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THE WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER December 2017

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Journal of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association

Marijuana ads required to carry cautions, warnings The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board issues rules and regulations on marijuana advertising and how retail outlets can promote themselves.

In preparing advertising for marijuana shops, newspapers should heed the following: • Marijuana advertising can’t contain any statement, or illustration that is false or misleading or that promotes over consumption.

• Advertising can’t say the use of marijuana has curative or therapeutic effects.

• Objects, such as toys or cartoon characters that are especially appealing to children or other persons under

legal age are prohibited. It is against the law to design an ad that would be especially appealing to children or other persons under 21 years old.

• Giveaways, coupons and distribution of branded merchandise are banned.

• All advertising must contain the following warnings: “This product has intoxicating effects and may be habit forming.” “Marijuana can impair concentration, coordination, and judgment. Do not operate a vehicle or machinery under the influence of this drug.” “There may be health risks associated with consumption of this product.” “For use only by

See MARIJUANA, Page 2

Save the date: Legislative Day in Olympia set for Feb. 8, 2018

Members of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association and Allied Daily Newspapers will descend on the state capital on Feb. 8 for Legislative Day, which includes annual meetings with state officials, a reception at the Supreme Court and dinner with Gov. Jay Inslee at the Governor’s Mansion.

The day begins at 10 a.m. with a legislative report from Rowland Thompson, the Executive Director for Allied Daily Newspapers.

After a short break, presenta-

tions begin at 11 a.m. with state elected officials and legislative leaders that goes to 3 p.m. with a half hour break for lunch.

Following the briefing, attendees move to the Temple of Justice for a reception with State Supreme Court justices and the day concludes with a dinner with Gov. Jay Inslee at the Governor’s Mansion.

Details are still being finalized.

Registration will open in the coming weeks at wnpa.com.

Elizabeth Widel, who started writing a column in the Omak Okanogan County Chronicle in the 1950s, passed away Oct. 24. She was the first recipient of WNPA’s Dixie Lee Bradley Award for her many contributions to the newspaper.

Okanogan’s long-time columnist Widel passes away at 100 years old

By Dee Camp The Chronicle OMAK – Elizabeth B. Widel - longtime Chronicle employee, award-winning journalist, philanthropist and Omak resident - died Oct. 24 at age 100.

She was one of the nation’s oldest working journalists, possibly the oldest.

Widel began working for The Chronicle in August 1954 and had been writing her column, “Exploring the Okanogan,” since May 9, 1957. Her final column, No. 3,154, appeared in the Chronicle the week following her death.

“Elizabeth was a courageous woman who lived a long life filled with the beauty of Okanogan County and beyond,” said Chronicle Publisher Teresa Myers. “She will be missed.”

“Elizabeth’s commitment to understanding her community and our place in the world was extraordinary,” said former Chronicle publisher Roger Harnack, now publisher of the Daily Sun News in Sunnyside. “Every day I learned something new from her.

“Writing a column every week for 60-plus years is an achievement few journalists ever

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Daily Sun News now on Amazon’s Echo SUNNYSIDE — The Daily Sun has launched the first voiceactivated news content from the Yakima Valley available from Amazon Echo’s “Alexa.”

Currently in an abbreviated format, the newspaper is offering a couple stories each weekday on the voice-activated service.

“We’re on the cutting edge of the bringing on-demand news and sports to you,” said Publisher Roger Harnack.

The system brings news, weather, music and other services to “Alexa” owners with wireless Internet. Until now, only weather was available from the area.

Most people younger than about 25 years old rely heavily on voice-activated systems or smartphone and tablet applications,” Harnack said.

Since they are the future news content consumers, Harnack wanted to be able to meet them on their own turf.

Readers who own an Amazon Echo can begin getting Daily Sun News in their “flash briefing” by adding

the newspaper to their list of news sources during setup.

After Daily Sun News is added, local voice-activated content can be accessed by simply stating “Alexa, play news.” The voiceactivated news feed is the first of its kind in the Lower Yakima Valley area, and the first of several planned by The Daily Sun. The newspaper is already working on a Yakima Valley sports feed for the Amazon system. And staff is also working on adding similar voice-activated news for Google Home, with other systems to come.

Amazon isn’t offering to pay for the content, Harnack said, but being able to offer a voiceactivated product opens the door for sponsored content as well as promotions for local communities, events and businesses.

Harnack said it makes sense given the change in news consumption patterns of 20-somethings and teenagers.

“It’s the world millennials live in,” he said. “Media outlets will have to provide content on millennials’ terms to survive in tomorrow’s news industry.”

Officers: Sandy Stokes, President; Michael Wagar, First Vice President; Donna Etchey, Second Vice President, Don Nelson, Past President.

Trustees: Tom Mullen, Patrick Grubb, Colette Weeks, Eric LaFontaine and Scott Hunter.

THE WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER is the offical publication of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association. It is published monthly by WNPA, PO Box 389, Port Townsend, WA 98368.

Staff Fred Obee: Executive Director: 360-344-2938.

Email: fredobee@wnpa.com Janay Collins, Member Services Director: 360-344-2938.

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FROM THE PRESIDENT

Interns selected, plans readied for this year’s Olympia bureau

By Sandy Stokes When the state Legislature returns to work on Jan. 8, your newspaper’s Olympia News Bureau will be staffed and ready to cover the issues important to your readers.

Maybe you didn’t know that you have a Stokes team of reporters assigned to the state capital.

If you are one of the publishers who hasn’t used stories produced by the WNPA Olympia News Bureau over the last several years, you missed out on quality journalism that often beat the larger, better, funded news corporations in state house reporting.

Veteran newsman Frank Garred and other experienced journalists have shepherded the Olympia reporting program for the past several years.

News coverage of the state legislature and free access to stories produced by the bureau is a benefit of your membership in the WNPA. The program is funded through the WNPA Foundation.

For 2018, the foundation has provided a $3,000 stipend to each of three of the brightest young journalists in the state.

This year, Garred turned over the reins of the program to me.

Our reporters are University of Washington journalism majors Taylor McAvoy, Josh Kelety and

Alex Visser. All three come to us with impressive “clips” of their published work and each has interned for other news outfits in the past.

Visser The members of our news team have well-honed skills and a strong sense of ethics drilled into them by UW journalism instructors Andrea Otanez and Meg Spratt.

Meg and I plan to be on the ground with the reporters at least two days per week during the 10-week legislative session. Also former journalist James Geluso, who now works for the state Auditor’s office, and Nisqually Valley News Publisher and Editor Michael Wager, the VP on track to be our association president next year, have agreed to be available to offer guidance and editing help.

During the next few weeks, the reporters, mentors and I will finalize our coverage plans. We will focus on timely, quick turn-around stories as well as comprehensive work on issues and features on newsmakers.

If you have an issue we should tackle, a lawmaker you want us to keep an eye on or you have trouble reaching an elected official we can track down for you, please let us know. Keep in mind that since our stories will be distributed statewide, our focus will be

Kelety

McAvoy

on news that affects the most people. We’ll work to present our stories in a way that editors will be able to localize with a phone interview or two.

We’re putting out feelers now for the most pressing issues of this legislative session, so email me with your suggestions at sstokes.onb@gmail. com.

Our office is in Olympia is a short distance from the capitol campus. The best way to reach us is through WNPA executive director Fred Obee, another seasoned journalist who is very good at helping editors develop and refine story ideas for the biggest impact.

This is a valuable benefit for publishers and editors. Think about it – Next time your local folks travel to Olympia to testify before a house or senate committee, you can have a reporter on scene without spending a dime.

Sandy Stokes is the Bureau Chief for the Olympia News Bureau and this year’s WNPA President.

MARIJUANA: guidelines also apply online Continued from Page 1

adults twenty-one and older. Keep out of the reach of children.”

Although not currently required, we are told it soon may be, so it’s best to also include: “Marijuana products may be purchased or possessed only by persons 21 years of age or older.”

The same basic guidelines also apply to online advertising and social media, with the caution that care should be taken to not appeal to children.

For a more detailed list of prohibitions, cautions and rules regulating marijuana sales and advertising, go the state Liquor and Cannabis Board website at lcb.wa.gov.

2017 was mainly a good year for public notice laws All things considered, it has been a pretty good year for public notice.

The Public Notice Research Center has been tracking about 150 separate bills introduced across the country in 2017 or carried over from the previous year that relate to public notice.

Most would have curtailed newspaper notice in some way, but 21 percent would have created additional notice requirements.

To be sure, all of the latter addressed narrow circumstances like relocating the contents of a grave or tomb in Florida, or granting flood control district easements without public auction in Arizona. Nevertheless, it’s a clear sign that many public officials understand the continuing value of print as a distribution system for public notice in the digital age.

Nine of the bills seeking to

add new newspaper notice requirements were enacted, including the new laws in Florida and Arizona cited above.

On the negative side of the ledger, 22 states considered legislation that would have eliminated or substantially reduced all newspaper notice. Most of those bills would have moved public notice advertising to government websites, but four would have utilized sites hosted by alternative providers — government associations in Oregon, broadcasters in Nevada, law firms in Missouri, and nonprofit news organizations in Vermont. (A bizarre bill in Texas would have moved notices from newspapers to “any other form of media”.

We’ll try not to take it personally.)

Despite that onslaught and a few close calls, none of the bills that would have fundamentally altered public notice laws have

passed; most never even had a hearing. The only dangerous public notice legislation enacted this year was a bill in North Carolina that authorizes government units in Guilford County to run notices on their own websites or on the county’s website.

That high-profile bill was the culmination of what many in North Carolina have characterized as state senator Trudy Wade’s effort to punish her local paper, the Greensboro News & Record.

More than 40 other pieces of legislation would have eliminated newspaper notice in narrowly defined categories. Only eight of those bills were signed into law, including one that moves school district performance reports in Arkansas to government websites, and another that relieves banks in Delaware of the responsibility of publishing newspaper notices before they

transfer unclaimed property to the state. Nevada passed a law that waives the newspaper notice requirement for name changes associated with gender transitions. That bill wasn’t opposed by the Nevada Press Association.

Six bills would have revised public notice eligibility requirements for newspapers; two were signed into law. Utah extended public notice eligibility to newspapers that don’t have a periodical permit issued by the U.S. Postal Service, and Illinois revised its notice requirements for jurisdictions that don’t have a newspaper.

Perhaps the most worrying trend in 2017 was an escalation in the willingness of public officials to weaponize their states’ public notice laws to punish newspapers they disagree with.

The most prominent examples were Sen. Wade in North

Carolina, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Maine Gov. Paul LePage, all of whom loudly promoted bills that would have eliminated newspaper notice in their states.

Wade, Christie and LePage are all Republicans, and in the past year the GOP has taken the political bloodsport of media bashing to a disturbing new level.

Nevertheless, public notice continues to receive perhaps its strongest political support in deeply red states where access to high speed internet is still sparse and publishers tend to have closer relationships with their elected officials.

This report was compiled by the Public Notice Research Center, located in Arlington, VA. It is a non-profit organization dedicated to tracking threats to public notices in printed newspapers.

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Widel: She embraced Okanogan’s beauty

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High School. Because of World War II, many of the male teachers were being called into the service so she took on other subjects.

She returned to Illinois for a brief time, working as registrar for the Roosevelt College School of Music, and then returned to Okanogan County.

“By that time, Glen had entered the picture,” she said just before her 100th birthday, referring to Glen Widel, whom she married Oct. 9, 1954. He worked for the Brewster newspaper during the years she taught in Brewster, and later became The Chronicle’s shop foreman.

“She fell in love with the country,” her sister recalled.

Elizabeth Widel took a job in The Chronicle’s front office in August 1954 and, over the years, worked as a typesetter – from Linotype to PC – society editor, reporter, copy editor, proofreader, photographer and columnist. She was a stockholder in the paper for more than 20 years, and also worked with the paper’s finances.

Glen and Elizabeth Widel began writing their column, “Exploring the Okanogan,” on May 9, 1957. She continued writing it after his death in 1961.

She especially loved the North Cascades, and trekked on foot into the mountains long before the North Cascades Highway was finished. She marveled at the engineering required to build a road through such rugged peaks.

The Exploring the Okanogan column provided an upbeat, thoughtful perspective on her adopted county and state. She embraced the area’s beauty, geology, Elizabeth Widel at 100 years old. Her column people, plants and animals, “Exploring the Okanogan” first appeard in 1957. and conveyed that sense of come close to matching.

Her work ethic is something every one of us should strive to achieve in our lifetime. Elizabeth was steadfast in the belief of the strength of the written word.

In this day and age of texts and tweets, her presence in journalism will be sorely missed.”

“The end of an era at The Chronicle with Elizabeth’s passing,” said retired Chronicle publisher Judy Z. Smith. “What an amazing woman. Our lives were blessed by knowing her.”

“Of all the attributes that stand out in my memories of Elizabeth — and there are so very many — it was her gift of writing that I especially cherish,” said former Chronicle co-owner and publisher Mary Koch. “A master of the craft, her voice was unique. She owned a fluid, rich vocabulary yet was never pedantic.

“Her quiet sense of humor bubbled through in surprising ways. She held strong opinions, offer-

ing them calmly, always within the limits of civil discourse. In that sense, she was a significant mentor to the many young journalists who passed through The Chronicle newsroom doors.”

An open house marking Widel’s 100th birthday was held in July at Welcome Home Villa, Omak, where she lived during the last months of her life. She had lived in her own home until age 99, just a couple weeks after celebrating the publication of her 3,000th Exploring the Okanogan column.

Widel was born July 8, 1917, in Chicago, Ill., to Marie and Deszo “Dave Darius” Barta. She had three younger siblings, Bob, Dave and Barbara.

After high school, Widel earned a teaching degree at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., and was honored in college for academics and vocal music.

She first came to Okanogan County in the early 1940s to teach typing and business classes at Brewster

wonder and appreciation to her readers.

Widel was honored in 1997 by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association as the first recipient of the Dixie Lee Bradley Award, which is presented each year to an outstanding, behind the scenes employee of a

member newspaper.

And this year, Exploring the Okanogan won first place in the general interest columns or blogs category during WNPA’s annual Better Newspaper Contest.

Widel also was honored June 10, 2015, on the floor of the U.S.

House of Representatives

by Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-4th District.

Memorials are suggested to Okanogan County Habitat for Humanity, P.O. Box 1679, Tonasket, WA 98855, or the Omak United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 524, Omak, WA 98841.

Elizabeth Widel’s final column

that people can make and do.

I have rejoiced in the many wonderful details of living here. And I have rejoiced in some wonderful people.

All of this is wrapped up in gratitude to God, the creator of it all.

Here is the last one. It had to end I have been uneasy at times about sometime (no surprise). making a misstatement, either because Some 15 or 20 years ago a man told the technology has changed, which me he thought this was the longest-run- goes on all the time, or from being just ning column in the Pacific Northwest, plain wrong. It’s a chance one has to but everything comes to a close. take.

I remember the day when I had just And I have taken heart in the fact seen something intriguing and was that many of you have felt the same delightedly telling a woman about it. things and love the area as I have.

“Well, I know that,” she said scornfully Glen, my husband, was as proud of this and turned away, leaving me flattened. area as though he had built it himself. I So let me assert, if it is not too late, think he was not alone in this. that what I have been doing in writing Sometimes there have been people this series was a sharing, not an attempt who did not behave in consonance with to pose as an expert. My husband had the glory of the land we live in. But a very colorful definition of an expert, that’s life. perhaps better not repeated here.

There always will be some of them.

To a person brought up in the The rest of us can appreciate the more flatland just outside Chicago, this area to make up for it. has been a never-ending marvel. All I have enjoyed the feeling of sharthose wonderful things to see and learn ing with you and the belief that you about, all the wonderful information on understood and also loved it. And I am the steadily lengthening list of books grateful. written for the amateur, like me, on I would be remiss if I did not recogwhat we were seeing. nize the help of Marsha Aufenkamp, a I have rejoiced in the beauty of good friend who, as my sight and hearranging mountains, sparkling lakes, ing deteriorated, helped with proofreadbroiling streams, orchards in all stages, ing and transmitting my column. She waving fields of wheat and other crops, has raced with a deadline many times to cite only a few. to get the column in on time.

I have delighted in the details of the My thanks, also, to Dee Camp, ediformation and form of those mountor and friend, who help many times, tains, and a host of other natural things, and friend Mary Koch. including the wildlife. And I have To all of them, my warm thanks. stood in awe of the majestic sweep of Our “goodbye” is a contraction our landscape in form after form, from of “God be with you,” but the meansweeping valleys where herds range to ing gets lost, and “talk to you later” is mountains that punctuate the sky. crowding it.

I have rejoiced in the man-made The Spanish do it beautifully: Vaya beauties of buildings and other struccon Dios. Go with God. tures, and all the other beautiful things Let us do so.

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WNPA summer internships pay $2,000 stipends A limited number of internships that pay a $2,000 stipend are available this summer through the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation.

The deadline for applications is Feb. 23, 2018.

To apply, students should send a resume, five or six clips, and an essay detailing why they want to work at a community newspaper to WNPA Executive Director Fred Obee at fredobee@wnpa. com.

These internships must be served at a member newspaper of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association.

WNPA represents small daily and weekly newspapers across the state.

The internship should be of at least eight weeks (240 hours) duration and usually is completed by September 2018, although other time frames can be considered.

Students must make their own arrangements for the internship by contacting WNPA-member newspapers where they would like to be an intern.

Often, this is a newspa-

per close to where they will be living during the internship. At www. wnpa.com is a searchable Membership Directory. Students can contact Obee if they would like guidance on this process.

Many students contact their hometown papers to see if an internship is possible. Also, if editors and publishers who know of a student they would like to have on their staff as an intern should encourate that student to apply.

Students are free to accept a paid internship (that is, this scholarship would be in addition to any other salary they might receive from the host newspaper).

A $2,000 stipend will be paid to the student as follows: $1,000 when they report to work and $1,000 at the completion of the internship and after WNPA receives a written report summarizing experiences of having been an intern.

Obee is the Foundation’s administrator for this program. Please direct all correspondence to him. He can be reached at fredobee@wnpa.com or (360) 344-2938.

Former Port Angeles reporter with cancer needs treatment Husband and father of two Keven Drews is fighting a new life-threatening battle in his 14-year-long war against cancer.

The Surrey B.C. resident and former staff member with the Peninsula Daily News in Port Angeles, has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of

the plasma cells, and is running out of treatment options and must raise at least $500,000 to participate in a Seattle-based clinical trial.

Friends and family have kicked off a GoFundMe campaign. The family’s fundraising site is www.gofundme.com/ madatmyeloma.

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Hearing set in records suit against Legislature The lawsuit challenging the claim that Washington State legislators are exempt from the state Public Records Act is set for a hearing on Dec. 22.

The lawsuit was filed by the Associated Press and a consortium of media organizations including WNPA. Records being sought are text messages, emails and calendars of individual lawmakers during key times to assess what they were

doing when they were supposed to be at the Capital attending committee meetings and hearings and passing legislation. Many legislators claimed they were not subject to the PRA. Also requested were records of complaints of sexual harassment against legislators, and how the Legislature responded to those complaints. Many of those records also have not been released.

Allied Daily Newspapers Executive Director Rowland Thompson, in a declaration filed last month in the lawsuit, said the response of state legislators leaves records “in a black hole” where the media and public cannot find them. That clearly is not the intent of the PRA, he said.

“It is shocking that our State Legislature, and our elected Senators and Representatives, would even argue that it was,” Thompson said.

WNPA JOB BOARD ASSISTANT EDITOR - THE INLANDER We’re looking for an experienced editor to oversee copy editing and lead on various multi-writer special sections. Must be able to juggle an endless to-do list, hit deadlines, spot typos and sniff out errors. Besides having passion for the smallest detail, an ideal candidate would also think big — with enough vision to organize story packages, suggest art/graphics and think of the reader experience. Bonus, if you can also pitch in a story every once and a while.

Why work here? Because we’re better than ever. We do real journalism (accountability reporting, narrative writing), and with the highest market penetration of any weekly in America, our ambition for high-end, highimpact reporting is only growing.

Also, with some 600,000 people between Spokane and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, the metro area offers many of the advantages of the city (arts, culture, live music, vibrant downtowns), in addition to mountains, lakes and all the outdoor recreation they afford.

This is a salaried position with benefits. Send a résumé, cover letter, your five best work samples and salary expectations to Editor Jacob Fries at jacobf@ inlander.com. Put “Editor” in the subject line. No phone calls.

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Call 360-344-2938 For questions beyond government access -- if an attorney has served you with a demand letter, or if Earl Hubbard you need emergency review of a story, letter or ad -- call or email our WNPA attorney, Michele Earl Hubbard.

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