The 2024 Texas Better Newspaper Contest opens Jan. 20 on the Advanced Contest Entry System (ACES) platform.

Participants have until Feb. 18 to upload entries on the platform, www.newspapercontest.com/Texas. 

Contest rules and eligibility guidelines are available now on the Texas Press Association website, www.texaspress.com/better-newspaper-contest-0.

WASHINGTON — Disclaimer: This is not a newspaper story. Let’s call it an analysis of an analysis.

Analysis by Donnis Baggett, Texas Press Association

The Poynter Institute’s latest “OnPoynt” report on the state of journalism has good news and bad news for hometown newspapers.

Every year, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) collects data on recycled newsprint. Texas law requires that newspaper publishers submit their report for 2024 to the TCEQ by Jan. 31. More information about the reporting requirement is available in the Texas Health and Safety Code, Section 361.430.

Nominations are sought for annual awards and recognitions to be presented at the 2025 TPA Convention and Trade Show in June.

AZLE – Longtime newspaper publisher and Hyde Media President Kim Ware has retired.

Ware served as publisher for the Axle News and Springtown Epigraph, and their successor the Tri-County Reporter, for more than a decade. In all, she has worked for the newspapers for more than 25 years.

LONGVIEW – Carpenter Media Group has acquired M. Roberts Media, a cornerstone of the Texas media landscape since 1942.

M. Roberts Media is the parent company of seven award-winning newspapers and a variety of magazines and publications that serve Victoria and East Texas.