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Post Office won’t enforce rules on marijuana ads The Chinook Observer in Long Beach got a troubling notice from the United States Post Office last month. The memo said newspapers could not be mailed if they contained ads for marijuana. The notice said it was illegal to mail any publication that contained ads “offering illegally to receive, buy or distribute a Schedule I controlled substance. ... If an advertisement advocates the purchase of clinical marijuana through a Medical Marijuana Dispensary, it does not comply with the law,” the notice said. Just where the memo originated is unclear, but everyone now says publishers will not be penalized for mailing papers containing marijuana ads, and the truce will hold between states that have voted to legalize the drug, and the federal government, which still considers pot to be a Schedule I controlled substance. Rowland Thompson of Allied Daily Newspapers investigated the issue and reassured publishers no one would be prosecuted for mailing publications containing marijuana ads.
“The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board allows you to carry advertising in your publications for marijuana without regulation or penalty on you as the publisher,” Thompson said in a memo to his membership. “The United States Post Office has rules and regulations against the mailing of these marijuana advertisements, but they are advised by their general counsel not to set themselves up as the regulator or enforcer of these prohibitions,” Thompson said. Emily Langley, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Washington’s Western District, said federal prosecutors are following the priorities outlined in the Cole memo, published in 2013 under the signature of Deputy Attorney General James Cole. It lists a series of priorities as “guidance” to law enforcement. The priorities include preventing the distribution of marijuana to minors; preventing revenue from reaching gangs and cartels; preventing interstate cannabis commerce and limiting its cultivation on federal lands, among other criteria.
RETURNING SALMON
Tom Hyde of the Mason County Journal captured this image and won first place for a Color Photo Essay in circulation groups III & IV in the 2015 WNPA Better Newspaper Contest.
Look for WNPA survey on Jan. 11 On Jan. 11, 2016, WNPA will launch the first in a series of surveys with the goal of setting benchmarks for member newspapers. The first two surveys launching Jan. 11 will focus on advertising. There will be one for ad reps and one for sales managers. These surveys include quick and easy multiple choice questions and should take only 15 to 20 minutes to complete. Your answers are strictly confidential. Our goal with this survey is to help identify what type of training and development you and your teams want and to
help set benchmarks for your success based on your newspaper’s size. The survey links will be included in emails sent by WNPA to your advertising teams. You may recall that WNPA requested your employee rosters a while back and we will be using this email list to reach your team. If you did not send in your employee roster and would like your team to be included, please email your employee roster to mvandyke@ wnpa.com. Please include employee name, department, job title, email address and phone
number. If you are unable to submit your employee roster by Jan. 7, WNPA will send the survey information to all publishers with a request to share the link with your ad staff and sales managers and encourage them to participate. We intend to produce additional surveys for reporters, editors and publishers throughout the year. Your newspaper’s participation is critical to the success of our surveys in establishing realistic benchmarks. Sales reps and advertising managers: save the date of Jan. 11 and take our survey!
NNA pushes for bill to help Post Office
Legislation to provide the U.S. Postal Service with the ability to continue to restructure without diminishing mail service is critical in the 114th Congress, as a slow economy and electronic diversion change the mail. That is why the National Newspaper Association welcomed the support of Sens. Jerry Moran, R-KS; Roy Blunt, R-MO and Claire McCaskill, D-MO, as they signed onto S. 2051, the iPOST Act introduced this year by Sen. Tom Carper, D-DE. The bill gives USPS financial relief without a taxpayer bailout by enabling postal retirees to tap into the already-funded Medicare benefits; offers mailers rate relief by freezing postage rates until 2018; requires USPS to measure on-time delivery of rural mail and protects rural communities from more closings of mail processing plants for two years while experts determine how to right-size USPS for the mail stream of the future.
Save the date: Feb. 11, Legislative Day Members of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association will meet in Olympia Feb. 11 for the annual Legislative Day. The program includes briefings from elected officials and dinner with Gov.
Jay Inslee at the governor’s mansion. Complete registration and program details will be coming soon. Until then, mark your calendar and plan to attend this important and enlightening event.
The Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Established 1887
Officers: Lori Maxim, President; Don Nelson, First Vice President; Sandy Stokes, Second Vice President; Keven Graves, Past President. Trustees: Sara Bruestle, Eric LaFontaine, Donna Etchey, Scott Hunter, Michael Wagar, LuAnn Morgan and Jill FitzSimmons. Staff: Marcia Van Dyke, Executive Director; C.J. Burk, Assistant Director. THE WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER is the offical publication of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association. It is published monthly by WNPA, 1204 Fourth Ave. East, Suite 4, Olympia, WA 98506. Send news about member publications to editor@wnpa.com. Staff Contacts: Marcia Van Dyke: Executive Director: 360-515-5239. Email: mvandyke@wnpa.com CJ Burk: Accounting and Advertising 360-515-0974. Email: cj@wnpa.com. Fax: 360-515-5546 2 The Washington Newspaper January 2016
FROM THE PRESIDENT
Tips for motivating your sales team By Lori Maxim Happy New Year! After a long year and a busy holiday schedule, I’m sure we would all love to rest on our laurels for just a couple of days. Alas, however, we are in the newspaper business and Maxim the news never stops. This month’s column is all about making sure your advertising team is geared up and ready to tackle the new year with the same vigor and excitement that comes with the fresh 2016 news cycle. First here is a list of key habits that Top Sales Professionals exhibit to consistently make their numbers: Great marketing professionals are: • Extremely organized. Their January orders are already booked and they are well on their way to making their monthly goal. Special section revenue is gravy and doesn’t come from their regular advertisers. • Hunters not gatherers. They’ve already printed reports out for prior year sales to ensure they don’t miss marketing opportunities such as Anniversary Sales, Customer Appreciation Events etc. • Know their top 20 accounts and how much they spent in 2015 vs. prior years. • Spend 70 percent of their time in front of customers. • Present annual packages to clients using demographic research focusing on the value of your readers and set expectations for customer ROI. • Develop and sell contracts for monthly-targeted pages to small and medium sized businesses. Examples are Health, Wellness and Fitness; Financial Planning and
Tax preparedness, Pet pages and Themed retail pages that change headers each month (Valentines, Mother’s Day, Graduation, Father’s Day, etc). • Second, what should you or your ad manager be doing to get your team focused and motivated for a stellar year? GREAT MANAGERS NEED TO BE PREPARED Have all of your rate cards, special section calendars, sales fliers and promotional materials for 2016 completed and ready to go so that your sales staff has the tools they need for proposals. Offer deep rate discounts for bundled print/web annual agreements. Set your monthly and special section goals now so that your reps know what is expected of them. The more prepared you are, the more successful they will be. Develop a “we want you back” rate for customers that haven’t advertised in 90 days or more. Hold weekly one-on-one meetings with each rep. Spend the time asking questions about their sales challenges and inquire what they need from you to do their job better? Listen carefully, look them in the eye and don’t interrupt. Set some time aside to share what your reps what they can expect from you. Establish a culture where reps feel comfortable sharing problems and coming to you or other team members to solve challenges. Make it fun! Start the day with fun, energetic, pump-you-up music as reps arrive to work. I like to use “Happy,” by Pharrell. Four-legged sales calls are not only fun, but an effective selling strategy. Pair up your reps during the month of January, trading off partners each
day or week so that they can learn new strategies from each other. Decorate your conference room and bring small prizes when you launch a new Special Section sales meeting. Let each rep come up with a new sales idea and help them to implement it with the whole team. Encourage them to be creative and take a turn at being the boss of a section.
Knowledge is power. Make sure they have a good understanding of your newspaper and how it works. Invite someone from other departments within your newspaper to your sales meetings and have them educate your team about how their department operates and its value to the newspaper. It’s a great way to mix things up a bit and build a healthy, united team. Assign one competitor to each rep to study and provide training on how to best compete with them.
INCENTIVES
Give out lotto tickets for the first five new advertisers of the year. Define a new advertiser as someone who hasn’t advertised for over a year and require a minimum 13-week contract. Offer extra, cash incentives for exceeding goals in special sections. Offer one-time cash spiffs to reps for selling contracts. Pay reps for activity —‚the number of face-to-face calls they make in a week. Less than 10 calls per day and they don’t qualify. Set goals and increase it weekly. Start the New Year off with a bang! Implement some fresh ideas to get your team excited. Happy Selling!
Lori Maxim is Vice President of West Sound Newspaper Operations for Sound Publishing and is this year’s WNPA President.
PASSINGS
James Ross Appelgate Jim Appelgate passed away on Nov. 28, 2015, in Tacoma, Wash. He was born in Corvallis, Ore. Oct. 1, 1963 and moved with his family to Sunnyside, Wash. in 1973. He graduated from Sunnyside High School in 1981. After high school, Jim worked at the Daily Sun News, learning various aspects of the newspaper business. Tom Lanctot, former owner and publisher of the Daily Sun News remembered Jim in a personal column. “After he graduated from high school he moved away, like most young people, looking for their first big adventure. In Jim’s case, it was about four years later in late August or early September of 1985, that I received a call from Jim,” Lanctot remembered. “He was in the Corvallis, Oregon area working in the circulation department of the Gazette Times. He wanted to know if I had a job opening. He wanted to come home. “I told him I had been thinking about a new sales position and asked if he would like that. He said he would take it. I knew this wasn’t really a perfect fit, based on Jim’s previous employment with me. However, I never doubted what a quality person he was, and I was pretty confident we would make it work. “Make it work we did. Walking into local businesses selling advertising wasn’t really what Jim wanted. But, he was successful because he had such great ideas, and he would do advertising layouts and design for those businesses. He walked into a business with an idea and more times
everything he did for me.” In 1995, Jim moved to Gig Harbor where he worked for the Peninsula Gateway newspaper and the Tacoma News Tribune until his death. Jim was an artist at heart, and truly enjoyed his design job at the newspapers. He also loved music, and spending time with friends, family, and his than not it was a sure sale. new grandson. “During this time, news“Jim made amazing papers all over the councontributions to the commutry started paying closer nity newspaper industry. He attention to design and the was a true talent and will be importance that played in greatly missed,” said Markeeping readers engaged cia Van Dyke, Executive with their newspaper. You Director of the Washington need design elements to Newspaper Publishers Asget that reader to pause sociation. and give a story the time it “Many in the weekly deserves. For some reason, community newspaper Jim just naturally underindustry of Washington stood that. He was always looked up to Jim. Almost looking for ideas to create everyone in WNPA envied a stronger visual impact his work. Jim won numerfor our readers. Some of ous BNC awards for design the ideas were subtle, some and many of his ideas were were bold, but all had a adopted by several of our function. When there was members. Everyone looked story that needed graphic forward to seeing Jim’s and design elements Jim work on display at convenwas at the ready. tion, I must admit with a “I’ve tried to think little envy tossed in.” back, if there were times Jim is survived by his he missed the mark. I can’t fiancée, Julie Knutson of think of one. His worst Gig Harbor, sons Trey critic was himself. He (fiancée Annee) Appelgate would never settle, it had of Tacoma, Wash., and to be just right. He made Logan (Nichole) Appelreading newspapers more gate of Richland, Wash., interesting and relevant. daughter Courtney AppelAlong the way, the reader gate of Winnemucca, Nev., was the real benefactor, and grandson Damon Appelhis bosses, publishers and gate, also of Richland, his editors, were very aware of parents, Homer (Sharon) the significant role he had in Appelgate and Fawn (Ken) each publication. Drewel, a sister, Cyndee “Any success I have had (Jerry) Anderson, brothers in the newspaper busiJeff (Whitney) Appelgate ness, is directly related to and John (Holly) Appelthe people around me. Jim gate, step-siblings Darci was one of those people. (Norm) Hedden, Steve He made me better at my Drewel, Kevin (Karen) job. I feel very fortunate to Butler, and Chris Butler, have worked with Jim and and numerous nieces and especially appreciative of nephews.
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Plenty of newspapers out there doing it right! By Kevin Slimp I’ve been training and advising newspapers for 21 years, ever since Larry Smith asked me to come look over his operation in LaFolSlimp lette, Tennessee back in 1994. I worked with more than 100 papers in my travels this year, not counting the thousands of papers that attended conferences and training events I led. That’s a lot of years and a lot of papers, and in that time I’ve come to recognize the traits that correlate with success. I don’t have to spend very long at a newspaper office to tell you how they’re doing in terms of circulation, readership, ad sales and profits. No one has to tell me. There are qualities that lead to successful newspapers,
and without them it is a good bet that there are some problems in one or more of those four areas. I could have listed 50 newspapers in this column, because I ran into a lot of papers that are doing things right in 2015. And it’s showing in their numbers. Due to space limitations, here are a few that stood out in my memory:
me: We make a good living and are interested in the long game, rather than managing by a month or quarter. We have also continued to hire staff and grow our business, as opposed to making cuts to achieve bottom line results.
ter receiving a frantic call about ads printing wrong. It took a little geographic magic, but I made the six-hour journey to Danville on my way to Minneapolis, where I was speaking the next day at a convention. Kathy Crumpton is the publisher of The PiedThe Standard Banner: mont Shopper. Jefferson City, Tennessee She explains their The work ethic of our success like this: “Over staff and their dedication the past 15 years, we’ve The Community News & to excellence are the two been blessed to establish The Wellington Adver- keys to our success, Dale relationships with our tiser: Fergus, Ontario Gentry told me, as we readers and advertisers I spent two days with discussed the secrets to that go beyond newsthe staff of this comhis newspaper’s success. print. That relationship munity paper located 45 We work hard to with our community led minutes from Toronto. cover, and serve, our us to see the need for It didn’t take me long to community well, whether our other publications: a realize that this group it’s in the quality of our monthly paper delivered does a lot right. Dave writing and photography, to all public and priAdsett is one of my hethe effectiveness of our vate schools, free to the roes. Cutting isn’t in his ads, the excellence of our students and staff, and vocabulary, and while final printed product, or Red Bird Times, which other papers in his area the service we provide to serves the other end of have cut pages and staff, readers and customers. our readership spectrum, leading to decreasing cirand is enjoyed by seniors culation, Dave’s papers The Piedmont Shopper: 50 and wiser. No matter have done the opposite, Danville, Virginia which of our publicawith the opposite results. I got to know the tions you pick up, you’ll Here’s what Dave told folks in Danville affind the same commitment to serving our community.” Hmm. I’m starting to notice a trend among success-
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Hood County News: Granbury, Texas Every so often, I’m invited to visit Granbury, Texas, a town of roughly Sauk Centre Herald: Sauk Centre, Minnesota 10,000 folks located just southwest of Fort Worth. I considered several newspapers in Minnesota As you walk throughout for this column, but lim- the building, you sense the pride the staff takes in ited myself to two. One putting out a good newsis the Sauk Centre Herald. You might remember paper. It’s local. All local. the column I wrote about Publisher Jerry Tidwell has always believed in quality, my experience with Dave’s staff while visit- and brings in trainers and experts on a regular basis. ing in November. Dave had this to say about the It shows. Unlike some Herald: Respect is a key papers, the building isn’t word for us: Respect for near-empty. There’s a lot readers, advertisers, staff going on. And it all starts with the publisher. Interestand competitors. We’ve ing. That’s another quality always embraced techthat seems to correlate nology and innovation. with successful papers: An Dave’s staff is larger engaged publisher who than many daily papers knows and cares about his/ I visit, and the payoff is her community and staff. in seen in their success. There are a lot of Large readership base, newspapers out there doing quality journalism and things right. Due to space success in the bottom limitations, I’ll stop there. line. That seems to be another quality that cor- But believe me, this list could go on for several relates with success at newspapers: Rather than pages. Kevin Slimp is a cutting staff to the bone, speaker and trainer in the they seem to maintain publishing world. He can their staffs, leading to greater readership and ad be reached at kevin@kevinslimp.com. sales. ful newspapers with that serving community thing.
CAREER MOVES
Issaquah welcomes new staff
Charles Horton, Scott Stoddard and Laura Feenstra recently joined The Issaquah Press newspaper group, which includes the Press, the Sammamish Review, the SnoValley Star and the Newcastle News. Horton started as the group’s new general manager in September. He was previously publisher at the StandardExaminer in Ogden, Utah. Before that, Horton was publisher at The Kitsap Sun in Bremerton, working his way up to that position from circulation director. Stoddard is the new editor of the
group’s three weekly newspapers and one monthly. He started Nov. 30. Stoddard has spent parts of his career at newspapers both large and small across the Pacific Northwest, including 13 years at Washington newspapers: the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The News Tribune in Tacoma and The Spokesman-Review in Spokane. Feenstra joined the group as its senior account manager in October. She was most recently a sales manager for HaloSource, and she operated her own business as a consultant and project manager for weddings and events for 21 years.
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Legislature convenes Jan. 11; WNPA bureau ready By Frank Garred Coordinating Editor For the sixth year the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association (WNPA) Foundation is hosting University of Washington Journalism Program students as reporters for its Olympia News Bureau (ONB). The bureau mission is to provide fresh, original, well-sourced stories to community newspapers on issues and actions from and about the state legislature and the several departments, agencies and commissions that serve state residents, voters and WNPA readers. Reporters this session are Izumi Hansen and LaVendrick Smith. (Read about their aspirations and experiences posted at the WNPA website). Each earned a WNPA Foundation $3,000 scholarship to support their work and residency in Olympia. The bureau opens Jan. 4, and operates through midMarch. Besides the two full-time
reporters, ONB is staffed with a coordinating editor, along with two former professional Journalists, as mentors, who have experience and connections in Olympia to help guide reporters through the reporting and writing process. Our mentors are Dave Ammons, a longtime AP Olympia reporter now with the Secretary of State’s office, and Dave Workman a former editor at both the Herald of Everett and the Morning News Tribune before working at various state agencies, including the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Social and Health Services. Andrea Otanez, the UW faculty adviser to the several Journaloism students assigned to news media organizations in Olympia, also assists WNPA reporters with sourcing and writing. As coordnating editor I work through the legislative season critically reviewing stories for accuracy, balance, context, structure,
Hansen style, and reliable and accountable sourcing before shipping completed stories to participating newspapers. Member editors also have a responsibility to localize ONB stories whenever possible. Our reporters are directed to localize as they are able. It’s a collaborative process. Editors are invited to submit story requests specific to their coverage area, and to get comments for ONB stories from local legislators. Some of the enterprisereporting issues scheduled for ONB coniseration
National Security Archives Executive Director, Tom Blanton, will headline “Secret No More,” the annual Open Government Conference sponsored by the Washington Coalition for Open Government. Blanton vaulted into public view in 2007 when he appeared on the nationally televised Colbert Report to comment on newly relseased CIA documents he obtained that revealed government spying and other misdeeds. He was the winner of the George Polk Award in April 2000 for “piercing selfserving veils of government
secrecy, guiding journalists in search for the truth, and informing us all.” He cofounded the virtual network of international FOI advocates www.freedominfo. org, was founding co-chair of the public interest coalition OpenTheGovernment. org, and served on the first steering committee of the international Open Government Partnership. A graduate of Bogalusa (La.) High School and Harvard University, he filed his first FOIA request in 1976 as a weekly newspaper reporter in Minnesota. “We are thrilled that Tom Blanton has agreed
Smith include: • Health insurance requirements for small businesses (and individuals) as directed through the Insurance Commissioner’s office. • Education funding as directed by the Supreme Court through its ongoing control of legislature responsibility detailed by the McCleary Decision. • Department of Natural Resources’ ongoing dilemma controlling wildfires and a new budget request to fund firefighting training and resources. Further, the role of civilians
in fighting wildfires remains an issue. • Columbia River wastershed water rights: ongoing critical issues related to available water rights and the growing drought menacing the agriculture businesses affected thereby. • State transportation budget and its projects affecting our local newspaper circulation areas. But especially the growing number of rate increases by the ferry system, along with status of replacement ferries’ construction practices. • Washington state’s community colleges’ management issues: student tuition, budgets (controlled by state board), course development (more and more four-year degrees) and methods of management (governor-appointed local trustees). All of these issues and more are on the ONB agenda, plus maintaining connections to the legislative process: bill introductions, committee
hearings, back-sourcing and connecting resources beyond the internal legislative process. For example, a bill affecting marijuana taxes touches Department of Revenue and product retailers around the state. The Legislature convenes Jan. 11. ONB reporters focus on enterprise reporting standards: background, current legislation, who is affected, what agency has oversight, geographic implications, local sources beyond Olympia. And ONB editors/mentors emphasize quality writing to go with quality sourcing. Anecdotal leads, leads using qualifying analogy, writing to and for readers—making the personal connection— are all critical to the final product. Additionally, ONB plans to offer sidebars, graphs, charts, photos and art with stories to enhance visibility. Most newspapers post ONB stories to their websites in additon to their print medium.
belong. He is a champion of open government and transparency and we will be very proud to welcome him to Seattle in January,” said Elly Snow, Executive Director of WCOG. When agencies are confronted with public records requests and are not properly trained or educated regarding the state’s public records act, it can often lead to contentious lawsuits and Tom Blanton awards if the agency denies to speak at our annual a request without regard to conference. Mr. Blanton has state law. In order to explore been working for decades facilitating clean resolution to ensure that government to such disputes, long time records remain accessible open government advoto the public to whom they cate and attorney, Michele
Earl-Hubbard will moderate a panel with former State Attorney General Rob McKenna and former State Auditor, Brian Sonntag, on “Building a Better Mousetrap: More User Friendly Dispute Resolution of Open Government Matters.” Requests that seem overly broad or are viewed as a nuisance by state or local agencies have been very much in the news these days and the subject of some controversy. News Tribune Managing Editor, Karen Peterson, will moderate a panel on the very topical issue of large requests. That panel will discuss dealing
with broad requests, electronic records, and harassing requestors. The Washington State Legislature will be in session during this conference and WCOG President Toby Nixon and transparency lobbyist Rowland Thompson will give our first preview of what may lie ahead for open government and transparency in Washington State. The event that will be held Saturday, Jan. 23 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Pacific Tower in Seattle. Please visit our website at www. washingtoncog.org for more information and to register.
Blanton keynote speaker at WCOG conference
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Lloyd Mullen of the Mason County Journal captured a first place for this photo in the 2015 WNPA Better Newspaper Contest Color Feature Photo category in Group III.
Indian Country Stylebook to be released in February
The “Indian Country ers Association convention Stylebook for Editors, Writ- in Olympia. Questions asked ers and Jourat that confernalists” will be ence included: published in Does the February 2016 First Amendby Kitsap ment apply Publishing. to journalists Twentycovering stories nine federon Indian reservations? ally recognized What indigenous authority do nations are Tribal governlocated in ments have Washington, and the Inon- and offdian Country reservation? Stylebook is designed The Indian Country to help its users underStylebook is patterned stand customs, cultures after the Associated Press and laws. The guidebook Stylebook for familiarity and evolved after a panel discus- ease of use. sion, “Tribal Nations and the For more information, Media,” at the 2013 Washvisit www.kitsappublishing. ington Newspaper Publishcom. 6 The Washington Newspaper January 2016
REPORTER WANTED We have an opening for a reporter who reads. So … let’s get the info about the community out of the way. Ours is a successful community newspaper in St. Maries, Idaho. This is a rural area. Think small town, rivers, lakes, mountains. Great outdoors recreation but no shopping centers, no crowds, no stoplights. If you are a hick like me, you’ll love it here. If you like shopping malls and Starbucks then you might want to move on to the next ad. St. Maries is the county seat. Trade area population is about 10,000. We have three school districts and five city councils in our readership area. The economy is tied to natural resources – more specifically timber and farming. About our newspaper . . . we have a staff of 10, which includes three employees in the newsroom. It goes without saying the person we hire will be able to write, spell and edit. What also needs to be said is we prefer to hire reporters who read because we strongly believe that knowledgeable, informed people make superior reporters. We can excuse you if you have not read a book or two in a while, but the person we hire will be a newspaper reader. We are convinced that to be a respectable reporter, you must be informed. We publish a pretty good product and we have a darn good staff. About the pay and other important stuff . . . the job will be full time ($30,000) with benefits. We pay hourly (this job starts at $14.50) and we pay overtime. Medical benefits provided for the employee after 60 days. Submit your resume, with references
and contact information to dan@smnews.info. REPORTER WANTED Cannon Beach and South Clatsop County have some of the Oregon coast’s most beautiful settings (see www.discoverourcoast. com). It is also a busy, vibrant community with year-round residents, as well as weekend visitors. EO Media Group has an immediate opening for a reporter at the Cannon Beach Gazette with an office in Seaside. This beat covers the community’s residents, visitors, organizations and activities. The Gazette publishes every other week but also shares content with The Daily Astorian, providing a broader reach for your stories and photos. We work hard but have fun. Our coast is comfortable and still pretty affordable. It’s a place where our newsroom members and
their families purchase homes and settle in for careers that are richly connected to the Northwest interior. We enjoy world-class restaurants, fantastic salmon and deep-sea fishing, amazing wildlife and bird watching, and many other outdoor activities. Portland is 2 hours away; Seattle 3 1/2 hours. Journalism or related degree, plus newspaper or magazine writing experience required. Multimedia and photography experience preferred. Driver’s license, good driving record and reliable transportation necessary. Full-time position. Benefits include Paid Time Off (PTO), 401(k)/Roth 401(k) retirement plan and insurance. Send resume, clips and letter of interest to EO Media Group, P.O. Box 2048, Salem, OR 97308-2048, by fax to 503371-2935 or e-mail hr@ eomediagroup.com.
DESIGNER/PAGINATOR The Othello Outlook is looking to hire a graphic designer/ paginator for its publications. The main job would be to paginate our weekly paper, as well as create some ads for our clients. We also produce a “shopper” once a week. We also publish a farm magazine every other month. The right candidate will be creative and have attention to detail. He or she must be able to work with our staff on a day-to-day basis. Good working knowledge of Adobe products is a must. This is a full-time salaried position. This job cannot be done remotely, so the person hired will be required to relocate to our area. Please email your resume and samples of your work to publisher@othellooutlook.com.
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