Know your way around Capitol issues
Dec 30, 2008
An editorial in the California Publisher of January 1939, concerning the new legislative season in Sacramento: "Newspaper publishers are always besieged with requests by outside interests to intercede for them with their local legislators on all sorts of bills having no direct bearing on newspapers themselves. This, of course, is in line with the public responsibility of the hometown newspaper as the guardian of the welfare of its community, county and state; but, to remain effective, independent leaders of their communities, it is important that hometown newspapers give some thought and action to the protection of their own profession and business."
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Preprint network closes year on high note
Dec 23, 2008
CNPA Advertising Services, which administers a number of national
preprint and run-of-press networks, ends 2008 well ahead of budget and
positioned for success through its fiscal year, which ends March 31,
2009.
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Closed for New Year's
Dec 30, 2008
The CNPA office will be closed from noon Wednesday, Dec. 31 through Monday morning, Jan. 5. Along with a toast with whatever you find bubbly, please find best wishes from CNPA. Be safe; we'll need you back here next year.
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Short time left for resolutions
Dec 30, 2008
We should resolve to quit evoking obsolescence in describing the ink-on-paper industry: As in: gone the way of the buggy whip and "gone the way of the five-cent candy bar.
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Cost-cutting made the news in 2008
Dec 30, 2008
In 2008, newspaper people at all levels watched as many colleagues moved on. Nationally, it's estimated that nearly 16,000 jobs in all departments were erased in 2008.
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Time spent on websites down
Dec 30, 2008
Unique visitors to the top newspaper websites are up, but the amount of
time viewers spend on the sites, compared to a year ago, is down,
Editor & Publisher reports. LATimes.com was down more than 2 minutes per visit, while SFGate.com was up nearly a minute, the results show.
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Got your paper in local businesses?
Dec 30, 2008
Make sure your local businesses have your newspaper on hand, John Pappas suggests in a guest piece for the Anderson Valley Post.
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Monterey daily launches destination magazine
Dec 30, 2008
The Monterey County Herald has launched Adventures Monterey Bay, a new quarterly magazine with information on dining, arts, family activities, unique places, historical attractions and cooking.
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Start 2009 with crucial insights via webinar
Dec 23, 2008
Webinars from the Inland Press Association offer an efficient way to stay informed
and competitive.
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What secret formula?
Dec 23, 2008
At the Claremont Courier, Publisher Peter Weinberger details some company traditions that havent changed in the papers 50-plus years of family ownership.
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Website offers content from six L.A. publications
Dec 23, 2008
Six newspapers, including CNPA members L.A. Watts Times and Los Angeles Garment & Citizen, are part of LA Beez, an online network of ethnic journalism, MediaShift Idealab reports.
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Support CNPA's Capitol effort Feb. 11
Dec 23, 2008
Eighty years ago, a winter meeting of newspaper people in Sacramento included discussion of taxes, business issues and views from the governor and state legislators.
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Eight CNPA Foundation interns named
Dec 17, 2008
After interviews in Northern and Southern California, eight students from CNPA-member colleges have been confirmed for CNPA Foundation internship grants.
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Cal Press bestows annual honors
Dec 17, 2008
The California Press Association honored newspaper leaders from Yucaipa, Claremont and Glendale on Dec. 12 at its 131st Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
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Watch for roadblocks following FERPA revision
Dec 17, 2008
The U.S. Department of Educations interpretation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) will enable school districts, colleges and universities to further limit the amount of information available about educational activities.
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Gag order with time delay? No way, says Star
Dec 17, 2008
Following a superior courts decision to lift a gag order against it, the Ventura County Star published an article online and in print about a man being held in the murder of a 6-year-old boy, but the paper noted that the judge delayed the vacating of the gag order until 5 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17.
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Paper not so well-preserved, curators find
Dec 17, 2008
Time-capsule technology circa 1896 wasnt enough to preserve the contents of a small box buried in Novato, the Marin Independent Journal reports.
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