| January 2002 |
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Cumberland's
Suter Kegg Elected to MDDC Newspaper Hall of Fame
Suter Kegg, sport editor emeritus of the Cumberland Times-News, has been elected to the
Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Newspaper Hall of Fame. |
Winter Convention Returns to Washington DC, Gets New
Name
The MDDC Press Association's Winter Convention, set for Feb 28 - March 1 at the Capital
Hilton in Washington, DC, is now the Editorial Conference. Although the event has a new
name, it will still have the same great features. |
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Journal
Newspapers Consolidate VA Editions, End ABC Membership
Journal Newspapers is consolidating its Virginia issues and ending its membership in the
Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC).These changes follow the elimination of the newspapers'
Monday editions in September. |
W. Post Raises
Single-Copy Price
The Washington Post raised its single-copy price to 35 cents on Dec. 31. The Move, spurred
by expansion costs and sinking advertising revenue, was the first single-copy price hike
since 1981, when the company raised the paper's price from 20 to 25 cents. |
The Sun Offers
Employees Buyouts
The Baltimore Sun is offering employees voluntary buyouts in an effort to eliminate 140
positions by the end of March. |
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Court
Records Task Force Releases Draft Plan
A judicial advisory panel has drafted a plan to keep court records, especially electronic
court recors, open to the public, urging officials to plan for a future when more records
are available by computer from remote locations. |
Profile: Jean
Thompson
Jean has worked at The Baltimore Sun and The Evening
Sun since February 1988. She was recently named associate editor for the editorial section
of The Sun. From April 1998 to January 2001 she was the assistant managing editor for
staff development. Previously she served as a metro reporter covering Baltimore City
schools, story editor for The Sun magazine, and features editor for The Evening Sun.
Before joining The Sun, she worked at The Hartford Courant and then The News &
Sentinel in Ft. Lauderdale. Jean is chair of the MDDC Journalism Education Committee. |
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Circulation Postal Rate Case to Settle, New Rates
Expected in June
The United State Postal Service has agreed to the National Newspaper Association's (NNA)
proposal to preserve discounts for qualifying newspapers delivered withing the Sectional
Center Facility (SCF) zone, but not entered at the SCF. |
Clarification
from ABC on Counting Electronic Circulation
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) issed clarifications explaining how electronic
subscirptions are counted towards paid circulation. The basic rule was that any electronic
edition of the newspaper, be it Web site or e-mail news service, that charged a minimum of
25 percent of the basic rate charged for the home-delivered print edition could be counted
towards paid circulation. These clarifications seemed pretty straightforward, but like all
good clarifications, further clarifications are in order. |
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Legal Can Any Privacy Remain Once a Case is Filed in
Court?
Is it ever possible to open files in an embarrassing sexual misconduct case and
still protect legitimate privacy concerns? It seems so, according to a federal trial judge
in Chicago. |
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Advertising New Opportunities Are Born Out of a
Faltering Economy
The article in the Dallas Morning News highlighted the growth of new small business
ventures, Mike Stamler, a spokesman for the Small Business Administration said they've
been getting substantially more inquireies about how to start a business, with 50 percent
more information packets being sent out from October 2000 to October 2001 than in the
previous year. |
Dot-Coms
Turn to Newspaper Ads
Sandwiched between the advertising inserts for Macy's and Sears in some Sunday newspapers,
readers may gind a 14-page shopping guide for Amazon.com. |
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Kay
Selected High School Journalist
Julia Kay, a senior at Montgomery Balir High School and managing news editor of the school
newspaper, Silver Chips, was selected to recieve the High School Journalist of the Year
Award from the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Foundation. |
Holidays Slow Ad
Slide (a little)
While 2001's advertising spending dive shows signs of tapering, thanks to the holiday
season, it only means that the fourth quarter's rate of decline may be less bad than the
third quarter's. |
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