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  • Student journalists seek partnership with news media

    Front Page News
    Created: Wednesday, 02 November 2011 12:14
    New York Times veteran Kathleen McElroy to serve as editor of a digital media initiative at UT’s J-School By Laura King | Texas Press Messenger Photo Credit (Clockwise from top): Raymond Thompson, Lizzie Chen, Abbey Adkison, Oscar Ricardo Silva, Lizzi...

  • 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...

  • From the National Newspaper Association:

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 28 October 2011 12:09
    'Newspapers in the Mail: Don't Panic' (Video) {youtube}b42h6GVdJ3A{/youtube} So many publishers and editors have approached NNA to ask whether the Postal Service is going out of business that NNA decided it was time to offer some reassurance. No, US...

  • Judy Muller to speak at TPA's Midwinter Conference

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 18 October 2011 10:35
    Award-winning broadcast journalist Judy Muller is an associate professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She has also been a commentator for NPR’s “Morning Edition” and host of a topical radio program called “Town H...

  • New application provides “Wow” experience

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 11 October 2011 07:55
    By Kevin Slimp | Institute of Newspaper Technology Each September and October, I spend several weeks preparing for and directing the Institute of Newspaper Technology. For the past 14 years, newspaper designers, IT professionals, photographers and publi...

  • There are more funnies where this came from

    Front Page News
    Created: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 15:48
    New content is available for National Newspaper Week! If you haven't visited www.nationalnewspaperweek.com in awhile, you may want to check out the new material, which includes: -  A new editorial cartoon by Mike Beckom (featured above) -  A new co...

  • Celebrating Newspapers, Messenger-style

    Front Page News
    Created: Wednesday, 05 October 2011 10:40
    It's National Newspaper Week once again! Texas Press Association has been promoting and celebrating newspapers since way back when. Take a look at some of these magazine-style Messengers, circa 1960-70. Texas Press Messenger, September 1963 Illustra...

  • 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.   ...

  • La Pryor principal praises newspapers in classroom

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 03 October 2011 15:43
    By Logan Garnett | Uvalde Leader-News For as long as she’s been an educator, Jill Thompson has used newspapers in her classrooms. “I can teach any subject you want with a paper — calculus, geometry, reading — anything,” the La Pryor Elementary...

  • Prepare for the future, invest in yourself, Craig says

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 03 October 2011 15:42
    By Rick Craig, Hood County News For nearly 20 years I wrote a column named “The Third Viewpoint” in a small West Texas newspaper. I chose that name because I am a third-generation newspaper man and damn proud of it. I love this industry and the impa...

  • See who made the news!

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 03 October 2011 15:42
    September Newsmakers In order of appearance, from left to right: KIM NUSSBAUMThe Wichita (Kan.) Eagle Kim Nussbaum, president and publisher of the Abilene Reporter-News, was named president and publisher of The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle in August. Nussbaum...

  • John Crawford and the story of the little green snake

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 03 October 2011 15:38
    "PRESSing MATTERS" by Chad Ferguson, TPA presidentTexas Press Messenger, September 2011 One of my father’s many friends in the newspaper industry, John Crawford, was TPA’s 106th president in 1983-84 and later served as Grayson County judge for two ...

  • Call for Committee Commitments

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 03 October 2011 08:52
    TPA President Chad Ferguson has named the following committees for 2011-2012: Better Newspaper Contest Committee, Convention Planning Committee, Legislative Grassroots Support Committee, TDNA/TPA Joint Legislative Advisory Committee (LAC), Special Projec...

  • TCCJ adds two new consultants

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 03 October 2011 07:59
    Max Heath, left, and Michael Sherrod. The Texas Center for Community Journalism has added two new consultants to help to provide answers for the questions Texas community journalists ask. Joining the Center’s group of specialists are Max Heath of Sh...