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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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  • KPA announces sales incentive program

    April 6, 2018

    To encourage newspaper advertising sales staffs to sell display and classified ads through the Kansas Display Ad and Kansas Classified Ad networks, the Kansas Press Association is instituting some...

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  • KPA joins coalition to fight newsprint tariffs

    March 20, 2018

    ARLINGTON, Va. – The Kansas Press Association has joined a coalition of the printing, publishing and paper-producing industries in the United States to fight proposed countervailing duties and anti-...

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  • Dary, Kansas author-journalist, dead at 83

    March 20, 2018

    By The Daily OklahomanDavid Dary, a respected journalist and prolific author who shepherded the University of Oklahoma journalism program's transition from a school to a degree-granting college, died...

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  • AOE plaques: we'll mail them for cost

    March 4, 2018

    We have dozens of plaques from the Awards of Excellence contest that weren't picked up at the Kansas Press Association annual convention. We can get them to you in one of two ways:* You may pick them...

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  • Help us with Editor Salary Survey

    March 4, 2018

    The Kansas Press Association is now gathering information on the salaries paid to editors in Kansas. Please use the link below to help us gather information that can be shared with all KPA member...

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