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Sunshine Week to be celebrated March 13-19
Guest Column:
CBS and the Death of Newspapers: 60 Minutes is beginning to try my patience By Kevin Slimp
Arkansas Press Association
Publisher Weekly Vol.17 | No. 10 | Thursday, March 10, 2022 | Serving Press and State Since 1873
For Dunlap, 56 years at Harrison Daily Times goes by in a “Flash” The year was 1966. A ten-year-old boy picked up a broom and carefully swept the newsroom as his dad had directed. The assignment was his first taste of the newspaper career he would continue, in that same newsroom, for the next 56 years. But for most of those decades, his tool of choice was not a broom, but a camera. Earlier this year, Lee “Flash” Dunlap retired from the newspaper where he literally grew up. Lee is one of four in his family who were fixtures at the Harrison Daily Times for more than a half-century each. His parents, the late J.E. and Leota “Sammy” Dunlap, owned the newspaper for decades before selling it in 1993. Even then, they continued working for the new owners. “My parents never retired; they worked there until they died,” Dunlap says. “My mother was doing some things in circulation and my dad continued to write editorials for the new owners after he sold the newspaper.” Dunlap, his parents, and his sister, Jane Dunlap Christenson, all received the Arkansas Press Association’s Golden 50 Service award, which recognizes 50 years in the journalism industry, for their work at the Harrison Daily Times. Even Jane’s husband, Jeff Christenson, worked at the newspaper for 25 years. It’s just what their family did. For all the good memories working with family, Dunlap says it was sometimes hard separating work from family life. “Whenever we would
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Tomorrow is the day for the 2022 APA Advertising Conference If you are a wait-till-the-deadline type of person, good news: you can still register for the 2022 APA Advertising Conference being held tomorrow, March 11. The registration link is arkansaspress. org/event/2022AdConference and the cost is $25. The conference will be held via Zoom. Starting at 9:30 a.m., consultant Bill Ostendorf will lead an informative session on creating eyecatching ads that result in more revenue. Ostendorf, who has led thousands of training sessions for journalists, publishers and ad directors in 23 countries on a wide range of topics, will discuss ways to more fully understand the needs of your advertisers and how to create effective ads that will bring both readers and response. After a break at lunchtime, the winners of the 2022 APA Better Newspaper Advertising Contest will be announced in a presentation with emcee Roby Brock of Talk Business & Politics. Plan to make it a day of training for your sales, art, and production team to learn how to better meet your advertiser’s goals and improve communication among all parties.