| December 2000 |
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| Postal Changes Coming
in 2001 Newspapers are facing several changes to current postal regulations and rates starting in January 2001. |
| FOI Award Named in
Keat's Honor Jim Keat, a long-time champion on freedom of information issues for newspapers, is being recognized for his dedication. The annual Freedom of Information Award presented by the MDDC Press Association will now be called the James S. Keat Freedom of Information Award. |
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| Board Approves 2001
Budget, Plans Services for Active Year The MDDC Board of Directors has approved the Association's 2001 budget, which calls for continuing the many new or recently expanded Association activies and generally maintaining staff levels and dues assessments. |
| OSHA Releases Ergonomics
Standards The Occupational Safety and Health Administration released its ergonomics program standard in November. It requires all businesses to establish a comprehensive ergonomics program if an employee is injure by, or at risk of, a musculoskeletal disorder. |
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| Profile:
Joy Bramble Jocelyn "Joy" Bramble is publisher of several community newspapers in Maryland, including The Baltimore Times, Annapolis Times, Shore Times and Prince George's County Times. Joy, a native of Montserrat in the Caribbean, worked as a teacher there and in Baltimore, and was principal of a Head Start program in Connecticut. Her first business venture was purchasing and managing two neighborhood grocery stores. She then decided to try her hand at the newspaper business. The Baltimore Times, created with the motto, "positive stories about positive people," was started on her kitchen table in 1986. Bramble is a member of the MDDC Technology Committee. |
| Clinton
Vetoes Leak Legislation President Bill Clinton on Nov. 4 vetoed a bill that would auhtorize federal felony charges against leakers of classified information. Media and watchdog groups urged him to do so and a spate of editorials appeared in newspaper around the country calling the measure "an official secrets act." |
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| Press,
Legislators, Others to Oppose Court Records Plan Representatives of the press, including the MDDC Press Association, will journey to Annapolis of the evening of Dec. 13 to speak out against a controversial draft policy by the Maryland judiciary that would severly restrict public access to court records. |
| Public
Records Training Schedule Four training sessions aimed at improving complaince with Maryland Public Information Act by government officials began this month at sites around the state. |
| News Journal
Settles Records Case The (Wilmington) News Journal is within days of reaching an out of court settlement in a case involving criminal statistical information said Managing Editor Randall Beck at the end of November. |
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| Legal Clumsy Rule Proposed for Court Records by Maryland
Attorney General The Maryland Attorney General's office has proposed a rule that would cut off or complicate access to computerized court records. |
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| Advertising New Faces at the MDDC Press
Service I know this time of year with its progression of early deadlines and holiday advertising is always a hectic one for the newspaper business. |
| Ad Increase
Predicted During Holidays With holiday sales lagging, reatilers are slashing prices and filling newspapers with ads announcing price cuts. |
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| Technology Using PDF to Simplify Advertising Relationships One of the problems facing publishers and printers moving to a digital computer to plate workflow concerns the advertising relationship. When an advertiser hands in a camera-ready ad, it's pretty easy for all parties to see what the finished result should be. Working from digital files can add some confusion to what used to be a simple process. Now we must ask our customers: Did you include all the fonts? How about the art? Is it in a format we can work with? PC or Mac? |
| NNA Starts Ad
Donation Program The National Newspaper Association is exploring new revenue opportunities, including an ad progam where member newspapers are asked to donate advertising space NNA can sell to generate revenues. |
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| NNA's Postal Delivery
Survey Finds Little Improvement A recent survey by the National Newspaper Association shows postal delivery service has not improved over the past year. |
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| Circulation Meeting Carrier Recruitment
Challenges It's no secret that in a booming economy with low unemployment, all industry will be challenged on the people side of business. Newspapers are affected particularly as we ask delivery folk to rise earlier, provide better service and maintain the customers they have in their areas. Rising fuel costs have added yeat another threat the an already thin labor pool. |
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