WNPA Foundation
names 2007 interns
The WNPA Foundation met this week and
selected four students and two teachers to receive
internship scholarships for 2007.
The Foundation awarded three student
internship scholarships of $1,500 each.
Sarah
Anderson of the University of Washington received
the Verizon Internship Scholarship. A UW senior,
Anderson has interned at UW Columns magazine and has had
stories published in The Daily. She is completing a
double major in English and journalism.
Breanne
Coats, a junior at Pacific Lutheran University,
was selected for the Bruce and Betty Helberg Internship
Scholarship. Coats has worked as editor in chief of The
Mast, the school's weekly newspaper, and has completed
internships or freelance work at KPLU, the Peninsula
Gateway and The Herald in Puyallup, and
TheNewsTribune.com. She is a leader at PLU's
chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and
was the Northwest's representative to SPJ's national
conference last year. She is also working with the state
legislature on the student press bill this session.
Jessica Van
Gilder, a journalism sophomore at Seattle
University, is the winner of the Jim and Kay Flaherty
Internship Scholarship. She has published stories in The
Spectator at Seattle University and for three years
wrote for The Saga at Pleasant Valley High School, in
Chico, Calif. She is working toward degrees in
journalism and English/creative writing.
Camille
Villanueva, a student at Washington State
University, received the Richard W. Gay Internship
Scholarship. She was nominated to the Foundation's
program by the Northwest Asian Weekly. Villanueva
visited the newspaper this past December to inquire
about a summer internship that would complement her
classroom work. Her stories have been published in
Seventeen magazine and in WSU's Daily Evergreen. The Gay
internship, a $1,000 award, is available in alternate
years only to WSU students.
The Foundation selected Cathy Krohn and
Todd Keister as 2007 Educator- in-Residence winners.
Cathy
Krohn of Lake Roosevelt High School in Grand
Coulee has completed preliminary work to start a student
newspaper at the high school this fall, and is currently
recruiting students for its staff. Krohn will intern at
the Grand Coulee Star. Star publisher Scott Hunter has
worked with Krohn both at the school and when she had a
graphic design business in Grand Coulee. "She has had an
after-school journalism club this year, and doing that
has brought into focus what she needs to know and
doesn't yet," said Hunter. "I have a lot confidence that
she can make the newspaper happen."
Todd
Keister, a third-year teacher at Spanaway Lake
High School, attended an ASNE High School Institute this
past summer and is ready for hands-on work at a
community newspaper. He has been teaching journalism,
English and video production since 2005, when he
completed a master's degree in education at Pacific
Lutheran University. Though Keister worked on the
newspaper in high school, the summer internship will be
his first experience at a community newspaper. He is a
2002 graduate of Gonzaga University, where he majored in
broadcasting and completed a minor in journalism.
Educators in Residence receive a $1,000
stipend, of which $250 is provided by the host newspaper
as a donation to the Foundation.
The intern selection committee includes
Foundation board members Mike Lewis, Foundation
president and publisher of the Lynden Tribune and
Ferndale Record-Journal, Scott Hunter of The Star in
Grand Coulee, Scott Wilson of The Port Townsend Leader,
and Bill Will, secretary-treasurer of the Foundation and
general manager of WNPA. Mike Jeffries, publisher of The
Dispatch in Eatonville, represents the WNPA Journalism
Education Committee.
Olympia
update: Week 7
Apologies for the one-week hiatus. Last week was
long and busy, requiring two trips to Olympia, and my
Friday was absorbed by my attendance at the
American Press Institute's
Newspaper Next seminar hosted by the University
of Washington School of Communications. I'll be writing
more about Newspaper Next in the coming weeks, and we're
putting the finishing touches on a deal to bring an
abbreviated version of the presentation to the
120th WNPA Annual
Convention this October in Yakima.
Now, Olympia: It appears the blizzard of
new legislation will continue until the introduction
deadline next week. There are now 46 bills on my
tracking list.
The good news: The shield law (reporter
privilege) sailed through the House last Friday (details
below). The AG-sponsored bill to create a "Sunshine
Committee" to review exemptions is on the Senate floor
for a vote. Legislation to remove birthdates and
signatures from the state voter registration rolls (a
measure I testified against last week), and a separate
bill to exempt birthdates of public employees and
volunteers are safely bottled up in committee. The
measure that would add a huge recordkeeping burden to
acccept contractor advertising has not received a
hearing date -- and probably won't.
On next week's hearing calendar is
HB 2141, which would
revise the definition of a meeting in the Open Public
Meetings Act. It does some good by clarifying that
telephone and electronic meetings are subject to the
Act, but it would also define a meeting as a gathering
of a majority of members of a board. This could foster
"serial meetings" between two or more members -- a
common ongoing abuse of the OPMA.
Two other troubling bills dropped this
week, but they will likely die without a hearing because
of the late date. SB 6101
is another run by agencies to replace published
legal notices with a statewide Web site. A similar
measure was first introduced 9 years ago, and it will
likely return in future sessions. The other bad bill is
SB 6076, which would
give police agencies further power to restrict reports
of ongoing investigations.
We'll keep you posted.
--
Bill Will
The state House unanimously passed a
bill last Friday that would protect journalists from
facing prison for not revealing confidential
sources.
The measure passed on a 96-0 vote with
two lawmakers excused, and now heads to the state
Senate, which is considering its own measure.
The bill would grant reporters absolute
privilege for protecting confidential sources – the
same exemption from testifying in court that is
granted to spouses, attorneys, clergy and police
officers.
“It is really important in a democratic
society that we have a free press, that we as
citizens know what is going on in our society, that
the people in power who have an interest in keeping
information from us shouldn’t be allowed to bury
that information,” said House Majority Leader Lynn
Kessler, D-Hoquiam, who sponsored the measure.
Currently, Washington has no shield
law, but its courts have ruled in favor of qualified
privilege based on the First Amendment and on common
law.
Washington’s proposed law would provide
a more limited privilege on materials such as
unpublished notes and tapes. Under its provisions,
the media could be forced to disclose that
information under certain circumstances, including
when a judge finds it is necessary in a criminal or
civil case and the material cannot be obtained
elsewhere.
The measure overwhelmingly passed the
House last year on a bipartisan 87-11 vote, only to
get stopped in the Senate, where it was never
brought up for a floor vote. It had a public hearing
in the Senate last month and was passed out of
committee last week, and supporters there were more
confident of its chances this year.
The bill defines a member of the media
as anyone who earns a substantial portion of his or
her income from publishing or broadcasting.
Generally, authors of occasional opinion pieces or
Internet bloggers would not be covered.
Thirty-two states and the District of
Columbia have enacted shield laws. A federal shield
law was considered in the 109th Congress, but did
not pass last year.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of
the Press said four other states also are
considering shield laws this year: Utah, Missouri,
Massachusetts and Texas.
Attorney General Rob McKenna, who has
made the shield law a major priority, was delighted
with the House vote and predicted the Senate would
approve it, too.
“It stands an excellent chance this
year,” he said.
McKenna, a Republican, was the prime
backer of last year’s version, but deferred to
Democratic sponsors in the heavily Democratic
Legislature this year, hoping to improve its
chances.
“It’s good public policy to protect
reporters’ confidential sources and work product,”
he said. “We depend on reporters to bring us
information about the workings of our government and
the private sector."
The
Associated Press
Memorial services will be held today in
Port Angeles for fromer WNPA President
Earl W. Clark,
publisher of the Edmonds Tribune-Review in the 1950s
and 60s and onetime managing editor of the Port
Angeles Evening News.
He later later taught journalism at
Peninsula College.
Clark, who died Feb. 18 at his Port
Angeles home of age-related causes, was 95.
The Columbus, Ohio, native worked for
newspapers in his home state and West Virginia
during the Great Depression, then at age 28 bought
the struggling Deshler (Ohio) Flag for $300 down in
1939.
He sold the Flag in 1946 and visited
the West for the first time with his young family.
After a newspaper stint in
Pennsylvania, his first West Coast job was as city
editor of the Port Angeles Evening News, starting on
St. Patrick's Day 1948.
The Evening News, founded in 1916, is
the predecessor of the Peninsula Daily News.
Clark, who became managing editor —
including appointment to The Associated Press State
Managing Editor Committee - stayed at the Evening
News for six years before he purchased the weekly
Edmonds Tribune-Review in 1954.
Following an 11-year stint during which
he served as president of WNPA in 1964, Clark sold
the Tribune-Review in 1965 and became editorial and
documentary writer for KIRO-TV in Seattle for three
years.
He returned to Port Angeles in 1969 to
pursue freelance writing -- he sold about 200
articles to such magazines as Harpers, American
Heritage, Family Circle and American Forests - and
journalism teaching at Peninsula College.
He also was advertising manager for
First National Bank in Port Angeles in 1969-76.
Clark was twice named Editor of the
Week by the national trade publication, The
Publishers Auxiliary, in 1941 and 1958.
Clark, who was born Sept. 12, 1911, to
William and Edna (Sheets) Clark in Columbus, Ohio,
married the former Maxine "Mackey" Mooney in
Columbus in November 1935. She died in 1967.
On April 25, 1970, he married the
former Maxine Jeffrey in Lynnwood.
The couple were awarded a certificate
of appreciation from Clallam County in 2001 for 30
years of service as election precinct workers.
Mr. Clark is survived by his wife; sons
Stewart Clark of Mill Valley, Calif., and Gordon
Clark of Weaverville, N.C.; daughter Arlene Clark
Mack of Thompson Falls, Mont.; sister Alice Clark
Burton of Dayton, Ohio; 10 grandchildren, 24
great-grandchildren and four
great-great-grandchildren.
In addition to his first wife, Mr.
Clark was preceded in death by son Edward Clark;
brother Max Clark, who was killed in the D-Day
invasion during World War II; and sister Dorothy
Clark Gump.
A memorial celebration will be held
today at 1 p.m. in First Baptist Church of Port
Angeles, 105 W. Sixth St. The Rev. Tim Hughes will
officiate.
A reception will follow the service.
Contributions in Mr. Clark's memory may
be made to Volunteer Hospice of Clallam County, P.O.
Box 2014, Port Angeles, WA 98362, or to an
organization of choice.
Drennan-Ford Funeral Home of Port
Angeles is in charge of arrangements. The online
guest book for the family is at
www.drennanford.com.
Peninsula
Daily News
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U.S.
newspapers that spend more money on their
newsrooms will make more money, according to a
study released last week.
The authors of the University of
Missouri-Columbia study, which was based on 10
years of financial data, said news quality
affects profit more than spending on
circulation, advertising and other parts of the
business.
"If you invest in the newsroom, do
you make more money? The answer is yes," Esther
Thorson, an advertising professor and associate
dean for graduate studies at the University of
Missouri's School of Journalism, said in a
statement. "If you lower the amount of money
spent in the newsroom, then pretty soon the news
product becomes so bad that you begin to lose
money," she said.
The researchers developed a
mathematical model that showed how newspapers
could rearrange their spending on distribution
and circulation, advertising and newsrooms to
achieve a higher profit, Thorson said in an
interview. "Until recently, people have been
doing it because the results looked good to
investors on Wall Street, but it's ... ignoring
the long-term aspects," said marketing professor
and study co-author Murali Mantrala.
The study, "Uphill or Downhill?
Locating Your Firm on a Profit Function," will
be published in the April issue of the Journal
of Marketing.
University
of Missouri
(Note: Judy
Halone is a Washington-based writer now
producing a weekly column titled "Don't Make Me
Turn This Car Around." Her column appears in the
Enumclaw and Bonney Lake papers. She is offering
the column free temporarily to WNPA
members.)
It only takes a
moment to create a lasting memory
by
Judy Halone
Give a kid five minutes, and
you'll either have a story, a keepsake, or a
recipe.
Like the time Mom left me to play
with Momma Cat's kittens. I placed them in Dad's
broadcast spreader to give them a joyride across
our front lawn.
Nothing's as funny to a four
year-old as watching their mom run from the
kitchen to the front yard - in curlers and
screaming - just to save eight remaining lives.
Now, that's a story. And it
happened in less than five minutes.
Then there's Katie Hoff, who came
home from work after receiving a frantic phone
call from her mom, who had been watching Hoff's
three year-old daughter.
"She said, 'We have a problem --
she cut her hair,'" Hoff recalled.
"I told her, 'It's OK. Hair grows
back.' But when I got home and saw her, I said,
'Oh my gosh -- she's got a mullet!'" said Hoff.
Her daughter had managed to sneak
off with a pair of kids' scissors at Papa and
Nana's house. Away went the long, baby-fine
hair, chopped in the front from ear to ear.
"We asked our hairdresser to fix
it. And now her picture is displayed in the
salon as the worst haircut they've ever seen,"
Hoff laughed.
Papa tucked a few locks of brunette
hair into a plastic baggie for Hoff.
Now, that's a keepsake. And it
happened in less than five minutes.
And finally, there's my good
friend, Brandy. By now, many of you are probably
familiar with her two youngest sons, ages two
and four; let's just say they're creative and
don't lack for energy or ingenuity.
"I was on the computer for no
longer than five minutes!" she exclaimed, noting
she had just checked on them while they played.
In that time, the boys got into the
kitchen.
Brandy walked in about the time
they stirred ketchup into the Cool Whip.
"They said, 'Look, Mommy! We made
you a cake!'" she recalled.
"Anyone who knows my boys knows
that even 30 seconds is probably too long for
them to be left alone," she laughed.
Brandy wanted to share the
ingredients for those of you not faint of heart:
2 dozen eggs
Milk
Package of cream cheese
Full container of Cool Whip
Ketchup
Now, that's a recipe. And it all
happened in less than five minutes.
Give a kid five minutes, and you'll
either have a story, a keepsake, or a recipe.
And it makes being a parent all
worthwhile.
Judy Halone is a
member of the Washington Newspaper Publishers
Association and the National Society of
Newspaper Columnists. Send your comments
to:
judy@judyhalone.com.
Copyright © 2007 by Judy Halone
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Shield
law clears House
on unanimous vote
Former
WNPA President Earl Clark dies at 95
Study:
Investing in newsroom boosts
profits
Judy
Halone: It only takes a moment to make a
memory
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