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Tour de FOI makes third stop in Tempe
Latino journalist honored with stamp STAMP, PAGE 5
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ED A tribute to the legendary Edward R. Murrow, on what would have been his 100th birthday, and a call to action for all journalists. MASTER, PAGE 8
SENATE SLAPS FCC OVER MEDIA OWNERSHIP Bush threatens veto if House also votes to continue media cross-ownership ban. SENATE PANEL, PAGE 10
PBS ANCHORS TO RECEIVE PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FOR WORK Jim Lehrer, Robert MacNeil are this year’s recipients of the Cronkite Award. CRONKITE, PAGE 3
AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST HIJACKS AWARDS LUNCHEON
Artist and comedian Dave Fitzsimmons emcees SPJ Region 11 awards. SPJ, PAGE 7
Arizona Rep. David Lujan (D-Phoenix) speaks about the importance of open government to journalists, attorneys and citizens at the Tour de FOI stop at the Tempe Public Library.
By Perri colliNs “We cannot afford to sit back on autopilot and let someone else craft democracy for us,” said Arizona First Amendment attorney David Bodney. Bodney was a guest speaker at the third stop of the Arizona First Amendment Coalition’s “Tour de FOI,” in which discussions are being held in several Arizona cities to give the public, journalists and government officials and employees facts and opinions on the right to access to government information. OMB Watch, a non-profit government watchdog organization, also sponsored the event. Their 21st Century Right-to-know Project addresses problems and makes recommendations for future politicians to implement. “As an elected official, we get skittish about what we can and cannot do,” said Rep. David Lujan (D-Phoenix). He emphasized that most legislative officials depend on legal counsel to inform them of First Amendment rights and responsibilities. However, he also talked about legislators taking these laws as a joke. “I would be fascinated to see how the legislature would operate if they took open meeting laws seriously,” he said. Sean Molton, OMB Watch Federal Information Policy director, hopes his group will influence the
future administrations. He emphasized the need for FOIA laws to apply to all three branches of government, not just the executive branch. “With enough pressure over a long period of time, maybe we can get something done,” he said. While some participants at the event were calling for major government transformation, others insisted that the U.S. is already in the midst of change. “We’re seeing an expansion of openness laws lately,” said University of Arizona journalism professor David Cuillier, who also chairs the national Freedom of Information committee for the Society of Professional Journalists. In the past few years, Arizona has seen a number of public records access and open meetings laws passed and amended. Even with these new laws, it is still often difficult to gain access to certain documents. Problems and barriers to public information include ANAgrams Arizona Newspapers Association 1001 N. Central Avenue, Suite 670 Phoenix, AZ 85004 - 1947
the formats that records are kept in (disc, tape, paper), people taking their time instead of delivering the information “promptly” and uncertainty about who to ask to get the correct information. “Know the law. Don’t let them bluff you,” said Cuillier. “I tell my students: Every document is a public document unless there’s a specific law stating that it’s secret,” he said. At the current juncture in time, there is no real penalty for breaking the public records law. It is considered a civil misdemeanor in Arizona. “The law needs to be changed to reflect real risks and rewards,” David Bodney Possible solutions include a “Miranda rights” of public access, fixed deadlines for responding to requests, and rewarding those who do promote openness and comply with requests in a timely fashion. [ Continued on Page 7 ] “PRSRT STD” U.S. POSTAGE PAID PHOENIX ARIZONA PERMIT NO. 3429
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ANA/Ad Services Board of Directors President John Wolfe One-Year Director/Non-Daily Independent Newspapers Inc. jsw11@aol.com
Directors Ginger Lamb Two-Year Director/Non-Daily Arizona Capitol Times ginger.lamb@azcapitoltimes.com
First Vice President Dick Larson Two-Year Director/Daily Western Newspapers Inc. dlarson@westernnews.com
Rick Schneider One-Year Dir/Non-Daily Eastern Arizona Courier schneider@eacourier.com
Second Vice President Michael Chihak One-Year Director/Daily Tucson Citizen mchihak@tucsoncitizen.com Third Vice President Tom Arviso Two-Year Director/Non-Daily Navajo Times tomarviso@navajotimes.com Secretary/Treasurer Teri Hayt Two-Year Director/At-large Arizona Daily Star terihayt@tucson.com
Don Rowley One-Year Director/Daily Arizona Daily Sun drowley@pulitzer.net Elvira Espinoza Two-Year Dir/At-large La Voz elvira.ortiz@lavozpublishing.com Pam Mox Past President Green Valley News and Sun pmox@gvnews.com OPEN POSITION Two-Year Director/Daily
Arizona Newspapers Foundation Board of Directors The foundation is an educational, charitable 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Chairman of the Board Josie Cantu-Weber Tucson Citizen jweber@tucsoncitizen.com Vice Chairman Joann Carranza carranza57@cox.net Treasurer Lee Knapp The Sun (Yuma) lknapp@yumasun.com Secretary Pam Mox Green Valley News & Sun pmox@gvnews.com
Directors L. Alan Cruikshank Fountain Hills Times alan@fhtimes.com John F. Fearing Arizona Newspapers Association j.fearing@ananews.com Steve Doig Arizona State University steve.doig@asu.edu Bret McKeand Independent Newspapers, Inc. SCIbret@aol.com John Wolfe Independent Newspapers Inc. jsw11@aol.com Jeff Weigand The Arizona Republic Jeffrey.Weigand@pni.com
ANA Committees Join one of our committees and make a difference in your association! Marketing/Member Revenue Chairman Dick Larson Western Newspapers dlarson@westernnews.com First Amendment Coalition President Mary Jo Pitzl The Arizona Republic maryjo.pitzl@arizonarepublic.com Educational Task Force Chairman Pam Mox Green Valley News and Sun pmox@gvnews.com
Government and Public Policy Chairman Teri Hayt Arizona Daily Star terihayt@tucson.com Awards Committee Chairman Don Rowley Arizona Daily Sun drowley@pulitzer.net Finance Committee Chairman Michael Chihak Tucson Citizen mchihak@tucsoncitizen.com
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Things you should know . . . A recent e-mail from a member Already scheduled for the newspaper publisher made me think Friday, October 10th advertising about the overall sessions is Mike communications Blinder, president between the Ariof The Blinder zona Newspapers Group. Blinder Association and will bring us a full our members. I was day of Multimeinformed about a dia Street Fightgreat program for ing 2008. He will newspapers held cover many real by the American world examples of Press Institute how newspapers called “Newsare making sizepaper Next” and able increases in was told that this online revenues would be a great and will empower topic for our next sales people and convention. Well, ANA Interim Executive Director m a n a g e r s w i t h to this publishers’ Paula Casey proven methods dismay, we had to sell online prodalready hosted the API in Arizona ucts for big dollars. and had already covered this great We will also be bringing back topic in the fall of 2007. API for a full day of “Upholding and Our normal promotions for an Updating Ethics”. This program will event come in many forms, including touch on journalism and social netletters, e-mail notifications, faxes, working, the dilemmas of publishing announcements in our monthly user-generated content, maintaining newsletter ANAgrams, our weekly standards while generating revenue bulletin This Week @ ANA, our streams, blogging, breaking news Web site www.ananews.com and of and other ethical issues in the digital course, from direct contact with our age. Questionnaires will be sent out members. I was once told that it takes to members this summer to gather at least seven communications before more data for this session. you can move someone to action. We will host the newsroom We at ANA understand that all our sessions on Saturday, October 11. members have very busy and full A “Web Video for Dummies” seslives and that the Association is not sion, as well as the follow up session first and foremost in their minds...so of “Video Editing for Dummies” the need to send out our information is scheduled. Also scheduled is a in many forms is necessary. panel discussion titled “The Nuts ANA started sending out & Bolts for the Wired Journalist.” our This Week @ ANA e-mail blast The ANA Education Committee about two years ago. We have tried continues to work on the schedto keep this communication to a brief ule and add topics. We welcome snapshot of what is going on at the any suggestions you might have. Arizona Newspapers Association Please do not hesitate to drop me and in the journalism community. a note at p.casey@ananews.com. Our Communications Manager, Perri As always, other notable events Collins, does a wonderful job keep- scheduled will be our Hall of Fame ing our members informed of the Reception and Dinner, the Annual most relevant news. Freedom of Information Awards and If you haven’t registered yet for the grande finale: the Better Newspathe Excellence in Advertising awards pers Contest awards and Newspaper reception on May 16, I urge you to of the Year reception. We hope that do so as soon as possible. This year you will SAVE THE DATE for we’ve planned a special entertain- October 10-11! ment treat featuring the Laughing Note: This is the first of the Stock Comedy Company, a local many notices you will receive for comedy troupe who will present a this event! unique show specially designed for If you have not been receiving Arizona newspapers. You can regis- all of the communications listed ter online or by phone. above, or know someone who Future events in the planning should be added to our distribution stage include our 2008 Fall Conven- list, please contact Perri Collins tion which will be held at the “new” at (602) 261-7655, ext. 110 or Walter Cronkite School of Journalism p.collins@ananews.com. and Mass Communication in downWe are YOUR association and town Phoenix. This year our theme your participation is important to us will be “Today’s New Media…Is - let’s keep the communication lines your toolbox ready?” open and the shared ideas flowing.
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Walter Cronkite to honor PBS news team Lehrer and MacNeil Lumberjack sales Jim Lehrer and Robert Mac- significance: 2008 is the 25th year founder William Paley and former manager receives Neil, the PBS news anchor tandem of the Cronkite Award. CBS President Frank Stanton, who who epitomize the best of thoughtThe Cronkite Award luncheon were co-winners of the inaugural highest honors provoking and in-depth broadcast journalism, will be this year’s recipients of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, Arizona State University announced today. Cronkite and the school that bears his name – the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU – will honor Lehrer and MacNeil at a Phoenix ceremony on Nov. 21. The PBS duo first teamed up to cover the Senate Watergate hearings in 1973. Two years later the newscast that would become “The MacNeil/ Lehrer Report” was launched, and in 1983 it was expanded to “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” the first 60-minute national TV evening newscast. MacNeil stepped down from the daily newscast in 1995. Lehrer continues to anchor “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” “Jim and Robert represent the kind of journalism that is too often missing from television news,” Cronkite said from his New York office. “Their brand of probing, indepth, sophisticated and nuanced journalism stands in stark contrast to the shrill and superficial reporting sometimes found on TV today. It will be a great honor to give them our award.” The former CBS News anchor said this year’s award has special
award in 1984. Lehrer started his journalism career as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News and later the Dallas Times-Herald, moving up to political columnist and eventually city editor. He moved into television as executive director of public affairs and nightly news host at KERA-TV, the public television station in Dallas. He first teamed with MacNeil in 1973 to provide continuous live coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings. In October 1975 PBS launched “The Robert MacNeil Report,” with Lehrer as the Washington correspondent. It was renamed “The MacNeil/ Lehrer Report” the following year, ultimately winning more than 30 awards for journalistic excellence. The newscast became “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” after his long-time partner stepped down from the daily newscast in 1995. MacNeil’s career began at the Reuters news agency in London in 1955. Five years later he entered TV as a London correspondent for NBC News, and in 1963 he joined NBC’s Washington bureau, covering the civil rights movement, the White House and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He also worked for the BBC before joining PBS in 1971. The journalists have won Emmys, George Foster Peabody Awards and Fred Friendly First Amendment Awards. They were jointly inducted into the Television Academy’s Hall of Fame in 1999. They also are prolific authors. Lehrer has written 17 novels, three plays and two memoirs. MacNeil also has written fiction and non-fiction books. The long-time partners continue to work together at the company they founded, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, which produces The NewsHour in addition to documentaries, Web sites and interactive DVDs. Previous Cronkite Award recipients include TV journalists Tom Brokaw, Bill Moyers and Jane Pauley; newspaper publishers Al Neuharth, Katharine Graham and Otis Chandler; television executives Ted Turner, Roone Arledge and Don Hewitt; and newspaper journalists Bob Woodward, Helen Thomas and PBS news anchors Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil standing on the NewsHour set on the Ben Bradlee. 30th anniversary of the popular program.
will cap off a week of activities in November celebrating the Cronkite School. The school is moving from its long-time home on the ASU Tempe campus to a new campus in downtown Phoenix, just blocks from major newspaper, TV, radio and online news outlets. Part of the festivities will be the official opening of a new $71 million, state-of-theart media complex on Nov. 20. The school will share the new building with KAET/Eight, the ASU-operated public television station. “I am so proud of what we have been able to accomplish with our journalism program at Arizona State,” Cronkite said. “Our week of activities, culminating with the grand opening of our new home and the 25th Cronkite Award ceremonies, will show how this has truly become one of the great journalism schools in our nation.” Dean Christopher Callahan said Cronkite students “can learn much from the balanced, in-depth, comprehensive approach that Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer have practiced so well for so long. It’s a great honor to have these two outstanding journalists as our 25th year recipients.” Lehrer and MacNeil are only the second pair of co-winners in the history of the award. The first were CBS
Five student sales representatives from Northern Arizona University’s Lumberjack student newspaper were recently honored at the annual College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers Awards. The organization honors the past year’s best advertisements and personnel. Michelle Gardner, a senior journalism major and sales director, was awarded “Ad Manager of the Year, Circulation under 40,000.” This is the second year in a row that the Lumberjack took home the award for best sales manager, a feat never accomplished before in CNBAM history. In total, eight representatives attended the conference and returned with three awards. The team received second place for best newspaper promotion advertisement and first place for best display advertisement.
‘Republic’ hires Ricker as advertising director Peter Ricker has been hired as the new senior vice president of advertising for The Arizona Republic, Publisher and President John Zidich announced. Zidich also promoted Karen Crotchfelt to senior vice president at the company. She was hired in January 2003 as director of business development, then was promoted to vice president of business development and later to vice president of market and business development. In her new role, she will oversee business development, strategic planning, free distribution, promotion, research and circulation. Ricker, a former employee of Gannett Co., Inc., The Republic’s parent company, will join The Republic on May 5. He is currently vice president of advertising and marketing at the Kansas City Star. Zidich cited Ricker’s track record of developing people and productive organizations over a 28-year career that includes 15 years with Gannett, most recently as vice president of advertising at the Indianapolis Star. Ricker, a New Jersey native who earned a degree from the University of New Mexico, said he was looking forward to returning to the Southwest and leveraging the strengths of The Republic and azcentral.com to bring success to customers.
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UA newswriting students are promising Three University of Arizona journalism students were winners in the Mark Finley Gold Pen Newswriting Competition for spring 2008. Aly Van Dyke finished first, winning $750. Jessica Befort took second place and $350, and Claire Engelken placed third, winning $250. The competitors, recognized by newswriting instructors as being among the promising beginning writers of the department, each received an engraved pen commemorating the April 14 event. The competitors listened to a presentation by Mike Hein, the Tucson city manager. He spoke
about downtown redevelopment and tax financing of new community projects. After the presentation and a question-and-answer session, the competitors had one hour to write a news story. The contest was blind-judged by journalism faculty members Jane See White, Jim Patten and Sarah Gassen. The contest is named for the late Mark Finley, who established the award. Finley, a graduate of The University of Arizona, was a journalist and assistant for the publisher of Hearst’s Boston newspaper for 17 years.
ANF scholarship still available Do you know a deserving journalism student? Then encourage him or her to apply now! This summer, the Arizona Newspapers Foundation, Inc. will award two scholarships of $1,000 each to full-time students attending Arizona State University, University of Arizona or Northern Arizona University.
Complete scholarship information, including award criteria and an application for Fall 2008 awards, are posted online at www.ananews. com/scholarship. The deadline for applications is June 6, 2008. Winners will be chosen by a selection committee and notified by mid-July if they are selected as a finalist.
Black media leaders launch Arizona campaign to educate borrowers on subprime loans, foreclosures Chris Casacchia The Business Journal Black media executives vowed Thursday to highlight subprime lending woes and provide information to help thousands of borrowers who have seen mortgage payments rise as their home values drop. “It could be the biggest economic challenge in the black community since the Depression,” said George Brooks Jr., executive director of the Arizona Commission on African American Affairs, during a forum on the subprime crisis in south Phoenix. Brooks was among a handful of government officials and media heads who led a community discussion on educating borrowers on subprime loans and foreclosures. The two-hour meeting at Southminster Presbyterian Church was the first of its kind, and organizers plan to conduct more in the coming months. Angela Brooks, publisher of ‘Ebony Cactus’ and ‘NxT Horizon’ magazines, said her publications are launching a grassroots campaign starting with church outlets and community leaders, then disseminating information vie e-mail, video and podcasts. Clovis Campbell Jr., publisher
of the ‘Arizona Informant’ newspaper, said it’s important to integrate youth in the process. Desmond Peartree, publisher of the ‘Arizona Black Pages,’ said homeowners need to be educated on their mortgage contracts. Many borrowers received adjustable-rate mortgages when they purchased their homes and now are facing big loan obligations. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York estimates nearly 28,000 ARMs will reset this year in Arizona. Reset ARMs can significantly raise mortgage payments. “Real estate is the first foundation to wealth building,” Peartree said to the more than 50 forum attendees. According to the Fed, 80,541 Arizona subprime loans were active in 2007. In Phoenix, low-income neighborhoods with high subprime concentrations near downtown and those along Interstate 10 west of there were hit hard with foreclosures. ZIP codes in the suburbs of Buckeye, Goodyear and Anthem also logged high numbers, while west-side communities such as Peoria and Glendale reported many foreclosures as well, according to research conducted by the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
Valley Newspapers’ new press to increase color capacity and enhance quality Growing contract printer Valley Newspapers, a division of Independent Newspapers, has ordered a Goss Magnum 4 press to increase color capacity and further improve quality at its printing facility in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Steve Steinke, general manager at Valley Newspapers comments, “It’s our goal as a company to achieve continual, sustainable growth. By delivering increased, premium quality color through our latest investment and maintaining the high level of customer service we’re known for, we can exceed the expectations both of our existing and potential customers, and realize our ambitions for the business.” Valley Newspapers specified the new Magnum 4 press with a 22 inch cut-off, configured as four four-high towers, two two-high towers and two folders. The 20-unit press is scheduled for installation later this year at its Deer Valley printing facility. Steinke remarks, “I’m proud and excited not only for our employees, who are committed to continuous improvement, but also for our Independent Newspaper counterparts and the commercial clients who have come to expect improvements to their publications.” He adds, “We look
forward to adding many new clients as we expand our business too.” Ron Depsky, sales manager for Goss International, adds, “The Magnum 4 press is an excellent choice for a small- to mediumcirculation newspaper and semicommercial printer such as Valley Newspapers, where production flexibility is key. They also based their decision on longevity, qualitycontrol, performance and confidence in the long-term service and support from Goss International.” Valley Newspapers moved to a new 25,000 square foot facility in 2001 to increase production capability with an expanded press line. According to Steinke, since then the commercial printing business has grown by double digits each year. “It is now time for us to increase our capacity once again. This is just the next step in a series of improvements that we envisage continuing well into the future.” Founded in the early 1970s and employing over 30 staff, Valley Newspapers is the Arizona division of Independent Newspapers, headquartered in Dover, Delaware. The company serves dozens of small and medium-sized commercial publications throughout the state.
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Stamp for Latino journalist unveiled at UA ceremony
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By Evan Pellegrino The Arizona Daily Wildcat The United States Postal Service together with the University of Arizona’s Media Democracy and Policy Institute unveiled a stamp commemorating the work of slain Hispanic journalist Rubén Salazar on the UA campus on April 24. Salazar is one of five individuals honored on a sheet of 20 stamps issued last month that honor American journalists. Salazar was a Mexican-American reporter for the Los Angeles Times who was killed by police on Aug. 29, 1970, while covering the National Chicano Moratorium March to protest the disproportionate number of Hispanics killed in the Vietnam War. The march ended in a rally that was broken up with the use of tear gas. Salazar had taken cover within The Silver Dollar Bar. The coroner’s inquest showed that Salazar died as a result of wounds from a tear gas projectile that was shot at his head from short range. The unveiling ceremony kicked off a day of events commemorating Salazar’s work, including a video documenting Salazar’s contributions; a welcome by UA Vice Provost Juan Garcia; and invited speakers including U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva; Salazar’s daughter, Lisa SalazarJohnson; Los Angeles journalist and Salazar contemporary Bob Navarro; and Tucson Postmaster Carl Grigel. Tucson bilingual radio pioneer Raul Aguirre served as the master of ceremonies. The other journalists featured on the stamps are Martha Gellhorn, John Hersey, George Polk and Eric Sevareid. “These stamps recognize the contributions of American journalists to the betterment of American society,” Grigel said. “These are five individuals who exposed and explored the people, processes, challenges and accomplishments of a country, its people and America’s role in the world.” Members of the UA community welcomed Ruben Salazar’s national stamp by calling the slain journalist an “icon.” The stamp showcases an “example of an extraordinary human being,” said P. Vicente Osvaldo Lopez, who led a prayer yesterday. Salazar is considered an icon among Latinos and journalists alike. He was the first Latino to play a significant role at a major American newspaper and is considered to be a man who paved the way for minority journalists. He died Aug. 29, 1970 in Los
Gail Fisher, freelance writer for USA Today is the 2008 recipient of the Arizona Press Women’s Outstanding Writing Award for her article “Amputee looks at his new life as ‘another chance’” and accompanying sidebar “From eating to brushing to bowling”. Angeles when a sheriff killed him by shooting him with a canister of tear gas during a protest that had turned violent. “It’s not just a stamp. We are celebrating a man, a family, honoring a profession, merit, hard work and dedicated commitment,” said Ruben Reyes, representing Rep. Raul Grijalva. Some of Salazar’s family was in attendance yesterday, as well as local journalists and members of the UA and the Tucson Latino community. The ceremony took place at the UA because the creation of the stamp “has grown from Tucson,” said Raul Aguirre, yesterday’s master of ceremonies, through “sweat and tears” and a three-year effort at the university and citywide petitioning to make the stamp a reality. “It was a work of passion,” said Juan Garcia, vice provost of the UA. Olga Briseño led the movement to create the stamp as the director of the Media, Democracy and Policy Institute, which is part of the College of Humanities. Briseño collected 1,300 signatures in support of the stamp, gathered resolutions from national Latino organizations and submitted them to the Postal Service’s Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee for consideration. “This has brought awareness to Latinos,” she said, adding that many stories of great Latinos in America are still left untold. “I have had the unique and enviable task of meeting Rubén Salazar from a perspective few others have before. Through the archive we are assembling, I have lived with his
story, his words, his thoughts and talked with those who knew him, whom he relied on and whom he inspired,” said Briseño. Consuelo Aguilar, a member of the Arizona Cesar E. Chavez Holiday Coalition, said she views the stamp as an important part of the Latino movement and hopes the stamp will inspire “many more great leaders.” “Ruben Salazar didn’t choose to be an icon,” she said, “We chose him.” Carl Grigle, postmaster of the United States Postal Service, called it “a privilege to shine light on his accomplishments and bring attention to his courageous work.” Lisa Salazar Johnson, Ruben’s daughter, said she was moved and honored that her father, whose name lives on in scholarships, parks and schools, is receiving national attention through a stamp. “He has left a legacy,” she said. “It’s a story that should be told to everyone.” Nathan Olivarez-Giles, a former Daily Wildcat photo editor and a journalism senior, spoke on the panel at yesterday’s event as a young journalist who has been greatly influenced by Salazar, whom he called “one of my journalism heroes.” “During the civil rights era, when there were social movements for getting equal rights and representation for minority groups and women, groups who hadn’t had power, he did it all,” Olivarez-Giles said. “He is a shining example of what civil rights movement was about.” Information from a report by Rebecca Ruiz-McGill, contributed to this article.
Moran elected to sports writer hall of fame
Former East Valley Tribune sports writer Bob Moran was inducted April 29, 2008 as the fifth member of Arizona Sports Writer’s Hall of Fame. Moran, who dealt with collegiate sports for three decades for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson and the Tribune, died March 4 at the age of 55 after a 3½-year battle with stomach cancer. Moran covered Arizona State athletics for the Tribune from 1987 until 2004 when he was diagnosed with the disease, and was named Sports Writer of the Year for the state of Arizona seven times. He joins Corky Simpson, Joe Gilmartin, the late Steve Schoenfeld and Abe Chanin as members of the hall. M o r a n ’s s e l e c t i o n w a s announced at the annual meeting of the Arizona chapter of Associated Press Sports Editors.
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High school students take over classrooms, eager to learn journalism, photography After a fire shut down the Memorial Student Union on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus last November, high school journalism students across Arizona were distressed to discover that the Arizona Interscholastic Press Association’s annual fall convention was cancelled because of smoke damage to the meeting rooms. However, they were able to
reschedule some of the workshops into their spring convention, which was held at ASU-West in Glendale on April 24. Students involved in their school’s newspaper, yearbook, broadcast and literary magazine spent the day learning tips and tricks from professional reporters and photographers. More than 175 students, repre-
senting 15 schools gathered together to listened to former executive editor of the Sacramento Bee and the first Latino president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors Rick Rodriguez begin the convention with an inspiring welcome speech. Students and advisors applauded keynote speaker Dave Cieslak, a former police beat reporter from The Arizona Republic and Tucson Citizen
who now works as a PR manager at Moses Anshell, as he gave personal and professional advice to the next generation of movers and shakers. They also participated in sessions about reporting, taking amazing photos, AP style, new technology, page layout and design, and leadership. For more information, visit AIPA’s Web site www.azaipa.org.
Here come the interns: What’s your blogging policy? By Kelly McBride Poynter Online It’s that time of year. New journalists and young journalists are flooding into newsrooms, ready to change the world. OK, flooding is probably a thing of the past. But many newsrooms still hire summer interns, because they’re cheap (sometimes, even free) and you can force them to work weekends and holidays. Although dozens of journalists, young and old have been called on the carpet for their personal blogs, relatively few newsrooms have developed a meaningful policy that addresses personal blogging. It’s time. This generation has grown up on the Internet. Liz Allen, administrative editor at the Erie Times-News in Pennsylvania, is getting ready for her crop of interns. She wants to set down boundaries about personal blogs at the very beginning of the summer. That’s a good idea. Last year Allen had her summer interns create an “official” blog at the paper. But it didn’t really work, Allen said. The content seemed stilted. This year she’s hoping to create a policy that allows for personal expression, but protects the paper’s interests.
Here are a few suggestions about personal blogging policies: • Write one. Maybe start a blog about policies. But do it now. It’s way too late to claim that blogging is just too new of a phenomenon to merit a policy. • Reconsider your policy if it states: No personal blogs. Telling a 20-year-old he can’t blog is like telling a 50-year-old she can’t write a holiday letter. You won’t win that one. • Consider what you’re comfortable having employees discuss in public: • Nothing about the newsroom at all? That might be unrealistic. • Nothing about stories in development? That seems fair. • Nothing that puts the company in a negative light? Sure, you’ve got a right to require that, but you might define negative carefully. • Nothing about sources? Good idea. Journalists who say things about their sources that they wouldn’t put into their stories are treading in dangerous territory. • Nothing embarrassing or negative about your colleagues. (I had a young journalist once ask me if she crossed a line by blogging about a fellow reporter’s bathroom
habits. Yes, I told her, I thought that was rude. Maybe not unethical, but definitely rude.) • I counsel journalists who keep personal blogs to employ a no-surprises rule. Always let your boss know if you have a blog. Ask for guidelines, if they don’t exist. Never say anything in the blog that you wouldn’t say out loud, to the primary stakeholders. This could all
be included in a policy. Social networking has magnified personal expression. Young journalists have always needed a guiding hand as they make their transition into the professional world. Now, in addition to learning how to dress and act like a professional, they must learn to manage their digital lives in a way that puts their professional reputation ahead of other concerns.
Attention NIE coordinators! NAA FOUNDATION YOUNG READER SEMINAR MAY 15-18, 2008 SHERATON WILD HORSE PASS PHOENIX, ARIZ. Every year the Newspaper Association of America Foundation draws publishers, circulation managers, NIE managers, teachers and young writers from all over the country to it’s annual Young Reader Seminar. This year, you should make it a goal to attend! A pre-seminar day is scheduled focusing on the “7.5 Habits of Highly Effective Student Journalists” and “Digital NIE.” Steve
Benson, editorial cartoonist from The Arizona Republic, will be the keynote speaker on Friday morning. Breakout sessions include marketing your NIE program, coaching young writers, incorporating newspapers into ESL programs, teacherto-teacher marketing, the latest research study on lifelong readers and civic involvement and much, much more. A fun night complete with steaks, dancing and bonfire is scheduled at Rawhide Western Town & Steakhouse. The Young Reader Seminar is professional, informative and well worth the time and expense. Hope to see you there!
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ANA, member newspapers stake out Small Arizona Daily Star cartoonist Business Association event highlights SPJ conference The Arizona Newspapers Association spent some time last month at the 15th Annual Enterprise Business Conference, hosted by the Arizona Small Business Association. Cindy Meaux, Ad Placement Manager, and Sharon Schwartz, Network Advertising Manager, met with small business about their newspaper advertising needs. “It seemed like a perfect fit with our desire to reach out to small businesses and offer them an affordable means to grow their customer base,” said Schwartz. This networking event provided an ideal opportunity to get face-time with business owners and potential advertisers. “Members get exposure to potential advertisers that didn’t even know about our programs,” said Meaux. The location was excellent. The booth was located nearby the event’s keynote speaker and author of the best selling E-Myth Revisited, Michael Gerber, who was autographing books. “There was a lot of traffic,” said Schwartz.
“We made some worthwhile contacts,” she said. This was ANA’s first foray into managing a booth at a business convention. “We will continue to look for other opportunities to promote our members and our services,” said Meaux. The ANA staff even got to see some friendly faces: The Business Journal and the Arizona Capitol Times also reserved booths for their respective newspapers. The Phoenix-based ASBA represents more than 3,000 small businesses across Arizona. The ASBA Enterprise Business Conference was held April 23, from 7:30 a.m. to Noon at the Phoenix Convention Center. The event recognizes and celebrates National and Arizona Small Business Week and recognizes winners of the Small Business Administration Awards. ANA’s services include ad placement, statewide and nationwide classified ad networks, 2by2 and 2by4 display advertising networks, ClassifiedArizona.com and a Press Release Service.
Nadia Cerini and Juliana Norvell greet potential customers with smiles at the Arizona Capitol Times booth.
Jeremy Brinton informed many prospective subscribers while he manned The Business Journal booth.
The Society of Professional Journalists Region 11 Conference, hosted by the University of Arizona SPJ chapter, began with an upscale reception at the UA Center for Creative Photography in Tucson and featured informative sessions on public records access, environmental reporting, multimedia convergence and covering the U.S.-Mexico border and writing about religion. It was an excellent opportunity for students and journalists to learn from each other and network. However, the highlight of the conference was the Mark of Excellence luncheon, featuring Arizona Daily Star editorial cartoonist and Pulitzer prize winner Dave Fitzsimmons as the emcee. He made jokes. He drew cartoons. He jumped on a chair, waved his fists about and began shouting. His antics - some might say they bordered on being vulgar - reminded many of the reasons they became journalists. It’s not for the prestige, power or money (what money?). It’s about the ability to tell your story, to learn and to teach others. Fitzsimmons was funny and inspiring. Not an easy combination in the changing landscape of our industry. To view the Mark of Excellence winners online, visit www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=785. For more information about upcoming SPJ events, log on to www.spj.org/arizona.
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Cindy Meaux, Ad Placement Manager, and Sharon Schwartz, Network Advertising Manager, host the ANA booth at the Arizona Small Business Association 15th Annual Enterprise Business Conference.
[ Continued from Page 1 ] “The trick is to create a culture of openness and informed citizenship,” said Bodney. The year 2008 presents us with an opportunity to change this pattern of secrecy. With a new President and Congress, there will be increased awareness of the need for greater disclosure of government practices and information. OMB Watch launched the 21st Century Right to Know Project to develop recommendations for the next White House and Congress on how to improve government openness and access to information. The long-term goal of the project is to develop a proactive agenda to change the underlying policies, priorities, and practices regarding public access for all branches of government. OMB Watch was originally formed in 1983 to increase transparency and accountability of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), but has expanded its focus to address information and access. The Arizona First Amendment Coalition is a consortium of the state’s news media founded in 1981 that includes the Arizona Newspapers Association, Arizona Broadcasters Association, Arizona-New Mexico Cable Communications Association, the Arizona Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Phoenix and Tucson chapters.
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Edward R. Murrow Master of a fading craft By Beth knobel Fordham university
edwArd r. murrow was born egbert roscoe murrow in Greensboro, N.c., April 25, 1908. He att ended Stanford University and the University of Washing ton before graduati ng from Washington State College in 1930. He married Janet Hunti ngton Brewster in 1934; and had one son, charles casey. murrow died at his home in New york on April 27, 1965, two years aft er an operati on to remove his left lung due to lung cancer. Edward R. Murrow is the most disti nguished and renowned fi gure in the history of American broadcast journalism. He was a seminal force in the creati on and develop ment of electronic news gathering as both a craft and a profession. Murrow’s career began at cBs in 1935 and spanned the infancy of news and public aff airs program ming on radio through the ascendancy of television in the 1950s. In words evocati ve of America’s original founding fathers, Murrow frequently used the airwaves to revivify and popularize many democrati c ideals such as free speech, citi zen parti cipati on, the pursuit of truth, and the sancti fi cati on of individual liberti es and rights.
If he hadn’t smoked himself to an early death, Edward R. Murrow would have turned 100 years old last month. There couldn’t be a better time to remember America’s most famous reporter and his legacy - advocacy journalism. The anniversary of Murrow’s birth comes just as many news organizations around the world are publicly rethinking the role of objectivity in journalism. In a reversal of common practice, some media have concluded, as Murrow did, that reports often benefit when a journalist’s opinions are reflected. Murrow viewed journalism as a tool to educate the world, which is not surprising given that he was originally going to be a teacher, not a journalist. After being hired by CBS News in 1935 to be “Director of Talks” in Europe - basically a glorified booker - he ended up going on the air when the Nazis invaded Austria, because no one else was nearby. Murrow’s way with words, his keen intellect, and his unforgettable voice soon turned him into a star. But it was his profound moral compass that made him journalism’s most important figure. Murrow’s blue-collar roots and Quaker upbringing made him believe that the real point of journalism was to bring about change. As Murrow’s career progressed, he moved away from objectivity into unabashed advocacy journalism. Murrow is best remembered for his attack on power-hungry Senator Joseph McCarthy during the 1950s. Yet in the end, Murrow was destroyed by his quest for the truth. Ironically, he was brought down by one of his own - CBS chairman William S. Paley. Paley disliked controversy, and he feared retribution against CBS for one of Murrow’s crusades. “I don’t want this constant stomach ache every time you do a controversial subject,” Paley is said to have told Murrow. Paley sidelined Murrow after the McCarthy broadcast in 1954 until Murrow left CBS for a job running the U.S. Information Agency in 1961. But Murrow did not go quietly. Fifty years ago this October, Murrow made a scathing attack on the industry at a convention of television executives. He predicted that TV viewers would rather practice escapism than watch hard news. He predicted that commentary would die out, because stations would fear the monetary consequences of offending someone. He predicted a conflict between the public interest and the commercial interests of television companies.
Murrow was absolutely prescient about where television would go. Today, documentaries are rare on network television, commentary is gone, news is soft instead of hard and consumers prefer entertainment over the world’s harsh realities. Yet there are thousands of reporters as well as millions of consumers of news who still believe passionately, as Murrow did, that journalism can and must help solve the woes of the world. Perhaps that’s why opinion is spilling out of the editorial pages. Fox News Channel, despite its masquerade as “fair and balanced,” has succeeded because it is laden with opinion. And the print press has ever increasing amounts of reporters’ opinions in articles purporting to be straight news. Given that the line between objectivity and opinion is blurring, perhaps we who teach journalism might try to turn out two differently equipped types of reporters. The first are the traditional, straight-reporting kind. The second are the new Murrows, who would specialize in advocacy journalism. Producing reporters like Murrow would be far more complicated now than it was in his day, because they would have to contend with political correctness, as well as the commercial concerns. But now, in our complicated world, advocacy journalism is as necessary as it ever has been. Murrow’s career may have been destroyed by his activism, but it’s still the right thing to do.
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Clay Schad: The man behind the Ahwatukee Foothills News The history of Ahwatukee Foothills is also the history of the Ahwatukee Foothills News. The two grew together, from a sleepy retirement enclave in 1978 on the far outskirts of town, with bucolic stories about lawn bowling tournaments to a prestigious Phoenix neighborhood with an award-winning newspaper. And the man responsible for much of the success of the area, and the newspaper, is Clay Schad: the man who started the Ahwatukee Foothills News as a once-a-month publication, printing 2,000 copies with a one-man operation and whose e-mail address is still MrAhwatukee@aol.com. With its own paper Ahwatukee Foothills grew as a tight-knit, smalltown community instead of being just another hodgepodge of walled-in planned community developments. “I think it definitely helped create a sense of community,” said Rae Waters, who moved into the area in 1980. “Everyone got their news from the Ahwatukee Foothills News. It was like a small town.” Except the small town grew, from 2,172 people in 1980, according to the Census Bureau, to 30,940 people in 1990, and then 62,519 by 1995. Joe Le Chaix still remembers writing a column about seniors and activities going on at the Ahwatukee Recreation Center in the early years of the paper. “I’m not a writer, I’m not a journalist,” Le Chaix said. But Schad said, “No problem,” and Le Chaix’s column, “Hot Flashes,” was born. “It fit a need for here,” Le Chaix said. And people read the column, remembers LeChaix’s wife, Barbara. “They would look to see if their name was in it,” Barbara laughed. Along with an emphasis on people, the paper also lobbied for important local issues, chief among them were increased police officers for the growing area. Mary Conant, who along with Peggy Schaffer lobbied for additional officers and a police substation in Ahwatukee Foothills, said it would have taken longer without the newspaper promoting the cause and keeping the community informed. “I don’t think we would have been nearly as successful, if we hadn’t had the ability of the Ahwatukee Foothills News to reach households,” Conant said. “The newspaper was an
effective tool for community progress.” Having a newspaper also gave the community extra clout at City Hall and at the state capitol, where lawmakers and elected officials, as well as key staff, would read the latest articles outlining problems related to rapid growth, over-crowded schools and a lack of infrastructure and amenities for the area during the early 1990s, when one out of every three residential building permits issued in Phoenix had an Ahwatukee Foothills ZIP code. According to John McComish, now a state rep- Clay Schad started the Ahwatukee Foothills News in 1978 as a monthly HOA newsletter. resentative, Ahwatukee Foothills, while being just one of 14 villages in the city, had extra find a good price on printing. Under the two the paper began to win clout because of the newspaper. “I was known as a customer awards and cover tough topics like As chairman of the Village Plan- who always paid his bills,” Schad school overcrowding and the park ning Committee, McComish could said, so printers would compete for shortage that still plagues the area. remember meeting with peers from his business. Over the years, Schad hired staff around the Valley who were envious He was also a publisher who who would later move on to bigger that the community, Village Planning didn’t shy away from writing what he and better things, including T.J. Committee and Ahwatukee Foothills thought, especially when it came to Snyder, who helped with layout and News could work together to pro- defending Ahwatukee Foothills from art and went on to get his teaching mote the area and special issues. what he saw as neglect by Phoenix certificate and is now the assistant “It became very obvious what city officials. principal at Desert Vista High School. an advantage having the newspaHis editorials blasting City Hall Tom Brecke, a reporter, later started per was,” McComish said. “If you would generate plenty of support and his own community newspaper, the assume there is power in the printed letters, but, fortunately, no lawsuits. South Mountain District News. And word, we have the printed word, so In retrospect, Schad admitted Michael Jewart, who started as a we have the power.” that at least once he went over the photographer while still attending But the growth of the paper, and top, when he called then-Phoenix Mountain Pointe High School, is the community, was a process that Mayor Skip Rimsza “a little weasel,” now the director of admissions for the took time, Schad said. in one of his editorials. University of Phoenix in Europe. “It just evolved. It wasn’t like “I really shouldn’t have done “I got good people along the one morning we woke up and it was that,” Schad said. way,” Schad said. all good,” he said. As the paper expanded from But his real secret to the success In the beginning Schad worked monthly to once a week to twice a of the paper, which he sold to the for the Ahwatukee Sentinel, which week, he expanded the staff, hiring parent company of the East Valley produced a monthly paper for Pres- Patty McCormac as newsroom editor Tribune in 1998: “You just had to be ley Homes and the Ahwatukee area. and Todd Lillard as photo editor. loose and go with the flow.” But in 1978, Presley general manager Bruce Gilliam offered Schad the opportunity to own and operate his own paper serving the growing Investigative Reporters and months, and the search was concommunity and was willing to kick Editors has named Fort Worth Star- ducted by some of organization’s in $400 a month to help make the Telegram projects editor Mark Horvit most respected figures. paper a go. “He’s a ball of fire,” Grimaldi as the new executive director. Schad, a 1976 graduate of the An accomplished investiga- said of Horvit. “He is enthusiastic University of Nebraska with a degree tive reporter and editor, Horvit is with a lot of ideas and had a track in journalism, jumped at the chance passionate about IRE and watchdog record of managing people.” to run his own paper. Brant Houston, the current journalism. “Most of the articles came from As executive director, Horvit director, is leaving the position after the retirees (like Le Chaix at the will supervise 12 full-time staff 10 years to take the Knight Chair Ahwatukee Recreation Center),” said members; run IRE’s renowned pro- in Investigative Journalism at the Schad, who would send the stories fessional programs, publications and University of Illinois. Houston is out to be typeset as he sold ads right Web site; and oversee the $1.4 mil- currently splitting time between the up to the last minute. lion budget, fund-raising campaigns university and the organization. Then, with the help of a couple and the $3 million-plus endowment The IRE was founded in 1975, Arizona State University art students, fund. and its Web site describes it as a he would paste up the pages and then IRE President James Grimaldi “grassroots nonprofit organization take them to the printers. Sometimes said the organization interviewed dedicated to improving the quality he would go as far as Casa Grande to dozens of candidates over eight of investigative reporting.” (Brant Clinard/AFN)
By Doug Murphy Arizona Foothills News
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Kevin Slimp answers your questions about software There seems to be a recurring theme in my e-mail lately. Problems related to outdated and newly released Kevin Slimp applications seem to abound. Fortunately, my e-mail includes enough variety to keep things interesting. Below are a few of the calls for help I’ve received over the past few weeks.
From Tami, North Dakota In InDesign, I’ve designed a two color envelope with a graduated screen in the background with small type over it. When I print it, there is a knockout behind all the text (causing registration problems). I would like to set it so it wouldn’t knock out the screen behind the 10-point type. Where do I find that setting?
Answer: That’s an easy one, Tami. Go to your InDesign Preferences and look for Appearance of Black in the sidebar. There is an option to Always Overprint Black. Select that option and all should be well. (Note: Tami wrote back to report this fixed her overprinting problem.)
From Scott, Tennessee
Our staff has finally migrated completely to OS X Macs and applications. Our ad builders are creating ads in InDesign and exporting them out as PDFs. The pagination department has no trouble importing these ads, using InDesign CS2 and CS3. However, our sister paper is still using QuarkXPress 4.11 in a classic Mac environment. The spot color ads, once placed on the Quark pages,
are separating on all four plates. The latest QuarkXPress PDF import filter I can find is version 1.6. What setting within InDesign CS3 can our ad builders use to create spot color ads exported as PDFs that will separate correctly for our pagination staff using InDesign CS2 as well as our sister paper, using QuarkXPress 4.1? Any help you can provide regarding these settings would be greatly appreciated.
Answer: Well, Scott, the problem isn’t in InDesign or QuarkXPress. It’s in the way you’re creating the PDF files. Files exported from InDesign, as well as other applications, simply cause lots of problems when printed. Your staff should be creating PostScRIPt files of the ads, then converting them to PDF using Acrobat Distiller. That should take care of the problems you’ve been having. (Scott sent a note a few days later to let me know this fixed the problem. Both QuarkXPress and InDesign are happy with the PDF files these days.)
From Shirley, Minnesota Is there a difference if you print to PostScRIPt, then distill, versus exporting to EPS and distilling?
Answer: Yes, Shirley, there’s a big difference. Although saving a file as EPS, then distilling, works fine in most cases, saving a document as a PostScRIPt file first is more dependable. Fortunately, the recent versions of InDesign and QuarkXPress make writing a PostScRIPt file as easy as clicking a couple of buttons.
From Doug, Rhode Island I received a PDF, used Pitstop 4.6 to preflight it and the report did not indicate any errors. When I con-
verted the PDF to an EPS, imported it into a Quark document (version 4.1) and sent it to our Harlequin RIP, the photos dropped out. According to the report (attached) the PDF was created in Illustrator. Did the photos drop out because they weren’t attached correctly to begin with?
Answer: Doug has run into a problem that’s becoming more prevalent. Older applications, including QuarkXPress 4.1, just can’t handle some of the new technology being used today. PDFs now contain features, such as transparencies, that weren’t available back in the 90s, when QuarkXPress 4 was released. It’s time to admit that newspapers can’t continue to use old software without paying a price. I’ve received frantic calls from newspapers who couldn’t get their pages to print or faced other deadline emergencies due to old software. Several newspaper groups pay a hefty fee for my advice. Let me give you some free advice. Update your technology before it’s too late.
From Nancy, Saskatchewan PageMaker is driving me crazy. Whenever I create PDFs (I use InDesign & Acrobat Distiller) and send them to Mac PageMaker users, especially if they contain spot colors, they can’t seem to print them correctly. Tell me there’s a secret you can share to correct the PageMaker problem.
Answer: This isn’t a problem you created, Nancy. It’s hard to believe PageMaker is as old as it is. I started using the application in the mid 80s, when it was first released. It won’t even run on newer Macs. I find it hard to believe newspapers can stay in busi-
ness but can’t afford to upgrade from PageMaker to InDesign. If that’s the case, I suspect they won’t be in business much longer. I tried to put that as gently as I could, Nancy.
From Jamie, Minnesota I saw you at the Minnesota Newspaper Association Convention and, as usual, enjoyed it immensely. We are in the process of trying to upgrade to either Quark or InDesign. Because we were already using Quark, we bought copies of QuarkXPress 6.5 and a 7.0 to try out - and are having plenty of trouble with them! Can you tell me that this transition would be easier with InDesign? I have one brand new computer running 10.5 Leopard and Quark 7.0 and it just won’t work!
Answer: Nice touch with the opening compliment, Jamie. Here’s the answer: Maybe. Maybe not. I have been to newspapers where moving to InDesign solved most or all of their printing problems. However, I suspect your problems might be related more to Leopard than to QuarkXPress. Users have been bombarding blogs, forums and my e-mail with tales of printing - and other - problems after upgrading to Leopard (OS 10.5). Some folks don’t have any problems after upgrading. Others have tremendous difficulties. Let me suggest two possibilities. The least expensive option might be to do a clean install of OS 10.4 on your machine, then install QuarkXPress. If the problems go away, then you know where they were coming from. Another option would be to install InDesign on your machine and see if it has similar problems. If not, you may have answered your own question. Either way, I’d be interested in hearing how this turns out.
Senate panel rejects new media ownership rule By John Dunbar Associated Press A Senate committee voted on April 24 to nullify a recently approved Federal Communications Commission rule that allows media companies to own a newspaper and a television station in the same market. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a resolution that would roll back the rule, despite promises of a veto from the White House. Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said the resolution was meant to combat “galloping concentration” in the media. When the FCC approved the
rule late last year, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin described it as a “relatively minor loosening” of broadcast media ownership restrictions. The rule, which was approved by the FCC on a 3-2 party-line vote, allows one company to own a newspaper and one radio or TV station in the same market. Such a combination is allowable only in one of the 20 largest metropolitan areas. The TV station may not be among the top four in the market, and post-transaction, at least eight independent media voices must remain. Both Democrats on the FCC opposed the rule, which replaced an outright ban on cross-ownership. The Senate panel’s action took
place as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. reportedly reached a tentative deal to buy Chicago-based Tribune Co.-owned Newsday in New York. News Corp. owns two television stations in New York City as well as the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal. Martin has said any exception to the media ownership rule would face a “very high hurdle.” The House is also considering a nullification of the ownership rule, but even if supporters are successful, it appears headed for defeat as long as President Bush is in the White House. On April 1, Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez wrote Senate Commerce Committee
Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, saying the administration “strongly opposes any attempt to overturn these rules by legislative means” and if the resolution were presented to the president, “his senior advisers would recommend that he veto the bill.” Gutierrez defended the FCC’s action saying the order “modernizes outdated media ownership regulations to appropriately take into account the plethora of news and information outlets that exist today.” The Senate resolution has 25 co-sponsors including Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois.
ANAgrams ■ May 2008
Get a job!
Visit our JobBank online at www.ananews.com/jobbank Or e-mail your job listing to p.collins@ananews.com COPY EDITOR. Prescott Newspapers, Inc., is looking for an experienced copy editor. The right candidate will have a degree in journalism or commensurate experience, an eye for detail, excellent grammar and proofreading skills. Knowledge of Associated Press style, and strong verbal and customer relation skills essential. Excellent benefits. Email your resume to pnihr@prescottaz.com. (May 1) CORRESPONDENT. The Associated Press seeks a One-Person Correspondent to cover northern Arizona, based in Flagstaff. The correspondent will cover spot news and enterprise in a region stretching from Arizona’s borders with New Mexico and Nevada to the northern border with Utah. Primary beats will include the Grand Canyon, the Navajo Nation, the Colorado River, mining, growth, environment and tourism. This correspondent is expected to write timely, compelling stories for regional, national and global audiences, across all formats, with an emphasis on breaking news off beats, accuracy, speed and multimedia. This correspondent identifies and cultivates sources; works closely with editors to develop stories; and coordinates photo and video coverage. This correspondent actively works with AP member newspapers and broadcasters. Applicants should have a minimum of three years experience at a newspaper or wire service, with at least two years of beat reporting experience covering breaking news and enterprise. Applicants must show superior writing and editing skills; strong news judgment in recognizing and developing newsworthy stories from a remote bureau; the ability to work independently and quickly under deadline pressure; the ability to juggle multiple needs by setting priorities and managing time and resources well; demonstrated success at communicating well with managers, colleagues and news sources. Demonstrated skills in collecting and producing multimedia are preferred. Fluency in Spanish is a plus. Please apply online at http://ap.contacthr.com/10775311 (May 1) Graphic Designer. Tucson Newspapers is looking for a professional graphic designer to work as part of our design team. Candidate will be responsible for creating promotional advertising pieces that include text, graphics and photos; output is mainly for print media, but some work is done in other visual media, including online. Duties include graphic preparation, color production and layout of promotional advertising that requires experience in layout design, production, offset printing preparation, scanning, photography and the Macintosh computer platform. TNI is looking for designers who can create top quality
advertising utilizing their artistic and creative abilities. Candidates must have knowledge of related fields such as marketing, promotions and publishing and the ability to prioritize work and perform under deadline pressure. Candidates must have advanced working knowledge of Macintosh computers, Adobe Illustrator, In-Design and Photoshop software. A talent for illustration is a major “plus” as is experience in video, html and Macromedia Flash production. Contact Betsy Stuetze at (520) 807-8402 for more information. (Apr. 30) Sales Manager. The Arizona Republic & azcentral.com, Arizona’s premier Multimedia source for news and information, is seeking as experienced Sales Manager who is organized and enthusiastic to manage the sales efforts of the Deer Valley Branch. Our ideal candidate will have a proven ability to manage, develop and motivate a sales team, ensure superior customer service, develop relationships with key business partners, review market data to execute actionable sales and marketing plans and develop and foster circulation relationships. Qualified candidates will have a minimum four years advertising sales experience in positions of increasing responsibility and scope, of which two years were in a supervisory role. The ability to work well under the pressure of deadlines and handle multiple priorities is vital. Proven sales ability with strong customer focus is essential. Must have a minimum of 4 years experience leading an aggressive sales organization. Please apply online at republicjobs. azcentral.com. (Apr. 30) SPORTS REPORTER. The Arizona Daily Sun, a 12,000-circulation daily in Flagstaff, has an opening for a full-time, multi-platform sportswriter. Reporting experience at a daily newspaper is not required, but it will move you to the front of the line. The reporter is mainly responsible for coverage of preps and the Division I Northern Arizona University women’s basketball team, but will also be expected to contribute to youth and recreational sports coverage throughout the year. The ideal candidate has a firm grasp of AP style and has the ability to write clear, concise stories on tight deadlines. Familiarity with NewsEditPro IQue and InDesign is a plus. The reporter will also take his or her turn on the desk, contribute story ideas and play a key role in directing coverage, both in print on and the Web. Must have valid drivers license and reliable transportation. No phone calls, please. Those interested should send cover letter, resume and clips in hard copy only to: Keith Jiron, Sports Editor, 1751 S. Thompson St., Flagstaff, AZ 86001. (Apr. 24)
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