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August 2017
Journal of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association
Newspaper contest results in your mailbox 2017 Convention registration open
wnpa.com. The 2017 convention program is a Better Newspaper Contest results were mailed to newspa- strong one. Les pers last week, and registration Zaitz, formerly is now open for WNPA’s 130th an investigative reporter for the Annual Convention Oct. 12 to Oregonian and 14 in Olympia at the Red Lion Zaitz now the owner of Hotel. the weekly Malheur Enterprise, If for some reason you didn’t will lead off the convention as receive contest results, please contact WNPA at 360-344-2938 the Keynote Speaker. Zaitz, a two-time Pulitzer or email Janay Collins at ads@
Foundation seeking auction items to fund WNPA internships We need your auction items! Each year at WNPA’s annual convention we conduct silent and live auctions to raise money for student internships. The internships are offered at the state Legislature and at member newspapers around the state during the summer months. The auction committee, headed up by incoming WNPA President Sandy Stokes, is now seeking your committment for an auction item. Auction items can be anything of interest, from local art, to gift baskets, to overnight stays at bed and breakfasts in your community. Sandy will be contacting you toward the end of this month to get a commitment from you, but you could save
Prize finalist, is a fierce advocate for community newspapers. Since buying the Enterprise, he has found himself in a Hallman number of challenging positions. First, a big national story broke in his backyard - occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Center by
followers of Ammon Bundy, a rancher and critic of federal land management. Later, the state of Oregon started a suit against him after he filed a public records request about a crime in his circulation area. Ultimately, the suit was dismissed, but not before Zaitz had marshalled the support of journalists everywhere. In an essay this year, Zaitz said the community press needs to step up to the challenge of
creating a national conversation. “At the moment, we’re behaving nationally as two people in a conversation talking past each other. Neither side hears the other. Volume substitutes for reason,” Zaitz wrote. “Community journalists are uniquely poised to serve as more than billboards for local information. They have an opportunity to pull segments
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BETTER NEWSPAPER CONTEST
Have an auction item? Contact Sandy Stokes stokesbodynsoul@hotmail.com
her a phone call by emailing her at the address above. Please include the donor’s name, a complete description of the item and a value. The more complete the description, the more people are likely to bid the item up, so use your best language and sales skills to describe your item. The WNPA Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization and is wholly separate from the WNPA. It has its own board of directors, mainly made up of past presidents of WNPA, some of whom have been serving on the Foundation board for many years. Donations to the Foundation may be tax deductible.
This photo, titled, “Waving in the lavender,” by Matthew Nash of the Sequim Gazette, is one of the entries in the photo division of this year’s Better Newspaper Contest. Awards will be announced at the annual convention Oct. 12-14 at the Red Lion Hotel in Olympia.