TPA honored four newspaper industry veterans with the Golden 50 Award during the recent TPA Convention and Trade Show.

The award honors men and women who have displayed exemplary service and selfless contributions to journalism for 50 or more years. The association presented the first Golden 50 Award in 1963 and over the past 60 years, more than 200 men and women have been honored.

Here are requested links to a few of the presentations at the recent TPA Convention and Trade Show.

To view Robert Williams' slides of Ad Ideas, click here.

Attracting and keeping top talent can be difficult today. AffinityChoice, a new employee benefit group insurance program, is designed to help TPA members meet that challenge.

Showing off sweepstakes awards in the North and East Texas Press Association Better Newspaper Contest are (from left) Santana Gallacher accepting for the Longview News Journal in Division 1; Jeff Pownall accepting for the Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel in Division 2; Meredith Shamburger accepting for the Kilgore News Herald in Division 3; Abigail Allen, Pilot Point Post Signal in Division 4; an

Showing off sweepstakes in their divisions of the South Texas Press Association annual contest are (from left) Craig Garnett and Meghann Garcia, Uvalde Leader-News; Ken Esten Cooke and Kim Grinke Jung, Fredericksburg Standard-Radio Post; and Marc Robertson and Manuel Azocar, Frio-Nueces Current. 
 

Obituaries published in the June 203 edition of the Texas Press Messenger.

CHUCK CARLTON

DALLAS – Charles Jay “Chuck” Carlton, 64, of Flower Mound, died April 25 in St. Paul, Minn., while completing a sports writing assignment for the Dallas Morning News.