| January 2001 |
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| Graham Elected to Hall of
Fame Katharine Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post and chairman and CEO of The Washington Post Company, has been elected to the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Newspaper Hall of Fame. |
| Curley, Waller
Headline Convention Plans for the MDDC Press Association Winter Convention are being finalized with USA Today President Tom Curley and Baltimore Sun Publisher Mike Waller scheduled to speak. The Feb. 22-23 event will be held at the Holiday Inn Conference Center in Frederick. Deadlines are Feb. 1 for room reservations and Feb. 15 to register for the convention. |
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| Officials Trained on
Records Access; More Training, Maybe Legislation Next More than 200 Maryland government officials were trained over the last month in a cooperative effort between the government and press to improve compliance with the state's Public Information Act. |
| New Task Force to
Study Court Records Access By mid-month Maryland's top judge had yet to appoint members of the "broader, more representative" task force he intends to create to examine access and privacy issues regarding court records. |
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| Profile:
Kathryn Sinzinger Kathy is editor and publisher of The Common Denominator, a weekly newspaper in Wahington D.C. that she founded in June 1998. She has been a Washington correspondent for newspapers in California, New York and Ohio, and managing editor of the then-daily Alexandria (VA) Gazette. Kathy spent much of the 1990s as general manager of the Arlington (VA) Cooperative Organization and its consumer-owned natural food store, The Uncommon Market. Her other journalism experience includes reporting or editing jobs at metropolitant and community daily newspapers in Ohio, Iowa and Montgomery County, MD. She is a member of the MDDC FOI Subcommittee. |
| Baltimore
Sun Faces Libel Suit for Housing Series A Cockeysville real estate investor has filed a $60 million libel suit against The Baltimore Sun and one of its reporters, alleging that an award-winning series that began in December 1999 ruined his reputation and crippled his business. |
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| MDDC Presents 2001 Workshops The MDDC Press Association Professional Development Committee has put together a schedule featuring a least one workshop per month and a variety of topics addressing all areas of the newspaper industry. A complete list of the workshops follows. |
| Robbins is
MDDC 2000/2001 H. S. Journalist Melissa Robbins, a senior at Walt Whitman High School and managing editor of the school newspaper, the Black & White, was selected to receive the High School Journalist of the Year Award from the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Foundation. |
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| Legal Access Success Depends on You According to my "high-tech"computer-generated data, you are making more use of your Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Access Hotline. Hotline use in 2000 was up about one third from the previous year, covering 31 matters. They consisted of 16 records questions, 11 meetings questions and four court access quetions. As usual, however, the real news is behind the data. |
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| Advertising Classified Workshop is a Winner On Dec. 7, classified advertising personnel from member newspapers met at The Washington Times to participate in The Classified Challenge workshop. The morning was given over to three speakers and the afternoon was devoted to roundtable discussions. Participants indicated they left with many solid and useful ideas on ways to become more successful as a manager or account executive, provide superior service to advertiser and ultimately to make their respective newspapers more successful. Much of the information from the speakers in relevant to all advertising personnel. I am passing along some "pearls of wisdom" from each speaker. |
| Lottery Advertising
Rules Changed The postal service has relaxed its rules governing "prohibited mail matter" to allow newspapers to publish lottery advertisements in their mailed newspapers as long as the lotteries are legal under state law. |
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| The Capital
Makes Staff Changes Edward D. Casey will retire as executive editor of Capital-Gazette Newspapers in April in one of four management changes announced by Publisher Philip Merrill. |
| Sequencing for Carrier
Route Rates A new requirement for carrier route rate in 2001 is that some form of sequencing be used, and updated every 90 days. |
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