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April 27, 2006

• Newspaper Guild petitions to revoke JOA in York
• Group of Canadians may make bid for PNI
• Yucaipa brings Wall Street support for Inquirer-Daily News bid
• N.Y. Daily News will look at PNI
• MediaNews Buys Four Newspapers, Including the San Jose Mercury News, From McClatchy for $1B Cash
• San Jose Guild Calls Emergency Meeting Over MediaNews Deal
• From the Hotline: Stay tuned for a new hotline question next week.
• Calls are needed on public notice advertising legislation
• Pennsylvania Press Conference: A New Era of Journalism
• LAST CALL! Submit digitals of Keystone Press Award winning entries for the Keystone tab
• State initiative: How to vote on Pa.'s new voting machines
• Encourage youth voting initiatives
• Publishers and editors: share your teen, young adult products
• PNA Carrier Golf Outing
• Credibility and Ethics for the Photographer
• Belgian newspaper tests electronic paper
• The Paperboy Quietly Fades Away

April 20, 2006

• Judge says Times Leader reporters don’t have to participate in prison suit
• Lawyer sues Erie District Attorney, Times-News
• Ex-Times Leader editor files discrimination suit
• How the sale went down: Knight Ridder's gloomy options
• Singleton is said to be the favored suitor for three Knight Ridder properties in California
• Gannett shareholders vote on proposals
• From the Hotline: Are there any updates on the Do-Not-Fax rules?
• Former Intercounty Newspaper Group executive, Jane Parr, dies
• Lang named Press and Journal editor
• Beaver appointed online manager at Daily Item
• Recognize your paper's 2006 Keystone Press Award winners
• PNA Carrier Golf Outing
• Newsroom Guide to Global Health: A Resource for Reporters
• The Craft of Business Writing Workshop
• Credibility and Ethics for the Photographer
• ASNE Readership Training Seminar
• Under new policy, S.E.C. will rarely subpoena reporters
• Lawyers try to block subpoenas in CIA leak case
• In anthrax lawsuit, lawyers ask reporters to disclose federal sources
• FBI rebuffed on Jack Anderson's files
• Web site rates health care journalism

April 13, 2006

• The latest news relating to the KR/McClatchy deal:
• Ex-Philadelphia Inquirer editor Naughton joins firm bidding for newspapers
• Bidders for PNI hire high-profile advisers
• New group enters bidding for Inquirer, Daily News
• PR specialist says he and local backers won’t slant the news
• When KR Deal Goes Down: Independence Day or Bastille Day?
• Tough to make case for blaming media on Iraq
• Investigation into Study Commission election advertisements ‘not merited’
• An A-plus school paper struggles to press on
• Young journalists wanted
• Calif. advertising chief Bruns takes helm at Daily American
• Recognize your paper's 2006 Keystone Press Award winners
• PNA Carrier Golf Outing
• Denise Ott leaves PNA
• State initiative: How to vote on Pa.’s new voting machines
• From the Hotline: What is the difference between the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") and the Right to Know Law?
• The Craft of Business Writing Workshop
• Credibility and Ethics for the Photographer
• 'Radical evolution' needed to curb circ woes
• On the coming rise in blog advertising
• Newspapers predicted to phase out, go online
• Newspapers need real innovation

April 7, 2006

• New stage in Phila. papers' sale
• Coroner to appeal autopsy report order
• Bill would exempt autopsy photos from public scrutiny
• PHEAA chief balks at releasing financial records to reporters
• The dim halls of government need more sunlight
• Five Pa. newspapers honored by Society for Newspaper Design
• The Morning Call honored by Paramount Pictures
• NIE course offered for credit through Shippensburg University
• NAA elects new chairman
• Richard F. Wehrle, long time Patriot-News executive, dies
• Gannett Chairman McCorkindale's contract won't be renewed
• Gannett board elects Harper as new director
• 2006 Keystone Press Awards announced; help celebrate your paper's winners
• From the Hotline: Can an automobile ad say that a car is “fully loaded” or that vehicles are offered “at wholesale?”
• The Craft of Business Writing Workshop
• Credibility and Ethics for the Photographer
• For future readers, papers should look online
• News cooperative responding to digital age demands with more content
• Report says circulation 'quality' improved dramatically
• Newspapers fail Wal-Mart test--won't get money
• Vendors battling price vise
• Google local search shows image ads on maps

March 31, 2006

• The latest news relating to the KR/McClatchy deal:
  • Feds looking at KR/McClatchy deal
  • Rival chain sees opportunity in papers' sale: Journal Register would take advantage of changes a new Inquirer and Daily News owner might make.
  • Bruce Toll among local bidders for newspapers
  • Yucaipa: Investor who works well with unions
  • If I were in charge of The Inquirer...How readers would run the newspaper
• Contract extension averts strike at Philadelphia Tribune
• Herald-Standard appeals Roberts' case to high court
• The Mercury celebrates 75 years
• Morning Call hosts Career Fair with region's employers
• Stanley named editor of Chestnut Hill Local
• 2006 Keystone Press Awards announced; help celebrate your paper's winners
• 2006 America East Print Quality Contest winners recognized
• From the Hotline: I recently requested some financial information, including a listing of payments made to third parties, from my municipality. They agreed to provide it to me, but then withheld certain items because they are looking into some alleged financial improprieties. Can they do that?
• Weekly Renewal Workshop
• Jill Carroll: finally free
• Fredrick (Md.) News-Post inks with GMA at America East
• Online video use increasing, especially on news sites

March 24, 2006

• Gannett weighing bid for newspapers
• Prospective buyer taps ex-publisher of Philadelphia Newspapers to be paid senior adviser
• Area pols ponder Wilkes-Barre as one-newspaper city
• Erie reporter testifies at former mayor's corruption trial
• Daily Item enhances Web site
• Will Bunch and his left-leaning blog have come to define the Daily News
• Early editor and founding member of Chestnut Hill Local dies
• America East: On-Site Registration Is Just As Sweet!
• Distinguished Service Award renamed for Ed Thomas
• 2006 Keystone Press Awards announced
• Newspaper Excellence in Cyberspace Award winners announced for 2006
• Collecting articles for National Sunshine Week
• From the Hotline: Our local fire department wants to advertise for a “Texas Hold-em” tournament. Should we accept the ad?
• Weekly Renewal Workshop
• Please note: all positions for the Northrop Local Government Boot Camp have been filled
• Newspaper spending on U.S. Postal Service on the rise
• FCC chairman vows quick ruling on media merger limits
• Across the Web/print divide
• Broadband power drives news use

March 17, 2006

• It's back to bidding for Philadelphia's papers
• McClatchy Stock Continues Slide: Street Skeptical?
• State seizes newspaper's hard drives in leak probe
• Calling all editors for Editor's Day at Penn State, April 11
• The Morning Call launches new Home & Garden section
• Valley Log's McClure Announces Candidacy for 30th Senatorial District
• America East: Super Sweet Conference for Editors
• PNA On the Road
• From the Hotline: Can an employment or recruiting agency advertise without listing its name or the fact that it is an employment agency?
• FREE training for reporters who cover local government
• Weekly Renewal Workshop
• NAA Minority Fellowship applications are now available
• MAN Roland to be bought out, taken public
• Media General returns to KBA: Selects Comet for Lynchburg's The News & Advance

March 10, 2006

• McClatchy deal for Knight Ridder 'far from clinched'
• Ogden Newspapers buys W.Va. Ad Mailer
• CJR: Inquirer Looking for Light
• Longtime Pa. newspaper man Howard Berky dies
• Daily American Publisher Caldwell promoted to Michigan newspapers
• Fraser named AP assistant chief of bureau for Pa.
• AP's Curley, Cox's Alexander among 21 inducted into FOIA Hall Of Fame
• Eshleman's articles published in book of 'Best Newspaper Writing'
• America East: Ways to Sweeten Your Circulation
• Sunshine Week: March 12-18
• Open records reform: Pa. in a crisis of access
• From the Hotline: Stay tuned for a new Hotline question next week.
• FREE training for reporters who cover local government
• Weekly Renewal Workshop
• US newspapers to surprise advertisers with the truth

March 3, 2006

• Courts weigh privacy against openness in Web records
• FLASHBACK: Making Commercial Printing Pay
• In digital age, what is a paper worth? As Knight Ridder accepts bids, the fate and value of The Inquirer and Daily News are open to debate.
• Knight Ridder Expected to Make Decision on Sale By Mid-March
• Calling all editors for Editor's Day at Penn State, April 11
• Tribune names Kennedy to Morning Call publisher
• Donaldson named GM of The Phoenix
• Indiana Gazette names new ad director
• Chestnut Hill Local editor hospitalized
• America East: Russell Viers Is As Sweet As Ever!
• Sunshine Week 2006: Free editorial cartoons and graphics available
• Henning: Another blow to the public's Right to Know
• From the Hotline: Are solicitor’s bills public records?
• PNA On The Road
• FREE training for reporters who cover local government
• Are They Taking Away Our Freedoms?
• Online Shoppers Name Newspapers as 'Primary Source' for Local Purchases
• AP Online Video Network Goes Live
• Congress Likely to Deliver Postal Reform in 2006
• States Consider Do-Not-Mail Legislation
• 61% get local news from newspapers

February 24, 2006

• Potential buyers tour Philadelphia Newspapers' plants
• Philadelphia Daily News: Gaming board is betting that you don't care
• Daily Local News names its new circulation director
• America East: Sweet registration deals still available! Online registration now open!
• Get ready for Sunshine Week 2006
• From the Hotline: Are agency members prohibited from disclosing what occurred in an executive session?
• Improving Staff Performance Seminar
• Weekly Renewal Workshop
• Northrop Local Government Boot Camp
• Judge Orders Pentagon to Release Guantanomo Names to AP
• Newspaper industry launches multi-million dollar campaign targeting advertisers with its ‘multi-media’ offering
• Craigslist is accused of bias in housing ads
  Higher Profits, Lower Costs: To What End?

February 17, 2006

• NAA: "Breakfast with the Courier Times"
• Citizen Journalism and the 2006 Election
• TownNews.com to Acquire ZWire and AdQuest
• Philadelphia Daily News: How to save the newspaper biz
• Major investor Private Capital Management cuts its newspaper holdings
• Times Leader reporter’s notes are out
• Battle over autopsy report goes to court: Express-Times files complaint
• Francis M. Minot, Sunday Reading Eagle editor dies at 65
• Muthler promoted to managing editor in Lock Haven
• America East: Sessions are sweeter than ever with SNA partnership
• We need your help: Court reporting and electronic access issues
• Reminder for early-bird entry deadline on NNA contests
• From the Hotline: When is it ok to use the term “free” in advertising?
• Copy Editors Workshop with Gene Foreman
• Improving Staff Performance Seminar
• Belgian newspaper to become first 'paperless' daily
• Google's new print glint: Tests ad auction for consumer magazines
• It Pays to Be Free

February 10, 2006

• Post-Gazette lays off some nonunion workers
• Muslims picket The Inquirer
• How to give open meeting law teeth: Flout it and you're out
• Reports of Gannett and MediaNews joining to bid on Knight Ridder continue
• John Williams named president of Gannett Digital
• Philadelphia Tribune's Bogle awarded Trailblazer Award
• Intercounty News, News Gleaner Newspapers name new publisher Leicht
• Madurski takes over as editor at St. Mary's
• Last chance to enter Display Advertising Tearsheet Contest
• America East: Sessions are sweeter than ever!
• Drug Free Pennsylvania offers new print PSAs for download
• Mid-Atlantic Regional NIE Conference
• From the Hotline: Can an advertiser use a picture of the Olympic rings in an ad?
• Borrower Beware for Journalists — Reporting on Frauds, Scams and Consumer Credit Matters
• Advertising 101 with Randy Graf
• Copy Editors Workshop with Gene Foreman
• Google battles broadband provider fee, argues for 'net neutrality'

February 3, 2006

• House leaders: Prospects for lobbying reform have brightened
• Panel to hear arguments in Times-Tribune’s appeal
• As sale looms, Knight Ridder delays annual meeting
• Ad director to be Public Opinion publisher
• Former Intelligencer publisher Charles Smith dies at 79
• CNHI appoints Barrett president and CEO
• McPhaul named senior vice president of CNHI
• Polay Joins Ottaway Newspapers
• Display Advertising Tearsheet Contest
• America East: Sweeter than Ever!
• From the Hotline: Last year, the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts issued a proposed policy for electronic access to court records. What is happening with the proposed policy?
• Visual Journalism Seminar with Charles Apple
• Borrower Beware for Journalists— Reporting on Frauds, Scams and Consumer Credit Matters
• Advertising 101 with Randy Graf
• Copy Editors Workshop with Gene Foreman
• Newspaper Web sites continue to gain readers
• AP is older than was thought, papers show