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July 26, 2007

• Lancaster New Era places in Editor & Publisher's '10 That Do It Right'
• KBA combines triplewide capacity with singlewide flexibility
• Herald-Standard: Expanded Pa. open records proposal expected
• PASSOPENRECORDS.ORG: Blog for open records!
• Why are we always last?: House Bill 976, which passed unanimously in the lower chamber but has not yet been voted on in the Senate, mandates that Pennsylvania put all its laws on the Internet where they can be accessed for free. It turns out that Pennsylvania is the ONLY state that does not currently have that program for its citizens...
• Doubt: Despite the public and prolific announcements of legislative leaders that open-records reform is at the top of their to-do list for the fall session, there remain a good many doubters around the state about how much – if any – reform we may actually see...
• From the Legal Hotline: Does Pennsylvania law require school superintendent finalist names to be public?
• Former president of Dardanell Publications (Gateway Newspapers) dies at 79
• Foundation Update: Boot camp and brown bag lunches
• PNA Foundation and the Pa. NIE Committee present "Thomas Paine: American Patriot"
• 2007 Classified Advertising Tearsheet Contest - Contest deadline: Aug. 10
• 2007 Reader Initiative Award - Contest deadline: Aug. 17
• Your help needed on PNA Foundation Internship Guide
• Aug. 5-11: New Reporters Boot Camp - Harrisburg
• Four out of five newspaper Web site readers also read the printed edition
• Online newspapers experience record visitor numbers
• Political ads stage a comeback in newspapers

July 19, 2007

• After nearly 40 years, Hummelstown Sun editor seeks to sell
• News Gleaner Publications celebrates 125 years
• New Morning Call Web site offers fresh look and enhanced user experience
• Two Pa. papers weigh in on new sports coverage rules
• Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review calls for Iraq troop withdrawal -- questions Bush's 'mental stability'
• PASSOPENRECORDS.ORG: Blog for open records!
• News from around the state: Today, The Harrisburg Patriot-News’ Brett Lieberman reports that the Center for Public Integrity gave PA a failing grade in financial disclosure...
• A question of emails: Not long ago a panel of judges from the Sixth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal government violated the constitution when its investigators searched the stored email files of a businessman in a fraud investigation...
• From the Legal Hotline: Should we accept an advertisement from an Indian Reservation for “tax-free, online cigarette orders”?
• Diana Block named Pittsburgh Post-Gazette co-publisher
• Notes from the Capitol: Budget session round-up
• Foundation Update: Annual golf outing a success
• Editor & Publisher offers discount to PNA members
• 2007 Newspaper Carrier of the Year - Contest deadline extended: July 30
• 2007 Public Service Award - Contest deadline extended: Aug. 3
• 2007 G. Richard Dew Award - Contest deadline extended: Aug. 3
• 2007 Classified Advertising Tearsheet Contest - Contest deadline: Aug. 10
• 2007 Reader Initiative Award - Contest deadline: Aug. 17
• PNA Foundation and the Pa. NIE Committee present "Thomas Paine: American Patriot"
• Your help needed on PNA Foundation Internship Guide
• Aug. 5-11: New Reporters Boot Camp - Harrisburg
• Report: Young adults avoiding newspapers -- and other news outlets
• Google expands newspaper push
• Baltimore Sun launches newly designed Web site

July 12, 2007

• Incisive Media to acquire ALM
• Tierney team marks the first year both Philly papers show growth
• Hazleton Standard-Speaker sale good for area, new publisher says
• Lawsuit could unmask Philadelphia Inquirer food critic; case hinges on cut of meat
• Separating fact, rumor in Luzerne County tests Wilkes-Barre Times Leader staff
• PASSOPENRECORDS.ORG: Blog for open records!
• Beyond the budget: With all the necessary focus on the state’s budget negotiations, open records discussions in the Capitol have pretty much faded from view. This is entirely understandable, but it also requires vigilance on our parts that a new, improved Right-to-Know law not get swept into the dustbin of good ideas and nice tries...
• An unsettling thought: Legislators and other public officials who have been relatively good on making public their own records may actually be less likely than others to support expansion of the right-to-know law...
• From the Legal Hotline: Stay tuned for a new hotline question next week.
• Philadelphia Inquirer names Escobar, Lavin, Loeb to new posts
• David Sickle named director of circulation at two Pa. papers
• 2007 Newspaper of the Year: Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 Newspaper Carrier of the Year - Contest deadline: July 20
• 2007 Public Service Award - Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 G. Richard Dew Award - Contest deadline: July 16
• PNA Foundation and the Pa. NIE Committee present "Thomas Paine: American Patriot"
• 2007 Classified Advertising Tearsheet Contest - Contest deadline: Aug. 10
• 2007 Reader Initiative Award - Contest deadline: Aug. 17
• Your help needed on PNA Foundation Internship Guide
• Aug. 5-11: New Reporters Boot Camp - Harrisburg
• eBay quietly unveils new classifieds site for U.S.
• The newspaper of the future: If we're lucky, it will look something like the newspaper of the past
• A fading taboo: Paper by paper, advertising is making its way onto the nation’s front pages and section fronts
• Everybody in the news pool

June 28, 2007

• Due to the holiday, Headlines & Deadlines will not publish on July 5. Regular publication will resume on July 12. Thank you!
• Cherry Hill, N.J. Courier-Post sues 3 government entities that obtained Phila. Inquirer discounts
• New owners at The Record-Argus
• Spanish paper ready to join Wilkes-Barre Publishing Co.
• PASSOPENRECORDS.ORG: Blog for open records!
• Protect my privacy, protect my child: One issue that keeps coming up – and rightly so – in any discussion of open-records reform is the protection of privacy and personal information...
• Shhh: Shooting at shoppers, erasing tapes: There continues to be a lot of positive coverage of the Reform Commission’s recommendations on open records reform, and of Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R-Delaware)’s support for the “novel concept, and one not always embraced in Harrisburg,...that most public records are in fact open – not closed – to the public.”...
• From the Legal Hotline: Can I make school officials answer my questions at a public meeting?
• Notes from the Capitol
• 2007 Foundation Golf Outing July 11, Tee time: 1 p.m. Hershey Country Club
• Attention Pa. dailies: What's your cover price?
• Your help needed on PNA Foundation Internship Guide
• 2007 Newspaper of the Year Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 Public Service Award Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 G. Richard Dew Award Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 Classified Advertising Tearsheet Contest Contest deadline: Aug. 10
• 2007 Reader Initiative Award Contest deadline: Aug. 17
• Aug. 5-11: New Reporters Boot Camp - Harrisburg
• New periodical rates take effect July 15
• Late-PM newspaper users most engaged, says MRI
• Nielsen Monitor-Plus: U.S. ad spending declined 0.6% in first quarter 2007

June 21, 2007

• Express-Times pursues autopsy records
• Boyertown Area Times publishes edition marking 150th anniversary
• Judge: Times Leader owner can be questioned on discrimination suit
• Old Lehighton Times News vending machines help with discarded flags
• Philadelphia newspaper deliveryman shot during robbery
• PASSOPENRECORDS.ORG: Blog for open records!
• Keeping government open and honest: Why did the framers include “freedom...of the press” in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? For one thing, note its relationship to free speech...
• Legislators speak up for open records: Legislators from around the state are voicing strong support for open-records change. In fact, veterans of the political scene are saying they have not seen such an appetite for reform in Harrisburg in their lifetimes...
• From the Legal Hotline: I recently requested copies of legal bills that a township solicitor submitted to the township. The township denied my request, claiming that solicitors’ bills are not public records and that they are protected by the attorney client privilege? Is he correct?
• Indiana Gazette names Ross editor of its Web site
• Bethlehem News welcomes Smith as new editor
• Schogol, former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, dies at 58
• DiLisso retires from Bucks County Courier Times
• Attention Pa. dailies: What's your cover price?
• Your help needed on PNA Foundation Internship Guide
• 2007 Foundation Golf Outing July 11, Tee time: 1 p.m. Hershey Country Club
• 2007 Newspaper of the Year Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 Public Service Award Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 G. Richard Dew Award Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 Classified Advertising Tearsheet Contest Contest deadline: Aug. 10
• 2007 Reader Initiative Award Contest deadline: Aug. 17
• Enter your NIE program in NNA's contest. Contest deadline: July 1
• Aug. 5-11: New Reporters Boot Camp - Harrisburg
• Surprise! Study finds Web users also like dead-tree editions
• Newspapers at mid-year: Even online, the news is not so good
• Newspaper wins open-records fight

June 14, 2007

• Pa. House panel supports a broader open-records law
• Philadelphia Inquirer wins 2007 Casey Medal
• Pa. Supreme Court to decide whether Scranton newspaper must reveal source
• Walzer lawyer denies unethical questioning of Times Leader publisher in deposition
• Philadelphia Daily News, Inquirer denied Fumo-case data
• PASSOPENRECORDS.ORG: Blog for open records!
• Speaker’s commission gives thumbs up: First, the good news. The 24-member Speaker’s Commission on Legislative Reform unanimously voted to recommend expanding the definition of a “public record” to make most government records available to the public...
• Restaurant inspection issues: Unpalatable!: We recently blogged on the State Agriculture Department’s posting restaurant inspections online. This is a great open records victory that’s been in the works for a long time...
• From the Legal Hotline: Are the names and addresses of jurors impaneled in a criminal trial public? Isn’t the jury array already a public record?
• Satullo leaving Inquirer's editorial-page post
• Journal Register CEO Jelenic leaves for cancer treatment
• New PAPME officers elected
• 2007 Foundation Golf Outing July 11, Tee time: 1 p.m. Hershey Country Club
• Your help needed on PNA Foundation Internship Guide
• 2007 Newspaper of the Year Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 Public Service Award Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 G. Richard Dew Award Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 Classified Advertising Tearsheet Contest Contest deadline: Aug. 10
• 2007 Reader Initiative Award Contest deadline: Aug. 17
• June 19: Legal Issues in Newsgathering for Student Newspaper Advisers - Harrisburg
• Political ads create sticky issues for newspapers
• Reporters Committee warns of new pressures affecting newsgathering
• New AP Stylebook appears

June 7, 2007

• Inquirer owner has interest in Dow Jones
• Hazleton told to release police scores
• PHEAA -- Price of secrecy
• Reading Eagle Company set to expand facility
• SNA, 10 community newspaper groups, form National Ad Network
• PNA: Thanks for your support on open records reform
• PASSOPENRECORDS.ORG: Blog for open records!
• Open Records, Closed Doors: There is so much activity across the state right now focused on open records reform that it is almost impossible to keep up with it...
• PHEAA Responds: What would a blog be without something or someone to ruffle your feathers…allow me to first get this out an in the open, I am a PHEAA employee...
• From the Legal Hotline: We have a school district that would like to say "Male Physical Education Teacher" in an employment ad. Can they do that?
• Patriot-News' Pete Shellem has freed four people from jail
• Schurz Communications appoints new CEO
• Notes from the Capitol
• 2007 Foundation Golf Outing July 11, Tee time: 1 p.m. Hershey Country Club
• 2007 Newspaper of the Year Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 Public Service Award Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 G. Richard Dew Award Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 Reader Initiative Award Contest deadline: Aug. 17
• Capitolbeat Conference (organized by the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors) Aug. 2-4 Doubletree Hotel, Philadelphia
• June 19: Legal Issues in Newsgathering for Student Newspaper Advisers - Harrisburg
• Papers still dominate local online ad spending -- but are losing share
• How newspapers fare in rightwing answer to Wikipedia
• As jobs fade and demands grow -- what gets lost?

May 31, 2007

• Times Leader: Access to government pays should be just the start
• Court upholds New Castle News' award in fight for public records
• Philadelphia Inquirer plans national sudoku championship in October
• Morning Call: How we got our 6 cents' worth
• passopenrecords.org: Blog for open records!
• “We’re the worst” A lot has been happening on the open records front lately...and a lot needs to be done. As you will see from the reports below, the evidence keeps mounting that we need a new, consistent, statewide Right-to-Know law, and we need it now...
• Check out "Brighter Pennsylvania" on the Web:
• From the Legal Hotline: We received an ad for an online pharmacy. Can we accept it?
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette names Diana Block co-publisher
• 2007 Foundation Golf Outing July 11, Tee time: 1 p.m. Hershey Country Club
• 2007 Newspaper of the Year Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 Public Service Award Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 G. Richard Dew Award Contest deadline: July 16
• 2007 Reader Initiative Award Contest deadline: Aug. 17
• June 5-6: NAA Growing Audience Seminar - New Orleans
• June 19: Legal Issues in Newsgathering for Student Newspaper Advisers - Harrisburg
• AP's Curley: We're even putting news on Nintendo
• As circ falls in U.S., newspapers dominate in India
• NAA exec: Papers aren't running A1 ads out of desperation

May 24, 2007

• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania adopts policy governing public access to its financial records
• Journal Register papers dodge bullet in server outage
• Another Monster deal: This time with CNHI
• NNA: Federal Shield Law introduced in House & Senate
• Philadelphia Daily News carried 'Idol' poster
• passopenrecords.org: Blog for open records!
• Public Access = Public Input: We received this story from Lora Lehmann, a member of the Abington Citizens Network, about the problems of getting public access into public meetings and the importance of keeping the pressure on your officials to do so...
• Has anyone followed up?: When he announced his support for open records reform earlier this year, Gov. Rendell said that his office had had to turn down more than half of the 5,000 right-to-know requests it had received since 2003...
• Musselman: Sunshine Act improvement advances -- keep your readers focused!
• Check out "Brighter Pennsylvania" on the Web:
• From the Legal Hotline: Stay tuned for a new hotline question next week.
• Frisby named Phildelphia Daily News publisher
• NNN names Strauss as new interactive sales director
• Foundation Golf Outing July 11, 2007; Tee time: 1 p.m. Hershey Country Club
• Helping journalism students succeed
• May 31: PNA on the Road - Johnstown
• June 5-6: NAA Growing Audience Seminar - New Orleans
• June 19: Legal Issues in Newsgathering for Student Newspaper Advisers - Harrisburg
• Editors explore recent redesigns at major Web sites
• Newspaper industry proclaimed "vibrant, growing"

May 17, 2007

• Williamsport Sun-Gazette: Newspaper articles helped voters decide, mudslinging hurt
• PNA members win Golden Quill Awards
• Paterno-pay issue ends up in high court
• passopenrecords.org: Blog for open records!
• Breeze of change: We talk – and rightly so – about the sad state of open records in Pennsylvania. But I am beginning to hear from people in other states on this issue, and believe me, we are not alone...
• A reader’s personal story : PennDOT traffic study a “state secret”: We recently received a reader’s story about open records through our “send us your story” form. Here is Glenn Smith’s story, in his own words...
• Secret ballot. Open records: Repeat after me: Secret ballot...open records...
• Check out "Brighter Pennsylvania" on the Web:
• From the Legal Hotline: The County Commissioners have enacted a policy that prohibits members of the media from recording public meetings. Are they allowed to do that?
• Ginsberg named assistant biz editor at Philly Inquirer
• Patriot-News Managing Editor Barron to deliver HACC commencement address
• SEE YOU AT: Pennsylvania Press Conference & the Keystone Awards Banquet
• Helping journalism students succeed
• May 31: PNA on the Road - Johnstown
• June 5-6: NAA Growing Audience Seminar - New Orleans
• June 19: Legal Issues in Newsgathering for Student Newspaper Advisers - Harrisburg
• Thomson, Reuters agree on merger terms
• Facebook launches free classifieds
• Industry leaders analyze role of news in a changing world
• Business is tough and now this -- newspaper mistaken for bomb

May 11, 2007

• Amid challenges, Times Leader’s future is bright, so join us for the ride
• Pigs Fly! Philly Inquirer hams it up to mark circulation gain
• Erie Times-News: Shield law would protect your watchdog
• Bloomsburg, Oil City papers upgrade DSI circ systems
• Philadelphia newspaper readers find stoops empty when computer error causes delivery delay
• passopenrecords.org: Blog for open records!
• What about your legislator?
  Since the aim of our campaign — and of this blog — is to get Pennsylvania’s lawmakers to change the state’s current atrocious Open Records law, it is important to know where your legislators stand on the issue...
• Notes from afar
  We are focused on changing the law in Pennsylvania. But this issue is making waves across the country and around the world. Why?...
• A word about privacy
  Have you tried to get a public record from a government agency and been turned away, stonewalled, sent to the back of the line or sent home? Share your story with us...
• From the Legal Hotline: Isn't there a rule in Pennsylvania that restricts last-minute political ads?
• Harrisburg Patriot-News' Anthony receives 'Friend of Education' award
• Indiana Printing and Publishing names Palmer as new marketing director
• LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER! Pennsylvania Press Conference & the Keystone Awards Banquet
• Carrier Golf Outing
• Helping journalism students succeed
• May 31: PNA on the Road - Johnstown
• June 5-6: NAA Growing Audience Seminar - New Orleans
• June 19: Legal Issues in Newsgathering for Student Newspaper Advisers - Harrisburg
• How to sink a newspaper: Free news for online customers is a disastrous business plan
• Google, Yahoo execs: Newspapers have untapped value
• NAA Study: Newspaper Web users above average in many ways

May 3, 2007

• Times-Shamrock adds Hazleton daily
• Philadelphia Inquirer's bank-sponsored biz column stirs controversy
• Is GateHouse Media now eyeing Dow Jones' Ottaway chain?
• Media coalition applauds reintroduction of Federal Shield Law
• passopenrecords.org: Blog for open records!
• Note from an old warrior: Bill Northrop has been fighting the open government/open records fight for almost half a century. Even though he is now retired as co-publisher of The Observer-Reporter in Washington, Pa., he is still hard at it...
• We are moving: Evidence is mounting that the push for a new open records law has public support that is both surprisingly broad and refreshingly deep...
• PA newspapers on open records: The Reading Eagle said, “it’s a wonder anyone ever finds out what he wants to know” about government in PA...
• Check out "Brighter Pennsylvania" on the Web:
• From the Legal Hotline: What voter information is public?
• Philadelphia Inquirer Managing Editor Gordon to leave for private equity firm
• Norristown Times Herald names Fritz as new publisher
• Scranton Times-Tribune promotes veteran executives Phillips, Sauder
• Pottstown Mercury welcomes new ad, circulation directors
• Pennsylvania Press Conference: Register for the Keystone Awards Banquet!
• Carrier Golf Outing
• Last chance for display ads in Keystone Winners Tab!
• Participate in NAA's digital media benchmarking study
• Helping journalism students succeed
• May 8: ACT 1 Seminar - King of Prussia
• May 31: PNA on the Road - Johnstown
• June 5-6: NAA Growing Audience Seminar - New Orleans
• June 19: Legal Issues in Newsgathering for Student Newspaper Advisers - Harrisburg
• Incoming Pulitzer co-chair wants more small papers in awards
• ABC reveals big drops in circ in spring 2007
• Newspapers debate online reader comments
• Stocks for most newspaper companies jump after news of Murdoch bid