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  • TPA loses longtime friend and employee

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 09 April 2012 10:42
    Lolly Nichols, a longtime friend and employee of the Texas Press Association, died Sunday morning at Hospice Austin’s Christopher House after a battle with lung cancer. She was 64. Nichols served as administrative assistant to the executive director si...

  • Anson publisher starts her own public notice campaign

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 02 April 2012 00:53
    Or Didn't You Know? A West Texas weekly has come up with creative ideas for localizing public notice ads. Tiffany Waddell, the co-owner and one-woman staff of The Western Observer in Anson, started her own public notice campaign early this year, drawin...

  • Are you the best in Texas?

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 23 March 2012 11:00
    Submit your five best sports stories for a chance to win $1,000! Hartman Newspapers L.P. is giving one talented sportswriter a chance to claim $1,000 and the title of best sportswriter in Texas. The family-owned newspaper group is sponsoring the Fred Har...

  • Call for Entries: 2012 Texas Better Newspaper Contest

    Front Page News
    Created: Wednesday, 14 March 2012 09:45
    Don't forget to send in your 2012 Texas Better Newspaper Contest entries! The postmark deadline is Friday, March 23. Members are urged not to crowd the official deadline. Check out the contest page for more information....

  • Three Texas newspapers take home Barbara Jordan Media Awards

    Front Page News
    Created: Friday, 09 March 2012 11:30
    Ivonne Thompson sat with her husband, Anthony "Doc" Thompson, in the ICU at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Ramstein, Germany in late April 2007. Anthony, the medic for the squad, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, a condition akin to shaken...

  • Celebrate Newspaper In Education Week, March 5-9

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 05 March 2012 09:12
    From the Newspaper Association of America Foundation: Give Them the Keys: Promoting Adolescent Literacy through Newspapers Newspaper In Education Week is celebrated annually during the first full school week of March. For 2012, the NAA Foundation is pro...

  • Political advertising, Facebook pages and personnel exceptions

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 15:46
    "TPA Hotline" By Ed Sterling, TPA Member Services Director Q: A citizens’ action group brought in what looks like a display ad. It asks residents to sign their petition so they can get enough signatures to put the measure on the ballot for the upcomi...

  • Contest season arrives for Texas newspapers

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 15:32
    "PRESSing MATTERS" By Chad Ferguson, TPA President 2011-12  It’s time to go hunting. And I don’t mean traipsing through the woods and warding off the chiggers. Like many of you, I have been flipping the pages of the back issues of our newspap...

  • Past presidents reconnect at Midwinter Conference

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 14:50
                                  Clockwise from top left: Terry Collier, Phil Major, Willis Webb, Marshall Day, Bob Brincefield, Roy Robinson, Roy Eaton, Bill Berger, Mary Henkel Judson, Judy Johnson, Wanda Garner Cash, Jerry ...

  • 2012 Texas Press Midwinter Conference photos!

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 14:45
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  • TPA bids farewell to longtime postal guru and friend

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 13:42
    In January TPA Periodicals Consultant Harley Hitchcock, a man many members have long considered to be the face of Texas Press, retired. During his time at TPA, Hitchcock popped in on nearly every newspaper in Texas — taking long road trips in the offici...

  • NETPA 86th Annual Convention, March 29-31

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 12:05
    The 2012 North and East Texas Press Association Convention is just around the corner. It is time to make your plans to join the fun and learn a few things along the way. The event will be March 29-31 at the Purley Gates Retreat in Mount Vernon. Download t...

  • APME NewsTrain rolls into Phoenix, March 22-23

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 27 February 2012 11:16
    Register now for 2012 Phoenix NewsTrain, March 22-23NewsTrain will be in Phoenix, Ariz., March 22-23 for a two-day workshop on watchdog journalism, developing enterprise off a beat, multimedia storytelling, how to cultivate community content, mobile tools...

  • Register for the Barbara Jordan Media Awards Ceremony

    Front Page News
    Created: Thursday, 23 February 2012 10:17
    Barbara Jordan Media Awards CeremonySaturday, April 28 at 6 p.m. in the Ballroom at the LBJ Student Center, Texas State University-San Marcos To reserve tickets or to sponsor a table at this event:http://www.txstate.edu/continuinged/professional-develop...

  • Two TPAs unite in Better Newspaper Contest swap

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 20 February 2012 12:03
    We’re proud to call Tennessee a partner in the Better Newspaper Contest swap this year. Like our TPA, the Tennessee Press Association has a long and storied history as the voice of the state newspaper industry. The association, based in Knoxville, repre...

  • Three associations join together for Mega Conference

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 20 February 2012 10:20
    In 2011 Local Media Association (formerly Suburban Newspapers of America), Inland Press Association and Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA) joined forces to produce one large mega conference for its members. The conference lived up to its nam...

  • 2012 TNF golf tournament to use new scoring system

    Texas Press Messenger
    Created: Friday, 17 February 2012 11:16
    The Robert Burns Classic, the 14th annual golf tournament benefiting the Texas Newspaper Foundation, will be held June 21 in San Antonio at The Resort Course at La Cantera, host resort for the PGA Tour's Valero Texas Open from 1995 to 2009. This ...

  • TCCJ to hold newspaper design workshop March 14-16

    Front Page News
    Created: Tuesday, 14 February 2012 09:01
    From the Texas Center for Community Journalism: The Texas Center for Community Journalism will hold a Design Boot Camp for Community Newspapers on March 14 through 16 on the TCU campus in Fort Worth, led by the Center’s design guru, Broc Sears. Sears ...

  • It's all in your head

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 13 February 2012 12:43
    Both of these headlines are the same size. Which will readers see (and read) first? By Ed Henninger, Henninger Consulting Headlines are one of the tools we use to tell readers what’s important on a page. Sometimes a lead visual will take them to the...

  • 'The Last Lecture' author Jeff Zaslow dies in auto accident

    Front Page News
    Created: Monday, 13 February 2012 08:38
    Jeffrey Zaslow, a longtime Wall Street Journal writer and best-selling author, died Feb. 10 in an automobile accident in northern Michigan. He was 53. Zaslow discussed his first book, "The Last Lecture," as a speaker at the 2011 Texas Press Midwinter Co...