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Briefs Register by Sept. 17 for the ANA Fall Convention Don’t forget to register! Sign up online at www.ananews.com or by phone at (602) 261-7655. Remember to file your Ownership Statement by Oct. 1 Oct. 1 is the deadline to file your annual USPS Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Form 3526) with your postmaster. Failure to file or publish a statement of ownership may lead to suspension of Periodicals authorization. A current ownership statement is also a requirement for membership in the Arizona Newspapers Association. This information is used to update circulation statistics and promote network advertising programs. Online newspaper advertising jumps 19 percent in second quarter Advertising expenditures for newspaper Web sites increased by 19.3 percent to $796 million in the second quarter versus the same period a year ago, according to preliminary estimates from the Newspaper Association of America. Log on to www.naa.org for more details. Report shows new media lagging on college campuses Insidehighered.com reports that journalism education is lagging behind industry in embracing the new media technologies that students will need to be competitive in the work place, according to a paper presented last month. Advertising revenue and readership for college newspapers remain strong – one study that found that about three-quarters of college students pick up the print versions of their campus newspapers at least twice a week. But the success of the print model at the college level masks its struggles in commercial media, and while college media outlets have made gains in incorporating new media platforms, the progress has been slower than it should be. The Votes are In: Traditional Media Trumps Internet for 2008 Election Despite the hype, few voters are turning to the Internet to learn about presidential candidates. Nucleus Research, a global provider of information technology research and advisory services revealed that social networking, blog and political parties’ Web sites are affecting voter opinion far less than the recent buzz would suggest. According to a survey conducted in June 2007 by Nucleus Research and KnowledgeStorm, 72 percent of respondents report that mainstream media (MSM) such as newspapers and magazines are their primary sources for political information.
BY DAVID WOODFILL EAST VALLEY TRIBUNE
Freedom Communications, the parent company of the East Valley Tribune, announced Wednesday Julie Moreno, who heads The Sun in Yuma, was named publisher of the East Valley and Scottsdale Tribunes. She replaces current Tribune publisher Terry Horne, who will leave to become president and publisher of Freedom’s flagship newspaper, The Orange County Register, and the OC Post in Santa Ana, Calif. Horne became Tribune publisher in April. Moreno is publisher of The Sun and regional vice president of Freedom’s Pacific Region. Prior to assuming leadership of the 20,302-circulation newspaper, Moreno held a variety of positions in advertising, sales and publishing during her 20 years with the company.
She started as an account executive in 1986 at The Brownsville Herald in Brownsville, Texas. She also held the positions of co-op advertising manager, director of advertising and director of sales during her tenure at The Herald. In
1995, she became publisher of the Clovis News Journal in Clovis N.M. and was promoted to senior publisher of Freedom Newspapers of New Mexico in 1997. Freedom Communications also announced that it reorganized its newspapers, creating one division — Freedom Newspapers — to include Community Newspapers and Freedom Orange County Information, which includes the Register. “One newspaper division is a critical step in sharing more resources across Freedom,” said Freedom Communications CEO Scott Flanders in a written statement. “By combining what were two separate newspaper divisions, we are looking forward not only to greater efficiencies but also to unlocking the best ideas and creative energies of all of our newspaper associates,” he said.
It’s unanimous: OPEN Government Act passes Legislation passed just before Congress left town for its August recess makes long-overdue changes to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that will speed agency responses to records requests and help open the government to average citizens, Public Citizen said today. The Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act, known as the OPEN Government Act, passed the Senate by unanimous consent on Aug. 3. Similar legislation passed the House of Representatives overwhelmingly in March. “This bill is great for democracy and for open and accountable government,” said Linda Andros, legislative counsel with Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division. FOIA was enacted more than 40 years ago so that the public could obtain government records to ensure the government operates in the public interest. However, far too often, people and businesses seeking records under FOIA face difficult roadblocks, inordinate delays and improper denials, all of which the government can routinely do with near impunity. The bill states that when a FOIA requester must file a lawsuit to obtain government records under FOIA
because an agency is dragging its feet, the requester can obtain attorney fees even if the government releases the records before a court orders the records to be released. In that case, the fees can be obtained as long as the FOIA requester’s claim is not wholly unsubstantial. The measure also restores meaningful deadlines for agency action under FOIA, clarifies that FOIA applies to agency records held by outside private contractors and creates a FOIA ombudsman to help resolve disputes between the public and agencies. “Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), the sponsors of the legislation, should be congratulated for their persistence and diligence in passing this important step forward for public access to ANAgrams Arizona Newspapers Association 1001 N. Central Avenue, Suite 670 Phoenix, AZ 85004 - 1947
information,” said Laura MacCleery, director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division. “The Freedom of Information Act has been allowed to atrophy from executive branch neglect for far too long.” Working with Public Citizen and other organizations, Leahy and Cornyn overcame a lengthy hold by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who had objected to several of the reforms on behalf of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s Justice Department. Kyl finally agreed to negotiate after several editorials in Arizona newspapers exposed him as the sole senator blocking the bill from undergoing a Senate vote. Now we just have to wait until the differences in the House and Senate versions are ironed out. “PRSRT STD” U.S. POSTAGE PAID PHOENIX ARIZONA PERMIT NO. 3429
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