| August 2000 |
| Time to Pack for
Rocky Gap The 2000 MDDC Summer Convention Spet. 7 - 9 at Rocky Gap Lodge and Golf Resort will offer plenty of information from experts in media law, technology, circulation and advertising, and plenty of chances for fun and exercise in the great outdoors also. |
| Sun Wins Sealed Records
Case Appeal The Maryland Court of Appeals handed the press a significant victory on July 24 when it ruled that The Baltimore Sun should have been allowed to attend a hearing when a case filed against the city was settled. The $500,000 paid by the city to settle wrongful death claims filed against it in a police-involved shooting was disclosed by the mayor as a result of the court decision. |
| A Tightening
Newsprint Market Without a doubt, we are once again in a tight newsprint market that could get event tighter by the fourth quarter. |
| Inland Releases
Newsprint Analysis Newspapers with circulation around 25,000 have paid lower average newsprint prices over the last nine years than newspapers of both higher and lower circulation, and Inland Press Association newsprint rate analysis shows. |
| News Briefs 2000 AP Stylebook Available The 2000 edition of the AP Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, featuring a special section on Internet and computer terms, is now available. NAA Literacy Campaign Features New Ad The Newspaper Association of America literacy advertising campaign, "It all starts with newspapers," continues in a modified format. The latest celebrities, Rocky and Ginger, are claymation characters in the DreamWorks movie "Chicken Run" released in June. MDDC Seeks Hall of Fame Nominations MDDC Press Association Hall of Fame Committee Chairperson John League, editor and publisher of The Herald-Mail, says the committee is seeking nominees for election to the MDDC Newspaper Hall of Fame. Classifieds are Top Choice of Job Seekers Job seekers still use newspapers as their primary source of information, according to a report from the Newspaper Association of America, "Recruitment Advertising: 2000 and Beyond." Complaince Board Opinions Now on Web The Maryland attorney general's office has announced that all Open Meetings Complaince Board opinions are posted on its Web site at www.oag.state.md.us/Opinions/Index.htm, according to Jack Schwartz, assistant attoreny general. |
| Profile: Denise Cabrera Denise was named chief of bureau for the Baltimore bureau of the Associated Press this summer. With that appointment, she became the first black woman to lead an AP bureau. Denise has worked at the AP Washington bureau for 13 years, as a local newswoman, Capitol Hill and consumer reporter, metro editor, and news editor before being name Baltimore bureau chief. Prior to joining AP, she worked for NBC News and The Washington Times, where she was a copy editor and assistant foreign editor. A native New Yorker, she currently lives in Prince George's County, but plans to move to be closer to the office. |
| Legal
Is Open
Meetings Board Changing Its View of "Legal Advice"? A recent decision from the Maryland Open Meetings Complaince Board dealt, in part, with the "legal advice" exception to the Open Meetings Act and may have sent a message that the exception is being more loosely interpreted. |
| Advertising
New
Ad Director Joins MDDC MDDC welcomes Cheryl Spriggs as the new advertising director for the Press Service. |
| Suggestions to
Improve Lagging Customer Service Performance The MDDC Circulation Committee recently researched nation averages for customer service standards relating to newspaper circulation. |
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