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  • Montgomery Symposium: how to adjust to digital disruption

    September 18, 2019

    Want to know how small market newspapers are responding to the challenges of digital disruption? Then the 2019 Montgomery Family Symposium, which will be held on Friday, Oct. 11 in Topeka, has just...

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  • NNW: a time to toot your own horn

    September 18, 2019

    This year marks the 79th anniversary of National Newspaper Week, Oct. 6 through 12.  The annual observance celebrates and emphasizes the impact of newspapers on communities large and small. Content...

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  • Leadership Center offers election survey results

    September 18, 2019

    The Kansas Leadership Center has surveyed a number of local candidates for public office across the state and wants to share the information not only with readers of its magazine but with others in...

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  • Newspapers: a republic's insurance policy

    September 9, 2019

    By Ken Paulson The newspaper business didn’t get off to a good start in America Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick, the first real newspaper in America, was supposed to be a weekly, but...

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  • KPA to offer Newswriting 101 course

    August 21, 2019

    The Kansas Press Association plans to offer an introductory newswriting course beginning this fall. KPA has had interest expressed by newspaper editors and publishers who want to use local talent at...

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  • KPA joins national First Amendment effort

    August 21, 2019

    The Kansas Press Association has joined with the Kansas Association of Broadcasters and other associations nationwide to promote the “Think F1rst” Campaign. “Participation in this project is...

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  • KPA adds Journalist of the Year award

    August 21, 2019

    A new annual award will debut at the 2020 Kansas Press Association annual convention in Newton — the Kansas Journalist of the Year citation. The award will be presented along with the Awards of...

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  • Not just war correspondents suffer from stress

    August 13, 2019

    By Baily Dick, for the Columbia Journalism Review Most journalists think they are good at dealing with stress. But they are not.  “Things like addiction problems, high anxiety, promiscuity and PTSD...

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  • GateHouse, Gannett merge operations

    August 6, 2019

    NEW YORK (AP) — Two of the largest U.S. newspaper companies have agreed to combine for roughly $1.4 billion, creating a new industry giant that hopes to manage the crisis of print’s decline through...

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  • Salina to close printing operation; move to Hutchinson

    August 6, 2019

    GateHouse Media, owner of The Salina Journal, announced Monday that The Journal will no longer print in Salina and all of its print production will be outsourced to its sister newspaper, The...

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