NEWS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Contact: Aaron Cox, TAB
Phone: 512-477-6721
Email: acox@txbiz.org

Texas Business and Economic Development Organizations Launch Texas Return To Work Initiative

Employer resource guide and surveys are first coordinated local, regional, and statewide effort to assist public and private sector economic first responders 

By Jim Pumarlo, consultant

Chris Cobler, award-winning journalist and former editor/publisher of the Victoria Advocate, will take over writing the Capital Highlights column following Ed Sterling's retirement.
Cobler is a native of Topeka, Kan., and a graduate of the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism. He was the first Donald W. Reynolds Nieman Fellow in community journalism at Harvard University.

Since fall 2018, 300 more U.S. newspapers have disappeared, bringing the number over the last 15 years to 2,100. That’s almost 25% of the 9,000 newspapers that were published in 2005.
That’s one upshot of “News Deserts and Ghost Newspapers: Will Local News Survive?,” a report published June 25 by Penelope Muse Abernathy of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Rural and small-city community newspapers, once the healthiest segment of the industry, are now caught up in its decline. One-third of the closed newspapers were outside metropolitan areas, the report says.

Q: A resident of our county, on her Facebook page, posted information supporting one candidate and casting innuendos on the other in a July runoff. The social media post is a string of allegations in the form of questions that could affect the election. What should we consider before we proceed with our coverage?

None of us are blind to racial injustice in America. Currently, most of us are involved in covering protests against that injustice whether we are the smallest of weeklies or the largest of dailies, because these protests are happening everywhere in our state. 
This brings up, for newspapers, the delicate issues of race and our collective past that we must be prepared to address when our communities and our readers ask us to be accountable for such things. 

Through the Relevance Project, Newspaper Association Managers (NAM) and Metro Creative Graphics are delivering the first in a series of free house ads focusing on advertising categories where research confirms strong results for newspaper advertisers.
NAM members can adapt the campaign in their sales pitches to local advertisers. The initial set of five categories is based on data supplied by Coda Ventures, which has worked with NAM members to provide readership studies. 
The promotions were created by Metro Creative Graphics as part of The Relevance Project.

Defeating COVID-19 Requires Respect and Trust in One Another

By David Iannelli (526 Words)

Obituaries published in the July 2020 edition of the Texas Press Messenger.

The Society of Professional Journalists has redesigned the Journalist's Toolbox page on its website.
In addition to more than 350 links to COVID-19 articles and resources, the page also includes resources on topics such as public records, the U.S. Census, transcription tools, fact checking and more.
There's a virtual tour to help users get acquainted with the new design.
To check it out, click here.