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  • Bastrop on Fire

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:23
    Photo by Terry Hagerty/The Bastrop Advertiser Three staff members at The Bastrop Advertiser prove their commitment to the community, even as they deal with personal loss. By Laura King, Texas Press Messenger "It’s like an apocalypse,” she said. ...

  • Slow Internet is a killer for newspaper production

    Front Page News
    Created: Wednesday, 14 September 2011 09:34
    By Kevin Slimp, Institute of Newspaper Technology Talk about different situations. Last week, I spent two days in the city that never sleeps, visiting with a staff that produces large weeklies, shoppers and more. This week, I’m in a southern town, wo...

  • Free Constitution Day curriculum from NAA

    Front Page News
    Created: Wednesday, 14 September 2011 08:01
    Just in time for Constitution Day on Sept. 16, the NAA Foundation is releasing an updated version of "First Things First: Using the Newspaper to Teach the Five Freedoms of the First Amendment." This free educational resource helps teachers and studen...

  • Take the NNA Small Post Office Survey

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 13 September 2011 13:55
    From the National Newspaper Association: Dear NNA Members and Friends, Since 2009, National Newspaper Association has been fighting to keep Saturday mail delivery alive, realizing that many members will be affected by the slowdown in overall service of ...

  • National Newspaper Week materials coming soon

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 13 September 2011 07:59
    This year's National Newspaper Week observance will be Oct. 2-8, the first full week of October. The occasion has been sponsored by Newspaper Association Managers (NAM) since 1940. The theme for 2011 will be "Newspapers – The Number One Source for ...

  • Sign up now!

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 09 September 2011 13:33
    Texas Press Association is offering an online training course on headline writing with instructor Griff Singer next month. This is a four-week class that begins on Oct. 5 and ends Nov. 4. Singer, who is a veteran journalist and journalism instructor, r...

  • Free educational materials for Constitution Day

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 09 September 2011 09:50
    On Sept. 16, the Bill of Rights Institute will celebrate Constitution Day with engaging educational games, videos, and activities for people of all ages, and classroom lessons for teachers across the country. The Bill of Rights Institute’s newest re...

  • 9/11 supplement available for NIE

    Front Page News
    Created: Wednesday, 07 September 2011 12:39
    The NIE Institute has produced a 9/11 Tenth Anniversary supplement in partnership with the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, the National Pentagon Memorial, the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., and the HISTORY Channel. The suppl...

  • Share your wildfire coverage with TPA

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 06 September 2011 13:25
    The Cliffs Resort at Possum Kingdom Lake on the morning of Aug. 31. Mark Engebretson/Lake Country Sun Share your wildfire coverage with community journalists across Texas! Send in your fire photos and stories to be featured in the upcoming issue of th...

  • TNF elects two new board members

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 06 September 2011 08:16
    Two new directors were elected to the Texas Newspaper Foundation board at its July 26 meeting in Granbury. Bob Brincefield, TPA's 2010-11 president, and Willis Webb, TPA's 2003-04 president, will join the nine-member board of trustees. Retiring from the ...

  • TGCPA contest winners announced

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 30 August 2011 09:22
    2011 Sweepstakes Winners — Proudly displaying their 2011 Sweesptakes plaques are (left to right): Division 1: Hailey Ann Willey & Tricia Medders, The Hometown Press (Winnie); Division 2: Janet & Danny Reneau, Silsbee Bee; Division 3: Jason Collins, Be...

  • Hall of Fame nominations due Oct. 21

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 30 August 2011 07:17
    The Texas Newspaper Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2012 class of honorees to be inducted into the TNF Hall of Fame. You can download a nomination form at http://www.tnf.net/images/stories/halloffame/TNFnomination.pdf. Previous nominations ar...

  • Share your tablet experience

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 29 August 2011 14:07
    The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute is asking Texas newspapers for help in promoting its summer iPad/tablet survey, which has been updated and expanded this year. Publishers are encouraged to invite readers to participate. The results of the surve...

  • NIE: In Search of Ladybugs

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 29 August 2011 11:46
    From the Missouri Press Association: Remember the childhood poem, “Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home…?” Sadly, three varieties of ladybugs native to North America have become nearly extinct! But young readers can have a hand in saving the dome...

  • August e-Edition of the Messenger is here

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 29 August 2011 11:00
    An e-Edition of the Texas Press Messenger is now available, thanks to our friends at eType Services. Try it out here and let us know what you think! The new format provides easy access to Messenger content. You can also download a PDF of the current iss...

  • -30-: August 2011

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 26 August 2011 10:39
    JOE STRAUSS(1924 — 2011)  Joe Strauss, 87, died July 18 at his his home in Shiner. Strauss was a former publisher of The Shiner Gazette and was known by many throughout central Texas after spending over 50 years as a salesman calling on newspaper and ...

  • See who made the news!

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 26 August 2011 10:03
    August Newsmakers  In order of appearance, from left to right: DOLPH TILLOTSONThe Galveston County Daily News Dolph Tillotson will retire Aug. 29 after 24 years as publisher of The Galveston County Daily News. He will become executive vice president...

  • News Briefs: August 2011

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 26 August 2011 09:47
    USPS proposes the elimination of thousands of jobs and post offices WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service recently added two new cost-savings proposals to a long list of potential cutbacks. The agency is studying 3,700 post offices for possible closure ...

  • Postmaster General: ‘Anything’s possible’

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 26 August 2011 09:39
    By Phil Major, Wise County Messenger The debt debate and the weather teamed to make it truly hot in Washington, D.C., as National Newspaper Association members descended on the capital July 21-22 for the Government Affairs Conference. The GAC, tradition...

  • Football, raffle promotion, open meetings and more

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 26 August 2011 09:11
    From "TPA Hotline with Ed Sterling," Texas Press Messenger, August 2011 By Ed Sterling, TPA Member Services Director Q: Our high school football teams are practicing in 110-degree heat. This can’t be right under the rules, and well, it defies common s...