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editorBy Jeffrey A. Roberts CFOIC Executive Director
For 14 years, reporter Teresa Benns has endured frequent verbal attacks and even threats of physical violence while documenting and commenting on the workings and failings of government in Saguache County and the small town of Center in Colorado’s San Luis Valley.
She perseveres because it’s her duty, she said, accepting the CFOIC’s Jean Otto Friend of Freedom Award during an October luncheon in Monte Vista.
“Community news is for the community and reporters are community watchdogs,” said Benns, who writes for the weekly Center Post-Dispatch (circulation 320).
“I have tried to fulfill what I believe is my civic and professional duty to alert people to the existence of their First Amendment rights…I believe it is important for them to know that they can depend on the press to champion these rights.”
Recently, the CFOIC wrote about the battles that Benns and the Post-Dispatch have fought to open meetings and records in Center and Saguache County. For the newspaper’s ongoing efforts to make these governments more accountable to their residents, Post-Dispatch Publisher Jennifer Alonzo also was presented with the Friend of Freedom Award.
CFOIC President Steve Zansberg, a media law attorney whose firm is counsel for the Colorado Press Association, said Benns
frequently contacts him and his partners with questions such as, “Do you think they’re breaking the law – again? Shouldn’t the public be entitled to see this document? Aren’t they required to hold that meeting open to the public?
“And we frequently find ourselves answering, ‘Yes.’”
“She cranks out story after story about how the citizens of this town and this county deserve better,” Zansberg said. “They deserve a government that not only hides nothing, but has nothing to hide. This passion, this never-ending pursuit of the truth, is what drives her.”
Also speaking at the awards luncheon were former Center Mayor Susan Banning, Left to right, Teresa Benns, Steve Zansberg, Jennifer Alonzo and
Keith Cerny at a recent CFOIC award banquet.
‘Never-ending pursuit of truth’Award-winning reporter Benns ‘cranks out story after story’ about how citizens deserve better
For a decade, I’ve been going to press conventions, either as a reporter, general manager, editor or publisher.
And while I’ve been the chair of the convention committee in Wyoming, this is my first year putting on what I view to be the Colorado Press Association’s premier event.
And as I’ve been working on it, I keep coming back to this: I love conventions.
Scratch that. I love good conventions.
In the 10 years I’ve been attending conventions, the truth is, not all have been good. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always found something useful at each one, but several times I walked away wishing more of the convention had that appeal.
And some conventions have been great. I’ve watched people walking out of sessions in lively discussion about what they just heard and learned.
The best conventions, in my opinion, will do at least one of the three things.
One, people should be able to walk away with some tangible skills or ideas they can use at their papers.
Convention to have some changes, but same goal
Jerry Raehal
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Jean Williams CPA staff
A new floor, new furniture, and a new buzz—but there’s still no mistaking where you are.
“D P” is displayed in floor-to-ceiling neon lights in the entrance to the new eighth floor office space of the Denver Post, where the past is still present, but the focus is largely on the future of news reporting.
The future for the Denver Post looks a lot like a television broadcasting studio.
Actually, one is set up almost as soon as you come in the door, with two recording spaces directly across from each other and a camera crew positioned in between, ready to change directions depending on which station is used.
They also brought on Molly Hughes, formerly of Channel 4, to anchor one of the Denver Post’s latest ventures, DPTV (dptv.denverpost.com), an up-to-date news streaming service that launched Oct. 27.
While it may seem unusual that a newspaper is video-streaming news, Linda Shapley, director of newsroom operations, pointed out that “one of the tenets of Digital First Media has always been that we will give you the news in whatever format you want.”
“So if you want it in print, you’re still able to get what you want in print,” she said. “If
you’re more online or mobile-based, you’re going to get your information that way as well…. This [video news streaming] is an area where we feel we can make some big strides and where we can do some great things.”
Tim Rasmussen, the assistant managing editor, and Kevin Dale, the news director,
were the “architects” of the space, traveling across the country to research what would become the Denver Post’s newsroom of the future.
“We wanted that feel when you walked in the newsroom to see what kind of newsroom we are, which is definitely a sense
The news in all formatsDenver Post’s dynamic newsroom of the future delivers something for everyone
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Illuminated D P letters from the old building honor the Denver Post’s past, while features like an in-house video-streaming set show how the organization is poised to deliver news the future.
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The Gazette Pulitzer story wins more awards
The Gazette in Colorado Springs recently earned two major awards: a Public Service award from the Associated Press Media Editors, awarded at the APME Convention in Chicago, and the APME Al Neuharth Award for Innovation in Investigative Journalism.
Former Gazette Editor Joe Hight accepted the awards from APME executive director Sally Jacobsen at the event. The Gazette won the awards for the series “Other Than Honorable,” the 2014 Pulitzer Prize-winning work by former Gazette reporter David Philipps.
Subscription renewal scam targets Post
The Denver Post recently reported that a scam involving subscription renewals around the country has targeted their newspaper among others.
Denver-area residents in October were receiving “bogus Denver Post renewal notices from companies such as Publisher’s Billing Exchange, Reader’s Payment Service, Associated Publishers Network, Platinum Subscription Services and others,” reported the Post. “It’s a scam going around the country. The good thing is a lot of our customers are not used to paying that kind of money,” said Bill Reynolds, the newspaper’s vice president of circulation.
The notices offer one-year renewals for $489.95, “which equates to 410 percent more than the actual current amount for The Post’s All Access Plus digital replica subscription, and about 71 percent more than a new seven-day print subscription. The Denver Business Journal, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and several California newspapers also reported similar scams. “Since the scam crosses state lines, it’s now under federal jurisdiction. The Denver Post has filed an official complaint, and the U.S. Postal Inspector is investigating,” reported the Post, which has run notices in print and online, and sent out emails warning subscribers about the scam.
La Voz Bilingüe debuts in Pueblo
For 40 years La Voz Bilingüe has published in the Denver metro community, as well as northern Colorado. The newspaper announced recently that their reach now includes Pueblo and southern Colorado.
As well as “geographical beauty,” the area “with a blue-collar presence was the home of the CF& I steel mill dating back several decades,” noted a press release. “Full of tradition, it is home to the annual Colorado State Fair … and the Pueblo Home of Heroes Association and its memorials and events.” The area boasts “a high percentage of Latino veterans” among a Latino population “of 42
percent or better,” the release noted, adding that the newspaper “sees the opportunity to increase its reach and provide a voice for Pueblo and southern Colorado” with the expanded circulation.
The Gazette’s Fresh Ink editor honored
Pula Davis, editor of Fresh Ink, a publication of The Gazette in Colorado Springs, was recently honored by the Palmer Lake Volunteer Fire Department and the Palmer Lake Historical Society.
Davis was given the honor of lighting the Palmer Lake Star on Sundance Mountain, in recognition of her role with Fresh Ink, particularly in helping to publicize Palmer Lake historical events. She met with on-duty department crew members, learning more about their history and sharing information on her role at The Gazette prior to taking the trip to the base of the mountain to light the star.
The Palmer Lake Star has been a local tradition since 1935. It was “built by the citizens of Palmer Lake as a show of determination and can-do spirit during the height of the Great Depression. The star shines on special occasions, in memorial and during December,” reported Fresh Ink contributor Jack Anthony.
The star was lit for Veterans Day on Nov. 11 and will be lit again Nov. 29 for the holiday season.
Holyoke Enterprise hires reporter
The Holyoke Enterprise recently hired Isaac Kreider as a general-assignment reporter.
He will cover city council, East Phillips County Hospital District, some sports and other varied news, feature and photography assignments.
He filled the position left vacant by Kyle Arnoldy, who resigned to pursue his alternative teacher licensure for his work in
the Lone Star School District. Kreider, 28, is a 2005 graduate of Holyoke High School. He graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communications (news-editorial) from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley in May 2010.
He worked as copy editor, arts and entertainment assistant editor and reporter for the UNC Mirror during his undergraduate program.
Kreider has a “real interest in sports and the schools … in following the up-and-coming Holyoke generations.” In his spare time, he enjoys “tinkering with lots of things at home and in his shop, and he’s also been expanding his garden,” reported the newspaper in a story that also noted that Kreider has a few writing projects in the works, including a book, and a compilation of short story and essay forms of writing. He would eventually like to become a travel writer “to experience journalism in participatory adventures.”
Mountain Mail adds crime, courts reporter
The Mountain Mail recently added Ryan Summerlin, 27, to its reporting staff. An Oklahoma native, Summerlin will cover crime, courts and Poncha Springs. He first visited the area the summer prior to his senior year at Oklahoma State University, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English. Following graduation, Summerlin moved to Salida to work as a rafting guide during the summer, and continued to live there.
After three years as a guide, he wanted something more than “a working vacation,” and “happened to be in the right place at the right time,” reported Mail staff writer Ryan Hoffman. Summerlin submitted photos he took during the USA Pro Challenge and was notified about an opening on the staff. Summerlin is a “self-professed news junkie” who enjoys seeing the connections between people and places. He continues to enjoy rafting, as well as hiking, snowboarding and photography.
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By Cheryl Ghrist Contributing Editor
This issue, “10 Questions” checked
in with Jim Morgan, general manager of Colorado Mountain News Media for Swift Communications.
An editor, publisher and newspaper executive for 37 years, he currently oversees companies that publish 12 newspapers and seven glossy magazines, serving an area stretching from Grand Junction through the Vail Valley and to the Continental Divide in Summit and Grand counties.
Among CMNM’s award-winning publications are the Vail Daily, The Aspen Times and the Sky-Hi News.
1) You started out while still in high school as a sports reporter and photographer in Woodstock, Virginia, graduated in 1977 from James Madison University, and attended grad school at the Centre for Journalism Studies at the University of Wales as a Rotary Foundation International Scholar. How did each of those experiences influence your career path?
Working at my hometown newspaper in Woodstock and at the affiliated daily newspaper in nearby Harrisonburg, Virginia, where James Madison is located, provided the first (and very necessary) lessons relative to the role a newspaper plays in serving its community as well as the reality that it is impossible to satisfy everyone all of the time.
I enjoyed sports writing, but I realized early on that managing a newsroom and eventually publishing a newspaper held far greater attraction.
I will always be in debt to Rotary, whose international scholar program allowed me the chance to not just further my education but to demonstrate that we are all part of a much larger, very interrelated world. I am still in contact with individuals I met in Wales in 1981.
Somewhat serendipitous given the free-distribution business model we employ at CMNM was my choice of study while in graduate school 34 years ago. My thesis was “The Rise of Free Newspapers and Their Effect on the Provincial Press in Great Britain.”
While demeaned at the time as “free sheets” by the traditional newspapers in England and Wales, entrepreneurs – most with advertising and sales backgrounds – had recognized local newspapers were vulnerable based on business models that had not changed in the past half century.
They pioneered different distribution methods, aggressive sales programs and a news focus less on institutions and more on people, and especially on where and how people spend their time. In some ways I was seeing the future back in 1980 but didn’t realize it.
2) You’re deeply rooted in community journalism, having spent 17 years with Boone Newspapers Inc. as editor, publisher, vice president and group manager, and a stint as managing partner of Main Street Newspapers and its seven non-daily newspapers in southwest Virginia. How does the group you’re currently with compare to east coast journalism?
Journalism is journalism regardless of geography and that holds true as well for the business of journalism and media.
Most of the challenges we face in Colorado mirror (other areas): better use of our resources (and in some instances that can be readily interpreted as doing more with less) to engage the audiences that will drive traffic to the businesses that utilize our products to advertise and engage with their customers.
(It’s) the challenge of moving from a print-centric existence to one that uses multiple platforms to disseminate news.
I recently had the good fortune to spend time with Penny Abernathy, who this year published “Saving Community Journalism: The Path to Profitability,” … and I very much agree with her that we must shed legacy costs and find new revenue opportunities at the same time we take full advantage of the strength that continues to exist within our traditional newspapers.
At CMNM we have unique markets and a different business model than traditional newspapers but I’m bullish on the future of our business. I think smart people – and there are a lot of very smart people in our industry – will find answers that will ensure our viability for a long time to come. We’re fortunate to continue to see year-over-year top- and bottom-line growth across nearly every segment of our business but especially so in digital, which in part is driving our success in classifieds, in our niche products and magazines, but also in our legacy print daily and non-daily newspapers.
3) You’ve also won awards for writing: Associate Press Hal Boyle Award for Excellence in Column Writing, and the AP Frank Allen Award for Outstanding Performance in News Writing. How much writing do you do now, and do you wish you had the time to do more?
Love for the written word is what drew me to this profession and I miss it, so yes I wish I had more time for writing or at least writing as a creative endeavor. I miss column writing most as it allowed the widest latitude.
The preponderance of writing I do now is internal and focused on the business, although I’m often writing about content creation and content management. I suspect based on the volume of emails and memos I generate that many of our managers might wish I’d do less.
If nothing else, having been a working journalist ensures greater appreciation for good writers and reporters and we’re blessed at CMNM of having very talented individuals across our newsrooms.
It is writing and reporting –regardless of whether it’s distributed across a print or digital platform – that connects us to our audience and the communities we serve.
As we’ve seen the economy recover the last several years we are now placing a greater emphasis on our newsrooms, where we’re investing in training (for example, in October CMNM sent four individuals, two editors and two reporters to the Online Newspaper Association summit in Chicago) and increased resources for different ways of telling stories.
We just completed our 2015 business planning meetings and with each operation there was much discussion on multi-media storytelling as part of our content strategies for the year ahead.
4) What are the challenges and rewards of serving such a dynamic area of Colorado as the Vail Valley?
In the newsroom our challenge is that of every news organization – how to provide the best coverage possible in the most engaging way possible with the resources available.
One of our key executives is fond of saying “It will never be 2008 again,” meaning the somewhat easy days prior to the recession won’t be returning and of course he’s right, but that doesn’t mean we cannot continue to do our best work every day in every issue of our newspapers and across our websites.
Our Vail editor Ed Stoner has pioneered our On the Hill and On the Trail multimedia features, which have excellent viewership and terrific engagement and have won national awards. The tools used to create that feature didn’t exist a short time ago.
Lauren Glendenning, who recently took on the role of editor of The Aspen Times, spent much of the past year focusing on long-form journalism and put together series of stories as varied as the high rate of suicide in the mountain region, the marijuana economy, transportation and the I-70 corridor and water law in the west; and at the same time she worked with Summit publisher Matt Sandberg to put together beta testing for a native advertising initiative.
I’m bullish on media and newspapers as a core part. When we do our quarterly sessions for new hires, one of the points I focus upon is that this is the most exciting, albeit challenging, time to be in our industry.
Print is not dead, nor is it dying. The audiences in most of our markets are highly educated, highly engaged and harbor high expectations.
In our resort markets there are three very distinct audiences – the local audience, the short-term or vacation visitor, and the second-homeowner; statistically each comprises about 33%.
We recognize that for many it is advertising content that is foremost: the content that tells them where to eat, what event to see, where to rent a mountain bike or skis, or how to spend their day comes less from traditional news stories and more from advertising.
5) You live in and cover a unique community. What areas of community service or events do you and your newspapers and staff get involved in, and what are the rewards?
I mentioned earlier the quarterly half-day program for employees who have joined us in the previous three months and one of the things we touch upon is our company’s focus on community service.
We talk about our purpose and our role: “With a commitment to integrity, we bring light to truth, excellence to endeavor and strength to community.”
Notwithstanding the independence every newspaper must maintain, we recognize that we’re very much part of the communities we serve and we want our employees to be active in the towns they call home.
Our employees are volunteers; they serve on boards and organizations; they take part in leadership programs and business forums. The newspapers partner with community organizations ranging from civic groups like Rotary to non-profits like Habitat for Humanity and events such as the upcoming 2015 World Ski Championships. In the past 10 years CMNM provided more than $6 million in cash and in-kind sponsorships and donations to local non-profits and community organizations and more than $100,000 in the past five years to educational and community capital drives.
Through the Bessie Minor Swift Foundation we were able to award grants – to organizations that promote literacy, reading and writing skills, as well as programs that focus on the arts, languages and science – of more than $25,000 last year. The reward comes from seeing those investments pay dividends in the community.
6) Can you rank for us your top three mentors and how they influenced you?
It’s challenging to pick three as there have been many.
Alan Neckowitz was a professor at James Madison, long-since retired, who instilled that a writer must be disciplined if he is to communicate effectively. He was the former city editor of a large metro daily in the Northeast and was very direct and unblemished in how he dealt with his students, which is a kind way of saying he did not mind taking you to task in front of God and everyone else. I once used the phrase “centered around” in a story so he had me come to the front of the class and challenged me to “draw centered around” on the blackboard. Of course you cannot, as something that is centered cannot at the same time be around anything. “Centered on is the correct usage, Mr. Morgan,” he said as I took my seat. I’ve never used that phrase since but I’ve seen and edited it from many a story.
Jim Boone comes to mind next, and I’ll cheat a little and add Dolph Tillotson. Jim is the CEO and chairman of Boone Newspapers and Dolph was the publisher of the Boone-owned newspaper in Natchez, Mississippi, when I was the editor. Both remain friends. Jim continues to head his company and Dolph is now president of Southern Newspapers based in Texas. The lessons Jim taught focused more on the business of newspapers as well as the community role. It was from Jim I learned that often the best way to take two giant steps forward is to first take a small step backward.
Dolph’s advice was more direct and practical, ranging from such gems as “you can say almost anything to anyone so long as you smile and nod your head,” to “when your boss is dead wrong your job is to tell him he’s wrong – but do so very politely” to “laugh often, especially at yourself.”
Bob Brown, Swift’s COO and former general manager of Colorado Mountain News Media, has been a mentor from the first day we met when he interviewed me. His understanding of operations and especially marketing within the realm of newspapers
10 Questions with: Jim Morgan
MORGAN on page 4
Jim Morgan and his wife, Becky, left, and with former Aspen Times publisher Gunilla Asher at an annual meeting.
I’m bullish on media and newspapers as a core part. When we do our quarterly sessions for new hires, one of the points I focus upon
is that this is the most exciting, albeit challenging, time to be in our industry.
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CHANGES: Three goals
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and media is astonishing. And I’d be remiss if I did not acknowledge family, especially my older brother Walt, who has long been both a source of inspiration and, as he’s an older brother, some good bit of frustration, too.
7) What do you look forward to when you wake up every morning?
The smile on my wife’s face. We’ve been together 39 years and in all that time she has always been the best part of me.
8) Neat desk, messy desk? What would we see there?
Neat desk … although some of the seemingly organized stacks hide a procrastinating nature when it comes to filing. You’d see photos of family. Photos and framed prints of fish, hunting dogs and upland birds flying.
A lot of books. A couple of quotes tacked to the bulletin board behind my desk, the favorite of which is from Upton Sinclair, which reads: “It is difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends upon their not understanding it.” My office actually is ridiculously large but provides plenty of room for impromptu meetings.
9) If you hadn’t taken the publishing route, what would you have done in life?
When I left for college it was with the intention of being an attorney. Working at the daily newspaper in Harrisonburg was a way to pay for college but
ultimately I found the newspaper and the characters, and I truly mean characters, in the newsroom at the News-Record far more interesting and engaging than those with me studying the pre-law curriculum.
To be honest I can’t really imagine doing anything than what I do. Two of my brothers also worked in journalism (one a photographer and one an editor) but over time gravitated to other things – one’s a financial advisor and the other is in education services – and I’ve a brother who’s a family practice physician. Managing a large multi-faceted news organization in a time of fundamental change is exactly what I want to be doing.
Then again, if I won the Powerball I’d probably be convinced to give it up and fish all those rivers I’ve always wanted to but haven’t yet found the time to do so.
10) What’s the next big thing on your horizon?
I’ve no plans in the near term to change my role with CMNM or Swift. There are ample challenges to keep me busy and focused.
But as I’m in my sixth decade on this earth and recognizing that retirement is much closer than it once was, I spend more time thinking about our company’s future leadership and the transitions that will need to take place in the years ahead. Identifying and recruiting to CMNM and Swift talented individuals who can be our next generation of leaders, coupled with developing the key managers we already have in place, will more than keep me busy.
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Two, they leave inspired or re-inspired as to the importance and love of what we do.
And three, they have expanded their social network (real people, not Facebook), who can help them through a variety of issues.
And if the convention is really good, it will hopefully do all three.
That’s easier said than done, but that’s the standard.This year we will be trying to hit that goal while
also making some changes for the 137th Annual CPA convention, scheduled for Feb. 19-21 at the Westin Hotel in Downtown Denver.
One such change is the schedule.The core of the convention kicks off at 12:30
p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, and concludes with the Awards Banquet on Saturday night. In recent years, the core of the convention began Friday mornings and concluded Saturday afternoons.
One concern was that several people were not driving to the convention until Friday morning, and missing half the sessions during the drive. The hope is that people will be able to get more value out of the educational opportunities with this time change.
Another change to the schedule is the elimination of the Legislative Luncheon. Much debate went into making this change.
Ultimately, the change was made for a couple of reasons: One, there was concern whether the lunch had lost its luster. With legislative term limits and changes in the news industry, the connections that were once there do not seem to be the same.
We also wondered if the timing of the lunch made it hard for legislators to attend. If sessions ran late, they could not attend. If the session ended early, they might head home for an early weekend.
We also felt the lunch itself might not be as conducive for socializing with our guests as need be.
Eliminating the lunch does not mean we’re eliminating contact with our elected officials. The opening reception Thursday night is focused on meeting with legislators, in what we hope is a freer flowing social environment.
Another change is the fee structure to attend the convention.
The reality is the CPA has heavily subsidized the convention, and it’s not something we can continue … or at least not at the levels we’ve been doing it at.
This change does not mean an increase in fees to attend. On the contrary, it might be less expensive. We’re creating a variety of options to choose from that will help newspapers control their costs (and hopefully allow more of their employees to attend), while limiting the CPA’s liability on costs.
You will be able to choose to attend the convention minus the Saturday lunch and dinner. Or you can attend it all. Please note, if you choose the former, it does not mean you cannot attend the Awards banquet. You simply will not take part in the dinner.
The only notable increase is if you’re planning to attend the awards dinner alone. We will be charging what we expect to be charged per plate (including service charges, taxes), which is about $125.
More than likely, we the CPA will continue to subsidize those attending the classes, but we hope we can offset that with more sponsorships. We find great value in providing educational opportunities to our membership.
Which brings us back to the standard I talked about at the beginning of this column: I think we have some speakers lined up who can help us with the three previously mentioned goals.
Confirmed presenters on editorial topics include Pulitzer winning senior reporter Tom Hallman of the Oregonian, Bill Ostendorf of Creative Circle, Eve Byron of the Institute of Money in State Politics, Jennifer Forker, a longtime journalist who now works for Community Reach Center, and Jeff Roberts of CFOIC.
CPA attorney Steve Zansberg and Colorado Municipal League attorney Geoff Wilson will debate gray areas of open meetings and public record law.
Editorial topics will range from better writing and reporting (and how voice plays into digital), to graphics and photography, as well as newsroom leadership and Freedom of Information issues.
Confirmed presenters on advertising promotions include Mike Martoccia of Local Media Association, Peter Wagner of The N’West Iowa Review, Rick Farrell of Tangent Knowledge Systems, and Ostendorf.
Advertising topics will range from systematic ways to increase revenue and digital approaches, to a focus on the individual sales person and how to approach the process.
And we’re still wrapping up some other speakers to come in.
So as you can see, there are several changes and several great presenters.
We will be sending out sign-up packets in December.
We look forward to seeing you there.
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of more activity—which is why the hub is here,” said Shapley.
The hub is a half circle comprised of city editors, photo editors, and designers—among others—at the front of the room. They face large television screens displaying different news channels, websites and even twitter feeds—and directly across from the video recording area. The open floor plan has desks spiraling out from there.
Shapley explained that the previous office space had been larger and broken up into cubes, creating a quieter office space—one that didn’t necessarily communicate that it was a bustling newsroom: “One of the things I really like about this floor is that there is more of that buzz…. it feels like we’re a more dynamic group on this floor.”
The Denver Post’s new space, while focused firmly on the future, pays homage to it’s past with conference rooms named after Dean Singleton and Sue O’Brien. Their librarian keeps an index card catalog, dating back as far as 1903 (but mostly from the 1940s-1980s), separated by subject.
And the lit-up “D P” that greets everyone entering the newsroom was originally hung on the outside
of the building when the Denver Post was located across the street at 1560 Broadway.
But what is new about the newsroom is what seems clear.
“What the newsroom does is it helps show that we’re not just a paper anymore,” Shapley said. “It’s one of the things I really like about it. So sure, some people have concerns, but I think when everybody recognizes that what we want to do is good journalism regardless of the format, everybody is in favor of it.”
MORGAN: Eye on future
“One of the things I really like about this floor is that there is more of
that buzz ... it feels like we’re a more dynamic group on this floor.”
Linda Shapley, Post director of newsroom operations
POST: Newsroom hub
If you go …What: 137th Annual Colorado Press Association ConventionWhen: Feb. 19-21 (tentative schedule below)Where: Westin Hotel in Downtown Denver
Cost: • Friday only: $50• Saturday only: $65 (no dinner or lunch)• Saturday only: $150 (includes dinner & lunch)• Full convention: $80 (not including Saturday dinner & lunch)• Full convention: $175 (including Saturday dinner & lunch)• Saturday Night Awards: $125 (dinner only)
Room rates: $135 (Normal price $230-280)
Tentative ScheduleThe convention kicks off Thursday night with a Legislative Reception, while the core of the convention starts Friday afternoon and runs through Saturday night.
Thursday afternoon1-4:30 CPA/SYNC2 Media Board meeting6 p.m. Legislative Reception
Friday afternoon12:30 Opening remarks1:45-3:15 Breakout sessions3:30-5 Breakout sessions6:30-? Reception for AP/CAPER AWARDS
Saturday7-9 Past Presidents Breakfast8:15-9:45 Breakout sessions10-11:45 Breakout sessionsNoon-1:30 Lunch (announcing CPA individual awards, such as Newspaper Person of the Year)1:45-3:30 Breakout sessions3:45-5 Breakout sessions6-? Awards reception, dinner, banquet
Seeking sponsorsThe CPA is seeking sponsors for the
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colorado editor 5November 2014
By Cheryl Ghrist Contributing Editor
Wick Communications recently named a new publisher for the Montrose Daily Press, as well as two new regional publishers.
Vincent Laboy, a daily publisher with Lee Enterprises, replaced Francis Wick as the Montrose Daily Press publisher in mid-October.
Laboy had been with Lee since 2005, first in the capacity of advertising director at the Fremont Tribune in Nebraska, then publisher at that organization since 2012. He also served as group publisher overseeing the Plattsmouth Journal. Prior to joining Lee, he was an advertising account executive, then local retail sales manager with the Omaha World-Herald.
Laboy also had store management responsibilities previously with Target, ½ Price Stores and Best Buy. He and his wife Ramona have two children attending college.
Said Tom Yunt, president & CEO of Wick Communications: “We are very excited to welcome Vincent Laboy to Wick Communications and to the Montrose Daily Press. Vincent is an excellent addition to our publisher ranks and senior leadership team and I’m confident that he will continue the Daily Press success and legacy created by his predecessor, Francis Wick.”
On Oct. 1, Wick also announced two additions to their executive leadership team, naming Michael Shepard and Randall Rickman regional publishers. Both executives have extensive backgrounds in the newspaper industry.
Prior to joining Wick Communications, Shepard served as senior vice president for business operations for The Seattle Times. He was also publisher of the Yakima Herald-Republic in Washington (2003-2010), president of the Seattle Times’ Washington Affiliate Newspapers, and publisher of the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin.
Prior to that he held several positions during a 12-year stint with Sound Publishing including editor of several weekly newspapers, serving as the company’s managing editor, publisher of the Port Orchard Independent and a divisional publisher of six newspapers.
A second-generation newspaper hand, he earned
a degree in communications (journalism emphasis) from Washington State University. He and his wife, Rhonda, have two adult daughters.
Most recently, Rickman served as general manager at The Pueblo Chieftain, a 40,000 daily newspaper and commercial print operation. Rickman served in several positions with Lee Enterprises, including regional publisher in Western Montana in 2009, where he oversaw two daily newspapers (Helena and Butte), a book publishing division, a national magazine, a local shopper, a regional shopper and a commercial print operation.
Rickman was also president and publisher for Lee Central California Newspapers in 2005, which published a daily newspaper in Hanford, California, several weekly newspapers, a military base publication, a shopper and commercial printing. Prior to 2005, he served as general sales manager for Nickel Publications based in Seattle (and later general
manager for both Seattle and Portland) and director of Lee Direct, the database marketing company for Lee Enterprises.
He began his career as an apprentice pressman at the Quad City Times in 1979. After a four-year stint in the Marines he became an advertising salesperson at the Los Angeles Times. He advanced to sales management positions in Racine, Rapid City and Albuquerque.
Rickman and his wife Cindy have been married for 32 years. They have three grown children, Corey, Nelson and Maggie.
Said Yunt: “I am thrilled we were able to attract and bring on board the vast and uniquely talented Mike Shepard and Randy Rickman. Mike and Randy will be extremely valuable members of our senior leadership team, immediately add value, insight and an outsider’s perspective to Wick Communications and will work alongside me and our management group in positioning Wick for continued success.”
Wick Communications is a family-owned community media company with newspapers, websites, magazines and specialty publications in 11 states. The home office is in Sierra Vista, Arizona. The company publishes newspapers in Arizona, Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon and South Dakota.
Just a few numbers to give you some idea of what the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition has been up to since its reboot in late summer 2013:
Hundreds of questions asked and answered. More than 100 blog articles. More than 34,000 page views. Seventeen member organizations. Sixteen newsletters. Twenty-eight college visits, panels, programs and speaking engagements. Nearly 1,000 tweets.
As you know, the CFOIC relies on financial and in-kind support from the Colorado Press Association and the Colorado Broadcasters Association. But you may not know that dues from both organizations will represent less than a third of the Coalition’s operating budget in 2015.
Colorado Gives Day, the statewide day of philanthropy for 501(c)(3) nonprofits, is a special and time-sensitive opportunity for the CFOIC to bring in much-needed revenue.
We need your help to make the most of it. Colorado Gives Day is Tuesday, Dec. 9, but donations can be scheduled now.
What you and/or your news organization can do:
Run print and online public-service ads that encourage Colorado Gives Day donations to the CFOIC. Thanks to the creative team at The Greeley Tribune, we have ready-to-go versions that can be emailed to you.
Participate in a social media campaign that encourages journalists and the public to support their
#CORightToKnow by visiting coloradogives.org/CFOIC/overview and scheduling a donation for Dec. 9. Use the hashtag #COGivesDay. Some supporters are posting 15-second videos explaining why they give to the CFOIC.
Create a Colorado Gives Day fundraising page for the CFOIC by following the instructions here: https://www.coloradogives.org/index.php?section=content&action=fundraising
The CFOIC and its board of directors are grateful to CPA and CBA members for their support. Thank you for helping us continue – and expand – this important endeavor.
Jeff Roberts can be reached at [email protected] or 720-274-7177
@CoFOIC on Twitter
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Center Schools Superintendent George Welsh (via a recorded message) and Benns’ friend, Lisa Cyriacks, president of F.A.I.R., an organization formed in Aspen to support journalism in the public interest.
Welsh, in his video message, read two quotes from former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, including one about the press having a duty to prevent the government
“from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.”
“Teresa is not stopping a local government from getting into any wars,” Welsh said, “but she is making sure that they are open and honest about the things that they’re doing to serve the citizens.”
Alonzo said she sometimes asks Benns whether she wants to cover a different town for one of the Post-Dispatch’s sister newspapers.
“She says, ‘Nah, it doesn’t matter. I’ve got this and I’m just going to keep on doing what I’m doing.’ It
amazes me.”Previous recipients of the Jean
Otto Friend of Freedom Award include former Denver Post publisher Dean Singleton, Jeff Thomas and Pam Zubeck of The Gazette in Colorado Springs and the Ballantine family, owners of the Durango Herald.
The award honors the legacy of Jean Otto, a long-time editor and reader representative at the Rocky Mountain News who founded the CFOIC in 1987 and was a tireless advocate for First Amendment and freedom-of-information rights.
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By Cheryl Ghrist Contributing Editor
Thomas Joseph Johnson died Sept. 7, 2014, in Cortez at age 92.
Known to all as “Tommy,” he was born to Axel and Anna Clare (Rochford) on July 26, 1922, in Denver. While attending Cortez High School, he worked for the Montezuma Valley Journal, 1939-1941, and also at times after college. He attended Fort Lewis College at the Old Hesperus Campus in 1941-42, where he was editor of the Fort Lewis Collegian. After serving as a paratrooper in the 17th Airborne Division in World War II, Johnson enrolled at Regis College in Denver, where he was editor
of the Regis College Ranger.Johnson graduated in 1949 with
an associate degree in history and political science. Two years later, he married Clara Mae Phillips on Aug. 28, 1947. Johnson served in the military again, as he was recalled to service with the 7th Division in Korea from 1952-55. He was wounded in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill and transferred home to Fitzsimons
Army Hospital in Denver. Johnson returned to publishing as owner of The Dolores Star from 1955-1958. In 1958 he became editor of the Journal, a post he held until his retirement. The newspaper merged with the Cortez Sentinel in 1999 to become the Cortez Journal.
Johnson was very active in his communities. He helped found the Montezuma County Historical Society, in 1950 became a charter member of the Cortez Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks Lodge No. 1789, served as president of the Mesa Verde Museum Association, and was vice president of the Fort Lewis Alumni Association. Johnson also helped organize the National Guard unit in Cortez, and was a leader in getting its Armory built. The hall in that armory is named in his honor. In 1982, he retired from the Guard and Army with the rank of major. Johnson was honored many other times over the years, including as Citizen of the Year by the Cortez Newspapers in 1994, and Editor of the Year by the Department of Colorado of the American
Legion. He also received the Minute Man Award from the Colorado National Guard, and other honors ranging from high school athletic groups to those in the agricultural industry.
In 2000, Johnson was preceded in death by his wife of 54 years. He is survived by his children: Theresa Maynes, of Mancos, and Thomas Johnson Jr., of Dolores; seven grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. A rosary and memorial Mass took place at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Cortez. Memorial contributions may be made to the church, 28 E. Montezuma, Cortez CO 81321, or at www.woundedwarriorproject.org. Visit www.ertelfuneralhome.com to post online messages.
Obituary: Thomas Joseph Johnson
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MarketplaceNEWS EDITOR
The Montrose Daily Press in Montrose, Colo., seeks a dynamic news editor to join our newsroom management team and help make a good news organization better.
The six-day Montrose Press puts an emphasis on quality local coverage. The news editor will work with the editor to direct a staff of 5.5 in producing the daily paper and many special sections. The position will edit copy and direct the reporters in their coverage. The ideal candidate will coach and motivate reporters. This position requires good line-editing skills. Passion for journalism, proven news judgment, ability to produce about seven stories a week and excellent communication and planning skills are a must. The ability to paginate and take photos are both a plus.
This is a training position for people who aspire to be managing or executive editors. This exempt position pays a competitive salary between $28,000 and $30,000 depending on experience.
The position also includes subsidized health coverage and sick and vacation leave.
Montrose is ideally situated on the Western Slope of Colorado and rests at the foot of the Uncompahgre Plateau and San Juan Mountains. Our community is home to nearly 20,000 residents and is looked upon as the hub of southwestern Colorado. It’s a sunny environment here, and people say the water makes for good news — literally.
The Montrose Press is part of Wick Communications, which operates several newspapers around the country.
Please apply ONLY electronically. Send a resume and examples of your writing and editing to: Justin Joiner, managing editor, Montrose Daily Press. [email protected].
PAGINATOR/COPY EDITOR
The Montrose Press in Montrose, Colo., seeks a strong paginator/copy editor to join our newsroom and create award-winning design.
The six-day Montrose Press puts an emphasis on quality local coverage. The paginator/copy editor will paginate the paper five days a week as well as manage and edit submitted content, including community items, local briefs, birth announcements and calendar submissions. This position requires good line-editing skills and creative layout. We need someone who loves designing eye-catching features pages as much as they thrive on catching a misplaced comma. Passion for journalism, proven news judgment and excellent communication and planning skills are a must.
This position pays a competitive wage between $11.50 and $12.50 an hour depending on experience. The position also
includes subsidized health coverage and sick and vacation leave.
Montrose is a beautiful area surrounded by mountains with plenty of sunshine. We want someone you can make our paper reflect the beauty of the area.
The Montrose Press is part of Wick Communications, which operates several newspapers around the country.
Please apply ONLY electronically. Send a resume and examples of your layout to: Justin Joiner, managing editor, Montrose Daily Press. [email protected].
SPORTS REPORTER
The Montrose Daily Press in Montrose, Colo., seeks a solid sports reporter to join our newsroom and take our sports coverage to the next level.
The six-day Montrose Press puts an emphasis on quality local coverage. The reporter will cover sports in a county with two high schools. The reporter will be expected to attend nearly all the home games and provide coverage of away games as well. This is a challenging position; we are asking for a minimum of 12 stories a week. Photo skills are a big plus in this position.
This position pays a competitive wage between $11.50 and $12.50 an hour depending on experience. The position also includes subsidized health coverage and sick and vacation leave.
Montrose is ideally situated on the Western Slope of Colorado and rests at the foot of the Uncompahgre Plateau and San Juan Mountains. Our sports teams have found quite a bit of success in the past few years. The Montrose football team made an appearance at the state game last year and an Olathe wrestler won the state championship. Our sports teams are champions so we need a champion sports reporter to cover them.
The Montrose Press is part of Wick Communications, which operates several newspapers around the country.
Please apply ONLY electronically. Send a resume and examples of your writing to: Justin Joiner, managing editor, Montrose Daily Press. [email protected].
MANAGING EDITOR IN WESTERN TEXAS
The Fort Stockton Pioneer needs a managing editor. We want someone with strong news judgment, is well versed in AP style and is comfortable interviewing everyone from the governor to the kindergarten class president. Camera skills and sports reporting are helpful. The successful applicant will directly be responsible for the editorial product. Please e-mail a resume, cover letter, and salary requirements to [email protected]. Please feel free to visit www.fortstocktonpioneer.com.
colorado editor 7November 2014
Times-Call staff writer Tony Kindelspire reported recently that the downtown headquarters of that publication has been sold to local investor Jamie St. John for $2.4 million.
St. John also owns the Westpark IV office park in Westminster, a four-building commercial campus near Sheridan Boulevard and south of U.S. Highway 36, as well as University Hill Plaza at University Boulevard and Broadway in Boulder.
The sale of the Times-Call facility includes the 48,310-square-foot main building, a 39,673-square-foot parking lot, and an 11,875-square-foot parking lot to the east of the building. The building is located on the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Terry Street.
The initial portion of the structure opened to house the newspaper in 1964, at just 11,000 square feet. A larger pressroom was added onto the southeast corner in 1973, and in 1988 a 25,500-square-foot addition was made to the south end of the building. All the properties went on the market in August 2013.
The sale closed Sept. 8. Prairie Mountain Media bought the properties for $2.8 million in February 2011. President and CEO Al Manzi said that company will continue to lease the building for six months while a build-out of a smaller, state-of-the-art and digital facility takes place off Ken Pratt Boulevard.
He noted that the 48,000 square feet, much of which was designated for production purposes, was no longer being used. During the past couple of years, the building has housed only news, sales and some administrative staff members, as well as an office for Publisher Dean Lehman.
The Lehman Printing Center opened in May 2009, with the newspaper’s production and circulation operations moving to a new facility in Berthoud.
After Prairie Mountain Media purchased the Times-Call, the Loveland Reporter-Herald and the Canon City Daily Record from Lehman Communications in January 2011, it soon moved all business operations and back-office editorial operations such as page design to the Daily Camera’s building on Western Avenue in Boulder.
By Jack Loechner
According to a new study from the Newspaper Association of America, conducted by ComScore, the audience engaged with news-paper digital content reached a new peak in August 2014, rising 18 percent to 164 million unique visi-tors (adults 18+) from 139 million in August 2013.
That audience level was 25 mil-lion larger than a year ago.
Additional data from the study also revealed that:
• 80 percent of U.S. adults who were online in August accessed newspaper digital content, also a new peak.
• During the past year, young women (ages 18-24) were the fastest-growing segment of the newspaper digital audience, rising 38 percent.
• 92 percent of women ages 25-34 read newspaper digital content, the greatest reach among any age or gender.
• Those who use only mobile devices, smartphones or tablets, to access newspaper digital media now exceed those who use only desktop/laptop computers and those who used both kinds of machines during the month.
• Along with the rise in unique
visitors, the proportion of the total online audience reached by news-paper digital platforms has grown. Eight in 10 adults engaged with newspaper digital content in August 2014. That compares with a reach of two-thirds (65 percent) of adults in June 2013.
The reach of newspaper digital content was highest among those ages 25-34. More than eight in 10 are also reached in the 35-44 and 45-54 age segments. Both the oldest group (55+) and the youngest group (18-24) have lower reach.
A more detailed look at the net reach by probing age and gender together sheds additional light on the newspaper digital audience.
The fastest-growing segment of the newspaper digital audience over
the past 12 months has been with young women, age 18-24, which increased 38 percent. The groups next highest in growth were men 35-44 and men 45-54, which rose 31 percent each.
The number of older women, those age 55 and older, using news-paper digital content increased by 21 percent, above the overall gain reflected in the total adult figure (+18 percent).
Different growth rates for age and gender segments over time translate into different levels of net reach for newspaper digital media enterprises. Newspaper digital media have the highest reach among women ages 25-34, with more than nine in 10 (92 percent) engaged with that content in August 2014.
Mobile devices are clearly providing a significant boost to the newspaper digital audience, says the report.
Those who use only mobile de-vices for their newspaper digital ac-cess more than doubled in the past year, with their unique visitor count rising 102 percent. In contrast, the audience that uses only desktop or laptop machines for newspaper digi-tal access dropped by 16 percent.
As a result of the large increase among those using only mobile for newspaper digital access, that group is now the biggest piece of the three segments, representing 38 percent of the total.
The desktop/laptop group is 34 percent of the total and those who use both kinds of access platforms are 28 percent of the total, explains the report.
Young women 18-24 are the segment with the largest increase in using only mobile devices for their newspaper digital access. Compared with August 2013, the number of young women engaged with news-paper digital content only via mobile surged 204 percent.
Jack Loechner is the Editor of The Center for Media Research’s daily Research Brief. You can reach him at [email protected].
Kelli Bultena, publisher of Tea (SD) Weekly, sent me a link to a column titled, “The Bad News About the News,” in the October 16, 2014, edition of The Brookings Essay. The essay was written by Robert G. Kaiser, former editor of The Washington Post.
Hank Bond, co-publisher of The Greenup Beacon (Russell KY), wrote last week to ask me a pointed question, “You keep writing about people saying that newspapers are dying. I don’t hear it. Who are they?”
Well, Hank, here’s another one to add to the list of about a dozen or so I sent you last week and those were off the top of my head. As Hank would probably attest, he finally said, “Enough,” after I’d rattled off the list in just a few seconds.
Mr. Kaiser wrote several things in his essay that caught my attention, but this sentence stood out: “One immediate effect of all these changes and cutbacks is that there’s no paper in America today that can offer the same coverage of its city, suburbs, and state that it provided 20 or even 10 years ago, and scores of city halls and state legislatures get virtually no coverage by any substantive news organizations.”
I called Victor Parkins, publisher of the Milan (TN) Mirror-Exchange, just now and asked if that was true of his paper.
“I think we cover it better. I would like for him to come to Milan, Tennessee, and see how we
do it. I would love to let him go through my binders from ten years ago. Using digital technology gives us so many more contacts with our readers, and we use that as another tool in our arsenal.”
I feel quite certain I could have called a hundred other publishers and gotten similar quotes, but I’m guessing you get the point. Which leads me to my next question: Why would Mr. Kaiser write this essay in the first place?
If you’ve been reading my columns for very long, you know I don’t take much at face value. I like to dig a little. Because, as a good journalist learns over time, it’s in the digging that the truth comes out.
And if you go all the way to the end of the column, which is quite lengthy in its attempt to add another scoop of dirt on print journalism’s grave, you pick up this kernel which goes a long way toward answering my question. I’ll quote it, so I don’t get it wrong: “He is the author or co-author of eight books, including The News About The News, American Journalism in Peril, written with Leonard Downie Jr.”
Remember what I wrote in a column last year about believing
experts? It went something like this: “I don’t care if you’re watching a politician on TV, listening to your Sunday School teacher, or in the audience, listening to an expert speak at a newspaper convention, I want you to ask yourself this question: ‘What will this expert gain if I believe what he or she is saying?’”
Perhaps Mr. Kaiser will sell a few more books.
If I might borrow a musical term, that seems a natural segue to my next topic: the survey of 612 publishers completed in October 2014. In my last column, I shared interesting information concerning the use of social media in newspapers and the effect social media has on newspapers’ bottom lines.
Today I’d like to see what publishers have to say about Mr. Kaiser’s topic. Specifically, I’d like to know if there is “no paper in America today” that can offer the same coverage that it did 10 years ago.
Question 15 in the survey of North American publishers asked: “What changes have you made in recent years to keep your product(s) viable?”
Boy howdy, did we get answers. How about this response: 56 percent of respondents answered that there is more emphasis on hyperlocal/local news than a few years ago.
Hmmm. But Mr. Kaiser wrote, “no paper in America today...” I’m sorry. I’m digressing.
A whopping 60 percent report that they’ve invested in increased quality in production and design,47 percent have invested in improved photography and 36 percent report they have invested in printing improvements.
Finally, drum roll please, 14 percent have increased the size of their staff.
Hmmm. Yes, but. One could argue that these
are weekly papers. Obviously, Mr. Kaiser was writing about daily papers, though he never mentioned that in his column. Well, maybe. Maybe not. Thanks to technology, I can divide the survey responses by newspaper type. Guess what? 11 percent of daily newspapers reported that they’ve increased their staff size over the past few years.
People really should be more careful when they make broad pronouncements like that. It’s like the time the dean of that world-renowned journalism school told me he believed there would not be one newspaper in business in the United States by 2018. In all fairness, he still has a little over three years to prove me wrong about that one.
So there you have it: according to a survey of 612 (we quit accepting responses at 612) newspaper publishers, there seems to be at least one newspaper that isn’t fitting into Mr. Kaiser’s scenario.
And, just so you know, that survey is not for sale.
Print is dying? Says who? LongmontTimes-Call building sells for $2.4M
Newspaper digital readership on the rise
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