from the local high schoolsas well as a nationally-syndicated teencolumn.

Stacey Manning, news/photo edi-tor, and Donna Wilhite, creative ser-vices director, are joined by EditorLisa Tolliver, Carrie Pride, communitynews coordinator, reporters HollyCecil and Mark Boxly, paginator ScottWatson and sports editor JasonNelson in planning the look and pack-aging of the new Sunday product.

Court upholds dismissalof suit against C-J

The Kentucky Court of Appealsupheld a judge’s dismissal of a law-suit that a former Floyd County, Ind.school administrator filed against twomedia outlets over coverage after hispublic indecency arrest.

Denver McFadden, a former mem-ber of the Indiana state school board,filed suit against the Courier-Journaland WHAS-TV over stories they didon his arrest in February 2001. He wascharged with exposing himself in amall restroom in Indianapolis. Hewas found guilty of the misdemeanorlast year.

McFadden alleged that the mediahad violated his right to privacy, andthat their coverage was intended tocause emotional distress. He said thenewspaper and television station

reported that police had questionedhim in 2000 regarding an incidentwhere he allegedly tried to arrange ameeting for sex over the Internet.McFadden was never charged.

Circuit Judge Tom McDonald dis-missed the lawsuit in December 2001,and the three-judge appellate panelupheld the dismissal, sayingMcFadden’s public school careermade his lawsuit groundless.

In his written decision on the case,Judge William McAnulty wrote, thatMcFadden “by virtue of the positionshe held in public education, voluntar-ily involved himself in an area of con-troversy and interest. Therefore,actions of his which may have reflect-ed on his position in the field of edu-cation were of public interest.”

Members of the West KentuckyPress Association gathered at theHoliday Inn Express in Draffenville fortheir annual fall convention.

The first speakers of the morningwere Janett Blythe, director of market-ing and public relations at WesternKentucky Community and TechnicalCollege, and Sherry Anderson, dean ofacademic affairs at WKCTC. Their pro-gram titled “New Kid on the Block”explaind the role of the new system inour communities.

Blythe explained how the technicalcollege and community college systemsfunctioned as separate entities until thestate legislation passed House Bill 1 in1997 creating the KentuckyCommunity and Technical College sys-tem. In 1998, Paducah CommunityCollege and West Kentucky Techjoined the Kentucky Community andTechnical College System as a result ofthe act in 1997. In 2003, the KCTCSBoard of Regents officially approvedconsolidation of Paducah CommunityCollege and West Kentucky TechnicalCollege and the naming of the consoli-date college was officially changed toWest Kentucky Community andTechnical college.

Anderson explained the main differ-ence between the community collegeand the technical college is that thecommunity college offered associatedegrees but no dipolmas or certificatesand the technical college offered dipol-mas and certificates but no degrees.

“We had been hearing fromemployees that not everyone needed atwo year degree (at the community col-lege),” Anderson said. “With the for-mation of KCTCS, (the community col-lege and the technical college) wereapproved to offer all three.”

Three different degrees are offeredat WKCTC. Students can obtain adegree in Associate Arts, AssociateScience or Associate Applied Science.

Anderson also explained how all thecredits earned at WKCTC are transfer-able to any of the state colleges or uni-versities.

After a short break, Bill Bartleman,political reporter at the Paducah Sunspoke to the group about covering poli-tics in Kentucky since 1975 in his pro-gram titled “From the Trenches.”

He spoke about the upcoming elec-tion and the candidates.

Taylor Hayes, of the Kentucky NewEra, spoke to the group about theupcoming SNPA traveling campus inHopkinsville in March 2004. He said itwas still in the organizational phaseand asked for suggestions on seminartopics.

WKPA agreed to hold its springmeeting in conjunction with the SNPAseminars.

After lunch David Rowell, CEO ofthe new Four Rivers Center for thePerforming Arts in Paducah, spokeabout the upcoming season and what isinvolved in opening this type of facilityas well as the steps to booking acts.

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WKPA holds fall meeting in Draffenville

Janett Blythe, director of marketing and public relations at WKCTC in Paducah, spoketo those in attendance at the WKPA meeting about the role of the newcommunity/technical colleges in our communities while Jed Dillingham, of theDawnson Springs Progress, looks on.

Those in attendance at the West Kentucky Press Association fall convention held in Draffenville Sept. 26 listen as DavidRowell, CEO of the Four Rivers Center for Performing Arts in Paducah, details the first season of the new facility.

Bill Bartleman, of the Paducah Sun spoke at theWKPA meeting about his career as a political reporterat the newspaper, about covering the state legislaturehis views on the gubernatorial candidates and theelection.

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can in the newspaper industry,” shetold me.)

By any standards, four of 58 cannotbe termed a success. So a change wasneeded. Instead of throwing goodmoney after bad, we needed some-thing that would reverse the statisticsand get the students seriously consid-ering a career in newspapers.

That’s when the internship idea wasdeveloped and presented to the board.If we can get the students into thenewsroom or darkroom or advertisingdepartment, we can show them the“real world of newspapering.” Andthat’s different from what they wouldlearn in the classroom.

The board did not feel it could takeaway any scholarships from that year’sfreshmen so students would be able tokeep their scholarships until theygraduated and as long as the met thebasic criteria (2.5 GPA overall; 3.0 GPAin journalism).

At the same time, we’d phase in theinternship program, awarding six in1994, 12 in 1995 and a full contingentby 1996. When 1996 arrived, the fullcontingent was 20 internships.

The program was turned over to theKPA Past Presidents who are solelyresponsible for the program’s success-es, the internship pay and selecting theHost Newspapers.

Since newspapers that participate inthe Statewide Classified Program wereresponsible for building the founda-tion’s investment portfolio, the PastPresidents chose to limit the internship

program to thosenewspapers. The PastPresidents didn’twant the students tobe clerks in the news-room or the addepartment so eligiblenewspapers arerequired to submit ajob description andensure that the stu-dents will be treatedjust like otheremployees.

For the past sever-al years, each internhas received $3,000for a 10-week intern-ship. (I can still hearRuss Metz saying hewas going to sell hisnewspaper and goback to college so hecould get that kind ofmoney.)

But to attract stu-dents to the intern-ship program, we had to make it anattractive program. And with anattractive program, we can get theminside a newspaper. And if we can getthem inside a newspaper, we can getthem interested in a career in newspa-pers.

And that’s where the success comesin. Remember the four of 58 scholar-ship recipients who actually hadworked in newspapers.

With the internship program, youcan reverse those numbers. We’re run-ning better than 80 percent of the

interns ending up with a job in news-papers. Granted not all of them are inKentucky, but they are in the newspa-per business.

The students have had an impact aswell. I remember one of the firstinterns was R.L. Gold, a non-tradition-al student at Murray State. One of thestories he did during the internshipwas entered in the KPA FallNewspaper Contest. And it won a firstplace.

Until the mid-1990s, numerouspress associations offered scholarshipprograms. Some still do. But for others,

they found similar results on howmany scholarship students were actu-ally in the business. And hearing of thesuccess of our program, they’veswitched to internships as well. Andthey’re getting similar results now —using the program to give students areal-life experience that leads to themgiving newspapers serious considera-tion after graduation.

If you aren’t in the StatewideClassified Program but would be inter-ested to be eligible for the program,give me a call at 800-264-KPA1 and I’llexplain both programs to you.

Journalism Fellowships are competi-tive, and fellows are selected andrecruited according to several criteria:

• A record of quality achievementin a position at their home newspa-pers that allows the applicant to havea significant impact on determiningnews selection and placement;

• The submission of a thoughtful,coherent and well-structured proposalfor a reporting and writing assign-ment that would be significantlyenhanced by an opportunity to traveloverseas for one to three weeks;

• A spirit of adventure and a curios-ity about the link between globalissues and the local community; and

• Enthusiasm for and understand-ing the of the mission of the fellow-ship.

Preference will be given to appli-cants from daily, community-based

newspapers that do not have overseascorrespondents and that would beunlikely to have the resources to sup-port an overseas reporting assignmentfor a member of their local news team.

For more information on the pro-posal to be submitted with the applica-tion, go to: wajf@icfj.org.

The deadline for applications isDec. 12, 2003. The World AffairsJournalism Fellowship SelectionCommittee will meet in February forthe selection of fellows. After selec-tion, participants will take part in amandatory week-long orientation pro-gram in Washington, D.C., during theweek of May 16, 2004. Following thissession, the fellows will continue torefine their project proposals with theassistance of the fellowship adminis-trators and will travel overseas ontheir individual one-to three-weekassignment between May andSeptember 2004. Articles based onwork done through the fellowshipshould be published by mid-November, 2004.

Tips in obtaining an intern •whether you get an intern through the KPA program, or your newspaper already has a pro-

gram, start the process early. To get the best students, be early. Let the schools know you have aninternship position, as early in the fall semester as possible.

• contact the advisers and professors to see which students would be a good fit for your news-paper. Letters of recommendation are required with each student’s application in the KPA pro-gram but the recommendation does not replace talking with someone at the school personally.From the time the recommendations are written to the time you are ready to hire, a lot could havechanged in a student’s performance in classes or on their school paper.

• students may have several internship opportunities so if you aren’t successful in your firstattempt to land a student, don’t give up. Many students haven’t been through a job offer or inter-view before and may be hesitant at what to do. And remember, since KPA is awarding 20 intern-ships, chances are some students are getting several phone calls from Kentucky newspapers at thesame time.

• if you don’t apply for the KPA program and don’t have your own internship program, startone. It’s not that costly. In fact, during the school year, if you’re close to a private college or even astate university, consider using an intern for a semester. When I was publisher at Georgetown,Scripps League would not allow me to have a paid intern. But since Georgetown College offeredindependent study credit, I was able to have three interns over two semesters. The students gotthree hours of credit from the college and earned an easy “A” from me. Don’t get me wrong, justlike college athletes, students need some “spending money” so pay them what you can. But youcan make the pot “sweeter” if the student is eligible for independent study credit. And whoknows? That may be the best on-the-job training program you could have. It’s conceivable the stu-dent just might want to work for your newspaper after graduation and because of that internshipprogram, they won’t need a training period. They’ve already gotten it.

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and the exhibit is available for localuse, at public libraries for instance,after the convention ends on Jan. 23.

This is not a contest and most allphotos are used in the exhibit,depending on space available.

Photos may be in color or blackand white; should be no larger than11 x 14; and should be mounted,preferablu on black poster boardalong with the name of the newspa-per and the photographer’s nameand a cutline, if appropriate. Thesedo NOT have to be photographs thatwere published in the newspaper.

The deadline is Dec. 12.Please indicate on a cover memo

that the photographs are being sub-mitted to use in the KPA PhotoExhibit.

2004 KPA Yearbook andDirectory Front Cover

Each year, we select one four-color photograph or a montage froma photographer at a newspaper andpublish it that on the front cover ofthe directory with appropriate creditgiven inside the directory. The photodoes not have to have been pub-lished in a newspaper to be used onthe directory’s cover.

The deadline for submitting afour-color photograph for the frontcover is Nov. 15.

Please indicate that the photo isbeing sent for consideration for thefront cover of the KPA Yearbook andDirectory, and include the newspa-per and the photographer’s name.

Please mail entry to :David T. ThompsonKentucky Press Association101 Consumer LaneFrankfort, KY 40601

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News-Enterprise as an inside sales rep-resentative in the ClassifiedAdvertising Department.

Crawford takes position atKentucky HomesMagazine

Marian Crawford has recentlytransferred from her job at TheCynthiana Publishing Company to theKentucky Homes Magazine depart-ment as an ad designer/customer ser-vice representative.

She held her position at TheCynthiana Publishing Company forover 35 years.

Blandford hired as market-ing coordinator

Mary Anne Blandford has joinedThe News-Enterprise staff as market-ing coordinator.

The Louisville native attendedEastern Kentucky University.

Clemens to lead The NewsEnterprise AdvertisingCoordinations Team

A new Advertising CoordinationsTeam has been formed at The News-Enterprise in Elizabethtown and LindaClemens takes on the role asAdvertising Coordinations TeamLeader.

Clemens joined the staff on Feb. 20as an advertising coordinator andmoved to her new position on May 5.

She is originally from Indiana butmoved to Elizabethtown lastSeptember after graduating from theState University of West Georgia inMay 2003 with a BFA.

Dean Manning takes job atLaurel News Journal

Dean Manning has joined the staffat the Laurel News Journal as a staffreporter.

Born in Covington, Manning hasroots in Laurel and Clay Counties.

Prior to coming to the Laurel NewsJournal, Manning spent six monthsworking for a newspaper in Columbia,Tenn. Prior to that, he worked for anewspaper in Florence, Ala.

Commonwealth Journalwelcomes Zubaty to staff

Peter W. Zubaty has been hired asthe new sports editor for theCommonwealth Journal.

Zubaty is originally from Warsaw

in Gallatin County and a graduate ofNorthern Kentucky University wherehe studied journalism and history. Heworked on the student newspaperwhile at the university.

Since graduating he has done newsreporting at the Oldham Era inLaGrange, the Roane County News inKingston, Tenn. and served as newseditor at the Appalachian News-Express in Pikeville.

Brandenburg hired as newfeatures editor at LaurelNews Journal

Ronica Brandenburg was namedfeatures editor for the London LaurelNews Journal in late August replacingHeather Randolph. Randolph left tocontinue her education in journalismat Western Kentucky University.

Brandenburg is a graduate ofEastern Kentucky University whereshe worked at the Eastern Progress,the student newspaper. She served as anews reporter for six months at theNews Journal before taking the job asfeatures editor.

Bottoms hired as sportswriter for LebanonEnterprise

Billy Bottoms began covering sportsfor the Lebanon Enterprise in lateAugust.

Bottoms is a Springfield native andalso works for the Marion AdjustmentCenter where he is a sergeant. He isalso a member of the Springfield-Washington County Rescue Squad.

He is a youth sports coach and hasguided athletic teams in Little League,Babe Ruth, YMCA and middle schoolover the past 10 years.

Kentucky New Era staffwriter receives literaryhonor

Kentucky New Era staff writerJennifer P. Brown has received an hon-orable mention for the 2003 ChristineWhite Creative Nonfiction Award,presented at Goucher College inBaltimore.

A Hopkinsville resident, Brownreceived a master of fine arts degree increative nonfiction in September fromGoucher. She received her Bachelor ofScience degree from Murray StateUniversity in 2000.

The creative nonfiction award hon-ors outstanding manuscripts in the lit-erary journalism and memoir/essaygenres.

It is presented annually to twograduating students in Goucher’s mas-ter of fine arts in creative nonfiction

program.Recipients are chosen by outside

judges, who select winning entriesfrom a pool of manuscripts submittedby every member of the class.

Brown’s manuscript, “SilentLessons,” earned an honorable men-tion in the literacy journalism categoryfrom judge Mike Sager, writer-at-largefor Esquire magazine and a formerstaff writer for The Washington Post.

DeMio to lead NorthernKentucky bureau

An award-winning newspaper edi-tor and writer has joined TheKentucky Enquirer to lead the paper’sNorthern Kentucky newsroom.

Terry DeMio, 39, a native ofCleveland, took over Aug. 25 asKentucky bureau chief. She will over-see the journalists who work out of thenewsroom on Grandview Drive in Ft.Mitchell.

DeMio graduated magna cum laudefrom Kent State University with aBachelor of Arts degree in 1986.

She worked from 1987 to 1988 as areporter at the Geauga Times Leaderin Chardon, Ohio, where she coveredcounty and local governments and alsowrote and edited the paper’s entertain-ment section.

In 1988, DeMio began a long stint atThe Repository in Canton, Ohio,advancing from reporter to editor, cul-minating in 2000 with her appointmentas city editor.

Under DeMio’s leadership, thepaper earned 87 Associated Pressawards, including first place in generalexcellence as well as awards for newswriting, investigative news reporting,breaking news and business reporting.In addition, The Repository wasnamed Best Daily Newspaper for itssize this year in the Ohio Society ofProfessional Journalists’ contest.

DeMio has won individual writingawards for columns, enterprise report-ing and breaking news.

Ginn named managing editor at The WincesterSun

Jennifer Ginn has been named man-aging editor for news at TheWinchester Sun.

A native of Elizabethtown, Ginn hasbeen city editor at The Sun sinceNovember. She will be responsible fordaily news operations of the paper.

Ginn attended East Hardin HighSchool and Elizabethtown CommunityCollege. She earned a bachelor'sdegree in journalism in 1992 and amaster's degree in journalism in 1995from the University of Mississippi.

She has had a variety of positions injournalism during the past 11 years.Ginn has been a reporter and enter-tainment editor at the Oxford Eagle(Oxford, Miss.), reporter at The News-Democrat (Carrollton), educationreporter at The Advertiser-Tribune(Tiffin, Ohio), education reporter atThe Northeast Mississippi DailyJournal (Tupelo, Miss.) and copy edi-tor at the Daily News (Bowling Green,Ky.).

Ginn has been involved in volun-teer work with animals, including vol-unteering at the Warren CountyAnimal Shelter and serving as a fosterparent for the Clark County AnimalShelter. She and her husband, Robert,live in Winchester.

Kelly receives Byron B.Harless Award

Tim Kelly, publisher of theLexington Herald-Leader, was amongnumerous Knight Ridder executivesrecently honored.

Kelly received the Byron B. HarlessAward for his continued success inidentifying and developing strong anddiverse leaders who are going on tolead Knight Ridder companies into thefuture.

WKU student newspaperhonored by national group

For the first time ever, WesternKentucky University’s student news-paper has been recognized as thenation’s best by the Society ofProfessional Journalists.

The College Heights Heraldreceived the 2002 Mark of Excellencenational award for Best All-AroundNon-Daily Student Newspaper (pub-lished two to four times a week).Awards were presented last month atthe SPJ national convention in Tampa,Fla.

“We’re very excited to win the SPJaward,” said Bob Adams, Heraldadviser.

“The Herald has been a finalist sev-eral times in the Mark of Excellencecompetition, but this is the first timewe’ve won.”

Editors for the spring and fallsemesters of 2002 were Brian Mooreand Caroline Lynch. Both are WKUgraduates from Louisville and arereporters for The Courier-Journal.

Graduate Rick Mach of Sterling,Va., received a first-place Mark ofExcellence award for photo illustra-tion. Mach is a photographer for the St.Louis Post-Dispatch.

The SPJ award adds to the Herald’stradition of national recognition. Since

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1981, the Herald has won nine nation-al Pacemakers from the AssociatedCollegiate Press and is a finalist againthis year. Since 1999, the paper haswon four Gold Crown awards fromthe Columbia Scholastic PressAssociation.

New writer added toLeader-News news team

Samantha Carver has been hired asa staff writer at the Leader-News inMuhlenberg County.

Carver, who is from HopkinsCounty, has previously worked forDogwood Lake Funpark in Dunmoras the public relations director and atThe Messenger in Madisonville as astaff writer and copy editor.

She attended of the University ofEvansville and Elon University inElon, N.C. where she earned aBachelor degree in mass communica-tions and journalism.

Columnist Hale joinsTribune-Courier

“Heart and Humor,” a weekly col-umn by Calvert City resident NeetaKeeling Hale, began running in theTribune-Courier in Benton on Sept.10.

Hale is pursuing syndication of hercolumn in other newspapers in addi-tion to the Tribune-Courier.

Hale has been a writer locally formore than 15 years. Her column, for-merly titled “Passing thru Calvert,”has been published in two otherMarshall County newspapers. She hasbeen awarded KPA awards twice forthat column.

Hale is a graduate of Mid-Continent College in Mayfield with aBachelor of Science degree in organi-zational leadership.

Young wins state fairphoto contest

Myles Young, 17, a free-lancesports photographer for TheAnderson News, took top honors inthe junior photography division of theKentucky State Fair last month withhis photo of a bee pollinating a sun-flower.

Young, a senior at AndersonCounty High School, took Best ofShow over 183 entries from middleand high school students. He hasentered his photography since he wasin the fifth grade and has earnednumerous ribbons over the years.

This year, Young also won secondplace in the black-and-white Naturedivision and black-and-white digitalimage competition with photos of acat and the Anderson County HighSchool basketball team in action.Young appeared on a KET specialabout the fair, which aired at 8 p.m.Sept. 23. He was presented a silverbowl in honor of the Dolores "Dee"Armbruster Award by the LouisvillePhotographic Society in September.

Young plans to pursue photogra-phy upon graduation. He is editor ofthe Cat Paws Yearbook. He is the sonof Troy and Benita Young ofAnderson County.

Wilkison takes new jobwith Associated Press

The Associated Press has appoint-ed David Wilkison as the new directorof state news/West. The appointmentwas announced in late September byKathleen Carroll, AP's executive edi-tor and a senior vice president.

He will work with the chiefs ofbureau and news editors in hisregions, focused on helping thosebureaus produce outstanding statenews reports of high value to allmedia members and clients - print,on-line and broadcast. He also willwork closely with four regional vicepresidents on news and news-relatedbureau issues in their regions.

Wilkison has been chief of bureauin Kentucky since April 2002. He andhis family will relocate to a city in thewestern United States as he takes uphis new responsibilities. Before hewas named COB, Wilkison was theassistant chief of bureau and newseditor in Philadelphia, news editor inDes Moines, Iowa, and correspondentin Morgantown, W.Va., and Newark,N.J.

Wilkison, 37, is a native of Dayton,Ohio, and a graduate of West VirginiaUniversity.

Springfield Sun launchesupgraded Web site

The Springfield Sun introduced animproved Web site in early Septemberat www.thespringfieldsun.com.

The site - which has been up andrunning since the first of the year -features a new look, searchablearchives and a business directory foradvertisers.

The improved site also offers easyaccess to subscription and contactinformation.

The newspaper hired former sum-mer intern Sam Fletcher to redesignthe site and maintain and update it ona weekly basis.

Plans are for the site to be updatedwith the latest in Washington Countynews and advertising by 11 p.m. eachTuesday.

UK Student reports forNational JournalismConvention Newspaper

Rebecca Neal,a junior in theUniversity ofKentucky Schoolof Journalism,was selected asone of 12 stu-dents nationwideto report for TheWorking Press,the official news-paper at the Society of ProfessionalJournalists (SPJ) convention held inTampa, Fla., Sept. 11-13.

Neal was one of seven reporters,two photographers, and three design-ers who published the newspaperduring the convention. The newspa-per was distributed each morning toabout 1,000 professional journalists,educators and students who attendedthe SPJ convention.

SPJ paid Neal’s convention regis-tration, hotel costs, and other conven-tion-related expenses for her newspa-per work. The Bluegrass chapter ofthe SPJ paid Neal’s airfare to Tampa.

Neal will be the 2003-2004 assistantnews editor of the Kentucky Kernel,UK’s independent daily studentnewspaper. She has served journal-ism internships with the Advocate-Messenger newspaper in Danville,WKYT-TV and WTVQ-TV inLexington, and WUKY-FM, the UKpublic broadcasting radio station.

Standard writers pick upnational recognition

Two Kentucky Standard writershave been honored with nationalwriting awards.

The National NewspaperAssociation, in its 2003 BetterNewspaper Contest, recognizedNews/Photo Editor Stacey S.Manning and reporter Holly Cecil forexcellence in feature writing (non-daily division, circulation 6,000-9,999.)

Manning won third place for herstory "A Daughter Waits for Justice."The story focused on the life ofShannon Blincoe, whose parents weremurdered in a Georgia rest stop in1980. Blincoe was 9 months old whenher parents were fatally shot byWilliam Howard Putman. The storychronicled her emotional journey asher family prepared for Putman's exe-

cution.Cecil won honorable mention for

her story "Culture, Flavor, Tradition."The story was about artist BeatriceMontoya, from war-torn SouthAmerica who has made her home inBardstown.

The article featured her life inSouth America, her work as an artistand her collection.

The awards were handed out inKansas City at the annual convention.

Dann, Taylor join MurrayLedger & Times staff

Michael Dann and Kristin HillTaylor recently joined the editorialstaff of the Murray Ledger & Times.

Hired as a sports writer, Dann is anative of Illinois and 2000 graduate ofSouthern Illinois University inCarbondale.

He has previously worked as anassistant sports editor for TheSpokesman in Herrin, Ill., and sportseditor with The Daily American inWest Frankfort, Ill., before working asa photojournalist for The Southern inCarbondale.

He has had work published for theAssociated Press, St. Petersburg (Fla.)Times, Chicago Tribune and St. LouisPost-Dispatch.

He and his fiancee, Cassie Evans,are scheduled to be married thisNovember.

Taylor, a staff writer, is a native ofLaGrange and a 2001 graduate ofMurray State University. She has pre-viously worked for the RichmondRegister and interned with TheOldham Era and The Sentinel-Newsin Shelbyville, as well as theLexington Herald-Leader and had anine-month temporary stint with theAP in Louisville.

Kentucky New Era newseditor reports from Iraq

Kentucky News Era News EditorDaryl K. Tabor accompanied andreported on troops from FortCampbell’s 101st Airborne Division(Air Assault) currently deployed tonorthern Iraq.

Tabor left in Aug. 11 with 120 sol-diers and a group of local and nation-al journalists for the 101st sponsoredthree-week trip.

His coverage, which carried the“From the Front” logo, continued apopular series of stories written byformer Managing Editor Rob Dollarduring the division’s March prewarbuildup in Kuwait.

Tabor’s stories tended to concen-trate on individual soldiers and thechallenges they face.

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