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AIA, newspapers discuss changes in credentialing

On March 27, representatives from the AIA and 11 members of the Arizona Newspapers Association met at the Burton Barr Library in down-town Phoenix to discuss changing the AIA’s media credentialing policy. The result of the meeting? Repre-sentatives from both parties will continue to meet and work together to hash out a satisfactory agreement. In

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the meantime, the media credential-ing form that was required has been waived for newspaper photographers until the dispute is resolved.

According to John W. Moody, ANA lobbyist and legal counsel, there is a problem with the Arizona Interscholastic Association restrict-ing the coverage newspapers can provide during high school sporting events. This is a constitutional issue bumping up against a contractual

issue, he said.Currently, AIA policy requires

photojournalists to sign an agreement that they will not sell or redistribute photos taken at high school sporting events but use their photos only for basic news coverage. Photographers who refuse to sign the agreement are refused media credentials.

Providing coverage of high school sports is a community service, Arizona Daily Star Managing Editor Teri Hayt said during the meeting. “We’re there for these kids every single day. We’re there for our com-munity.”

According to Hayt and others, the photos of high school games and championships that newspapers make available to students and parents are intended to highlight and serve their communities.

“My community looks to me to provide information on what’s going on in the schools,” said Jim Ripley, executive editor for the East Valley Tribune.

“High school is part of the core of local journalism. It’s very impor-tant,” said Ripley. “We don’t want to see that relationship harmed.”

According to AIA Assistant Executive Director Chuck Schmidt, the reason for AIA’s policy is to ensure that high school sporting events aren’t commercialized. How-ever, high school sports operate on a different platform than professionals sports. A professional sports franchise is privately owned and supported by fans and merchandise licensing. On the other hand, high schools sports are supported by publicly-funded schools whose teams play in facili-ties funded by tax dollars. College and professional sports brands make money from the sale of photos, but that is not the case with high school sports.

Nogales newspaper rated ‘Best in Nation’

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Measure of “paid circula-tion” changes and circulation category added for business and travel.

Senate deliberating over media shield bill which may not even help journalists.

Elizabeth Hill answers your legal questions.

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The Inland Press Foundation announced Feb. 22 that the Nogales International placed fi rst in its orga-nization’s 2007 “Best-in-the-Nation” general excellence competition for non-daily newspapers in the less-than 5,000 circulation class. There were 28 entries in this category.

“It’s a huge honor to be recog-nized,” said Nogales International Editor and Publisher Manuel C. Coppola. “It was a team effort, and it’s nice to see all our hard work pay off.”

The Nogales International, which is owned by Wick Commu-nications, is published Tuesday and Friday, and has been serving Nogales, Ariz., and Santa Cruz County since 1925.

The judge for this category was Bill Roesgen, a veteran editor and newspaper consultant who retired from the Lincoln, Neb., Journal Star. He said of the Nogales International:

Ricardo Villarreal, right, boasts 30 years with the newspaper. Joining him is Edgardo Munoz, head of the ad department.

“A lively newspaper in the eye of the immigration storm - crossed U.S. and Mexican fl ags set the stage for balanced reporting. ‘My Dream’ editorial was terrifi c.”

Participating newspapers were judged on coverage, presentation, and writing quality. Entrants were community newspapers from across the United States, including Wash-ington, Oregon, California, Virginia, Maryland, Florida and Georgia.

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slowdown in Ad dollars start-ing to hit ANA

As we started into the New Year we had some confidence that ad dollars that came into the Asso-ciation in 2007 would continue in 2008 but despite our high hopes, things have started to slow. Our net-work programs are meeting num-bers from 2007 but revenues from our Ad Placement department are running 30 per-cent less than in 2007. Ad dollars that came in from other state Press Associations is down. Staff is work-ing hard to create new promotions as our AzCAN “Off to the Races” promotion is bringing in some new network ads from member newspa-pers.

Ad Placement ready to sell ads for member web sites

In late 2007, staff started col-lecting information to be able to sell ads to ANA member Web sites. Cindy Meaux, ANA Ad Place-ment Manager has the information available to share when a client requests this information from Ari-zona newspapers. It is still proving a challenge to sell web ads as space availability changes quickly and ad sizes vary from Web site to Web site. We are also updating our media kit which will include the new web ad rates as well as information on our www.classifiedarizona.com site.

Classified aggregation Web site continues to grow

We currently have 52 member

newspapers uploading their classified ad content to the ClassifiedArizona.com Web site, with 28 newspa-

pers utilizing the Verican online order entry linked to the Web site. In February, the 18 newspapers with the Verican online order entry portal garnered over $56,000 ad revenue from the classified site. It is our hope to eventually have full participation from our member newspapers. This is proving to be a vital way to

combat the “Craigslists” of the world. Not only do we have an aggregation of Arizona ads on the ANA site, we have quality ads listed here. It is no secret that the buyer/consumer needs to be vigilant to “scams” anywhere on the web; we feel the ads listed here are less problematic to consumers.

member newspapers meet with the AiA

On March 27, a group of 11 newspaper representatives met with the Arizona Interscholastic Associa-tion (AIA) to voice our concerns over the Media Credentialing and Photo policy being enforced by the AIA. It was agreed that a smaller group will continue to discuss how the policy can changed to be acceptable to Arizona Newspapers. John Wolfe, ANA President, Teri Hayt, Chairman of the Public Policy Committee, John Moody, ANA Lobbyist and Counsel will continue with the talks. The AIA hoped present any changes to their Board in later April. We’ll keep you posted!

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ISWNE offering free membershipThe International Society of

Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE) is offering free one-year member-ships to Arizona publishers and edi-tors. You would receive ISWNE’s monthly newsletter and Grassroots Editor, its quarterly journal.

ISWNE has more than 250 members in seven countries, with the bulk in the United States and Canada. The majority of its members own their own papers and are committed to exuding strong leadership in their communities. ISWNE’s particular niche is helping to improve the editorials and editorial pages of the weekly press.

The Society also offers a Hotline service where members who have a tough question about editorial policy

or journalism ethics can e-mail the membership for a quick and informed response. It is not uncommon for a question to bring as many as 50 responses within 24 hours.

If you are interested in the free membership, contact ISWNE executive director Chad Stebbins at [email protected]. ISWNE is headquartered at Missouri Southern State University in Joplin. Its web site can be found at www.iswne.org.

ISWNE was founded in 1955 to encourage and promote high stan-dards of editorial writing, to facilitate the exchange of ideas, and to foster freedom of the press in all nations. It presents the Golden Quill award annually for best editorial/column writing in the non-daily fi eld.

Students can earn both journalism BA and Masters in only four years

A new program at Arizona State University allows honors students to complete both their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism within four years.

This new partnership between ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communica-tion and Barrett, the Honors Col-lege, is open to high-performing students at Barrett who are majoring in journalism. By taking specially designated classes and completing an accelerated course of study, students

can receive both their bachelor of arts and master of mass communications degrees in the time it normally takes to complete the undergraduate degree alone.

Many Barrett students go to ASU with at least one year of AP or college credit, and a majority have scholarships extending over four years. There are 110 journalism majors among the 2,760 students at Barrett this year.

The only other major U.S. journalism school that offers such a program is Northwestern Univer-sity’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Ill.

How can older professionals can transition to a digital landscape?

By Angela GonzalesThe Business Journal

Arizona Newspapers Association2008 Excellence in Advertising

Awards Reception

Friday, May 16, 20085:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Chaparral SuitesScottsdale, Arizona

Join us for a fun-fi lled night of celebration,featuring special entertainment

by the Laughing Stock Comedy Company.

Call (602) 261-7655 or register onlineat www.ananews.com.

Tickets are $32 per person.

This is Part One of the Newspaper of the Year awards.Don’t miss it!

Media professionals, now hear this: It is time to walk the talk or take a walk. Forecast numbers show online ad spending more than dou-bling in the next three years to more than $44 billion in 2011 from just under $22 billion now.

To achieve these industry growth rates, we are going to need to grow and retool the existing ranks of media professionals. While the interactive-media work force will take in many new hires right out of college, these “digital natives” who grew up with the internet won’t have the media expertise and business savvy of existing media profes-sionals. As a result, these tenured media profession-als must learn the termi-nology, how interactive media works, and to be comfortable with inconsistencies in digital-media and traditional-media values and currency.

Last year I wrote an article about ageism in our industry. I highlighted the fact that the interactive industry needs older professionals, for many reasons. But more important, the industry needs older professionals who bring with them years of busi-ness savvy and media experience as well exposure and understanding of the ever-changing digital-media landscape. Older media profession-als will need to prove to their next employers that they can jump quickly into the digital landscape, demon-strate their digital profi ciency and confi dence, and become all around “digital-media mavens.” What does a digital-media maven have to know?

For starters, the terminology of the digital-media space and its key trends, terminology that includes page

views, unique visitors, engagement, Web 2.0, rich media, social media, optimization, RSS and opt-in.

The digital maven also needs to understand the newer components of digital marketing. Also: what the current IAB ad unit standards are and how to apply them; the difference between CPM and CPC ad models; how digital media and traditional media work together to achieve goals; and how digital media cam-paigns are measured and evaluated.

Participation is keyWhile a great deal

of media insight can be gathered by just surf-ing the web, it’s more valuable to participate in this digital world. Today surfing the web means watching video clips and even full-length TV pro-grams; sharing opinions and thoughts with others through blogs, photo-

sharing sites and social networks; listening to podcasts or web radio stations; downloading music, games, movies and other tools; and buying things from sites such as Amazon, eBay and Craigslist.

For veteran media planners, there is a wealth of information to be mined by watching how these tools and people are interacting with one another. And don’t forget to observe how, when and with what devices children and young adults integrate and multitask with the web.

There are dozens of sites, news-letters and blogs on the interactive-advertising industry that provide insight and commentary, along with many digital-media events and orga-nizations that facilitate networking.

Most major metropolitan areas have digital-media and interactive-

By Leslie Laredo Adverti sing Age

House adopts CPS bills during Sunshine WeekFollowing extensive stake-

holder meetings and negotiations, the Arizona House of Representatives adopted a package of bills in March that will make Child Protective Ser-vices (CPS) proceedings and records more open to the public.

More specifically, the House passed HB2453 (Children; Open Court Proceedings) which opens certain court proceedings previously closed to the public, HB2454 (CPS Information; Public Records) which would open up CPS records to the public in cases involving the fatality or near fatality of a child/children

unless prosecutors could establish that the release of such records would cause a material harm to a criminal investigation, and HB2159 (State Employee; Personnel Records) which would make state employees’ disciplinary records, including an employee’s responses, available for public inspection.

The bills now will move on to the Senate. The Arizona Newspapers Association has worked with and will continue to work with the sponsors and other stakeholders in further sup-port of the passage of these important measures.

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As federal judges order more reporters to disclose their confiden-tial sources, news organizations are pinning their hopes on congressional passage of a media shield bill the Bush administration opposes as a threat to national security.

The legislation being consid-ered in the Senate offers only modest shelter for reporters wanting to protect the identity of confidential sources. In many cases, it would leave the fate of journalists — and their sources — to the discretion of judges who increasingly have been willing to jail or fine them.

Out of nine high-profile cases since 2003 where journalists were ordered to reveal information, four might have turned out differently had the proposal awaiting Senate action been law.

For them and dozens of other reporters subpoenaed for confidential information or the names of those providing that information, judges generally would have to weigh the “public interest” of the media reports; that is a legal analysis many judges already do. They would retain the power to jail reporters who refuse to name sources who leak information involving national security.

If the Senate bill were law, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller still may have gone to jail for 85 days for refusing to identify the government official who breached national security rules by leaking a CIA agent’s name.

But two San Francisco reporters might not have faced the prospect of 18-month jail terms for refusing to name the source for leaks of secret grand jury testimony that shed light on a steroid scandal in professional baseball.

Former USA Today reporter Toni Locy might benefit if a judge assigns enough “public interest” value to her reports about the govern-ment’s investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks. For now, she faces fines of up to $5,000 a day unless she discloses her Justice Department sources. This ruling, if embraced by other courts, could confront reporters with the prospect of bankruptcy for protecting sources.

Supporters of the Senate bill and a House-passed version cite press reports about secret CIA pris-ons, warrantless wiretaps of U.S. citizens and top Nixon administration officials’ crimes that came to light through confidential sources.

“Reporters, editors, publish-ers and their lawyers cannot with

assurance articulate the rules gov-erning confidentiality because legal standards are hopelessly muddled,” said Ted Olson, a former solicitor general in the Bush administration who is backing a shield law to create uniformity in the courts.

“Fearing the consequences of exposure, sources withdraw,” Olson said.

The administration opposes both versions and says it would be nearly impossible to enforce laws against unauthorized releases of clas-sified information.

The government would have to provide evidence of “significant and articulable harm” to national security — rather than a general claim — in addition to making judges weigh the public interest in protecting confiden-tial sources.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey has said the Senate bill defines a journalist too broadly.

News organizations win about 60 percent of state and federal cases involving reporters’ privilege each year, with journalists losing more often when a grand jury is involved, according to a 2007 analysis by media lawyer James Goodale.

Goodale, who represented The New York Times as its general coun-sel in the Pentagon Papers case, is the architect of the news media’s largely successful legal strategy since a 5-4 Supreme Court decision in 1972 against a reporter ordered to testify before a grand jury.

But the fifth vote in that case, by Justice Lewis Powell, left the door open for state and lower courts to allow a reporters’ privilege by con-sidering First Amendment interests of publicizing information.

Since then, 33 states have passed shield laws and 16 others have established judicial precedents protecting reporters to some degree in state courts. Only Wyoming offers no protections for journalists.

Federal judges began offering leeway to reporters as well in civil lit-igation and criminal trials, so long as the information sought was not criti-cal to the government’s or plaintiff’s case and was available elsewhere. At times, they protected journalists from having to disclose unpublished, nonconfidential material.

“By a stroke of genius, media attorneys were able to turn what was actually a loss for the press in 1972 into a qualified privilege for 30-plus years,” said University of Arizona law professor RonNell Andersen Jones. “There is now an unsettled feeling among members of the press about whether this carefully con-structed house of cards is going to

be blown down.”Jones has come up with figures

in a soon-to-be-released survey that indicate a rise in federal subpoenas following highly publicized media losses in recent years. Those defeats, she says, have emboldened more lawyers to subpoena journalists.

Her survey, which got responses from 761 news organization, found 21 federal subpoenas seeking names of confidential sources in 2006 and an additional 13 seeking material other than a source’s name that was received on condition of anonym-ity.

Those numbers are substantially higher than the 19 subpoenas since 1992 cited by the Justice Depart-ment when arguing that a federal shield bills is unnecessary. That count includes only subpoenas by department prosecutors who want reporters to disclose sources’ identi-ties to grand juries. The tally does not include civil lawsuits, cases involving special prosecutors or trial subpoenas by federal prosecutors seeking confirmation of material already published in news stories.

Some experts say the tipping point prompting some courts to rethink their prior inclinations to favor reporters was a ruling in 2003 by Richard Posner, a federal appeals court judge in Chicago. Posner said judges were wrong to give more leeway when a case did not involve grand juries and when reporters were seeking to protect nonconfidential

material.“Subpoenas should be reserved

for the very rare case,” said Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor who compelled scores of reporters to testify in the CIA leak case. “But there is national security information going out the door on a pretty stag-gering basis. You can’t say there’s not a lot of serious information being compromised.”

Fitzgerald, a federal prosecu-tor who subpoenaed the telephone records of Times reporters Miller and Philip Shenon in a separate case, argues that a shield law is unneeded and potentially dangerous. He says federal prosecutors already are already bound by Justice Department guidelines to issue subpoenas only in compelling situations.

Dismissing notions that media subpoenas would dampen inves-tigative reporting, Fitzgerald said, “Journalists have been saying the sky is falling since 1972 ... and that suddenly the stories will dry up. But I’m not seeing big blank spaces on the front page.”

Media groups are not so sure.They cite Locy’s case in which

she is refusing to identify a dozen Jus-tice Department sources to lawyers for Steven Hatfill. The former Army scientist is suing the government for invasion of privacy after he came under scrutiny in the anthrax attacks. Locy says she cannot remember if

Media shield law or not, protection of journalists’ confidential sources uncertainBy Hope Yen

Associated Press

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Eldon L. Waters, 77, of Phoenix, Arizona, passed away on February 29, 2008.

Born July 14, 1930 in Hartford City, Ind., came to Phoenix in April of 1959. He was employed for 30 years at Arizona Republic as a com-postor. He served in the Marines during the Korean Conflict and was Honorable Discharged. He is sur-vived by his loving wife of 46 years, Harriet and his daughters. Donations can be given to Hospice of Arizona, 2222 W. Northern Ave., Suite 100, Phoenix, AZ 85021.

30-year Republic veteran dies

After four decades, Dow Jones decides to stop carrying AP news

Dow Jones & Co, recently bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, is ending an agreement of more than 40 years to carry news from the Associated Press after the AP said it wanted more money.

Instead, Dow Jones Newswires will run news from Agence France-Presse, a French news service.

The AP and Dow Jones failed to agree on a price after more than a year of negotiations, AP Chief Rev-enue Officer Tom Brettingen said on Tuesday.

“We did not believe we were being adequately compensated for the use of our content on DJ News-wires,” Brettingen said in a state-ment. “We weren’t able to resolve that with DJ, so we’re going our separate ways.”

Dow Jones, which Murdoch’s News Corp bought for $5.6 billion three months ago, said Dow Jones Newswires would distribute general and political news from Paris-based Agence France-Presse and that it would expand editorial staff.

The AP and Dow Jones started talking about their arrangement more than a year ago, before Murdoch said that he wanted to buy Dow Jones, Brettingen said in an interview.

Brettingen and Dow Jones declined to say how much Dow Jones paid the AP and how much more the AP was seeking.

The Wall Street Journal, Dow

Jones’s flagship newspaper, still will run AP stories, as will the Factiva online news archive, which Dow Jones also owns.

The company said the moves were “part of Dow Jones’s broader strategy to invest in its global finan-cial news operations.”

An internal Dow Jones memo to staff obtained by Reuters said that negotiations with the AP were unsuccessful and that AP had decided to end the deal, which has included sharing offices and close integra-tion.

Dow Jones will begin shuffling employees out of bureaus where it shares space with the AP, Brettingen said. He said he did not know the total number of employees affected.

“We will work with AP to ensure orderly transitions of our staff out of AP offices, and off the AP network and payroll,” Neal Lipschutz, senior vice president and managing editor, said in the Dow Jones memo.

The AP, which is based in New York, is a cooperative that is owned by its 1,500 daily-newspaper members. The AP in recent months has been reorganizing its bureaus and undergoing other changes as it expands internationally and seeks new revenue sources beyond its tra-ditional base.

Many of its member newspa-pers, meanwhile, are suffering from a steady fall in advertising revenue.

The AP has had a deal with Dow Jones since 1967, an AP spokesman said.

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media associations. Joining your local interactive-marketing or digital-media association is time well spent and offers valuable networking and educational opportunities.

Experienced media people rep-resent the future of digital marketing. The transition offers new challenges, but with the right resources, it’s not impossible. And agencies and

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NAA Foundation Young Reader Seminar to be held at Wild Horse Pass in Phoenix

Every year the Newspaper Association of America Founda-tion draws publishers, circulation managers, NIE managers, teachers and young writers from all over the country to it’s annual Young Reader Seminar.

The event will be held May 15-18, 2008 at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort in sunny Phoe-nix.

A pre-seminar day is scheduled focusing on the “7.5 Habits of Highly Effective Student Journalists” and “Digital NIE.”

Steve Benson, editorial cartoon-ist from The Arizona Republic, will

be the keynote speaker on Friday morning.

Breakout sessions include mar-keting your NIE program, coaching young writers, incorporating newspa-pers into ESL programs, teacher-to-teacher marketing, the latest research study on lifelong readers and civic involvement and much, much more. A fun night complete with steaks, dancing and bonfire is scheduled at Rawhide Western Town & Steak-house.

The Young Reader Seminar is professional, informative and well worth the time and expense. Hope to see you there!

publishers should invest in training their traditional-media people to sell and buy digital media, because it is those professionals who will drive the projected $44 billion in online ad spending.

Leslie Laredo is president-founder of Laredo Group. She has more than 25 years’ experience in the online and interactive industry.

ANF announces new scholarship program for college journalism students

The Arizona Newspapers Foun-dation, Inc. announced today the start of a new scholarship available to Arizona college students majoring in Journalism.

This summer, ANF will award two scholarships of $1,000 each to college students attending Arizona State University, University of Ari-

zona or Northern Arizona University full-time. Students must have a grade point average of 3.0 and have dem-onstrated an interest in pursuing a career in the print journalism industry.

Complete scholarship infor-mation, including award criteria

and an application for Fall 2008 awards, are posted online at www.ananews.com/scholarship. The deadline for

applications is May 30, 2008. Winners will be chosen by a selection committee and notified by mid-July if selected as a finalist.

The Arizona Newspapers Foun-dation is a 501(c)3 charitable orga-nization, formed in 1997 to give newspapers an opportunity to assist journalists on a new level.

Print more trusted than InternetReinforcing print publishers’

frequent assertions of relationships with readers, new research by Media-Vest suggests that readers trust print more than the web in almost every area. The MediaVest study also found:

There remains very low dupli-cation between the audiences for print publications and their online companions.

Print titles should deliver some-

thing different with their online extensions, according to 79 percent of respondents who were dual maga-zine and digital users. But only 44% percent said they strongly believed that publishers’ sites really offer something unique.

Print will never die. Only 12 percent of respondents said they strongly believed that a publisher’s site could easily replace the print product within the next five years


A Phoenix TV station didn’t waive its right under the state shield law and doesn’t have to reveal the source of sealed documents it used for a story on a tire safety lawsuit, according to an opinion released Tuesday by the Arizona Court of Appeals.

A divided three-judge panel rejected Cooper Tire and Rubber Co.’s argument that KNVX-TV waived its reporter’s privilege by asking a lower court for a declara-tory judgment and by describing the source as a whistle blower.

“We construe the scope of waiver narrowly,” Judge Maurice Portley wrote for the 2-1 majority. “The interest in protecting the infor-mant’s confidentiality is substantial. The statutory privilege protects reporters and those employed by a television station.”

The panel said that to rule oth-erwise would undercut the purpose of the state’s shield law and create a chilling effect on journalists’ ability to report the news.

The panel also affirmed the validity of the hearing process that the district court used to determine whether or not KNVX breached the confidentiality order, which was part of the underlying product liability case. Cooper alleged that the process, which included the trial judge’s deci-sion to privately review a statement submitted by KNVX reporter Abbie Boudreau as to how she obtained the documents, violated the company’s

due process rights.The dispute stems from a story

KNXV broadcast on Nov. 3, 2005, regarding a lawsuit alleging that Cooper’s tires caused a fatal rollover crash. Boudreau received documents from an anonymous source follow-ing a confidential settlement agreed in the accident lawsuit in September 2005.

Following the broadcast, Cooper demanded the TV station reveal its source and return the documents, saying they were included in the confidential order issued in the settle-ment.

David Bodney, an attorney rep-resenting the station, said this is the latest in a string of attempts by the Ohio-based tire company to expose the confidential source.

“All of these challenges, whether it’s the due process or waiver chal-lenge, represent the most of Cooper’s repeated attempts to unmask a con-fidential source,” Bodney said. “So, the opinion represents an important protection of the journalist privilege even against the most repeated and aggressive attacks.”

Bodney said this case has pro-vided journalists in Arizona more leeway in using anonymous sources in future stories.

“The opinion underscores the importance of protecting the jour-nalist privilege as completely as possible,” he said. “And, it should provide additional breathing room for reporters who rely on confi-dential informants to publish news about matters of public health and safety.”

Ariz. appeals court bolsters state shield lawBy Amy Harder

The Reporters Committeefor Freedom of the Press

The shift from print to online is giving journalists more responsibil-ity, changing job requirements, and more awareness of the commercial side of the business, according to the 2008 PRWeek/PR Newswire Media Survey.

A total of 1,231 people -- including newspaper, magazine, TV, radio, and online journalists -- were polled.

Some of the key findings: -- Fifty-seven percent of respon-

dents feel they are being asked to work more today that in the past few years, while 56 percent say they are contributing to other mediums outside of their official duty. For instance, 39 percent of newspaper journalists are expected to contribute to the online version of their publication.

-- Sixty-seven percent of news-paper journalists anticipate “declines in print circulation and increased focus on the Web” over the next three years. Also, 38 percent of newspaper reporters expect to see “reductions in staff” over the next three years.

-- Despite the uncertainty in the industry, few reporters believe their publications in their current state will disappear. Sixty-three percent of print journalists feel their publica-tion will endure “indefinitely” in its current state.

-- When asked to identify the most important aspect of their work, 91 percent of respondents say “make my publication successful by creating appealing content for its audiences” -- ahead of “educate and inform the masses,” “break news,” and “chronicle events as they happen.” This finding suggests a significant level of commercial awareness on the part of journalists.

-- Nearly 73 percent of respon-dents sometimes or always use blogs in their research. The most often cited reason for using blogs was “to measure sentiment.”

PR Newswire, which provides news releases and other content to outlets such as newspapers, was founded in 1954. PRWeek started in 1998.

Survey Finds Journalists Are Working More -- and Working More Online

Ken Burton — wit of Tucson newspapers, D.C. politics — diesBy Tom Beal

Arizona Daily Star

Ken Burton, 67, spent his final weeks planning a memorial tribute for himself that will include George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and Steve Martin’s “King Tut” comedy routine.

Burton, a reporter for both the Tucson Citizen and the Arizona Daily Star from 1966 to 1977 and a satirical columnist for the Star, died Saturday in Chantilly, Va., six weeks after being diagnosed with lung cancer.

“He was just one of the all-time great wits,” said former Star colleague Bill Waters, editorial page editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican. “He gladdened a lot of lives.”

Burton left the Star, where he wrote a humor column for the Metro section, to work for U.S. Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz.

He moved to the Washington, D.C., area, where he later served as communications director for the House Interior Committee and as public-affairs specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where he was still working when he died at age 67.

Burton always was the funniest guy in the room, said longtime friend Chris Helms, “a wonderfully loyal, funny, smart and special friend.”

Born in Litchfield, Ill., and educated in Alaska and California, Burton first came to Tucson while serving four years in the Air Force, leaving with the rank of sergeant in 1965.

He worked two stints with the Star, interrupted by two years at the Citizen. He also worked briefly for KOLD-TV and for less than five months as information offi-cer for the city of Tucson.

“I’m not the type of person cut out for public-relations work,” he said when he resigned from that post in June 1970. “I’m a newspaperman at heart.”

He changed his mind in 1977 to work “for a pretty unique politician,” said Helms, who was on Udall’s staff when Burton joined it. Burton’s witty writing style fit the congressman, Helms said.

In one of his columns for the Star, Burton offered an all-purpose pandering speech for a Tucson politi-

cian that read in part: “Some of you are longtime

residents; some of you are new residents. Some of you are just passing through. Some of you are lost. Others of you are visiting, and some of you are leaving. . . .

“ D o y o u want Tucson to be another Los Angeles, or just another Tucson. You know the answer to that. Freeways, you say? An obvious answer. Mass transit? Jobs?

Crime? Certainly. But maybe not. It depends.

“What I offer you is a challenge — if that’s what you want. A chance to stride boldly into the future while never forgetting our precious past, to hold a steady course down the radical middle of the road.”

Burton won multiple awards for his writing from the Arizona Press Club. He was the unofficial prime minister of the Tucson Press Club and one of the founding members of the board of the Morris K. Udall Foundation.

He is survived by his wife, Carol; a son, Scott, of Houston; a daughter, Katharine (Christopher) Wheedleton; and grandsons Daniel and Kevin Wheedleton of Ashburn, Va.

No Tucson memor ia l i s planned.

Ken Burns, 1974(Photo courtesy of the Arizona Daily Star)


Did you move your clocks for-ward for daylight saving time? Or was it daylight-saving time?

Does your town have a health-care system, or health care system; day-care centers, or day care cen-ters?

If you strictly follow AP style, you drop the hyphen. In the past two years, AP joined the “ditch most hyphens” movement. Its stylebook now advises “the fewer hyphens the better; use them only when not using them causes confusion.” Other styles, such as those widely used for aca-demic papers, rarely meet a hyphen they like.

The old joke that, to clear a room of journalists, throw in a stylebook might be amended to toss in a hyphen first.

But publica-tions are all over the board, from the Boston Globe, which practically banishes hyphens, to the Wall Street Journa l , which embraces them, including an occa-sional “world-wide.” And one recent letter writer to Copyediting news-letter even took the AP to task for hyphenating words such as co-worker and co-author.

Yet we also still write such abominations as “the then-20-year-old man,” “anti-money-laundering (you can launder anti-money?) or “non-life-threatening injuries.” (One person once wondered on a copy-editing discussion board: Can you threaten a “non-life”?) Sometimes more words without hyphens is clearer.

But pity the poor hyphen. Per-haps it gets no respect because it’s primarily a printer’s mark without something similar in speech.

Last year, the Shorter Oxford Dictionary removed more than 16,000 hyphenated words. Many were Briticisms long since collapsed to one word in American English. But the hyphen’s days may be num-bered.

Still, a well-placed hyphen aids understanding and helps guide the reader, and it’s rare that a page looks as though someone loaded a shotgun with hyphens and fired (seemingly a main concern among the minimal-ists).

Hyphenation is a recurring topic on editing discussion boards and

blogs where there is agreement on a few guidelines – but not necessarily rules:

–First, make sure it’s a com-pound modifier, not a single word modifying a noun phrase or a noun phrase modifying a noun. Craig Lancaster, on his “Watch Yer Lan-guage” blog, offers “consecutive victory” as a noun phrase example. Another is “concrete block.” So we don’t hyphenate “third consecutive victory” or “concrete block house.” (One that sometimes confounds stu-dents is not hyphenating things like “red brick house.” But we tend to write “the house made of red brick” – more like a noun phrase – not “the red house made of brick.”)

–When the modi-fier is two nouns, gener-ally no hyphen (health care system, income tax cut, blood alcohol level), but you’ll see lots of deviation.

– H y p h e n -ate adjective-noun modifiers, especially where the adjective is a number (five-mile walk, middle-class lifestyle, 12-step pro-gram) and noun-par-ticiple combinations (role-playing games,

love-starved child).–Hyphenate when three or more

words, one an adjective, form a modi-fier (high-school-age children, job-creation-related expenses, 40-foot-long boat). But too often these are awkward mashups to be avoided.

–Hyphenate to avoid confusion or ambiguity, such as with small-business man. You recover a lost watch, but re-cover a sofa. You recre-ate at the gym, but you re-create the scene of a crime. And high school-age children could imply something different from what was meant.

Sometimes this also means breaking up words: a used-book store is different from a used bookstore.

–Don’t hyphenate compounds when the adverb ends in “ly” (the early rising worm, his fittingly unkempt suit). But some adjectives also end in “ly” and are hyphenated (a family-owned business).

¬–Generally do not hyphenate compounds formed from the superla-tives “most” and “least.” But “best” and “worst” tend to take a hyphen.

Beyond that, good luck. Some stylebooks, for instance, avoid hyphenating terms like African American, arguing that capitalization makes it clear.

Others don’t hyphenate com-pounds denoting color, such as

a bluish green shirt. AP uses the hyphen.

A modifier normally hyphen-ated before a word (a part-time job, a well-liked man) generally keeps the hyphen after a linking verb as a predicate adjective (the job is part-time, he is well-liked). But remember that some of these can be an adverbs, too, as in “she works part time.”

But we often see the hyphen dropped in the “well” compounds, against AP’s advice, especially if more modifying words follow (the man is well liked around his neigh-borhood).

The AP also hyphenates when a prefix ends and the root word begins in the same letter (re-election, re-evaluate, non-nuclear), but increas-ingly that’s ignored.

As for high school student, ice cream cone, orange juice salesman and other “common” exceptions,

Pity the poor hyphenBy Doug Fisher

Common Sense Journalism

Postmaster General John E. Potter has announced his favorable ruling on the National Newspaper Association’s request to permit newspapers additional time to adopt the new complex Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB). Potter agreed that mailers could have an additional year to use the simpler PostNet(r) barcode to earn automation rates.

The Postal Service provided community newspapers a quick and favorable response to comments filed Feb. 21 … The original proposal would have eliminated newspaper automation discounts unless the IMB was applied. But IMB presents

Newspapers Get Reprieve on Barcodes; NNA Granted Extension to 2010

particular problems with newspapers using adhesive or glued labels, and NNA had protested that the timeline was too aggressive

Acting quickly to reassure mail-ers, Potter issued a letter to postal customers via the DMM Advisory e-mail network Feb. 29, agreeing that January 2009 was too soon for IMB implementation. …

It is still unclear whether USPS may require an 11-digit barcode on “flats,” like newspapers, instead of the currently required 9-digit bar-code. The 11-digit barcode has two digits for the exact delivery point of the household or business.

Mohave Valley wins several awards in company-wide competition

Mohave Valley Daily News captured 12 awards in the 2007 Brehm Communications Inc. Better Newspaper and Shopper Contest, including a third-place finish for general excellence.

On the news side the Daily News won a first place award for best spot news photo, for photographer Jeff Mangum’s Aug. 26 front-page photo of a bank robbery suspect on his knees.

The Daily News also won first place for its Web site.

Second place was awarded for Best News Presentation, for the Feb. 11, 2007 edition, Best General Report-ing for Dominika Maslikowski’s

May 27 story entitled “Life-saving donation” and Best Original Photo/Portrait for Mangum’s Nov. 1 sports photo “Honor among thieves”.

Mohave Valley Daily News also won several third place awards, including Best Front Page and Best Original Photo/Sports.

Newspaper judging was done by the School of Journalism and Communications at the University of Oregon. Brehm Communications, based in San Diego, is the parent company of the Mohave Valley Daily News and News West Publishing.

Six dailies, 23 weeklies and eight shoppers participated in this year’s contest.

you’re on your own. Generally, if it’s listed in the dictionary as two words without a hyphen, go for it, but expect some flak.

And don’t even start on whether to hyphenate “e-mail”!

Usage note: After recent severe storms, “damages” was used in some stories and on TV to describe the destruction. But “damages” are what you win in a court case. “Damage” – singular – is the term for what is done by a natural disaster or fire, no matter how large the sum or how widespread.

Doug Fisher, a former AP news editor, teaches journalism at the University of South Carolina and can be reached by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone at (803) 777-3315. Past issues of Common Sense Journalism can be found at http://www.jour.sc.edu/news/csj/index.html

Doug Fisher


Annual ALMA workshop presents hands-on opportunities for high school journalism students

Network sales mean more money for you and your newspaper

More than 90 students and nearly 50 Latino media professionals came together for a day-long work-shop at Arizona State University, sponsored by the Arizona Latino Media Association.

During the opening remarks, Christopher Callahan, dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journal-ism and Mass Communication at ASU, emphasized the importance of multimedia in the industry and encouraged hand-on learning.

This is the first year the work-shop focused on multimedia skills. Students assembled online stories for the Web, print, radio and television. Sessions were led by local journalists and Cronkite School faculty. Jaime

Casap, project manager for Google Arizona, was the afternoon’s featured speaker. He encouraged students to think outside the box when trying to deliver information to consumers.

More than 500 students have participated in the workshop since it began in 1997. Many of those students have gone on to careers in journalism, said Anita Luera, past president of ALMA who now directs high school programs for the Cronkite School.

ALMA is a non-profit Latino organization created in 1996 to sup-port members’ professional develop-ment, attract youth to the field and seek fair and equitable media cover-age of the Latino community.

The cost of a first-class stamp will rise to 42 cents starting May 12, the U.S. Postal Service said Monday.

The price of the Forever stamp will go up at the same time, meaning those stamps can still be purchased for 41 cents, but will remain good for first-class postage after the rate increase takes effect.

The charge for other services, such as advertising mail, periodicals, packages special services will also change. Changes in the price for Pri-ority Mail and Express Mail will be announced later, the agency said.

Postage rates last went up in May, 2007, with a first-class stamp-ing jumping 2 cents to the current 41-cent rate.

In the past raising postage rates was a long, complex process involv-ing hearings before the independent Postal Regulatory Commission, a process that could take nearly a year.

However, under the new law regulating the post office that took effect in late 2006, the agency is allowed to increase rates with 45-days notice as long as changes are within the rate of inflation for the previous 12 months. The Postal Regulatory Commission calculated that rate at 2.9 percent through Janu-ary, limiting the first-class rate to an increase of just over a penny.

Under the new law, postal prices will be adjusted annually each May, the Postal Service said. Officials said they plan to give 90 days notice of future changes, twice what is required by law.

While the charge for the first ounce of a first-class letter rises to 42 cents, the price of each added ounce will remain 17 cents, so a two-ounce letter will go up a penny to 59 cents.

More information can be found online at www.usps.com/prices.

Postage rates increase: May 12

High school students at the 11th annual ALMA workshop, hosted by ASU.

Kim Sumpter Kyle Maki Georgia Prado

Arizona Newspapers Associa-tion would like to congratulate our three winners in the network ad bonus program.

It was a very close competition, with three top sales people neck-and-neck in the final days of the race. However, at the end of the fierce rivalry, a clear winner emerged: Kim Sumpter!

Kim Sumpter, of the Casa Grande Dispatch won first place for selling the most ads.

“I’m very excited,” said Sumpter. “It was a good incentive. It was all about the thrill of the com-petition,” she said. And her plans for the winnings? “Maybe go on another vacation!”

Second place was awarded to Kyle Maki, of the Wrangler News. Maki credits Lady Luck for his win. “It was all timing,” he said. At

the height of the Bonus program, he was able to sell several ads to a large client who needed to reach people state-wide. Now he’ll have a little spending money for his trip to Hawaii this summer.

Georgia Prado, Casa Grande Dispatch, took home third place.

“The team here really made a sport out of it and were rooting for us to win,” said Prado. There was a little bell they would ring every time an AzCAN ad was sold.

“I had a blast,” said Prado. She’ll use her winnings to take her whole family out to a nice dinner.

The Bonus program ran from Dec. 20, 2007 thru Mar. 28, 2008.

Twenty sales people, represent-ing 15 newspapers participated, win-ning a combined $3,300.

During the Bonus period, par-ticipants sold 19 2by2 ads for a total $4,427 retained by the newspapers.

Participants also sold 43 Arizona Classified Ad Network (AzCAN)

ads, to run a total of 54 weeks and earning a total of $9,108 retained by the newspapers.

If your newspaper would like to increase classified revenue, please contact Sharon Schwartz and find out how! Call (602) 261-7655 ext. 108 or e-mail at s.schwartz@ananews.


Longtime Tribune sports writer Bob Moran, 55, died at his Chandler home Tuesday after a 3½-year battle with stomach cancer.

Moran covered Arizona State athletics for the Tribune from 1987 until 2004 when he was diagnosed with the disease.

Opinionated, knowledgeable and personable, Moran left a lasting impression on virtually everyone he met.

“He was the first person to teach me how to tie a tie,” former Arizona State and NBA star Fat Lever said. “We were going to a dinner event and I didn’t know how to tie a single loop, a double loop, nothing.

“But that was Bob. Always going the extra mile. He was like another family member to me.”

Moran attended Ohio Univer-sity where he worked for the Ohio University Post (two years) and the African-American Affairs (four years). He graduated in June of 1974 and started a sports writing career at the (Tucson) Arizona Daily Star in July.

Moran was the backup Arizona

football writer that year while also covering junior college sports. He became the main Arizona football beat writer the following year and also covered the Cleveland I n d i a n s i n spring train-ing.

In 1980, t h e S t a r became one of the first papers in the coun-try to open a sports bureau o u t s i d e i t s main circula-tion area and Moran moved to the Valley to cover area sports, con-centrating on ASU. He was the backup writer for ASU football that first year and he took over the following year.

He started at the Tribune in 1987 and covered every ASU-UA football game from 1975 until 2003.

“Bob was an institution around

here,” Tribune executive sports editor Bob Romantic said, “and not just because of his incredible knowledge of college sports. Bob was just a

warm, infec-tious person you couldn’t help but feel comfortable a round . He a b s o l u t e l y loved coming to work every day.”

Arizona State and Ari-zona recently decided that the MVP of the Terr i to-rial Cup game between them would win the Bob Moran Most Valuable Player Award.

“ T h e thing I remember about Bob is that what I told him he wrote,” former ASU and Ohio State football coach John Cooper said.

“He was one of those sports-writers where you never had to

By Craig MorganEast Valley Tribune

Longtime Tribune sports writer Bob Moran dies

Bob Moran

Arizona newspapers don’t typi-cally profit from selling high school athletic event photos. The newspapers represented at the meeting agreed that they seldom see a profit from these types of services. “It’s a com-munity thing,” said Arizona Daily Star Publisher John Humenik.

Humenik pointed out that sell-ing these types of photos is just a bad business model. “To build a legiti-mate business that drives revenue from the sale of these photos? It’s just not there,” Humenik said.

“Our goal is to cover our costs and enhance our media offerings,” said Ahwatukee Foothills News sports editor Brett Fera. It’s not about the profit, he said.

According to AIA Assistant Executive Director Chuck Schmidt, the reason for they’ve been enforcing this particular regulation recently is to protect the students. “It’s safety as opposed to sales,” he said.

“We get many requests from Web sites that claim to be legitimate media,” said Schmidt. “Our goal [with the current policy] is to protect that space for editorial media outlets and not for those with commercial interests,” he said.

The situation is not unique to Arizona. Photographers in Illinois faced a similar issue when they filed a lawsuit on Nov. 1 against the Illinois High School Association. They are also waiting for the state Senate and House to pass legislation (SB 1997 and HB 4582) permitting Illinois newspapers to sell photos taken at high school athletic events.

The newspapers decided that there were six points of interest they would not budge on:

1. The right to access all high school interscholastic athletic, aca-demic or other forms of competi-tion.

2. That the AIA will assert no authority limiting the use of any images taken by newspapers at AIA events.

3. There will be no restriction on the printing of any content pro-duced by newspapers, the posting of images on newspaper Web sites, or the use or sale of images across various platforms used to transmit news and information to newspaper audiences.

4. The AIA has no author-ity over the sale by newspapers of images taken by newspapers at AIA events.

5. The AIA will take no action Attorney John Moody discusses the changing the AIA credentialing policy with AIA legal counsel Mark Mignella.

Collins: AIA, newspapers discuss changes in credentialing, con’tto limit access to Arizona newspapers through a credentialing process.

6. Arizona newspaper photog-raphers will have access to the same shooting zones as photographers working for or on behalf of the AIA during events, and immediately after events.

AIA Executive Director Harold

Slemmer said he had no desire to take this issue to court. “We hope we’ll have this resolved before the end of April,” said Slemmer.

Until the issue is settled, news-paper representatives have agreed to temporarily cease publishing edi-torials criticizing the AIA’s current policy.

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wonder what was going to appear in the paper.

“He never misquoted me or took me out of context. He was a consum-mate professional and I have a great deal of respect for him.”

In the Tribune offices, Moran took a good deal of ribbing because he rooted for five college teams: Ohio University, Ohio State, LSU. Clemson and Southern.

But his knowledge of college sports was never questioned. In fact, he was known more by his nickname — “Coach” — because he knew more about the game than just about anybody.

“When (ASU athletics director) Lisa Love came here I sat with her and said if there’s one person with perspective you talk to, I recommend you talk to Bob Moran,” Arizona State baseball coach Pat Murphy said. “I said ‘You will not get a wisp of bias or personal agenda. You’re gonna get 100 percent wisdom.’

“He was just a genuine man with a bunch of information.”

Moran is survived by his mother, Esther. Funeral services were held at the Bethel African Methodist Episco-pal Church in Baton Rouge, La. on Friday, March 14.


ABC Overhauls Some Key Rules on Counting Circ

The Audit Bureau of Circula-tions has moved closer to an overhaul of how it counts paid newspaper circulation.

During a meeting of its board of directors last week in Kiawah Island, S.C., the bureau approved modifi ca-tions that will affect how publishers report starting April 1, 2009. Among those changes: Newspapers will be considered “paid” by ABC regardless of the price.

Currently ABC breaks out paid circulation in three categories, copies where 50% or more of the cover price is paid, copies where 25% to 50% of the price is paid (often referred to as discounted circulation), and other paid, which includes employee, newspapers in education, hotel, and third party copies. All three catego-ries are rolled up into the total aver-age circulation number.

Other paid circ, which has come under great scrutiny since Newsday, The Dallas Morning News, and the Chicago Sun-Times admitted to infl ating circulation in the summer of 2004, is also getting a face-lift. Instead of calling the category other paid, ABC is going to apply the term currently used by the magazine

industry, “verifi ed” circulation. The organization is creating a

new category for copies distributed to hotels and to business that purchased papers for employees to “business/traveler.”

ABC said that the proposed modifi cations, which should get fi nal approval at the next board meeting in July, involved the input of all three of the organizations’ constituents -- publishers, advertisers, and agen-cies.

“Our goal is to clearly defi ne important measurement standards, streamline the audit process and pro-vide advertisers and publishers with the framework required for today’s marketplace,” Donald J. Miceli, vice president of global media resources at Kraft Foods and ABC chairman, said in a statement.

Additionally, the board raised the threshold for smaller papers audited every two years as opposed to every year. Now papers with a circulation of 50,000 or less have the option of conducting an audit every two years. The threshold formerly applied to papers with circulations of 25,000 or less.

Under the proposed rule changes, newspapers are also allowed to con-vert home subscribers to greater fre-quencies as long as they can opt-out

of such programs. Advertisers have to be notifi ed 120 days in advance before the move and the frequency program needs to run a minimum of 12 weeks.

The board also elected four new directors: Christopher Black, divi-sional vice president, media at Sears Holdings Corp.; Sunni Boot, presi-dent and CEO of ZenithOptimedia Canada Inc.; Caroline Diamond Har-rison, publisher of the Staten Island Advance in New York; and Christina Meringolo, director of media and PR services, Schering-Plough.

Magazine publisher named president of Cronkite Board

By Jennifer SabaEditor and Publisher

Established professional jour-nalists in the middle of their careers don’t often have opportunities to take on large research projects funded by outside sources.

The Reuters Foundation is offer-ing one of those rare opportunities to journalists willing to take three, six or nine months to travel to Oxford University in the United Kingdom. The Reuters Foundation Fellowship Programme offers academic guid-ance for journalists wishing to under-take research projects on a variety of subjects. Organized activities include lectures, seminars, study trips and social functions.

Applicants must have a mini-mum of fi ve years experience, and priority will be given to journalists proposing research within the areas of focus of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

Applications must include clips, recommendations, a biography and a proposed research project. More information can be found online at www.foundation.reuters.com .

Reuters offering fellowships to mid-career journalists

Win Holden, publisher of Ari-zona Highways magazine, has been named president of the Cronkite Endowment Board for 2008.

It is the second time that Holden has headed up the board, which consists of top media leaders from around the Valley who advise the Cronkite School and plan the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Luncheon, one of the largest and most-anticipated events in the Valley each year. Holden was board president in 2004-05.

Holden volunteered to lead the board again following the death of Ron Bergamo, general manager of AZ-TV, who was killed in car acci-dent in January shortly after taking over as board chairman.

“Knowing Ron as well and for as long as I did, I thought stepping forward and offering to serve in his stead this year was the right thing to do,” Holden said. “I can never replace Ron, but I hope to carry his vision and enthusiasm through the year.”

Cronkite School Dean Christo-pher Callahan said Holden is taking over the board at a critical time for the school.

“This year will be the most important year in the history of the Cronkite School with our move to the Downtown Campus, the opening of our new building and the 25th anni-versary of the Cronkite Award. The loss of our friend and col league, Ron Bergamo, was devastating to all of us at the Cronkite School, the Endowment Board and across the Valley media community. It is an enormous com-fort to know that his good friend Win Holden will be leading our board during what we know will be a great year.”

Holden has been publisher of Arizona Highways since 2000. The magazine is recog-nized as one of the fi nest travel maga-zines in the world, with more than 165,000 subscribers in 120 countries. He previously served as executive vice president and chief operating

offi cer for Moses Anshell marketing communication fi rm in Phoenix, as general manager of the publishing division of MAC America Communi-cations, and as publisher and editor-in-chief of Phoenix Magazine. He

has served on the Cronkite Endow-ment Board since 1995.

Holden has held many posi-tions in the com-munity, including past president of the Fiesta Bowl, chair of the Phoe-nix Citizens Transit Commission, sec-retary of the Inter-national Regional Magazine Associa-tion board of direc-tors and chair of the Phoenix Pride

Commission. He also serves on the board of the Maricopa Partnership for Arts and Culture and the St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center Market-ing Advisory Board. Holden was the 2007 inductee into the Arizona Tour-ism Hall of Fame.

her dozen sources specifi cally talked about Hatfi ll.

“If journalists can’t fi nd protec-tion in the courts, then legislation is the only answer,” said Nathan Siegel, a lawyer who represents the AP and other news organizations.

The shield legislation is sup-ported by several media organiza-tions, including the AP, the News-paper Association of America, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, The New York Times Co. and The Washington Post.

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A R I z O N A O P E N M E E T I N G SA R I Z o N A P U B L I C R E C o R D S

Elizabeth Hill has been answer-ing your questions about public records and open meetings laws since she became Assistant Ombudsman for Public Access for the state of Ari-zona in February of 2007, after serv-ing three years as an Arizona Assis-tant Attorney General in the Civil Division and as a member of the Open Meeting Law Enforcement Team.

She takes some time this month to answer a few questions about Public Records Access and Open Meetings laws for Arizona journalists.

Were there any new amendments in 2007 to Arizona’s Public Records Law?

Yes. A.R.S. §§ 39-123 and -124 grant adult or juvenile corrections offi-cers, corrections support staff members, probation officers, members of the board of executive clem-ency, law enforcement support staff members, national guard members acting in support of a law enforce-ment agency, persons protected under an order of protection or injunction against harassment, firefighters assigned to the Arizona counterter-rorism center in the department of public safety, and victims of domestic violence or stalking who are pro-tected under an order of protection or injunction against harassment the same protection granted peace offi-cers, justices, judges, commissioners, public defenders, prosecutors, and code enforcement officers.

A.R.S. § 39-127 requires, on request of the victim, the court to provide to the victim or immediate family member, if the victim is killed or incapacitated, a free copy of a case transcript arising out of the offense committed against the victim for the purposes of litigation or representa-tion of a victim’s right.

May the public body pre-vent members of the public from speaking at a public meeting?

Yes. There is no requirement that a public body offer a call to the public. The public has a right to

attend meetings, not participate in meetings. Arizona Attorney Gen. Op. 78-1. If the public body allows a call to the public, the public body deter-mines when attendees may address the public body and may place time restrictions.

In addition, the public body may

not discuss or take action on matters raised during the call to the public that are not specifically identified on the agenda, but may respond to criticism, ask staff to review a matter, or ask that a matter be placed on a future agenda.

May attendees record or videotape a public meeting?

Yes, so long as it does not actively interfere with the conduct of the meeting. A.R.S. § 38-431.01(F).

Are e-mails sent or re-ceived from public officials, public bodies, and govern-ment employees public record?

It depends. While the presump-tion is that everything created or received on office time with office equipment and personnel consti-tutes a public record, the nature and purpose of the document determine its status as a public record. The Supreme Court has recently con-cluded that purely personal e-mail, that has no relationship to official duties, is not automatically a public record just because it was on a gov-ernment computer and e-mail system. That said, e-mails sent or received by

a public official or public employee regarding public business constitutes public records regardless of the e-mail account. This includes e-mails sent from or received by personal and other non-government e-mail systems or accounts.

ANSWERS TO YOURQUESTIONS

Elizabeth Hill

Ombudsman

Citizens’ Aide

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Phoenix, AZ 85014

(602) 277-7292

May board members com-municate via e-mail?

Sometimes. E-mail commu-nications are treated the same as any other form of communication between board members. Following are some general guidelines:

• E-mail exchanges among a quorum of the board that involve discussion, deliberations, or taking legal action on matters that may come before the board constitute a “meeting” and thus violate the open meeting law.

• A unilateral e-mail from one board member to a quorum of the other board members that provides information and opinion would not violate the open meeting law PROVIDED the member does not “propose legal action” and the other board members do not respond to the e-mail.

• Serial e-mails between board members that make up a quorum of the board on a subject that may come before the board for legal action vio-lates the open meeting law.

• E-mails from third parties to a quorum of the board would not violate the open meeting law PRO-VIDED that the board members do

not “reply all” if responding back to the third party.

• An e-mail request for infor-mation from a board member to staff does not violate the open meeting law even if the other board mem-bers are copied on the e-mail and

the response from the staff person. HOWEVER, the board members may not engage in discussions or share opinions (via e-mail or other forms of com-munication) related to the information provided outside of a public board meeting.

• E-mail com-munications of board members related to their official duties are public records that must be main-tained for reproduction and inspection.

• BOTTOM LINE: E-mail communications should be used very cau-tiously and should NEVER discuss deliberate or pro-pose legal action on mat-

ters that may foreseeably come before the Board for action.

How long must public bod-ies and public officers retain e-mail?

E-mail is destroyed once its retention period expires. E-mail, however, is not in and of itself a “record series”. It is a medium by which records are transmitted and therefore, its retention depends on the classification of the e-mail. Therefore, it must first be determined what type of record it is depending on its subject, content, and attach-ments. Common e-mail record series include: administrative correspon-dence, general correspondence, and transitory information (i.e. junk mail).

E-mails are also often stored on the server backup tapes for a period of time after the back up is run. Records that exist on back up tapes must be restored and retrieved in response to a public records request.

Like any other public record, if an e-mail is kept after its reten-tion period has expired, it must still be furnished in response to a public records request. It may not be destroyed once a request is made.


Why journalism matters

Cramped and hard to find: That’s my memory of the Freedom Forum’s old Newseum in Rosslyn, Virginia, which closed more than six years ago. Its successor couldn’t be more different: a $435 million palace on prime real estate between the White House and the Capitol in downtown D.C. that finally opens April 11.

A visit is a busman’s holiday for journalists, but they’re not the main target audience. “Our mission is helping the public understand how important a free press is to a function-ing democracy,” says Paul Sparrow, a Newseum vice president. A worth-while goal, no doubt, but not an easy sell. As we all know, most people don’t have a very good opinion of the news media these days. So why would they bother to pay $20 a head to visit a “museum of news?”

Because it’s entertaining and engaging, Sparrow says, and also because the Newseum puts you face-to-face with history. A gallery dedicated to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, not only displays front-page coverage from papers around the world but also an antenna that fell intact from the top of the World Trade Center. The largest chunks of the Berlin Wall outside Germany are installed so you can walk all the way around them. The west face is covered with garish graffiti. The east face is blank; a 40-foot guard tower looming over it tells why.

Journalists will probably get the biggest kick out of some icons of the industry on display. The original Conus 1 satellite newsgathering truck is so big they had to lower it into

place with a crane and construct the building around it. Need a reminder of just how far we’ve come since that hulking truck transformed televi-sion news back in 1984? Just check out the Virginia Tech student’s cell phone that captured video and sound during the 2007 shootings there. Then there’s a trunk that belonged to Ed Murrow. It came to the Newseum from a seller whose price included knowing Murrow’s actual first name [hint: It wasn’t Edward].

The back story of some items is more impressive than the objects themselves. The 1976 Datsun in which investigative reporter Don Bolles was killed languished in a Phoenix police impound lot for more than a quarter century. Installed at the Newseum, it’s a reminder of Bolles’ courage and of the unusual collabora-tive journalism project that picked up where he left off. Bolles, a founding member of Investigative Reporters and Editors, had been covering orga-nized crime for the Arizona Republic when he was killed by a car bomb. His IRE colleagues put competition aside and continued his reporting.

Journalism can be a dangerous business; that’s one message you can’t miss at the Newseum. There’s the body armor ABC’s Bob Woodruff was wearing when he was seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2006. And there’s a memento of the deadly fighting in Bosnia: the pickup truck that carried Time magazine photographers through a hailstorm of bullets. They made it. But more than 1,600 journalists’ names are listed on a memorial wall dedicated to those killed in the line of duty. Sadly, more will soon be added. (The Committee to Protect Journalists says 65 were killed last year, almost half of them in Iraq.)

Another message, embodied in the building itself, is a little more subtle: The glass front speaks of openness and transparency. Wall plaques hold quotes that reinforce the importance of the First Amendment and the value of what journalists do. But there are also reminders that jour-nalists don’t always take themselves too seriously. My favorite is from Dave Barry: “TV news can only pres-ent the bare bones of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.”

Video plays a big role at the Newseum. There are multiple the-aters and kiosks showing “story of news” documentaries, narrated by the likes of ABC’s Charles Gibson, CBS’ Charles Osgood and PBS’ Gwen Ifill. Video interviews with photographers enliven the exhibit of Pulitzer Prize-winning photos.

Kids will like the “4-D” time travel show in the main theater, which combines history with some special sensory effects: water mists, air gusts and shaking seats. Games like “Be a Reporter” also seem aimed at younger visitors. Adults may

By Deborah PotterAmerican Journalism Review

prefer to compete against the clock and each other in a decision-making game on ethics. Interactive games and role-playing experiences are set up all around the building.

All of this cost big money, and sponsors like News Corp., NBC News and Cox Enterprises paid mil-lions to sponsor galleries. Newseum officials say they don’t see that as a conflict of interest because sponsors had no input on content. “If every other museum in the world can do it, I don’t see why we can’t,” Spar-row says.

If the public gets the point that journalism isn’t easy and that it mat-ters in a free society, the Newseum will have served an important pur-pose. In the midst of layoffs and buyouts, journalists could stand to be reminded of that as well. When they are, “they get inspired and motivated again,” Sparrow says.

“It will reenergize them.”Deborah Potter is executive

director of NewsLab, a broadcast training and research center, and a former faculty associate at the Poynter Institute.

Photograph of the newly-built Newseum building in Washington, D.C.

Amber Alert training for journalistsThe University of South Caro-

lina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications has again been awarded a U.S. Justice Department grant to develop and present train-ing sessions for working journalists, AMBER Alert coordinators, law enforcement officers, and online editors.

The training is designed to help the media and others in determining when or if an AMBER Alert should be issued in a particular area.

The training will be conducted at Newsplex in Columbia, S.C., USC’s state-of-the-art news facil-ity. More than 200 media personnel participated in last year’s sessions, coming from coast to coast, as well as from Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

It’s FREE! Travel and hotel expenses are covered by the U.S. Justice Department. The one-day training sessions begin at 9 a.m. and conclude around 3 p.m. Participants will hear discussions on message content, public perception, legal updates, media and law enforcement coordination, as well as scenario interactive presentations.

Available training dates are Apr. 24, May 28, May 30, June 5, Sep. 9, Sep. 11, Sep. 16, Sep. 18 and Sep. 23. Register online at www.amber-net.org.

The training is part of a $200,000 grant to the school from the U.S. Department of Justice that began last fall.

The AMBER Alert system began in 1997 and has resulted in the recovery of 241 children. Hugh Munn, an instructor at the school and former spokesman with the S.C. Law Enforcement Division, consulted with the Justice Department on the AMBER Alert program and helped develop the training sessions.

Augie Grant, an associate pro-fessor of journalism who serves as the seminars’ training coordinator and project manager, said the most gratifying part of the project was seeing how many broadcasters were willing to devote time for the training and take their new expertise home.

“Invariably, the question we get from them is, ‘How can I share this with other people at my station or in my community,’” Grant said.

“The goal is to improve com-munication during alerts. The dif-ferences in cultures we found in law enforcement and the broadcasting community can impede communi-cation. Time is the most important element. The more quickly the public can be mobilized to help find an abducted child the more likely a child will be safely recovered.”


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We are currently looking for Society members whose high school journalism career got them started on the path to careers as professional media producers.

We know you’re probably trying to meet a deadline, so we only ask that you take a minute to tell us where you are and a little about your professional work. Visit us online, click the Alumni tab, fill in the form, and share this link with other Quill and Scroll alums:

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Editorials can serve variety of purposes

A newspaper has a responsibil-ity, say, to identify all stores fined for selling cigarettes to underage youths, especially if the fines are assessed at a city council meeting. Neverthe-less, the story will likely draw wrath from the businesses and from their employees.

In contrast, a newspaper can be selective in topics it addresses on its editorial page. The positions are not welcomed by all, such as the deci-sion to endorse or oppose a housing development or a school closure.

Courageous publishers and editors – those who view the edito-rial page as the heart of a newspaper - take those stances, regardless of potential repercussions. That does not mean advancing positions with reckless abandon. Editorials should be thoroughly researched, reasoned and crafted.

Editors often feel the burden that editorials must attempt to solve the problems of their worlds – their communities – every day. In truth, editorials serve a variety of roles.

They educate. What are the cur-rent rental codes and how would they be strengthened under a proposed ordinance? What’s the process, and the pros/cons, for annexing land to a city?

They enlighten. Newspapers feel obligated to promote participa-tion in the annual city festival. Take the opportunity to speak to the impact of tourism on the local economy.

They entertain. An editorial might spin an April Fool’s yarn or a Valentine’s Day poem – or even offer comment on a light-hearted moment at a school board meeting.

Editorials challenge personal beliefs. Or they might reinforce read-ers’ positions, prompting an excla-mation, “Now that editorial makes sense.” They can elicit a range of emotions - frustration, anger, laugh-ter or tears.

Common to all effective edito-rials, however, is that they leave an impression. In contrast, nondescript editorials are easily forgotten.

Following are some principles of strong editorials:

No ivory tower. – Editorials should not be positioned as the “correct” opinion or the last word. Editorials, at their best, should pres-ent a reasoned, researched and well-thought out position.

Welcome rebuttals. – Newspa-pers should readily publish contrary opinions. Point/counterpoint is at the heart of vibrant editorial pages. Every editor can point to letters stron-ger than the original editorial.

Consistent stances. – Editorials

should be unwavering in promot-ing common themes. Newspapers often are criticized for promoting a conservative or liberal agenda. But newspapers that regularly flip-flop on issues will lose their credibility. That requires carefully thinking through positions, especially when an issue surfaces for the first time. At the same time, newspapers should be open to revisiting an issue and changing an editorial perspective if circumstances change.

Offer kudos, too. – Don’t hesi-tate to write complimentary edito-rials. Newspapers should not shy away from their role as a govern-ment watchdog. However, you’ll lose credibility – and quite possibly hinder your communication and relationships with key individuals – if governing boards are always on the receiving end of an editorial rant and rave.

Keep it local. – Editorials can be localized the same as news sto-ries. For example, do rural districts fare better than urban and suburban districts under proposed state leg-islation? Are local legislators rep-resenting the best interests of their constituencies?

Call to action. – Editorials are best when they can offer direction. For example, a city council is con-sidering tax incentives for a pro-posed business expansion. Write an editorial on what you believe is best for the overall community good. A sidebar editorial might educate read-ers on how tax incentives have been beneficial or detrimental to other communities.

Be aware of balancing act. – Editors and publishers often fill a vacuum in community leadership and find themselves at the forefront of civic initiatives. Coverage of editors “in the news” should be held to the same standards as any other news-maker. Clear-cut conflicts of interests also should be stated in editorials. At same time, the strongest editorials are due to an involved newspaper staff. It’s impossible and impractical to carry a footnote for every conflict of interest, real or perceived.

Editorials are the best example of leadership by community press, and that includes tackling the tough and sensitive issues. It’s easy to be a community booster and join the bandwagon in applauding a high school sports championship. It’s more challenging and fulfilling to propose stiffer academic standards for student athletes. In the end, you’re fulfilling your responsibility of a newspaper and you’re doing your community a service.

It’s also a way to really feel good about being an editor.

By Jim Pumarlo

As continued evidence of the shift from print to online, the News-paper Association of America said last month that online newspaper advertising climbed 19 percent last year to $3.2 billion.

Newspaper publishers have continued to struggle as consumers and advertisers migrate from print to the Internet. The companies have looked to ramp up their Web opera-

Web newspaper advertising up 19 percenttions and reduce costs to deal with the changing tide.

The nonprofit Newspaper Asso-ciation of America said newspaper Web site spending comprised 7.5 percent of all newspaper ad spending last year, up from 5.7 percent a year earlier. Fourth-quarter 2007 online newspaper advertising rose about 14 percent to $847 million compared with the prior year.

Thomson Fundamentals (World-scope), Reuters Estimates, Reuters Aftermarket Research and Reuters Economics (EcoWin) databases.

“If they get it right, it’s going to mean a much more robust platform for the customers,” said BMO Capi-tal Markets analyst Tim Casey, “but that’s much further down the road.”

The integrated company, Thom-son-Reuters will be the largest entity in the financial-data area with approximately 34.0% of the market share. Bloomberg, a privately-held information service, has 33.0% of the market with about 20 other firms splitting the rest of the market.

The companies are hoping to offer customers a broader, more customer-centric experience. Yet, they have not given a timeline for the integration or details on how they plan to distribute the newly-combined resources.

Competition in the wire service world has just been slashed. Share-holders of The Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group have agreed to the acquisition of the latter.

The two companies will offi-cially join forces on April 17 given that courts in Canada and the United Kingdom approve the $17 billion sale. Shareholders gathered in both Toronto and London on Wednesday, approving the acquisition with “over-whelming” enthusiasm.

The Thomson Corporation, a Canadian financial data services firm based in Stamford, Conn., and Reuters Group, a London-based news wire service, got the go-ahead from the U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission and the Canadian Competition Bureau in mid-February on the condition that Thomson and Reuters sell copies of some financial data bases including:

Thomson-Reuters union to be official April 17


New product is stopping the presses and kindling interestBy Kevin Slimp

I had a journalism teacher in seventh grade who told the class how she once ran into the press room yelling those words. Apparently, she had gotten some facts wrong while writing a story for a daily paper. Her fi rst attempt at stopping the presses didn’t work. She was told by the lead pressman that she’d have to bring something to him in writing. So she went back to her desk and typed, “Stop the presses!”

Her second attempt worked.Over the past few weeks I’ve

spoken at several press association conventions on two topics that have fi lled rooms. The fi rst, Converging Media: Online Journalism, relates to new ways newspapers are using tech-nology to compete with other forms of media. The second, New Technol-ogy For Newspapers, is a chance to show off some of the newest gadgets and hardware, as well as compare current and upcoming software products. I could always count on a line of folks waiting to visit after speaking on these topics. Recently, with the advent of Amazon’s Kindle, most folks in line want to take a look at this new gadget that’s getting so much press.

The Kindle is a device that is literally stopping a lot of presses. And many of the presses that haven’t stopped are spitting out books, maga-zines and newspapers at a slower rate.

Introduced by Amazon in November, the Kindle is an e-book reader. No one is reporting how many Kindles sold when fi rst released, but we do know that Amazon sold out in less than six hours. I placed my order for a Kindle, hoping to see fi rsthand what all the fuss was about. When I learned that Kin-dles were on back-order, I checked eBay. Kin-dles were selling on eBay for $900 each. I decided to wait. I t t ook two m o n t h s ,

but my Kindle fi nally arrived.

A litt le about the KindleIt’s about the size of a small

paperback book. Using a new high-resolution display technology called “electronic paper,” the Kindle reads more like a book than a computer screen. And, by adjusting a dial, the user can make the text appear larger or smaller on the screen. So much for wishing the Kindle was hard to read. Using wireless technology called Whispernet, the Kindle uses standard cellphone signals in the U.S. to download books, newspapers and magazines. While not available in other countries yet, primarily due to issues related to wireless technology, it’s rumored that Kindle will begin showing up in Europe before too long. My guess is that we’ll be seeing Kindles in Europe, Canada, Austra-lia and Asia as soon as Amazon can create enough e-readers to satisfy the demand in the U.S. If not, a similar product is sure to come along.

Customers shop from the Kindle Store wirelessly. No need for a computer. Orders can be processed and downloaded directly from the Kindle.

My fi rst purchase was a news-paper. I clicked on the “home” button, selected “Newspapers” form the list of choices and selected The New York Times. From there, I had two options. The fi rst allowed me to receive the newspaper free for two weeks. It would automatically download and appear in my list of purchases each morning. After two weeks, customers are billed for their

subscriptions unless

they cancel them online. The second option was to download the current issue. I chose the fi rst option (yes, I cancelled my subscription after a few days). I didn’t get my watch out, but it seemed to take less than ten seconds for my fi rst issue to arrive on the Kindle.

Next, I purchased a single issue of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Buying a single issue cost the normal purchase price. A monthly Kindle subscription to AJC was $5.99, compared to $10.99 for the printed version.

I wondered how hard it would be to list a book for sale on Kindle. I decided to try listing my wife’s recent book. Sure enough, I found the Web site and was instructed to enter the ISBN code for the book, a PDF of the cover and either a PDF or HTML fi le of the book. I designated a price and, within a few minutes, her book was listed on Kindle.

ok, here’s the scoopI liked some things about Kindle

and I didn’t like some. As far as books are concerned, it seemed just as easy to read a book on Kindle. Magazines and newspapers were a different story.

While the experience was quite different, I especially missed the photos and ads. Kindle newspapers - at least the ones I’ve read - are all

text. Don’t jump for joy yet. Here’s

why I think it’s important for us to be familiar with Kindle, as well as other new technologies that impact our business. Reading a newspaper might not be the same experience on Kindle and newspapers might not feel an immediate impact in sales. However, you can bet this month’s paper bill that Kindle - and other devices like it - will improve with time. Instead of worrying about this technology, newspapers would be wise to take advantage of it. Rather than pretending it won’t affect us, we might consider fi nding out how we can get our newspapers on Kindle. Not because we’ll make money from it, but to help us prepare for whatever technology comes along next.

Radio, television and the Inter-net all threatened our existence. Instead of closing our doors, news-papers found ways to compete and prosper. E-reading might be the next technological advance to compete for our readers. With a little forward thinking, we can take advantage of the new audience Kindle (and what-ever comes next) offers.

Kindles are currently avail-able only to customers in the U.S. at Amazon.com. The Kindle retails for $399.

Kevin Slimp can be reached at [email protected].

WSJ to revamp popular section

The Wall Street Journal’s tran-sition to more breaking news and shorter articles will continue in the coming weeks with a makeover of its Marketplace section, editors and reporters there said.

The planned changes, and others already under way, have some news-room employees wondering what their role will be as Rupert Murdoch reshapes one of the world’s great newspapers.

The Journal’s front page has changed markedly since Murdoch’s News Corporation bought the paper’s parent, Dow Jones & Company, in December. The front page has reduced its focus on business news and long explanatory, investigative or offbeat articles.

Murdoch has said that he wants to broaden The Journal’s appeal with more general-interest news. Now, the front page has shorter articles and more breaking and nonbusiness

news, and particularly favors poli-tics. The paper has set aside pages for world news and added a sports page.

Several months ago, people briefed on the new management’s plans said that Marketplace, the second section of the paper, would be replaced. But now, newsroom employees — who requested ano-nymity because they were not autho-rized to discuss the changes — say the section will be reshaped.

Plans call for fewer business features on the section’s fi rst page. The section front also has featured columnists who will be shifted inside, except Walter S. Mossberg, the technology columnist. The Mar-ketplace front page will instead have more hard news articles about events in the corporate world.

Robert Christie, a Dow Jones spokesman, declined to comment on specifi c changes, except to quote Marcus W. Brauchli, the managing editor, as saying, “There are a lot of evolutionary changes going on.”

By Richard Pérez-PeñaNew York Times

Weighing in at 10.3 ounces, the Kindle can hold 200 novels on its built-in memory. Newspapers and magazines can be downloaded in just a few seconds.


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April 10, 2008

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April 11-12, 2008

• SPJ Region 11 Conference @ University of Arizona, Tucson

April 21-27, 2008

• Nati onal Ethics in Journalism Week

April 22, 2008

• Arizona Interscholasti c Press Associati on Spring Conventi on @ Arizona State University West, Glendale

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