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1:30 p.m. – 4 p.m.Colorado Press Association/SYNC2 Media Board of Directors Meeting

All association members are welcome and encouraged to attend. This is a regularly scheduled meeting of the board.

5 p.m. – 7 p.m.Welcome Reception hosted by the Denver Westin Downtown Hotel

In conjunction with the reception, attendees will have the opportunity to view a very special

and moving private collection of Pulitzer Prize winning photos courtesy of Larry Ryckman – The Tribune.

Note: There will be no Governor’s Reception this year.

n Friday, Feb. 22, 2013

7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.Colorado Press Association Annual MeetingPlease plan to attend the annual meeting to

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper addresses questions during the 17th Annual Colorado Press Association Pre-Legislative Forum. More than 60 print and broadcast journalists attended the annual event to hear the 2013 legislative priorities of the Governor and Colorado General Assembly Leadership. See more photos from the event on Page 8

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Laying out the plan for 2013

2013 convention time is almost hereThe 135th Annual Convention of the Colorado

Press Association kicks off Thursday, Feb. 21 in downtown Denver. The event, held at the Westin Denver Downtown Hotel for the second year, promises to be every bit as social and educational as last year with some new twists. Online registration begins Monday, January 14. Register, book hotel rooms and pay online in one easy location. An email link to online registration will be emailed to all CPA members on Monday, January 14. Let the fun begin.

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My 13-year-old son received an iPod Touch for Christmas this year. I know my son. Probably as well as I’ve ever known anyone. And I knew, given time, he would lose his expensive gift.

In an eff ort to soften the blow when the device did turn up missing, I had Zachary create a back-ground screen with the words, “If you fi nd this iPod, please email [email protected] to let my dad know you have it.”

I had to tell you that story, so you would under-stand the reference to my son a little further down this column.

Now for story number two. In the late 90s, I left the newspaper world for a few years to be direc-tor of communications for the United Methodist Church in my part of the United States. I had a staff that created publications, online content, P.R. material and a newspaper. Some of the most inter-esting aspects of my job came under the heading of “crisis communication.”

As crisis communication director, I prepared the organization for emergencies we hoped we’d never see. Several thousand professionals made up the clergy and staff s of these congregations and it was my job to be sure they were ready in the event of a “media event.” I was quite adept at getting TV reporters to report just about anything. Newspapers weren’t as quick - you might say “gullible” - to ac-cept everything as the truth, so I generally used tele-vision to get information out to the masses.

Th is meant I would create text that ministers and others were to use if called by a member of the me-dia during a crisis. Th ey were always instructed, if the reporter wanted more information than I had provided, to contact me directly.

Understanding that story will also come in handy as you read further.

So last night I was having dinner with a friend when I got a text that read, “Are you watching 60 Minutes?”

“No,” was my immediate response.“Th ey’re saying the newspaper industry is dead. I

thought you’d want to know.”Within minutes came an email from Karen

Geary of the Paris Post-Intelligencer in West Ten-nessee. “Did you see 60 Minutes? It’s a story about Th e Times-Picayune. Th ey’re saying newspapers are dead.”

Th e evening continued like that with texts, emails and calls arriving from concerned viewers near and far.

Th is morning, I found the 12 minute clip online and watched it. Th en I watched it again. Th en I watched it and took notes. In less than 11 seconds,

Morley Safer said, referring to newspapers, “virtu-ally an entire industry in free-fall.”

Th e story, of course, was about the Times-Pic-ayne’s move from a daily to a three days a week pub-lication. I was especially interested because some of the folks in the story were the same folks who con-tacted me back when the shift was announced.

Steve Newhouse declined to be interviewed for the story. Th at job fell to Jim Amoss, longtime edi-tor of the paper.

Safer’s fi rst question to Amoss seemed simple enough. “Did you agree with the decision to start publishing three days a week?”

I’m listening to this interview for the fourth time as I write. And for the life of me, I still haven’t heard him answer the question. He gave what sounded to me like a “packaged” response, the kind I might have written years ago.

It reminded me so much of my son, when I asked where his iPod was, knowing full well it had been lost. He told me all about the possible places an iPod could be, without coming out and telling me he’d lost it a few days earlier.

I felt for him. I wanted Amoss to tell us what he really thought, one way or the other. All I got from listening to his interview was that the industry was grappling with options. Safer equated what was happening to surgery, where all the limbs are ampu-tated and replaced by artifi cial limbs.

In an open letter to Advance, the paper’s parent company, several high profi le citizens of New Or-leans, including many names that you would know, wrote that “Th e Newhouses are losing the trust of the community.”

David Carr, New York Times reporter, said, “I don’t think they expected the hurricane winds that came against them.”

Yet in a radio interview from a few weeks ago, David Francis, business manager for the NOLA Media Group, of which Th e Times-Picayune is a part, said that New Orleans is “embracing us again.”

I called Carl Redman, executive editor of Th e Advocate in Baton Rouge to ask him about the new daily paper in New Orleans created by the Baton Rouge paper. Redman reports that his group was overwhelmed by the response to the new daily. Th ey had hoped for a circulation of 10,000 by Feb-ruary 2013. Instead, more than 10,000 subscribed to the newspaper within a week. Between home de-livery and single copy sales, Th e Advocate currently reaches approximately 20,000 homes each day.

I tried to reach someone at Th e Times-Picayune, sending emails to the publisher and several manag-ers, but received no response.

Finally, I decided to talk with Rob Curley, dep-uty editor of the Orange County Register (OCR), whose resume includes more experience in online journalism than anyone I can think of. Rob is a household name and I fi gured he could give me insight on whatever it is I’m missing related to Th e Times-Picayune conversion to a non-daily.

Instead we spent most of our conversation talk-ing about his new job in Orange County. OCR is one of the 20 biggest papers in the country.

Rob has left his role as online guru to serve as one of fi ve deputy editors of the paper. He explained that, since July, OCR has increased its newsroom staff room 185 writers and editors to 300.

I could write several columns about the changes at OCR, but I can sense Rob’s excitement when he discussed his work with America’s “largest com-munity newspaper,” a description credited to Ken Brusic, executive editor.

After spending my afternoon interviewing Carl Redman and Rob Curley, I found it diffi cult to un-derstand why Safer referred to newspapers as “dy-ing.”

I found it even harder to understand after read-ing a story in News & Tech today that six of eight publicly traded newspaper companies showed in-creases in their stock prices in 2012. Not small in-creases, but double-digit increases.

I love talking with folks who are excited about working for their newspapers. I visited with two newspapers in Virginia and Kentucky over the past few weeks to work with their staff s. Both papers are doing well and continue to invest in the future.

It’s no coincidence that papers that invest in the future thrive. And while the Orange County Regis-ter may be America’s largest community paper, you can bet that thousands of community papers will continue to serve their communities and surprise Morley Safer at the same time.

My suggestion? Remind your readers that your paper is providing a vital service to the community as it has for years. And, perhaps, take a cue from the folks in Orange County and continue to invest in the future.

Coming Soon. . .Kentucky Press Association Convention

Michigan Press Association

Alberta Symposium, Edmonton

Tennessee Press Association

Colorado Press Association

TCNA, San Antonio

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vote on the 2013 board officers and directors, as well as to hear a National Newspaper Association update by NNA president Merle Baranczyk and an update about the CPA Philanthropic Advisory Committee by PAC Chairman Denny Dressman. All members are welcome to attend.

Convention Kick-Off Keynote9 a.m. – 10 a.m.Jason Taylor Chattanooga Times Free Press

Don’t miss this energetic newspaper man with a unique ability for finding non-traditional revenue streams for newspapers, preaching customer service like nobody’s business and encouraging papers to stretch their minds and business lines. This isn’t only for the business side. Editorial gurus will get a ton out of this. It’s for everyone. And it kicks off the convention.

Morning Concurrent Break-Out Sessions10:15 a.m. – Noon

• Editorial Audience Development – Shannon Kinney, Dream Local

• The Sales Survival Workshop – Mike Blinder, The Blinder Group

• Teach Me Even More Photoshop – Kevin Slimp

• Cultivating Daily Stories for the Bigger Picture (Advanced Reporting) – Kevin Vaughan, Jim Trotter, iNews Network

• COLLEGE TRACK: Ethics Panel – Moderated by Doug Bell. Panelists Fred Brown, Jim Anderson, Deb Hurley Brobst and Raj Chohan

Capitol Hill Luncheon12:30 – 1:45 p.m.

All convention attendees should plan to attend this luncheon. This is an important opportunity for CPA members to eat lunch with their legislators and to discuss issues important to our industry. Public notices are under attack again this year and with many new faces at the Capitol, this is an opportunity that should not be missed.

Friend of the First Award PresentationKeynote Speaker: Judy Muller

Award-winning broadcast journalist Judy Muller is a professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Previously, she was a correspondent for ABC News and CBS News. She is also a commentator for NPR’s “Morning Edition” and APR’s “Marketplace Money”.

Afternoon Concurrent Break-out Session – I2:15 – 3:15 pm.

• Data Organization, Source Development (Advanced Reporting) - Kevin Vaughan,

Jim Trotter, iNews Network

• Making Digital Dollars Today – Mike Blinder, The Blinder Group

• Even More InDesign for Newspaper Designers – Kevin Slimp

• What Makes Smart Social News Strategy? – Travis Mayfield, Fisher Interactive

• COLLEGE TRACK: Social Media Panel.

Afternoon Concurrent Break-out Session – II3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

• Finding and Fixing Problems in PDF Files – Kevin Slimp

• Advertising Audience Growth/Education – Shannon Kinney, Dream Local

• The Drumbreat of Social News Strategy in your Newsroom – Travis Mayfield, Fisher Interactive

• iNews Network Training – Laura Frank, iNews Network, (this is a must attend for all publishers and managing editors who want to gain the most from the CPA/iNews Network Parntership. Member papers receive investigative packages at no charge to the newspaper. If you aren’t taking advantage of iNews Network, attend to find out how).

College Student Job/Internship Fair3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Editors, publishers and hiring managers, please plan to have someone from your staff attend this convention event. There are thousands of students

in Colorado interested in journalism. Let’s give them a great showing by giving some of our passion for the business back.

Associated Press Annual Business Meeting3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Associated Press/Colorado Press Association Cocktail Reception

This is a complimentary cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception for all attendees before you head to evening events.

Past President Reception – Invitation Only.6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Palm Restaurant – Westin Denver Dowtown Hotel

CAPER Awards Banquet 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.

n Saturday, February 23

Saturday Morning Kick-Off KeynoteJim Brady – Editor-in-Chief, Digital First Media

Jim Brady talks about Project Thunderdome, editorial Digital First and what successes and failures look like in an editorial digital first world.

Morning Concurrent Break-out Sessions10:15 a.m. – Noon• Covering Community in

Crisis: Covering the news while caring for the needs of staff covering tragedy in their backyards – Moderated by Larry Ryckman, The Tribune. Panelists: Doug Bell - Evergreen Newspapers, Josh Awtry – Fort Collins Coloradoan, Dave Perry – Aurora Sentinel and

Jim Anderson – The Associated Press.

• SYNC2 Media – Getting the Most Print and Digital Dollars from Your Trade Association – Elizabeth Bernberg, VP Sales & Marketing, SYNC2 Media, Mike MacDonald, Senior Outside Sales Consultant SYNC2 Media.

• Customer Service: A Common Sense Approach – Kevin Slimp.

• Circulation and Audience Engagement – Mike Newland, Dubuqe Telegraph Herald.

12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.Keynote Speaker Joe Boydston, Vice President of Technology and New Media, McNaughton Newspaper Group

Meet a guy who disagrees with Digital First. He’s a print first proponent with a strong digital push and he’s making money doing it. His practices at McNaughton aren’t mainstream and he’s not afraid to speak up about what the industry is doing right, what we’re doing wrong and what’s working for his company. Joe is a don’t miss.

Annual CPA Better Newspaper ContestCocktail Reception to follow2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Yes, that’s right. No charge. Theater style. Cash bar in the back of the room (okay, there will be two). Just like the good ol’ days. Bring the whole staff to enjoy a fast-paced awards ceremony where clapping and cheering and carrying on is not only welcomed, it’s expected. Meet the 2012 Newspaper Person of the Year and the Rising Star and learn who is most innovative in the state. It’s going to be a great time.

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DESCRIPTIONS

CPA/SYNC2 Media Board Meeting

All convention attendees and CPA members are welcome to attend the regularly scheduled CPA/SYNC2 Media board meet-ings which will be held back-to-back. The annual meeting where new board members are voted in, etc. will be held Friday morning.

Pulitzer Prize Photoraphy Dis-play & Cocktail Reception

Enjoy complimentary cock-tails and hors d’oeuvres while viewing former AP correspon-dent and current Greeley Tribune City Editor Larry Ryckman’s collection of Pulitzer Prize winning photos. This is a great opportunity to network, socialize and catch-up with your newspa-per colleagues and convention speakers.

CPA Annual MeetingWe hope you’ll attend the

annual meeting of the Colorado Press Association to vote on incoming board members, hear an update from NNA President Merle Baranczyk and learn about what is happening at with the Foundation. All members are invited to attend.

SPEAKERS

Shannon KinneyShannon has over 15 years of experience in the development of successful Internet products, sales and marketing strategies. She

has worked on the teams developing successful In-ternet brands such as cars.com, career-builder.com, and over 60 online media properties for newspapers

all over the U.S. and Canada. Prior to that, she spent over 10 years in media sales and sales management in Maine. She is an experienced speaker, trainer, and consultant, and has worked with small and large companies alike. Shannon is considered an expert in the field of online marketing and social media, and speaks regularly at conferences on the subject. She serves as an advisor to many established and start-up companies, and local charitable groups such as the Maine Lobster Festival Committee.

Mike BlinderMike Blinder started fresh

out of college as a disc jockey who eventually became a sales manager for a group of radio stations. Afterwards, he went on to manage television and radio groups until Guy Gannett Com-

munications asked him to help launch their online di-vision for their Media and TV holdings. From there Mike’s ca-reer blossomed moving on to consult compa-

nies of all sizes, all over the world on multimedia sales strategies.

Today over 350 media companies are clients of Mike’s company. The Blinder Group, a Florida based firm that assists in maximizing revenues for their clients, through effective on-site sales training programs. Gannett, Hearst, Media General, Mor-ris Communications, CanWest, Quebecor, Media News Group, Scripps and the New York Times are just a few of the companies that avail themselves of Mike and his team of “street fighting” multimedia specialists, who are experts at training traditional sales people on how to embrace new media sales.

One of Mike’s mottos is “train in the car as well as the classroom,” which means that Mike’s com-pany has made thousands of sales calls on small, medium and large advertisers in a 4-legged” sales call setting with traditional ad reps, closing millions of dollars of new business for client media com-panies, all over the world! Learn more about some of the Blinder Group’s client success stories at: http://www.blindergroup.com/articles/index.shtml

Mike’s latest book: Survival Selling is receiving critical acclaim as a must read guide to assist sales reps on how to garner more rev-enue in tough economic times.

Mike currently resides in Florida, with his wife Robin, 8- year old daughter Haven and “Golden Doodle” named Ginger. He is an avid boater living on the Gulf of Mexico.

Kevin SlimpKevin Slimp wears many hats.To some, he’s the director of

the internationally-recognized Institute of Newspaper Technol-ogy. To others, he’s a syndicated columnist whose columns are

carried by more than 60 industry-re-lated journals throughout the world.

Others have heard him keynote one or more of hundreds of publishing,

advertising and print conferences over the past 15 years.

He was very involved in the aftermath of the decision to con-vert daily papers in four southern cities to tri-weeklies and has been an outspoken critic of that

decision. A column he wrote in October ultimately saved newspa-pers in America metro areas from losing financial backing.

In 2012, He was called “America’s customer service crusader” by one magazine after his legendary battles with some of America’s biggest companies over the past two years.

Publishers’ Auxiliary called him “probably the most popular and effective speaker among community newspaper publishers today” in a column three years ago. His popularity has grown immensely since then.

He’s become a successful pub-lisher in his own right, first with periodicals for teenagers in the 90s and more recently with a new venture as founder and managing partner of Grade A Media, who’s goal is to get more elementary school children to read newspa-pers.

He’s worn many hats through the years. Publishers, ad agency executive, speaker, trainer and advocate for the newspaper industry. Don’t miss this oppor-tunity to see Kevin in person.

Kevin VaughanKevin Vaughan, senior

reporter for I-News Network, is known for his narrative storytell-ing skills. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist and reported many of Colorado’s most important news stories during two decades as a reporter at four Colorado newspapers: The Fort Morgan Times, The Coloradoan in Fort Collins, the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post.

Jim TrotterJim Trotter, I-News program

director, has edited a Pulitzer Prize winning story and an Emmy-winning documentary. He’s been a metro newspaper columnist and a public affairs TV show editorial director. He was senior editor for enterprise at the Rocky Mountain News and then oversaw enterprise reporting in 13 western states for the Associ-ated Press.

Judy MullerAward-winning broadcast

journalist Judy Muller is a profes-sor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communica-tion and Jour-nalism. Previ-ously, she was a correspondent for ABC News for fifteen years, reporting for such broadcasts

as World News with Peter Jen-nings, Nightline and 20/20. From 1980 to 1990, she was a corre-spondent for CBS News, report-ing for the radio network and for the television broadcast Sunday Morning. She is also a commenta-

tor for NPR’s “Morning Edition” and APR’s “Marketplace Money”. For the last five years, she has been a contributing correspon-dent to KCET TV’s “SoCal Con-nected,” where her reporting has won numerous honors, including a George Foster Peabody award, a Columbia DuPont, an Emmy and two Golden MICs. Her latest book, about weekly newspapers in America, is entitled “Emus Loose in Egnar: Big Stories from Small Towns” (July, 2011, Univ. of Nebraska Press). She is also the author of “Now This – Radio, Television and the Real World” (Putnam).

Prior to coming to USC, Muller was a correspondent for ABC Network News, reporting for such broadcasts as Nightline, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Good Morning America, and This Week. During her 15 years at ABC, she covered such stories as the Rodney King beat-ing trial, the Presidential cam-paigns of Paul Tsongas and Bob Kerrey, the Los Angeles earth-quake in 1994, the O.J. Simpson case, and numerous environmen-tal stories throughout the West.

From 1981 to 1990, Ms. Muller was a correspondent for CBS News, where she was a contributor to CBS Sunday Morning and CBS Weekend News. Her primary duties, however, were in the Radio News Divi-sion, where she anchored a daily commentary, “First Line Report,” “Correspondent’s Notebook,” and was the summer anchor for “The Osgood File.” She also covered the space shuttle program, both national political conventions in 1988 and the 1988 Bush Presi-dential Campaign.

Ms. Muller was previously an anchor/reporter for KHOW-AM in Denver and WHWH in Princeton, New Jersey. She began her career in journalism as a reporter for the Colonial News in Princeton, New Jersey. From 1970 to 1973, she was a high school English teacher in Metuchen, New Jersey. A 1969 graduate of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Ms. Muller has received numerous journalism honors, including an Emmy award for coverage of the O.J. Simpson case and an Edward R. Murrow award for coverage of the impeachment of President Clinton.

Travis MayfieldTravis Mayfield is the Director

of Digital Social Strategy at Fisher Interactive Network where he oversees the social media and digital efforts for all of Fisher Communications’ broadcast properties in Washington, Or-egon, California and Idaho. Travis started his career in broad-cast journalism at NBC’s Today Show in New York City, followed up with a year at KHQ-TV in Spokane all while still attending

Gonzaga University. After earn-ing a degree from GU Travis went

to Montana where he produced, reported and anchored for NBC Mon-tana. Travis returned to Washington to work as a special

projects reporter at KNDO-TV in Yakima before again winding up in Spokane to work as KXLY-TV’s consumer reporter.

For the past 6 years Travis has been in Seattle where he first served as a reporter for KOMO 4 News and KOMO News ra-dio. He was then promoted to Community Network Manager, Executive Producer and now to his current role as Director of Digital Social Strategy for the entire company. Travis’ work has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press and National Academy of Televi-sion Arts and Science. Travis was also honored in 2012 to receive a Fisher Communications “Innova-tion” award.

Follow Travis on Twitter and Instagram @TravisMayfield

Doug BellDoug Bell started his newspa-

per career on the sports staff of a small daily south of Pittsburgh,

Pa. His career has spanned 34 years and many jobs, including long stints as copy desk chief at Denver’s two dailies and news editor jobs in Boulder and

Greeley. Currently he serves as editor of the four weekly news-papers based in Evergreen. Bell has a strong interest in ethics and First Amendment issues and re-ceived the SPJ First Amendment Award in 2008. He has been a frequent guest speaker in college ethics classes and was one of the authors of the Denver Post ethics policy. For the past 23 years, Bell has served as an adjunct faculty member at Metropolitan State University; he also is on the advisory board for the journalism certificate at Arapahoe Commu-nity College.

Bell serves as advocacy chair for the Colorado Pro chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and is a member of the philanthropic advisory com-mittee for the Colorado Press Association.

Outside work, his hobbies include ice hockey and tennis, as well as taking care of a demand-

Conference Speakers and Descriptions

Kinney

Blinder

Slimp Muller

Mayfield

Bell

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SPEAKERS from Page 3ing cat and a very active canine. Bell’s wife, Christa, works in corporate communications for United Launch Alliance.

Raj ChohanRaj Chohan is an attorney and re-covering journalist. He practices law at the Denver offices of Baker

Hostetler. Formerly, he was an award winning news reporter at CBS News Corporation’s Denver televi-sion station KCNC where he spent more than a decade

covering politics, crime and breaking news. Raj also hosts and moderates Colorado Public Television’s (PBS Channel 12) Emmy Award winning discussion series “Colorado Inside Out.”

Jim AndersonJim Anderson is The Associ-

ated Press news editor for Colo-rado, Wyoming and Montana. Anderson previously was bureau chief in Venezuela and reported elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico and Peru. He has served in Los Angeles and New York and also worked at The Miami Herald.

Gil AsakawaGil Asakawa is Manager of

Student Media at the University of Colorado in Boulder. And serves as adviser to www.cuinde-pendent.com, the student-run

news web-site. He is an experienced journalist, editor, author and blogger who covers Asian Ameri-can issues and culture in several blogs and social

media. His main blog is the Nik-kei View at www.Nikkeiview.com), and he also posts articles to HuffingtonPost Denver. He can also be found at gilasakawa.tumblr.com, and he’s active on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and many other forgotten sites and platforms. He is a nation-ally known speaker, panelist and expert on Asian American issues and social media. He served as the Editorial Board Chair for the Pacific Citizen and a member of the national Board for the JACL, and is currently the Chair of the Society of Professional Journal-ists’ Digital Media Committee. He was a founding member and president of AAJA-Denver and is the Diversity Chair of SPJ-Colo-rado. He is co-author of “The Toy Book” (Knopf, 1991) and author of “Being Japanese American” (Stone Bridge Press, 2004).

Jim BradyJim Brady is the Editor-in-

Chief of Digital First Media -- which operates the Journal Register Company and Medi-aNews Group -- and oversees

the editorial strategy and operations of its 75 daily newspapers, 292 non-daily publications and 341 online sites. As part of the role, Brady is also

overseeing the launch of Project Thunderdome, which will rede-fine how DFM produces journal-ism for the digital age by creating a centralized team that produces high-quality non-local journal-ism for all DFM properties on all platforms.

Before joining DFM, Brady served as general manager of TBD, a new local news opera-tion dedicated to comprehensive coverage of the Washington, D.C. region that combines the values of traditional journalism and the power of citizen jour-nalism. Brady joined TBD after more than four years as executive editor of washingtonpost.com, where he led the site to numerous awards and accolades.

As general manager of TBD, Brady was responsible for the busi-ness operations and editorial over-sight of both TBD.com and TBD TV, a 24-hour local cable news station. On both platforms, TBD’s original journalism is supplement-ed with strong partnerships with other local news organizations and more than 175 area bloggers. TBD has quickly gained a reputation for innovative ways of covering local news, and gained high marks for its commitment to social media and engaging with its community in meaningful ways. TBD has also

displayed a strong commitment to mobile, with highly regarded applications for the iPhone and Droid.

During Brady’s tenure as executive editor of washing-tonpost.com, the site won a national Emmy award for its Hurricane Katrina coverage, a Peabody Award for its “Being a Black Man” series, an Editor & Publisher award for Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site, two Digital Edge awards for Best Overall News Site, a Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism, two Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards, four Edward R. Murrow Awards for Best Non-Broadcast Affiliated Web Site, and more than 100 White House News Photographers video awards. Brady also served as sports editor and assistant managing editor for news at washingtonpost.com from 1995 to 1999.

In between his stints at washingtonpost.com, Brady spent more than four years at America Online, serving as Group Programming Direc-tor, News & Sports; Executive Director, Editorial Operations; and Vice President, Production & Operations. During his time at AOL, Brady was in charge of

the service’s coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2000 presidential election.

Brady earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Print Journalism from The American University in 1989.

Born in Queens, N.Y. and raised in Huntington, N.Y., Brady now lives with his wife, Joan, in Great Falls, Va.

Mike NewlandMike joined the Telegraph

Herald in March 2005 as the Circulation Manager and was named Circulation Director in 2007 and Operations Director in 2010. A veteran of the newspaper industry, Mike has held execu-tive circulation positions with Howard Publications, Partner-ship Press (Ames Tribune), Lee Enterprises Inc. and Woodward Communications Inc. He serves on a variety of boards includ-ing Junior Achievement and Northern States Circulation Managers’ Association. In 2010, Mike received the distinguished H.G. “Lefty” Hymes Award from NSCMA. Mike has a BS in Busi-ness Administration from Upper Iowa University.


Asakawa

Brady

Scenes from a ConventionMatt Sandberg (Summit Daily News), right, and Craig Zablocki share a shirt to make a point during Zablocki’s keynote address at the 2012 Colorado Press Association Annual Convention. Photo by Thomas Cooper

Hotel InformationWestin Hotel Rate: $129/night, complimentary in-room wireless

Visit the CPA website at coloradopressassociation.com for a link to online booking, or choose lodging when registering online.

Hotel block cut-off is Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. Book rooms now for the best rate.

Chohan



In an effort to soften the blow when the device did turn up missing, I had Zachary cre-ate a background screen with the words, “If you find this iPod, please email [email protected] to let my dad know you have it.”

I had to tell you that story, so you would understand

the reference to my son a little further down this column.

Now for story number two. In the late 90s, I left the newspaper world for a few years to be director of communica-tions for the United Methodist Church in my part of the United States. I had a staff that created publications, online content, P.R. material and a newspaper. Some of the most interesting aspects of my job came under the heading of “crisis communication.”

As crisis communication director, I prepared the organization for emergen-cies we hoped we’d never see. Several thousand professionals made up the clergy and staffs of these congregations and it was my job to be sure they were ready in the event of a “media event.” I was quite adept at getting TV reporters to report just about anything. Newspa-pers weren’t as quick - you might say “gullible” - to accept everything as the truth, so I generally used television to get information out to the masses.

This meant I would create text that ministers and others were to use if called by a member of the media during a crisis. They were always instructed, if the reporter wanted more informa-tion than I had provided, to contact me directly.



“No,” was my immediate response.“They’re saying the newspaper

industry is dead. I thought you’d want to know.”

Within minutes came an email from Karen Geary of the Paris Post-Intelligencer in West Tennessee. “Did you see 60 Minutes? It’s a story about The Times-Picayune. They’re saying newspapers are dead.”

The evening continued like that with texts, emails and calls arriving from concerned viewers near and far.

This morning, I found the 12 minute clip online and watched it. Then I

watched it again. Then I watched it and took notes. In less than 11 seconds, Morley Safer said, refer-ring to newspapers, “virtually an entire industry in free-fall.”

The story, of course, was about the Times-Picayne’s move from a daily to a three days a week publi-cation. I was especially interested because some of the folks in the story were the same folks who contacted me back when the shift was announced.

Steve Newhouse declined to be interviewed for the story. That job fell to Jim Amoss, longtime editor of the paper.

Safer’s first question to Amoss seemed simple enough. “Did you agree with the decision to start publishing three days a week?”



I felt for him. I wanted Amoss to tell us what he really thought, one way or the other. All I got from listening to his interview was that the industry was grappling with options. Safer equated what was happening to surgery, where all the limbs are amputated and re-placed by artificial limbs.

In an open letter to Advance, the paper’s parent company, several high profile citizens of New Orleans, includ-ing many names that you would know, wrote that “The Newhouses are losing the trust of the community.”


Yet in a radio interview from a few weeks ago, David Francis, business manager for the NOLA Media Group, of which The Times-Picayune is a part, said that New Orleans is “embracing us again.”

I called Carl Redman, executive editor of The Advocate in Baton Rouge to ask him about the new daily paper in New Orleans created by the Baton Rouge paper. Redman reports that his group was overwhelmed by the response to the new daily. They had hoped for a circulation of 10,000 by February 2013. Instead, more than 10,000 subscribed to the newspaper within a week. Between home delivery and single copy sales, The Advocate currently reaches approximately 20,000 homes each day.

I tried to reach someone at The Times-Picayune, sending emails to the

publisher and several managers, but received no response.

Finally, I decided to talk with Rob Curley, deputy editor of the Orange County Register (OCR), whose resume includes more experience in online journalism than anyone I can think of. Rob is a household name and I figured he could give me insight on whatever it is I’m missing related to The Times-Picayune conversion to a non-daily.

Instead we spent most of our con-versation talking about his new job in Orange County. OCR is one of the 20 biggest papers in the country.

Rob has left his role as online guru to serve as one of five deputy editors of the paper. He explained that, since July, OCR has increased its newsroom staff room 185 writers and editors to 300.

I could write several columns about the changes at OCR, but I can sense Rob’s excitement when he discussed his work with America’s “largest commu-nity newspaper,” a description credited to Ken Brusic, executive editor.

After spending my afternoon inter-viewing Carl Redman and Rob Curley, I found it difficult to understand why Safer referred to newspapers as “dying.”

I found it even harder to understand after reading a story in News & Tech today that six of eight publicly traded newspaper companies showed increases in their stock prices in 2012. Not small increases, but double-digit increases.

I love talking with folks who are excited about working for their news-papers. I visited with two newspapers in Virginia and Kentucky over the past few weeks to work with their staffs. Both papers are doing well and con-tinue to invest in the future.

It’s no coincidence that papers that invest in the future thrive. And while the Orange County Register may be America’s largest community paper, you can bet that thousands of commu-nity papers will continue to serve their communities and surprise Morley Safer at the same time.

My suggestion? Remind your read-ers that your paper is providing a vital service to the community as it has for years. And, perhaps, take a cue from the folks in Orange County and con-

Kevin Slimp

Institute ofNewspaper [email protected]


In an eff ort to soften the blow when the device did turn up missing, I had Zachary create a back-ground screen with the words, “If you fi nd this iPod, please email [email protected] to let my dad know you have it.”

I had to tell you that story, so you would under-stand the reference to my son a little further down this column.

Now for story number two. In the late 90s, I left the newspaper world for a few years to be direc-tor of communications for the United Methodist Church in my part of the United States. I had a staff that created publications, online content, P.R. material and a newspaper. Some of the most inter-esting aspects of my job came under the heading of “crisis communication.”

As crisis communication director, I prepared the organization for emergencies we hoped we’d never see. Several thousand professionals made up the clergy and staff s of these congregations and it was my job to be sure they were ready in the event of a “media event.” I was quite adept at getting TV reporters to report just about anything. Newspapers weren’t as quick - you might say “gullible” - to ac-cept everything as the truth, so I generally used tele-vision to get information out to the masses.

Th is meant I would create text that ministers and others were to use if called by a member of the me-dia during a crisis. Th ey were always instructed, if the reporter wanted more information than I had provided, to contact me directly.



“No,” was my immediate response.“Th ey’re saying the newspaper industry is dead. I

thought you’d want to know.”Within minutes came an email from Karen

Geary of the Paris Post-Intelligencer in West Ten-nessee. “Did you see 60 Minutes? It’s a story about Th e Times-Picayune. Th ey’re saying newspapers are dead.”

Th e evening continued like that with texts, emails and calls arriving from concerned viewers near and far.

Th is morning, I found the 12 minute clip online and watched it. Th en I watched it again. Th en I watched it and took notes. In less than 11 seconds,

Morley Safer said, referring to newspapers, “virtu-ally an entire industry in free-fall.”

Th e story, of course, was about the Times-Pic-ayne’s move from a daily to a three days a week pub-lication. I was especially interested because some of the folks in the story were the same folks who con-tacted me back when the shift was announced.

Steve Newhouse declined to be interviewed for the story. Th at job fell to Jim Amoss, longtime edi-tor of the paper.

Safer’s fi rst question to Amoss seemed simple enough. “Did you agree with the decision to start publishing three days a week?”



I felt for him. I wanted Amoss to tell us what he really thought, one way or the other. All I got from listening to his interview was that the industry was grappling with options. Safer equated what was happening to surgery, where all the limbs are ampu-tated and replaced by artifi cial limbs.

In an open letter to Advance, the paper’s parent company, several high profi le citizens of New Or-leans, including many names that you would know, wrote that “Th e Newhouses are losing the trust of the community.”


Yet in a radio interview from a few weeks ago, David Francis, business manager for the NOLA Media Group, of which Th e Times-Picayune is a part, said that New Orleans is “embracing us again.”

I called Carl Redman, executive editor of Th e Advocate in Baton Rouge to ask him about the new daily paper in New Orleans created by the Baton Rouge paper. Redman reports that his group was overwhelmed by the response to the new daily. Th ey had hoped for a circulation of 10,000 by Feb-ruary 2013. Instead, more than 10,000 subscribed to the newspaper within a week. Between home de-livery and single copy sales, Th e Advocate currently reaches approximately 20,000 homes each day.

I tried to reach someone at Th e Times-Picayune, sending emails to the publisher and several manag-ers, but received no response.

Finally, I decided to talk with Rob Curley, dep-uty editor of the Orange County Register (OCR), whose resume includes more experience in online journalism than anyone I can think of. Rob is a household name and I fi gured he could give me insight on whatever it is I’m missing related to Th e Times-Picayune conversion to a non-daily.

Instead we spent most of our conversation talk-ing about his new job in Orange County. OCR is one of the 20 biggest papers in the country.

Rob has left his role as online guru to serve as one of fi ve deputy editors of the paper. He explained that, since July, OCR has increased its newsroom staff room 185 writers and editors to 300.

I could write several columns about the changes at OCR, but I can sense Rob’s excitement when he discussed his work with America’s “largest com-munity newspaper,” a description credited to Ken Brusic, executive editor.

After spending my afternoon interviewing Carl Redman and Rob Curley, I found it diffi cult to un-derstand why Safer referred to newspapers as “dy-ing.”

I found it even harder to understand after read-ing a story in News & Tech today that six of eight publicly traded newspaper companies showed in-creases in their stock prices in 2012. Not small in-creases, but double-digit increases.

I love talking with folks who are excited about working for their newspapers. I visited with two newspapers in Virginia and Kentucky over the past few weeks to work with their staff s. Both papers are doing well and continue to invest in the future.

It’s no coincidence that papers that invest in the future thrive. And while the Orange County Regis-ter may be America’s largest community paper, you can bet that thousands of community papers will continue to serve their communities and surprise Morley Safer at the same time.

My suggestion? Remind your readers that your paper is providing a vital service to the community as it has for years. And, perhaps, take a cue from the folks in Orange County and continue to invest in the future.

Coming Soon. . .Kentucky Press Association Convention

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Tennessee Press Association

Colorado Press Association

TCNA, San Antonio

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60 Minutes tackles Times-PicayuneAbout Kevin Slimp

Kevin Slimp wears many hats.To some, he’s the director of the internationally-

recognized Institute of Newspaper Technology. To others, he’s a syndicated columnist whose columns are carried by more than 60 industry-related journals throughout the world.

Others have heard him keynote one or more of hundreds of publishing, advertising and print conferences over the past 15 years.

He was very involved in the aftermath of the decision to convert daily papers in four southern cities to tri-weeklies and has been an outspoken critic of that decision. A column he wrote in October ultimately saved newspapers in America metro areas from losing financial backing.

In 2012, He was called “America’s customer service crusader” by one magazine after his legendary battles with some of America’s biggest companies over the past two years.

Publishers’ Auxiliary called him “probably the most popular and effective speaker among community newspaper publishers today” in a column three years ago. His popularity has grown immensely since then.

He’s become a successful publisher in his own right, first with periodicals for teenagers in the 90s and more recently with a new venture as founder and managing partner of Grade A Media, who’s goal is to get more elementary school children to read newspapers.

He’s worn many hats through the years. Publishers, ad agency executive, speaker, trainer and advocate for the newspaper industry. Don’t miss this opportunity to see Kevin in person.

Kevin’s 2013 CPA Convention ScheduleFriday, Feb. 22, 201310:15 a.m. - NoonTeach Me Even More Photoshop

During this session, Kevin will focus on skills and tools that often get overlooked in Photoshop, but can enhance the quality of your photos and ads. Depending on the length of the session, Kevin can go everywhere from the basics of editing newspaper photos to features and tools that even Photoshop veterans will love.

2:15 - 3:15 p.m. Even More InDesign for Newspaper Designers

Kevin keeps finding new features and tools to teach even the most experienced InDesign user. Novices and veterans of InDesign feel equally at home during this session that is great for users of any version of Adobe InDesign.

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.Finding and Fixing Problems in PDF Files

We all run into them from time to time. Those dreaded problem PDF file. Learn from the guy who started the whole PDF craze back in the early 90s.

Saturday, Feb. 23, 201310:30 a.m. - Noon

Customer Service: A Common Sense ApproachKevin was called “America’s Customer Service Crusader” by one magazine in 2012. See why top executives from companies including AT&T, Delta, USAir and other cringe when they hear Kevin is calling and see why they utilize what they learn from him to become more customer oriented.

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I wanted (Times-Picayune Editor Jim) Amoss to tell us what he really thought, one way or the other. All I got from listening to his interview was that the

industry was grappling with options. (Morley) Safer equated what was happening to surgery, where all the limbs are amputated and replaced by artificial limbs.”


The Colorado Press Association Nomi-nation Committee recommended a slate of candidates for annual board election to be held Friday, Feb. 22 during the annual convention. The committee, established according to CPA bylaws, includes the immediate five past CPA presidents. This year’s committee members are: Jeanette Chavez – formerly of The Denver Post, Dean Lehman – Longmont Times-Call, Steve Henson – The Pueblo Chieftain, Tom Bredehoft – The Flagler News and Randy Sunderland – Delta County Independent.

Candidates are nominated by industry peers during the “call for nomination” period in the fall, and selected by the Nomination Committee in December.

Regular CPA members may vote in person or by proxy at the annual meeting in February.

Proxy forms and voting information will be emailed to all members on Mon-day, January 14, 2013.

For information about the board of directors or the nomination and election process, contact Samantha Johnston at 303-571-5117 or by email at [email protected].

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

CHAIRBrenda BrandtPublisher, The Holyoke Enterprise [email protected]

Before beginning her newspaper career, Brandt earned a Bachelor of Sci-ence degree in education, with a double major in math and journalism from the University of Nebraska-Kearney in 1977. She taught high school math and journal-ism at Aurora, Neb. high school for two years, also serving as sponsor for the high school yearbook and newspaper.

Brandt joined The Enterprise in 1979 as news editor and added the managing editor responsibili-ties in 1980. In 1994, she assumed the advertising manager›s role and became publisher. In 1999, Brenda and her sister and brother-in-law (Lori and Russ Pankonin) purchased Johnson Publica-tions (Holyoke Enterprise, Imperial Republican, Grant Tribune-Sentinel and Wauneta Breeze) from Loral and Elna Johnson (Brenda and Lori›s parents).

Brandt was appointed to the Board in September 2007 to fill a vacancy. She served as Board secretary in 2009, treasurer in 2010, Vice President in 2011, and President in 2011 and 2012.

PRESIDENTBryce JacobsonPublisher, Craig Daily [email protected]

Bryce Jacobson started in the news-paper business at age 8, delivering the Journal-Advocate in Sterling. He later worked in the newspaper’s mailroom and circulation depart-ment, and was named circulation manager in 1998.

Jacobson worked in the circulation departments at the Star-Herald in Scottsbluff,Neb., and later was with the Denver Newspaper Agency until 2006 when he was named publisher of the Craig Daily Press.

He serves as President of the Board of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Northwest Colorado and is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Craig.

Jacobson is the father of two children, Peyton, age 11 and Bayley, age 7. Jacob-son was elected to the board in 2009. He served as Treasurer in 2011, and Vice President in 2012.

VICE PRESIDENTTerri [email protected]

Terri House began her newspaper career at The SUN at age 15, working in the mailroom. She held the positions of advertising manager, general manager and assistant publisher before purchasing the newspaper in 2003.

Service to her community is of utmost importance to House. She received the Pagosa Springs Volunteer of the Year Award in 2008 and Citizen of the Year in 1996. She has served as President of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southwest Colo-rado and received the Mashaw’s Magic Mo-ments Award in 2010. House has served as Council Chair of United Way, board of directors of Archuleta County Fair, Western Heritage Commit-tee producing the Red Ryder Roundup Rodeo, Operation Helping Hand Christ-mas charity, the Prevention Coalition and Reach for the Peaks balloon rally among others. She is currently President-Elect of Pagosa Springs Rotary Club and serves on the advisory council of Southwest Colorado Community College.

Terri was elected to the board of Colorado Press Association in 2009. She served as Secretary in 2011 and Treasurer in 2012.

TREASURERKeith CernyPublisher, Valley Courier, Alamosa [email protected]

Keith Cerny is publisher of the Valley Courier in Alamosa. He is also a division manager for News Media Corporation with oversight of nine newspapers in Colorado and Wyoming, including a daily, six weeklies and a shopper in the San Luis Valley.

Prior to moving to Alamosa in 1992, Cerny served on the Wyoming Press As-

sociation Board of Directors while pub-lisher in Evanston and Lusk, WY. Cerny sits on the Adams State College Foun-dation Board, is president of the ASC Grizzly Club Board, Alamosa County Economic Develop-ment Board, Creede Theatre Board, SLV Arts and Entertain-ment Committee, San Luis Valley Regional Council for El Pomar Foundation and the Alamosa Rotary Club.

He was appointed to the CPA Board of Directors in 2009 to fill a vacancy, and was elected to a four-year term in 2010. He served as Secretary in 2012.

SECRETARYBart SmithPublisher, Greeley Tribune [email protected]

Smith became publisher of the Gree-ley Tribune in 2007, and soon after was named general manager of the newspa-per group for Swift Communications that includes the weekly Windsor Now, and the Fence Post weekly agriculture publications and websites in Colorado and Nebraska, as well as two agriculture weeklies in South Dakota.

After earning a journalism degree from the University of Wyoming just up the road from Greeley and stints in Rawlins and Lander, Wyo., Smith moved on to Whitefish, Mont., Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and Roseburg, Ore. in editor and publisher roles before circling back to the Rockies.

Smith got hooked on newspapers as a young U.S. Army correspondent in Vietnam in 1971.

He is past president of the Montana Press Association and chaired the News Education Committee of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association. He is a former member of the National Press Photographers Association and the Na-tional Conference of Editorial Writers.

Smith lives in Greeley with his wife and a daughter attending college. His oldest daughter is a reporter for the Sum-mit Daily News in Frisco, Co.

HOLDOVER DIRECTORS

DIRECTORMark [email protected]

Mark Drudge started his newspaper career in 1986 with the Glenwood Post as a Circulation District Manager and soon moved to the advertising department working as a Sales Account Executive for several years. In the late 90s, he moved back to the circula-tion side working as Circulation Director for the Western Slope Publishing Group. He held is first Publisher position at the Rifle Citizen Telegram in 2000.

Drudge left Colorado for a few years where he worked as both a publisher and a sales manager in York, Nebraska and Newton, Iowa.

Following his desire to return to the mountains and be closer to his children, Drudge joined the Cortez Journal as sales manager in March of 2010.

Drudge hold a BS from Ball State Uni-versity. He loves to trout fish, and to get off road in his 1971 Toyota Land Cruiser. He has played the banjo since very young and he played and recorded in several working bluegrass bands over the years. He has two daughters, Kelly, in Battle-ment Mesa and Katie, in Guam with the US Air Force.

DIRECTORLaurena Mayne [email protected]

Laurena Mayne Davis was appointed in May 2011 to fill the position vacated by Harrison Cochran.

Mayne Davis began her journalism career as a graduate assistant writing and editing stories for Northern Arizona Uni-versity’s Graduate College magazine. She later was a full-time journalism lecturer at NAU with a news writing focus.

Mayne Davis was hired as a copy editor at The Grand Junction Sentinel in 1994 and was promoted to fea-tures editor in January 2000. Mayne Davis left The Sentinel in 2003 to be an instruc-tor of mass communication at Mesa State College (now Colorado Mesa University), where she continues as adjunct faculty. She spent time working at Community Hospital as a pool writer and editor.

Mayne Davis is currently the manag-ing editor at The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

She holds a BA in Humanities from Mesa State College and an MA in English from Northern Arizona University.

DIRECTORPaula MurphyPublisher, Trinidad Times Independent [email protected]

Trinidad Times Independent and Raton Range publisher Paula Murphy was appointed to the Colorado Press Associa-tion Board of Directors in October 2011 to replace Bob Moore who resigned when he accepted a position in El Paso, Texas.

The CPA appoint-ment – Murphy’s first in Colorado – follows her New Mexico Press Association board membership from 1998-2001 and presi-dency in 2001. She sits on the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government Board of Directors.

Murphy began her newspaper career in 1985 when she joined the staff of The Raton Range in Raton, N.M. She worked with The Range until 1989 when she left to pursue other opportunities. In 1991, she returned to the Range and accepted the position of Advertising Director. In 1997, she was promoted to publisher.

Murphy and her husband Tom pur-chased The Raton Range and Trinidad Plus

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in 2001 from Boone Newspapers. She turned the weekly Trinidad Plus news/shopper into the twice-weekly subscription-based Trinidad Times Independent.

Murphy and her husband also own and operate a cablecast televi-sion station, Trinidad Times TV in partnership with the newspaper.

DIRECTORCurtis [email protected]

Curtis Hubbard oversees The Denver Post’s daily editorial and opinion pages and Sunday Per-spective section. He was elected to the board of directors in 2012 for a two-year term.

A Colorado native, Hubbard has covered news and politics in the Interior West since 1993. Prior to joining The Post, he worked as a local news edi-tor at the Boulder Daily Camera and as editor at the Jackson Hole (Wyo.) Guide. He joined The Post in 2004 as state editor, where he oversaw the paper’s out-state bu-reaus and Denver-based reporters and columnists. From 2007 until January of 2011, he served as the paper’s politics editor, handling the newspaper’s election coverage and reporters covering federal and state government, Denver City Hall and transportation.

Hubbard served on the Wyo-ming Press Association Board of Directors during his time at the Jackson Hole Guide.

Hubbard earned a bachelor’s de-gree in Creative Writing from Beloit (Wis.) College, where he minored in journalism, and is a graduate of Cherry Creek High School.

He lives in Louisville with his wife and two daughters.

TWO-YEAR DIRECTORS

DIRECTORMatt LubichExecutive Editor, Co-Owner, The Johnstown [email protected]

Matt Lubich is the Executive Editor and co-owner of The John-stown Breeze. He has co-owned The Breeze with his wife, Lesli Bangert, since 1997.

The 108-year-old weekly newspaper has been covering the communities of Johnstown and Milliken (Colo.) and surrounding Weld and Larimer counties since 1904. Lu-bich grew up in Pueblo, Colo., where his first job in the busi-ness was driving a Sunday morn-ing contract delivery route for the Pueblo Chieftain; filling racks and newsstands around town.

A graduate in 1986 with a degree in journalism from the University

of Northern Colorado, Lubich was voted the “Most Promising Fresh-man Journalism Student” and also was once introduced to someone by UNC J-School professor Dave Anderson as “my most recalcitrant student.” Lubich had to go home and look up recalcitrant.

He worked at the Evans Star Press and for legendary Colorado editor Percy Connaroe at The Lafayette News in the late 1980s. Returning to Colorado in 1991 from New Mexico, he wandered into the Breeze one day looking for freelance work. He eventually became the paper’s editor, before he and his wife purchased it from Clyde and Ardis Briggs in 1997.

In 2002, and again in 2005, The Breeze won the General Excellence Award for small weeklies from The Colorado Press Association.

Lubich and Bangert have two daughters, Riley, a fresh-man at Montana State University in Bozeman, and Harper Lee, a junior at Roosevelt High School in Johnstown.

Lubich was appointed to the board in September 2012 to fill a vacancy.

DIRECTOR Don LindleyManaging Editor, The Durango [email protected]

Don Lindley moved to Colorado in 2010 to become managing editor of The Durango Herald. Before that, he had a long career with daily newspapers in Florida working as an environmental reporter, editorial writer, managing editor and execu-tive editor.

He serves on the board of directors of the National Freedom of Information Coalition and is an active member of the Colorado Freedom of Information Council. In Florida, he served eight years on the board of the Florida Society of News Edi-tors as its FOI chair. He also was a trustee of Florida’s First Amend-ment Foundation for 12 years and chaired the FAF board from 2006 to 2010.

A native of Milwaukee, Wis., Lindley holds a B.A. in political science from Yale University and a M.S. in journalism from North-western University’s Medill School of Journalism. He lives in Durango with his wife.

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The Holyoke Enterprise

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FOR SALESmall weekly in Colorado mountain community. Grosses about $96,000. Fixed costs about $46,000. Good opportunity for young couple starting out, or older “downsized” journalists. Easy news beats. Monopoly situ-ation. All buildings and equip-ment included in sale price; you can walk in on Monday and put out a paper on Tuesday. Current owner will stick around to help with transition. Beautiful location, great for fishing, hunting and outdoor recreation. Excellent schools, low crime, no traffic. Price includes office building and residence. Price reduced to $220,000 from $270,000. Call 970-723-4404.

EDITORThe Aspen Times is a modern day media company publishing daily and non-daily newspapers as well as glossy-cover maga-zines with companion websites that reach across the region, the country and the globe. We want a top-notch editor We are seeking an outgoing, lo-cally minded personality to serve as the point person managing our veteran and talented editorial team; someone who knows how content connects with the com-munities and audiences we serve. The ideal candidate is someone who is hard-working and who possesses excellent news judg-ment, market awareness, a knack for understanding divergent au-diences and the desire to try new things. Superior communication, coaching and leadership skills will enable the ideal candidate to effectively coach reporters, photographers, page designers and section editors to plan a high-quality local news lineup every day as well as partner with the general manager and the rest of the newspaper team. The ideal candidate will have experience with the dynamics of a sophisticated resort community and understand how top-quality content served across multiple platforms meets the needs of visitors, locals and second-home-owners. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated success in a newsroom management role and experience in both a daily and non-daily newsroom environ-ment, as well an orientation to

digital. The right candidate will take pride in ensuring communi-cation lines, internal and external, are wide open and customer ser-vice is top-notch. The position is full time with excellent benefits. If this is you, send your resume and a cover letter that answers the questions of why you are the right candidate and why you are interested in being the editor of the Aspen Times to: [email protected]. Aspen is both a world-renowned resort community and an historic mountain community located three hours from Denver. Home of world class ski resorts and events ranging from ESPN’s X-Games to the Food & Wine Clas-sic in Aspen to the Aspen Ideas Festival, it is a remarkable place that offers great opportunity for a forward-looking journalist. Remarkable outdoor recreation opportunities and scenic adven-tures are truly a step away. Aspen has a small town feel but with world-class amenities. The Aspen Times is part of Colorado Moun-tain News Media, a family-owned communications company.

Visit our website at aspentimes.com and see what we’re about.

ADVERTISING SALES DIRECTOR FOR THE GREELEY TRIBUNE Are you a strong teacher/coach who has a passion for developing sales talent? Are you a natural in building great business relation-ships within the community that you are a part of? Are you a leader who focuses on the positive? Are you an expert in recruiting the best staff? Are you happiest when you can lead by example? Are you experienced at developing results oriented solutions? We are seeking an Advertising Sales Director to join the Greeley Tribune’s talented and experi-enced management team. The Tribune is a seven-day commu-nity newspaper with a robust web site. Greeley is located in northern Colorado, 60 miles north of Denver. The role of the advertising sales director is to provide excellent leadership and guidance to our

individual account managers and support staff, focusing on the success of our advertisers and our business. We are looking for someone who can develop and execute marketing and strategic plans that result in a growing market leadership position for our company. We need a positive and enthusiastic person who will work closely with editorial and circulation staffs to ensure that our multimedia products connect advertisers to their audiences every day. As a part of Swift Communica-tions, a privately-held community news organization operating local print products and internet sites, we offer an outstanding in-come and career opportunity for driven leaders plus a competitive benefit package including paid time off and medical coverage. Please email your resume and cover letter to Kari McKay at [email protected]. EOE REPORTER/EDITOR WHO LOVES COLORADO LIVINGA Northwest Colorado weekly newspaper is seeking a motivat-ed reporter who wants to live in a great town — Meeker or Rangely. This person must be a self-starter with a strong work ethic, an insatiable sense of curiosity and a positive attitude. This person must also be a team player who takes pride in the craft and is fo-cused on putting out great print and digital products. The ideal candidate has experience, can cover news and features, has solid photography skills and has a pas-sion for community journalism.

The 126-year-old Rio Blanco Her-ald Times (theheraldtimes.com) is privately owned and serves Rio Blanco County. The area features the headwaters of the White River National Forest, world-class hunting and fishing and an extraordinary quality of life. It has a solid economy built around tourism, oil and gas exploration and agriculture.

Full-time position. Competitive compensation package available. Salary is negotiable. Interested candidates should e-mail a resume, clips and salary require-ments to Mitch Bettis at [email protected]. No phone calls please. Equal Opportunity Employer/Drug Free Workplace.


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