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Official publication of the Colorado Press Association / coloradopressassociation.com / Vol. LXXXVI, No. 10
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October 2015
‘A step in the right direction’ CPA bylaws amended to allow for more membership types Staff Report For the Editor
photo by Greg Luft
Joanna Bean, left, of the Colorado Springs Gazette, and Matt Lubich, of the Johnstown Breeze talk about the newspaper industry with a group of students during a Colorado Press Association Visit to Colorado State University on Oct. 6. The CPA conducts Campus Visits to five to seven colleges annually, bringing in industry professionals to meet with students about the future of the industry, and to meet with faculty to discuss the programs and preparing students for future jobs in journalism.
Continuing education
SYNC2 U-niversity webinar series debuts By JOSHUA ROBERTS For the Editor When Doug Hay, SYNC2 Media vice president for marketing, began designing a series of webinars for advertising sales reps across the state, he started with the
most logical topic he could think of — the industry's relevance. He concedes the first webinar in the series, hosted earlier this month, could have doubled as a "pep rally for newspapers."
See SYNC2-U Page 8
Finally. That’s what Jerry Healey, of Colorado Community Media, said after the Oct. 23 special meeting of the general membership to amend the Colorado Press Association bylaws, allowing for a wider range of news organizations to attain full membership in the Association “This is the third time I have attended a CPA meeting where we voted on allowing free publications into membership,” Healey said. “It is finally done and was almost unanimous. The key for me is that only news-gathering publications are allowed to join. We can all learn a great deal from each other.” And he only attended three such meetings. For more than three decades, there have been attempts to change the CPA bylaws to allow more members full status — most attempts centering on allowing freedistribution papers full membership — but previous attempts were not approved. With 44 of the 95 CPA members eligible to amend the bylaws represented at the membership
See BYLAWS, Page 5
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2015 contest packets are out
The 2015 Contest Rules and As part of its advocacy goal, the Guidelines packets are now Colorado Press Association has available on the CPA webstarted creating memes to prosite. mote the newspaper industry. The CPA is planning to produce Other details about the at least one meme — if not more contest: — every two weeks on CPA so• There is an early-bird cial media sites, and will also will One wakes you up make them available for memCoffee & One opens your eyes registration with discounted rates (details in packet). ber’s use. The memes also allow Newspapers #newspapersthrive • Entry period to start subfor member papers to post their mitting is Nov. 9, and closes logos as well. Go to http://www. Dec. 15. coloradopressassociation.com/ • The contest period is from services/advocacy to download Sept. 1, 2014 through Oct. 31, 2015. memes, or check out the CPA’s Facebook and Twitter pages.
House ads, guide created to promote public notices The Colorado Press Association has created a 28-page “Public Notices: Best Practices and Resource Guide,” as well as several white-label house ads, for members to use to promote public notices. To get access to the house ads and public notice guide, go to http://www. coloradopressassociation. com/services/public-notices or contact Jerry Raehal at 720.274.7171 or jraehal@colopress.net.