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New legislation aims to halt newsprint tariffs Don’t miss Brenda Blagg’s FOIA workshop at the APA SuperConvention
ARKANSAS
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Publisher Weekly
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Vol. 13 | No. 24 | Thursday, June 14, 2018
Blagg calls herself a poster child for journalism education
Those who know Brenda Blagg realize she’s inches away from the news of the day – every day. Today she’s fired up about the Department of Education’s proposal to end the requirement for high schools in the state to offer journalism as an elective.
“I am a poster child for journalism education,” said Blagg. “If it hadn’t been for the Newport High School Greyhound, I wouldn’t have started down this trek.” The Arkansas Press Association (APA) will celebrate her newspaper journey with a Golden 50 Service Award for 50 years in the profession at this summer’s convention. Blagg credits her English teachers, specifically Lynette Miller who was the journalism advisor, with encouraging her to be a writer. Before her senior
year was over in 1965, she became the editor of the Greyhound, an 8 ½ x 14-inch mimeographed publication about eight pages long. She left Newport for the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (U of A) where she planned to be a commercial artist. Soon she wandered over to the Journalism Department where she changed her career plans during her junior year. “My sister was an art major at Arkansas State University, and I thought I’d try that at U of A, but it didn’t fit,” she said. Over the years she’s used her artistic talents to draw some courtroom sketches and a few illustrations for the paper. One of the things she finds so inviting about journalism is that students can have all types of interests and pursue them through journalism.
Don’t miss the Adobe workshop by expert Lisa Griffin Lisa Griffin, publishing specialist from Boone Newspapers, Inc., will lead an Adobe workshop at 9 a.m. June 29 at the APA SuperConvention. Griffin has provided consultation, training and support to newspapers and other businesses since 1983. She is recognized as a pioneer in the areas of computer pagination, PDF technology and remote printing methods for newspapers.
A staff member at the University of Tennessee/ Tennessee Press Association Institute for Newspaper Technology, Griffin has conducted group training sessions for press associations and newspapers on
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topics such as newspaper technology, Mac troubleshooting, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Quark Xpress, Pagination, PDF file creation and digital communications. This Friday session promises to be interesting, informative and applicable to the daily workload in the newsroom. The session will cover the new and old features of InDesign and Photoshop as well as techniques to assist with their use. It will end with a collaboration project bringing the two products together and demonstrating effective ways to use them.
APA SuperConvention hotel reservation deadline June 15
If you haven’t reserved a hotel room for your convention stay, make a call today. Tomorrow, June 15, is the deadline to reserve hotel rooms for the June 27-30 APA SuperConvention at the Inn of the Ozarks in Eureka Springs. To reserve your room, call the hotel at 479-2539768 and ask for the special APA rate of $109.
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