News from our members

  • Let's spruce up those public notices

    August 17, 2015

    Ed Henninger has some advice on what to do to keep public notices in newspapers.Henninger presented to the attendees at the 2015 KPA Convention in Junction City on newspaper design and received such...

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  • Newsroom jobs drop by more than 10.4 percent

    July 29, 2015

    By Ken Doctor, NeimanLabCigar maker. Elevator operator. Pinsetter. Iceman. Lamplighter. Switchboard operator.Local daily newspaper reporter?How soon will we have to add this once-stable occupation to...

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  • Attempted burglary at KPA damages building

    July 16, 2015

    Some time during the early hours on Monday, a person or persons tried to break into the Kansas Press Association office in Topeka.Although entry wasn’t gained, significant damage was sustained to...

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  • Kansas Judicial Council to study private e-mail issue

    July 16, 2015

    From the Wichita EagleThe Kansas Judicial Council will study a loophole in the state’s open records act that allows public officials to send private e-mail for official business.The study was...

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  • Newseum names new CEO: Jeffrey Herbst

    July 9, 2015

    By the Washington PostThe former president of Colgate University has been named the next president and chief executive of the Newseum and the Newseum Institute, museum officials announced Thursday.

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  • Help us help you with digital tools

    July 1, 2015

    Despite a plea in the Kansas Publisher and last week's Kansas Press This Week, not a single newspaper in Kansas has filled out a brief survey from the Kansas Press Association designed to identify...

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  • Smiley, former Stafford publisher, dead at 81

    July 1, 2015

    STAFFORD — Frank D. Smiley, 81, died Sunday, June 28, 2015, at Leisure Homestead, Stafford. He was born Dec. 22, 1933, in Stafford the son of Roy Morris and Edith Eugena (Jean) Fletcher Smiley. A...

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  • Insurance company, KPA settle on damage

    July 1, 2015

    The Kansas Press Association will be able to install new carpet, replace baseboard and do other repairs in the basement level of the building after negotiations with the insurance company.Two weeks...

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  • Lawhorn named ME at Journal-World

    July 1, 2015

    Chad Lawhorn, long-time Lawrence Journal-World reporter and columnist, has been named managing editor of the newspaper.Lawhorn will oversee the Journal-World’s staff of editors, reporters and...

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  • Two-pizza press corps at Kansas statehouse needs to grow

    June 15, 2015

    By Deron Lee, Columbia Journalism ReviewLast Saturday night at the Kansas statehouse, as the legislature’s agonizing budget deliberations dragged on into a record-tying 107th day of the session, it...

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