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Issue 3 opposition house ad now available for APA members

Guest Column: Into the issues

By Al Cross

Arkansas Press Association

Publisher Weekly Vol. 15 | No. 39 | Thursday, September 24, 2020 | Serving Press and State Since 1873

2020 APA Virtual Convention off to good start

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1. Former APA Board Member Nancy Kemp and APA Past President Ron Kemp watching the convention in their RV at Road Hog Park in Fayetteville. 2. APA Board Member Lori Freeze and APA Past President Rusty Fraser at the Stone County Leader in Mountain View. 3. APA staff members Ashley Wimberley, Terri Cobb, Neil McConnell and Aaron Sadler watching from the APA Headquarters in Little Rock. 4. APA staffer Rebecca McGraw watching the convention from Conway while her daughter, Sophia, is logged into her virtual Geometry class. 5. Andrew Bagley logged into the convention from The Helena World. 6. Arkansas Newspaper Foundation Board Member Kim Christ of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

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APA members to observe National Newspaper Week In an extraordinary year where newspapers face head-on the challenges of a global pandemic while reporting on social unrest and an historic election, journalists continue to demonstrate their importance and resiliency. This year, the newspaper industry will pause to recognize the impact of journalism on local communities as part of the annual National Newspaper Week observance.

National Newspaper Week is Sunday, Oct. 4 through Saturday, Oct. 10.

The theme of National Newspaper Week 2020 is “America Needs Journalists.” The week is sponsored by News Association Managers (NAM) and the Arkansas Press Association.

Journalists in 2020 have overcome major obstacles to deliver the news to readers during a time where “major news events across our land have tested newspapers, in our communities, in ways we might have never fathomed,” said Randy Evans, director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council.

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Evans’s editorial on National Newspaper Week and the necessity of good journalism, in addition to editorials from newspaper industry leaders such as News Media Alliance President David Chavern and Dean Ridings, CEO of America’s Newspapers, are available for use and reprint at the National Newspaper Week website, NationalNewspaperWeek.com.

“Journalists turned to their kitchen tables, spare bedrooms, and basement offices to take the place of the newsrooms where they had gathered with colleagues a few weeks earlier,” Evans wrote. “While the locations changed, the core mission of newspapers did not.”

Newspapers are encouraged to honor journalists for their tenacity in continuing to keep up with their government-watchdog roles while also helping inform the public about COVID-19 and its impact on their local communities.

2020 marks the 80th annual observance of National Newspaper Week.

“As an association, the Arkansas Press Association is honored to celebrate the importance of newspapers year-round,” said Ashley Wimberley, APA executive director. “This year in particular, our member newspapers have overcome tremendous challenges to inform their communities and maintain their integral part in our society. National Newspaper Week gives us an opportunity to remind our readers about the meaningful and essential role of newspapers and good journalism.”

The National Newspaper Week website contains a variety of resources for newspapers to mark the occasion. Available for download, free of charge, are editorials, editorial cartoons and promotional advertisements. The materials can be downloaded at any time, but they emphasize the National Newspaper Week observance.

Newspapers are encouraged to “devote as many column inches as possible to reinforce the importance of newspaper(s) to your communities.”

Organizers of the observance also called on newspapers to consider local features, columns or editorials about the unique attributes of specific newspapers and their relevance within a community.

In addition to the editorial pieces and images, promotional advertisements in five different styles and seven different sizes can be accessed from the National Newspaper Week website. The ads are in a Dropbox file free for newspapers to use. Newspapers may personalize the ads with their own logos.

For more information about National Newspaper Week and how your newspaper can participate, visit NationalNewspaperWeek.com Arkansas Publisher Weekly

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Issue 3 opposition house ad now available

VOTE NO

The Arkansas Press Association has created an advertisement for APA member newspapers to publish that expresses their opposition to Issue 3 on the general election ballot.

The proposed constitutional amendment referred to voters by the General Assembly would reshape the initiative and referendum process, but importantly to newspapers, open up the possibility of changes to how the public is notified about future ballot measures.

ON ISSUE 3

The quarter page house ad emphasizes the importance of public notices and a newspaper’s role in ensuring government accountability and transparency. It asks Arkansas voters to vote “no” on Issue 3. There is space at the bottom for member newspapers to personalize the ad with their flag.

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The proposed amendment would change the state’s Constitution and give the General Assembly broad authority to reduce or eliminate public notice of initiatives and referendums in newspapers.

While the ballot measure primarily deals with how initiatives and referendums are challenged and placed on the ballot, Issue 3 removes from the Arkansas constitution language requiring the state to publish all pending ballot measures at least six times in a newspaper in each county.

By striking the publication requirement, the Legislature puts in its place language that ballot measures instead be published “in a manner prescribed by law.” Issue 3 takes the public notice language out of the constitution and puts it in the hands of the Legislature to change at any time or for any reason.

IT'S ALWAYS YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING IN ARKANSAS GOVERNMENT Early voting starts October 19 • Election Day November 3

The ad will be emailed to APA members. If you don’t receive an email and need the ad please contact ashley@arkansaspress.org

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“Public notices in newspapers provide voters with an independent, accountable and verifiable way to learn about ballot issues. Some of these measures are so lengthy or complicated, the only way they can be fully digested is through public notice” said Ashley Wimberley, APA executive director. “The APA opposes Issue 3 and its limits on transparency, and we would like our members to take a stand against the measure as well by publishing these house ads.”

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—30— Statement of Ownership due to Wilton Clements USPS by Thursday, October 1 Arkansas Press Association member digital subscriptions as circulation in postal Graves newspapers who send Periodicals Class statements. A paid subscriber, whether Mail are reminded the deadline to file a Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (PS Form 3526) is Oct. 1.

Upon filing the ownership statement with the local postmaster, publication owners are required to publish the statement according to the following timetable, depending on the frequency of publication: • Publications issued more frequently than weekly must publish no later than Oct. 10. This applies to dailies, semiweeklies, and threetimes-per-week publications.

Wilton Clements Graves, 99, of Nashville died Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, surrounded by her loving children. She was born July 13, 1921, in Temple, Texas, and was preceded in death by her husband, Louis ‘Swampy’ Graves, and a son, Danny Graves.

Wilton was a devoted wife and a loving mother of 10. She faithfully taught religious education at St. Martin’s Catholic Church where she was organist for over 50 years.

Survivors include her children, Louie Graves of Nashville; James Graves of Fairfield, Iowa; Lawrence Graves and wife, Dawn, of Little Rock; Gerry Bob Graves and wife, Martha, of Charleston, S.C.; Johnny Graves of Nashville; Kathy Taylor and husband, Charles, of Dillon, Colo.; Mike Graves and wife, Denise, of Nashville; Jennifer Grimes and husband, J.B., of Nashville; and Steven Graves of Bismarck, as well as many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Drop-in viewing hours will be on Friday, September 25, 2020 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Latimer Funeral Home in Nashville. A rosary will be recited Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. at the funeral home. Graveside services will be at 10:00 a.m. at Restland Memorial Park. Memorials may be made to: St. Martin’s Catholic Church, P.O. Box 1039, Nashville, AR 71852; or Howard Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, 130 Medical Circle, Nashville, AR 71852.

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digital or print, may only be counted once.

Form 3526 serves as the method for the U.S. Postal Service to establish whether a publication meets standards for the periodicals mailing rates. The form is available at about.usps.com/forms/ ps3526.pdf

• Publications issued weekly or less frequently, but not less than monthly, must publish the statement by Oct. 31. This includes weekly newspapers.

• All other publications such as quarterlies must publish in the first issue after Oct. 1.

Owners may include paid

Judge’s ruling supports state FOIA A Pulaski County Circuit Court judge last week ruled that the name of an employee of a vendor who exchanged text messages with a state employee is part of a public record and should be disclosed under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, according to a report in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

That newspaper intervened in a publicrecords case involving the former director of the Arkansas Department of Information Systems, Mark Myers. At issue were text messages exchanged between Myers and the representative of a vendor that had three contracts with the state totaling $8.2 million, the newspaper said.

In his ruling, Pulaski County Judge Chris Piazza said “the messages reflect the performance or lack of performance of official functions because they intertwine personal and public-business matters such that there is a substantial nexus between the two.”

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of the text messages, which were on his state-issued cell phone, the newspaper’s report stated.

In his ruling, Piazza said “the public has a strong, undeniable interest in how public tax money is spent” and whether the relationship between Myers and the vendor representative, known in court documents as Jane Doe, had any influence on the spending.

The newspaper’s report said the judge denied Doe’s request to have her name redacted from the documents.

A legislative audit determined in 2017 that Myers had “violated standards of conduct in state law, potentially wasted state resources and failed to adhere to the department’s technology policy” regarding the three projects, the Democrat-Gazette stated. Myers left his position in August 2016.

There were approximately 3,000 text messages subject to the DemocratGazette’s request, according to the report.

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Supreme Court A vote for newspapers is a vote for stays gag order democracy

The Arkansas Supreme Court last week lifted four gag orders that had been issued by a lower-court judge to block the release of any information about a shooting at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia on Aug. 11.

(Editor’s Note: The following editorial column is being shared with newspapers across the country in observance of National Newspaper Week. The Arkansas Press Association and other supporters of National Newspaper Week, Oct. 4 through Oct. 10, encourage newspaper publishers and editors to consider publishing this editorial or other materials that can be downloaded for free at NationalNewspaperWeek. com)

By Tom Silvestri if it doesn’t have one, tell the newspaper you’re interested — especially the day’s headlines or a weekly entertainment summary of what’s happening.

The high court, in a 6-1 decision, issued a stay to the gag orders from Columbia County Court Circuit Judge David Talley Jr. The Arkansas Press Association and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court last month asking the Supreme Court to find that Talley had exceeded his authority and placed an unconstitutional prior restraint on the press.

Vote by adding to newspaper “likes” on social media.

Vote by making a video with pro-newspaper testimonials from neighbors and friends.

Heck, put up a sign in your front yard or window boasting you’re a newspaper reader.

Four men in Columbia County are charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Joshua Keshun Smith. The shooting occurred on campus.

Talley’s orders denied any access to details about the investigation into Smith’s death. The orders prohibited anyone associated with the case from releasing information about the investigation or making statements out of court.

John Tull, APA attorney, told the DemocratGazette he believed the Supreme Court’s ruling lifted the gag orders and that “there should not be any impediments to the documents at this time.”

In the lawsuit, APA and the newspaper said the unlawful orders violated free speech in addition to the unconstitutional prior restraint, as well as Rule 38.1 of the Arkansas Rules of Criminal Procedure, which states that no orders shall prohibit news media from publishing information in its possession related to a criminal case.

INDUSTRY QUOTE “Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.”

—Mario Vargas Llosa Arkansas Publisher Weekly

Fear not.

This campaign to elect newspapers is winnable, but much is at stake.

It’s about them.

Consider this passage from longtime journalist Margaret Sullivan’s 2020 book, Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy: “Some of the most trusted sources of news — local sources, particularly local newspapers — are slipping away, never to return. The cost to democracy is great.”

While the United States is riveted by a most unusual presidential election, the newspaper industry is running to win the hearts, minds and souls of “voters.”

For good measure, Sullivan, who is the media columnist for the Washington Post, quoted the conclusion of a major PEN America study in 2019:

These voters are readers, residents, subscribers, students, advertisers, marketers, sponsors and newspaper employees.

Vote by subscribing to support your local newspaper. (If you already do, a big thanks.)

“As local journalism declines,” stated the organization that champions free expression, “government officials conduct themselves with less integrity, efficiency, and effectiveness, and corporate malfeasance goes unchecked. With the loss of local news, citizens are: less likely to vote, less politically informed, and less likely to run for office.”

Vote by advertising — cheers to current ad buyers. Patronize those who do.

Democracy loses its foundation, Sullivan stated.

Vote by engaging your newspaper. Write a letter to the editor, tweet appreciation to an enterprising reporter, send a suggestion to the publisher with a request to speak to him or her for a personal exchange.

Vote for newspapers.

Newspapers face another big election.

This National Newspaper Week (Oct 4-11), vote for newspapers.

Vote by learning more about your newspaper, its history, its mission, its staff and its ownership.

In his Aug. 16 column, H. Dean Ridings of America’s Newspapers cited the depressing study from the University of North Carolina to note that 1,800 communities have lost their local newspaper over the last 15 years.

Vote by frequently checking the newspaper’s web site or news alerts.

“What would my town be without a newspaper?” the national association’s CEO wrote. “If you haven’t asked yourself that question, perhaps it is time to consider

Vote by signing up for its newsletters. And

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just what the newspaper means to this community.”

Among the answers Ridings provided was this: “The most obvious is the community’s access to news about itself: the workings of its town hall; information about taxes and property values; the operation of schools for its children; the achievements, or the criminal activities, of local residents; the scores of local ball teams; schedules and reviews of movies, concerts, restaurants and books; and the offerings of local small businesses.”

This year’s National Newspaper Week should be anything but routine. It’s a time to be bold — even daring.

Newspapers throughout the United States should use National Newspaper Week to conduct town halls — go virtual if you have to — or a series of conversations that gather answers to this simple but provocative question:

it is also to be the village square for an entire metropolitan area, to help provide a common reality and touchstone, a sense of community and of place.”

It’s an important commitment.

At issue is replacing the tiresome, negative perception of newspapers’ demise with an updated mission to become THE reliable Community Forum — sharpening knowledge of what’s on the minds of citizens; delivering trusted journalism and accurate information; gathering updated market data; attracting diverse audiences to join loyal readers; contributing to an equitable, healthy economy; fostering vibrant communities where we live, work and play; and nurturing a dynamic democracy.

How can the newspaper become THE Community Forum?

In its 2020 sweeping assessment of “Trust, Media and Democracy,” the influential Knight Foundation and Gallup noted that although Americans have lost confidence in expecting an objective media, “strong majorities uphold the ideal that the news media is fundamental to a healthy democracy.”

Dig deeper on this role. Or as Sullivan put it: “After all, a newspaper’s purpose isn’t only to keep public officials accountable;

And those majorities think the media could do “a great more” to heal political divisions in the country, Knight/Gallup added.

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By becoming a true Community Forum, newspapers shift from thinking like a limited product to becoming a vital community service in big demand. It perfects inviting, listening, researching, planning, collecting, reporting, connecting, collaborating and developing solutions.

In many ways, the newspaper as THE Community Forum becomes a non-stop, informed conversation — interesting, civil, engaging, educational, timely and, of course, relevant.

To repeat: How does the newspaper become THE Community Forum?

Campaign hard.

Score votes.

Newspapers have got to win this pivotal election.

Democracy wins, too.

Tom Silvestri is executive director of The Relevance Project, which advocates for community newspapers. He is the former president and publisher of the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch. Contact him at tas@ relevanceproject.net.

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Guest Column: Into the issues

By Al Cross A new maxim – or is it a mandate? – of the newspaper business is “Get more revenue from your audience.” But that doesn’t have to come entirely in the form of higher subscription or single-copy prices; if you produce good journalism, you can get direct contributions from readers, and some community newspapers have proven it.

That was the big headline from “Success Stories in Rural Journalism,” a webinar the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues held with four community editors on July 30. The frame for it was our belief that the two main solutions to challenges facing the news business are quality journalism, and helping people understand what it is – distinguishing journalism from other kinds of information, and helping people realize its value.

That’s why two of our webinar guests were from papers whose readers have demonstrated through donations that they know their papers’ value: John Gregg, news editor of the daily Valley News in West Lebanon, N.H., and Laurie Ezzell Brown, editor and publisher of The Canadian Record, a weekly in the Texas Panhandle.

Direct reader support is helping the News thrive, and it’s helping the Record survive.

When the pandemic suppressed advertising and the Newspapers of New England chain decided to appeal for reader donations, the News set a goal of $50,000. “Within five days we got that from about 600 contributors,” Gregg said.

“By early June we had raised $155,000 from about 1,500 people.

Residents of the 40 Upper Connecticut River Valley towns covered by the Valley

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News clearly wanted to keep reading a first-class small daily. The paper emphasizes local news but also is part of the Granite State News Collaborative and uses material from VTDigger, a Vermont investigative newsroom.

Readers, who Gregg said “vary from fifth-generation dairy farmers to school bus drivers to heart surgeons,” surely appreciated the News’s comprehensive coverage of the pandemic, which Gregg discussed on the webinar and was exempted from the daily’s five-story paywall. “It was so clear that people were really dependent on us for news and were, you know, stuck at home, and all the more we were their connection to the community.”

Coronavirus news made Brown publish more pages in her weekly than she probably should have, but people in Hemphill County are accustomed to extra effort from the Record, which has been in her family for 75 years. But the last three years have been hard, she said.

“We’ve survived crippling ice storms, devastating drought, deadly wildfires and tornadoes, and dramatic downturns in our two main industries . . . oil and gas, and cattle ranching,” Brown said. “It doesn’t even hold a candle to the impact the virus has had on the small businesses that . . . had been our essential partners in the business of delivering the news to our readers.”

But two years ago, a seed was planted that has helped the paper survive. When a county commissioner said at a meeting, “Nobody reads the newspaper anymore,” Brown wrote an editorial explaining how wrong he was and inviting him to read the paper. “The response to that was pretty

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immediate, and very emotional,” she recalled.

As the economy worsened, Brown was frank with her readers: “The Record is facing an uncertain financial future.” She said in the webinar, “I worry that we’ve written too much about the difficulty newspapers are facing today. I have never wanted to make us the story. But I realized at some point that it IS the story, that it’s one that’s crucial to our communities and that needs telling, and that what happens next will reshape the future of our communities.”

As the pandemic made Brown wonder if she could keep publishing, she got a letter from “a well-seasoned rancher” who “announced that he was writing a $1,000 check to start a fund to help keep the Canadian Record going and invited others to do the same. This was completely unsolicited; it came out of the blue,” and more donations came. “The fund that Jerry established has been the thing that’s kept us going for at least two months; we’re not paying the bills any other way.”

Landmark Community Newspapers hasn’t asked for donations, but it has kept up its editorial quality, as Executive Editor John Nelson made clear with examples on the webinar, such as in-depth coverage of opioids by The Lancaster (S.C.) News, Missouri River floods by the OpinionTribune of Glenwood, Iowa, and proposed “guardians” of schools by the Citrus County Chronicle in Florida.

The example from Nelson that really rang our bell, though, was a column by Editor-Publisher Ben Carlson of The Anderson News in Lawrenceburg, Ky., in Landmark’s company newsletter. It told how a man whose 14-year-old son had Continued on Page 9

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drowned refused to talk with TV reporters because “He did not want anyone to tell the story but the Anderson News.”

Carlson wrote that he shared the story “for those of you who feel beaten down by circulation struggles, revenue concerns and the constant drumbeat about how our industry is not only dying, it has become irrelevant. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes. We’d like to sell more papers and advertising, but the value of our newspapers is more than the amount of money we deposit in the bank each week. To the communities we serve, we are where they come when things go right, but more importantly when things

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go horribly wrong. They trust us because they know us and that isn’t something that any month in recap or spreadsheet can ever reflect.”

doubled. “Our coronavirus coverage really transformed Hoptown Chronicle and made many more readers aware of what we could do for them,” she said.

Nelson said, “I think I think Ben speaks for all of our committed rural editors.”

You can watch the webinar at https:// tinyurl.com/y628bsdc. We hope to have more such webinars as we build a national community of rural journalists. If you have ideas for them, let us know.

Jennifer P. Brown, editor-publisher of the Hoptown Chronicle, a digital startup in Hopkinsville, Ky., provided another example of how giving readers news they need and want can pay off. When the pandemic hit, she converted the startup’s weekly newsletter (“almost like they were having a weekly paper delivered to them digitally”) into a daily coronavirus report, and her readership more than

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Al Cross edited and managed rural newspapers before covering politics for the Louisville Courier Journal and serving as president of the Society of Professional Journalists. He is director of the University of Kentucky’s Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.

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The 2020 APA Virtual Convention panel discussion was moderated on Thursday afternoon by Gwen Moritz of Arkansas Business. Panelists are Britt Talent, Cleveland County Herald in Rison, Frank Leto, Log Cabin Democrat in Conway, Rusty Turner, APA President, Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Fayetteville, and Lori Freeze, Stone County Leader in Mountain View. The APA Virtual Convention will conclude Friday afternoon

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