News from our members

  • Former Kansas publisher Buzbee dead at 86

    June 7, 2018

    The funeral service for Dick Buzbee, former editor and publisher of The Hutchinson News and Olathe Daily News in Kansas, has been set for 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 23 at Trinity United Methodist...

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  • Kansas Sen. Moran wants newsprint tariff gone

    May 18, 2018

    Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran has joined a number of other senators supporting legislation that would protect publishers and printers from harmful tariffs.The bipartisan group of 10 senators has introduced...

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  • KPA ponders sale of building

    May 18, 2018

    By Andy Taylor, KPA presidentThe Kansas Press Association headquarters in Topeka may be in a state of change.The KPA executive board recently agreed with a recommendation from KPA executive director...

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  • Some sunshine peaks through the clouds

    May 2, 2018

    Shown (from left) prior to the bill signing ceremony May 10 were Doug Anstaett, Mike Kautsch, Gov. Jeff Colyer, Ron Keefover, Max Kautsch and Kent Cornish.By Sherman Smith, Topeka Capital-JournalAs...

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  • ESU, WSU student newspapers recognized

    May 1, 2018

    The Kansas Sunshine Coalition for Open Government presented its 2018 “Above and Beyond” awards to two state university student newspapers in presentations Friday in Wichita and Emporia. Recipients...

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  • KPA past president's daughter dies in hiking accident

    April 27, 2018

    Services for Sarah Ann Zimmerman, 30, Seattle, are pending. Sarah, who moved to Seattle from Lawrence in 2015 with her partner, Kathryn Presley, died Tuesday, April 24, 2018, in an accident as Sarah...

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  • Seaton Publishing buys four regional newspapers

    April 24, 2018

    The Manhattan Mercury’s owner is buying four other regional newspapers.Seaton Publishing Company of Manhattan has signed a contract to buy the Junction City Daily Union, effective May 1. The 103-year...

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  • Writer's Notebook offers discounted columns

    April 18, 2018

    The Kansas Press Association partnering with “The Writer’s Notebook” to offer columns by popular authors such as Dave Barry, Ann Patchett, Joyce Carol Oates, Dean Koontz and Scott Turow for less than...

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  • Publishers worry about newsprint tariffs

    April 18, 2018

    By IVAN MORENO, Associated PressReprinted by permission of the Association PressMILWAUKEE (AP) — Newspaper publishers across the U.S. already strapped by years of declining revenue say they're...

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  • Legislature bogged down by education funding issue

    April 12, 2018

    The latest Kansas legislative session was burdened from the beginning by a state Supreme Court ruling that education funding was both inadequate and unfairly distributed.So it was no big surprise...

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