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PME has prided itself on being a source of greatideas for our member newsrooms. We’ve devot-

ed considerable space and attention in APMENews to the sharing of these ideas – and this

quarter’s magazine is no exception.In addition to our Great Ideas centerspread, now a staple

of the magazine, you will find “How They Did It” columnsin this issue from Bob Heisse in Springfield, Ill., Teri Haytwith GateHouse Ohio and Kurt Franck in Toledo, Ohio.

And, in our cover story, you can take a tour of the new

newsrooms that now house the con-tent operations of the Miami Heraldand the Des Moines Register.

This issue marks our return toquarterly publication of APMENews. My goal was to return the magazine’s frequency tofour times a year and we appreciate the help of our mem-ber editors in helping us restore that tradition.

Finally, in these pages, we preview the upcoming APMEconference in Indianapolis. I hope to see you in Indy!

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The President’s Corner/Brad Dennison: Speakers I can’t wait to hear

Spicy in The Big Easy: Competition heats up in New Orleans

Hitting the street: The Advocate continues to tweak daily New Orleans edition

APME Conference Preview: May the Indy force be with you

DOJ tightens rules: Standards raised for obtaining phone records, e-mail

Ken Paulson: The five First Amendment freedoms: United they stand

How they did it: Gatehouse Illinois papers join forces on the Deadbeat beat

Great Ideas: APME features a collection of the industry’s best and brightest

How they did it: Renaissance in Ohio sparks launch of business journal

Turning the page: Tour sparkling news headquarters in Des Moines, Miami

How they did it: Two Blade staffers create “Battle Lines: Gangs of Toledo”

Member Showcase: Photos of the Month winners are honored

Editors in the News: Promotions, appointments and recognition

Get on board: NewsTrain schedules fall stops in Colorado Springs, Seattle

AP Stylebook Moment: Marking 60 years with dozens of updates, revisions

From the EditorAndrew Oppmann

EDITORAndrew OppmannAdjunct Professor of JournalismMiddle Tennessee State [email protected]

DESIGNERSteve [email protected]

ABOUT THE COVEREditors in Des Moines andMiami take you on a tourof recently unveiled newsheadquarters. Picturedis the Register’s“Mission Control” in itsnew newsroom.

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’ve been to scores of conferences over the years,APME and otherwise, and must admit: Panel-style ses-sions can be a hit or miss proposition.

From a conference planning perspective, they’reunpredictable. When five people are involved, you

can’t possibly know exactly what you’re going to getand the results can vary from inspiring to flat. And from aconference attendee perspective, a 60-minute panel can bequite engaging yet unfulfilling. Certain topics just beg formore depth.

In 2013, when attending a conference is a luxury ratherthan a given, APME is working hard to ensure you will getthe most from our 80th annual gathering in Indianapolis onOct. 28-30. Along with my conference planning partners,The (Rockford, Ill.) Register Star Executive Editor MarkBaldwin and (Sarasota, Fla.) Herald-Tribune ExecutiveEditor Bill Church, we have meticulously built a conferenceprogram lineup that strikes a satisfying balance of individ-ual experts going deep into specific topics, with plenty oftime for audience Q&A, as well as a handful of panel-appro-priate topics covering serious issues we all grapple with.

You can find a full listing of the conference scheduleinside this magazine, but here are a few individual speakersI’m personally excited to hear:

n Terry KroegerCEO, Berkshire Hathaway’s BH MediaMore than once, I’ve heard journalists say they would like

to work for “Warren Buffet’s company.” I understand whywithout even asking: Optimism for the future of newspaperssimply oozes from BH Media.

And when I invited Terry Kroeger to join us as a speakeron the conference’s final day, he quickly and eagerly com-mitted. He has an inspiring message about the future of theindustry we all love and he takes every opportunity to fur-ther that message.

As an aside, he insisted on a Q&A with attendees

(although that was a given for me). When I asked him whatquestion he most frequently gets these days, he didn’t hesi-tate: “What’s it like to be a direct report to Warren Buffett?”

Well? “It’s pretty great.”

n Bill DayExecutive Director, Frank N. Magid AssociatesMagid is a leading research-based consulting firm

focused on consumer interaction with entertainment andmedia across all platforms. The firm has worked with manymajor companies you’ve heard of, as well as with mostmajor newspaper companies. As does BH Media, Magidbelieves the print runway is much longer than most believe,and much of their print-focused research revolves aroundextending it even further.

By assembling huge reader panels within a market, Magidcollect large amounts of data about what readers want andexpect from the newspaper. And frankly, Magid has beenthrough this process hundreds of times through the yearsand certain universal truths have emerged.

Bill Day – one of the most engaging speakers I have everheard – will present those universal truths about print prod-ucts and reader expectations. Have your pen and paper ready.

n Kelly McBrideCo-Author, “The New Ethics of Journalism”An eight-year faculty member of the Poynter Institute and

co-author of “The New Ethics of Journalism: A Guide for the21st Century” (available July 30 at the time of writing thiscolumn), Kelly McBride will discuss our evolving world ofjournalism ethics. This will include the changing landscapeand new pressure points. And, oh my, how things havechanged in this area over the past 15 years. n

Dennison is president of GateHouse Media’s Large Dailynewspaper division and will serve as president of APMEthrough the October conference.

Digging deeper: Conferencespeakers I can’t wait to hear

The President’s CornerBrad Dennison

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ew Orleans is perhaps best known for its spicy and flavorful food,stylish restaurants, Cajun style and party atmosphere. Also,

increasingly, with the recent changes to its newspaper landscape, it is gaining national notice as a competitive media market.

In 2012, The Times-Picayune, under a national strategy outlined by its owner,Advance Publications, cut its print frequency to three editions a week. Shortlyafterward, The Advocate, a nearby rival, changed ownership and declared an ambitious strategy to expand the Baton Rouge newspaper into a daily New Orleanspresence.

Not long after The Advocate’s announcement, The T-P opted to start a street-sales tabloid edition, restoring its print options to daily.

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By Jim AmossEditor, The Times-Picaynue and NOLA.com (New Orleans)

he Times-Picayune launched an additionalprint publication on June 24 that appearsthree times a week on New Orleans news-

stands and focuses on breaking news, sports andentertainment.

TP Street is in tab-size format and publisheson Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. The new

publication will cost 75 cents.It will be available at 1,500 locations - newsstands, vend-

ing boxes, grocery stores and coffee shops throughout NewOrleans, and Jefferson, St. Tammany, St. Charles, St. Johnthe Baptist, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes.

TP Street will contain breaking local, national and worldnews, editorial pages, sports, entertainment news, opinionpages, death notices, weather, new puzzles and new comics.

It is the latest addition to NOLA Media Group’s grow-ing stable of news products, joining The Times-Picayune’s three days of home-delivered newspapers,the Early Edition available on newsstands Saturdaymornings, and the comprehensive 24/7 digital newsreport of NOLA.com on desktop, mobile and tablet.

Like The Times-Picayune, it is produced by the news staffof NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune.

“Our success in delivering more news, sports and enter-tainment to our readers enables us to create this innovativepublication, the latest milestone in our evolution as a multi-media news organization,” said President and PublisherRicky Mathews. “We promised to invest in our community,and we’re fulfilling that promise.”

Together with the home-delivered Wednesday, Friday andSunday newspapers and the Early Sunday Edition availablefor sale on Saturday mornings, it marks the return of TheTimes-Picayune to daily print publication.

When we reduced our print frequency last fall, many ofyou told us that, even if you understood business realities,we were no ordinary business to you. You told us how TheTimes-Picayune is intertwined with your lives, your rou-tines, the priorities we set for ourselves as a community.

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By Timothy BooneThe Advocate (Baton Rouge, La.)

ew Orleans businessman John Georges,the new owner of The Advocate, said heplans to strengthen the New Orleans edi-tion of the newspaper to better meet thedemand of the community.

“We have a unique opportunity to growthis newspaper,” Georges, the chief execu-

tive officer of Georges Media Group and publisher of TheAdvocate, said during a meeting with the newspaper’semployees on May 6. “It just happens that there’s a geogra-phy to the south that’s dying for quality journalism sevendays a week.”

While Georges praised The Advocate’s New Orleans edi-tion, which was launched in the fall when The Times-Picayune decided to pare back to a three-day-a-week edi-tion, he said there are ways to improve the publication andincrease readership by tailoring the edition to New Orleansreaders. The goal is to get the new changes in place bySeptember, he said.

Georges completed a deal on May 5 to purchase TheAdvocate from the Manship family of Baton Rouge. Finan-cial details were not disclosed. The Manships have ownedBaton Rouge newspaper properties since 1909.

The New Orleans area accounts for about a fifth of TheAdvocate’s weekday circulation of 98,000. The Sunday circu-lation is about 125,000. Georges said if The Advocate coulddouble the number of subscribers in New Orleans, thenewspaper would “be in great shape.” He said there areopportunities in the city because The Times-Picayune was“wounded and confused.”

The Times-Picayune’s decision to reduce the frequency ofits print edition generated widespread public outcry in NewOrleans. A few hours before it was announced Georgescompleted the purchase of The Advocate, The Times-Picayune said it will launch a tabloid edition for three of thedays on which it ceased publication. But the newspaper willnot offer home delivery of those editions.

Georges introduced the two veteran Louisiana journalistswho will be the new senior executives at The Advocate: DanShea and Peter Kovacs. The duo were co-managing editorsof The Times-Picayune, but they were laid off last summerwhen the newspaper let go of nearly one-third of its staff inpreparation for its reduced printing schedule.

Shea is the chief operating officer and general manager ofThe Advocate; Kovacs is editor. Both men have “full authori-ty” to do what they want, Georges said.

The Advocate has a unique short-term opportunity to

strengthen its position in Baton Rouge, develop a digitalstrategy and gain market share in New Orleans, Shea said.But Shea said nothing would be taken away from BatonRouge to strengthen the New Orleans edition.

“We have an opportunity here to be a small, nimble fami-ly-owned company that reaches out, that looks for the bestideas and best practices in the industry, that has a stable,local, committed ownership,” he said. “We have been givena gift at a time of shrinking markets that there is anotherbusiness that is turning away from its customers and notgiving them what they want.”

Kovacs said The Advocate has a good market position inBaton Rouge and is a well-regarded company.

“It would be a mistake to use our well-regarded brandname to fund an experiment,” he said. “We’re trying to givethe people of New Orleans a more New Orleanian paper.”

Georges said Shea and Kovacs will have the final sayabout The Advocate’s New Orleans edition.

Shea said there is a balancing act that has to go on.“We have to have enough specific metro New Orleans

content there to make the paper attractive to get more peo-ple to buy it. In turn, that leads to advertising,” he said.

Georges said he is “extremely proud” to own Louisiana’slargest daily newspaper and aware of the enormous respon-sibility he has to the newspaper’s 450 employees and theBaton Rouge community.

“Our core business is metro Baton Rouge,” Georges said.“We want to protect the flagship.” n

This article is an edited version of a report that appearedin The Advocate on May 6. It is reprinted with permission.

The Advocate continues to tweakgap-filling, daily New Orleans edition

NFrom left: Peter Kovacs, editor of The Advocate, with DanShea, chief operating officer and general manager, and JohnGeorges, publisher and CEO of Georges Media Group.

The Advocate’s New Orleans editionwas launched in the fall when The Times-Picayune

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how much you missed holding the printed Times-Picayunein your hands every day over coffee.

TP Street responds to that yearning. While it will not behome-delivered, it will also be available to subscribers as ane-edition – an exact online replica of the newspaper thatgives you the front-to-back reading experience of a printpublication.

Subscribers will also have access to an e-edition of thehome-delivered paper, giving them daily access to an onlinereplica of a printed Times-Picayune on their desktops ortablets.

“In TP Street, we sought to develop a publication thatwould address our single-copy readers and also respond toa repeated request from our home-delivery subscribers for afront-to-back newspaper reading experience in the e-edi-tion on days we don’t offer home delivery,” said Mathews.

In the course of our 176-year history, New Orleanianshave read The Times-Picayune in many formats. With TPStreet, we’re continuing a long tradition of journalism inNew Orleans.

Like TP Street, the Jan. 25, 1837, first edition of ThePicayune was printed in one section. The size of its pageswas nearly identical to Monday's paper. And it was distrib-uted in the streets and stores of the city, as TP Street will be.

With the launch of TP Street, here is the complete array ofprint publications produced by NOLA.com and The Times-Picayune:

n Monday – TP Street, only for street sale. 75 cents.Available to subscribers in e-edition.

n Tuesday – TP Street, only for street sale. 75 cents.Available to subscribers in e-edition.

n Wednesday – The Times-Picayune, home delivered andfor street sale, containing the full lineup of news, sports,

editorial pages and entertainment features. 75 cents.Available to subscribers in e-edition.

n Thursday – TP Street, only for street sale. 75 cents.Available to subscribers in e-edition.

n Friday – The Times-Picayune, home delivered and forstreet sale, containing full lineup of news, editorials, enter-tainment features and sports, plus Lagniappe andInside/Out. 75 cents. Available to subscribers in e-edition.

n Saturday – Early Edition of the Sunday Times-Picayune,with Sunday features, distinct breaking news and sportscontent, advertising inserts and coupons. Only for streetsale. $2. Available to subscribers in e-edition.

n Sunday – The Times-Picayune. Full Sunday package andspecial Sunday-only news features, as well as full lineup ofnews and entertainment features, expanded sports and edi-torials, advertising inserts and coupons. Home deliveredand for street sale. $2. Available to subscribers in e-edition.

What began in 1837 continues to this day: a deep andpersonal connection between The Times-Picayune and itsreaders. Our devotion to serving you and your loyalty to ushave endured through storms and wars that tore at the fab-ric of this community.

After Hurricane Katrina lay waste to metropolitan NewOrleans, some prominent voices in this country questionedits future. Our recovery found a voice in the pages of thisnewspaper and, through our website NOLA.com, in thehearts of people around the world.

When we changed our company last October, we prom-ised to be flexible, innovative and attentive to the ever-changing needs of our readers. With the launch of TP Street,we believe we continue to fulfill that promise. n

This is adapted from reports originally posted April 30 andJune 22 on NOLA.com. Reprinted with permission.

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The theme of APME’s 2013 conference, “Content is King,”is a nod to the increased focus and premium newspapercompanies have placed on content in recent years. Guest

speakers will be announced onAPME.com as they are secured.

Registration for the event, theassociation’s 80th annual conference,is $250 for members and $350 fornon-members. Register online atAPME.com.

There will be two host hotels attwo price points in the same com-plex, including the J.W. Marriott,$169, and the SpringHill Suites, $139.

The conference will be held just across the street at theIndiana State Museum. In addition, the Oct. 28 receptionand APME Foundation auction will be held at the Indiana

Roof Ballroom, and the second night on Oct. 29 will featurea reception at the NCAA Hall of Champions.

“Indianapolis is a phenomenal city with easy access, andit's a town built around hosting events,” said APMEPresident Brad Dennison. “This will be a very compact con-ference, but attendees will get the full Indy experience.”

Here’s a sampling of the sessions:

n Tuesday, Oct. 29, Audience and content:• Did the Boston bombings change how audiences con-

nect with fast-evolving news stories? Or was it simply

ould it be that Brad Dennison and MarkBaldwin are Jedi Knights disguised as confer-ence planners?

No matter your level of Star Wars geekdom –I quit after the first three movies – you’ve got to

appreciate the forces that are driving the Oct.28-30 APME Conference in Indianapolis.

Brad (APME’s president) and Mark (two-time chair) havebeen great mentors in building a conference agenda thatrecognizes our stellar past and boldly prepares us for thefuture.

The conference is built around its own trilogy – the FirstAmendment, Audience and Content, and ChangeManagement – to provide editors with the tools to battlethis brave, new frontier.

The digital revolution has emerged as our new status quo,and only APME offers a cost-effective way to immerse your-self in journalism of this millennium.

Plus, you don’t need to book a flight to another galaxy.We’re talking Indy, after all.

The conference will have star speakers, out-of-this-worldexperts and, of course, receptions.

Join us. Have a blast.

- Bill Church, executive editor, Herald-Tribune Media Group(Sarasota, Fla.)

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another wake-up call from a restless audience sound-ing the alarm on slumbering newsrooms? A speciallunch presentation with Kelly McBride of The PoynterInstitute on "The New Ethics of Journalism.” Kelly,senior faculty for Poynter, will be the lunchtime speak-er on the challenges and realities facing journalism.Kelly’s energy and expertise on journalism ethicsmake her a sought-after speaker and prominentauthor on a subject dear to many conference atten-dees.

• Metered content is fast becoming the media stan-dard. But do editors truly understand the evolvinghabits and expectations of readers? Dare we mentionnative advertising and what it could mean locally?Greg Swanson, partner and CEO of ITZ Publishing,will lead a panel discussion on metered content that’sguaranteed to provoke and perhaps create cranial dis-comfort. Greg, an Oregon-based consultant, has anextensive background on research and product devel-opment. He has an unapologetic view that manymedia organizations haven’t gone far enough to tapinto varied digital content.

n Wednesday, Oct. 30, Change management• We’re saving one of the best for (almost) last. Butch

Ward, senior faculty at The Poynter Institute and alongtime friend of APME, brings his wit and wisdomto Indy with a session on change management forconference participants. Butch will examine theimpact of change on media organizations and howeditors can adapt and benefit from this brave, evolv-ing world. Butch also will be available for free one-on-one coaching sessions for participants who sign up forthis unique opportunity. n


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Monday, Oct. 28n Welcome from Indiana Gov. Mike Pencen “Happy 80th Birthday, APME” videon Sports access panel moderated by APSE president GerryAhernn First Amendment panel moderated by Gene Policinski of theFreedom Forum’s First Amendment Center

Tuesday, Oct. 29n Extending the print runway with Bill Day of Frank N. Magid Associatesn Butch Ward on change managementn Kelly McBride on the new ethics of journalismn Metered content panel moderated byGreg Swansonn Setting priorities in a changing news-room, moderated by David Arkin

Wednesday, Oct. 30n CEO keynote by Terry Kroeger of the World-Herald Co.n AP news presentation led by Kathleen Carrolln AP/APME awards luncheon

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The APME silent and liveauctions, held during theMonday night reception atthe annual conference, willexpand in Indianapolis.

In addition to the biddingat the reception, a silent auc-tion will be held during thedays of the conference.

We're looking for donationsof vacation getaways, jewelry,regional food baskets, books,artwork, sports and eventtickets, and much more.

Proceeds of the auctionbenefit the APMEFoundation, which helps fundAPME programs.

To donate, contact BobHeisse, APME Foundationpresident, at [email protected], or Sally Jacobsen atthe Associated Press, at [email protected].

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By Pete YostAssociated Press Writer

ASHINGTON (AP) -The JusticeDepartment announced that it is

toughening its guidelines for subpoe-naing reporters’ phone records, and also

raising the standard the governmentneeds to meet before it can issue search

warrants to gather reporters’ email.The changes, announced July 12, follow disclosures that

the Justice Department secretly subpoenaed almost twomonths of telephone records for 21 phone lines used byreporters and editors for The Associated Press and secretlyused a warrant to obtain some emails of a Fox News jour-nalist. After a barrage of criticism from lawmakers, the newsmedia and civil liberties groups, Obama ordered AttorneyGeneral Eric Holder to review the Justice Department’s poli-cy on obtaining such material, and set July 12 as the dead-line.

In announcing the changes, the Justice Department saidit will create a News Media Review Committee to advise itstop officials when the department seeks media-relatedrecords in investigations.

Under one of the changes being made, the governmentmust give advance notice to the news media about subpoe-na requests for reporters’ phone records unless the attorneygeneral determines that “for compelling reasons,” suchnotice would pose a clear and substantial threat to theintegrity of the investigation. That's a change from the cur-rent procedure, which puts the decision in the hands of theassistant attorney general for the criminal division, withreview by the attorney general.

“It is expected that only the rare case would present theattorney general with the requisite compelling reasons tojustify a delayed notification,” the report said.

In another change, the government will issue search war-rants directed at a reporter's email only when that memberof the news media is the focus of a criminal investigation forconduct not connected to ordinary newsgathering activities.

“Under this revised policy, the department would notseek search warrants ... if the sole purpose is the investiga-tion of a person other than the member of the news media,”the report stated.

The report also said the department would revise current

policy to elevate to the attorney general the approvalrequirements for all search warrants directed at members ofthe news media.

In the AP story that triggered one of the leak probes, thenews organization reported that U.S. intelligence hadlearned that al-Qaida’s Yemen branch hoped to launch aspectacular attack using a new, nearly undetectable bombaboard a U.S.-bound airliner around the anniversary ofOsama bin Laden's death.

In the Fox News story, reporter James Rosen reported thatU.S. intelligence officials had warned Obama and seniorU.S. officials that North Korea would respond to a UnitedNations Security Council resolution condemning nucleartests with another nuclear test.

Holder and the Justice Department have said repeatedlythat there was never any intention of charging Rosen with acrime, although an FBI agent referred to the reporter as aco-conspirator when filing an application for an affidavit.The only charges filed have been against the alleged leakerin the case.

“It appears that they are recognizing that the very broad

DOJ tightens guidelines on gettingreporters’ phone records and e-mail

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subpoena of the AP's phone records was too aggressive,”said Lucy Dalglish, dean of the journalism school at theUniversity of Maryland who until recently was head of theReporters' Committee for Freedom of the Press. “They alsorecognized that they are not going to prosecute a reporterfor basic newsgathering activities unless they have reason tobelieve the reporter is involved in the alleged breaking ofthe law. That has not been all that clear in the past.”

She added: “The devil will be in the details. They leftthemselves a little bit of wiggle room.”

David Schulz, an attorney who represented the AP in thecase, called the new guidelines “a major positive develop-ment.”

“Just about everything the attorney general can do unilat-erally to tighten these guidelines, he has," Schulz said.

Erin Madigan White, the AP’s senior media relations man-ager, said the news cooperative “is gratified that theDepartment of Justice took our concerns seriously. Thedescription of the new guidelines … indicates they willresult in meaningful, additional protection for journalists.We’ll obviously be reviewing them more closely when theactual language of the guidelines is released, but we areheartened by this step.”

Holder met with Obama in the Oval Office to discuss thechanges, and White House spokesman Matt Lehrich saidthe president agrees with Holder’s recommendations andconsiders the report an important step toward the properbalance between national security and press freedoms.

Lehrich said Obama had directed his team to explorealternative approaches to cracking down on leaks, such asrevoking security clearances or other punishments.“Pursuing a criminal investigation and prosecution is notalways the most efficient and effective way to address leaksof classified information," he said.

Holder also endorsed the proposal for a shield law thatwould protect reporters. "While these reforms will make ameaningful difference, there are additional protections thatonly Congress can provide," he said. "For that reason, wecontinue to support the passage of media shield legisla-tion." n

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AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt, a First Amendmentlawyer by training, outlined in a June 19 speech five stepsthat are “imperative to give meaning to the powers spelledout” in the Constitution to safeguard press freedom:

n “First: We want the Department of Justice to recognizethe right of the press to advance notice and a chance to beheard before its records are taken by the government. Thiswould have given AP the chance to point out the many fail-ings of the subpoena. We believe notice was required underexisting regulations; if the DOJ sees it differently, then regu-lations must be strengthened to remove any doubt.

n “Second: We want judicial oversight. We need to ensurethat proper checks and balances are maintained. In the APphone records case, the Justice Department determined, onits own, that advance notice could be skipped, with nochecks from any other branch of government. Denying con-stitutional rights by executive fiat is not how this govern-ment should work.

n “Third: We want the DOJ guidelines updated to bringthem into the 21st century. The guidelines were createdbefore the Internet era. They didn’t foresee emails or text.The guidelines need to ensure that the protections affordedjournalists from the forced disclosure of informationencompass all forms of communication.

n “Fourth: We want a federal shield law enacted withteeth in it that will protect reporters from such unilateraland secret government action.

n “Fifth: We want the Department to formally institution-alize what Attorney General Holder has said: that the JusticeDepartment will not prosecute any reporter for doing his orher job.

“The Department should not criminalize — or threaten tocriminalize — journalists for doing their jobs, such as bycalling them co-conspirators under the Espionage Act, asthey did Fox reporter James Rosen. This needs to be part ofan established directive, not only limited to the currentadministration.” n


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ur very first question to the attendees at lastfall's APME Conference in Nashville was alsothe easiest.

“What are the five freedoms of the FirstAmendment?” It’s not surprising that a

majority of the assembled editors, educatorsand students were able to name all five, although later ques-tions about the national motto and Betsy Ross proved to bemore problematic.

John Seigenthaler, the founder of the First AmendmentCenter, and I posed similar questions to journalists andother news media professionals for years as part of a long -running partnership with the AmericanPress Institute. Over a span of 15 years, wefound that journalists tend to know moreabout the First Amendment than the general public, but not quite as much asthey should.

In sharp to contrast to the journalists,who know the First Amendment in partbecause it fuels their profession, mostAmericans know very little about these corefreedoms. In our just-released 2013 State ofthe First Amendment survey, 36 percent ofrespondents said they couldn’t name a sin-gle freedom in the First Amendment. Justfour percent could name all five. The tally of those who canname specific freedoms:

n Freedom of speech – 59 percentn Freedom of religion – 24 percentn Freedom of the press – 14 percentn The right of assembly – 11 percentn The right to petition – 4 percentOur survey asks a follow-up question, explaining in detail

what the First Amendment says and then simply asks“whether the First Amendment goes too far in the rights inguarantees.” Last year, just 13 percent of respondents saidthere’s too much freedom in the First Amendment.

But not this year. The survey happened to take place weeks after the Boston

Marathon bombing. The number of Americans who believethere is too much freedom almost tripled to 34 percent. It’sa jump we’ve seen just one other time. That number rose to49 percent following the horrific attacks of 9/11.

It appears that fear can lead literally millions ofAmericans to change their mind about how free we can be.

Over the years, our standard question about identifyingthe five freedoms has been an icebreaker and conversationstarter. But Americans' illiteracy about the First Amend-ment is both disquieting and dangerous.

Unless society fully understands the potency of the FirstAmendment, giving us freedom of conscience, expressionand individuality, these freedoms are too easy to give up. Insharp contrast to the reaction when legislation is introducedto curb gun ownership, there’s a relatively muted publicresponse to First Amendment encroachments. Sure, many

find government subpoenas or surveillanceof reporters unsettling, or provisions of thePatriot Act disturbing, but a surprisingnumber are willing to make concessions ifit provides them with additional security.

Those who work in the news media havea special obligation to communicate clearlyto their readers and viewers just how essen-tial and intertwined the five freedoms are.There are those who embrace freedom ofreligion, but have disdain for a free press.There are many who love freedom ofspeech, but would like to limit offensiveprotestors. It doesn’t work that way. If one

freedom in the First Amendment is diminished, they all are. Which brings us to one more question from our annual

polling: we asked respondents whether they agreed withthis statement: “It is important for our democracy that thenews media act as a watchdog on government.” For the firsttime in the history of the poll, a full 80 percent said theylook to the news media as a check on government.

That’s a mandate. The members of APME and all whogather news and information have a special obligation toguard against assaults on our core liberties. If someAmericans are silent because they don’t fully understandthe importance of the First Amendment, it’s critical that ourvoices be that much louder, raising awareness, and whennecessary, raising hell. n

Ken Paulson is the president of the First Amendment Centerand dean of the College of Mass Communication at MiddleTennessee State University.


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eek after week since January, the storyof Illinois withholding payments to

vendors has been told one chapter at atime in The State Journal-Register and

other GateHouse Illinois newspapers.Each Monday readers learn about the

impact somewhere. While the details differ, the theme isrepeated over and over.

Here are some of the headlines for the stories publishedso far in our Deadbeat Illinois series:

“State lags in payments to training center.”“Central Illinois seniors suffer as state delays payments.”“Schoolchildren lose out with lack of state aid.”“Community college students suffer.”“Agency turns away addicts as state funding falls short.”“Ambulance services suffer as state delays payments.”“IOUs ripple through municipalities.”“State falling behind on burial expenses, too.”You can find these stories — and the rest of our

series to date — at http://www.sj-r.com/dead-beatillinois.

APME board members Mark Baldwin, exec-utive editor of The Rockford Register Star,Dennis Anderson, executive editor of TheJournal Star in Peoria, and I planned the seriesduring a meeting in Peoria in November 2012. Wewanted to further explore the practice of Illinois’government paying bills late, and doing so for years. Howbest to do that? We decided on weekly stories showing theimpact.

Tom Martin, executive editor of The Register-Mail inGalesburg, joined us, and each paper has produced a storyevery fourth week. These stories have been shared withsmaller GateHouse papers throughout Illinois. The phraseDeadbeat Illinois came out of a project by Illinois newspa-pers and The Associated Press in 2011 as part of the AP-APME broken budgets national reporting initiative.

Many papers including our GateHouse papers participat-ed in the reporting and ran the series for several days in thefall of 2011. The SJ-R published a front-page editorialdemanding that state leaders start paying bills on time.

Nothing changed. Paying bills late is part of the budgetstrategy at the capital. And at this point about $6 billion isbeing kept out of the state’s economy.

Of course, Illinois is struggling with a pension shortfall of$96 billion and its leaders still have not acted to reform thefive pension systems. This has led to declines its credit rat-ing, sending Illinois below California as the state with thelowest credit rating. It’s easy to blame pensions for every-thing, but unpaid bills are contributing to Illinois’ financialwoes and must be addressed.

As this series has been unfolding in 2013, it sparked a nat-ural question: When did this all start?

That question was answered in a special report in May bySJ-R Statehouse reporter Doug Finke. The report, “Notenough people listened,” was published by all of the papers.

As the story pointed out, the first warning was sounded atthe capital by former Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes in

2002. That’s a long time and many billions ago. It wasignored by legislators and governors.

As bad as the unpaid bill backlog is now, it couldbe worse — an estimated $16 billion without therecent state income tax increase. A lot of peopleare hurting over this. Many agencies are likeKCCDD, formerly the Knox County Council forDevelopmental Disabilities, the subject of one ofour weekly stories.

About $2 million of the Galesburg agency’s $5million budget is held up at the state level.

“We have cut everywhere we can,” said MarkRudolph, who heads KCCDD. “When we have wrung

everything out of the towel, we try it again to see if anotherdrop of water comes out. There is no water left.”

Similar concerns have been repeated weekly in this series.Yet legislators have been tackling topics like speed limits,puppy lemon laws, smoking on college campuses and more.Anything but paying bills. Our Deadbeat Illinois series willkeep the impact of this front and center at the Statehouseand among readers, who have been talking about these sto-ries in letters, posted comments online and on Facebookwhere our Deadbeat Illinois page has more than 1,100 likes.

At some point Illinois’ leaders will realize that paying billswill help the state’s economy. We only hope it’s soon. n

Bob Heisse, executive editor of The State Journal-Register inSpringfield, is president of the APME Foundation and imme-diate past president of APME. He can be reached [email protected].

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great ideas2012 APME

NASHVILLE CONFERENCE

ave you launched a great new feature,page or web project, or used a socialmedia tool in a great new way? Well,we want to recognize your great idea.

Associated Press Media Editors recognizes aGreat Idea every month on APME.com and we'llshowcase monthly winners in our popular annualGreat Ideas book, which will be released at our

conference in October.This is a chance for your newspaper to show

off great work and to help fellow editors by pro-viding ideas that might work in their markets.

It's simple to submit your Great Idea. Just goto the Great Ideas page at APME.com, fill outthe online form and attach an image or submit alink.

ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTICA PRISON RIOTDemocrat and ChronicleRochester, N.Y.Dick MossDirector of Local Content/[email protected] mark the 40th anniversary of the Attica prison riot, we worked with our sister Gannett TV station in Buffalo to put together an online site ofhistoric photos, video and current interviews with survivors. We pairedthat with a print package focusing on how many records of the riot’sbloody end are still unavailable to the public.READ IT ONLINE

www.democratandchronicle.com/section/attica

TOMATO-TASTING CONTESTWinston-Salem JournalWinston-Salem, N.C.Carol HannerManaging [email protected] food editor and gardening columnist do a tomato-tasting event at a Friday night gallery hop in the arts district in which readers and tomatogrowers bring their varieties of tomatoes to be cut up and available to visitors to sample and vote on. They also taste tomato recipes preparedby half a dozen restaurants. The event is very popular and produces afood page centerpiece on the winners, as well as good marketing promotion of the newspaper.FIND MORE ONLINE

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DETROITSELF-PORTRAITPROJECTDetroit Free PressDetroitNancy AndrewsManaging editor for Digital [email protected] Self-Portrait project is aspace for metro Detroiters to sharetheir views of our city. Inspired bythe Detroit Institute of Arts’“Detroit Revealed” photographyexhibit and wanting to provide aplace for Detroiters and those connected to Detroit to publish their own portrait of the city, we arepartnered with the DIA to shareDetroit’s self-portrait. Many journalists and photographerstravel to Detroit to photographour ruins, but this display has resonated here with the community.More than 2,700 pictures have been published by more than 700people.We’ve had selections shownat public events and in digital displays at the DIA and the DetroitPublic Library. The project is ongoing — as long as it touchespeople, we’ll keep sharing it, too.VIEW THE GALLERY ONLINE

www.freep.com/portrait/

OLD STYLE LOOK FORHISTORIC MILESTONEThe Patriot LedgerQuincy, Mass.Chazy [email protected] celebrate 175 years of publish-ing, the staff produced an editionas it looked back in the 1800s;using an early-edition to copy thenameplate of The Quincy Patriot,the predecessor to The PatriotLedger.READ MORE ONLINE

www.patriotledger.com/175

OUR TOWN PHOTO CONTESTVallejo Times HeraldVallejo, Calif.Mario SevillaOnline [email protected] reporter Lanz Banes leads theVallejo Times Herald staff in an effortto capitalize on a popular digitalphoto-capturing trend: 30 photos in 30 days. In this contest, Lanz and the

VTH crew designed a calendar filledwith daily challenges asking readers tosnap pictures of local landmarks,events, activities, etc. Submissions areposted the next day in a photoslideshow; editors chose winners forthe August 30/30 contest at the end ofthe month.MORE PHOTOS ONLINE

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ortheast Ohio is the head-quarters for several Fortune 500companies, and home to manyother businesses that supportthe major industrial players inour area. In recent years, the

business community in our region has experi-enced a renaissance, due in part to the gas andoil boom, and the number of new companiesthat have moved into our area to support theenergy business. In response to this increasingactivity, we realized the need for a more com-prehensive business news report and pub-lished our first edition of Stark Business Journalin early June.

The idea for a separate business publicationwas hatched last fall when we began a majorreporting project on the affects of the gas andoil business on our regional economy. SBJ isthe result of many conversations and collabo-ration between the newsroom and advertisingdepartment. We had been hearing from read-ers and local business owners for some timeabout stories they felt we were overlookingwhen we cut back on space for business newsseveral years ago.

After talking with the staff, readers andadvertisers, we realized we needed to do a bet-ter job with our business reporting and made it one of ourfranchise issues. This is our promise to our readers andcommunity: We will be the source for business news; we willown it, in print and online.

We made several reporting and editing changes to formour business team. Our advertising and marketing depart-ments played a key role in helping shape our coverage andprovided the advertising support to insure a successfullaunch for our new venture. We decided a bi-weekly taboffered us the opportunity to take a magazine format andstructure deeper dives into specific topics. The bi-weeklypublication schedule offered us flexibility with our staffingand workflow.

Our goal is to offer in-depth enterprise reporting on alltypes of businesses, from agriculture to oil and gas, to start-up businesses to major corporations. What does it take to go

from local to regional and beyond in today’s businessworld? These are just a few of the issues we will examine incoming editions.

In our first edition, we reported on the local business cli-mate and economy and how businesses, large and small,interact with each other in a business ecosystem. Theresponse was immediate and overwhelmingly positive fromreaders and businesses. n

Teri Hayt is the executive editor of GateHouse OhioNewspapers. She can be reached at [email protected],or on Twitter at: @thaytREP.

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NRenaissance in Ohio sparkslaunch of business journal

In response to a business renaissance in Northeast Ohio,GateHouse Ohio Newspapers launched Stark BusinessJournal in June. The publication is a bi-weekly tab format.

Turning the pageAs news organizations adapt to changing business models

and evolving content demands, editors and publishers are rethinking the layout anddesign of newsroom spaces. The old, open rooms served newspapers well in the 20th

century. But, in these multiplatform and streamlined environments, such spaces are oftenno longer in sync with the jobs that need to be done. Editors of two newspapers –

The Des Moines Register and the Miami Herald – recently unveiled their newsheadquarters. APME News asked them to give our members a tour of their new digs.

State-of-the-art facilities in Miami.

The centerpiece of the Register’s new space is the digitally focused “Mission Control,”where section editors, multimedia producers, social media editors and other digital staffers collaborate, plan,

analyze real-time website analytics and monitor competitors’ digital sites and broadcasts.

he downtown Des Moines map says just threecity blocks separate Capital Square, the new

home of Register Media, and our former offices for95 years at 715 Locust St.

Yet, it's a mighty leap in somany ways.

For nearly 100 years - and in the face ofan unprecedented wave of global innova-tion - the Des Moines Register and otheraspects of our business toiled in a 13-storyoffice complex that could no longer meetthe changing demands of our media busi-ness.

Did we produce great journalism there? You bet.Meaningful work that yielded countless awards, including16 Pulitzer Prizes, unfolded in that newsroom.

Did we forge incredibly close ties to our advertisers at 715Locust? Undoubtedly. Creative campaigns targeting our far-reaching audience allowed us to build strategic partnershipswith thousands of Iowa companies and clients.

Did we embrace our role as an influential communityleader in those offices? Unequivocally. On countless issues

and endeavors, the Register - from its editorial pages to thepublisher’s office - demonstrated an unflinching commit-ment to serving the greater good of Iowa.

As we settle into our gleaming new space inside 400Locust St., it's important for you to know that our genera-tions-old commitment to journalistic excellence, helpingour clients grow their business and being a catalyst for posi

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The Register’s new space is in the heart of downtown, over-looking Des Moines’ civic center and a city park that is beingrenovated. It also is just blocks from Iowa’s state capital.

By Rick GreenEditor/Vice President/News, Des Moines Register

A key strategy at Capital Square was creat-ing collaborative areas where teams could

work together in a bright, new surroundings.

The entry into the Register’s newsroomincludes seven historic Page Ones and thenseveral TV screens that display the staff’svideos, breaking news stories and other digitalcontent. The space opened in mid-June.

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tive change in metro Des Moines and throughout our stateis unwavering.

Our offices moved, but our legacy of serving our readers and advertisers remains stronger than ever.

Like countless companies before us, Register Media andthe other divisions that are part of our parent, Gannett Co.,needed a different work environment to accomplish ourmission in this multi-faceted digital age.

Quite simply: New space was needed for us to do newthings for the audiences we serve.

Collaboration is key for us, but it was virtually impossibleat 715 Locust St.

Here at Capital Square, key departments are closertogether. Conversations unfold and creativity is unleashed.Staffers work side-by-side in open areas that leverage ourskills, talents and passion.

There are informal brainstorming areas, surrounded bywhite boards and top-of-the-line audiovisual equipment,for us to devise new ad campaigns, marketing strategies orstory approaches.

We have two studios filled with nearly 300 top-notchdesigners and artists who create dynamic ads or producehigh-impact news pages for Gannett media sites (newspa-pers and digital sites) around the country.

The focal point of our sleek newsroom is an area called“Mission Control,” a NASA-like setting where more than adozen digital producers, content editors and multimediacreators handle stories, photos, videos and graphics for

DesMoinesRegister.com and the print editions.It’s a new way of delivering more information than ever

before on devices and in digital channels that we couldn'thave imagined just three years ago - and never could haveaccomplished in the limited confines of our former build-ing. At day’s end, buildings are just that - bricks, mortar,columns and walls. They can provide the space to do greatthings, but it is the people that make a difference in anyorganization.

More than 525 staffers comprise Register Media, the DesMoines Register and Gannett Imaging and Ad Design Center.We are proud to call 400 Locust St. our new home.

Our traditions might be on the move, but our purpose toactively influence and impact a better quality of life in Iowais unwavering.

Thanks for reading us - on all platforms. n

Follow Rick Green on Twitter: @IowaRAG.


The greatest challenge for the Register: Sifting through nearlya century’s worth of clips and photo files and transportingthe most essential ones three blocks east to Capital Square.

A favorite corner in the new space for the 525 Register Media and Gannett employees is “Innovation Café.”


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MiamiHerald journalists are using the latest technology and a new,state-of-the-art newsroom to get news to millions of readers

By Aminda Marques GonzalezExecutive Editor and Vice President, Miami Herald

s I unpacked the last of my moving boxes in ournew, modern newsroom, I couldn’t help but think

back on my early career at the Miami Herald.I worked as a night time general assignment

reporter on the city desk, which often meantchasing police calls.

At the time, cellphones were in their infancy andwe had about half a dozen in the newsroom. When Iwent out on assignment, my editor would give meone to take on the road. It was almost as big as atoolbox and it was like toting a bag of bricks.

On the scene, I’d scrawl the story on a notepad,then call the newsroom to dictate the story. You hadto talk fast before the cellphone died.

Now, thanks to advances in technology, the smartphonesour reporters use today are the Swiss army knife of journal-ism.

Armed with an iPhone, Miami Herald journalists can do

everything they need to do in real time -Tweet from a livenews event, post a photo to Facebook, shoot a quick videoto post online or record an interview to air on WLRN/MiamiHerald news radio.

Every now and then, a reporter must resort to writing andfiling a story using a cellphone, as Haiti correspon-dent Jacqueline Charles did - with her trademarkinch-long nails - while reporting Haiti's 2010earthquake.

As we find ourselves at the crossroads of an evolu-tion in modern journalism, the Miami Herald and elNuevo Herald are perfectly positioned for today -and the future - in our new headquarters.

We have built a streamlined printing plantbecause we know that our newspapers are going to bearound for years to come. The print editions of the MiamiHerald and El Nuevo Herald combined reach 1.3 million


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adults in South Florida.With our own presses, we retain control of deadlines,

which allows us to provide readers the most up-to-dateinformation possible in the morning paper. That has beencritical during the Heat’s run in the NBA finals.

We also have built a state-of-the-art newsroom designedto deliver news and information with the speed required bytoday's news cycle. Our Continuous News Desk, at the cen-ter of the Miami Herald and el Nuevo newsrooms, is like anair traffic control tower for news, information, photos andvideos. It’s where we disseminate news, whether throughsocial media, through a digital news flash or an in-depthstory in the newspaper.

We are reaching millions of new readers and we continueto experiment with new ways as technology changes.

Our websites - MiamiHerald.com, elNuevo.com,Miami.com and MomsMiami.com - reach more than 8million readers each month. We have 20 news and sportsapps for both Android and Apple. Soon, we will have twomore apps for Windows 8 mobile phone and desktop. Wealso have four iPad apps for the Miami Herald and el NuevoHerald - and we are on e-readers like Kindle and the SonyReader.

Both papers - combined with our reporters and photog-raphers - have tens of thousands of followers and fans onTwitter and Facebook. You can watch one of our videoshows online or listen to our radio reports on WLRN/MiamiHerald News.

And when you have something to say, you can still write aletter to the editor, comment on one of our stories online orjoin our Public Insight Network, which is part of a nationaldatabase of readers who share their expertise and opinions.

We are in a new location after 50 years in our baysidehome in downtown Miami. Our address has changed. Whatremains the same is our 110-year tradition of journalismexcellence in chronicling this community.

We will continue to cover politics, education, business,the arts and culture, sports and crime - local coverage thatthe Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald are uniquely posi-tioned to provide.

Our role has never been more important as readers seektrusted, impartial news and information amid the chaos ofuninformed voices. n

Aminda Marqués Gonzalez can be reached at 305-376-3429or [email protected]., or on Twitter@MindyMarques.



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Gang violence in Toledo rose significantly in the summerof 2012, with eight people shot, two fatally, in a 24-hourperiod. The Blade covered each and every shooting, but thepaper dug deeper. Crime reporter Taylor Dungjen heardpolice had created a map of gang territories in the Toledo,but they refused to hand it over, saying it was an investiga-tive record and not a public record.

The Blade filed suit against the city. With the suit boggeddown in depositions and gang violence rising, the newspa-per decided not to wait for the courts. Blade editors sentDungjen and photojournalist Amy Voigt into some of thecity's toughest neighborhoods to interview the people whoknew more about gangs than the police — the gang mem-bers themselves.

Using colored pencils, gang members and police sourcesworked with Dungjen and Voigt to help create a gang map

that tells where gang activity is most dan-gerous. The result was a map of gang territories in Toledothat law enforcement sources say is better than the city'smap.

The Blade’s series, “Battle Lines: Gangs of Toledo,” alsoshowed there are more than 2,000 known gang members inToledo and 25 to 40 “big major gangs.” Some, including anunnamed member of the Manor Boyz, joined the gang asyoung children. Others are in so deep that the only way outis death. Some end up spending most of their lives inprison.

For the first day of The Blade’s four-part series, we askedTaylor to give readers a first-person account on how she gotthe stories and she gathered the information for the news-paper’s gang map.

-Kurt Franck, Executive Editor The (Toledo) Blade

By Taylor DungjenBlade Staff Writer

he first days were the worst.It was freezing, and I couldn’t find my

gloves. There was snow on the ground, andnobody was interested in helping Blade pho-tographer Amy E. Voigt and me put together

a map of gang territories in Toledo.East Toledo seemed like a logical place to start. We

walked around the Weiler Homes, stopping residents to ask if they knew any-thing about gangs in the area.

Silence.We learned later that the silence was probably more about survival than

not wanting to cooperate.No snitching.We spent two days doing this — driving around the city trying to find peo-

ple and community organizations willing to help.“We can’t help you.”“We won't help you.”“Are you crazy?”“I don't know what you’re talking about.”

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Frustrated, we gave up for the week (it was a Friday). I leftwork thinking there was no way this map would ever hap-pen. The police couldn’t help — not really. “Be careful,” offi-cers cautioned as I explained why I wouldn't be around theSafety Building for a while. "You can't trust these guys."

Eventually, by some saving grace and a few decent ideas,we met people such as Willie Knighten, Jr., Roshawn Jones,Shawn Mahone, and other people we can’t mention byname. Each of these men knew something about gangs andworks with young people now.

They were our connection to the inside. They were greatsources for information, background and understanding.They put up with a lot of phone calls and numerous follow-ups and connected us to other people — including thegangs — who could help.

Without them, we might still be working on this project.Everyone thinks I’m a cop.Ten weeks and an estimated 900 hours later (between

Amy and me), we produced a print map and companiondigital interactive map complete with videos of interviewswith gang members. You can see the digital map at toledoblade.com/toledogangmap.

I am a better reporter now than I was when we startedthis project in mid-January. The Blade, I think, is a betternewspaper for taking on the task.

People expected Amy and me to be scared of the assign-ment. Send two women into neighborhoods that are often-times not known for anything other than violence?

“You don't want to talk to these guys. They're going to setyou up and rob you.”

“You’re going to be in danger and taken advantage of.”Once during the assignment, there was a rush of adrena-

line. In the moment — the “riot” outside Scott High Schoolafter students were pepper-sprayed by sheriff's deputies —adults and youths threatened Amy. One kid took a swing ather while she was recording video and taking pictures. Weleft rattled, but after a few minutes to stop, breathe and sitdown, we were fine.

Otherwise, I never felt like we were in danger. No onethreatened me, made me feel insecure or uncomfortable.No one tried to intimidate me.

The people we talked to — active and former gang mem-bers, frustrated mothers and fathers, young Toledoans try-ing to make a difference for themselves, their families, andtheir city — were kind. They were welcoming, they were gra-cious.

I guess I'm a little frustrated I even need to explain that.We had the great fortune of meeting people who were

willing to trust us and open up to share their stories andtheir secrets.

I think the Toledo community will be better for reading

the stories, seeing the photos, and watching the videos.I imagine people will be upset by the information that is

here; some might not believe it’s accurate. It’s not some-thing that's been widely available before.

Former Toledo Mayor Jack Ford said he hopes the map isa catalyst for a candid community conversation.

Me too.One of the most frustrating parts of reporting this series

was finding out there’s no real end in sight. If the youngmen and women who are involved in gangs don't see it,how can I?

I want to be optimistic.There are a lot of programs that offer help to troubled

youth and convicted people who want to do better with asecond or third chance.

Sometimes that wake-up call takes a little longer forsome.

The young men and women we talked to — most of themwere my age — said violence only ends with prison or moreviolence. But even then violence begets violence.

Retaliation. On the streets, it’s survival of the fittest, andthat can mean a lot of different things.

One of the things that struck me most during our conver-sations with gang members came during an interview with“Chaos,” a 28-year-old gang member from the south side. AFolk. He said, basically, what he does on the streets he doesfor his family — he is making a reputation for himself sothat his cousins, brothers, nieces, nephews — whoever —has an easier time in the future.

Sounds a lot like what my parents told me when I was akid. “Taylor, our goal is for you to be more successful thanwe are.”

At some point, probably before I was even a teenager, mymom told me that. Didn't make a lot of sense then, but itdoes now. Same principle, different application.

And, at this point, I feel like I understand where the gangmembers I interviewed are coming from — I kind of get thegang culture and lifestyle.

“Chaos” explained that the culture and the lifestyle arenot the same thing. Gangs don’t have to be bad. The cultureis the idea of solidarity and community.

The lifestyle — drugs, guns, violence — that's what somegang members adopt and what gets them in trouble.

But really, when it comes down to it, I don’t understand atall. And no matter how many months Amy and I could havespent on this project, we would never fully understand.

But we’re doing our best to get it, to understand, to tellstories that might otherwise go untold.

I hope people will keep sharing. My ears are open. n

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MARCHAP Photo/The Kansas City StarJill ToyoshibaTomas Young, a paralyzedIraq vet who became anoutspoken critic against thewar and subject of the doc-umentary “Body of War,” isin hospice. He has chosento stop nourishment andwater soon. One of his lastacts was to issue an openletter accusing Bush andCheney of war crimes.Claudia Cuellar, Young'swife and caregiver, sits withhim in their Kansas City,North, home Wednesday,Mar. 20, 2013.

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APRILAP Photo/The Boston GlobeJohn TlumackiBill Iffrig, 78, lies on theground as police officersreact to a second explosionat the finish line of theBoston Marathon inBoston, Monday, April 15,2013. Iffrig, of LakeStevens, Wash., was run-ning his third BostonMarathon and near the fin-ish line when he wasknocked down by one oftwo bomb blasts.


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Sun-Times shuffles management postsJim Kirk, editor-in-chief of the

Chicago Sun-Times, has been namedpublisher of the newspaper in a reorga-nization of management. Robert K.Elder has been appointed editor inchief of the STM Local suburban news-papers. They include the Pioneer Press publications, theNaperville Sun and the daily papers in Aurora, Elgin andLake County. Jim Hickey is the STM Local general manager.Paul Pham has been appointed CST Group senior vice pres-ident. Timothy Knight continues as chief executive of Sun-Times parent Wrapports LLC.

Haven takes new AP editor positionPaul Haven, who has covered Cuba since 2009 as The

Associated Press bureau chief in Havana, has been nameddeputy Latin America and Caribbean editor for the newscooperative. Haven succeeds Trish Wilson, recently namedInternational Investigations Editor based in Washington,D.C. (see Wilson’s appointment at bottom right).

Butler named to AP post in TurkeyDesmond Butler, an AP foreign affairs reporter based in

Washington, has been named chief correspondent inIstanbul, Turkey, for The Associated Press. Prior to joiningthe AP, Butler was a Berlin-based reporter for The New YorkTimes, investigating European cells of al-Qaida following theSept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Scott takes promotion in RenoKelly Ann Scott, a senior editor at the Reno Gazette-

Journal and a 14-year veteran of Gannett Co. Inc., has beennamed the newspaper's new executive editor, president andpublisher John Maher announced. She succeeds BerylLove, who left in May to become executive editor of theGannett Global News Desk at the Virginia-based mediacompany, which owns the Gazette-Journal. Maherannounced the appointment as part of a reorganization ofthe RGJMedia information center’s management structure

that also includes new positions for Lauren Gustus, thecurrent senior editor for sports and features, and James Ku,current senior editor of digital.

MTSU announces Paulson appointmentFormer USA Today editor Ken Paulson has been named

dean of the College of Mass Communication at MiddleTennessee State University in Murfreesboro. Paulson, presi-dent and chief executive officer of the First AmendmentCenter at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and at theNewseum in Washington, D.C., replaced Roy Moore, deanof the college since 2008, who will remain with the collegeas a professor.

Baker promoted to chief of bureauMark Baker, photographer and acting bureau chief for

The Associated Press in Kuala Lumpur, has been promotedto chief of bureau for Malaysia and Singapore. The appoint-ment was announced by Brian Carovillano, the AP’s Asia-Pacific news director. Baker joined the AP in 2003 in Sydneyas chief photographer responsible for photo coverage forAustralia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.

Graham named editor in MemphisLouis Graham has been promoted to editor of The

Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tenn. Graham, 59, whowas managing editor, replaces Chris Peck, who retired fromthe Memphis daily newspaper in March. He began his jour-nalism career as a reporter at The Commercial Appeal in1979.

Wilson takes on new role at APTrish Wilson, deputy Latin America and Caribbean editor

for The Associated Press, has been named to the new posi-tion of international investigations editor for the newscooperative. Wilson will work with reporters abroad and inWashington to develop in-depth and investigative projectsto both break news and explain the world we live in.

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McLaughlin new editor in Bowling GreenJan Larson McLaughlin, a reporter at the Sentinel-

Tribune in Bowling Green, Ohio, for 29 years, has beennamed the newspaper’s editor. McLaughlin's appointmentfollows the death of editor David C. Miller on May 18. Millerbegan his career at the Sentinel-Tribune in 1971.

Carroll accepts promotion in DenverDeputy editorial page editor Vincent Carroll was named

editor of The Denver Post editorial page, where he will over-see print and online content for the daily opinion pages andthe Sunday Perspective section. He will replace CurtisHubbard, who announced he is leaving The Post to becomea partner with OnSight Public Affairs.

Post names digital strategy editor The Washington Post has named a digital strategy editor

as the newspaper's managing editor in charge of digital ini-tiatives and multimedia operations. Emilio Garcia-Ruiz wasnamed managing editor on Friday, May 24. He will workwith Kevin Merida, the managing editor in charge of newsand features coverage.

Bassing new M.E. in Greenville, Miss.Tom Bassing has been named managing editor of the

Greenville, Miss., Delta Democrat Times. He most recentlyworked on the copy desk at the Birmingham News after astint as a reporter with the Birmingham Business Journal.

Lester joins AP in Springfield, Ill.Kerry Lester, an award-winning political reporter in

Illinois, has been named Supervisory Correspondent for TheAssociated Press in Springfield, Ill. Lester, 30, joins the APfrom the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Ill.

The New Mexican editor to retire The editor of The New Mexican, of Santa Fe, N.M., says he

plans to retire after more than 21 years of guiding Santa Fe’sdaily newspaper. The New Mexican reported that Rob Deantold the newsroom staff on May 8 that his last day on thejob will be July 3. He says he intends to stay in Santa Fe buthas no immediate career plans.

Johnston new M.E. at Opelika-Auburn The Opelika-Auburn (Ala.) News named Patrick Johnston

as its new managing editor. Johnston previously worked asmanaging editor of the Eufaula Tribune.

Pohl new publisher in New Hampshire The Telegraph of Nashua, N.H., has a new publisher.

Gregory J. Pohl, formerly a regional manager for OgdenNewspapers, succeeds Terrence Williams, who was pub-lisher for 19 years. Pohl’s start comes with a formal changein ownership for The Telegraph. The Ogden NewspapersInc., a family-owned company, acquired the paper fromIndependent Publications Inc., which owned The Telegraphsince 1977. n

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APME seeking McGruder nominationsThe Associated Press Media Editors association is accept-

ing nominations for 12th Annual Robert G. McGruderAwards for Diversity Leadership.

Two awards are given annually: one for newspapers witha circulation up to 75,000; one for newspapers with morethan 75,000 circulation.

The awards go to individuals, news organizations or relat-ed journalistic organizations or teams of journalists whoembody the spirit of Robert G. McGruder, a former execu-tive editor of the Detroit Free Press, former managing editorof The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, graduate of Kent StateUniversity and relentless diversity champion. McGruderdied of cancer in April 2002.

This year, the awards are being sponsored by the FreePress, The Plain Dealer, Kent State University and the ChipsQuinn Scholars program of the Newseum Institute.

Jurors will be looking for nominees who have made a sig-nificant contribution during a given year or over a numberof years toward furthering diversity in news content and inrecruiting, developing and retaining a diverse workforce.

Announcement of the winners will be made at the annualAPME conference Oct. 28-30 in Indianapolis. The recog-nized honorees each receive $2,500 and a leadership trophy.

n Deadline: Material must be received by close of business Monday, Aug. 5, 2013.

Send material to:Sally Jacobsen (email: [email protected])The Associated Press450 West 33rd St.New York, NY 10001

Become a lifetime member of APMEFor the first time and in

recognition of its 80thanniversary in 2013, APMEis offering lifetime member-ships for a limited time.

You can join this elitegroup of news industry lead-ers for just $800 - already,seven members have madethis commitment to APME.

Renew your membershipfor a year or a lifetime bygoing to www.apme.com.

NewsTrain ambassador campaignseeks alumni and supporters

Ten years ago, APME introducedNewsTrain to provide top-level, on-sitetraining at a low cost for journalists.

So much has changed in our businessover the last decade, but NewsTrain hasmaintained its mission and has becomeeven stronger.

Directed by industry-leading trainerMichael Roberts, who previously servedas deputy managing editor for staff development at TheArizona Republic, the program attracts top trainers andeach year reaches hundreds of print, online and broadcastjournalists, as well as college students and educators.

Last year, the three NewsTrain sites – Phoenix, Miami andToronto – exceeded 100 participants each. This year, work-shops are planned for Springfield, Ill.; New York City;Colorado Springs; and Seattle.

NewsTrain remains affordable at only $75 for up to twodays of training, but it’s driven by donations from TheAssociated Press, other media companies, foundations andindividuals.

For NewsTrain's 10th year, the Associated Press MediaEditors is reaching out to journalists in the United Statesand Canada who have attended a NewsTrain workshop, orwho have sent staffers who have benefited.

This is the year to give back to NewsTrain, and we hopethat you'll help in the 2013 NewsTrain AmbassadorCampaign.

Make a donation of $100 or more and become aNewsTrain Ambassador.

You'll be recognized online and in the APME News maga-zine, as well as the national conference Oct. 28-30 inIndianapolis. If you can't give that level, consider a gift of$10 or more in this 10th anniversary year. All donations areappreciated. APME is a nonprofit, so gifts are tax-deductible.

Please make your check out to the Associated Press MediaEditors and mark it for NewsTrain. Send it to:APME/NewsTrain, c/o Sally Jacobsen, Associated Press, 450 W. 33rd St. New York, NY 10001.

You can also donate online athttp://www.apme.com/donations/fund.asp?id=7259.

We need NewsTrain to continue making stops in the U.S.and Canada for years to come. Please help us do that. n


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Colorado Springs y Sept. 27-28NewsTrain will be in Colorado Springs, Colo., for a two-

day workshop. NewsTrain is sponsored by APME and thisworkshop is hosted by the Colorado Press Association andthe Colorado Springs Gazette.

Other members of the planning committee include theGreeley Tribune, the Grand Junction Sentinel, Fort CollinsColoradoan, Evergreen Newspapers, The Associated PressDenver Bureau, the University of Colorado, Colorado StateUniversity, Society of Professional Journalists, the Steam-boat Pilot & Today (Steamboat Springs), and Adams StateCollege.

n Location: University of Colorado-Colorado Springs,Colorado Springs, Colo.

n Registration: Cost is $75 for the workshop and food serv-ice. Register at www.apme.com

n Questions: Contact Michael Roberts, NewsTrain ProjectDirector, [email protected]. Samantha Johnston,Colorado Press Association, [email protected].

WORKSHOP AGENDAn Reporting with Data: A primer in how to start working with

data and databases as a regular part of good beat work and asa source of strong watchdog / enterprise packages.

n Diving Deeper with Data: How (and where) to assemblebodies of the latest data on a community, a topic, or an issue.

n Five Stages of a Story: A five-step process for developingand delivering high quality stories.

n How to Shoot Video: A how-to session on skills and tech-niques for capturing “usable” video footage, primarily with afocus on short news / feature video that is posted quickly.

n Video Storytelling Skills: Video can be used to tell a vari-ety of stories, short or long, on your web site. This sessionexplains the choices and skills, including the concepts of “lo-fi”and “hi-fi” video and how both fill needs on newspaper web-sites on over smartphone apps.

n Social Media Best Practices 2.0: This session offers tac-tics and tips to improve your comfort on social media, establishyour brand, encourage audience engagement, and measurehow well your social media efforts are working over time.

n Social Media as Reporting Tool: How reporters and edi-tors can use social media as a reporting tool when faced withbreaking news or enterprise projects.

n Colorado FOI Update: An overview on the latest develop-ments in Colorado FOI and sunshine laws, with advice on fram-ing effective FOI letters and how to deal with events or con-frontations that appear to violate Colorado FOI law.

Seattle y Oct. 3-4NewsTrain will be in Seattle, Wash., for a two-day work-

shop at the Seattle Public Library.NewsTrain is sponsored by APME and this workshop is

hosted by the Seattle Times, Spokane Spokesman-Review,Tacoma News Tribune, Puget Sound Business Journal,KUOW public radio, The Seattle Globalist, EO Media Group,Crosscut.com, The Associated Press,University of Washing-ton and Washington State University journalism programs.

n Location: The Seattle Public Library, Central Branch, 1000Fourth Avenue, Seattle, Wash.

n Registration: Cost is $75 for the workshop and food serv-ice. Register at www.APME.com.

n Questions: Contact Michael Roberts, NewsTrain ProjectDirector, [email protected] or Jim Simon, SeattleTimes, [email protected].

WORKSHOP AGENDAn Finding the Best Stories in Data: Given a fairly structured

data set, how do journalists find "actionable intelligence” or thebest storylines.

n Mining for Data: Data and documents help reporters cov-ering government, business, public safety or most any beat shiftthe balance of power. How? This session explains how to growa data-and-document mindset, using the example of one spe-cific town in Washington state.

n Digital Storytelling: How to approach the developmentand presentation of breaking news and enterprise packageswith both print and online platforms in mind.

n Data Visualization: Many new tools have created a surgein data visualization, the presentation of data in visual and inter-active forms online.

n Planning & Coaching Content Across Platforms: How toframe clear standards and workflows for new digital media in arapidly changing media environment.

n Continuous Coverage: Once your set of online tools is inplace, how to plan and manage continuous news coverageacross digital and print platforms, and create content specifical-ly for the web and print.

n Social Media Reporting Tools: Social media platformscontain powerful reporting tools that can be valuable whenreporters are faced with big breaking news stories or enterpriseprojects.

n Maximize Your Social Media: So you're a journalist onsocial media, but not so sure you're taking the right approach?

n Smartphones for Journalists: A guide to the best apps,web sites, and other tools for reporters working in the field.

NewsTrain schedules autumn stops in Colorado Springs, Seattle

he AP Stylebook is marking its 60th anniversarywith the 2013 print edition, which includes

more than 90 new or updated entries and broad-ens the guidelines on social media.

At about 500 pages, the AP Stylebook is widelyused in newsrooms, classrooms and corporate officesworldwide. More than a dozen of the new entries are in thesections on food (such as Benedictine and Grand Marnier,madeleine and upside-down cake) and fashion (chichi andfroufrou).

The numerals entries have been updated and consolidat-ed for easier understanding and searching. The four-pagesection adopts numerals as the preferred usagefor all distances and dimensions and provides,alphabetically by topic, almost 200 examples ofwhen to use figures and when to spell them out.

The new entry on mental illness gives guide-lines on when references are relevant, particu-larly in stories involving violent crime, and howthey should be reported. The entry on illegalimmigration, widely reported when it wasannounced in April, prohibits use of the termillegal immigrant, except in direct quotationsessential to a story. Use of the word illegal islimited to an action, not a person.

The section on social media has beenexpanded with additional terms and definitions, includingcircles, flash mob and Google Hangout. Also broadened isinformation on how to secure, authenticate, attribute andreference user-generated content for text, photo captionsand video scripts.

The weapons section spells out differences betweenassault rifle and assault weapon, magazine and clip, andpistol and revolver, and adds entries on bolt-action andlever-action rifles.

Among other new and revised entries are: Advent, AlaskaNative, Asperger’s syndrome, athletic trainers in SportsGuidelines, disabled/handicapped, doughnut, dumpster,ethnic cleansing, homicide/murder/manslaughter, moped,populist, rack/wrack, red carpet, swag, underway, wackyand wildfires.

The 2013 edition consolidates a number of changes madesince the 2012 volume was published. Stylebook Online isupdated throughout the year, as AP editors make additionsor changes.

New this year is a package of AP style quizzes compiled byDavid Minthorn, one of the editors of the AP Stylebook. Thequizzes feature automated scoring and information on therelevant style rules. AP Style Quizzes will sell for $6.95 forone year of access, or $3.95 when purchased with any otherStylebook product on apstylebook.com.

Also new are two special offers for book customers: Whenyou buy the 2013 Stylebook, you can get Stylebook Online athalf price; and when you sign up for automatic delivery ofthe new book each spring, you save 20 percent off the listprice. The subscription-based Stylebook Online includes allStylebook listings, plus an Ask the Editor feature with more

than twice as many entries as the Stylebookitself, a pronunciation guide with phoneticspellings and audio pronouncers, and topicalstyle guides about news events such as thepapal succession and U.S. elections. Users canadd their own entries, make notes and get noti-fications throughout the year when AP’s editorsadd or update listings. Stylebook Online’s web-site uses responsive design to automaticallyadapt to the user’s computer, tablet or smart-phone screen size.

Stylebook Mobile contains all the contentfrom the spiral-bound Stylebook, with the abili-ty to search, add personalized listings or notes

and mark your favorite listings for easy reference. The uni-versal iOS app is optimized for iPhone and iPad. The 2013Stylebook Mobile app was scheduled for release shortlyafter the book, in mid June.

The new print edition and online subscriptions can beordered online. Stylebook Mobile is sold via iTunes.

The new spiral-bound Stylebook costs $16.75 for membernews organizations and college bookstores and $20.95retail. Stylebook Online prices are $26 for individual sub-scribers for one year and $16 for news organizations that areAP members. Prices for Stylebook Online site licenses arebased on the number of users.

None of the Stylebook product prices have increased thisyear.

AP works with two technology companies to provide elec-tronic checking of AP style, and both products are beingupdated to reflect the latest guidance in the 2013 edition.Tansa offers an AP Stylebook module for its proofing tools,which work with newsroom production systems. n


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Officersn President: Brad Dennison, GateHouse Media,

Fairport, N.Y.n Vice President: Debra Adams Simmons, The Plain

Dealer, Clevelandn Secretary: Teri Hayt, The (Canton, Ohio) Repositoryn Journalism Studies Chair: Alan D. Miller, The Columbus

(Ohio) Dispatchn Treasurer: Jan Touney, Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa

Executive Committee(officers above plus)n Past President: Bob Heisse, State Journal-Register,

Springfield, Ill.n AP Senior Vice President/Executive Editor: Kathleen

Carroll, New Yorkn AP Vice President/Senior Managing Editor: Mike

Oreskes, New Yorkn Conference Program: Mark Baldwin, Rockford (Ill.)

Register Star and Bill Church, Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune

Officers

Directors(Terms expiring in 2013)n J.B. Bittner, Elk City (Okla.) Daily Newsn Jack Lail, Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentineln Jan Touney, Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa

(Terms expiring in 2014)n Bill Church, Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribunen Michael Days, Philadelphia Daily Newsn Alan English, The Log Cabin Democrat, Conway, Ark.n Kurt Franck, The Blade, Toledo, Ohion Gary Graham, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.n Joe Hight, The Oklahoman, Oklahoma Cityn Laura Kessel, The News-Herald, Whilloughby, Ohion Eric Ludgood, WGCL/CBS, Atlanta Newsn Aminda Marques Gonzalez, Miami Heraldn Martin G. Reynolds, The Oakland Tribunen Monica R. Richardson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

(Terms expiring in 2015)n Dennis Anderson, Peoria (Ill.) Journal Starn Mark Baldwin, Rockford (Ill.) Register Starn Chris Cobler, Victoria (Texas) Advocaten Angie Muhs, Portland (Maine) Press Heraldn Laura Sellers-Earl, EO Media Group, Salem, Ore.n Jim Simon, The Seattle Timesn Elbert Tucker, WBNS-10TV, Columbus, Ohio

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