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y sainted mother said this to me, and allof us in the family, over and over: Life is ariver, not a pond.

Rivers are on the move, flowing andrushing. Pond water stays put, often getting stagnantand tired.

We’ll be talking about the river of change upon thepeople and profession of this industry when we gath-er in Palo Alto, California, in October for APME’s sec-ond joint conference with the American Society ofNews Editors.

This special conference edition of APME Newsteases the coming attractions we’ll experience whenthe nation’s top editors meet at Stanford University.

My thanks to Jim Simon, Angie Muhs, AutumnPhillips and Gary Graham for giving our readers ataste of what we’ll be served at the gathering.

Our Great Ideas centerspread is a preview of thecollection that will debut at the conference – yetanother example of how the fellowship of APME edi-tors and journalists returns value to news organiza-tions in the U.S. and Canada.

Our Stylebook Moment highlights an interestingchange in the AP Stylebook. Check out what DavidMinthorn as to say about global warming on Page 22.

Like a great river, the ideas are flowing in this issue– and the current will pick up speed soon in PaloAlto.

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Alan D. Miller: Conference to satisfy all palates with banquet of fresh ideas

Laura Sellers: Incoming APME president will follow amazing line of leaders

Ken Paulson: Educators are challenged by constant change. Bring it on.

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Jim Simon: “#3D Digital, Diversity, Disruption:” Welcome back to campus

Success Story: Arizona Storytellers Project aims to empower and inspire

Steller lineup at Stanford: Top editors, timely sessions on tap

Measuring Millennials: Panel to probe next generation news habits

Joel Achenbach presents: Science under seige from many sides

Great Ideas: Recognizing great work in print, Web or social media

Editors in the News: Promotions, appointments, awards and recognition

Member Showcase: APME Photo of the Month winners

AP Stylebook minute: Cold hard facts in regard to global climate change

EDITORAndrew OppmannAdjunct Professor of JournalismMiddle Tennessee State [email protected]

DESIGNERSteve [email protected]

APME News is the quarterly magazine of the Associated Press Media Editors, a professional, nonprofit organization founded in 1933 in French Lick, Indiana. Its members include senior editors and leaders from news operations in the United States and Canada who are affiliated with The Associated Press, including more than 1,400 newspapers and online sites and about 2,000 broadcast outlets. The groupalso includes college journalism educators and college student media editors. APME works with AP to support and recognize journalism excellence and the First Amendment. To learn more about APME’s programs and activities, visit apme.com.

ABOUT THE COVERThe second joint conference byASNE, APME and APPM will behosted on the scenic venue ofStanford University in Palo Alto,California, which embodies thesense of place and a sense ofthe spirit in which the annualconference was developed.

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he menu for the second joint conference byASNE, APME and APPM is a delicious banquet

for all of us seeking a taste of fresh ideas.And my favorite so far, given that we’ll be meet-

ing in California wine country, is one that embodiesboth a sense of place and a sense of the spirit in

which this conference was developed. This break-out ses-sion from 3-4 p.m. on Saturday is described as “Wine (notwhine) with Butch and Jill.”

Butch Ward and Jill Geisler are teachers and mentors,and long-time friends to many of us. And they will lead usin yet another insightful conversation about the joys andchallenges of newsroom leadership: “We’llraise a glass to leading in changing times— sharing problems, solutions and smiles.”

Most of us are long on problems andshort on solutions — and smiles — thesedays.

It’s not always easy to smile amid budgetcuts and staff reductions, but there will bereasons to smile at this conference beyond— starting with journalist and standupcomedian Margaret Pittman, who will helpus kick off the weekend in Palo Alto.

The setting on Stanford University’scampus Oct. 16-18 is another reason. Thecampus and the buildings offered to us forthe conference are simply stunning.

We’ll ply you with adult beverages at theopening reception and invite you to join in the fun of a liveauction to bid on donated artwork, wine, travel packages,jewelry and a host of other intriguing items — all to benefitthe good work of APME and ASNE.

And then we get to the biggest reason to smile: the ideasthat will flow from one session after another packed withsome of the most innovative minds in journalism.

We came up with the 3-D theme to focus on the need fordiversity in our work and workplaces, innovation in thedigital space, and to see disruption in the news business asan opportunity rather than an obstacle.

We’ll be talking about disruptive ways to engageuntapped audiences, the future of drones in news coverage,the latest in covering news in real time, news partnershipsin the era of social media and how to tap into the news-consumption habits of the next generation.

And that’s only part of the first day’s line-up.Brainstorming the theme and developing these meaning-

ful sessions was the work of a dedicated committee of vol-

unteers who spent the better part of the past year planningthis event and recruiting the many talented panelists.

APME board members Jim Simon, managing editor ofthe Seattle Times; Bill Church, editor of the Sarasota HeraldTribune; and Joe Hight, a former newspaper editor turnedbookseller, spent uncounted hours on this project with anumber of ASNE leaders, including Robyn Tomlin, formerlya vice president at the Pew Research Center and now man-aging editor at the Dallas Morning News; and Teri Hayt, theASNE executive director.

And we are blessed to have the support of the John S.Knight Fellowships Program. Managing director Dawn

Garcia was involved in conference planningfrom the start and was integral to putting itall together.

We could use the rest of this magazine tothank the many others who have helpedplan and will help make this conference asuccess — our generous sponsors and anarmy of tireless behind-the-scenes volun-teers.

And one who is least willing to take creditis among the most deserving. She is anorchestra conductor who draws no atten-tion to herself. She is a mentor and friendwho nudges APME presidents and boardmembers toward difficult challenges andwise decisions.

She watches the checkbook as if it washer own, and she is an accomplished journalist who isamong few in the world who can say they edited the APStylebook.

Except that she wouldn’t do that, because she is so mod-est.

And she is perhaps the nicest person in journalism today— always quick with a smile and a compliment.

This person whose praise I sing is Sally Jacobsen, anAssociated Press editor and the APME executive director,who will retire from both AP and APME at the end of thisconference.

We will raise a glass to Sally in Palo Alto to thank her forbringing so much goodness, passion and enthusiasm to herwork. And we’ll remind her that no one really retires fromAPME.

Alan D. Miller is APME president and editor of The Columbus Dispatch. He can be reached at [email protected]

Conference to satisfy everypalate with a banquet of fresh ideas

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s the incoming president of the Associated PressMedia Editors, I’m anxious about living up to the

amazing leaders who have gone before me, buteager to try.

APME has been a constant companion inmy 20 years as a newsroom leader, first in print, then digitaland now, all of the above.

Beginning with my first conference in 1995 inIndianapolis, the editors I met have left indelible marks onmy career and my life: guiding, commiserating, brain-storming, celebrating, advocating and leading by example.

I wanted to use this first column to tell some of those edi-tors how much their friendship and advice has meant tome, how just being in their midst recharges me like some-times only a good stiff drink with your closest chums can.After all, the ideas that sprout up in the bar after the ses-sions are as valuable as those learned in the meeting hall.

Such is the strength and value of APME, and now alsowith our partnership with the American Society of NewsEditors, which is in its second year.

As I started my list of names, I realized it is far too long,which is a blessing for me and a curse for APME News EditorAndrew Oppmann.

There are hundreds of stories where my comrades havehelped me gain more diverse coverage, start the 1996 DailyAstorian website, solve personnel matters, evolve new cov-erage areas, balance work and life, spark great ideas, navi-gate FOI issues, applaud great work, embrace digital andfind the laughter and joy in sharing the journey. The beauti-ful thing is, the stories just keep a’coming.

In short, my APME experience isn’t so much about thepeople I heard speak in sessions, although I learned a lot, itwas about the people I met.

In the next year, we’ll have NewsTrain regional work-shops, a conference with ASNE in Philly, national reportingprojects with The Associated Press and a slew of other wor-thy projects.

But a key goal will be to expand this network of peers andextol the benefits of committing great journalism in thecompany of great journalists.

Twenty years ago, I could never have imagined this wildand wonderful ride. Now, I can’t imagine not being on it.

Laura Sellers is the managing editor of The Daily Astorianin Oregon. 2015 marks her 12th year on the APME board,beginning in 2001.

Following in the footsteps of unmatched leadership at APME

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Here are a few of the great leaderswho shaped my APME experience.I know I’ve missed names, butsadly the deadline draws nigh.





f you’ve been in the newspaper business for a while,you’ll remember the debates between newspaper editorsand educators about the relative merits of practical skillsand theory.

The debate’s over. Now we’re all hanging on for dearlife.

Just as many newsrooms are now content centers and cityeditors have been supplanted by engagement managers, thecolleges that teach the next generation of journalists haveno choice but to reinvent themselves.

As a longtime newspaper editor and now the dean of amedia college, I’ve been struck by how both the news busi-ness and higher education are running on parallel tracks,dealing with digital disruption and making educated guess-es about the future.

There’s no question that colleges must give students theskills and insights they’ll need to engage, inform and enter-tain audiences on multiple platforms. That means learningto communicate effectively through words, audio and video.

It also means coming to grips with change. The mostimportant traits we can instill in our students is a receptivityto change and a comfort level with technology. While earliergenerations left college with a pretty good sense of howtheir careers would unfold, today’s college students need tobe able to say ‘Bring it on.”

That will take confidence. And preparation. And a well-rounded education that prepares every student for both aprofession and a rewarding life.

Every journalism school has the obligation to ensure thatit’s teaching for the future. Our graduates will need toremain vibrant contributors for the next 45 years. Thatmeans we can’t make assumptions about the media they’llcreate or the audiences they’ll serve. In the end, we can onlyprepare our graduates for the high velocity of change.

It’s also critical that we instill an understanding of the roleof a free press in a democracy. The newest technology can-not substitute for our oldest values.

Over the past half-century of media, we’ve seen the riseand fall of 8-tracks, Laserdiscs, Mini-discs, VCRs, pagers andPong. But if we’re to embrace and outrace change, collegesneed to be as contemporary as possible, incorporating the

latest technology, encouraging innovation and fostering anentrepreneurial spirit.

Change is challenging educators as never before. Bring iton.

Ken Paulson is the dean of the College of Media andEntertainment at Middle Tennessee State University. He canbe reached at [email protected]

Bring it on: Outracingchange in newsrooms, classrooms

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t’s not just great weather, fabulouswine and a California vibe that lured the2015-2016 ASNE-APME Conference toStanford University.

Stanford and Silicon Valley comprisewhat Jim Bettinger, director of the John

S. Knight Journalism Fellowships, hascalled “ … the epicenter of the informationearthquake that has disrupted journalism.”

The digital upheaval born in Silicon Valleyremains a powerful force reshaping our audi-ences, our business models and the way wecover news. That’s what inspired this year’s conferencetheme: “#3D: Digital, Diversity, Disruption.”

We’re hoping the wide-ranging program will provide youwith a master class of sorts on newsroom innovation; what’sworking and what’s not in attracting new audiences; andfinding new opportunities in journalism’s digital future.

You’ll hear from fellow editors about ways of developinglasting ties in diverse communities, and trying to deal witheroding journalism standards in the social media era. Start-up entrepreneurs will share what they’ve learned aboutlaunching innovative media ventures.

Storytelling, in myriad forms, also will be a major focus.Presenters include an award-winning CNN journalist

whose audience helps select his stories, a reporter whoorganizes live storytelling events, a columnist who minesdata to illuminate his changing city and pioneers in theemerging field of drone journalism.

APPM will celebrate the legacy of an extraordinary visual

storyteller, Washington Post photojournalistMichel du Cille, who died while on assign-ment covering the plight of Ebola victims.

Fittingly, the conference will be bookendedwith big ideas from outside the world of news.

David Kelley, director of Stanford’srenowned Institute of Design, better known asthe d-School, will start Friday night with a talkon creativity. Tina Seelig, director of theStanford Technology Ventures Program, willclose the conference Sunday with her insightson imagination in a talk called “Getting ideas

out of your head and into the world.” Designing the schedule was a collaborative effort among

ASNE, APME and their two conference co-sponsors, theAssociated Press Photo Managers (APPM) and the KnightFellowships at Stanford.

“We¹ve pulled together a terrific lineup of speakers whorepresent many different corners of the news and technolo-gy worlds,” said Robyn Tomlin, managing editor of TheDallas Morning News and ASNE’s co-chair of the conferenceplanning committee. “I expect everyone who attends tocome away with a wealth of ideas and inspiration that theycan take back home with them."

This will be the fourth time that APME has held a confer-ence in the Bay Area. The other times were 1951 and 1985 inSan Francisco, and then 2005 in San Jose.

Jim Simon, managing editor of The Seattle Times, can bereached at [email protected].

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By Autumn PhillipsAPME News

he story of the Arizona Storytellers Project isone of a newsroom employee who felt empow-

ered to pursue a vision above and beyond the dailyassignment.

“Do you have a newsroom structure where some-one can follow their dream?” said Megan Finnerty

of The Arizona Republic.“If the answer is no, if you are only thinking about getting

the paper out, then you have a newsroom that can’t grow.”In 2011, Finnerty saw an opportunity. She had been in the

Republic newsroom for nine years. She knew there was ahuge untapped audience among creative professional mil-

lenials who “have taste and a tiny bit of money to go out”and she had an idea.

She wanted to host a series of community storytellingevents at venues like inexpensive, hip bars and restaurants-casual, creative spaces that would attract the demographicshe had in mind.

“I did my due diligence and then pitched the idea,” shesaid.

“Management basically said, don’t stop doing anythingyou are doing. Don’t lose money. There’s no budget for it, sothe events have to pay for themselves. And don’t embarrassus.”

And that was enough runway for Finnerty to launch the

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Arizona Storytellers Project, which is now in its fourth yearand about to be reproduced in nine Gannett markets,including Louisville, Nashville, Indianapolis and PalmSprings.

Her best advice for newsroom employees who want torun with an idea - treat it like a story. She said journalistsdon't give up on a story because they don't get a call back.They find another way.

“Did you make three phone calls for your last story andthen give up when you hit a wall? No. The same applies tothis,” she said.

Her advice to editors who want to inspire staff to conceiveand pursue community engagement projects is to createtrust.

In each newsroom, Finnerty estimated, there’s only a cer-tain percentage of the staff that will be aggressive aboutlaunching new initiatives or events because they’re person-ally ambitious in that way.

“Figure out how to empower those people. And know thatyou'll have to give something up in order to squeeze thatnew thing in. Have an honest conversation about who youcan take off their plate.”

Finnerty said her bosses were supportive. Randy Lovely,senior vice president, news & audience development at theArizona Republic, came to the first night and continues toaThese days, the storytelling nights are a well-oiledmachine.

People who want to participate go four to five hours oftraining via the newsroom and expert storytelling coachesfrom the South Mountain Community College StorytellingInstitute.

There’s a theme, an introductory email with best practicesand Finnerty has a 30-minute meeting with the person tomake sure they are emotionally ready to share the story theyhave chosen.

Participants must come in for a practice session. Finnerty

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he nation’s top editors will be at StanfordUniversity in Palo Alto, California, for the 2015

ASNE-APME Conference on Oct. 16-18. The Associa-ted Press Photo Managers (APPM) is also a confer-ence partner.

The conference will open with an eveningreception Friday, Oct. 16, at the Frances C. Arrillaga AlumniCenter. Join your colleagues under beautiful October skiesfor a taste of California wine and music and an intimateconversation with David Kelley.

A creator of the Apple mouse and founder of the ground-breaking d.school at Stanford, Kelley will share his thoughtson how each of us can find joy in our creative endeavors.

We will have conference sessions Saturday, Oct. 17, andSunday, Oct. 18, at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning andKnowledge at Stanford University School of Medicine. Theconference hotel is the Sheraton Palo Alto at 625 El CaminoReal. The lively and topical sessions will focus on:

• Digital transformation and the innovative use of tech-

nology in the newsroom;• Diversity in the newsroom and in reaching new audi-

ences;• First Amendment and access issues;• Newsroom leadership.APPM will focus on using analytics and research to better

utilize visual journalism, as well as innovative approaches toincrease the impact of visual reporting.Other highlights:

• We will celebrate the winners of the ASNE Awards andAPME Journalism Excellence Awards at a Saturday lunch-eon. On Sunday, we will meet again for a special lunch.Tickets to both lunches can be purchased when you register.

• The opening reception Friday night will also include anauction at the alumni center.

• The silent and live auctions will offer one-of-a-kinditems, such as sports tickets, vacation retreats, jewelry,autographed books and much more.

• The conference will feature high-profile speakers fromthe tech and journalism industries.

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times them on her iPhone and gives feedback. If theydon't come to the practice, they can't get on stageduring the event.

The Arizona Storytelling Project continues to grow.These days, the paper is partnering with majorevents like Phoenix Startup Week, Modern PhoenixWeek and Arizona Cocktail Week in February, whichin years past, has hosted a four-course storytellingdinner, where the storytellers were chefs and bar-tenders. The ticket price was $100 each.

“(The attendees) are people with money who careabout our city,” she said. “Not all of our events arethat expensive, of course, but this one was prettyfancy.”

A corporate sponsor covered the cost of the eventand ticket sales proceeds went to the Careers throughCulinary Arts Program, which awards culinary schol-arships to high school students.

Megan Finnerty will join a panel discussion “TellMe a Story,” from 3-4 p.m. Sunday in Berg C, withJohn Sutter of CNN Digital, this year's Batten Medalwinner. This session explores ways that storytellersare innovating and making their mark in this newworld and how editors can tap into the power of thestory. The moderator is Pam Fine, Knight Chair inNews, Leadership and Community, University ofKansas.

Autumn Phillips is editor of The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale. She’s on Twitter at @AutumnEdit


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ave you launched a great new feature,page or Web project, or used a socialmedia tool in a great new way? Well, we want to recognize your great

idea.Associated Press Media Editors recognizes a

Great Idea every month on APME.com and wewill showcase monthly winners in our popular

annual Great Ideas book, This year’s book willbe released at our conference in Palo Alto.

This is a chance for your newspaper to show offgreat work and to help fellow editors by providingideas that might work in their markets.

It’s simple to submit your Great Idea. Just go tothe Great Ideas page at APME.com, fill out theonline form and attach an image or submit link.

FANTASY FOOTBALLThe Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PennsylvaniaCate BarronWHAT THEY DID: Reporter Dustin Hockensmith developed a fantasy football beat that has done extremely well online. Thenewspaper wanted to get in on the action and published a guide to drafting strategy for this season.

100 DAYS OF TACOSArizona Daily Star, Tucson)Jill Jorden SpitzWHAT THEY DID: Tucson isn’texactly a one-taco town.Everywhere you look, someone isputting something intriguing andaltogether wonderful inside a tortilla. The Arizona DailyStar decided to celebrate that tradition with, “100 Days ofTacos.” Every day all summer, digital food writer Andi Berlinate a taco — in every part of town, at every price point andat every type of restaurant. Shebrought readers along with regular videos and a gallery (including acool tidbit about each restaurant or taco truck) that she added toevery day.

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THE SCOREMAGAZINEThe Repository, Canton, OhioJess BennettWHAT THEY DID: Stark Countysports fans have something tocheer about with the launch of TheScore magazine this fall. Onnewsstands quarterly, the glossy,68-page magazine features articleson area high school and collegeathletes, teams, coaches andmore. The magazine was createdto capitalize on the Hall of FameCity’s (and surrounding region’s)passion for sports—especiallyhigh school sports. Readers candive into columns and in-depthprofiles written by The Repository’saward-winning sports staff.Each issue will cover all the localathletic action, along with funstories on post-game activities,tailgate ideas, healthy recipes,interviews and previews of thecoming season. Each issue alsoincludes a full calendar of the sea-son’s games, matches, meets andevents. The Score is a must-readfor athletes, parents and all StarkCounty sports fans. A full digitalexperience is available at www.thescorestark.com and a socialmedia presence is in development.

CITY BEAUTIFULWinnipeg Free Press,Winnipeg, Manitoba, CanadaJulie CarlWHAT THEY DID:Our City Beautiful projecttells the storyof Winnipeg through thecity’s iconic architecture. It is truly a multimedia project which uses all media from words to video to heritage photos to freshphotography. But what really put it over the top was video, shot from a drone,of the Golden Boy statue atop the provincial legislature building, as well as over-head shots of various landmarks. The law still dictates extremely restrictive useof drones by the media. We contracted a drone enthusiast to shoot the video forus, thus giving Winnipeg Free Press readers their first glimpse of a new angle ontheir city.

101 THINGS THAT PLAY IN PEORIAJournal Star, Peoria, IllinoisDennis AndersonWHAT THEY DID: Series that are centered on community lists aren’t new. Butsome of the features we added to our 101 Things That Play in Peoria seriesmade it unique. We worked closely with our advertising department to identifyfive sponsors, with one ad accompanying each story. Online, each Thing had avideo, which was produced using Tout, a program that’s easy to produce andedit short videos. Lastly, because of the increased community interest in theseries, we produced a full-color paperback book.





By Angie MuhsAPME News

illennials. You know they’re reading,but are they coming to your news organi-zation's site to find news? And if not,what can editors do to get them there?

The “Next Generation News Habits”panel, which will be held at 3 p.m.

Sunday, will tackle the questions surrounding the differentways in which millennial audiences consume news. Thegroup will talk about the best ways to engage this group ofyounger, voracious news consumers and highlight currentresearch and some success stories.

Panel members include Tony Elkins, assistant managingeditor/innovation at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Tran Ha,Media Experiments Project lead, Institute of Design,d.school, at Stanford University; Jesse Holcomb, associatedirector of journalism research, Pew Research Center; andJennifer Maerz, former editor-in-chief, Gannett’s new mediaproject The Bold Italic. The moderator will be Jim Brady,CEO of Billy Penn.

Millennial audiences are consuming news, Maerz said.But they're doing so through a different “ecosystem of gadg-ets” and in a less structured way.

“This isn't a generation that sits down in the morningwith coffee and the paper for 45 minutes,” Maerz said. “It’s amore transient way of consuming the news.”

For instance, these readers are not necessarily coming toa site through a home page, she said. They also have highexpectations for user experience on mobile devices.

“These are people who grew up tethered to technology,”Maerz said.

But at the same time, focusing on technology “isn’t theonly answer” in developing a strategy for attracting millen-

nial readers, Ha cautioned. In other words, just because youhave a mobile strategy, that's not enough to assume you’llengage younger readers, she said.

“It’s not the wrong thing to do, but it's not the only thingto do,” she said.

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he late U.S. Sen. Daniel Moynihan is still quot-ed as saying everyone is entitled to his own

opinion, but not his own set of facts, a commentthat seems very germane in this time when scienceis under siege from many sides.

Joel Achenbach, one of the presenters for theWar on Science panel, puts it bluntly: “On almostany issue, there are those who don’t accept the sci-ence.” He describes them as “wrong and loud.”

Achenbach writes on science and politics for theWashington Post’s national desk and is the author ofseveral books. He has regularly contributed sciencearticles to National Geographic since 1998, writingon such topics as dinosaurs, particle physics, earth-quakes and extraterrestrial life.

Achenbach did not start out to become expert at writingabout science. His early work as a reporter at the MiamiHerald included a weekly column titled “Why Things Are,”which he wrote from 1988 to 1996. “I got used to interview-ing scientists, how they thought, how they spoke,” he said ina recent interview. Achenbach found there was an advan-tage to avoid pretending he was smarter than he was. “I wastransparent about my own ignorance,” he said, a technique,which often prompted scientists to take more time explain-ing the basics.

“People have tremendous respect for science and believescience is the path to the truth,” Achenbach said. The polar-ization comes when two sides or more have their own firmly-held views. In addition, Achenbach said, the advent of theInternet has meant there are fewer gatekeepers to knowledge

now. There are more ways to get information, what he calls a“radical democratization of communication and news.”

In his National Geographic article earlier this year titled,“Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?,”Achenbach wrote, “We live in an age when all manner ofscientific knowledge - from the safety of fluoride and vac-cines to the reality of climate change - faces organized andoften furious opposition. Empowered by their own sources

of information and their own interpretations ofresearch, doubters have declared war on the consen-sus of experts.”

Achenbach has several ideas about how journalistsshould cover science and how they can help theiraudience understand complex but critical issues. Forexample, when journalists write about climate

change, “Don’t overplay the maverick scientists’ views.There will always be cranks, apostates, deniers.”

Everyone needs to know how science works a little better,Achenbach said. “Research is not done on the obvious stuff,but the difficult issues. And it is not abnormal for science tochange its mind.”

Reporters need to know who has ‘skin’ in the game whenwriting about the results of a study, he said. Achenbachalways asks who funded the research.

Achenbach, a 1982 graduate of Princeton with a degree inpolitics, urges journalists to educate themselves aboutdevelopments in science. “Read the science journals,” hesaid. “A lot of what we do is just translation.”

Gary Graham is editor of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington. He can be reached [email protected].

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readers being only interested in “fluff” content is just that -a misleading stereotype.

“Every newsroom needs to think about their particularmarket and the young people within that market,” Ha said.“My big piece of advice to newsrooms is to figure out whatdifferentiates themselves, and not try to chase a nationalperspective, like Buzzfeed.”

The panel also will discuss success strategies and brightspots in the industry.

Newsroom culture is a big factor, Maerz said, and a keycomponent is valuing younger staff members’ insights andbeing willing to let them experiment.

“Who really knows how Snapchat or Vine or Periscope

works?” she said. “Give people who are natives on these platforms some

leadership and go for it.”Ha, a former editor of the Chicago Tribune’s millennial-

oriented RedEye, said she sees bright spots in newsroomthat have created standalone products with a differentvoice. One example is Charlotte Five, which came out of theCharlotte Observer, she said.

“What I hope people will take away from the panel is thatit’s not a monolithic audience,” she said.

Angie Muhs is executive editor of the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Illinois. She can be reached at [email protected].


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Touney retires as Quad-CityTimes executive editor

Retiring Quad-City Times ExecutiveEditor Jan Touney of Bettendorf, Iowa,doesn’t say “I” very much. Instead, whenshe talks about her newspaper career inDavenport, Iowa, she refers to “we” and“journalists” in general. When Touney’sname disappears from the masthead of the Quad-CityTimes, she will leave behind a journalism career of 40 years.Touney, a Chicago native, became managing editor of theQuad-City Times in 2003. In 2009, she was promoted toexecutive editor. She is a former APME Treasurer and boardmember.

Julie Wright named AP news editorfor Missouri and Kansas

Julie Wright, an editor who has held senior newsroommanagement positions in Kansas, Alaska, Minnesota andTennessee over a three-decade journalism career, has beennamed news editor for The Associated Press in Missouriand Kansas. The appointment was announced Thursday,Sept. 10, by Tom Berman, the AP’s Central regional editor.Based in Kansas City, Missouri, Wright will oversee the AP'sreporting efforts throughout Kansas and Missouri, with anemphasis on leading AP’s reporters in breaking exclusivestories across formats.

Lorando now leads NOLA.com;Amoss takes new role with Advance Digital

State/metro editor Mark Lorando was named vice presi-dent of content and editor of NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune, Nola Media Group President Ricky Mathewsannounced Sept. 3. Editor Jim Amoss will remain on theeditorial board into the fall, when he will become editor atlarge for Advance Digital, an affiliate of the news organiza-tion.

Compston-Strough named managing editorJennifer Compston-Strough, a community journalistwith nearly two decades of reporting and editing experi-ence, has been named managing editor of The TimesLeader of Martins Ferry, Ohio. Perry Nardo, regionalmanager of The Times Leader, The Intelligencer and

Wheeling News-Register, made the announcement. In hernew role, Compston-Strough will oversee the newspaper’snewsgathering operation in Eastern Ohio. She will direct astaff of reporters covering news events and writing featuresabout life in Belmont County.

Veteran AP journalist tabbed tolead Sun-Star in Merced, California

Michelle Morgante, an accomplished journalist andSan Joaquin Valley native with experience in reporting andediting jobs across the United States and Latin America,has been named managing editor of the Merced (California)Sun-Star.

Morgante, who has served in various news and manage-ment roles with The Associated Press since the early 1990s,joined the paper Sept. 8. Morgante, 47, relocated to Mercedfrom Mexico City, where she serves as editor of the AP’sLatin America desk.

New leadership at American Newsin Aberdeen, South Dakota

Scott Waltman, a longtime staff member of theAmerican News in Aberdeen, South Dakota, has been pro-moted to managing editor. He oversees the day-to-dayoperations of the news staff and news products. Waltmanwas named assistant managing editor in 2014. A graduateof Roncalli High School and South Dakota State University,he began at the paper as a reporter in 2000. He replacesJohn Papendick, who retired in July.

Kaplan named editor of the Sun Herald in Biloxi, Mississippi

Blake Kaplan has been named vice president/editor ofthe Sun Herald on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The 49-year-old Kaplan has worked at the newspaper 21 years, startingas a reporter and becoming city editor seven years ago.Kaplan succeeded Stan Tiner, who retired Sept. 1 after 15years as editor. Tiner led the Sun Herald to share the 2006Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism, for coverage ofHurricane Katrina and its aftermath in 2005. Kaplan led ateam of editors who produced the Sun Herald fromColumbus, Georgia, after Katrina hit.

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Managing editor named at Beaver County Times in Beaver, Pennsylvania

Patrick O’Shea was named managing editor of theBeaver County Times in Beaver, Pennsylvania, taking overthe role after former Managing Editor Lisa Micco was pro-moted to executive editor. O’Shea has worn several hatsand been part of many changes in his two decades at TheTimes, including the revitalization of the newspaper in thecommunity.

New editor named at The Vicksburg PostJan Griffey has been named editor of The Vicksburg

(Mississippi) Post and affiliated publications. Griffey, aNatchez native, most recently worked as associate publish-er and editor of The Natchez Democrat.

Hillyer named news editor at theNatchez (Mississippi) Democrat

Ben Hillyer has been named news editor of The Natchez(Mississippi) Democrat, natchezdemocrat.com and affiliatepublications. Kevin Cooper, the newspaper’s publisher,says they're fortunate to have Hillyer on their team andleading their newsroom. The newspaper reports that Hill-yer has a long history with The Democrat, having worked asphotographer, creative director and, most recently, designeditor.

Former reporter named BurlingtonCounty Times news director

Danielle Camilli, a longtime news reporter with theBurlington County Times in Willingboro, New Jersey, waspromoted to the job of news director. She spent the last 18months as a copy editor for the BCT and its sister papers,the Bucks County Courier Times and The Intelligencer. Shewas promoted to the position of news director by ShaneFitzgerald, executive editor of the three newspapers.

Matthew Bunk named editor of MissoulianMatthew Bunk is the new editor of the

Missoulian newspaper in Missoula,Montana. As editor, Bunk leads a news-room of 25 reporters, photographers andeditors covering news and sports through-out western Montana. He also is editor ofthe Ravalli Republic newspaper inHamilton. Bunk succeeds Sherry Devlin,who has served as editor of the Missouliansince 2004. Devlin was a reporter at the Missoulian,Spokesman-Review and Associated Press for 25 yearsbefore that, and will continue at the Missoulian as an asso-ciate editor.

Pennsylvania paper names new managing editor

A veteran editor of community newspapers has beennamed managing editor of The Progress in Clearfield,Pennsylvania. Julie Benamati describes herself as a coalminer’s daughter who is committed to local news. She hadjoined a sister Community Media Group publication, TheCourier-Express in Dubois, in January. Before that, Bena-mati served as editor of Pennsylvania Business Central andMarcellus Business Central in State College. The appoint-ment was announced by Progress Publisher Pat Patterson.

Denver Post news director Kevin Dale to lead Arizona PBS

The Denver Post’s news director is takinga new role leading ASU students. KevinDale, a senior editor who helped lead TheDenver Post to a Pulitzer Prize and drivethe newspaper’s digital transformation,has been named executive editor ofCronkite News at Arizona PBS, a multi-platform daily news operation and innovation hub operat-ed by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and MassCommunication at Arizona State University. Dale will over-see the roughly 120 students and 15 full-time editors/pro-fessors involved with the program.

Alan Miller named Columbus Dispatch editor after interim appointment

A veteran editor at The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch hasbeen appointed to lead the newspaper. Alan D. Miller,president of the Associated Press Media Editors, had beeninterim editor. He succeeds Benjamin Marrison, whostepped aside as editor after the newspaper was sold. The55-year-old Miller has worked for the Dispatch for threedecades and has been managing editor since 2004.

Digital First, Bay Area NewsGroup Editor David J. Butler to retire

David J. Butler, the top editor at Digital First Media andits San Jose (California) Mercury News and Bay Area NewsGroup, announced that he will retire this fall. Butler, 65, isexecutive vice president and editor-in-chief of parentDigital First Media as well as editor and senior vice presi-dent of the San Jose Mercury News and its sister BANGnewspapers, the Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune.

GateHouse Ohio Media appointsDesrosiers as executive editor

GateHouse Ohio Media has appointed a new executiveeditor for its Ohio publications. Rich Desrosiers had beenmetro editor since 2008 at the Akron Beacon Journal.


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The appointment brings him back to The Repository inCanton, where he began his career 30 years ago. The 51-year-old Desrosiers will lead The Repository, TheIndependent in Massillon and The Times-Reporter of Dover-New Philadelphia. He succeeds Therese D. Hayt, whobecame executive editor of the American Society of NewsEditors.

Detroit Free Press namesRobert Huschka executive editor

The Detroit Free Press has named Robert Huschka to itstop newsroom position.The newspaper reports thatHuschka was named executive editor. He was named man-aging director in March and interim executive editor forabout two months during a search. Huschka has worked atthe Free Press for more than 16 years. His wife, Amy, is thenewspaper’s social media editor. He replaces Paul Anger,who retired in May after 10 years with the newspaper.

Carolina Garcia, LANG managing editor for enterprise, to retire

Carolina Garcia, managing editor for enterprise andprojects for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group’s nine publi-cations, told staffers she is retiring. The departure marksthe end of a career in journalism that spanned more thanthree decades and in three states — nearly half of that timein California. She addressed the staff at the Los AngelesDaily News office in Woodland Hills. The 61-year-old joinedthe organization in 2008, taking over as senior editor of theLos Angeles Daily News — LANG’s flagship paper — afterthe departure of Editor Ron Kaye.

John D. Smith Jr. namedmanaging editor of Cumberland paper

John D. Smith Jr. has been named managing editor ofThe Cumberland Times-News in Cumberland, Maryland.Smith joined the newspaper in 1989, and has been thenews editor, overseeing page design and production, since1992. He succeeds Jan Alderton, who retired in June.

Stephanie Murray resigns aseditor of The Tennessean newspaper

Stefanie Murray, the vice presidentand executive editor of The Tennessean,has resigned from the Nashville newspa-per. The Tennessean reported that Murrayis leaving for personal reasons.

Murray came to the paper in 2014 afterserving as assistant managing editor fordigital media at the Detroit Free Press andas community director at AnnArbor.com.

Graczyk to step down as managingeditor of Daily News in Batavia, New York

Mark Graczyk, who has served as managing editor ofThe Daily News in Batavia, New York, since 1992, will stepdown this fall. Graczyk worked as a reporter for severalweekly newspapers before joining the Daily News in 1988as a features editor.

New editor named forThe Cincinnati Enquirer

The Cincinnati Enquirer has named ajournalism center director and PulitzerPrize-winning editor to lead the Ohionewspaper. Peter Bhatia previouslydirected the Reynolds National Center forBusiness Journalism at Arizona State’sCronkite School of Journalism. He became editor and vicepresident of audience engagement at Enquirer Media onAug. 17.

The 62-year-old Bhatia helped lead newsrooms that wonnine Pulitzers, including six at The Oregonian in Portland.He has been an editor at The Fresno Bee, The SacramentoBee, the Dallas Times Herald and the San FranciscoExaminer.

Jim Ellis named editor atNews-Record in Miami, Oklahoma

The Miami (Oklahoma) News-Record has named veteransports editor Jim Ellis as its new managing editor, replac-ing Patrick Richardson who is now serving as managingeditor in Pittsburg, Kansas.

Ellis began his career at the News-Record 38 years ago.

New executive editor at Beaver CountyTimes in Beaver, Pennsylvania

Lisa Micco, the new executive editor at the BeaverCounty Times in Beaver, Pennsylvania, has spent nearly 30years in journalism, including two years as managing edi-tor at The Times. Micco came to The Times in September2011 after more than 20 years at the NewCastle News, whereshe was a reporter, copy editor, page designer and sectioneditor.


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APME recognizes contributions to the APphoto report through the Showcase Photoof the Month Award. The competition isjudged by AP and member photo editors.The monthly winners are displayed at theannual conference and a Showcase Photoof the Year Award is presented.showcase

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JUNEAP Photo/The Postand CourierGrace BeahmParents of TywanzaSanders, TyroneSanders and FeliciaSanders comfort eachother at the graveside oftheir son at EmanuelAME Cemetery inCharleston, S.C.According to a pam-phlet given at the funer-al, Sanders died tryingto protect SusieJackson, his aunt, andFelicia Sanders, hismother who survivedthe shooting.

JULYAP Photo/TheCommercial AppealJim WeberCousins Ann ClaireSchenkel, left, and GreerShenkel dance aroundAurora Circle in thespray of a fire hose aftera fourth of July parade inHigh Point Terrace, July4. Neighborhood resi-dents gathered for their66th annual parade -the longest standingIndependence DayParade in Memphis -which ended with thetraditional dousing com-pliments of the MemphisFire Department.




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he Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing onMedia Law is available for the first time as an

interactive e-book, making the nation’s leadingresource for newsroom style easier to use.

AP is releasing the 2015 AP Stylebook e-book with BasicBooks, a division of The Perseus Books Group, which alsopublishes the perfect-bound print AP Stylebook sold inretail outlets.

Stylebook fans have asked for an e-book version foryears, tweeting AP Stylebook On Twitter to suggest addingan e-book to Stylebook’s digital product suite.

While AP has offered a digital edition in PDF form onGoogle Play, Chegg eTextbooks and Follett’s BryteWave, thisis the first time the AP Stylebook is available as an interac-tive e-book on platforms including Amazon Kindle, AppleiBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook and Kobo.

At more than 5,000 entries, the 2015 AP Stylebook is thebiggest edition in its more than six decades of publication.

The e-book makes it faster and easier to find a relevantstyle rule. Now journalists, students, public relations pro-fessionals and other writers and editors will have styleguidance at the ready at all times.

The 2015 AP Stylebook includes about 300 new or revisedentries. The Sports chapter is updated with terms on base-ball, basketball, football, horse racing, soccer and wintersports. An 85-page dynamic index helps users quickly findwords and definitions, supplementing the e-book’s searchwith concepts and themes users might look for.

The AP Stylebook, edited by David Minthorn, SallyJacobsen and Paula Froke, is widely used as a writing andediting reference in newsrooms, classrooms and corporateoffices worldwide. Updated regularly since its initial publi-cation in 1953, the AP Stylebook is a must-have referencefor writers, editors, students and professionals. It providesfundamental guidelines for spelling, language, punctua-tion, usage and journalistic style.

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AP to move world headquarters in early 2017he Associated Press plans to move its global head-quarters from Manhattan’s far west side to a small-

er space across the street from the World Trade Centersite, the news cooperative’s president said Aug. 26.

The move, planned for early 2017, would bring the AP to200 Liberty St., which is across the street from the Sept. 11memorial. At the time of the 9/11 attacks, the building wasknown as One World Financial Center.

“I think this is a very positive development for APand for AP’s employees,” said Gary Pruitt, AP presi-dent and CEO.

The building would be the 11th corporate addressin New York for the AP since it was founded 1846 bya group of newspapers that wanted to share thecosts of covering the Mexican War.

At about 172,000 square feet, the new spacewould be about 40 percent smaller than the AP’s currentheadquarters at 450 W. 33rd St., on Manhattan’s far westside, which it has occupied since 2004.

The AP had a lease for 291,000 square feet in that build-ing through 2019 — far more than it needs based on thecurrent size of its headquarters staff. Rent in the buildingwas also expected to rise substantially in the years aheadamid the Hudson Yards project, a major remaking of theneighborhood from an industrial outpost to a new centerfor office and apartment towers.

Ken Dale, AP’s chief financial officer, said if the AP stayedput, it would wind up paying more money for less space.

The AP had various offices in downtown Manhattan

before moving to midtown in 1925.From 1938 to 2004, the AP had its world headquarters in

New York City’s Rockefeller Center, a glamorous and presti-gious address but one that became excessively pricey dur-ing New York City's economic boom.

When the AP moved into its current headquarters on33rd Street, part of the motivation was a desire for more

space. The AP had 950 employees working at thenew headquarters when it opened in 2004.

A subsequent reorganization, however, slimmeddown the central staff in favor of regional editinghubs in the U.S. and around the world. The AP alsoimplemented a plan in 2010 to cut its worldwidepayroll while trying to reduce fees for newspapersand broadcasters.About 600 AP employees will make the move to the

new offices, company spokesman Paul Colford said.Both the AP’s new headquarters and its old one are

owned by Brookfield Properties.The new Liberty Street headquarters will be in a 40-story

tower built as part of the Battery Park City development inthe mid-1980s,

Falling debris from the World Trade Center smashed win-dows and covered the building with debris during the Sept.11 attacks, but the skyscraper has since been fully restored.

The once-shattered district around the trade center sitehas experienced a remarkable rebirth since 2001 —progress interrupted only slightly when parts of lowerManhattan flooded during Superstorm Sandy.

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APME is accepting applications for the 2015-2016 EditorEducator Exchange, a partnership that puts editors in col-lege classrooms and journalism educators in the news-rooms of APME members. The goal is to help journalismprograms stay abreast of the rapid changes occurring inU.S. newsrooms.

Each semester, one editor will visit one college journalismprogram, and a faculty member will make a return visit tothe editor’s news organization. The first exchange, in March,sent former APME president Bob Heisse, executive editor ofThe Times of Northwest Indiana, to Ball State University.Ball State faculty member Juli Metzger followed up with avisit to Heisse’s newsroom in Munster.

Submit your application to Mark Baldwin [email protected]

AP puts historical footage on YouTubeLONDON — The Associated Press and British Movietone,

one of the world's most comprehensive newsreel archives,are together bringing more than 1 million minutes of digi-tized film footage to YouTube. Showcasing the moments,people and events that shape the world, it will be the largestupload of historical news content on the video-sharing plat-form to date.

The two channels will act as a view-on-demand visualencyclopedia, offering a unique perspective on the mostsignificant moments of modern history. Available for all toexplore, the channels will also be powerful educational toolsand a source of inspiration for history enthusiasts and doc-umentary filmmakers.

The YouTube channels will include more than 550,000video stories dating from 1895 to the present day. For exam-ple, viewers can see video from the San Francisco earth-quake in 1906, exclusive footage of the bombing of PearlHarbor in 1941, Marilyn Monroe captured on film inLondon in the 1950s and Twiggy modeling the fashions ofthe 1960s.

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e recently reviewed ourentry on global warming

as part of our efforts tocontinually update the

Stylebook to reflect lan-guage usage and accuracy.

We are adding a brief description of thosewho don’t accept climate science or disputethe world is warming from man-madeforces:

Our guidance is to use climate changedoubters or those who reject mainstreamclimate science and to avoid the use of skep-tics or deniers.

Some background on the change:Scientists who consider themselves realskeptics – who debunk mysticism, ESP andother pseudoscience, such as those who arepart of the Center for Skeptical Inquiry –complain that non-scientists who rejectmainstream climate science have usurpedthe phrase skeptic.

They say they aren’t skeptics because“proper skepticism promotes scientific inquiry, criticalinvestigation and the use of reason in examining controver-sial and extraordinary claims.”

That group prefers the phrase “climate change deniers”for those who reject accepted global warming data and the-ory.

But those who reject climate science say the phrasedenier has the pejorative ring of Holocaust denier so TheAssociated Press prefers climate change doubter or some-one who rejects mainstream science.

Here’s the addition and the full entry below.To describe those who don’t accept climate science or dis-

pute the world is warming from man-made forces, use cli-mate change doubters or those who reject mainstream cli-mate science. Avoid use of skeptics or deniers.

Some ask how we make changes to the Stylebook. Suchchanges - whether they involve adding a new term oramending an existing definition - are driven by their rele-vancy to reporting the news.

The overriding factor is to help our reporters and editorspresent the news accurately, concisely and clearly, no mat-ter what the topic or where it happens.

Keeping the Stylebook up-to-date is a year-round process,

and we tap into many resources for advice and guidance.No change is made lightly.

With the flow of daily news, word coinages and spellingsin politics, business, technology, science, sports, entertain-ment and other realms come to the fore almost every week.

Some new terms have a short life and fade away; otherterms enter common speech and writing. A major task is todecide what new definitions and spellings merit inclusionfor reporting the news.

When we get a suggestion for a new entry or a revision,we consult with other editors by phone or email to weighwhether it is needed, is correctly spelled and has the properdefinition.

Topics deemed highly relevant to breaking news coveragemay be added to the online Stylebook immediately andthen incorporated into the annual printed edition.

We consult with AP news leaders for some major changes,as we did in 2013, when “illegal immigrant” was dropped infavor of phrases such as living in or entering a country ille-gally or without legal permission. We may also seek outsideexpertise for specialized topics, as we did in 2013-14, whenweapons and mental health entries were added or revised.

An advisory panel of outside editors and journalismteachers also offers a sounding board.

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