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A fight for openness Arvada resident who sued his city wins CPA’s ‘Friend of the First’ award

By Jeffrey A. Roberts CFOIC Executive Director Russell Weisfield, whose lawsuit over the use of secret ballots by the Arvada City Council led to a change in the state Open Meetings Law last year, won the Colorado Press Association’s “Friend of the

First” award, during the CPA’s annual convention in February.

The Arvada resident sued his city in January 2014, alleging that council members ignored a 2012 statute when they voted four times by secret ballot to eliminate candidates for a vacant council seat. A judge in Jefferson County dismissed the lawsuit, not because the case lacked merit, but because she determined that Weisfield lacked legal standing to file suit.

Why? Because he couldn’t show that he had been personally harmed by the secret procedure that selected the eventual winner, Jerry Marks.

While acknowledging that Arvada “may have violated the secret ballot provision” of the law, the judge noted that Weisfield wasn’t among the finalists for the council vacancy and he never claimed that Marks was “failing to adequately represent his interests” as a resident of Arvada’s council District 1.

The Colorado General Assembly moved quickly in the aftermath of the decision, approving HB 14-1390 without a single “no” vote.

The measure, signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper last June, ensures that anyone has legal standing to

challenge violations of the Open Meetings Law, also known as the Sunshine Law. Weisfield has appealed his case, arguing that he was, in fact, injured because the City Council never remedied its violation of the statute.

The Friend of the First award recognizes a Coloradan “who is a passionate advocate of First Amendment rights, freedom of the press, and open government.”

Weisfield couldn’t attend the awards luncheon at the CPA’s annual convention in Denver, but he prepared a statement for the event:

“I am honored that the Colorado Press Association would think of me for this award and regret that I cannot appear in person. My hope when the City Council began filling its vacancy was that the process would be utterly transparent. My goal in challenging that lack of transparency was to learn basic facts, such as how my elected officials voted. I continue to be amazed that I am met with great opposition in trying to learn these things. Such opposition contributes to a mistrust of government,

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‘If not us, who?’

Editor’s note: The following is from Keith Cerny’s speech to kickoff part of the awards ceremony at the recent annual convention.

You’re not here tonight to listen to speeches, unless it involves awards, so I’ll be brief.

For those of you who haven’t been in on a series of meetings this long, now snowy weekend, I thought I’d give a brief recap of what’s gone on with CPA and SYNC2 Media in the last twelve months.

It’s been rather uneventful since we only hired a new CEO, and thank you Jerry Raehal and your staff for keeping the fire burning and reminding us that we’re far past due to be BACK in BLACK, Keith meaning Cerny profitable.

And we sold our historic Valley Courier downtown building due to rising maintenance costs and real estate taxes, as well as utilities, and moved into rental space that we only now started to pay rent for. We have around three-quarters of million dollars earning interest right now, at probably 20 percent — just kidding, but it will help ensure that our organization can remain viable for several years to come.

And speaking of that, we can’t continue without the support of you and your publishers and owners.

Even though our membership

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Parting gift Colorado Press Association/SYNC2 Media outgoing chair Bryce Jacobson looks at one award while holding his special parting gift during the annual convention’s Innovation Luncheon. Jacobson received an Etch A Sketch as part of his parting gift.

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In the News Digital audience numbers continue to climb The Newspaper Association of America is reporting that digital audiences for newspapers is continuing to grow, with the combined digital numbers in the United States “reaching a record 173 million in January 2015, according to comScore data.”

Representing 82 percent of the total U.S. adult online population in that month, the number is the highest ever, up 19 percent from 146 million in January 2014, and 4.8 percent from 165 million in December 2014.

As reported by Erik Sass for the NAA website’s MediaDailyNews, the data indicates “newspapers’ digital content reached 91 percent of U.S. adult women ages 25-34, and the same population of U.S. adult men ages 35-44.”

The report also showed a big increase in the proportion of people who consume digital newspaper content exclusively on mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. The number of mobile-only consumers grew 73 percent from 39.3 million adult unique visitors in January 2014 to more than 68 million in January 2015, representing a proportional increase from 27 percent to 39 percent of the total newspaper digital audience.

AP Sports Extra sports new look Associated Press recently signed a deal to have GateHouse Media Center for News and Design give its AP Sports Extra an update.

The new look debuted in time for the Super Bowl, with GateHouse now designing and producing the page for the paginated sports previews.

“GateHouse brings a fresh approach that will benefit all users of these pages,” said Barry Bedlan, AP deputy director of sports products. The preview pages are popular with newspaper members in saving time and resources, as well as providing a vehicle for local advertising sales opportunities.

Sports Extra pages are available for major sporting events – including the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and the NFL draft – provided in broadsheet, half broadsheet and tabloid sizes to newspaper subscribers of AP Sports. The Center for News & Design, located in Austin, Texas, designs and edits more than 175 newspapers and offers its services to publications outside of GateHouse.

Press relics donated to Mancos Common Press The Mancos Common Press, a group dedicated to preserving the art of printing, got a big boost with the donation of a number of items from a former printer. Larry Hauser got into the printing business at age 14 and retired from the Cortez Journal in 2002. A Chandler and Price 10-by-15 press – weighing several thousand pounds and over 100 years old – had been sitting on his carport for 20 years.

Hauser donated the press and a number of other printing tools from the past to group members Jim Price, Tami Graham and Betsy

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Harrison. Among the donations: a linotype chair, 50 cases of type, a make-up rule, a container for white kerosene to clean presses, a planing block, forms, a height measurer, type sticks and blanks, and small hand presses – which the group said can be used to teach children to print small cards the way it used to be done. As he made the donations, Hauser, 76, said he felt good that the art of printing will continue.

Holyoke promotes use of newspapers to teach kids The Holyoke Enterprise is touting the use of newspapers as a valuable educational tool for teachers and their students. “Many of today’s newspapers are filled with all types of emerging technologies, which educators use to enhance their students’ educational experiences,” reported the newspaper recently.

“However, the humble newspaper has long been a staple in the classroom and at home and remains one of the best tools for learning.”

Holyoke suggests the following ways to make use of newspapers for education: improve students’ reading fluency by giving them access to a variety of reading materials and various sections of a newspaper; strengthen their writing skills by explaining to them a journalistic style of writing, including validating statements and having a logical flow; make current events accessible to students via a weekly or daily newspaper; help students develop an eye for photography, including interpreting stories and seeing how imagery brings words to life.

Mesa County expands records access The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction recently reported that “journalists, researchers and curious citizens will be able to submit requests for access to Mesa County records online” following approval Jan. 12 of an amended open-records policy. Previously, the county’s policy for handling Colorado Open Records Act requests were required to be in written form in person, via mail or fax.

The amended CORA policy, noted the Sentinel, “adds the option of submitting

records requests through a central email portal” on the county’s website. In addition, a price change was prompted by the state legislature’s adoption last year of House Bill 1193, which allowed government bodies to change their open records policies to charge no more than $30 per hour to fulfill an open records request.

Mesa County will now waive fees for the first hour of staff work assembling and responding to a request, then charge $30 for each additional hour of time (a $10-per-hour hike from the previous fee).

Poynter, Gannett partner for Newsroom of the Future The Poynter Institute is partnering with Gannett Co., Inc., on training for the latter’s thousands of U.S. Community Publishing journalists to support the company’s “Newsroom of the Future” concept. Journalists will learn to deal with changing patterns of news consumption, with job-specific programs and new courses developed specifically for Gannett’s newsroom transformation. Following a companywide survey to determine training needs, instruction will be done both online and in person by Poynter faculty and on its e-learning platform, NewsU. The deal is the largest corporate partnership in Poynter’s 39-year history.

Said Poynter President Tim Franklin, “We developed this groundbreaking program using all the teaching methods that will make Poynter the gold standard in journalism training, from e-learning to in-person coaching to online seminars, Webinars and certificate programs.” Other similar partnerships have included The E.W. Scripps Company, CBS Local Stations Group, The McClatchy Company and Pioneer News Group.

Kate Marymont, senior vice president of news for Gannett’s U.S. community publishing, said: “This partnership is an investment in continuing each of our journalist’s professional development. The tools used to gather and distribute news change constantly and we are committed to helping journalists stay ahead of the curve.”

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10 Questions with: Mike Keefe

By Cheryl Ghrist Contributing Editor This issue, “10 Questions” checked in with Mike Keefe, editorial cartoonist for The Denver Post from 1975 through late 2011, with his work continuing now in syndication. In the 1990s he contributed to USA Today and American Online.

He’s also written or published several books, and done animation work that has appeared on television, the Internet and CD-ROM magazines. On his website intoon.com, his bio notes he hoped to “suppress his secret nature,” but drawn to Richard Nixon’s nose during Watergate, “he’s been out of the closet and cartooning ever since.”

His honors include three Fischetti Awards (for cartoons on social and political subjects), others from the National Press Foundation, National Headliners Club, Sigma Delta Chi, Society of Professional Journalists and Best of the West contests, plus a Pulitzer in 2011.

He was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University and is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.

He has two grown children and today lives in downtown Denver with his wife. Music buffs will find him playing guitar and harmonica in two bands, Off the Leash and Blue Streak, mostly at private events. He previously played with TOAST, The Corrections and Falling Rock, which was a regular at The Little Bear in Evergreen.

1) You either have a mixed-up or a well-rounded background. You’re from Santa Rosa, Calif., a former automobile assembly line worker, U.S. Marine and grad school mathematician (University of Missouri – Kansas City), and you were in a bar band. How did all that – and Watergate – launch you into this particular niche of journalism?

A cartooning career almost came by accident. I had finished the coursework for a doctorate in mathematics and, before getting started on the dissertation, had sent out query letters to colleges and universities across the country about potential teaching positions. This was in the mid-70s during a recession.

The job prospects were bleak. At the same time I had been drawing weekly editorial cartoons for the college newspaper for a couple of years. It was a politically rich time with the Vietnam War winding down and Watergate heating up. My interest in the issues of the day had begun while I served in the Marines (1969-1971). On a whim, I sent a packet of cartoons to Bill Sanders of the Milwaukee Journal. Bill was a political cartoonist with a reputation for critiquing and helping young folks interested in that field. He wrote back to say that he liked what I was doing and had taken the liberty of forwarding my work to the editor of The Denver Post. Pat Oliphant – the former Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist at the Post – had recently moved on to The Washington Star. Thus began a dialogue with the paper, and I was hired a couple of months later.

I don’t assemble cars anymore, but I still play in a band.

2) Obviously, we want your opinion on the Charlie Hebdo tragedy in Paris on Jan. 7 – which included the shooting deaths of five cartoonists on the satirical weekly publication staff – and its aftermath. On Denver’s Channel 9 the following day, you seemed calm as you said, “There are people who want to shout down opinions they don’t agree with,” and “You’re not really doing your job as a journalist if you’re not pushing that envelope.” I suspect cartoonists, similar to writers, have much stronger emotions deep inside that drive them to respond to such acts. What would you like to say now, and were you more angered or saddened by the whole event?

I should clarify my statement on Channel 9. On the news side, good journalists keep their personal opinions out of their work and strive for impartiality. Editorial cartoons appear on the opinion pages for a reason. The cartoonist’s personal point of view is central to his work. I hope that my deepest emotions are represented in the drawings.

I was both saddened and outraged over the attack on the staff and cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo. Given the general behavior of these murderous jihadists, it was not too surprising that this could happen. To be clear, the goal at Charlie Hebdo is to be offensive. All religions are skewered in the most graphic ways. Even with freedom of speech in the United States, there really is no equivalent satirical newspaper or magazine here. No Charlie Hebdo equivalent. I have no problem going after Islamic extremism, pedophile priests, abortion-clinic bombings, self-righteous Christians who insert themselves in the political world. But I prefer to draw about the offenders, not the peaceful followers of any particular faith.

3) What is your process as an editorial cartoonist? How do you know when a work is done, and that it’s good?

TOP: Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and Mike Keefe at the Pulitzer celebration in 2011.

AT LEFT: Keefe on harmonica at Herman’s Hideaway, around 2005 with the band TOAST. He currently plays guitar and harmonica with bands Off the Leash and Blue Streak, mostly at private events.

I could act on, but he was clearly implying that my take on his pet subject could be unhealthy for me.

I am most productive and creative when I come to the drawing board with a blank sheet of paper and no ideas. After I’ve read the news from several sources, I jot down all the major topics of the day. Narrow them down to those on which I would like to comment. Then with the point I will make in mind, I look for some graphic way to depict it. This involves word association, doodles and a lot of time staring at the ceiling. Something comes. I refine the idea until it feels right.

Then I draw the cartoon. Drawing is the easy part.

4) What’s been your “edgiest” work? What single cartoon or themed group has pushed the most boundaries?

Cartoons connected to religion are often edgy (see Charlie Hebdo, above). Gun-control issues usually get a rise out of some readers. Police shootings. With the general decline in civility in social media, you can never tell what cartoon might start a brush fire. One cartoon I drew after the Columbine school shootings in 1999 mobilized the entire American Wiccan community because I had used a witches’ brew as metaphor. The brew was a mix of violent videos, lax gun laws and a couple of other things. I think that one resulted in about 600 emails and letters and a long phone conversation with the nation’s head witch.

7) You’ve been honored for your work numerous times – 2011 was a good year, when you won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartoon for your “widely ranging cartoons that employ a loose, expressive style to send strong, witty messages.” You were also a juror for the 1997 and 1998 Pulitzers. How satisfying was it to win, and how do the judges narrow it down to one winner?

The Pulitzer was a surprise and thrill for sure. Cartoonists submit portfolios of 20 cartoons from the previous year. A jury of about six journalists is the first to comb through the entries.

After several days, they submit their top-three nominees to the Pulitzer committee that makes the final selection a few weeks later.

8) What cartoonists do you admire today, and what subjects do they target?

My favorite cartoonists today are Pat Bagley of The Salt Lake Tribune, Joel Pett, the Lexington Herald Leader; Nate Beeler, The Columbus Ohio Dispatch; Tom Toles, The Washington Post; Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal; and several others. They draw about a full range of topics, local, national and international.

5) Have you ever fought censorship at any publication, or are those lines in the sand clearly drawn before you go to work?

I haven’t had much trouble getting my cartoons in print.

Early on there were more occasions where my editor didn’t think my idea was clear enough and sent me back for revisions. But over time, that sort of thing was rare.

9) Can you name your top three mentors and how they influenced where you are today?

I was inspired to draw for my college paper when The Kansas City Star hired a young guy named Bill Schorr.

He was very helpful with the tools of the trade and as an occasional sounding board. Pat Oliphant and Jeff MacNelly (three-time Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist and creator of the comic strips Shoe and Pluggers) were early influences.

But I discovered that to find my own voice and style, I needed to quickly evolve on my own.

6) Do you feel that any of your work has ever put you in danger, either just a feeling you had, or an actual experience you’ve gone through?

I used to get phone calls at the office at 4 a.m. following any cartoon calling for stricter gun laws. Of course, the caller knew it was unlikely I’d be at my desk at that time. That gave him the opportunity to leave a menacing message. No threats that

10) Do you have a current personal or professional goal in mind?

I’ve been retired from The Post for three years and do at most one or two cartoons a week. (One a week for The Colorado Independent. http://www.coloradoindependent. com) My goal is to do the best cartoon I possibly can on that one day.

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Lawsuit goes up in smoke Marijuana restrictions case dismissed, so now what?

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he lawsuit over advertising regulations on retail marijuana establishments was dismissed in March.

The Colorado Press Association and Pulp filed the lawsuit against the Department of Revenue based on First Amendment issues regarding advertising and the chilling effect such laws could have.

According to the CPA and Pulp’s attorney on the case — Michael Fairhurst of Killmer, Lane & Newman — the lawsuit was dismissed because the judge said the CPA and Pulp do not have standing.

The restrictions in place are specific to retail marijuana establishments.

This ruling does not change current practices for newspapers.

If you have been taking retail Jerry marijuana advertising, this Raehal should not change your practice unless you believe you are out CPA CEO of compliance with the DOR regulations.

Please note: If you run an ad that does not meet the DOR’s criteria, the penalties hit the retail establishment, not the newspaper. This is why we believe it is important to educate such establishments on the law and why your newspaper (if you choose to do so) meets those standards.

WHAT THE LAWS SAYS

To be clear, the restrictions have a wide range of implications for several forms of advertising.

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evidence” that no more than 30 percent of the publication’s readership is reasonably expected to be under the age of 21, both in print and online (for a list of restrictions we focused on — and the state’s wording — see sidebar).

We specifically questioned what “reliable evidence” is, and wondered why the law was more restrictive than other legal vices, such as advertising for alcohol.

You can also not advertise to people outside the state of Colorado (sorry border towns), and limit certain types of online advertising (no pop-ups).

WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR YOU

If you want to secure retail marijuana advertising, a best practice would be to have a readership survey done showing readership levels, both print and online, if you do not already have one.

The Telluride Daily Planet has already been through one such battle, and the DOR found Scarborough research to be “reliable.” You can find out more at http://www.scarborough.com.

Other places to consider might be Pulse Research and American Opinion Institute. At this point, Scarborough is the only such group that WE KNOW OF that has passed the DOR’s “reliable test” when it came to a legal question. If you have used a different provider, please let us know so we can add it to the list.

WHAT THE CPA IS DOING NOW

The lawsuit’s dismissal does not change that we feel the current regulations are incorrect. It seems the only two routes through the court system at this point are to either appeal the current decision, or for a retail marijuana establishment to take on the case (and thus, provide standing).

Short of going to court, the CPA board already was looking at other options outside of the court prior to the recent court ruling, which is being worked on.

If you have questions, please contact me at jraehal@ colopress.net or 720.274.7171.

Regulations R 1106 –Advertising: Print Media A Retail Marijuana Establishment shall not engage in Advertising in a print publication unless the Retail Marijuana Establishment has reliable evidence that no more than 30 percent of the publication’s readership is reasonably expected to be under the age of 21.

R 1107 –Advertising: Internet A Retail Marijuana Establishment shall not engage in Advertising via the internet unless the Retail Marijuana Establishment has reliable evidence that no more than 30 percent of the audience for the internet web site is reasonably expected to be under the age of 21. See also Rule R 1114 – Pop-Up Advertising.

R 1108 – Advertising: Targeting Out-of-State Persons Prohibited.

A Retail Marijuana Establishment shall not engage in Advertising that specifically targets Persons located outside the state of Colorado.

R 1113 – Advertising: Advertising via Marketing Directed Toward LocationBased Devices

A Retail Marijuana Establishment shall not engage in Advertising via marketing directed towards locationbased devices, including but not limited to cellular phones, unless the marketing is a mobile device application installed on the device by the owner of the device who is 21 year of age or older and includes a permanent and easy opt-out feature.

R 1114 – Pop-Up Advertising A Retail Marijuana Establishment shall not utilize unsolicited pop-up Advertising on the internet.

R 1115 – Advertising: Event Sponsorship A Retail Marijuana Establishment may sponsor a charitable, sports, or similar event, but a Retail Marijuana Establishment shall not engage in Advertising at, or in connection with, such an event unless the Retail Marijuana Establishment has reliable evidence that no more than 30 percent of the audience at the event and/or viewing Advertising in connection with the event is reasonably expected to be under the age of 21.

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‘This book helps fill that knowledge gap’ Book review: Colorado Newspapers: A History & Inventory, 1859-2000

By Garrett Ray Special to The Editor In 1978, the board of the Colorado Press Association agreed that someone ought to write a history of the association to mark the CPA’s 100th birthday. Marshall Sprague, a respected and prominent Colorado author, was invited to write the history.

He decided he wasn’t interested. Given the tortuous history of the idea over the next several decades, Sprague made a wise decision. But he suggested a young, ambitious writer who had worked with him on some now-forgotten project. Later that year, the board agreed to hire the young man.

During the next year, the would-be author interviewed many Colorado newspaper editors, producing literally a ream of typewritten interview notes, including his own opinions on newspapers, editors and life in general.

Occasionally, he would show up at my office at the Littleton Independent to report why the manuscript seemed to be proceeding so slowly. Then, telling me that he needed some solitude to re-think his project, he left for France and disappeared, taking with him the notes -- as well as the advance money from the press association.

I thought that was the end of the proposed history. But 10 years later, Jane C. Harper of the CPA staff adopted the project. She began collecting documents and notes, squirreling them away in boxes in the

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PROCEEDS: Book sale proceeds go to the CPA’s Foundation, which is run by the Denver Foundation. Foundation funds are used for educational purposes, such as scholarships, trainings and other programs that promote journalism.

basement of the CPA building. Colorado Publisher Robert F. Sweeney’s persistence kept the project alive, and Wilbur Flachman of The Publishing House honored his early commitment to produce and print the book at his own expense. It has now been published as Colorado Newspapers: A History & Inventory, 1859-2000.

Although the history is organized countyby-county – a potentially dull collection of ancient dates and forgotten names -- it is not just a useful tool for historians.

It is also far more interesting than I would have expected. Even a brief prowl through the more than 400 pages produces anecdotes about the early days of Colorado

newspapering. (Is Wheatridge one word or two? It “seems to depend entirely on who wields the paint brush,” The Denver Post noted. Aspen was the third largest city in the state in 1884.

The first name of the gold-mining settlement of Ashcroft was Chloride.

The Japanese relocation camp of Amache functioned as “a medium-sized city” from its founding in 1942 till the end of World War II.) The book properly carries three names as authors – first, of course, the late Jane Harper. Then Craig W. Leavitt, a University of Colorado Denver master’s degree candidate, who pared Harper’s 700,000word manuscript to about 275,000 words, fact-checked it, filled gaps, and contributed his own insights. Finally, Thomas J. “Dr. Colorado” Noel, prominent professor of history at the University of Colorado Denver and our state’s best known historian.

Noel not only recruited Leavitt, but also did some of his own editing and factchecking. Essays by Leavitt and Noel are worth reading for their own lively perspectives on Colorado journalism. Noel notes that the book is “the first attempt to describe every last Colorado newspaper published before roughly 2000,” adding that “sadly, an estimated 90 percent of all Colorado newspapers have completely disappeared.”

This book helps fill that knowledge gap, and historians will appreciate it. As a Colorado native who worked for more than two decades on local newspapers, I am surely not the only small-town Colorado journalist who will be grateful for the work and affection poured into this book by Jane Harper and what turned out to be a remarkable team.

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Staff report The Colorado Press Association and SYNC2 Media welcomed two new board members during its annual business meeting at the convention in February.

Matt Sandberg, publisher of the Summit Daily News, Summit County Journal, Middle Park Times and the Sky-Hi News, and Bob Hudson, advertising manager of the Pueblo Chieftain, were named to two-year terms on the board.

Terri House, publisher of the Pagosa Springs Sun, is the new chair of the board.

Keith Cerny, publisher of the Alamosa Valley Courier, is the new president.

Sandberg Bart Smith, publisher of the Greeley Tribune, is the new vice president.

Matt Hudson Lubich, executive editor and co-owner of the Johnstown Breeze, is the new treasurer.

And, Larry Ryckman, city editor of the Denver Post, is the new secretary.

Beecher Threatt, copublisher of the Ouray County Plaindealer, and Lisa Schlichtman, editor of the Steamboat Pilot & Today, are holdover board members.

Jason Woodside, advertising director of the Aurora Media Group, and Mike Wiggins, managing editor of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, are also two-year term members.

The board members were unanimously elected.

Also during the annual business meeting, the financials for 2014 and proposed budget for 2015 were discussed. A main highlight was the CPA selling its building in 2014 and moving into rented offices in September at the Chancery Building at 11th and Lincoln.

The old Colorado Press Association building sale allowed the CPA to put $850,000 in an investment account.

Also, the board OK’d the restructuring of some of the committees.

Colorado Mountain News Media took home three innovation awards during the Saturday luncheon. General Manager Jim Morgan, left, Ben publisher of the Grand Junction Free Press, and Summit Daily News publisher Matt Sandberg show off their shiny, new hardware. Morgan named Newspaper person of the year. Rogers eaned the Rising Star award. Sandberg and his team were named Newspaper Innovators of th

Pueblo Chieftain Assistant Publisher Jane Rawlings and Managing Editor Steve Henson show off the Service to the First award given to reporter Peter Roper and the news staff of the newspaper for their work holding city government accountable, which eventually lead to firings and resignations.

Sponsors helped make the the annual convention stronger this year. This year’s sponsors included: Signature Offset Printing; TownNews; CSU Journalism and M Communication; CU College of Media, Communication and Information; Color Mountain News Media; Great Outdoors Colorado; Creative Circle; NewzGroup Westin Denver International Airport; Lightbox Images Photography; Metropolit Journalism and Technical Communication; Clear the Air Foundation; UNC Jour and Athlon Media

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2014 major award winners GENERAL EXCELLENCE Class 1: Tri-Lakes Tribune Class 2: Berthoud Weekly Surveyor Class 3: The Pagosa Springs Sun Class 4: Sky-Hi News Class 5: The Denver Business Journal Class 6: Craig Daily Press Class 7: Steamboat Springs Pilot & Today Class 8: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Class 9: The Denver Post Class 10: Stapleton Front Porch EDITORIAL EXCELLENCE Class 1: Windsor Beacon Class 2: Berthoud Weekly Surveyor Class 3: Ouray County Plaindealer Class 4: The Aspen Times Weekly Class 5: The Denver Business Journal Class 6: Montrose Daily Press Class 7: Steamboat Springs Pilot & Today Class 8: The Greeley Tribune Class 9: The Denver Post Class 10: Stapleton Front Porch PHOTO/DESIGN EXCELLENCE Class 1: Windsor Beacon Class 2: Middle Park Times Class 3: The Pagosa Springs Sun Class 4: Ski-Hi News Class 5: The Denver Business Journal Class 6: Montrose Daily Press Class 7: Steamboat Springs Pilot & Today Class 8: Fort Collins Coloradoan Class 9: The Denver Post Class 10: North Forty News

Two popular presenters were Bill Ostendorf, left, and Tom Hallman. Ostendorf ’s animated style kept people interested through such topics as improving newsstand sales, getting better web display, alternative story forms and taking better picures. Hallman talked about how to find, report and structure stories that resonate with readers. He also talked about narrative writing.

ADVERTISING EXCELLENCE Class 1: Tri-Lakes Tribune Class 2: Holyoke Enterprise Class 3: The Pagosa Springs Sun Class 4: Golden Transcript Class 5: Parker Chronicle Class 6: Craig Daily Press Class 7: Steamboat Springs Pilot & Today Class 8: Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Class 9: The Denver Post Class 10: North Forty News ONLINE EXCELLENCE Class 1: Windsor Beacon Class 2: High Timber Times Class 3: The Pagosa Springs Sun Class 4: The Villager Class 5: The Denver Business Journal Class 6: Craig Daily Press Class 7: Steamboat Springs Pilot & Today Class 8: Fort Collins Coloradoan Class 9: The Denver Post Class 10: The Southern Ute Drum BEST OF SHOW Online: Meghan Lyden, Mahala Gaylord, Aaron Ontiveroz, Helen Richardson, The Denver Post Advertising: Ashley Davis, The Denver Business Journal Photo and Design: Michael Ciaglo, The Gazette Editorial: Charlie Brennan and John Aguilar, The Daily Camera INNOVATION AWARDS Newspaper Innovators: Summit Daily News Service to the First: Peter Roper and Pueblo Chieftain Newspaper person of the Year: Jim Morgan, Colorado Mountain News Media Rising Star: Ben Rogers, Grand Junction Free Press

Gil Asakawa looks on during a session at the annual cnvention.

Craig Daily Press editor Noelle Leavitt Riley talks with students during the convention’s annual job fair.

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Advertising success stories abound for newspapers Staff Report

Long-term contracts can play key role Steamboat Springs Pilot & Today local sales manager Laura Tamucci reported success in improving her organization’s 52-week advertising contracts. Her sales staff each focused on getting one additional 52-week contract per month.

“It’s grown every month,” she said.

Her team added about 24 new year-long contracts, which totaled about $75,000, she said.

And it’s good morale for her staff members, who get a bump in their commission with each contract.

“It’s been a huge success.”

Strong classifieds, featuring recruitment, help mountain news group Colorado Mountain News Media saw a strong increase in classified advertising. The key move here by the mountain news group was a bigger focus on taking back recruitment classified advertising.

First the numbers: In the past three years, the group has seen a 19 percent increase in classified advertising.

That includes a 36 percent online increase, and a 76 percent in recruitment advertising in past three years.

In recruitment, both print and digital will do more than 2.5 million this year across the newspapers.

“Let’s be honest.

Some of this is luck. Some of this is circumstance, and some of this is where our operations are located,” the group’s General Manager Jim Morgan said.

He pointed to a 2010 survey about recruitment advertising in classifieds.

A few points struck home with him: A study showed that 80 percent of employers do not use print advertising for recruiting. A majority of recruiters use social media solely because it’s less expensive.

The same study found internet and job networks provide a overwhelming response compared to print classifieds.

But by far, most candidates are not well suited for the jobs.

And the same survey found that a newspaper with a high readership with significant market penetration will out perform any job board on the internet.

Circumstances like the recession created first a migration and then a

labor shortage.

That was in the group’s favor, Morgan said.

A plan was put in place: • A redesign of the classifieds to emphasize recruitment. “We led with jobs, because we see recruitment as our best opportunity,” he said.

• A clear strategy for digital. The group’s revenue gains have come on the digital side more so than the legacy print side.

• Pricing. “We want to price our products to maximize value.

Value for the client, but also value for our company,” Morgan said. “We became much more aggressive than we had in the previous three years in pricing in classifieds.”

• Finally, the group wanted to add expertise, which meant training, training, training.

One focus was on redesigning the ads.

“If you sell little ads in classified, you get little money. If you sell big ads in classifieds, you get big money,” Morgan joked.

So, larger, bolder individual ads were born.

An attractive pricing structure in favor of bigger ads in prime locations started. The 1/8 of a page ad is most popular size, he said.

And a focus on combination package buys that included digital and print.

“We fall victim too often to thinking classifieds are price sensitive for recruitment,” he said. “Classifieds for recruitment are performance sensitive. ‘If you get me the person I hire to fill the spot to help my business grow, I will pay you lots of money.’ That’s what the focus needs to be.”

Digital: Native advertising can enhance partnerships The Gazette in Colorado Springs has seen early promise in its native advertising program, said Rhonda Miller, advertising director.

“It’s good sponsored content that readers want when and where they want it,” Miller said.

Think of native advertising as custom publishing online, Miller said. More simply, it’s like the online version of the old print standby of advertorials.

So, native advertising might appear in newspaper’s newsfeeds or just about anywhere else on a web page. When clicked on, it has a similar feel to any regular news

content – but it is written by ad writers or even advertisers.

“People are much more apt to click on it if it’s content they want to see. Gone are the days when people will just click on any link,” she said. “We have consumers who are a little too savvy for that.”

The Gazette recently started its native advertising program. The Great Harvest Bread Company was the first advertiser on board, as a test. The advertiser wanted, even demanded, editorial content, Miller said.

For obvious reasons, Miller’s advertising team couldn’t touch that. She did, however, put a

program in place where Great Harvest would pay for it.

“It has been like having a baby.

We’ve gone on and on, back and forth,” she said. “These folks are very specific and very proud of what they are doing. The great part is the collaboration with them. We want to make sure their messaging is perfect.

“It is an educational tool.”

The cost for native advertising alone is $500 per week, per content, Miller said. For add-ons and other services, the fee goes up.

• Miller also said her “Best of the Best” section is running as strong as ever.

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One of the smaller newspapers in the state shared a few of its biggest success stories during the 2015 Colorado Press Association annual convention.

Darci Tomky of the Holyoke Enterprise was on the panel of “Colorado Success Stories,” which featured some of the best advertising successes in the state.

For her small weekly newspaper, a feature called Athlete of the Week proved very successful.

“Everything in small towns revolves around the schools. It also revolves around sports,” Tomky said.

Working on a one-month commitment, advertisers pay $25 per week to sponsor the feature, which is published during the prep sports season and featured on Facebook as well.

For Facebook, the paper “tags the students whenever possible,” she said. “And it gives the sponsors more exposure, and it allows friends and family to comment on the achievement.”

A second success story Tomky shared was a special section called the “Emerald Awards.”

This special section offered the Enterprise an opportunity to partner with the school district.

The sponsors, 17 this year, paid $185 for 3x5 ad in the six-page section. Sponsors also had the chance to sit on the selection committee.

Editorial content included three feature stories with a photo and a bio box for winners of the school district’s “Innovator of the Year,” “Heart award,” and the “Leader Among Us.” School employees wrote nominations for their peers.

“After the first year, it’s been super easy to sell the sponsorships,” Tomky said. “Some may come or go, but we’ve maintained the same number of sponsors each year with no problem.”

The Emerald awards go beyond just a special section for the newspapers, she said. “With the sponsors, and the partnership between the district and the newspaper, it’s truly a community event that brings everyone together.”

– Rhonda Miller Gazette advertising director

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Denver welcomes 2015 National High School Journalism Convention

By Cheryl Ghrist Contributing Editor High school journalists from across the county will gather in Denver this spring to meet, talk, learn and celebrate for and with the industry that sees its future in their enthusiasm and talent.

The Journalism Education Association and National Scholastic Press Association will host the JEA/ NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention in the city April 16-19 in an event packed with seminars, speakers, contests and exhibits at the Sheraton Denver Downtown.

With the theme “Stories Elevated – Denver 2015,” the convention will feature more than 200 sessions, preconvention workshops and issues seminars, the National Journalism Quiz Bowl, Team Trivia Night,

Media Swap Shops, on-site critiques of student work, and media tours featuring local sports, arts, TV and print organizations.

The convention is a semiannual gathering described by the JEA as “the place to seek solutions to the most challenging publishing and broadcasting problems, share and celebrate success stores, see what’s new in the media marketplace, discover trends and network with students and advisers from throughout the United States.”

The two associations partner to “prepare hundreds of practical and professional learning sessions, from high-profile keynotes to specific, problem-solving breakouts,” along with a number of workshops and panel discussions. Vendors are also on hand in an exhibit hall featuring products and services tailored to

student journalists.

Sessions target general or specific audiences, including high school and middle school students, administrators and advisers, covering print newspapers and magazines, online media, broadcasting and yearbooks. Topics range from writing and reporting, photography and design, to advertising and business operations, technology, even ethics and law.

The convention usually numbers around 4,000 delegates. Denver previously hosted the semiannual convention in Spring 2007 with 3,367 attending, and in Spring 1992 with 1,800. The Fall semiannual convention is planned for Nov. 1215 in Orlando.

Here are highlights of the fourday event: Keynote speakers on Thursday,

April 16 are: Dave Philipps, the Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent for the New York Times, where he writes primarily about military/veterans affairs – a topic for which he won the Pulitzer while reporting for The Gazette in Colorado Springs; Michael Ciaglo, the Gazette photographer on the same prize-winning series; and the editor for the series, Joanna Bean, managing editor at The Gazette.

Keynote speaker on Friday, April 17 is Zahira Torres, a reporter on The Denver Post investigations team, where she has written on security issues at Denver-area high schools, as well as a special report on a recent nationwide poll of Latino demographics and attitudes.

Preconvention workshops, including: “Broadcast and Video Boot Camp,” “Photoshop

Workflow,” “Writers’ Workshop,” “Leadership Seminar,” “Team Storytelling” and “Society for News Design Quickcourse.”

Issues Seminars on “Addressing Campus Sexual Violence” and “Reporting on Marijuana Legalization.”

Media Tours of: The Denver Post, 5280 Magazine, ABC Channel 7, CBS Channel 4, NBC Channel 9, Denver Broncos/Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium, Colorado Rockies and The Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Visit Denver.journalismconvention. org for more information on the JEA/ NSPA Spring National High School Journalism Convention. A free JEA/ NSPA convention mobile app is available for iPhone, Android and other devices; search in the app for “JEA/NSPA Spring 2015.”

obituaries Jeanne Varnell

Former Jefferson County Sentinel journalist Jeanne Varnell, a longtime journalist for the Jefferson County Sentinel, died Feb. 26, 2015.

Born in 1926 to David Livingston Mills and Dr. Frances McConnell Mills, she was a fourth-generation Coloradoan. She and her brother, Dr. David M. Mills, grew up in the Park Hill area of Denver. She graduated from East High School in 1943, and went on to earn a journalism degree at the University of Missouri in 1947.

She then returned to Denver, marrying

Larry Varnell, a well-known college and professional basketball coach and civic leader, in 1948. She worked for a number of years as a journalist for the Sentinel, and also authored two books: “Women of Consequence,” about the women in the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame, in 1999; and “Jeanne and Her Pals Beat the Great Depression – Memories of a Colorado Girl,” a personal memoir of her life.

Varnell was an avid historian, a member of the Colorado Women’s Press Club and the Colorado Mountain Club. Preceded in death by her husband (2008), she is survived by a daughter, three sons, nine grandchildren

and four great-grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame.

Patrick Gallavan

Former Rocky Mountain News contributor Patrick Gallavan, who worked for the City of Denver for more than 30 years as an arborist, forester, and Denver Zoo manager, as well as both superintendent and director of parks, died March 3, 2015, just three days prior to his 90th birthday. After growing up in Durango, Gallavan left at age 18 to serve in

World War II, coming back in 1946 to study botany at the University of Denver. He began work for the Denver forestry department as an arborist in 1950. He joined the Colorado Forestry and Horticulture Association, which grew into the Denver Botanic Gardens.

While city forester, he edited the Green Thumb magazine, plus hosted the “Green Thumb” radio program and a garden show on PBS television. He also contributed a column to the Rocky Mountain News. In 1960 he was hired as superintendent of Denver Mountain Parks, retiring 26 years later as deputy director of the Denver Parks System.

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So you wanna write sports?

These tips will help you Play off the people angle.

By Cheryl Ghrist Contributing Editor Some might say in the new world of high-tech, instant sports-news gratification that the art of sports writing is a lost art. We would disagree. Like everything else, progress encourages change. As news gathering and presentations evolve in the newspaper world, so do all elements, including writing. And increasingly, sports writing is a big part of a newspaper’s success.

Simply put, in bad times, people turn to less stressful parts of their lives for relief, and sports delivers that in a big way.

Here are a few tips on making your sports writing fresh, relevant and ready to keep up with evolving newspaper industry technology and techniques: Understand your sport.

When you get assigned to a sport or a team, do some research. Look up history, stats and current storylines.

Learn names, schedules, positions. Don’t go to pre- or post-game interviews not knowing what’s going on. They can tell, and you won’t get much to supplement your story.

Get out of your rut.

Just like the winning teams do. Don’t always write the same script, formula or organizational format. Mix it up.

Write in a way that challenges you, while still keeping your own unique style. A safe, chronological news style works sometimes, but not all the time.

Cut the clichés.

Nothing will drive away your audience (and your chance at writing awards, to be honest) faster than a consistent use of clichéd phrases, and the sports world is filled with them. Don’t rely on them and you’ll get used to writing about sports as if you truly care, which you do.

Don’t always take the easy route.

Look for the angle on the story others might miss, even if they’re watching the game, match, etc. You’re the expert, you have all the media guides and stats at your disposal. Use them, but stay alert as well for ongoing stories behind the scenes.

Don’t be afraid to venture into feature writing territory.

Some sports issues call for it, and your readers enjoy a longer read on who and what really interests them.

Short and sweet.

Sports fans – and you’re certainly in that mix – can talk forever about their team. But sometimes you’re here to just get them in and out, updated and ready for what’s next. Don’t try to make every game story or feature the end-all piece on that team. Sports is ever-changing, and by the time you get your article printed or posted, it may already be an all-new situation.

Stay neutral.

You’re a fan, but use that to spur your enthusiasm to cover sports, not to influence it. Unless you’re paid to write an opinion column, your basic job is to report what happened and why it’s important. Don’t “homer it” and lose your credibility.

Write for a general audience.

Try to reach the largest segment of your readers. When you use sport-specific terms, explain them along the way.

Don’t write down to your audience, but don’t have them wondering so much about what you’re saying that they give up and move on.

Milestone watch.

Be sure to know what’s coming up. Statistical records, personal goals, whatever a player or a team is striving for.

Your audience will notice if you don’t.

Take it serious, but hey, it’s sports after all.

You want to be professional, thorough, accurate. But have some fun, too. You’re not reporting from a war zone, you’re writing about national pastimes on local, state or larger levels for readers who want to know everything that’s going on in a quick, accessible, relevant format.

Cheryl Ghrist has over 20 years of prior sports editing/ writing/photography experience, ranging from high school through college and pro.

SPJ hosts Region 9 Conference, April 24-25 “Scaling New(s) Heights” is the theme of the 2015 Society of Professional Journalists Region 9 Conference, April 24-25, on the Auraria campus in downtown Denver. The conference, designed for college journalism students and faculty and professional journalists, is cohosted by the SPJ Colorado Pro Chapter and the Auraria Campus Chapter. The last time Denver was the conference site in 2012, 140 students, faculty and professionals from Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming attended.

Conference highlights include panel discussions on freedom of information, ethics, diversity, multimedia journalism, nonprofit news, investigative journalism, the future of the news industry, challenges for collegiate journalism, and how to get an internship and a job.

The Mark of Excellence Awards luncheon on April 25 will recognize outstanding work by student journalists in the four-state region. Following the luncheon, students will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with professional journalists to discuss job interview tips and resume reviews.

Register at SPJ Region 9 Conference at eventbrite.com. Early bird registration fees are in effect until March 27 for SPJ member students, non-member students, SPJ member

professionals and non-member professionals.

Registration fees increase in all categories after March 27. Payment can be made by credit card on the eventbrite site.

Attendees will be on their own Friday for lunch and dinner, and there are dozens of restaurants - in Larimer Square and on the 16th Street Mall - near the campus. For outof-town visitors, there are many downtown hotels near Auraria. The SpringHill Suites are on campus. Parking both days will be available on campus in surface lots and parking garages.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday, April 24 8:30 a.m. -Registration Desk Opens, St. Cajetan’s Church, 1190 9th St., Auraria Campus

Morning Sessions 9 a.m. - Opening Remarks - Bill McCloskey, SPJ National Director At-large 9:15 - 10:30 a.m. - Session 1 - FOI. Panel: Tom Johnson, SPJ Region 9 director; Jeff Roberts, Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition executive director; Peg Perl, Colorado Ethics Watch staff counsel.

10:45-Noon - Session 2 - Ethics. Panel: Fred Brown, former SPJ national president

and ethics chair; John Ensslin, The (Bergen, NJ) Record reporter; Deb Hurley Brobst, contributing editor, Evergreen Newspapers.

10:45-Noon - Session 3 - Diversity. Panel: Tak Landrock, Fox31 reporter; Gil Asakawa, CU-Boulder student media manager.

Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch on Your Own

Afternoon Sessions 2-3:15 p.m. - Session 4 - Multimedia Journalism. Panel: Phil Tenser, 7News digital executive producer; Nicki Jhabvala, Denver Post sports digital editor; Sandra Fish, independent journalist.

2-3:15 p.m. - Session 5 - Nonprofit News.

Panel: Brian Calvert, High Country News associate editor; Neil Best, KUNC president and CEO; Cara DeGette, Greater Park Hill News editor.

3:30-4:45 p.m. - Session 6 - Investigative Journalism. Panel: Natasha Gardner, 5280 Magazine senior editor; Bob Burdick, former Rocky Mountain News editor and Colorado Springs Gazette publisher; Burt Hubbard, Rocky Mountain PBS I-News editorial director.

3:30-4:45 p.m. - Session 7 - Future of the News Industry. Panel: Lauren Gustus, Fort Collins Coloradoan executive editor; Neil Best, KUNC president and CEO; Jim

Anderson, Associated Press Denver bureau news editor.

Dinner on Your Own Saturday, April 25 8:30 a.m. Registration Desk Opens, St. Cajetan’s Church, 1190 9th St., Auraria Campus

Morning Sessions 9-10:15 a.m. - Session 8 - Challenges for Collegiate Journalism. College editors and advisers panel: Metropolitan State UniversityDenver, Colorado State University-Fort Collins, University of Colorado-Boulder, and Community College of Denver.

10:30-11:45 a.m. a.m. - Session 9 - How to Get an Internship and a Job. Panel: Doug Bell, Evergreen Newspapers editor; Noelle Leavitt Riley, editor, Craig Daily Press; Kara Mason, Colorado State University-Pueblo.

Noon- 2 p.m. - Mark of Excellence Awards Luncheon. Region 9 director Tom Johnson announces winners. St. Cajetan’s Church.

2:30-4:30 p.m. - One-on-one mentoring and resume review. Students will have the opportunity to discuss job interview techniques and have their resumes reviewed by professional journalists.

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Preferred Qualifications: Master’s degree. University teaching experience. The ideal candidate would be nationally or regionally recognized and would be familiar with professional media outlets in Colorado.

Position Description: This is an endowed position, named in honor of Mildred Hansen, former publisher of the Greeley Tribune. The professional in residence will teach existing courses appropriate to his or her background.

Opportunities may exist, however, to create classes not yet offered by the program. Teaching load is four courses per school year. Service is a large part of the workload and will include conducting outreach to high schools and community colleges and

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The University of Northern Colorado is a state-funded school serving approximately 12,500 students. UNC is in Greeley, 60 miles north of Denver and 50 miles east of Rocky Mountain National Park. The journalism and mass communications program offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and educates students to work in the areas of news and strategic communications. The program serves approximately 250 students. Visit JMC’s Web site at http://www.unco. edu/jmc/ The University of Northern Colorado is an AA/EO employer and is

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complacency in the public and a weakening of our democracy.

“I imagine, though, that government officials fight openness because they know that few people will challenge them. Those people who do will find the road extremely difficult. I, myself, continue to face many challenges in my fight. There needs to be a better way to enforce sunshine laws. Relying upon a handful of observant, caring and active citizens who have the time and resources to mount a fight for transparency is a recipe for opaqueness.”

Two years ago, the CPA presented a Friend of the First award to Fort Morgan businessman Ron Henderson, who had filed a lawsuit that led to the 2012 statute used

by Weisfield as the basis of his legal challenge.

Henderson sued after the Fort Morgan City Council used secret ballots to appoint a municipal judge and fill two council vacancies. Although he lost in district court and in the Colorado Court of Appeals, the legislature then approved the legislation that prohibits the use of secret ballots.

committee is working hard to restructure and solve the cash flow issues with CPA, we can’t depend on our investments and the corpus of our balance sheet to survive forever.

We hope to do that without reducing member benefits.

That being said, we need to complement (the SYNC2) staff for the recently completed best year for SYNC2 Media, our revenue producing entity, in nearly a decade, thanks primarily to a political year and especially “No on Amendment 68”.

So, congratulations to all of you, because most of you wouldn’t be here if you weren’t being honored in some way tonight.

Steve Henson, managing editor of the Pueblo Chieftain, made comments today at lunch about what his response is when people say, “newspapers are dead”. I won’t mention that he said that really pissed him off, but it should, as it should all of us.

If we’re dead, then we’re experiencing the biggest resurrection since, you know, the first one. Not to compare us to the great Jesus Christ, but as Steve said today, if not us, who will be the watchdogs of our community and the deliverers of news and information?

I commend all of you who will be honored tonight, but lets not forget our true mission. We have a responsibility to our audience, our readers. Whether in print or online, through social media or whatever the future holds, remember we’re BACK in BLACK, and if not us, who?

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