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  • It's time to step up your game – Sign up now for TPA's 'Sports Writing for Community Newspapers' course

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 06 January 2012 15:05
    Learn how to make your newspaper's sports pages more objective, more accurate, and, of course, more interesting! Join us for another great TPA online training opportunity, "Sports Writing for Community Newspapers," Jan. 25 to March 9, with instructor G...

  • Learn new techniques that will save you time and money at the Texas Press Midwinter Conference

    Front Page News
    Created: Thursday, 05 January 2012 14:42
    By Laura King | TPA Of all the expenses associated with newspaper layout/production, perhaps the costliest is time. You’re already spending 20 or 30 hours a week designing pages and building ads. Who has time to learn InDesign CS5.5? So what if yo...

  • Hotel Deadline Today - Reserve Your Texas Press Midwinter Conference Hotel Room Now!

    Front Page News
    Created: Wednesday, 04 January 2012 11:52
    The Texas Press 2012 Midwinter Conference & Trade Show is just two weeks away! But today, Jan. 5 at 5 p.m. is the deadline to reserve a room at the discounted rate of $124 per night (call reservations at 972-453-1234). If your newspaper is a qualified T...

  • NNA/Mizzou survey: Public wants governments to publish public notices in newspapers

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 20 December 2011 12:49
    According to an annual survey of towns represented by community newspapers conducted by the National Newspaper Association and the research division of the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism, 80 percent of the public believ...

  • Newspaper Thanksgiving Day editions set records

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 13 December 2011 10:36
    2011 Thanksgiving Day shopping inserts break records for heft and number Consumers pay premium prices for newspapers’ Thanksgiving editions, while single-copy sales increase By Cheryl Sadowski | NAA Vice President Arlington, Va. – Advertisers an...

  • ‘Free to Tweet’ to encourage young people to celebrate First Amendment

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 12 December 2011 15:32
    A note from the American Society of Newspaper Editors President Ken Paulson: There’s an important date coming up this week, and it has nothing to do with gift-giving. Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011, will be the 220th birthday of the First Amendment and ...

  • Two ways TPA helps member newspaper publishers save money

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Wednesday, 23 November 2011 12:33
    By TPA President Chad Ferguson | "PRESSing MATTERS," Texas Press Messenger Making, as well as saving, money is something that is dear to everyone’s heart. And TPA has a couple of ways that will help us do just that. First and foremost, the TPA Cent...

  • 'The Journalism Blues: What happened to the news?'

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 13:38
    From the Texas Center for Community Journalism: Normally, the Texas Center for Community Journalism at TCU specializes in workshops for community journalism, consulting and research on the latest developments in the field. But they’ve branched out...

  • See who made the news in the Texas newspaper industry this month!

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 18 November 2011 08:47
    November Newsmakers (From left to right) DONNI BRYANTStephenville Empire-Tribune Donni Bryant joined the editorial staff of the Stephenville Empire-Tribune in October. She handles anniversary, wedding and birth announcements as well as items for the co...

  • Dwight McKenzie on selling print in the digital age

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Thursday, 17 November 2011 15:13
    By Dwight McKenzie | TPA Advertising Director I read a good friend’s column recently, “Has the Newspaper Industry Turned the Corner?”, and it got me curious about the one thing we seem to have forgotten. The industry is so wrapped up with all the n...

  • TNF announces 2012 Hall of Fame inductees

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Thursday, 17 November 2011 14:47
    Texas Newspaper Foundation is proud to announce Arthur H. “Art” Kowert, Roy Robinson, William Dean Singleton and Carmage Walls as the 2012 inductees in the Texas Newspaper Foundation Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will take place on Friday e...

  • NNA recognizes 9 TPA member newspapers

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Thursday, 17 November 2011 14:15
    Congratulations to the winners of the National Newspaper Association 2011 Better Newspaper Contest and Better Newspaper Advertising Contest. To see other examples of excellence in community journalism and advertising, check out the NNA BNC/BNAC winners sl...

  • Follow live: TCCJ's 'Survival Selling' workshop

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 01 November 2011 07:56
    Registration for the Texas Center for Community Journalism's ad sales workshop on Thursday, Nov. 3 has closed, but you can follow live coverage of the event here. The one-day workshop, "Survival Selling: Proven Print and Online Advertising Sales Techniq...

  • Directory Photo Contest ends Oct. 15

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 14:13
    The annual contest to find a perfect cover for the 2012 Texas Newspaper Directory has begun, and the deadline, Oct. 15, is fast approaching. The contest is open to all TPA members and can include published or non-published photographs. Photos are jud...

  • -30-: September 2011

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:45
    BOB FREER(1948 — 2011) Bob Freer, 63, died Aug. 15 at his home in Dripping Springs after an almost three-year long battle with colon cancer. Bob was a former publisher of the Cedar Park Citizen, Leander Ledger and North Lake Travis LOG newspapers. B...

  • Newsmakers: September 2011

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 12:09
    Celebrate National Newspaper Week, Oct. 2-8 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The 71st annual observerance of National Newspaper Week will be held Oct. 2-8. The theme for 2011 is “Newspapers — The Number One Source for Local News.” Newspapers across the count...

  • Ownership Statements due!

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 04 October 2011 08:10
    The deadline for filing Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation, PS Form 3526, with the United States Postal Service was Oct. 1. This is a three-page form, with the third page being instructions. The date of the current form is September 2007....

  • From TCU's Texas Center for Community Journalism:

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 03 October 2011 16:24
    Ad sales workshop offered free to community newspapers An intensive one-day shortcourse in selling newspaper advertising will be offered free to Texas newspapers Nov. 3 by the Texas Center for Community Journalism on the campus of Texas Christian Univers...

  • Scanners, audiotapes and live-streaming conventions

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 03 October 2011 15:47
    "TPA Hotline with Ed Sterling," TPA member services directorTexas Press Messenger, September 2011 Q: In the interest of saving time and money, my newspaper bought one of those $100 battery operated scanner wands so I could go to the city, county and othe...

  • Hot off the press: Central Texas wildfire photos

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 03 October 2011 15:43
      Clockwise from top: photos by Joe Duty/Wise County Messenger; Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman; Karl Anderson/The Courier;  Johnny Johnson, Hill Country News; Denis McGinness/The Smithville Times; and Terry Hagerty/The Bastrop Advertiser.   ...