LETTER TO WILLIAM J. CASEY FROM JERRY W. FRIEDHEIM

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• Publication Date: February 2, 1981
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Chairman and President
Katharine Graham
The Washington Post Co.
Vice Chairman
William C. Marcil
The Forum, Fargo, N.D.
Secretary
Donald N. Soldwedel
The Yuma (Ariz.) Daily Sun
Treasurer
Richard J. V. Johnson
Houston Chronicle
Chairman of the Executive Committee
Allen H. Neuharth
Gannett Co. Inc., Rochester, N.Y.
The Newspaper Center, Box 17407, Dulles International Airport, Washington, D.C. 20041
Executive Offices: Reston, Virginia [phone]
William J. Casey
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
February 2, 1981
Please accept my personal congratulations, and those of
all of us who are active in ANPA, upon your confirmation as
Director; and let us take this opportunity briefly to apprise
you of our special concerns.
The American Newspaper Publishers Association is a non-
profit trade association representing more than 1400 member
newspapers throughout North America. Membership accounts for
more than 90 percent of U.S. daily and Sunday newspaper circu-
lation. Many non-daily newspapers also are members.
ANPA especially is interested in maintaining the strength
of First Amendment press freedoms for our people, and in other
matters of interest to the newspaper business. Our interests
are both international and domestic. We are members of three
international press organizations which are non-government mem-
bers of UNESCO. We are particularly interested in communications
public policy development, as well as many other matters.
We look forward to working in a constructive manner with
you and your staff on matters of joint interest. In the mean-
time, I enclose a brochure about ANPA and a copy of our recent
issue of presstime, the journal of ANPA.
I hope you and your staff will feel free to contact us.
Sincerely,
Lee ErsesInc. Enclosures
Dart, fwa f ^ r
Arthur Ochs Sulzbirger f' , w
The New York Times Co.
Garner Anthony
Cox Enterprises Inc.
Atlanta, Ga.
Alvah H. Chapman Jr.
Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc.
Miami, Fla.
Stanton R. Cook
Chicago Tribune
Helen K. Copley
The Copley Press Inc.
La Jolla, Calif.
William H. Cowles 3rd
The Spokesman-Review
and Spokane (Wash.) Daily Chronicle
Frank Daniels Jr.
The News and Observer
and The Raleigh (N.C.) Times
Robert F. Erburu
The Times Mirror Co.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Margaret L. Hamilton
Thomson Newspapers
Toronto, Canada
Edwin L. Heminger
The Courier, Findlay, Ohio
Beland H. Honderich
Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd.
John B. Lake
Times Publishing Co.
St. Petersburg, Fla.
K. Prescott Low
The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Mass.
Robert G. Marbut
Harte-Hanks Communications Inc.
San Antonio, Texas
Charles M. Meredith III
The Free Press, Quakertown, Pa.
Warren H. Phillips
The Wall Street Journal
New York, N.Y.
Lloyd G. Schermer
Jerry W. Friedheim
Executive Vice President
and General Manager
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Executive Offices
The Newspaper Center-Reston, Virginia
Research Institute Easton, Peels tania
News Research Center-Syracuse University, New York
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- - - To advance the cause of a free press
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Serving the newspaper business in ...
? technical research
? news research
? training
? government affairs
? legal services
? telecommunications affairs
? special studies
? labor relations
? personnel relations
? inquiry service
? management tips and tools
? professional meetings
? newsprint and traffic data
? postal data
? in-plant consultation
? educational programs
? credit data
? strike insurance
? libel insurance
? First Amendment defense insurance
? general insurance
? world press freedom matters
? timely, informative publications
? auto rental/lease discounts
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 Jerry W. Friedheim
Executive Vice President
and General Manager
Katharine Graham
Chairman and President
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How do you put into a booklet a meaningful definition of the
many ways in which ANPA serves the cause of a free press? A
mere listing of publications and activities hardly does justice to
the program.
It is difficult to describe briefly ANPA's continuous work
with congressional committees and federal agencies-the
White House, the U.S. Postal Service, the Federal Communica-
tions Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, the Department of Labor-and
with non-governmental and international organizations in sup-
port and defense of the newspaper publishing business.
Or the research effort involved in bringing together the
various elements of private industry to provide innovative,
cost-effective solutions to the modern production and com-
munication challenges of the North American press.
Or the volume of news research aimed at helping editors
prepare a better newspaper product.
Or the time spent in developing better working relationships
between management and the international and local unions
represented in daily newspapers.
Or the training programs designed to enhance management
and personnel professionalism.
Or the work of the Newsprint and Traffic Department dur-
ing newsprint shortages in rounding up supplies so that publi-
cation deadlines can be met.
Or the savings from our auto rental/lease discount pro-
grams.
Or the work of our attorneys in many court cases where the
protections of the First Amendment and the right of the people
to a free and economically sound press are being tested.
Or the individual staff efforts spent consulting with mem-
bers or researching a reply to a specific inquiry to help in the
solution of some member's immediate publishing problem.
Or the constant intra-business communication and coordi-
nation with the many other newspaper business groups and as-
sociations. Thus, ANPA helps a geographically-diverse busi-
ness accomplish things for its general good which individual
member newspapers cannot usually accomplish separately.
We hope this booklet will provide an understanding of what
ANPA seeks to do for its membership, for the newspaper busi-
ness in general and for professional journalists everywhere. We
welcome the many requests we receive for assistance and try to
respond promptly to them.
Member newspaper executives have commented that if there
were no ANPA, they would have to invent one to help keep
them abreast of the complicated business of publishing a re-
sponsible, financially sound newspaper in a free society. We in-
tend to continue to fulfill this responsibility to the press and the
public.
Reston, Virginia ( J Jerry-W. Friedheim
September 1980 V General Manager
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The Newspaper Center, 11600 Sunrise Valley Drive ? Reston, Va.
[phone]
Mail Address: The Newspaper Center ? Box 17407 ? Dulles International Airport ? Washington. D.C. 20041
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ANPA Research Institute 7
1350 Sullivan Trail ? P.O. Box 598 ? Easton, Pa. 18042
[phone]
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/, JN f' h is a trade association of more than 1,380 mem-
ber newspapers-mostly U.S. dailies, although membership in-
cludes non-dailies and newspapers published in Canada and
elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere; newspapers owned by
groups and by individuals; small newspapers and large news-
papers. ANPA member newspapers account for about 91 per-
cent of U.S. daily circulation and about 84 percent of the daily
circulation in Canada.
Breakdown of Membership
Number of
% of Total
Circulation
Members
Membership
Under 5,000 ...................
105
7.57
5,001-10,000 ..................
234
16.87
10,001-15,000 .................
201
14.49
15,001-25,000 .................
245
17.67
25,001-50,000 .................
297
21.41
50,001-100,000 ................
155
11.18
100,001-250,000 ...............
106
7.64
250,001-500,000 ...............
30
2.16
500,001-1,000,000 ..............
9
0.65
Over 1,000,000 .................
5
0.36
AN
working:
serves newspapers and newspaper executives by
? to advance the cause of a free press
? to encourage the efficiency and economy of the newspaper
publishing business in all its departments and aspects
? to engage in and promote research of use to newspapers
? to gather and distribute among its member newspapers
accurate, reliable and useful information about news-
papers and their environment
? to promote the highest standards of journalism
/~n~ II~ /
L=am Zk was founded in 1887 at Rochester, N.Y. Charter
members came from 12 states in the East and Midwest. An of-
fice was established in New York City where ANPA maintained
headquarters until it moved to its Newspaper Center building
in Reston, Va., near Washington, D.C., in 1972.
maintains close, cooperative relationships with
other newspaper and journalism organizations. Located at
The Newspaper Center headquarters building in Reston are
offices of.
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? ANPA
? ANPA Foundation
? ANPA Credit Bureau Inc.
? International Circulation Managers Association
? International Newspaper Promotion Association
? Newspaper Personnel Relations Association
? Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (Japan Newspaper Publishers and
Editors Association)
? Newspaper Readership Council
? presstime
Located at the ANPA Research Institute in Easton, Pa., is the
office of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
~ is a member of the International Federation of
Newspaper Publishers (FIEJ) and the World Press Freedom
Committee. An ANPA representative serves as co-chairman of
the Newspaper Readership Council, composed of members of
16 major national newspaper associations.
A D7 serves the varied needs of its member newspa-
pers through a number of departments.
Membership Services-maintains ombudsman contact with
member newspapers, assuring that various ANPA services are
channeled to executives according to each member's needs,
and seeks to attract into membership newspapers in the U.S.
and Canada. ANPA's director/membership development trav-
els widely visiting and consulting with member newspapers.
The Membership Services Department develops cost effective
programs for membership participation.
Public Affairs-performs publications policy review and edits
all publications; handles press and public relations for the As-
sociation; provides staff support for the News Research Com-
mittee; and responds to general inquiries of member newspa-
pers, the press and the public.
Newsprint and Traffic-assists member newspapers with
transportation details of shipments, including auditing of
freight bills; advises on all aspects of newsprint on-track
unloading and off-track delivery arrangements; clarifies car-
riers' tariff rules and regulations; monitors newsprint con-
sumption and supply information; coordinates the ANPA/
ICMA Safe Driving Campaign; provides liaison with American
Paper Institute and Canadian Pulp and Paper Association;
and provides staff support for two ANPA committees: News-
print and Traffic.
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Labor and Personnel Relations-assists member newspapers
with contract negotiations, personnel relations, arbitration,
union organization, EEOC, and wage and hour matters; con-
ducts training programs on negotiating techniques and related
skills for administrative executives; provides staff support for
the ANPA Labor and Personnel Relations Committee.
Training Services-conducts educational programs in market-
ing, strategic planning, management skills and other subject
areas for key executives and mid-level managers from all news-
paper departments; administers special-purpose meetings for
the newspaper business; provides staff support for the ANPA
Training Committee and Circulation Committee; the Newspa-
per Readership Council; and edits a bi-monthly newsletter for
the Newspaper Readership Council.
Government Affairs-monitors and reports on issues affecting
the newspaper business in the legislative, executive and judicial
branches of government, both in the U.S. and internationally;
coordinates, in cooperation with the Legal Department, Asso-
ciation activities in this area; handles membership inquiries on
governmental affairs matters; supervises provision of Associa-
tion views to government on matters affecting newspapers;
monitors postal matters; and provides staff support for the
ANPA Government Affairs and Postal committees.
Legal-provides member newspapers with information on
legal matters affecting newspaper operations; monitors and
advises on the increasing interest of newspapers with matters
before courts, legislatures and regulatory agencies of govern-
ment; and provides staff support for the ANPA Press/Bar
Relations Committee, ANPA/ABA Task Force and Task Force
on Broadcast and CATV Ownership. The Legal Department
also coordinates the efforts of ANPA's special, outside counsel.
Telecommunications Affairs-provides member newspapers a
full range of analysis, information and service in the field of
telecommunications with particular regard to technical, eco-
nomic and market aspects; and provides staff support for the
ANPA Telecommunications Committee.
Library-a major information resource on materials relating to
the newspaper business.
ANPA Credit Bureau Inc. (CBI)-a wholly owned, separate
corporation, providing services for a modest fee ranging be-
tween $50 and $1,000 based on newspaper circulation or
broadcast advertising rates. The services include:
? Periodic credit bulletins containing confidential financial
information about advertising agencies, national advertisers
and retail advertisers.
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? Credit Index-a looseleaf service continuously updated with
financial information on advertising agencies.
? Debt recovery giving subscribers a better chance to recover
past due accounts including those against advertisers previous-
ly considered uncollectable.
? Collections on a contingent fee of 10 percent (attorney
charges and legal costs excluded.)
? Identification of ownership of retail establishments merged
or sold.
CBI can provide data on more than 200,000 retail companies.
ANPA Research Institute-a technical-consulting and re-
search division of ANPA located in Easton, Pa., providing ex-
pert technical production assistance to ANPA members
through the ANPA/RI Production Department and engaging
in basic research and quality-control testing through the
ANPA/RI Research Center. ANPA's research work has re-
sulted in significant technological improvements for the news-
paper business. Specific services to ANPA member newspapers
include:
ANPA Foundation-a non-profit organization chartered in
1961 "to encourage in the broadest and most liberal manner
the advancement of freedom of speech and of the press," and
funded by an endowment benefiting from contributions from
newspapers, newspaper organizations and individuals. The
Foundation seeks to develop informed and intelligent newspa-
per readers through its Newspaper in Education program; to
strengthen public understanding of a free press; and to ad-
vance professionalism of the press. It provides staff support for
the Foundation's Newspaper in Education Committee, the
joint committee of the ANPA Foundation and the Association
for Education in Journalism (AEI), and the American Council
on Education for Journalism.
? Research and development on newspaper production mat-
ters including mail-room and distribution equipment, occupa-
tional safety and environmental concerns, computer program-
ming, newsprint and ink testing and standardization, plate and
press development, newsprint wood pulp substitutes/ supple-
ments and electronic communications technology. The
Research Institute works with manufacturers to stimulate
development and production of new equipment needed by
newspapers.
? Technical training seminars emphasizing practical applica-
tion in such areas as basic offset press and plate, camera
techniques, direct plate quality control, electronic editing for
the newsroom, photocomposition and paste-up, management
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orientation to new technology and environmental control.
? Professional ANPA technical consulting services on produc-
tion problems, new plant or equipment questions, OSHA prob-
lems, telecommunications matters, etc. When such consulting
service involves a visit to a member plant, a nominal fee is
charged, plus expenses.
? The Annual ANPA Production Management Conference.
ANPA News Research Center-at Syracuse University, N.Y.,
contracts research work designed to help newspaper editors
make day-to-day editing decisions. Research findings are dis-
tributed as ANPA News Research Reports.
Insurance Programs-provide ANPA member newspapers
with protection against both libel and strikes and First Amend-
ment challenges, underwritten by Mutual Insurance Co. Ltd.
of Hamilton, Bermuda. Information concerning these in-
surance programs may be obtained by writing: Mutual In-
surance Co. Ltd., Reid House, P.O. Box 1179, Hamilton, Ber-
muda. General insurance advice and coverage for individual
members are afforded via a "Safety Group" of Market-Dyne.
Asponsors two major meetings annually for its
members:
? The Annual ANPA Convention includes the Association's
annual meeting for official business and features a three-day
program of speakers, panels and discussion sessions on mat-
ters of interest to the newspaper business.
? The Annual ANPA Production Management Conference
combines five days of the largest annual trade show of
newspaper systems and equipment with a conference program
designed to help improve newspaper operations. Future tech-
nology is featured.
ANPA Conventions
1981-Chicago, May 4-6
1982-San Francisco, April 26-28
1983-New York City, April 25-27
1984-Montreal, April 30-May 2
1985-New Orleans, April 22-24
ANPA Production Management Conferences
1981-Atlantic City, June 6-10
1982-Dallas, June 19-23
1983-Las Vegas, June 4-8
1984-Atlanta, June 9-13
1985-Atlantic City, June 8-12
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Katharine Graham William C. Marcil Donald N. Soldwedel
Chairman and President Vice Chairman Secretary
The Washington Post Co. The Forum, Fargo, N.D. The Yuma (Ariz.) Daily Sun
Richard J.V. Johnson
Treasurer
Houston Chronicle
Allen H. Neuharth
Chairman of the
Executive Committee
Gannett Co. Inc.
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Directors 15
Garner Anthony Alvah H. Chapman Jr.
Cox Enterprises Inc. Knight-Ridder
Atlanta. Ga. Newspapers Inc.
Miami, Fla.
Stanton R. Cook
Chicago Tribune
Helen K. Copley
The Copley Press Inc.
La Jolla, Calif.
William H. Cowles 3rd
The Spokesman-Review and
Spokane (Wash.)
Daily Chronicle
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Frank Daniels Jr.
The News and Observer and
The Raleigh (N.C.) Times
Robert F. Erburu
The Times Mirror Co.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Margaret L. Hamilton
Thomson Newspapers
Toronto, Canada
Edwin L. Heminger
The Courier
Findlay. Ohio
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Beland H. Honderich
Toronto Star
Newspapers Ltd.
John B. Lake
Times Publishing Co.
St. Petersburg, Fla.
K. Prescott Low
The Patriot Ledger
Quincy. Mass.
Robert G. Marbut
Harte-Hanks
Communications Inc.
San Antonio. Texas
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Charles M. Meredith III
The Free Press
Quakertown, Pa.
Warren H. Phillips
The Wall Street Journal
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Lloyd G. Schermer Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Lee Enterprises, Inc. The New York Times Co.
Davenport, Iowa
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Committees of the Association ANPA Foundation Committees
? ANPA!ABA Task Force
? Circulation
? Convention Arrangements
? Editorial Advisory
? Environmental
? Government Affairs
? Labor and Personnel Relations
? Membership
? Newsprint
? News Research
? Postal
? Press/ Bar Relations
? Production Management Conference Arrangements
? Research and Development
? Research and Production
? Task Force on Broadcast and CATV Ownership
? Technical Services and Training
? Telecommunications
? Traffic
? Training
? AEJ-ANPA Cooperative Committee on Journalism
Education
? Newspaper in Education
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The Newspaper Center
Box 17407, Dulles International Airport
Washington, D.C. 20041
[phone]
Chairman Alvah H. Chapman Jr., Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc.
Vice Chairman John B. Lake, Times Publishing Co., St. Petersburg, Fla.
Executive Vice President Jerry W. Friedheim
Treasurer Thomas C. Fichter
Vice President and Director Judith D. Hines
ANPA Foundation Trustees include the ANPA Directors plus:
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Jerry W. Friedheim Thomas C. Fichter William D. Rinehart
Executive Vice President Vice President/Comptroller Vice President/Technical
and and
General Manager Assistant General Manager
Roy W. Anderson W. Terry Maguire
Vice President Vice President
Labor and Personnel Relations Legal and Government Affairs
and
Associate General Counsel
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Robert L. Burke
Director
Readership and Training
Harry W. Edwards
Director
Membership Development
Kathleen Criner
Director
Telecommunications Affairs
George Cashau
Coordinator of Operations
ANPA/RI
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Peter P. Romano
Director
Production Department
ANPA/RI
Erwin Jaffe
Director
Research Center
ANPA/RI
Charles Cole
Manager
Labor Relations
Patricia P. Renfroe
Manager
Personnel Relations
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Martin Casey
Manager
Government Affairs
Michael Genick
Manager
Membership Services
J. Curtis Loughin
Manager
Information Services
Stephen E. Palmedo
Manager
Training Services
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Joseph F. Prendergast Jr.
Manager
Newsprint and Traffic
William Schabacker
Manager
Public Affairs
James E. Donahue
Editor
presstime
Maurice Fliess
Managing Editor
presstime
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Judith D. Hines
Vice President and Director
ANPA Foundation
Linda B. Skover
Manager
Educational Services
ANPA Credit Bureau Inc.
James Ralph
Vice President
ANPA Credit Bureau Inc.
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The ANPA staff represents a wide range of experience and
expertise.
Many of those working at the executive offices in Reston,
Va., and at the Research Institute in Easton, Pa., have newspa-
per backgrounds including news, editorial, technological
research, news research, advertising, promotion, industrial
relations, production, law, photography and art.
Others come from such fields as accounting, government re-
lations, computer programming, mechanical engineering, per-
sonnel relations, training and education, marketing and tele-
communications.
The ANPA staff stands ready to serve the needs of its mem-
ber newspapers and of others interested in the newspaper busi-
ness.
ANPA also retains the services of outside experts. They in-
clude: Arthur B. Hanson, ANPA general counsel, senior part-
ner of Hanson. O'Brien, Birney and Butler, Washington, D.C.;
Aloysius McCabe, ANPA communications counsel, senior
partner of Kirkland and Ellis, Washington, D.C.; David
Semmes, ANPA patent and copyright counsel, senior partner,
Pierson, Semmes, Crolius and Finley, Washington, D.C.; Max-
well E. McCombs, director of the ANPA News Research Cen-
ter, John Ben Snow professor of newspaper research, S.I. New-
house School of Public Communications, Syracuse University;
Jon G. Udell, ANPA economics consultant, Irwin Maier pro-
fessor of business, University of Wisconsin; and Dan C. Biondi,
ANPA's Paris-based international representative.
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ANPA Seminars, Conferences and
Workshops
Newspaper Executives Marketing Seminar-introduces and
examines newspaper marketing concepts; designed for top-
level decision makers in general management, editorial, adver-
tising, circulation, promotion and research. Cosponsored by
the International Newspaper Promotion Association.
Strategic Planning Seminar-develops and expands the con-
cepts introduced in the Newspaper Executives Marketing Sem-
inar. Cosponsored by the International Newspaper Promotion
Association.
Key Executive Seminar-reviews management techniques for
top newspaper executives who want a framework for analyzing
managerial responsibilities; designed for those who set the
management climate of their newspapers.
Management Development Workshop-develops the profes-
sional management skills of mid-level newspaper managers,
new and experienced, from all newspaper departments.
Circulation Managers Workshop-develops "people manage-
ment" skills of circulation managers above the district mana-
ger/carrier supervisor level. Cosponsored by the International
Circulation Managers Association, the Newspaper Personnel
Relations Association and International Newspaper Promotion
Association.
Promotion Managers Workshop-emphasizes development of
management skills appropriate to the newspaper promotion
department. Taught by the University of Chicago. Cospon-
sored by the International Newspaper Promotion Association.
Conference for Young Newspaper Men and Women-reviews
all aspects and departments of the newspaper; stimulates in-
terest in the entire newspaper operation and awareness of the
interdependence of each department; designed for newspaper
people under 36 years of age.
Labor Negotiations Seminar-examines the latest technologi-
cal changes, legislative activity and judicial decisions regarding
labor negotiations; designed for both the relative newcomer
and veteran employees.
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Personnel Practices, Procedures and Policies Workshop- Camera Techniques Seminar-covers the complete operation
reviews current developments regarding EEOC and affirmative of the camera processes for offset or direct printing, including
action, employee benefits, labor relations, laws affecting per- line negatives and film halftones.
sonnel, pay policies, performance reviews, personnel records,
etc. Cosponsored by the Newspaper Personnel Relations Asso-
ciation.
ANPA Research Institute
"Hands-On" Seminars
Direct Screen Color Separation Seminar-aids in printing high
quality ROP process color for both editorial and advertising
departments.
Basic Offset Press and Plate Seminar-covers the operation
and adjustment of an offset press and also how to convert to
offset.
Management Introduction to New Technology-introduces
management personnel to new composition and editing sys-
tems with hands-on operation of modern electronic copy pro-
cessing and phototypesetting equipment.
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Regular publications of the Association
presstime-monthly journal of ANPA; covers all aspects of the
newspaper business, including news-editorial, news research,
readership, circulation, advertising, marketing-promotion,
employee relations, training, newsprint, technology and tele-
communications; reports on governmental, postal, interna-
tional and educational matters as they relate to newspapers; in-
cludes in-depth analyses of current issues and trends in the
newspaper business; also keeps members abreast of the activi-
ties of the Association.
ANPA News Research Reports-timely reports on research of
interest to newspaper editors, compiled by the ANPA
News Research Center.
Large City Scale Report (monthly)-monitors current contract-
negotiation developments in the nation's largest cities.
Newspaper Readership Report-bi-monthly report on the ac-
tivities of newspaper readership committees and other
developments pertinent to newspaper improvement; published
on behalf of the Newspaper Readership Council.
Specification Data-annual comprehensive ANPA Research
Institute compilation of newspaper production equipment in
use by member newspapers.
Library Memorandum-quarterly newsletter of the Newspaper
Division, Special Libraries Association. Contains information
of interest to newspaper librarians.
Facts About Newspapers-annual summary of economic
statistics of the newspaper business.
ANPA Labor & Personnel Relations Letter-monthly reports
on developments in labor and personnel matters, including
arbitration awards, NLRB, EEOC and court actions, wage
trends and semi-annual scale summaries providing informa-
tion on contract settlements for newspapers and unions.
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Special publications of the Association
Free Press and Fair Trial-a report of a special ANPA com-
mittee.
U.S. Newspapers and Newsprint As a New Decade Begins-a
newsprint forecast by Dr. Jon G. Udell, ANPA economics con-
sultant and Irwin Maier professor of business, University of
Wisconsin.
An Overview of Wage and Hour Laws as They Apply to News-
papers-a special report providing detailed guidance for
newspapers on this subject.
Guide to Processing Rail and Truck Loss or Damage Claims.
Classification of Newsprint Defects-Illustrations and ex-
amples of damaged newsprint and a large poster showing de-
fects ($1 for the book, 75 cents for the poster).
Newsprint Conservation Methods-ideas for saving newsprint
compiled by ANPA from a survey of member newspapers.
Reporters' Guide to Juvenile Court Proceedings-a guide con-
taining statutes of the federal government, the states and the
District of Columbia ($10.00).
ANPA Training Programs-a semi-annual listing of news-
paper advancement conferences and seminars.
Ideas About Circulation-an analysis of newspaper circula-
tion and ideas on how it can be increased.
Independent Contractor Status of Freelance Writers and
Photographers-a special report providing detailed guidance
for newspapers on this subject.
Newsroom Guide to Polls and Surveys-by G. Cleveland Wil-
hoit and David H. Weaver, School of Journalism, Indiana Uni-
versity. Tells how to evaluate survey questionnaires, survey in-
terviewing, survey sampling and report survey results ($12.50
single copy; $8.00 per copy in quantities of 10 or more.)
Purchase Contract Negotiations and Language Guidelines-a
plain language source guide for management in drafting and
reviewing equipment purchase contracts ($10.00).
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Special publications of the ANPA
Research Institute
AdPro O ROP Newspaper Color Ink Book, Vol. V, for use with
letterpress ($20).
ADLITHO O ROP Newspaper Color Ink Book, Vol. I, for use
with offset ($20).
ABCs of Quality Newspaper Process ROP Color with AdPro
Inks (50 cents per copy in quantities of 10 or more; single copy
free).
Preparation of ROP Color Advertising for Newspaper
Reproduction-a booklet on art, engraving, stereotyping, inks
and offset ROP color (50 cents per copy in quantities of 10 or
more; single copy free).
Preparation of Artwork Engravings and Duplicate Printing
Materials for Black and White Newspaper Reproduction (50
cents per copy in quantities of 10 or more; single copy free).
What Every Supervisor Must Know About the Occupational
Safety and Health Act ($2).
What Every Manager Must Know About the Occupational
Safety and Health Act ($2).
Environmental Primer for Newspapers-an ANPA R.I.
Bulletin on safety and health regulations ($1).
Structure and Layout of Editorial/News Departments-An
ANPA R.I.Bulletin describing newsroom layouts ($2).
Publications of ANPA Foundation
Annual Report-objectives, programs, projects and finances of
the ANPA Foundation.
Update NIE-monthly review of new and important uses of the
newspaper in education.
Teaching with Newspapers-a newsletter for undergraduate
methods instructors ($15 per 100, single copy free).
Free Press and Fair Trial: Some Dimensions of the Problem-
studies on pre-trial news and its effect on juries ($3.75).
Your Future in Daily Newspapers-facts about a career in the
daily newspaper business ($60 per 100, single copy free).
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The Reporter and the Law-study by Lyle W. Denniston, The
Washington Star. Discusses the technique of the courts, con-
trasting the basic differences between the practices of law and
journalism (available from Hastings House, Publishers Inc.,
New York, 1980. 292 pages; $16.95, or $9.95 paperback).
Newspapers ... Your Future?-a concise pamphlet suitable
for teachers and newspapers to use as a "give-away" on career
days ($15 per 100. single copy free).
Newspaper Jobs for Journalism Grads-results of a nationwide
survey of journalism schools on newspaper jobs available for
journalism graduates ($15 per 100, single copy free).
News Research for Better Newspapers-seven-volume series
compiling ANPA News Research Bulletins through 1974 ($15,
includes index).
atic procedures for storing data and making it quickly avail-
able ($15).
Hanson on Libel-definitive legal reference in two volumes
($48 per set); supplements update the work periodically ($10).
Learning in the Newsroom-a loose-leaf manual for the train-
ing of new newsroom employes ($20).
Scholastic Journalist Award-brochure describes a minimum-
cost program by which newspapers may recognize outstanding
students working on high school newspapers.
The Economics of the American Newspaper-textbook by Dr.
Jon G. Udell, ANPA economics consultant and Irwin Maier
professor of business, University of Wisconsin (available from
Hastings House, Publishers Inc., New York, 1978, 192 pages;
$11.50, or $5.95 paperback).
Education for Newspaper Journalists in the Seventies and
Beyond-set of authoritative papers on future directions for
newspaper journalism and newspaper journalism education
($8).
Guidelines for Newspaper Libraries-126-page looseleaf man-
ual on proven methods of gathering information and system-
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Also available from ANPA Foundation are instructional
materials for Newspaper in Education programs:
Kit of Teaching Materials-collection of papers written by
teachers describing uses for newspapers at various grade levels
($1.50).
The Newspaper in the American History Classroom-teacher's
guide for using the newspaper in the secondary school social
studies classroom ($2).
The Newspaper as an Effective Teaching Tool- introduces the
teacher to the NIE concept ($1r.
Using Newspapers to Teach Reading Skills--relates con-,-
prehension, vocabulary development, reading rate and wore
attack skills to the use of the newspaper at primary, inter
mediate and secondary school levels ($1).
Bibliography of NIE Materials-annotated listing of more
than e)O books, pamphlets and card sets on the use of the news-
paper as an educational tool ($60 per 100 copies. single copy
free).
Anatomy of a Newspaper-student guide to the daily news-
paper ($2 each up to five copies, less for quantity orders).
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DIRECTIONS
To reach The Newspaper Center:
From Washington National Airport or Washington, D.C.
Take George Washington Memorial Parkway (Virginia side
of Potomac River) north and west to 1-495 Beltway. Exit onto
1-495 following signs for "Virginia."
From Baltimore, Richmond and other points outside 1-495
Join 1-495 Beltway west.
From 1-495 Beltway
Take Dulles Access Road to Dulles International Airport.
From Dulles International Airport
Exit Dulles Access Road at "Exit 5" (approximately five
miles).
At stop sign turn right onto Reston Avenue (Rt. 602). At first
stop light, turn left onto Sunrise Valley Drive. Proceed one-
quarter mile to The Newspaper Center.
American Newspaper Publishers Association
The Newspaper Center
11600 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, Va.
[phone]
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Easton,
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Bethlehem-
Easton Airport
(15 miles)
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To reach the ANPA Research Institute:
From New York/Newark area (approximately 80 miles)
Take Rt. 22 (I-78) west to Easton, Pa.
Take North Third Street Exit (second exit after Delaware
Toll Bridge), turning right onto North Third Street.
From Philadelphia area via Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast
Extension (approximately 90 miles)
Exit at Allentown.
Follow Rt. 22 (I-78) east to Easton.
Take Fourth Street Exit.
Turn left onto North Third Street.
From Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Airport
Follow Rt. 22 (1-78) east to Easton.
Take Fourth Street Exit.
Turn left onto North Third Street.
From North Third Street, Easton, proceed north one and
three-fourths miles, joining Cattell Street, Knox Avenue and
Sullivan Trail to ANPA Research Institute, located just north
of WEEX Radio Station and broadcast tower.
ANPA Research Institute
1350 Sullivan Trail
Easton, Pa.
[phone]
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American Newspaper Publishers Association
The Newspaper Center
Box 17407
Dulles International Airport
Washington, D.C. 20041
[phone]
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Voluntary standard ad units
loaded with dollar potential
Sept. 1, 1981, may become something of a landmark date for
the newspaper industry.
That is the date that the voluntary system of standard advertis-
ing units, unanimously endorsed by the ANPA Board at its meeting
last month, is scheduled to go into effect.
(See story, p. 5.)
This system consists of a set of 25 basic
advertising sizes-ranging from a one-col-
umn, one-inch ad to a full page-that can
be used by all broadsheet newspapers.
Sixteen of these sizes can also be used by
all tabloid newspapers.
What this gives us is a potential way of
Officers
Chairman and President, Katharine Graham, The Washington Post Co.
Vice Chairman, William C. Marcil, The Forum, Fargo, N.D.
Secretary, Donald N. Soldwedel, The Yuma (Ariz.) Daily Sun
Treasurer, Richard J.V. Johnson, Houston Chronicle
Chairman of the Executive Committee, Allen H. Neuharth, Gannett Co. Inc.,
Rochester, N.Y.
Directors
Garner Anthony, Cox Enterprises Inc., Atlanta
Alvah H. Chapman Jr., Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc., Miami
Stanton R. Cook, Chicago Tribune
Helen K. Copley, The Copley Press Inc., La Jolla, Calif.
William H. Cowles 3rd, The Spokesman-Review and Spokane (Wash.) Daily
Chronicle
Frank Daniels Jr., The News and Observer and The Raleigh (N.C.) Times
Robert F. Erburu, The Times Mirror Co., Los Angeles
Margaret L. Hamilton, Thomson Newspapers Ltd., Toronto
Edwin L. Heminger, The Courier, Findlay, Ohio
Boland H. Honderich, Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd.
John B. Lake, The Times Publishing Co., St. Petersburg, Fla.
K. Prescott Low, The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Mass.
Robert G. Marbut, Harte-Hanks Communications Inc., San Antonio, Texas
Charles M. Meredith III, The Free Press, Quakertown, Pa.
Warren H. Phillips, The Wall Street Journal, New York
Lloyd G. Schermer, Lee Enterprises Inc., Davenport, Iowa
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, The New York Times Co.
ANPA Executive Offices [phone]
The Newspaper Center, 11600 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Va.
Mail address: Box 17407, Dulles International Airport, Washington, D.C. 20041
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Jerry W. Friedheim
Vice President/Comptroller and Assistant General Manager,
Thomas C. Fichter
Vice President/Technical, William D. Rinehart
Vice President/Labor and Personnel Relations, Roy W. Anderson
Vice President/Legal and Government Affairs and Associate General Counsel,
W. Terry Maguire
Vice President and Director/ANPA Foundation, Judith D. Hines
Director/Readership and Training, Robert L. Burke
Director/Telecommunications Affairs, Kathleen Criner
Director/Membership Development, Harry W. Edwards
Manager/Government Affairs, Martin Casey
Manager/Labor Relations, Charles Cole
Manager/Membership Services, Michael Genick
Manager/Information Services, J. Curtis Loughin
Manager/Training Services, Stephen E. Palmedo
Manager/Newsprint and Traffic, Joseph F. Prendergast Jr.
Manager/Personnel Relations, Patricia P. Renfroe
Manager/Public Affairs, William Schabacker
Manager/Educational Services, ANPA Foundation, Linda B. Skover
ANPA Research Institute [phone]
1350 Sullivan Trail, P.O. Box 598, Easton, Pa. 18042
Coordinator of Operations, George Cashau
Director, Production Department, Peter P. Romano
Director, Research Center, Erwin Jaffe
than ever before for advertisers and their
agencies to plan national ad campaigns
Katharine Graham using newspapers.
It offers the potential for attracting to newspapers millions of
advertising dollars now spent in other media.
I emphasize potential, however, because this system is strictly
voluntary-and its success will largely depend on the enthusiasm
with which it is embraced by newspapers.
While the Standard Advertising Unit Working Committee led by
Walt Mattson did its best to come up with a schedule of sizes that
would best fit all newspapers, there is simply no such thing as a
mathematically perfect fit for all formats and page widths.
Some of us will obviously find the new sizes more of a prob-
lem-requiring more changes or more float-than others.
But the thing we all ought to keep in mind as we consider this
new system is that the idea was not to make life more difficult for
our production departments, or to force us to make unwanted for-
mat or roll-width changes. The goal was to find a way to bring all
newspapers more national advertising dollars.
At a time when we are looking at a proliferation of information
technologies-some of which will inevitably attract advertising
dollars away from newspapers-any proposal that holds out the
promise of luring new advertising dollars to newspapers ought to
be given every chance.
The initial reaction of advertising agencies and some major ad-
vertisers to this system has been so favorable that the prospects
for gaining new advertising revenue in the years ahead have to be
regarded as very good indeed.
The inauguration date of Sept. 1 was intentionally picked to
enable newspapers that decide to make adjustments to accept
more readily the standard advertising unit system to do so during
the light summer period. The ANPA staff stands ready to work with
any publisher who would like advice or assistance.
We have been talking about how much we have needed a sys-
tem like this for years. Now we have one. And whether the reality
measures up to the dream will now depend on how rapidly and
enthusiastically newspapers get aboard.
Katharine Graham
Chairman and President
presstime*
Presstime magazine (ISSN 0194-3243) is published monthly by the American
Newspaper Publishers Association, 11600 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Va. 22091.
Basic subscription rate of $50 a year is included in members' dues. Non-member rate
is $100 domestic, additional overseas. Second-class postage paid at Reston, Va.,
and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to
presstime, ANPA, Box 17407, Dulles International Airport, Washington, D.C.
20041. Copyright 1981 by the American Newspaper Publishers Association. All
rights reserved. Unsolicited articles and photos should be sent to the presatime
editor.
*presstime is a trademark of American Newspaper Publishers Association.
Editorial Advisory Committee
Christy C. Bulkeley, The Commercial-News, Danville, Ill., Chairman
Lloyd Ballhagen, Harris Enterprises, Hutchinson, Kan., Vice Chairman
Charles Glover, Cox Enterprises Inc., Atlanta
Tom J. Hardin, Alexandria (La.) Daily Town Talk
George P. Kennedy, University of Missouri School of Journalism
Thomas F. Matthews, Tracy (Calif.) Press Inc.
Warren H. Phillips, The Wall Street Journal, New York
Carol Sutton, The Courier-Journal and The Louisville (Ky.) Times
Publisher: Jerry W. Friedheim Staff Writer: Margaret Genovese
Editor: James E. Donahue Staff Writer: C. David Rambo
Managing Editor: Maurice Fliess Staff Writer: Elise Burroughs
Labor Writer: Clark Newsom Art Director: Shirley Schainblatt
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presstime
NeW for 1981:
newspaper
standard
ad sizes
Volume 3, Number 1
special report 4
ANPA Board of Directors endorses voluntary
system of standard advertising units to facilitate
placing national ads in newspapers, implemen-
tation planned in September.
courts 13
legislation 13
Congress votes repeal of two-a-year limit on tax
deductions for attending foreign conventions.
California newspaper seeks federal court review
of 107-year-old court-closure law.
regulations 14
A decade after enactment, Newspaper Preser-
vation Act still spawns controversy, court chal-
lenges.
postal affairs 17
Postal Service considers refunding fines if "51-
percent rule" is abolished.
world press 18
Many Western journalists covering the Middle
East use Beirut as their base of operations, but
not without risk
state and local 21
Iowa TV station seeks return of video tapes
seized by officials with search warrant.
essay 22
New information technologies threaten to limit
journalism's "agenda setter" role and to break
up shared information pool, says George P
Kennedy.
profile 24
INAE President Frank J. Savino is sold on stan-
dard ad units.
news-editorial 25
Want to continue your education but lack the
wherewithal? A fellowship for journalists may be
the answer.
news research 28
ANPA News Research Report details research
conducted by large and small papers.
January 1981
readership 28
NAB survey finds newspapers' general news
section gets most daily attention
education 29
New ANPA Foundation publication will help stu-
dents use newspapers in civics classes.
advertising
31
Canadian newspaper organizations protest re-
cently imposed 9-percent ad supplement tax
telecommunications 32
Texas, Massachusetts press groups plan re-
sponses to Bell System proposals in their states
employee relations 34
Five newspaper executives discuss their em-
ployee-relations resolutions for the new year
Also, a look at a rarity among newspapers the
four-day workweek.
technology 41
Widely circulated Maine daily comes up with an
innovative way to handle inserts
newsprint 43
As a tumultuous year of labor negotiations ends,
union agrees to terms at two Quebec mills
newspaper business 45
Most forecasters, including the Commerce De-
partment, see an improved economic outlook for
the newspaper business in 1981
regular features
`Shoe'
government/legal roundup 10
transportation 33
ANPA news 52
exchange 53
letters 54
speeches inside
back cover
ANPA calendar back cover
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Cage A. Spears, Now England Press
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V 'L, Stickell, Los Angel" Times
Larry Struti s't, Rocky Mountain News,
Denver
Donald B. Towles, The Carrier-Journal
and The Louisville (Ky.) Times.
a letter to the Association before the
Board's recent meeting, said in response
to a presstime inquiry that the World-
Herald's problem with the program stems
from its unusually wide page-14-3/4
inches printed on a 59-inch web.
If his paper is to adopt the new ad size
system, Andersen reports, "These choices
will be thrust upon us: give away substan-
tial amount of float or white space around
many ads; try to charge advertisers for
white space they may not want; give our
editors some very odd-sized pieces of
space for news; or bow to the pressure, re-
duce our page size and change our news
and ad formats."
He says there is a possibility that "by
changing our pricing structure to recap-
ture the cost of the white space, we may
force up the price of national advertising"
and offset for an advertiser any advantage
that might be realized by the uniformity in
sizes.
Nonetheless, Andersen says the current
Board "is to be commended for seeking an
answer to a criticism which for years we
have heard from some national advertising
spokesmen."
"We hope, of course, that the benefits of
the new uniform ad sizes will substantially
outweigh the problems which they will
cause for some newspapers. The test, I be-
lieve, will be in the amount of increased
ROP display advertising volume which will
result from the new standard....
"Now that newspapers across the coun-
try have a chance to see how they will be
affected, it is to be hoped that a great ma-
jority will find the uniform ad sizes desira-
ble, or at least acceptable, and that as a
result, they will enjoy a meaningful in-
crease in advertising volume." ^
Program won't involve Canada
The new system of standard advertis-
ing units will not be implemented in
Canada "at the present time."
According to the working committee,
"Many Canadian newspapers use page
dimensions much wider than those
used in the United States." The system
is geared to papers that have a nar-
rower newsprint web.
Canadian newspapers currently
classify make-up sizes in five groups.
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Three decades of grappling with format problem
Although promotional material for the Standard Advertising
Unit system heralds it as "an idea whose time has come," this is not
the first time the newspaper business has grappled with the prob-
lem created for advertisers by the lack of industry-wide formats.
Newspaper graphic arts historian Edmund C. Arnold, profes-
sor of mass communications at Virginia Commonwealth Univer-
sity, recalls that during World War II publishers began abandoning
in earnest the then-standard column width of 12 picas.
"We were trying to get as many pages as possible out of a ton
of newsprint because newsprint was being rationed by the
pound." he explains. As newsprint web width was reduced. col-
umn widths also were squeezed.
In 1968, most daily newspapers in the U.S. and
Canada used an 11-pica column width. But
that happy circumstance for advertisers was
not to continue for long.
Relatively high newsprint prices perpetuated the momentum
for narrower column widths in the post-war period: and in 1952, an
ANPA Committee on Column Width was created to look into,
among other things, the "possible burden on advertisers and ad-
vertising agencies of providing engravings and duplicate printing
materials of varying widths for papers which have adopted di-
verse column widths."
The committee concluded that those materials should be pro-
duced to accommodate the column-width measure of the largest
number of newspapers that had changed column size-at the
time, 111/, picas (11 picas, 6 points).
"The ink wasn't even dry on the signatures when people
started whittling that down further," Arnold says.
And in 1963, a new standard emerged when the wire services
agreed on the 11-pica column for transmission of their justified
copy. In 1968, a joint publication of ANPA and the American Asso-
ciation of Advertising Agencies noted that "most daily newspa-
pers in the U.S. and Canada now use the 11-pica column width."
But that happy circumstance for advertisers was not to con-
tinue for long. As newsprint prices began to soar, and particularly
with the growing acceptance of new typesetting and printing tech-
nology that allowed unprecedented freedom in newspaper layout
and design, the format problem worsened.
In 1975, AAAA, working with the ANPA Research Institute and
the Printing Platemakers Association, published a "Recom-
mended Interim Sizing" chart for national newspaper advertising
material in three sizes-A. B and C.
Also in 1975, the ANPA Newspaper Format Committee, estab-
lished to study the format problem and to recommend guidelines
for newspaper advertising formats, adopted a classification sys-
tem known as "Advertising Dimension Standards," or ADS. Under
that system, newspapers began reporting their sizes as A, B, C, D,
E or F.
In 1977, AAAA standards A, B and C were renamed L, M and S
to minimize confusion with the ADS system.
Last February, the ANPA Board voted to discontinue use of the
ADS system because continuing changes in newspaper formats
and technology had rendered the classifications obsolete
[presstime, March 1980, p. 32].
Meanwhile, the ANPA Production Management Committee
and its Advertising Materials Task Force began looking into the
development of a program of standard advertising units
[presstime, April 1980, p. 28]. Their deliberations resulted in the
formation of the working committee which drafted the standard
advertising unit proposal accepted last month by the ANPA
Board. ^
`Shoe'
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(Editor's note: This compilation of government and legal issues
affecting newspapers is prepared four times a year by the ANPA
Government Affairs and Legal departments. The last one ap-
peared in the October edition of presstime.)
bill which requires law enforcement officials to use subpoenas, not
search warrants, to obtain information from those involved in First
Amendment activities, except in certain limited cases
[presstime, Nov. 1980, p. 10]. The federal search ban went into
effect Jan. 1, while the state and local ban becomes effective Oct.
14. The new law also requires the Justice Department within six
months to draft guidelines limiting searches by federal authorities
of other non-suspect third parties.
Federal Communications Commission: The FCC met Oct. 28
and Dec. 16 to consider petitions, including ANPA's for reconsid-
eration of its Computer II Inquiry decision. Although the final docu-
ment has not been released, it appears that the commission has
chosen not to address directly the issue of control of information
content by common carriers. It did, however, appear to agree
somewhat with ANPA's position that it does not have jurisdiction
over all electronic information services [presstime, Nov. 1980,
p. 16].
Congress: Action in the new Congress is uncertain, but Sen.
Packwood (R.-Ore.), who will chair the Senate Commerce Com-
mittee, has said he will be prepared to offer a new bill and that the
97th Congress should deal with common carrier, broadcast and
cable issues [presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 11 ].
State activity: Texas Daily Newspaper Association was to file a
formal complaint with the Texas Public Utility Commission object-
ing to the PUC's approval of tariff for an electronic information
service experiment in Austin by Southwestern Bell and AT&T. (See
story, p. 32.)
Freedom of the press
Open courtrooms: Justice Department Oct. 14 issued guidelines
on open courtrooms, which generally state that federal attorneys
"should ordinarily oppose closure" unless there is a "substantial
likelihood" of denying a fair trial. The Judicial Conference of the
United States also revised its guidelines on the same subject
[presstime, Nov. 1980, p. 13].
Reporters' telephone records: Justice Department Nov. 12 ex-
panded its policy on subpoenas to members of the news media to
require that no subpoena shall be issued for telephone toll records
without the authorization of the attorney general or the prior
agreement of the reporter. The department also amended the
existing general process of review for applications for subpoenas
to the news media [presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 16].
Commercial speech: ANPA Nov. 28 filed a brief amicus curiae
with the U.S. Supreme Court in Metromedia v. City of San Diego.
The case challenges a prohibition by the city on all off-premises
outdoor advertising and appeals a California Supreme Court deci-
sion in favor of the city. At issue is the city's power to abolish an
entire category of "speech." Apart from First Amendment con-
cerns, the case also could have ramifications involving location of
newspaper racks [presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 15].
Freedom of Information: ANPA Government Affairs Committee
Chairman Low testified Nov. 18 before the Senate Subcommittee
on Intergovernmental Relations and urged maintenance of a
strong Freedom of Information Act [presstime, Dec. 1980, p.
15]. Meanwhile, Reagan transition leaders reportedly are taking a
hard look at blanket FOIA exemptions for both CIA and FBI.
Freedom of Information Day: A resolution designating March 16
as Freedom of Information Day passed the Senate but failed in the
House. FOI Day had been recommended by the First Amendment
Congress [presstime, Nov. 1980, p. 23].
Criminal code: Omnibus reform legislation of the criminal code
died in the 96th Congress. Rep. Drinan (D-Mass.), the main sup-
porter of the bill in the House, will not be back next year. Sen Thur-
mond (R-S.C.) is expected to reintroduce it next year in the
Senate, after the Reagan administration has a chance to review it
[presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 10].
Libel: ANPA has filed a brief amicus curiae urging the U.S. Su-
preme Court to review Loudoun Times Publishing Co. v. Arctic
Co., a libel case questioning whether a consultant hired by a
county government to prepare an environmental impact state-
ment may be characterized as a "public figure" or "public official"
under New York Times v. Sullivan and its progeny [presstime,
Dec. 1980, p. 14].
Media ownership: HR 6228, which would codify existing FCC
newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership regulations while pre-
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cluding the consideration of common media ownership in com-
parative license renewal hearings, died with the 96th Congress.
The bill, in differing forms, had been approved by the House and
by the Senate Commerce Committee. Also dead is a bill (S 3176)
introduced by Sen. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) to enable funds from FCC-
forced sales of broadcast properties, when used to buy a newspa-
per, to qualify for favorable tax treatment as an "involuntary con-
version." In Canada, the Royal Commission on Newspapers
Oct.16 was directed to examine questions of concentration of
press ownership and control and report by July 1, 1981 regarding
what steps, if any, might be warranted by the government
[presstime, Oct. 1980, p. 50].
Newspaper Preservation Act: Attorney General Civiletti Nov. 6
approved joint operation of The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times and
the News-Free Press [presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 16] but said his
action could not provide antitrust immunity under the act for three
major elements joined by the newspapers prior to his decision.
(See story, p. 14.)
Estate taxes: Leaders of the Tax Law Action Group met Nov. 14
with Sen. Boschwitz (R-Minn.), who had drafted proposed legis-
lation to value closely held, family-business property as a going
concern for estate purposes rather than at fair market value. At
Boschwitz's invitation, the TLAG representatives made a number
of suggestions for improvement. Boschwitz also is interested in
strengthening the Family Farm Act and may meld his business
property valuation bill into a revision of Section 2032A of current
tax law before he introduces it in the new Congress.
Wage and price: The Reagan transition team promises the new
administration will end President Carter's program of voluntary
wage and price guidelines. The Pay Advisory Committee Nov. 17
formally recommended the pay standard be abandoned. COWPS
Dec. 16 said it will not issue final wage and price standards for the
third program year, which began Oct. 1, and will discontinue mon-
itoring compliance with interim third year guidelines.
Foreign convention deductions: Shortly before its end the 96th
Congress passed HR 5973, exempting North America from the
restrictions on tax deductions for attending meetings outside the
United States. (See story, p. 17.)
Energy: Since the election, there has been speculation that a
move may be made to abolish the Department of Energy. Regard-
less, the government must continue to prepare for the possibility of
future fuel shortages. Federal law gives the President the power to
ration gasoline if necessary, and activities to define "newspaper
distribution" in the federal rationing plan can be expected to go
forward next year [presstime, Oct. 1980, p. 13]. Also, the Presi-
dent retains the power to set mandatory conservation targets for
the states-an action likely to come prior to rationing in the event of
shortage. Congressional authority for federal allocation of bulk
gasoline purchases expires Sept. 30. The new Congress must de-
cide whether to extend that power.
Labor and personnel
Independent contractors: Congress Dec. 1 passed a bill extend-
ing the present moratorium which prohibits the Internal Revenue
Service from reclassifying traditional independent contractors as
employees for purposes of wage withholding, Social Security and
unemployment tax [presstime, Oct. 1980, p. 11 1. Under HR
6975, the IRS will not be permitted to make such reclassifications
at least until June 30, 1982.
Machinery lockout procedures: ANPA testified at an informal
Occupational Safety and Health Administration public hearing
Nov. 19 in Washington on regulations which OSHA is considering
proposing to regulate the procedures to be used in locking out
and tagging power-driven machinery [presetime, Dec. 1980, p.
16].
Minimum wage: ANPA Nov. 26 submitted comments to the Mini-
mum Wage Study Commission urging retention of the Fair Labor
Standards Act exemptions for employees engaged in delivery of
newspapers to the ultimate consumer. (See story, p. 16.)
Unit jurisdiction: ANPA has filed briefs amicus curiae with the
U.S. Supreme Court and the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in
two cases. Involved are collective-bargaining obligations of em-
ployers and unions in newspapers where new technology is re-
sulting in a reduction of composing work and where union
jurisdiction is defined in terms of the type of work performed
[presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 42].
Multiemployer pension plans: The Multiemployer Pension Plan
Amendments Act of 1980 was signed into law Sept. 26. It makes
numerous changes in the regulation of collectively-bargained
pension plans contributed to by more than one employer. A de-
tailed analysis of the bill is available from ANPA [presstime, Nov.
1980, p. 12].
Noise: Issuance of amendments to the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration's standards on workplace noise is pending
further review by the agency [presstime, Nov. 1979, p. 44].
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: EEOC approved
final guidelines affirming its position that sexual harassment in the
workplace is a form of discrimination outlawed by Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act. (See story, p. 39.) The commission also issued
final guidelines on religious discrimination requiring employers to
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consider "reasonable alternatives" in accommodating the reli-
gious preference of workers [presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 42]. Pro-
posed guidelines on national-origin discrimination also were
issued. They focus primarily on circumstances where "speak En-
glish only" rules may violate the anti-discrimination laws. EEOC
also wants to issue proposed regulations which interpret the Age
Discrimination in Employment Act to require continued pension
plan contributions and accruals for employees who work past nor-
mal retirement age. The secretary of labor notified EEOC Chair
Norton that the EEOC's position was inconsistent with interpreta-
tions of the existing pension regulatory scheme held by both the
Labor Department and the Internal Revenue Service, thereby in-
definitely postponing issuance of a proposed regulation.
Advertising
Volume discounts: Times Mirror Co. Nov. 4 announced it has
reached tentative settlement with the Federal Trade Commission
in FTC's challenge of the legality of the practice of the Los Angeles
Times in granting rate discounts to high volume advertisers. The
settlement-the terms of which remain confidential-cannot be-
come effective for several months [presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 32].
FTC approval will be subject to a 60-day public-comment period
before final disposition. Under terms of the tentative agreement,
the newspaper "can continue to use annual volume discount rates
for retail display advertising ... in accordance with stipulated in-
dex values set forth in the agreement," Times Mirror reported.
Utilities: The Energy Department Nov. 20 proposed a voluntary
guideline prohibiting electric utility companies from passing on to
ratepayers the cost of political or promotional advertising, but al-
lowing rates fb include costs for advertising which promotes en-
ergy conservation. (See story, p. 17.)
Food: The FTC tentatively has adopted a rule which provides that
food advertised as "natural" may not contain synthetic or artificial
ingredients and may not be more than "minimally processed." The
new standard becomes part of a broader proposed FTC rule on
food advertising, which should be made final early this year
(presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 32].
"51% rule": The U.S. Postal Service Oct. 31 proposed elimination
of most postal regulations for supplements carried in second-
class publications-including the "51-percent rule" under which
publishers have to verify that more than half the total number of
copies of an insert are being distributed in second-class publica-
tions [presstime, Nov. 1980, p. 14].
Rate proposal: Three ANPA representatives testified Nov. 21 be-
fore the Postal Rate Commission urging it to keep second-class
mail rates at reasonable levels. (See story, p. 17.)
Six-day mail: Congress agreed on-and the President Dec. 16
signed-an interim budget resolution leaving intact, at least until
June 5, the full $736 million public service subsidy for the U.S.
Postal Service in fiscal 1981. This action means six-day delivery is
safe in 1981. Its long-term future remains in doubt, however, given
the expectation of spending cuts by the Reagan administration.
Newspaper treatment: Appeal of the USPS Board of Governors'
decision to implement a surcharge for second-class publications
requesting "newspaper treatment" (or "red-tag" service) from the
Postal Service has been moved to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Dis-
trict of Columbia Circuit. ANPA has filed a brief in the case, which
originally was filed in the 3rd Circuit, Philadelphia. The jurisdic-
tional move bodes ill for newspapers because the D.C. Circuit his-
torically has not been sympathetic to such concerns [presstime,
Dec. 1980, p. 19].
Nine-digit ZIP: The expanded, nine-digit ZIP Code will be avail-
able to mailers in October 1981 instead of February 1981 as origi-
nally planned. Postmaster General Bolger, in testimony Nov. 25
before a Senate subcommittee, said USPS may offer incentives as
high as one cent per piece for first-class business mailers who use
the expanded ZIP [presstime, Oct. 1980, p. 15].
UNESCO: The 21st UNESCO General Conference in Belgrade
adopted by consensus a modified resolution on the MacBride
Commission Report which stressed both free flow of information
and a "new world information order." It also passed, over U.S. ob-
jection, resolutions calling for further study of communications po-
litical issues and for a 1983 conference to assess how well the
spirit of the mass media declaration adopted in 1978 has been
carried out. The conference established a new U.S.-supported In-
ternational Press Development Council to facilitate communica-
tions technology transfers to developing nations, but it included in
the committee's three-year budget, which the U.S. opposed, 10
seminars on such controversial issues as "rights of reply" and
"codes of ethics for journalists" [presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 26].
Helsinki talks: The follow-on conference to the 1975 Conference
on Security and Cooperation in Europe opened in Madrid Nov. 11
and reconvenes late this month. Louis A. Lerner, Lerner Newspa-
pers, Chicago, is a member of the U.S. delegation. ANPA Chair-
man and President Graham wrote Secretary of State Muskie Nov.
6 stating ANPA's strong interests that news reporters have full ac-
cess to travel without hindrance between and within signatory
countries, and that newspapers and publications flow easily be-
tween and within those countries.
Treaties: Several treaties of interest to ANPA remain pending Sen-
ate ratification. None will be acted upon this year. They include
World Administrative Radio Conference, a new tax treaty with
Canada, and four human-rights treaties. ANPA filed comments on
the latter Dec. 28,1979 [presstime, Feb.1980, p. 17]. O
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Calif. paper asks U.S. court
to overturn state closure law
The Independent Journal of San Rafael,
Calif., has asked the U.S. District Court in
San Francisco to overturn a 107-year-old
California statute requiring preliminary
criminal hearings to be closed at the re-
quest of the defendant.
The law does not require the defendant
to show that fair-trial rights will be violated
as do laws in many other states.
The Independent Journal has asked that
judges be allowed to "make a determin-
ation of whether a balance can be struck"
between the Sixth Amendment rights of the
defendant and the First Amendment rights
of the press, said the newspaper's attor-
ney, Joseph L. Lemon.
The newspaper's Oct. 17 action follows
a series of seven unsuccessful attempts by
the media to have Penal Code Section 868
overturned in California state courts. The
federal suit was spurred by an Oct. 7
closed hearing in Marin Municipal Court in-
volving a woman accused of trying to hire
someone to rape another woman.
Terry Francke, government affairs ad-
ministrative assistant for the California
Newspaper Publishers Association, noted
that about 90 percent of criminal cases in
the state are disposed of at preliminary
hearings.
No statistics have been compiled on
how often Section 868 is invoked, although
Independent Journal co-counsel Judith
Epstein said it appears its use is "gathering
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Court briefs
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to
review two libel cases involving news-
papers [presstime, Oct. 1980, p. 14].
They are:
? Akins v. Altus Newspapers Inc., in
which The Altus (Okla.) Times-Democrat
lost a suit brought by a police officer de-
spite the fact that the officer was found to
be a public official. The case raised several
complex trial-procedure issues.
? Lorain Journal v. Milkovich, which
called into question the extent to which a
reporter may disregard findings of a judi-
cial body without being subject to charges
of publishing with actual malice.
The Supreme Court has agreed to re-
view an Ohio obscenity conviction of Hus-
tler magazine owner Larry Flynt.
The U.S. Supreme Court Dec. 8 post-
poned several new controls that were
part of a package of proposed federal reg-
ulations dealing with factory workers' ex-
posure to lead.
At the same time, the court allowed some
of the stricter new regulations to go into ef-
fect.
ANPA is analyzing the effect of the action
on the small number of newspapers in the
United States that still use hot type.
The North Dakota Supreme Court has af-
firmed that state's constitutional provision
that "all courts shall be open" by refusing
to allow a Cass County state's attorney to
close an inquiry into the death of a Fargo
man.
The state's attorney's inquiry "is clearly
connected with the functions of a court
even though its primary purpose is investi-
gatory in nature," the court ruled.
The Practising Law Institute has pub-
lished a new book on Libel, Slander and
Related Problems by New York attorney
Robert D. Sack.
Designed essentially for lawyers, the
book may be helpful to journalists and oth-
ers who have a basic understanding of li-
bel law. In addition to chapters on such
topics as "cause of action," "truth," "opin-
ion," "common law privileges," etc., the
book lists state statutes of limitations for
defamation actions and contains texts of
state retraction and shield statutes.
Copies are $50; available from PLI, 810
Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019. ^
Foreign
convention
tax bill OK'd
Congress Dec. 13 gave final passage to
a bill to repeal the law limiting tax deduc-
tions for expenses incurred in attending
conventions outside the United States to
two a year.
President Carter was expected to sign
the bill. He had until Dec. 29 to do so.
HR 5973 treats conventions in Canada
and Mexico as domestic meetings for tax
purposes. For other countries, a "reason-
ableness standard" is applied. That stan-
dard allows deductions for those
conventions which are as reasonable to
hold outside the country as within.
Factors to be taken into account under
the so-called "reasonableness standard"
include the purpose of the meeting and the
activities taking place there, the purposes
and activities of the sponsoring organiza-
tion, the residences of the active members
of the sponsoring organization, and the lo-
cations where other meetings have been or
will be held.
As an international organization holding
membership in several worldwide press
groups, ANPA supported adoption of a
"reasonableness standard." The Associa-
tion's 1984 Convention is scheduled for
Montreal. Plans to have the 1978 Conven-
tion there were canceled because of the
restrictions on deductions [presstime,
Nov. 1980, p.12].
In an Oct. 30 letter to the House Ways
and Means Committee and the Senate Fi-
nance Committee, ANPA Executive Vice
President and General Manager Jerry W.
Friedheim urged action be taken on foreign
conventions tax legislation before the 96th
Congress adjourned.
On Nov. 20, the Senate Finance Commit-
tee attached the provision, drafted by Sen.
Spark Matsunaga (D-Hawaii), to an unre-
lated tax bill already passed by the House.
The measure was passed by "unani-
mous consent" in both houses in the clos-
ing days of the 1980 session.
The bill also would repeal a prohibition
against deducting the full cost of first-class
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Newspaper Preservation Act under fire
By C. David Rambo
presstime staff writer
Legal guns are being reloaded for the
latest in an almost continuing round of at-
tacks on the Newspaper Preservation
Act-the 1970 law granting limited antitrust
protection to newspapers with joint operat-
ing agreements.
The law was only three days old when
the first suit was filed against it -a chal-
lenge to its constitutionality in San Fran-
cisco. It's been pretty much of a harangue
ever since.
This month, the location once again is
San Francisco where, in a trial beginning
on the 26th, the San Francisco Examiner
will defend its 1965 operating agreement
with the San Francisco Chronicle in light of
the act's provisions. A previous trial ended
Jan. 7, 1980, with a deadlocked jury
[presstime, Feb. 1980, p. 15].
The San Francisco case isn't the only le-
gal challenge to the act; suits are pending
against three other joint operating agree-
ments.
In addition to the litigation, the Justice
Department-always ambivalent about the
act-is investigating the possibility of pro-
hibiting the sharing of advertising depart-
ments. As it now stands, the act allows
participating newspapers to operate jointly
all departments except editorial.
When the law was enacted, it covered
existing joint operating agreements in 22
cities between 44 newspapers, some dat-
ing back to the 1930s, Two more
agreements, in Cincinnati and Chatta-
nooga, were approved since 1970 and re-
main in effect. A third approved since the
act was passed, in Anchorage, Alaska,
disbanded, and both newspapers survive.
When joint pacts are challenged, the
participating newspapers must prove that,
in the words of the act, "not more than one
of the newspaper publications involved in
the performance of such arrangement was
likely to remain or become a financially
sound publication" when the combination
took place. That is the source of much crit-
icism.
Some smaller daily or weekly newspa-
pers have complained that joint operating
agreements allow big-paper bedfellows to
sell advertising at predatory, low rates-
with which the smaller papers can't com-
pete-or at inflated rates-which dry up a
market's advertising dollars.
Labor unions have opposed joint ar-
rangements out of fear over lost jobs.
Local politicians have on occasion used
the act as a vehicle for criticizing newspa-
pers with which they might not see eye-to-
eye on other matters.
Press critics and some academicians
rarely discuss the newspaper business
without taking the opportunity to toss a few
bricks at the act. A common plaint is that
the act rewards mismanagement.
Defenders of the act counter that without
it, there may be 24 more one-newspaper
cities in the United States. The law has pro-
vided a means for otherwise failing news-
papers to survive and add to the diversity
of voices and opinions, they maintain.
What is sure as the act begins its second
decade is that it continues to be chal-
lenged.
In the San Francisco case, The Pacific
Sun (a San Francisco Bay-area weekly),
the owners of the former Berkeley Barb and
some classified advertisers have sued the
dailies for allegedly violating antitrust law
with their joint agreement and setting ad-
vertising rates uncompetitively high. The
plaintiff papers say there is little advertising
money left for them; the advertisers say
they can't afford the high rates.
24 `joint operation' cities
The current 24 joint operating agree-
ments in the United States are located in
these cities:
Albuquerque, N.M.; El Paso, Texas;
Nashville, Tenn.; Evansville, Ind.; Tucson,
Ariz.; Tulsa, Okla.; Madison, Wis.; Fort
Wayne, Ind.; Bristol, Tenn.; Birmingham,
Ala.; Lincoln, Neb.; Salt Lake City, Utah;
Shreveport, La.; Franklin-Oil City, Pa.;
Knoxville, Tenn.; Charleston, W.Va.; Co-
lumbus, Ohio; St. Louis; Pittsburgh; Hono-
lulu; San Francisco; Miami; Cincinnati; and
Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Examiner and Chronicle defend
their actions, claiming the merger was
proper and subsequently was afforded an-
titrust immunity under the act. The Exam-
iner claims it would have failed if the two
newspapers hadn't joined forces.
In the other three pending suits.
? The International Typographical
Union Nov. 18 filed in the U.S. District Court
for the District of Columbia against the joint
operating agreement of The Chattanooga
Times and News-Free Press, which was
approved Nov. 6 by Attorney General Ben-
jamin Civiletti [presstime, Dec. 1980, p.
16]. The newspapers actually are named in
a suit against Civiletti, notes A. William
Holmberg, president and general man-
ager of the Times.
The ITU challenges the legality of the
joint agreement and the procedure the
Justice Department used to approve it.
Specifically, it alleges that Civiletti failed to
grant a hearing on several issues of fact;
that he acted beyond the scope of his au-
thority by granting antitrust immunity when
all or parts of the operation had already
been implemented; and that newspaper
officials made illegal contacts with Justice
Department officials.
Civiletti and the newspapers probably
will respond this month, Holmberg says.
? In El Paso, Texas, the weekly El Paso
Journal claims that the morning El Paso
Times and evening El Paso Herald-Post-
which have the second oldest joint operat-
ing agreement, dating from 1936-have
engaged in predatory advertising pricing
against a free-circulation publication the
Journal produced.
The Journal and a now-defunct shop-
ping guide also claim that neither of the El
Paso dailies was in sufficient financial trou-
ble to qualify for the antitrust immunity
when the two papers joined operations.
"We are guilty of no predatory practices
whatsoever," says Frank Feuille III, presi-
dent of the Newspaper Printing Corp., the
joint operating agency in El Paso. He also
staunchly maintains that his company
qualifies under the act, saying the Herald-
Post was a failing newspaper.
The suit was filed in 1979 in U.S. District
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Court, El Paso. A trial date is not set.
? The city and county of Honolulu claim
that The Honolulu Star-Bulletin and The
Honolulu Advertiser, in a joint operating
agreement formed in 1962, have estab-
lished a combination advertising rate lower
than the sum of their individual rates and
have diminished ad sale competition
[presstime, May 1980, p. 24].
The U.S. District Court in Hawaii refused
to dismiss the case earlier this year, ruling
that the joint agency's antitrust immunity
was not "grandfathered in" by the 1970 act.
It said the newspapers must prove that the
Advertiser was in poor financial health at
the time of the agreement. A trial date has
not been set.
The fact that the attorney general is a de-
fendant in one of the suits illustrates one of
the difficulties the act presents for the Jus-
tice Department-it tends to pit the Anti-
trust Division against the attorney general.
As part of its investigation into whether
advertising departments-not just edito-
rial-should be separated in joint arrange-
ments [presstime, Sept. 1980, p. 9], the
Justice Department has requested that
newspapers with such pacts turn over all
documents relating to the arrangement.
Most publishers have complied, reports
Alan L. Marx, acting chief of the general liti-
gation section of the Antitrust Division.
While Justice officials will not confirm,
ANPA learned the probe stems from U.S.
Supreme Court decisions declaring com-
mercial speech to be on the same level as
other forms of speech-such as editorial
comment and news reports.
ANPA staff attorney L. Peyton Hen-
dricks, who monitors developments involv-
ing the act for the Association, says that a
basic legal question in any joint-operating-
agreement challenge is, "What is a 'failing
newspaper' within the meaning of the act?
"Does that mean the newspaper is
poised outside the bankruptcy court or can
it be losing money at such a rate that at one
unknown day in the future it will go out of
business?
"As time goes by, it becomes more diffi-
cult to say what was 'failing'," Hendricks
adds. "There may be no way to prove or
disprove it" after a number of years.
This would indicate the act will continue
to spawn controversy and challenge, and
that could have another important effect on
the business.
As Norfolk, Va., antitrust attorney Conrad
Shumadine observes, regardless of how
such challenges are resolved, such "enor-
mously cumbersome and expensive pro-
ceedings in themselves" could inhibit use
of the Newspaper Preservation Act. News-
papers, and especially "failing" newspa-
pers, "are going to be less likely to use it if it
turns out to be expensive," he says. ^
SBA's ban on `opinion molder'
loans too broad, ANPA asserts
The Small Business Administration pol-
icy prohibiting loans or loan guarantees to
"opinion molders" could be narrowed and
still meet First Amendment concerns,
ANPA has told the agency.
"While we believe the policy wise when
applied to newspapers and others en-
gaged in expression of public policy is-
sues, we recognize the policy is
unnecessarily broad," ANPA Government
Affairs Committee Chairman K. Prescott
Low said in a Dec. 8 letter to SBA. Low,
publisher of The Patriot Ledger in Quincy,
Mass., noted the prohibition now applies
even to publishers of greeting cards, dic-
tionaries and sheet music and to busi-
nesses solely engaged in distribution of
printed materials to others.
"ANPA believes our constitutional con-
cerns for freedom of speech or of the press
could be adequately protected by a nar-
rowed policy prohibiting government loans
or loan guarantees merely to businesses
engaged in the expression of views on
public policy issues," Low said.
ANPA agrees, he said, with SBA's
statement that rights of freedom of the
press "ought not be compromised either
by the fear of government reprisal or by the
expectation of government financial assis-
tance."
However, the Association does not op-
pose private sector loans to any business,
even when such loans are augmented by
government funds-as through a Small
Business Investment Company-"pro-
vided the government takes no role in the
decision to make the specific loan and
takes no risk of future ownership, control or
influence of such a business in case of de-
fault," Low said. SBICs, private investment
companies licensed by SBA to provide
loans to small businesses, can receive $3
to $4 from SBA for every $1 in private capi-
tal. SBIC loans to newspapers are per-
mitted.
SBA is considering revising its "opinion
molder" policy [presstime, Oct. 1980, p.
10]. In its request for public comments on
the issue, the agency also said it is "acutely
aware of the large number of recent merg-
ers and acquisitions in the media indus-
tries" and is "concerned about the
tendency that these takeovers have to
eliminate many media-oriented small busi-
nesses and to promote concentration of
ownership."
It is concerned, the SBA said, that its pol-
icy "may be unnecessarily inhibiting our
ability to assist these small businesses,
and that it may thereby indirectly promote
undesirable concentration of ownership."
Although a proposed new regulation
had been scheduled for publication in De-
cember, there has been such a great re-
sponse to the SBA's "advance notice of
proposed rulemaking"-the first step in the
regulation-drafting procedure-an interim
step may precede publication of a pro-
posed rule in this case.
Martin Teckler, SBA associate general
counsel for legislation, said a second "ad-
vance" notice could narrow proposed revi-
sions and report on comments received.
This could occur shortly, he said.
The loan prohibition, adopted in 1953,
applies to businesses engaged in "crea-
tion, origination, expression, dissemina-
tion, propagation or distribution of ideas,
values, thoughts, opinions or similar intel-
lectual property, regardless of medium,
form or content."
There are exemptions for publishers of
shoppers, newspapers or circulars carry-
ing only advertising and for other advertis-
ing concerns, for commercial printing
firms, and for the purchase or construction
of broadcasting stations or cable TV sys-
tems. ^
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regulations
New FBI guidelines include
use of journalists as sources
Guidelines for the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation's use of informants and confi-
dential sources include procedures for the
use of journalists as sources.
The guidelines were issued because the
FBI has been criticized in the past on the
use of informants," said Justice Depart-
ment spokesman Tom Stewart, who cited
as one example the case in which paid FBI
informant Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. was im-
plicated in the 1965 slaying of a civil rights
worker.
"There were some minor policies that
were not collected in one format, and it was
felt that something was needed to instruct
the FBI on the proper handling of infor-
mants," Stewart said.
Under the new bureau guidelines, a
member of the news media is to be treated
the same as those persons who are "under
the obligation of a legal privilege of confi-
dentiality," including doctors, lawyers and
clergy.
In order for any of those persons to be
used by the FBI as confidential sources or
informants, the guidelines require the ex-
press written approval of the director of the
FBI or a designated senior official at FBI
headquarters. An exception to the stan-
dard, however, allows a lower level official,
a field office supervisor, to approve receipt
of information on a one-time-only basis if it
is not collected at the FBI's request and if it
is not privileged.
Notification of use of members of the
news media or those with the "legal priv-
ilege of confidentiality" must be made to
the assistant attorney general in charge of
the criminal division. If they are approved
as informants or confidential sources, they
must be advised that in seeking informa-
tion "the FBI is not requesting and does not
advocate breach of any legal obligation of
confidentiality," the guidelines stipulate.
Further, if persons in this class volunteer
privileged information, it still may not be ac-
cepted unless to reject it would result in
"serious consequences," such as physical
injury to an individual or severe property
damage.
The guidelines, signed Dec. 2 by Attor-
ney General Benjamin R. Civiletti and is-
sued Dec. 4, represent departmental
policy and could be changed by a new at-
torney general, the Justice Department
spokesman said. ^
EPA sets new proposed emission level
for solvents used at rotogravure presses
Representatives of the printing and pub-
lishing industries have concluded prelimi-
nary testimony before the Environmental
Protection Agency on a proposed regula-
tion setting emission standards for rotogra-
vure presses.
The ANPA Research Institute is monitor-
ing promulgation of this regulation, which
was published in the Oct. 28 Federal Reg-
ister.
The proposed standard would limit em-
missions to 16 percent of the volume of vol-
atile-organic-compounds solvents used at
the press.
The standard would apply to new, mod-
ified and reconstructed presses. Existing
presses and proof presses would not be
affected.
The EPA met with printing and pub-
lishing representatives in November and
December to gather information prior to
setting the standard. The testimony and all
written comments, which were to be sub-
mitted by Dec. 29, will be reviewed before
promulgation of the regulation.
Rotogravure presses are used by the
newspaper business primarily to publish
magazine sections and advertising sup-
plements. About a half-dozen newspa-
pers in the United States have such
presses.
ANPA members seeking detailed infor-
mation about the proposed regulation
should contact Richard Neergaard, indus-
trial hygenist, at ANPA Research Institute,
Easton, Pa. ^
ANPA requests
wage exemptions
be maintained
ANPA has told the Minimum Wage Study
Commission that the Fair Labor Standards
Act exemption for employees engaged in
the delivery of newspapers to the con-
sumer should be retained.
In comments submitted to the commis-
sion Nov. 26, ANPA explained that the pre-
sent exemption makes possible the lawful
operation of many newspapers' "little mer-
chant" systems of delivery by youths. The
comments included the findings of a re-
cent University of Missouri School of Jour-
nalism study showing that the "little
merchant" system is used at least in part at
93 percent of the dailies in the United
States and Canada [presstime, July
1980, p. 40].
The Association also noted the many in-
tangible benefits, in addition to spending
money, received by the boy or girl with a
newspaper route.
The commission was created under
1977 amendments to the FLSA to study the
economic and social ramifications of the
minimum-wage provisions, including ex-
emptions. While its role is advisory, the
commission's recommendations are ex-
pected to be closely considered by House
and Senate committees having jurisdiction
over minimum wage matters.
The commission's statutory life expires
June 24, 1981, and House Education and
Labor Committee Chairman Carl D. Per-
kins (D-Ky.) has urged MWSC Chairman
James G. O'Hara to expedite the final re-
port so that Congress may study its con-
clusions before considering FLSA amend-
ments.
ANPA's comments were submitted by
Darrow Tully, publisher of The Arizona Re-
public and Phoenix Gazette and chairman
of the ANPA Labor and Personnel Rela-
tions Committee, and Tutt S. Bradford,
publisher and executive editor of the
Maryville-Alcoa (Tenn.) Daily Times and
chairman of the ANPA Circulation Commit-
tee. The International Circulation Man-
agers Association, the National News-
paper Association and several regional cir-
culation executives' groups joined ANPA in
the submission. ^
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regulations postal affairs
Reporters learn almost one year later
Justice Dept. got home phone records
Nearly a year after the fact, three report-
ers for The Philadelphia Bulletin have been
informed that their home telephone toll re-
cords were subpoenaed by the Justice De-
partment.
The records were sought in an effort to
determine how the reporters had obtained
transcripts of taped conversations be-
tween a government informant and sus-
pected organized crime figures, the
Justice Department told presstime.
The revelations came less than a month
after new Justice Department guidelines
for subpoenaing journalists' telephone re-
cords went into effect [presstime, Dec.
1980, p. 16] and two months after it be-
came known that the records of the Atlanta
Bureau of The New York Times and its bu-
reau chief had been subpoenaed, also in
conjunction with an investigation into
leaked information.
Noting that after The New York Times
case Assistant Attorney General Philip B.
Heymann had said that he did not believe
there were other news media subpoenas,
Justice Department spokesman John Rus-
sell said, "We again say we don't know of
any others." In the Philadelphia case, Hey-
mann's deputy approved the subpoenas.
According to Executive Editor Craig Am-
merman, The Bulletin has formally asked
Bell of Pennsylvania whether the newspa-
per's toll records also have been subpoe-
naed by the government.
The newspaper is considering taking le-
gal action and will file a request with the
Justice Department under the Freedom of
Information Act for information about the
case, Ammerman said.
Two of the reporters, Francis X. Geary
and Thomas M. Burton, received letters
from Bell of Pennsylvania, dated Nov. 21,
informing them that their records had been
subpoenaed. Ammerman said the Justice
Department has confirmed that the re-
cords of the third reporter, Bruce Boyle,
also were subpoenaed.
The phone company complied with the
subpoenas Nov. 26, 1979, but the Justice
Department requested that it withhold noti-
fication to its customers for 90 days, a re-
quest that was renewed three times.
Absent such a request, company policy is
to notify customers within 24 hours, a
spokesman said. ^
DOE proposes guideline on utilities' ads
The Department of Energy has pro-
posed a guideline for states to consider if
they decide to implement a voluntary fed-
eral standard prohibiting electric utilities
from charging their customers for promo-
tional or political advertising.
Under the Public Utility Regulatory Poli-
cies Act of 1978, state utility regulatory
agencies and non-regulated utilities had
until last Nov. 9 to consider adopting the
federal standard. Several state press asso-
ciations took an active role in those deliber-
ations.
DOE released the guideline Nov. 20. The
agency had no explanation as to why it was
putting out a guideline 11 days after the
deadline for considering the standard, ex-
cept, as a spokeswoman said, it "probably
had to do with a lot of different things, work
load, procedural reasons, how long it takes
to get comments from other people within
the agency and so forth." Despite the
deadline, she said, states could still decide
to consider such a ban in the future.
The federal standard does not prohibit
utilities from recovering from ratepayers
the cost of advertising that provides infor-
mation on energy conservation or the use
of energy efficient appliances, and the
guideline itself deals only with ways to
identify conservation ads.
Deadline for public comment on the
guideline is Jan. 16.
According to DOE spokeswoman Carol
McCurley, the department does not know
how many states have adopted the ban on
charging utility customers for political and
promotional advertising. Annual reports
from state regulatory agencies are being
received at DOE, but it will be several
months before the Office of Utility Systems
in the Economic Regulatory Administration
completes its analysis of the state deci-
sions. ^
USPS to consider
refund of 51% fines
if rule abolished
If the "51-percent rule" is abolished as
proposed, the U.S. Postal Service will con-
sider publishers' requests for refunds of
payments they made in 1980 under en-
forcement of the rule.
Postmaster General William F. Bolger
also said USPS will review "all amounts of
collections still in dispute with a view to-
ward waiving those collections."
His comments were in a Nov. 19 letter to
the California Newspaper Publishers Asso-
ciation, which had called on the Postal
Service to reimburse publishers for penal-
ties paid under the rule.
The rule requires publishers to verify for
the Postal Service that more than 50 per-
cent of the total number of copies of an in-
sert will be distributed in second-class
publications. Bolger told ANPA in early Oc-
tober he would propose to abolish the rule
[presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 20]. No date
was set for a decision on the change, al-
though action was possible early this
month.
By the end of December, USPS had re-
ceived more than 100 comments on the
proposal, only four of which were in favor of
erasing the "51-percent rule." Opponents
generally were third-class mailers. ^
ANPA opposes controlled,
second-class merger
ANPA has opposed the proposed mer-
ger of second-class and controlled-circu-
lation publications, saying the distinction
between the two should be maintained
[presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 18].
In a brief filed with the independent
Postal Rate Commission Dec. 19, ANPA ar-
gued against the merger but said it did not
oppose the latest USPS rate hike request-
an average 1.9-percent increase in the
per-pound charge for regular-rate and lim-
ited-circulation publications.
ANPA also challenged as "without merit"
comments by the PRC's Office of the Com-
missioner, which has recommended in-
creases for second-class that far exceed
the USPS proposal. ^
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West's window on the Middle East is smudged
By Kathleen Hunt Baird
presstime special writer
Lebanon long has been the correspon-
dent's window on the Middle East. Its piv-
otal location, international-communica-
tions links, cosmopolitan character and,
above all. its tradition of having the freest
press in the Arab world, have served for-
eign journalists well. In many cases, events
occurring elsewhere in the region could be
reported only from Beirut because of cen-
sorship in or lack of access to surrounding
nations.
Despite the 1975-76 civil war and the de-
ployment of a large Syrian peacekeeping
force, currently 22,000 strong, Beirut re-
mains the key listening post for eavesdrop-
ping on often-feuding neighbors. Beirut
was a primary news conduit during the re-
cent Syrian-Jordanian border tension.
Many of the 400 journalists who flocked to
Iraq last fall to cover the war with Iran
passed through the city to obtain visas and
to file reports. When oil supplies from the
Gulf slow, news stories from Beirut flow.
Since the civil war, however, living and
working conditions have deteriorated
drastically, and the Beirut window has be-
come smeared in ash and blood. The jour-
nalists live amidst violence-both chance
and calculated-and it has affected their
work. Some have avoided investigating
sensitive stories too closely. Others know-
ingly have filed incomplete stories out of
fear of possible retaliation by volatile Arab
political factions.
More than two dozen such factions pa-
trol Beirut, brandishing AK47s and M16s
which they are quick to use for celebrat-
ing-or for fighting. Journalists traveling
the heavily congested streets pass numer-
ous checkpoints, usually demarcated by
concrete blocks in the roadway and make-
shift signposts emblazoned with a party's
symbol. Some are manned by teenagers
with rifles.
Baird spent October in the Middle East. The
10 journalists, mostly British and American, she
interviewed for this article requested anonymity
because they feared possible punitive mea-
sures.
At checkpoints controlled by the Syrians
or the Lebanese army, sandbags are piled
high on either side of the street. The barrels
of automatic weapons train on passing
cars and pedestrians.
Lebanon is, in the words of one Western
correspondent, "a lawless country in which
there is no government, and gunmen roam
the streets freely." The government con-
trols neither East Beirut, where the majority
of rightist, predominantly Christian Leb-
anese live, nor West Beirut, home to most
of the Western media and to a complex ar-
ray of leftist, mainly Moslem, Lebanese and
Palestinians.
Journalists risk being caught in the mid-
dle of the strife, which police say resulted in
1,800 deaths during the first nine months of
1980.
They also face possible deliberate at-
tacks.
"Because there is no (effective) govern-
ment in Lebanon, newsmen are never se-
cure," a Western journalist explains.
"Syrians, Kataeb, Palestinians, Mourabi-
toun: If we do a story they don't like and it
gets back to them, many have no hesitation
about blowing your head off."
Kataeb, the dominant rightist-Christian
party, usually is referred to in the Western
media as "Phalangist." The Mourabitoun is
a predominantly Sunni Moslem militia
which espouses principles championed
by the late President Gamal Abdul Nasser
of Egypt.
Last July 23, Riyad Taha, president of
the Lebanese Press Syndicate, was ma-
chine-gunned to death, presumably by
pro-Iraqi Lebanese.
But the events most chilling to the West-
ern press corps are believed to be the work
of the Syrians, described by one journalist
as "a clique of political gangsters operat-
ing under a mask of political ideology
called Ba'thism (Arab socialism)."
A veteran Lebanese journalist says that
Damascus cooperated fully with the for-
eign press until growing internal problems
and increasing regional isolation made the
regime highly sensitive to criticism. "Syria
got fed up from not getting a fair deal from
the foreign press," he says.
The Syrian charge d'affaires in Washing-
ton denies it, but the Lebanese journalist
Reuters' Beirut Bureau occupies offices just above Iran Air, bombed four times in last half year.
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insists that when relations soured, Damas-
cus "took the matter out of the hands of the
ministry of information and put it into the
hands of the military."
In March, Selim al-Lozi, owner and editor
of the London-based Al Hawadess, a lead-
ing Arabic-language weekly, was kidnap-
ped in sight of a Syrian checkpoint. His
body was recovered a few days later. Lozi
had written several articles strongly critical
of Syria.
In May, Syrian journalist Ali al-Joundi, liv-
ing in exile in Beirut, was shot and severely
wounded.
In June, Bernd Debusmann, Reuters'
Beirut Bureau chief, was shot in the back.
Debusmann, who had been threatened
previously after filing reports which col-
leagues say antagonized the Syrians, sur-
vived the attack but subsequently left
Beirut.
Others have followed. The BBC pulled
correspondent Tim Llewellyn and part-time
correspondent James Muir out of Beirut af-
ter death threats against them were con-
veyed to the British embassy by a diplomat
stationed in Syria.
The French newspaper Figaro also or-
dered out its correspondent, Jorg Stocklin,
and several other Western and Arab jour-
nalists fled after receiving threats.
"Once Bernd was shot, everybody knew
they could get it, too," explains a corres-
pondent.
Not surprisingly, the wave of violence
has colored the kind of reporting that is
done-and not done-from Lebanon.
Although a few journalists insist they
have not been intimidated, most Damas-
cus-related coverage is handled carefully.
Inoffensive reports based on official com-
muniques are filed routinely. Stories about
corruption in Syria and about the minority
Alawite Moslem sect which controls Syria
under President Hafez al-Assad are
avoided.
One journalist was treading softly in
hopes his organization would be allowed to
establish a Damascus bureau. Most West-
ern media currently rely on stringers for
day-to-day coverage of Syria.
Another talks freely about the compro-
mises he makes. "Do I write something now
and maybe get expelled, or hold it until it
really matters?" he asks. "If Assad goes,
everyone will open up on him with both bar-
rels. Short of that, you husband your infor-
mation." The result has been a "blackout
on what's happening in Syria in the U.S.
media and (in) the Western press as a
whole," says a Lebanese journalist.
If Beirut-based correspondents prepare
an unfavorable report about Syria, they of-
ten file it undated, don't sign off or use a
London or New York dateline. "It's a ques-
tion of a real threat," says one. "There's a
(Syrian) checkpoint just down the street.
They come into our office and ask to see
our wire. They know where we are."
Even with camouflage, the Beirut press
corps will only go so far in covering events
in Syria and Lebanon. One journalist com-
ments, "Papers in the United States just
don't publish on Lebanon anymore, so why
go stick your nose into a firefight and get it
shot off? If papers want to publish some-
thing, we'll risk our neck, but we won't risk
our neck for a filler on page three."
Another warns, "If you succumb to (in-
timidation), you're finished. It just encour-
ages" opponents of a free press.
One way to get the story while minimiz-
ing risk is pool reporting, according to a
third correspondent. "A reporter wouldn't
be out there on a limb all by himself if we all
ran a story simultaneously as a night lead,"
he explains. "We need to put competition
aside. Our responsibility to get the story
outweighs the need to be first."
Despite the chaotic conditions and an-
tagonistic elements, most journalists have
managed to adjust professionally and per-
sonally. Like the population as a whole,
they exhibit only mild curiosity when Syrian
antiaircraft guns fire at Israeli Phantom jets
flying reconnaissance missions over Beirut
every few days. Mortars explode, machine
guns are fired, and cocktail-party conver-
sations go on with barely a pause.
Yet the Beirut beat is a strain, and "it gets
to some of us," one correspondent says.
"The constant boom, bang, boom."
It shows.
It shows in the one-too-many drinks
downed nightly at the Commodore Hotel
bar as journalists speculate about the hot-
test rumor or discuss the latest item com-
ing in over one of the two wire machines in
the lobby.
It shows on the face of the young corre-
spondent, seasoned by covering fighting
in Southern Lebanon and elsewhere, who
relaxes on the beach but instinctively hugs
the sand when automatic weapons fire in
the distance, cautioning, "Keep your head
down."
"It can be addictive," comments one
journalist. "When you get to where you look
forward to the perverted pleasure of watch-
ing a dogfight or need the sound of mortars
to get you high, it's time to get out."
Most don't reach that stage. For them, it
is something they live with, constantly and
uncomfortably.
Comments one Western reporter, "When
I take a cab home at night at 12 o'clock, I
look over my shoulder." ^
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Private groups' involvement
urged in communications field
With further cutbacks apparently in store
for the U.S. State Department's UNESCO
activities, fewer U.S. government re-
sources will be available in the future to
deal with international attempts to control
the flow of information.
That is the bleak assessment of Joseph
P. Rawley, general manager of The High
Point (N.C.) Enterprise and ANPA rep-
resentative on the U.S. National Commis-
sion for UNESCO. He was interviewed
following the commission's annual meeting
in Washington in December.
State Department officials concur with
his evaluation, saying more communica-
tions organizations-broadcasters, adver-
tisers, and computer hardware and
software producers, for example-should
be helping to shape the future of commu-
nications development around the world.
The State Department once had about
30 officers specializing in UNESCO affairs,
according to sources familiar with the situ-
ation. That number is now down to four,
soon to be reduced to three, they say.
Moreover, the U.S. National Commission
[presstime, Feb. 1980, p. 17], which
serves as a link between the State Depart-
ment and UNESCO, reportedly faces the
possible loss of four of nine job slots.
"Ironically," one observer points out, "at
the very time when information and com-
ANPA nominates Miami Herald's Beebe
for FIEJ Golden Pen of Freedom award
George Beebe, associate publisher of
The Miami Herald and a founder of the
World Press Freedom Committee, has
been nominated by ANPA for the 1981
Golden Pen of Free-
dom, an award
given annually by
FIEJ, the Interna-
tional Federation of
Newspaper Pub-
lishers.
His nomination
was approved by
the ANPA Board of
Directors Dec. 4
and submitted by
Allen H. Neuharth,
chairman of the ANPA Executive Commit-
tee and U.S. vice president of FIEJ.
Beebe "often has led pressures which
have resulted in releases from imprison-
ment of journalists," and that "strong com-
ment from the WPFC has helped the U.S.
government to take stronger stands and
has bolstered similar positions by other
governments as well," Neuharth said.
He added that Beebe "has attended, or
assured that others have attended, the
many UNESCO conferences and seminars
conducted worldwide over recent years
where our concepts of press freedom are
being challenged."
Beebe, 70, is executive director of the
WPFC, immediate past president of the In-
ter American Press Association and a for-
mer president of the Associated Press
Managing Editors Association. He was one
of several WPFC representatives at last
fall's UNESCO General Conference in Bel-
grade, Yugoslavia [presstime, Dec.
1980, p. 26]. (He plans to retire as the com-
mittee's executive director later this year.)
"George has been a tireless, effective
fighter for world press freedom for many
years," commented Harold Andersen,
president of the Omaha (Neb.) World-
Herald Co. and chairman of the WPFC.
ANPA in 1980 nominated exiled Argenti-
nian editor Jacobo Timerman for the
Golden Pen of Freedom, and FIEJ subse-
quently named him the recipient
[presstime, Feb. 1980, p. 16]. Other re-
cent awardees have included French jour-
nalist, resistance hero and founder of FIEJ
Claude Bellanger (1979); South African
editors Donald Woods and Percy Qoboza,
also ANPA nominees (1978); and Irish edi-
tor Robert Hugh Lilley (1977).
The FIEJ Executive Committee will
choose among several nominees for the
1981 Golden Pen Jan. 26-28 in Vienna,
Austria. ^
munications issues have ballooned, the
number of people available to respond has
been cut drastically."
Currently, the department is discussing
with other free press nations procedures
for appointing representatives to UNES-
CO's recently created International Pro-
gram for the Development of Communi-
cation [presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 26]. UN-
ESCO has not yet announced a meeting
date for the 35-member council that will di-
rect the IPDC.
State Department officials say that while
they have always believed private press in-
stitutions should work closely with the gov-
ernment in any discussions of press
freedom, private efforts are going to be in-
creasingly important in the future.
The department's strategy for winning
supporters for the concept of a free flow of
information is built around demonstrating
that the United States and other Western
nations will back projects for communica-
tions training and development in the Third
World. ^
WPFC may sponsor
conference on UNESCO;
fund drive continues
The World Press Freedom Committee
may sponsor a conference later this year to
discuss what course U.S. media and other
private institutions should take to prevent
UNESCO from exercising further control
over information flow and communications
development.
"We want to explore the whole issue and
see where we should go in the future," ex-
plained WPFC Chairman Harold Ander-
sen, president of the Omaha (Neb.) World-
Herald Co.
The committee also hopes to meet
with the new secretary of state as soon as
possible, and it plans to request congres-
sional hearings on UNESCO early this
year.
Meanwhile, Executive Director George
Beebe has reported that the WPFC is con-
ducting another drive to raise funds for de-
velopment projects in Third World
countries. He said the group hopes to
match previous efforts, which have netted
more than $600,000. Tax-deductible con-
tributions may be sent to the WPFC at 1
Herald Plaza, Miami, Fla. 33101. ^
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Iowa TV station sues to recover
film seized in search warrant
A Dubuque, Iowa, television station has
filed suit to recover two video tapes seized
with a search warrant by county law en-
forcement officials Nov. 25.
The action followed enactment of a new
federal law virtually barring the use of
search warrants to obtain information from
the news media which was implemented
on the federal level Jan. 1, but which does
not take effect on the local level until next
October [presstime, Nov. 1980, p. 10].
Iowa District Court Judge Alan Pearson
was expected to announce in late Decem-
ber a decision on station KDUB-TV's mo-
tion to recover the tapes. Pearson also is
the judge who signed the search warrant.
The case stems from a brawl Nov. 22 at a
wedding reception held at a building next
to KDUB-TV. At its height, about 200 per-
sons were involved in the melee, which re-
sulted in the hospitalization of three police
officers and two guests.
The station taped the disturbance, and
footage was used on news broadcasts that
day and the next. On Nov. 24, law enforce-
ment officials asked to look at the video
tapes.
"We responded that we'd show them the
video tapes that were broadcast," said sta-
tion manager Chuck G. Cyberski. "They
came up, and we showed them those
tapes maybe a dozen times. They inquired
about the original video tapes and whether
they would be able to see them, to which
we responded no."
The station was "expecting the possibil-
ity" of being served with a subpoena for the
tapes. But the next day, Cyberski recalled,
,.we were served with a search warrant that
named the two unedited (tape) cassettes
to be seized."
After conferring with station attorneys
and Herbert Strentz, dean of Drake Univer-
sity's School of Journalism and executive
secretary of the Iowa Freedom of Informa-
tion Council, Cyberski said the station
turned over the tapes "rather than face a
search of the entire newsroom, which
would have been the alternative."
Assistant County Attorney Fred H.
McCaw said the tapes were sought be-
cause "they are the best evidence avail-
able" for use in the investigation of the
disturbance. He said a warrant rather than
a subpoena was used to obtain the tapes
"to make sure (they were) going to be pro-
tected from alteration, destruction and
loss."
The station manager said the action
"was an abuse of power that disregarded
the intent of Congress that was very clearly
expressed" in the law just enacted, and it
ran counter to "privileges of the press" rec-
ognized by the Iowa Supreme Court.
But even under the new anti-search law,
Cyberski noted, "your protection is subject
to the sensitivity of law officials to that law. I
think the county attorney and the judge
have showed themselves to be rather in-
sensitive to the rights of the press in this
regard." ^
Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer and News po-
lice reporter Stan Kaufman pays a Battle
Creek Police Department clerk $52.98 (hand-
ling and duplication costs) for 97 police com-
plaint reports his newspaper pried loose via a
series of Freedom Of Information Act re-
quests. Police abruptly stopped giving out
the reports in November, claiming the step
was necessary to avoid Invasions of privacy.
On Dec. 5, the police Issued a "clarification"
of the new policy which essentially allows the
newspaper access to materials previously
available, Managing Editor Dan Martin said.
Idaho Statesman asks daily contempt
fine be stopped, with $17,000 already paid
The Idaho Statesman of Boise, having al-
ready paid $17,000 in fines on behalf of
one of its reporters who refused to divulge
confidential information, has asked the
judge who imposed the $500-a-day con-
tempt penalty to discontinue it.
Fourth District Magistrate Karen Vehlow,
who levied the fine on reporter Ellen Marks
in October [presstime, Nov. 1980, p. 15],
had not decided at press time whether to
lift the penalty.
Marks has declined to disclose where
she interviewed a woman who refuses to
return custody of her child to her former
husband. The reporter, who spent seven
hours in jail because of her stand, also has
refused to identify two other persons pre-
sent at the interview.
The Idaho Supreme Court Nov. 26 den-
ied Marks' request for a stay of the fine.
The newspaper's attorney, Robert L. Bi-
low, said the newspaper is considering
taking the case to the U.S. Supreme Court
but will wait until the Idaho Supreme
Court's final decision on a pending request
for writ of review in the case. Bilow said the
newspaper would be seeking return of the
money it paid in fines and would argue that
a reporter should not be held in contempt
for refusing to divulge confidential informa-
tion "until the court has held a separate
hearing to determine whether the informa-
tion sought is relevant or can be obtained
from another source." ^
Pa. `Sunshine Act' intact;
bill to be reintroduced
The Pennsylvania Legislature has left in-
tact the state's 1974 "Sunshine Act."
It did so by adjourning in November be-
fore the Senate could act on a House-
passed bill to strengthen open-meeting re-
quirements while adding some restrictions
on the press-including a requirement that
corrections and retractions appear with the
same prominence as the original story
[presstime, Nov. 1980, p. 15].
Ray Jones, general manager of the
Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers As-
sociation, said the bill is expected to be re-
introduced when the 1981 session
convenes this month. ^
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Information could be
demarcation of future
for `haves,' `have-nots'
"A popular government without popular information or the
means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or
perhaps both."
James Madison in a letter
to a friend, Aug. 4, 1822
Technological change has always shaped the form and in-
fluenced the substance of journalism. Now on the horizon or just
over it is a revolution in the technology of spreading the news that
has the potential for affecting Americans' lives and society at least
as much as did the arrival of television.
Some of the changes will be indispu-
tably positive, providing a greater diversity
of information, raising the quality of enter-
tainment available on the television screen,
giving individuals more control over what
they can see and read.
But there is another, an ominous, po-
tential as well, one that so far has been little
discussed and seems to be little consid-
ered by those who are leading the revolu-
tion.
Every advance in technology so far has
had the effect of increasing the speed and broadening the reach
of the news. For five centuries, ever-increasing numbers of people
throughout Western society have been exposed, with ever-in-
creasing speed, to reports of public affairs. James Madison was
neither the first nor the last to note the importance of an informed
public to the health of a democratic government.
In the United States, at least, increases in speed and coverage
have been accompanied by an increasing homogeneity in both
content and packaging of news. This is true of newspapers, most
of which get the bulk of their information from one of two primary
wire services. It is true of the news magazines, which commonly
feature even the same cover subjects. It is true, most significantly,
of the three commercial television networks, which have taken
over the newspapers' old role as society's town criers.
The result is that the shopkeeper in Seattle who watches NBC
and reads the AP's account of world events in the Post-Intelli-
gencer gets much the same ration of information as does the tea-
Kennedy is on the faculty of the University of Missouri School of Jour-
nalism. He was a co-author of "Communications 1990,"the school's report
on the future of the communications industry. A former newspaper reporter
and editor, he is a member of the ANPA Editorial Advisory Committee.
cher in Memphis who watches CBS and reads the UPI version of
the news in The Commercial Appeal.
Social critics have built careers on the bemoaning of this vir-
tually inescapable sameness. Regional distinctions, even re-
gional accents, are disappearing, they complain. The inexorable
pressure in mass communication is toward the lowest common
denominator, in news as in entertainment. The information con-
sumer is at the mercy of the network executive and the newspaper
editor, who choose not only what we will see and read but when we
can see and read it.
The forces set loose by the looming tech-
nological revolution threaten to diminish sig-
nificantly the shared body of information and
limit journalism's role as agenda-setter for
society.
Less often noted is another effect: However bland, however
superficial our daily diet of news, vast numbers of Americans wind
up knowing pretty much the same things about pretty much the
same issues and events. This is part of the agenda-setting func-
tion of journalism. It operates to assure that, sooner or later, most
of society's important questions get called to the attention of a
great many of society's members. Shared information does not,
obviously, always lead to shared opinion, but it does lead, more
often than not, to agreement at least on the terms of the argument.
That kind of agreement is an absolute prerequisite to successful
self-government.
The forces set loose by the looming technological revolution
threaten to diminish significantly this shared body of information
and limit journalism's role as agenda-setter for society.
A study published earlier this year by the University of Missouri
School of Journalism suggests that we will see, by the end of the
century if not by the end of the decade:
? A fragmentation of television audiences that will cut deeply
into the revenues and power of the networks
? Major changes in content and distribution systems of news-
papers
? Introduction of individualized, multi-media, information
packages for which the consumer will pay a greater share and the
advertiser a lesser share of the costs.
The study quoted experts predicting a decline in network tele-
vision audiences from 10 to 50 percent by 1990. This does not
mean that Americans will be spending less time in front of their TV
sets. It does mean that our choices of what to watch (or do) with
those sets, already increasing, will multiply. One major competitor
to the networks will be cable, which already is showing signs of
breaking the restraints imposed by technology, economics and
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regulation that have impeded its growth. Video discs and video
recorders also increase the viewer's ability to see what he wants to
see rather than just what Fred Silverman wants him to see.
Loss of audience means loss of money. It may not mean loss of
network news: executives of the networks told the Missouri re-
searchers that news will be an increasingly important part of their
competitive efforts. But the changes surely will mean a loss of
viewers for at least the kind of prepackaged, once-a-day, multiple-
information tablet Uncle Walter has been feeding us.
Result: a shrinking of our pool of shared information.
Newspapers, which for the most part now set the news agenda
for television as well as for their own readers, already are tailoring
editions to the assumed desires of specific groups of readers and
advertisers. It won't be long before computers in press rooms and
mail rooms will permit much more sophisticated zoning by demo-
graphics. When that happens, my newspaper may not have much
in common with my next-door neighbor's, either in news content or
advertising. It is less certain that an edition will be tailored to the
reader lacking the "up-scale" demographic qualities the advertis-
ers will want to reach.
Result: further shrinking of our pool of shared information.
The greatest promise-or threat-arises from the new medium
of home-information retrieval. The most sophisticated form, view-
data, is being tested by Knight-Ridder Newspapers in Coral Ga-
bles, Fla. This interactive system. fed over the telephone lines,
allows consumers to choose from a bank of information and adver-
tising including constantly updated news of the neighborhood
and the world, the contents of an encyclopedia, entertainment
guides, games, classified advertisements and much more. Partic-
ipants in the experiment can, without leaving their living rooms,
buy airline or theater tickets, shop the Sears catalog and even or-
der groceries for curb-side pickup.
"I'm impatient with the argument that newspapers don't have
anything to fear from this," Knight-Ridder Vice President James
Batten told the Missouri researchers. "Newspapers do."
The public may, too, if viewdata or another system robs the
newspapers of their lucrative classified advertising. Loss of that
30 percent of advertising revenue, plus loss of subscribers whose
information needs are met electronically, could accelerate the al-
ready declining market penetration of most metro papers. That, in
turn, could well force big retail and grocery advertisers to seek
other ways to reach potential customers.
Result: even greater shrinkage of the shared information pool.
One other change seems likely: a change in the way we pay for
our info mation. Advertising now pays all the direct cost of broad-
casting, most of the cost of newspapers. Already there are signs
that some of the burden is being shifted. Many supplemental ca-
ble services cost extra. That trend will continue. Video discs and
recorders are not cheap. Newspaper circulation prices are up
sharply and will go up a great deal more. Many on the business
side are talking of variable pricing for individualized editions. The
more you get, the more you pay. If advertising revenue shrinks,
that possibility will become a certainty. Nobody knows yet how
home-information retrieval systems will be financed. At least part,
and maybe most, of the cost is likely to be levied directly on the
consumer.
Many people, therefore, stand to be priced out of the informa-
tion market in the not-too-distant future. They would be closed out
not only from the new medium and the additions to cable options
but quite possibly from now-available sources as well. If it occurs,
the loss could be even greater to society as a whole than to the
individuals who bear it directly.
This technological revolution, then, differs from all its prede-
cessors in an important and dangerous way. It has the potential of
reducing rather than increasing the commonality of Americans'
information. As it permits each of us to immerse himself or herself
in some special interest, so it will allow each of us to avoid expo-
sure to less attractive issues and events. A person without a burn-
ing interest in foreign affairs, for instance, will be able to pick the
viewdata categories, the special segments on a cable channel,
the customized newspaper that will tell him little or nothing about
foreign affairs.
When he has to watch the same CBS News that 20 million oth-
ers see, or read the same newspaper his neighbor gets, he is at
least exposed to important stories he may not seek out on his own
in the coming information smorgasbord.
By the end of this century, the affluent and
well-educated may be even better-informed
than now, while the poorer or more passive
information consumers may have lost some or
all of what they now get ...
A result of all this could be a return to something like the infor-
mation-segregated society that existed before the rise of the om-
nipresent mass media. There would be a significant difference in
the segmentation of the future, though. The new dividing lines
would not be geographic, as the old ones were. They would be
along the lines of economic standing, social class, special inter-
est, race.
By the end of this century, the affluent and well-educated may
be even better-informed than now, while the poorer or more pas-
sive information consumers may have lost some or all of what they
now get, either because-as with network TV news-it would no
longer be offered free, or because-as with the newspaper-its
cost would have escalated beyond their reach.
That would be a threat to our national security more serious
than anything an outside enemy is likely to muster. The combina-
tion of competitive urges and our zest for the new could succeed
in producing exactly the kind of information elite Mr. Madison
warned against nearly 200 years ago. It would be, in the year
2000, as it would have been in 1800: a prelude to farce or tragedy,
or perhaps both.
History demonstrates that innovation cannot be stifled. It
should not be. It should, however, be examined and thought out
before it overtakes us. ^
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Frank Savino
His standard is to lure
more ads to papers
By Margaret Genovese
presstime staff writer
They say it takes a dynamic individual to make a name for him-
self in advertising and marketing. In Bergen County, N.J., his
name is Frank J. Savino.
In advertising circles, Savino has been well-known for a num-
ber of years. He moved up the ladder of the International Newspa-
per Advertising Executives, serving as the organization's
president for a one-year term ending this month.
But now that ANPA has sanctioned a program that has the po-
tential of attracting many more national advertising dollars to
newspapers, people in all segments of the business are hearing
Savino's name, along with those of others on the committee that
developed it.
Endorsement of the Standard Advertising Unit system "made
my year," he says. It allows him to realize a goal he had set to work
toward but "honestly" never thought would be realized while he
was head of INAE.
For many years, national and retail advertisers had groused,
"Gee whiz, newspapers are tough to buy" because of numerous
diverse formats. Savino's stock response was that any solution
would have to come from publishers and not advertising or mar-
keting directors.
Before taking office last January, Savino wrote ANPA's top two
officers of the time, Allen H. Neuharth and the late Len H. Small,
about the format problem and his desire to see something done
about it. "Both responded very positively," he recalls.
After Small's death in an automobile accident in March, Savino
also discussed the format problem with incoming ANPA Chairman
and President Katharine Graham at the ANPA Convention in April.
Subsequently, when ANPA formed an industry-wide working
committee to develop a program of standard ad units, Savino was
tapped for membership.
Involved with newspaper advertising for the past 28 years-26
of them at The Record in Hackensack, N.J. (evening, circulation
148,143), where he now is vice president/marketing-Savino got
into the field, appropriately, by answering a want ad in a newspa-
per.
Fresh out of St. Peter's College in Jersey City, where he had
earned his tuition with his own photography business-"wed-
dings, wakes, what-have-you"-Savino began working in 1952 at
The Dispatch in Union City, N.J., as a classified advertising
salesman. In 1954, he joined the classified sales staff of The Re-
cord.
"If I had to do it all over again, I would do it exactly the same
way," Savino says of his newspaper career.
But as a young man, he says he had "seriously thought" of be-
coming a priest. He also had harbored some ambitions to become
a police detective, having gotten a taste of that kind of work as the
official police and fire photographer for Fairview, N.J., his car
equipped with a flash-
ing red light and siren.
He later became a vol-
unteer fireman in Ber-
gen County, and he's
still at it, a quarter of a
century later.
But he discovered
early on that newspa-
pering was his first
love. It still is.
A turning point in
his career came 10
years ago when, on the
recommendation of
Malcolm A. Borg,
Frank J. Savino chairman of the board
of the Bergen Evening Record Corp., Savino enrolled in the Har-
vard Business School's Program for Management Development.
"I went up an advertising guy and came back a corporate guy," he
says. He admits, however, that to spend 14 weeks as a college
student at 40 years of age was a "bit of a trauma." He has since
served as chairman of the PMD membership committee at the
Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York.
Borg calls Savino "an absolutely irrepressible optimist" and
says his "whole philosophy of finding the good in every situation
bespeaks of his marketing philosophy as well. If there is a way he
can try to create a better vehicle for an advertiser, he will do it."
In Savino's view, advertising is "the backbone of the newspa-
per. It's what keeps a free press free." At The Record, he reports,
advertising accounts for 80 percent of gross revenues.
"Newspapers can't exist on circulation alone or news alone," he
notes, adding that research shows as many people buy the news-
paper for its advertising as for its editorial content.
Savino has seen many changes in newspaper advertising dur-
ing his career. He says, for example, that Record advertising sales
personnel no longer are looked upon as space sellers, but as "pur-
veyors of ideas" with the "ability to counsel and work with advertis-
ers so they get the most out of the money they spend." He also
says newspaper marketing has taken on a "new meaning," as "old
walls" between departments have "come tumbling down."
"Circulation, unfortunately once overlooked by many pub-
lishers, is now an important part of the total marketing scene," he
continues. The Record recognized this and in 1976 added it along
with research and promotion to his growing list of responsibilities.
Leo Bogart, executive vice president and general manager of
the Newspaper Advertising Bureau, cites Savino's boundless en-
thusiasm and says he "exudes a liking for people to which people
respond."
His enthusiasm extends beyond newspapers and into the
community where he has been chairman of the Bergen County
Cultural Arts Commission. Savino and his wife live in Emerson,
N.J. They have three children. D
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Fellowships offer chance to `retool'
By Elise Burroughs
presstime staff writer
Despite Ben Johnson's dictum, "He that
was taught only by himself had a fool for a
master," career advancement in journal-
ism traditionally has been viewed as an on-
the-job, learn-by-doing experience. Devel-
oping that much-vaunted "nose for news"
was once believed to be the only training a
good reporter ever needed.
Beginning with Harvard's Nieman
Fellowship program in 1938, however, the
idea of mid-career educational "retooling"
has become more and more accepted in
journalistic circles. Today, there is a wide
variety of grants and fellowships available
for the writer or editor who feels he or she is
getting "stale," or who feels the need to
learn more about a special field.
Some programs can be applied to study
at a local university or college; others send
recipients around the world to learn; a few
give the opportunity to rub elbows with the
high and mighty; and a small number offer
the freedom to explore almost anything un-
der the sun.
Following is a summary of many such
programs: ?
? The Nieman Foundation for Jour-
nalism offers 12 journalists from the United
States nine months of study at Harvard Uni-
versity each year.
Applicants must be working journalists
with at least three years' experience with
newspapers, broadcast companies, gen-
eral-interest magazines or news services.
The Nieman Foundation also coordinates
fellowships for six foreign journalists each
year, but those participants are funded
separately from a variety of sources.
Recipients are free to study in all schools
and departments of the university. They
also meet with distinguished figures from
journalism, public service, the arts, busi-
ness and universities to discuss contem-
porary issues.
The fellowship covers academic costs
and a few other fees, but participants or
their employers must pay living expenses
during the leave of absence.
Tenney Lehman, executive director of
the foundation, says the program usually
attracts more than 100 "extremely well-
qualified" applicants.
The deadline for applications is Feb. 1
for the academic year beginning in Sep-
tember. For more information, write the
Nieman Foundation, 1 Francis Ave., Cam-
bridge, Mass. 02138.
? The National Endowment for the
Humanities offers about 24 fellowships to
study for nine months at either the Univer-
sity of Michigan or Stanford University.
The grants include an $18,000 stipend
as well as tuition and a book allowance.
Applicants must be either U.S. citizens or
residents of the United States for five years,
and they must have at least five years' ex-
perience with newspapers, news mag-
azines, wire services, radio or TV news, film
or television documentaries, photojournal-
ism or criticism.
Deadline is March 1; write the National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellow-
ships for Journalists at 3564 LSA Building,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
48109; or at C-14 Cypress Hall, Stanford,
Calif. 94305.
? Since the White House Fellowship
program began in 1965, journalists as well
as lawyers, physicians, academics, busi-
ness managers, engineers, career military
officers, farmers, musicians, police officers
and former state legislators have been of-
fered "firsthand experience in the process
of governing the nation and a sense of per-
sonal involvement in the leadership of so-
ciety."
In evaluating the 1,500 candidates who
apply each year, the selection commission
looks for "high levels of achievement in
one's chosen career or profession, a dem-
onstrated leadership capability, an assem-
blage of skills that would make one a good
special assistant in the short run and a na-
tional leader in the long run, and substan-
tial indications of a commitment to service
to others in the community in which one has
lived."
Beginning each September, 14 to 20
White House Fellows work for a year as
special assistants in cabinet-level agen-
cies, in the Executive Office of the Presi-
dent and with the staff of the vice president.
They also participate in wide-ranging edu-
cational discussions with top government
officials. The positions carry government
salaries of up to $43,554.
Deadline is Dec. 1; write the President's
Commission on White House Fellowships,
P.O. Box 7737, Washington, D.C. 20044.
? Journalists also are eligible for five
Congressional Fellowships, a nine-
month program that begins each Novem-
ber.
After a one-month orientation, fellows
spend four months working with a House
member and four months with a senator
The program is open to U.S. citizens who
have graduated from college and who
have between two and 10 years of experi-
ence in newspaper, magazine, radio or TV
work. A stipend of $12,000 is given for the
fellowship period, and employers are en-
couraged to make up any difference be-
tween that and a participant's salary. The
program for 1981 had about 80 applicants.
Deadline is Dec. 1; write the Congres-
sional Fellowship Program, The American
Political Science Association, 1527 New
Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.
20036.
? Working journalists from the print me-
dia who have some special project they
wish to research or investigate are eligible
for Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow-
ships.
Established in 1965 in memory of the for-
mer editor and publisher of Newsday, the
program awards three to six annual
fellowships of about $18,000 each.
The grants are used for research, living
and travel expenses during the fellowship
period. Recipients may investigate what-
ever they wish; the only stipulation is that
they write six articles during their 12-month
fellowship for the APF Reporter. More than
100 journalists usually apply.
Applications are to be submitted be-
tween June and October to The Alicia Pat-
terson Foundation, 122 East 42nd St., New
York, N.Y. 10017.
? Grants for independent investiga-
tions are also available from the Fund for
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Investigative Journalism.
Administering contributions from a vari-
ety of sources, the fund since 1969 has
helped experienced reporters pursue nu-
merous subjects, including abuses of au-
thority, malfunctioning of public insti-
tutions, environmental hazards and organ-
ized crime. Most projects have involved
print journalists, although some broadcast
investigations have been funded as well.
Grants normally vary between $200 to
$2,000, reports Executive Director Howard
Bray. The number of grants awarded va-
ries from year to year.
Applications are accepted year-round;
write the Fund for Investigative Journalism,
Room 1021, 1346 Connecticut Ave., NW,
Washington, D.C. 20036.
? Opportunities for travel to almost any-
where in the world are open through the
Rotary Foundation scholarships for jour-
nalists between the ages of 21 and 28.
Applicants must be at least secondary
school graduates with two years of full-time
employment as journalists or two years of
study in the communications field. About
75 U.S. residents receive the awards each
year, allowing them to study for nine
months at a university in another country.
The fellowships include round-trip travel
expenses, tuition, books and a living allow-
ance.
Applications are accepted year-round
by Rotary clubs worldwide.
? The Inter American Press Associa-
tion sponsors North American journalists
for study abroad as well as bringing jour-
nalists from elsewhere in the Western
Hemisphere to North America each year.
Seven U.S. journalists were awarded
grants for six to nine months of study in
1980.
Applicants should be fluent in either
Spanish or Portwguese and have three or
more years' experience or at least a jour-
nalism degree.
Deadline is Sept. 1; write the Inter Ameri-
can Press Association Scholarship Fund
Inc., 2911 NW 39th St., Miami, Fla. 33142.
? The Council for the International
Exchange of Scholars also sends journal-
ists around the world to lecture or consult at
universities through the Fulbright program.
The number and type of awards avail-
able depend on the kind of assistance re-
quested by the individual countries
involved. In 1980, 52 applications were re-
ceived for eight positions.
The appointments normally last eight to
nine months; during that time the visiting
journalist can write free-lance articles, al-
though credentials as a working reporter
are not available.
The awards include round-trip travel for
the grantee and one dependent and a
maintenance allowance for the grantee
and family.
Openings usually are announced in
March or April, and those interested can
apply for specific slots through the sum-
mer; write the Council for the International
Exchange of Scholars, Suite 300, 11 Du-
pont Circle NW, Washington, D.C. 20036.
? The Edward R. Murrow Fellowship
for a current or former U.S. foreign corre-
spondent is given annually for a year of
sustained analysis and study of interna-
tional affairs.
Funded by a grant by CBS, the awardee
is given the opportunity to increase his or
her professional competence by in-depth
study at the Council on Foreign Relations in
New York City. "The fellowship is expected
to promote the quality of responsible and
discerning journalism that characterized
the work of the late Edward R. Murrow dur-
ing his life," according to the council.
Deadline is April 1; write the Council on
Foreign Relations, 58 East 68th St., New
York, N.Y. 10021.
? The Journalists in Europe program,
which is partially funded by the European
Common Market, is open to journalists
aged 25-35 who speak English and French
and who have worked at least four years for
a newspaper, news service, magazine or
broadcast station [presstime, Feb. 1980,
p. 181.
Participants live in Paris from October to
June and research and write about Euro-
pean problems and current events. Their
articles are published in a magazine in En-
glish, French or German.
The enrollment fee is 40,000 francs, or
about $9,000 at current exchange rates,
which covers instruction, lecturers, books,
research and travel to gather information.
Travel costs to and from Europe and living
expenses also are the responsibility of
those enrolled or their employers. How-
ever, some scholarships are available.
Deadline is Feb. 1; write Journalists in
Europe, 33, rue du Louvre, F75002 Paris,
France.
? Six Gannett Fellowships are
awarded each year to journalists or recent
journalism school graduates who then
spend a year following an individually tai-
lored course of study among 400 under-
graduate and graduate courses at the
University of Hawaii.
The fellowships were created in 1974 to
"provide a mid-career opportunity for pro-
fessional American journalists to broaden
their understanding of Asian culture," says
Calvin Mayne of the Gannett Foundation.
In addition to the courses and special
seminars, the program includes a short trip
to an Asian country. The fellowships pro-
vide travel costs, tuition and fees, and
$14,500 for living costs.
Deadline is March 1; write the Gannett
Fellowship Committee, Asian Studies Pro-
gram, Moore Hall 315, 1890 East-West
Road, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Ha-
waii 96822.
? In another program for study in Ha-
APME committee reports available
Many of the committee reports re-
leased during the Associated Press Ma-
naging Editors Association's recent
convention are available from the ANPA
Public Affairs Department at The News-
paper Center, Reston, Va.
Those reports are:
? "Minorities and the Press"
? "Writing and Editing"
? "Electronic Publishing: The News-
paper of the Future?"
? "Cable TV: Threat or Opportunity?"
? "Research"
? "The Changing Newspaper"
? "An AP Sports Committee Report"
? "How the AP Covers Sports-State
by State"
? "Freedom of Information Commit-
tee Report"
? "A Close Look at Economic News"
? "Professional Standards"
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waii, between eight and 10 Jefferson
Fellowships are awarded each year to
journalists from Asia, the Pacific Islands
and the United States.
Recipients study and conduct research
for four months at the Communication Insti-
tute of the East-West Center in Honolulu.
The fellowship includes a stipend of about
$2,000, but no assistance is offered for de-
pendents, and awardees must take a leave
of absence from their jobs.
Deadline is May 15; write the Jefferson
Fellow Coordinator, Communication Insti-
tute, 1777 East-West Road, Honolulu, Ha-
waii 96848.
? Each year since 1976, the Ford Foun-
dation has offered five professional jour-
nalists the opportunity to attend Yale Law
School for a year and to earn a master of
studies in law [presstime, May 1980, p.
23].
The fellowships cover tuition and fees.
Associate Dean James W. Zirkle says the
program seeks "good journalists" who
want to learn about law but who do not want
to go through law school. He says the pro-
gram usually has about 30 candidates an-
nually.
Deadline is Feb. 1; write the Yale Law
School, 127 Wall St., New Haven, Conn.
06520.
? Reporters interested in learning more
about business and economics are eligible
for the 10 Walter Bagehot Fellowships
awarded each year at the Columbia Uni-
versity Graduate School of Journalism.
Full-time editorial employees of newspa-
pers, magazines, wire services and broad-
cast stations with at least four years'
experience are eligible, although under
certain circumstances, free-lancers also
are admitted. Journalistic excellence and
the intention to report on matters involving
business and economics are the chief cri-
teria for admission.
Fellows can choose among courses of-
fered at Columbia's graduate schools; they
also participate in weekly seminars and
periodic dinners with distinguished
guests. The fellowship includes full tuition
and a stipend of $14,000 for the academic
year.
Participants usually receive a leave of
absence from their employers and a por-
tion of their salary to supplement the sti-
pend.
Deadline is the first week in April; write
Chris Welles, Director, The Bagehot
Fellowship, Graduate School of Journal-
ism, Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
10027.
? Herbert J. Davenport Fellowships
for four weeks of summer classes at the
University of Missouri School of Journalism
and the Department of Economics are
given each year to 15 experienced editors,
reporters and broadcasters who cover the
business field.
Aside from fundamentals-such as how
to read a financial statement-and eco-
nomic theory, participants spend a day at
the Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis and
participate in a retreat with distinguished
editors and corporate executives.
Applicants must be nominated by their
employers. The grants cover tuition, room,
board, travel expenses and a $200 sti-
pend.
Deadline is March 31; write the Business
Journalism Program, School of Journalism,
University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
65211.
? The Carnegie-Mellon University
Fellowships for Experienced Journalists
and Editors offer North American journal-
ists with at least eight to 10 years' experi-
ence the chance to sit in on a nine-week
mid-career program of courses and dis-
cussions for senior corporate executives.
The annual program, which usually runs
from late February through late April, in-
cludes intensive study in strategic plan-
ning and decision making. The grant
covers expenses and tuition for the course.
Participants must be sponsored by their
SNPA's Stinnett named to ASNE position
Lee H. Stinnett, a former newspaper re-
porter who most recently served as asso-
ciate director of the Southern Newspaper
Publishers Association and the SNPA
Foundation, has been named assistant
project director of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors.
The announcement was made following
a Boston meeting of the ASNE Board.
Stinnett, 41, will locate this month at what
will become the permanent ASNE head-
quarters at The Newspaper Center, Res-
ton, Va.
A native of Madisonville, Ky., he holds
bachelor's and master's degrees in Eng-
employers.
Applications are accepted year-round;
write Bernard P. Goldsmith, Carnegie-Mel-
lon University, CMU Box 10, Pittsburgh, Pa.
15213.
? In still another business-oriented pro-
gram, the American Bankers Association
awards two Hughes Fellowships each
year.
They cover tuition, travel and living ex-
penses, and honoraria for attending a two-
week seminar in June at the Stonier Grad-
uate School of Banking, Rutgers Univer-
sity, New Brunswick, N.J. Instruction in
cludes classes in bank management and
operations, and a seminar in which partici-
pants play the role of bank executive.
Applicants should be U.S. residents with
a minimum of three years' experience in fi-
nancial writing or broadcasting.
Deadline is March 15; write Janell Bauer,
Programs Assistant, The Stonier Graduate
School of Banking, The American Bankers
Association, 1120 Connecticut Ave., NW,
Washington, D.C. 20036.
? The Nate Haseltine Fellowships,
sponsored primarily by the American Med-
ical Association, offer journalists a chance
to study science writing at a college or uni-
versity.
Six such fellowships, ranging from $500
to $1,500 each, were awarded for the cur-
rent academic year by the Council for the
Advancement of Science Writing. Prefer-
ence is given to journalists with two years'
experience.
Deadline is June 1; write William J. Cro-
mie, 618 North Elmwood, Oak Park, III.
60302. ^
lish from the University of Kentucky. Stin-
nett was a reporter for The Times-Picayune
in New Orleans from 1963-64 and The
Charlotte (N.C.) News from 1965-66. He
was development writer and university edi-
tor at Emory University in Atlanta before
joining SNPA in 1970.
ASNE has two other offices, that of Exec-
utive Director Gene Giancarlo at the ANPA
Research Institute, Easton, Pa., and that of
Project Director C.A. "Pete" McKnight at
the Knight Publishing Co. building in Char-
lotte, N.C. ASNE plans eventually to relo-
cate all operations to Reston [presstime,
Aug. 1980, p. 24]. ^
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Report highlights
surveys done by
large, small papers
Details about research conducted by
both large and small newspapers are pro-
vided in a new, three-part ANPA News Re-
search Report.
Kristin McGrath, research director of the
Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co., writes
that her company in 1976 stepped up its
readership program to keep pace with in-
creasing information needs of editors.
Since then, more than 80 surveys involv-
ing 16,000 interviews have been com-
pleted. They have produced information
on a variety of topics, including readers'
content preferences and their attitudes to-
ward the newspaper as a whole.
McGrath says the research shows that
"positive attitudes about aspects of the
newspaper reinforce the propensity to
read regularly and, conversely, negative
ones weaken it. Additionally, the more reg-
ularly a person reads the newspaper, the
more likely he or she is to develop positive
attitudes about it."
The second part of Report No. 29 exam-
ines how Ottaway Newspapers Inc. con-
ducted 11 "do-it-yourself" surveys in 1976-
77, assisted by Syracuse University.
The research was planned and exe-
cuted by Paula Poindexter, then a Syra-
cuse graduate student and now a member
of the University of Georgia School of Jour-
nalism faculty, under the direction of Otta-
way Vice President Robert Van Fleet.
They report that the $90,000 project
netted "immediately applicable informa-
tion" about audience characteristics.
In the third segment, another former Syr-
acuse graduate student, Robin Cobbey,
analyzed the Ottaway data and concluded
that two factors had the most influence on
reader satisfaction: accuracy of content
and balance of good and bad news.
Cobbey now is a news research staff
member of Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Inc.
Copies of the report have been distrib-
uted. Additional copies are available from
the ANPA Public Affairs Department at The
Newspaper Center, Reston, Va. ^
NAB readership survey rates
general news section highest
Sixty-two percent of adult daily newspa-
per readers look at every page each day,
and more than nine in 10 read the general
news section daily.
These are among the key findings of a
recent research project conducted for the
Newspaper Advertising Bureau by the
Simmons Market Research Bureau.
The report was based on information ob-
tained in personal interviews with more
than 15,000 adults nationwide. Those who
identified themselves as daily newspaper
readers were asked which parts of the pa-
per they read regularly. Among 10 content
categories, the general news section
scored the highest-94 percent.
Regular readership of the other nine cat-
egories was reported as:
? Sports news, radio/TV listings, enter-
tainment information and editorial sections
(each 81 percent)
? Comics (79 percent)
? Classified ads (78 percent)
? Food and cooking sections (77 per-
cent)
? Home-improvement/furnishings
pages (76 percent)
? Business pages (75 percent).
The study also found that readership
was consistently higher for adults 35 and
over than for younger age groups, espe-
cially for home-improvement, food and
business information. But readership of the
other categories varied no more than 11
percentage points across all age catego-
ries.
The study found households with annual
incomes of more than $25,000 had the
highest readership of business (80 per-
cent), editorial (83 percent) entertainment
(83 percent) and sports sections (84 per-
cent). Households with incomes of
$10,000-$14,999, however, had highest
readership of classified ads (80 percent),
comics (81 percent), and home-im-
provement sections (78 percent.) House-
holds with incomes of less than $10,000
had highest readership of food sections
and radio/TV listings (80 percent). But the
variations among income levels were less
than seven percentage points for the 10
categories.
Readership differences between the
employed and unemployed varied less
than 9 percentage points. Women who
were not employed or who worked part-
time had higher readership than women
who held full-time jobs, although differ-
ences among the categories were less
than 6 percentage points.
Copies of the 20-page report, "The
Readership of Newspaper Pages and Sec-
tions: Demographic Breakdowns," can be
ordered for $1.50 each from the Research
Department, Newspaper Advertising Bu-
reau, 485 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y.
10017. ^
Readership project planned in U.K.
What might be called the American
newspaper lament-static circulation, de-
creasing penetration and fewer regular
readers-was sounded in a British accent
across the Atlantic last year.
In response, the Newspaper Society
(roughly the British equivalent of ANPA)
started planning a United Kingdom version
of the Newspaper Readership Project. It
has been dubbed a "coordinated pro-
gramme for the development of the news-
paper."
According to a report by J.G.S. Linacre,
chairman of the society's Newspaper
Sales Committee, circulation for British
evening newspapers with more than
100,000 circulation fell 19.2 percent be-
tween 1969 and 1979. And studies have
shown that the reading habits of many Bri-
tons have changed in recent years in ways
that do not bode well for newspapers.
To investigate ways to reverse such
trends, the society set up subcommittees
on research and development, sales and
promotions, training, and systems and
equipment. Their initial recommendations
are expected to be delivered to the socie-
ty's council this month. ^
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The Journal of the American Newspaper Publishers Association
January 1981
index 2
subject index covering
nine editions from
April through
December 1980
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INAE Foundation gives teaching aids to colleges, April, p. 31
[See FREEDOM OF THE PRESS]
NAB reports to its membership, May, p. 12
Retailers are optimistic for 1980s and beyond, May, p. 40
Ad executive suggests ways papers can gain national ads, May, p.
ACQUISITIONS
41
[See NEWSPAPER OWNERSHIP]
Free papers authorized to carry legal ads, May, p. 41
Report aids ad salesman in meeting customers, June, p. 28
ADVERTISING
28% more preprints distributed in '79, June, p. 28
Court upholds utilities' right to advertise, July, p. 37
Classified
Industry-wide FTC rules on "unfair" ads shelved, July, p. 38
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Job ads jumped 25.7% in '79, May, p. 41
Booklet explains Truth-in-Lending ad requirements, July, p. 38
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Northeast, Midwest hit by classified ad drop, June, p. 27
New NAB slide show promotes newspapers, July, p. 38
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Look to 1981 for gains, ANCAM members say, July, p. 36
ANPA names "SAT-FAX" representatives, Aug., p. 20
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Newspapers' role in electronic class ads topic of panel, July, p. 37
Train sales staffs in new skills, INAE told, Aug., p. 29
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Classified ads decline, Aug., p. 28
Corporations pick newspapers for public-issue advertising, Aug.,
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Classified rebounds in June, NAB reports, Sept., p. 30
p.31
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Newspapers see opportunities in electronic classified ads, Oct., p.
Slides teach phone sales, Aug., p. 31
35
New AMA code allows physicians to advertise, Aug., p. 30
NAB updates sales pitches, Sept., p 28
Co-op
Commercial free speech: origin and application, Sept., p. 29
- Possibly one-third of available co-op ad funds not being used, July,
Fair housing ad guides re-issued as regulations, Oct., p. 12
39
SAT-FAX Project forms panels to examine marketing, design, fi-
-
Computer helps Norfolk, Va., newspapers keep track of thousands
nance and law, Oct., p. 23
of co-op plans, Aug., p. 30
CAN ad bureau may begin this year, Oct., p. 34
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FTC will challenge co-op price restrictions as automatic violations,
1981 ad planbook available from NAB, Oct., p. 34
Aug., p. 30
Nearly all inserts delivered, Oct., p. 36
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Coupons
Dealer group says import restraints translate into fewer foreign-car
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Newspapers stung by coupon fraud, June, p. 26
ads, Nov., p. 25
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Audit Bureau of Circulations adopts guidelines for controlling distri-
Supreme Court to review decision banning all outdoor advertising,
bution of newspaper coupons, June, p. 26
Dec., p. 15
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Coupon Bingo: new ad game, Oct., p. 36
AMA seeks review in doctor ad case, Dec., p. 32
NAB devises strategic plan to up ad share, Dec., p. 33
Food
INAE supplies colleges with ad course materials, Dec., p. 50
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FTC to drop two parts of planned food ad rule, May, p. 28
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Newspapers, retailers improve sales strength using NABSCAN,
Sept., p. 28
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Food shopping changes loom
but newspaper ad role secure
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Nov., p 26
ASSOCIATION
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FTC outlines rule on natural foods, Dec., p. 32
Rates
- Court tells Los Angeles Times to justify two-tiered ad system, April,
p.28
- FTC judge sets deadline in LA Times ad case talks, Aug., p. 28
- LA Times settlement may be close, Nov., p. 26
- Times Mirror, FTC settle volume discount dispute, Dec., p. 32
Revenue
- Newspaper ad income up, May, p. 40
- Newspaper advertising rises 16% in first quarter, June, p. 27
Size standards
- National fixed ad-size system being developed, April, p. 28
- Working group formed on standard ad project, Aug., p. 28
- Panel hopes to recommend standard-ad-unit sizes soon, Oct., p.
34
General
- Energy ad funds sought, April, p. 28
- Cigarette warning case nears end, April, p. 29
- Working women: a newspaper selling point that counts, April, p.29
A-2 presstime Index 2
Board of Directors
- Len H. Small killed in car accident in Kankakee, III., April, p. 4
- Katharine Graham to be nominated chairman, April, p. 50
- Board group to visit China, April, p. 55
- Graham elected ANPA chairman, May, p. 17
- Text of Katharine Graham's acceptance speech as ANPA chairman
and president, May, p. 18
- Board authorizes amicus filing, kenaf analysis, May, p. 19
- Kay Graham at ANPA helm: "Progress" is the watchword, May, p.
32
- Bill Cowles: Meeting needs the key to newspapers' vitality, June, p.
16
- Ed Heminger: Newspapers must tell role, earn support, June, p. 16
- ANPA Directors find "friend" in China, June, p. 48
- Garner Anthony: Privileges for press difficult to justify, July, p. 30
- Jack Lake: Meeting threats head-on will preserve papers, July, p.
30
- Punch Sulzberger: Newspapers face a confused future, Aug., p.22
- Margaret Hamilton: placing emphasis on smaller papers, Aug., p.
22
- Robert F. Erburu of Times Mirror Co. elected to Board, Oct., p. 58
- Neuharth fulfills pledge, Oct., p. 58
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William Leick dies at 72, June, p. 50
- Changes urged in news handling at Supreme Court, April, p. 13 -
Retired ANPA librarian receives group's award, July, p. 62
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AT&T's home video plans eyed warily, May, p. 48 -
Teschner to aid SAT-FAX project, Sept., p. 50
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ANPA panel concerned over MacBride Report, May, p. 49
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ANPA committee chairmen, vice chairmen named, May, p. 64 Production Management Conference
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FOI, satellites, kenaf among top ANPA pursuits, May, p. 66 - Exhibitors gear up for Production Conference, April, p. 46
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Comments sought on proposals to change wire-service code, - 13,000 expected to attend Conference, May, p. 55
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Exhibit potpourri valued at $100 million, July, p. 6
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Some of the equipment even talked back, July, p. 7
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News research panel ponders study targets for next year, Dec., p. -
Graham says technology brings new competitive challenges, July,
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Speeches available from Forums '80, July, p. 14
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Convention
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April, p. 51
Exhibitors at 52nd Annual Production Management Conference,
July, p. 20
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Extra exhibit space arranged for'81 Production Conference, Dec.,
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Convention program in brief, April, p. 54
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Newspapers never healthier
Neuharth says in keynote
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"Facts About Newspapers" charts growth of dailies and weeklies in
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Press must avoid negativism, a hopeful Waldheim says, May, p. 15
U.S., Canada, May, p. 63
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Kit on "Elections 1980" available to newspapers, June, p. 29
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Iran coverage praised, May, p. 16 -
Guide to polls and surveys sold in bulk, Oct., p. 31
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How newspapers use "Elections 1980" kit, Oct., p. 37
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ANPA files brief in jobs case, June, p. 11
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ANPA tells UNESCO of MacBride Report dangers, June, p. 14
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Marcos says ANPA speech met objective, June, p. 15
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ANPA buys editorial front-end system, July, p. 62
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the law, May, p. 23
ASNE plans relocation to Newspaper Center when ANPA/RI moves,
p. 24
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PNPA to form liaison committee
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ANPA helping NNA in fiscal crisis, Nov., p. 41
- Board of Trustees changes terms from three to two years, June, p. -
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Youth pages to be listed, July, p. 35
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ANPA Foundation helps J-schools, Sept., p. 8
New members
- April, p. 55
- May, p. 65
- June, p. 50
- July, p. 62
- Aug., p. 50
- Sept., p. 50
- Oct., p. 58
- Nov., p. 50
- Dec., p. 50
General
- New trial date set in antitrust suit over San Francisco papers, April,
p. 13
- Court says antitrust immunity not "grandfathered" by Newspaper
Preservation Act, May, p. 24
- Court upholds ruling that Providence (R.I.) Journal Co. did not vio-
late federal antitrust law, May, p. 25
- Supreme Court refuses to review appeal by Nevada paper, Aug., p.
14
Justice Department probing joint operating pacts, Sept., p. 9
Personnel
- Burke honored by alma mater, April, p. 55
- Cashau appointed ANPA/RI coordinator, April, p. 55
- Renfroe to manage personnel relations, May, p. 65
- Criner to direct telecommunications affairs, June, p. 50
BUSINESS AND FINANCE
[See NEWSPAPERS]
CIRCULATION
[See also POSTAL AFFAIRS)
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Carriers
- A tribute to carriers, April, p. 27
- Adult carriers barred from stuffing sections, April, p. 36
- Albany (N.Y.) newspapers contest alleged FLSA violations, April, p.
39
- Newspapers starting to use more adult carriers, July, p. 40
- 11-year-old carrier wins suit, July, p. 41
- NLRB reverses decision on carriers, July, p. 54
Data systems
- Computerized circulation symposium set, May, p. 39
- How to establish, maintain and use a circulation data base, July, p.
10
- Circulation symposium to include workshops, exhibits, Sept., p. 31
General
- 21 newspapers named winners in Safe Driving Campaign, May, p.
39
- Safe Driving Campaign revisions announced, June, p. 24
- Separating tasks may improve circulation, ICMA speaker says,
Aug. p. 27
- St. Petersburg (Fla.) dailies gain subscribers in new push aimed at
housing complexes, Sept., p. 31
- Bus commuters targeted for on-the-move sales, Sept., p. 31
- ZIP Code audit begun by ABC, Oct., p. 36
Journalism education
- Decline in news-editorial enrollment forecast, April, p. 30
- Florida A&M given funds to strengthen J-program, April, p. 30
- ACEJ survey shows relatively small hike in J-school salaries, April,
p. 31
- INAE Foundation gives teaching aids to colleges, April, p. 31
- 10 Fulbrights available for journalism, May, p. 37
- Student paper made part of Colorado daily, June, p. 29
- Recruiting practitioners for J-school hampered by faculty salaries,
poll shows, June, p. 29
- J-schools try to keep up with change, Sept., p. 4
- ANPA Foundation helps J-schools, Sept., p. 8
- Students form the latest legend for historic Tombstone Epitaph,
Sept., p. 37
- Newsroom needs personnel skills, study shows, Sept., p. 38
- Publisher-Professor Exchange program planned, Nov., p. 48
- Schools set open-door policy for visiting Chinese journalists, Dec.,
p. 28
- ACEJ to be known as "ACEJMC," Dec., p. 31
- INAE supplies colleges with ad-course materials, Dec., p. 50
Minorities
- Workshops are enticing minority students to enter newspaper busi-
ness, May, p. 43
- Penn State seminar set for minority journalists, July, p. 60
- Times-Mirror grants minority scholarships, Sept., p. 39
- To desegregate newsrooms, hire minority editors, Oct., p. 52
Newspaper In Education
Schools in Evansville observe "No Books Day," NIE Week, April, p.
31
NIE statewide endorsements urged, May, p. 42
NIE training seminar set, June, p. 29
- Monthly publication about NIE launched, July, p. 35
- Texas educators ask state legislature for $500,000 for NIE, Sept., p.
39
General
- Nine high school journalists win annual writing contest, May, p. 43
- Kit on "Elections 1980" available to newspapers, June, p. 29
- Youth pages to be listed, July, p. 35
- First Amendment issues to be discussed at AEJ seminar, conven-
tion, July, p. 59
- Newsman to professor: thoughts on transition, Sept., p. 24
- How newspapers use "Elections 1980" kit, Oct., p. 37
- Manuals designed to help teachers use newspapers, Oct., p. 37
- First Amendment essay contest planned, Oct., p. 37
- Teacher challenges technology, Oct., p. 39
- High school in Florida centers civics course on newspapers, Dec.,
p. 31
EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
Arbitration: Discharge, discipline cases
- Two-week disciplinary suspension of pressman upheld, April, p. 36
- Printer improperly suspended for refusing to work overtime, May, p.
46
- Discharge of driver for unauthorized use of truck sustained, May, p.
46
- Three-day disciplinary suspensions of two printers upheld, June, p.
43
- Discharge of circulation district manager sustained, June, p. 43
- Arbitrator finds copy editor met "reasonable" standards, July, p. 57
- One-day disciplinary suspension of district manager upheld, July,
p. 58
- Discharge of pressman for displaying pistol during confrontation
with supervisor upheld, July, p. 58
- Discharge of driver for history of accidents upheld, July, p. 55
- Disciplinary suspension reduced from 21 to six days, Aug. p. 41
- Discharge of district manager for vandalism upheld, Aug., p. 41
- Disciplinary suspension and letter of reprimand upheld in separate
awards, Aug., p. 41
- Discharge for assault on supervisor sustained, Sept., p. 44
- Discharge of pressman and layoff of camera operator upheld, Nov.,
p. 32
- Discharge of circulation department district manager sustained,
Nov., p. 32
- Discharge of driver's helper reduced to six-month suspension,
Nov., p. 32
- Discharge of pressman for breaking web not sustainable, Nov., p.
32
- Discharge for threatening superior sustained, Nov., p. 32
- Dismissal for excessive absenteeism upheld, Nov., p. 32
- Arbiter sets guidelines on absences, Dec., p. 38
- Discharge of circulation employee for theft sustained, Dec., p. 40
- Discharge for sub-standard job performance upheld, Dec., p. 40
- Employee properly discharged before end of probationary period,
Dec., p. 40
- Union upheld in "economy dismissal" of employee, Dec., p. 40
Arbitration: Interpretive disputes
- Adult carriers barred from stuffing sections, April, p. 36
- Company violated contract by eliminating job, April, p. 36
- Responsibilities of make-ready and production crews clarified,
April, p. 36
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Newspaper upheld on assigning work from composing, May, p. 46
Company upheld in manning dispute, May, p. 46
Company did not violate contract by transferring printers, May, p.
46
Printers denied "layoff" pay while plant closed by strike, June, p. 42
Arbitrator directs New York Times to upgrade ad clerk position,
June, p. 43
Publisher did not violate contract by changing work schedule,
June, p. 43
Vacation time two weeks, not three, in first full year of employment,
July, p. 58
Employee not on valid medical leave denied reinstatement, July, p.
58
Hiring of extra printers did not obligate publisher to increase full-
time jobs, July, p. 58
Union's grievance found not arbitrable on grounds of timeliness,
July, p. 58
Company properly denied employee salary-schedule credit for ex-
perience, July, p. 58
Computer maintenance work divided between Guild and ITU, Aug.,
p. 41
Publisher upheld in transfer of employee from composing room to
maintenance department, Aug., p. 41
Pressroom manning requirements eliminated in new contract
award, Aug., p. 41
Foreman upheld in selection of apprentice, Aug., p. 41
Contract provision made effective after expiration date, Aug., p. 41
Company properly deducted unemployment compensation bene-
fits from back pay award, Aug., p. 41
Contract benefits for full-time employees not applicable to part-
timers, Aug., p. 41
Company upheld in transfer of employees from composing to tech-
nical service group, Aug., p. 41
Transfer of printer to night shift and refusal to maintain status quo
did not violate contract, Aug., p. 41
St. Louis Post-Dispatch wins two of three rulings on wage issues,
Sept., p. 43
New contract award in Newark, N.J., covers pressmen until 1983,
Sept., p. 44
Union's grievance not arbitrable because issue did not involve in-
terpretation of contract, Sept., p. 44
Company did not violate contract by assigning computer work to
non-ITU employees, Sept., p. 44
Publisher entitled to lay off journeyman pressman rather than ap-
prentice, Sept., p. 44
Employees on unpaid leaves of absences entitled to paid produc-
tivity leave, Sept., p. 44
Union's past practice claim denied in dispute over scheduling,
Sept., p. 44
Union found liable for $177,844 in damages, Sept., p. 45
VDTs did not substantially change jobs of reporters, copy editors,
Sept., p. 45
Upholds refusal to hire two pressmen, Nov., p. 32
Publisher not required to add pressman to units being converted
from letterpress to offset, Nov., p. 32
Photographer improperly denied opportunity for outside income,
Nov., p. 32
Retraction of resignation upheld, Nov., p. 32
Publisher upheld in selection of employee for promotion, Nov., p. 32
Union's grievance over wage differentials found arbitrable, Nov., p.
32
Sustains union in dispute over press manning, Nov., p. 33
Publisher has right to stagger pressmen's lunch period, Dec., p. 40
- Publisher did not violate agreement in distribution of holiday sec-
tion, Dec., p. 40
- Company upheld in transfer of dockmen, Dec., p. 40
- Company sustained in dispute over paste-up work, Dec., p. 40
- Split decision in two disputes over free-lance work, Dec., p. 40
Contract settlements
- Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Mailers, April, p. 39
- Denver Post, ITU, April, p. 39
- Houston Chronicle and Houston Post, GAIU, April, p. 39
- Houston Chronicle and Houston Post, Mailers, April, p. 39
- Washington Post, Mailers, April, p. 39
- Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, ITU, May, p. 47
- Denver Post, Mailers, May, p. 47
- New York Daily News and New York Times, Mailers, May, p. 47
- Pittsburgh Press, Teamsters, May, p. 47
- Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal, Teamster, June, p. 44
- Akron Beacon Journal, Guild, June, p. 44
- Appleton (Wis.) Post-Crescent, Independent Union, June, p. 44
- Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer and News, Guild, June, p. 44
- Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald and News, Teamsters, June, p. 44
- Leavenworth (Kan.) Times, ITU, June, p. 44
- Pontiac (Mich.) Oakland Press, ITU, June, 44
- Superior (Wis.) Telegram, ITU, June, p. 44
- Brantford (Ontario) Expositor, Guild, July, p. 57
- Lansing (Mich.) State Journal, Guild, July, p. 57
- Ottawa (Ontario) Citizen, Guild, July, p. 57
- Ottawa (Ontario) Journal, Guild, July, p. 57
- Parkersburg (W.Va.) News and Sentinel, ITU, July, p. 57
- Phoenix (Ariz.) Republic and Gazette, Mailers, July, p. 57
- Superior (Wis.) Telegram, ITU, July, p. 57
- Buffalo (N.Y.) Courier-Express, Mailers, Aug., p. 40
- Denver Publishing Co., ITU, Aug., p. 40
- Detroit News, Teamsters, Aug., p. 40
- Phoenix (Ariz.) Newspapers, Pressmen, Aug., p. 40
- Hightstown, (N.J.) Daily Racing Form, Guild, Sept., p. 45
- Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, ITU, Sept., p. 45
- Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury, Guild, Sept., p. 45
- Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch and News Leader, Independent,
Sept., p. 45
- Sheboygan (Wis.) Press, Guild, Sept., p. 45
- Indianapolis Star and News, IPGCU, Oct., p. 43
- San Antonio (Texas) Light, Guild, Oct., p. 43
- Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, Teamsters, Nov., p. 31
- Rocky Mountain News of Denver, Guild, Nov., p. 31
- Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal and Press-Scimitar, Guild,
Nov., p. 31
- Pittsburgh Press, GAIU, IPGCU and ITU, Nov., p. 31
- San Antonio (Texas) Express and News, IPGCU, Dec., p. 42
- San Francisco Bay Area Newspapers, Mailers, Dec., p. 42
Court decisions
- Company upheld on job guarantee issue, April, p. 34
- Former employee's suit over discharge denied, April, p. 35
- Arbiter must adhere to first award, judge rules, April, p. 36
- Members of non-striking unions found eligible for unemployment
compensation, May, p. 45
- Court dismisses pressmen's suit over seniority, June, p. 43
- Chicago daily denied award of legal fees, June, p. 44
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Appellate court upholds NLRB in Tulsa case, July, p. 56
Court overturns NLRB order in Baltimore Sunpapers case, Aug., p.
38
Judge dismisses former employee's suit against Michigan daily
and Teamsters, Aug., p. 39
Court remands equal pay issue, Sept., p. 44
Court orders review of ethics code, Oct., p. 41
Court finds union liable for damages, Oct., p. 47
Judge refuses EEOC request for employees' reinstatement, Nov.,
p. 31
High court denies Teamsters' appeal in joint employer case, Dec.,
p. 38
Appeals court vacates order against Birmingham paper, Dec., p.
39
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Hearing on "equal pay for comparable worth" rescheduled, April, p.
39
- Accuses two SF unions in bias suit, April, p. 39
- Proposes guidelines banning sexual harassment from work place,
May, p. 47
- "Good faith" anti-discrimination efforts to be noted, May, p. 47
- Hears "comparable worth" issue, June, p. 38
- Sues Raleigh newspapers over pay for female district managers
and others, June, p. 39
- Seattle daily and EEOC agree to settle discrimination suit, Oct., p.
43
- Judge refuses EEOC request for employees' reinstatement, Nov.,
31
- Charges publisher with violations of FLSA, Nov., p. 31
- Proposes banning age limit for apprentices, Nov., p. 33
- New policy on religious bias is now in effect, Dec., p. 42
- Washington Post settles sex bias complaint, Dec., p. 42
NLRB decisions
- Judge recommends NLRB order publisher to bargain in 1974 case,
April, p. 37
- Judge favors back pay for mailers, April, p. 38
- Union's bid to represent clerks rejected, April, p. 38
- Union resignation valid, April, p. 38
- Affirmance of NLRB decisions decreasing, May, p. 44
- Judge to hear complaint against three Wilkes-Barre unions, May, p.
45
- Discharge of two supervisors lawful, June, p. 40
- Unions win Nashville decisions, June, p. 40
- Independent contractor status of deliverers decided two ways,
June, p. 41
- Board affirms decision upholding California daily in dispute with
printers, June, p. 41
- Board overturns judge's ruling against SF union, June, p. 42
- Board reverses decision on carriers, July, p. 54
- Board denies printers' claim on VDTs, July, p. 54
- Judge finds suspension unlawful, July, p. 55
- Board affirms ruling against IPGCU local, Aug., p. 39
- Judge rules against publisher in discharge of printer and
pressman, Aug., p. 40
- Union fine ruled not lawful, Sept., p. 41
- Unilateral change in hours violated law, judge rules, Sept., p. 42
- Union wins Nashville decision, Sept., p. 42
- ITU bylaw on resignations found invalid, Oct., p. 44
- Regional director excludes three jobs from Guild unit, Oct., p. 44
- Judge clears publisher in attempt to decertify union, Oct., p. 46
Board picks ITU over GAIU in jurisdictional dispute, Oct., p. 47
Board gives maintenance work to printers, not electricians, Nov., p.
29
Board orders publisher to reinstate 2 employees, Nov., p. 30
Agency orders ITU local not to threaten employee, Nov., p. 31
Publisher lawfully fired supervisors, NLRB panel rules, Nov., p. 31
Board awards electronic work to typographers, Dec., p. 40
Board finds suspension illegal, Dec., p. 40
Three editorial positions excluded from Guild unit, Dec., p. 41
Personnel relations
- Workers' changing values spur new employee-relations focus,
Aug., p. 42
- Personnel systems need good communications, Aug., p. 43
- Employee assistance programs grow, Sept., p. 40
- Newspapers try new methods of in-house communications, Dec.,
p. 43
- Communications systems require management commitment, Dec.,
p. 44
Representation elections
- Everett (Wash.) Herald, Teamster, April, p. 38
- Port Arthur (Texas) News, ITU, April, p. 38
- Muncie (Ind.) Star and Evening Press, ITU, May, p. 45
- Wichita (Kan.) Eagle and Beacon, ITU, May, p. 45
- Pontiac (Mich.) Oakland Press, Teamster, May, p. 45
- Howell (Mich.) Livingston County Press, ITU, June, p. 40
- Provo (Utah) Herald, ITU, June, p. 40
- Terre Haute (Ind.) Star and Tribune, Guild, June, p. 40
- Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle, Teamsters, June, p. 40
- Anniston (Ala.) Star, ITU, July, p. 56
- Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World, ITU, July, p. 56
- Minneapolis Star and Tribune, ITU, July, p. 56
- Pittsburg Press, ITU, July, p. 56
- Toms River (N.J.) Ocean County Times-Observe, IPGCU, July, p.
56
Virginia (Minn.) Mesabi Daily News, ITU, July, p. 56
Yakima (Wash.) Herald-Republic, ITU, July, p. 56
NLRB elections at newspapers 1960-1979, Aug., p. 6
Unions won 45 percent of all NLRB elections, Aug., p. 7
Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, IPGCU, Aug., p. 39
Detroit News, ITU, Aug., p. 39
Philadelphia Journal, Guild, Aug., p. 39
Trenton (N.J.) Times, Teamsters, Aug., p. 39
Trenton (N.J.) Times, Teamsters, Aug., p. 39
Ottawa (Ontario) Journal, Guild, Aug., p. 39
Agana (Guam) Pacific Daily News, IUOE, Sept., p. 42
Atlantic City (N.J.) Press, Teamsters, Sept., p. 42
Houston Chronicle, IAM, Sept., p. 42
New York Daily News, Guild, Sept., p. 42
Traverse City (Mich.) Record-Eagle, Teamsters, Sept., p. 42
Winter Haven (Fla.) Daily News-Chief, ITU, Sept., p. 42
Lockport (N.Y.) Union-Sun and Journal, ITU, Oct., p. 46
Passaic (N.J.) Herald-News, IPGCU and ITU, Oct., p. 46
Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury, Guild, Oct., p. 46
Vallejo (Calif.) Times-Herald, ITU, Oct., p. 46
Allentown (Pa.) Call-Chronicle, Teamsters, Nov., p. 30
Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette and Arizona Republic, IBEW, ITU, Nov., p.
30
Tuscon (Ariz.) Newspapers Inc., UFCW, Dec., p. 41
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times Leader, ITU, Dec., 41
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Strikes
- Southern Ontario Guild strikes Oshawa Times, May, p. 47
- Canadian strikes settled, June, p. 39
- Struck newspaper continues publication without production, edito-
rial employees, June, p. 44
- Guild ends long strike at Monessen, Pa., daily, July, p. 57
- Detroit settlement ends joint logo, Aug., p. 37
- NLRB settlement ends Guild strike, Aug., p. 37
- Guild strikes weekly in British Columbia, Aug., p. 37
- Reuters, Guild reach tentative agreement, Sept., p. 41
- Wilkes-Barre unions sign NLRB bargaining pact, Sept., p. 43
- Canadian paper loses editions in ITU work stoppage, Oct., 43
- Minneapolis papers struck by three unions, Oct., p. 47
- Office workers trained as newsroom fill-ins at Chicago Sun-Times,
Oct., p. 57
- Electronic reuse of news becomes issue, Nov., p. 28
- SEIU strike fails to stop publication, Nov., p. 32
- Vermont daily publishing during strike, Nov., p. 33
- Second union strikes upstate New York paper, Dec., p. 41
Union organization and policies
- Guild, ITU slate 'summit' meetings on merger, April, p. 34
- IPGCU head re-elected, April, p. 34
- Guild-ITU merger stalled, May, p. 45
- Bingel lone candidate for ITU presidency, May, p. 47
- ITU advises membership that Guild merger to be major convention
topic, June, p. 42
- GAIU members approve 50-cent dues hike to hire organizers, July,
p. 58
- Incumbent ITU leaders get new, three-year terms, July, p. 58
- Newspapers, labor enter "new era," Aug., p. 4
- Unions' history in brief: from splitting to merging, Aug., p. 8
- Union membership as a percent of employees, Aug., p. 9
- Other unions at papers: bakers to bartenders, Aug., p. 9
- Guild sets higher top minimum goal, Aug., p. 43
- Guild members voting on new pact with UPI, Aug., p. 43
- Unions organizing white-collar units, Sept., p. 43
- ITU convention renews call for Guild merger, Oct., p. 45
- IPGCU establishes new funds for national organizing drive, Dec., p.
41
White-collar pacts summarized, Dec., p. 42
General
116 of 268 papers have repair crews for electronics, April, p. 35
1979 arbitration awards listed in ANPA digest, April, p. 36
- Albany newspapers contest alleged FLSA violations, April, p. 39
New labor pact at LA Herald Examiner, April, p. 39
16,669 labor disputes submitted to arbitration in 1979, May, p. 47
ANPA files brief in jobs case, June, p. 11
NY deliverers' union head convicted on 124 counts of labor racke-
teering, June, p. 44
Dealers groups sues Portland papers over alleged threats, June, p.
44
ITU members slash work hours to aid Illinois newspaper, July, p. 57
Union leader sentenced for labor racketeering, Aug., p. 37
- Ontario board splits platemaking jurisdiction, Aug., p. 40
Massachusettes papers give union representative seat on board,
Oct., p. 42
- Amendments to retirement law affect multiemployer pensions,
Nov., p. 12
NLRB general counsel defends his pro-labor view, Nov., p. 30
Deliverers' union officials indicted for labor racketeering, Nov., p.
31
Pension law amended, Nov., p. 33
Union violated FLSA, Labor Dept. charges, Nov., p. 33
Nine unions at Cleveland Press agree to concessions demanded
by prospective buyer, Nov., p. 48
OSHA reinstates "walkaround pay" rule, Dec., p. 16
Minimum wage, F.I.C.A. increase, Dec., p. 38
ANPA files amicus briefs in two labor cases, Dec., p. 42
Gasoline rationing/conservation
- Senators ask rationing priority for newspapers, April, p. 15
- Papers to get priority status in rationing plan, June, p. 11
- Congress gets rationing plan containing newspaper priority, July,
p. 22
- Rationing plan should aid all newspaper delivery vehicles, Aug., p.
16
- Standby rationing plan now on the shelf, Sept., p. 9
- Keep gasoline use records now in case rationing is ordered, Oct.,
p. 13
General
- Administration ponders building-temperature law renewal, April, p.
15
- ARCO's Bradshaw sees bleaker energy picture, May, p. 11
- Los Angeles Times official passes along energy tips, May, p. 11
- Ways to save energy studied in workshop, July, p. 14
- Concern over gasoline, other fuels dominates transportation
workshop, July, p. 18
- Building temperature rule may be relaxed, July, p. 22
- House vetoes regulation on natural gas pricing, July, p. 22
- Short course on energy planned for journalists, Sept., p. 50
First Amendment Congress
- Second "Congress" sets future agenda, April, p. 24
- 52 recommendations adopted in Williamsburg, April, p. 25
- 1st Amendment Congress becoming permanent, July, p. 24
- First Amendment essay contest planned, Oct., p. 37
- "FOI Day" resolution passes Senate, Nov., p. 23
Insurance
152 papers buy First Amendment insurance policy, July, p. 59
- Hanson explains coverage of First Amendment insurance, Oct., p.
General
- First Amendment issues to be discussed at AEJ seminar, conven-
tion, July, p. 59
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
[See also WORLD PRESS]
Access to information
- Attorney general drafting bill to limit FOIA, April, p. 14
- Uniform bill on privacy, FOI drafted, April, p. 20
- Survey shows gains in public access to nuclear power info, May, p.
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FOIA spirit sagging as government chips away, June, p. 9
Supreme Court to decide camera-in-courts case, June, p. 11
Massachusettes police must keep daily logs open to public, June,
p. 12
Judge allows preliminary hearing of alleged kidnapper to proceed
behind closed doors, May, p. 25
Attorney argues TV station violated client's right to speedy trial by
its objections to closed preliminary hearing, May, p. 25
Supreme Court refuses to bar Atlanta Constitution from inspecting
public housing records, July, p. 25
Pared-down CIA charter bill passes Senate, July, p. 26
Press hails court's Richmond decision, Aug. p. 10
Excerpts from Supreme Court justices' opinions in Richmond, Aug.,
p. 12
Court papers to be withheld, Aug., p. 14
Consumer Product Safety Commission must let company know
when FOIA request concerning that company is filed, Aug., p. 14
House committee approves bill on agents' disclosure, Aug., p. 15
Strict policy asked for pretrial papers, Sept., p. 21
142 court closings logged since Gannett, Aug., p. 13
Most pretrial hearings must be open, W.Va. Supreme Court rules,
Aug., p. 21
Richmond papers challenge closure of pretrial hearings, Sept., p.
12
Uniform FOI bill drafted, Sept., p. 21
Covert agent bill advances, Sept., p. 22
SDX chapter urges media blackout on effort to get cameras in
court, Oct., p. 15
Press seeks index to court documents, Nov., p. 13
Pennsylvania House tacks restrictions on open-meetings legis-
lation, Nov., p. 15
"FOI Day" resolution passes Senate, Nov., p. 23
ANPA opposes 'piecemeal erosion' of federal FOIA, Dec., p. 15
Supreme Court hears arguments in cameras-in-courts case, Dec.,
p. 15
ANPA urges Justice Dept. to strengthen guidelines limiting court-
room closure, Oct., p. 14
President signs 'graymail' legislation, Nov., p. 12
Court closure guides set by Justice Department, Nov., p. 13
Supreme Court orders Massachusettes high court to reconsider
decision to close sex-offense trial, Nov., p. 13
Political cartoons not defamatory, British Columbia court rules,
June, p. 11
Phoenix Newspapers claim libel by weekly, June, p. 12
Confidential source/reporter's privilege
Ontario may become first Canadian province to restore to letters-to-
the-editor libel law a "fair comment defense," July, p. 25
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ABC gives up Hamilton Jordan story outtakes after sources waive
Green Bay (Wis.) Press-Gazette sued by court official, July, p. 27
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confidentiality, May, p. 24
Denver Post considers appealing court ruling that reporter had no
Alton (III.) Telegraph hit with $9.2 million libel judgment over unpub-
lished memo, July, p. 27
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constitutional privilege to refuse to testify, May, p. 25
Massachusetts high court to hear appeal of reporter found in civil
Illinois daily gets extension in $9.2 million libel case, Aug., p. 21
"Fair comment" defense restored in three provinces, Aug., p. 21
contempt
May
p. 25
Idaho Supreme Court overturns $1.9 million libel judgment, Oct., p.
,
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15
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Proposition 5 in California would add shield to constitution, June, p.
12 - Old nemesis haunts press: Libel suits multiply, rulings sting, Nov.,
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Laws succeed in protecting confidentiality in N.J., Pa., June, p. 12
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New Hampshire newspaper ordered by court to reveal confidential -
Three definitions of libel, Nov., p. 5
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source, July, p. 26
California votes newsman's shield into constitution, July, p. 27 -
Glossary of legal terms pertaining to libel cases, Nov., p. 6
The evolution of the law of libel ... from Sullivan to Hutchinson, Nov.,
-
Reporters held in contempt in confidential source cases, Aug., p.
p. 8
13
Libel insurance available from six different carriers, Nov., p. 10
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Court upholds reporter source confidentiality, Sept., p. 11 -
ANPA joins Supreme Court libel amicus, Dec., p. 14
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Denver Post will not appeal decision that reporters have no consti-
Former celebrities ruled public figures in Tennessee libel suit, Dec.,
tutional privilege to refuse to testify, Oct., p. 15
p. 14
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Student editor refuses to give up photos
17
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U.S. appeals court upholds lower court's contempt citation against
13 Media search
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Nov
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Court dismisses contempt citation against Boston Herald American -
House panel expands search legislation to cover all innocent third
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reporter, Nov., p. 13
Reporter in Idaho seeks delay of contempt fine, Nov., p. 15 -
parties, April, p. 14
New Jersey enacts search law and reporters' notes measure, April,
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Washington court rules newspapers in some cases have right not to
p.20
reveal sources, Dec., p. 15 -
Publisher of Minnesota sex paper deplores lack of media outcry
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Boston Globe columnist fined after refusing to name confidential
over police search, April, p. 20
source, Dec., p. 15 -
Media still seeking search bill, May, p. 28
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Senate Judiciary Committee approves anti-search measure, July,
p
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Alternative paper moves to head off search in Michigan, July, p. 26
Courtroom closure -
Congress poised to approve bill barring search of media, Sept., p.
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Justice policy will support open courts, Civiletti says, April, p. 12
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ABA seminar to study Gannett decision, April, p. 13 -
Search bill nears enactment, Oct., p. 16
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Georgia, Idaho media search cases continue to boil, Oct., p. 17
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New federal law bars surprise police searches of media, Nov., p. 10
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Court declares unconstitutional California law permitting defendant -
Charges against editor lifted in Georgia prison escape case, Dec.,
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Prior restraint
- Utah law requiring newspapers to file statement of ownership be-
fore publishing anything of political nature ruled unconstitutional,
May, p. 25
- Efforts to block publication of stories defeated by two newspapers,
June, p. 11
- Appeals court lifts restraint order against Los Angeles Herald Ex-
aminer, Sept., p. 11
Privacy
- Uniform bill on privacy, FOI drafted, April, p. 20
- U.S. Supreme Court refuses to review invasion-of-privacy case,
May, p. 25
- After judge's death, legislator seeks to curb Wisconsin press, May,
p. 30
General
PBS to air program on press court case, April, p. 13
Media should regulate selves, Sen. Heflin tells NNA meeting, April,
p. 48
- ABA head offers suggestions on easing press-bar tensions, May, p.
12
Student editor scores "stunning" court victory, May, p. 24
- ABA forum scheduled on communications law, May, p. 25
- Court upholds right of school officials to stop distribution of student
paper, July, p. 35
- "Free press" plank urged for party platforms, July, p. 61
- House Judiciary Committee sends criminal code bill to floor, Aug.,
p. 15
- Lobby bill apparently dead, Aug., p. 15
- Maryland chief judge proposes "truth squad" to correct media,
Aug., p. 21
- Supreme Court asked to review 10 media cases, Oct., p. 14
- Bills would protect records of reporters' phone calls, Nov., p. 11
- Man convicted in car-bombing death of Arizona Republic reporter,
Nov., p. 13
- Public's view of free expression probed, Nov., p. 47
- Death penalty given person accused of Arizona Republic reporter's
death, Dec., p. 15
- "Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases" publication sus-
pended, Dec., p. 15
- Press' phone records protected, Dec., p. 16
- Will technology stretch First Amendment too far? Dec., p. 25
- Zenger site now a shrine, Dec., p. 50
- Canada debates new constitution, Dec., p. 50
GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS
Government/legal roundup
- May, p. 20
- Oct., P. 9
General
- The ins and outs of the federal government after the 1980 elections,
Dec., p. 10
INSURANCE
[See FIRST AMENDMENT and NEWSPAPERS)
LABOR
[See EMPLOYEE RELATIONS]
LIBEL
[See FREEDOM OF THE PRESS]
Features
- Hard-to-place children aided by newspapers, April, p. 26
- Children's Express newspaper continues to report and to make
news, May, p. 35
- Comic strip to inform readers about newspapers to debut, Nov., p.
General
- Programs offer journalists education in law, May, p. 23
- New book to help reporters understand the law, May, p. 23
- Use of journalists as agents is wrong-headed CIA policy, May, p. 33
- Newsroom guide to polls sent to ANPA members, May, p. 34
- Editors see more leeway on group-owned papers, May, p. 36
- Paper wins access to background file, May, p. 36
- Survey shows gains in public access to nuclear power info, May, p.
37
- ASNE hits CIA use of journalists, June, p. 24
- Review of "The Reporter and the Law," July, p. 24
- Reflections on the growth of media power, July, p. 31
- News councils: forums for the public, July, p. 32
- Competition fierce for San Jose (Calif.) Mercury and News "Silver
Pen Award," July, p. 34
- Public television to explore press as series subject, July, p. 60
- Can newspapers fill vacuum left by magazines' decline?, Aug., p.
23
- Studies cite dearth of economic coverage, Aug., p. 24
- Survey shows editors divided on handling unnamed sources, Aug.,
p. 25
- Columbia professor Klaw appointed editor of CJR, Aug., p. 26
- Hodding Carter named TV anchor, Aug., p. 47
- M.E.'s today: autocracy out, marketing in, Sept., p. 30
- Economics series for journalists set, Sept., p. 50
- Reflecting on 24 years of chasing candidates, Oct., p. 28
- Survey guide sold in bulk, Oct., p. 31
- IRE to produce book series, Oct., p. 31
- Press dishes it out, but can it take it?, Nov., p. 21
- Kilpatrick stresses clarity, style before NCEW, Nov., p. 22
- AP writing guide to aid newcomers and veterans alike, Nov., p. 22
- Business reporting by various media explored in new Foundation
textbook, Nov., p. 23
- ASNE offers $1,000 in writing contest, Nov., p. 23
- ASNE report reprinted, Nov., p. 23
- Will the press forsake the polls after unforeseen '80 landslide?,
Dec., p. 29
- Census controversies delay reporting, Dec., p. 30
NEWSPAPER OWNERSHIP
Acquisitions/mergers/news dailies/suspensions
Recent acquisitions: April, p. 49; May, p. 63; June, p. 23; July, p. 59;
Aug., p. 47; Sept., p. 49; Oct., p. 56; Nov., p. 46; Dec., p. 49
Hartford dispute settled by court, May, p. 25
Paper's former owner sues Gannett over sale, May, p. 63
New Orleans papers to combine, go all-day, June, p. 24
- New p.m. daily debuts late in New York City, July, p. 59
- Judge tells Gannett to return New Mexico daily to original owner,
Aug., p. 14
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- Panax Corp. plans to sell all of its dailies, weeklies, Aug., p. 46
- Judge to decide details of New Mexican return, Sept., p. 12
- Prospective buyer, Teamsters negotiate on Cleveland Press, Sept.,
p. 49
- Panax votes on liquidation plan, Sept., p. 49
- Judge to determine how Gannett will return ownership of The New
Mexican, Oct., p. 15
- Upheaval hits Canada's newspapers, Oct., p. 50
- Union agreement aids Cleveland Press, Oct., p. 56
- Panax Corp. liquidation OK'd by stockholders, Oct., p. 56
- Aug. 18: the final Wall Street Final?, Oct., p. 56
- New Chicago p.m. may be in offing, Oct., p. 56
- Nine unions at Cleveland Press agree to concessions demanded
by Cole, Nov., p. 48
Joint operating agreement
- Joint operation sought by dailies in Chattanooga, Tenn., May, p. 28
- Civiletti urged to veto agreement at Chattanooga, June, p. 10
- Attorney general seeks more facts on Chattanooga bid, July, p. 22
- Aides answer Civiletti on Chattanooga, Aug., p. 16
- Justice Dept. probing joint operating pacts, Sept., p. 9
- Civiletti OKs Chattanooga agreement, Dec., p. 16
Media concentration
- Analysts see no benefit in more media regulation, April, p. 16
- Editors say more leeway on group-owned papers, May, p. 36
Media cross-ownership
- Three combinations win FCC extension, April, p. 16
- Providence (R.I.) Journal subsidiary cleared for six cable bids,
May, p. 30
- Times Mirror Co. ordered to divest newspaper or two Connecticut
cable franchises, May, p. 30
- Massachusetts paper protests ruling on cable eligibility, July, p. 27
- Panel endorses bill on cross-ownership, Aug., p. 15
- FCC wants to split local broadcast/cable firms, Aug., p. 16
- Newspaper/cable divestiture delayed by Connecticut judge, Aug.,
p. 21
- Effort to repeal newspaper/CAN ban "running into trouble" in Min-
nesota, Oct., p. 17
- House passes legislation banning new common ownership of
newspapers and broadcast stations in same community, Nov., p.
12
NEWSPAPERS
Business and finance
- Court refuses McGoff's request to delay submitting documents,
April, p. 13
- COWPS adopts pay standard, April, p. 16
- Newspaper financial-planning methods explored, May, p. 12
- A newspaper guide to copyright law, May, p. 26
- Analysts hear upbeat reports of newspapers, May, p. 62
- "Facts About Newspapers" charts growth of dailies and weeklies in
North America, May, p. 63
- Murdoch denies link between loan, New York Post's endorsement
of Carter, June, p. 23
- Newspapers plan 32 percent capital spending hike, June, p. 37
- Inland's cost study results published, July, p. 60
- SBA newspaper loans topic of Senate hearing, Aug., p. 15
- For ANPA Credit Bureau Inc., the recession means business, Aug.,
p. 48
How news business lobbyists put their press on Congress, Sept., p.
14
Tale of one paper's quieter pitch to Congress, Sept., p. 16
Sharply differing views on political action committees for the media,
Sept., p. 19
Amendments to retirement law affect multiemployer pensions,
Nov., p. 12
Wage, price council examines newsprint increases, Nov., p. 34
Circulation [See CIRCULATION]
Design
- "Design" magazine debuts, April, p. 49
- Design changes might not save on production, July, p. 11
- Editors survey body type styles, sizes, July, p. 34
- Graphic strategy outlined for newspapers, Oct., p. 30
Electronic technology
- Technology: It can be bane-or blessing-for newspapers, May, p.
10
- New electronic media: Better to face them than to duck them, June,
p. 17
- The past is littered with electronic flops, June, p. 21
- Graham says technology brings new competitive challenges, July,
p. 8
- Technical service shortage growing worse for newspapers, July, p.
10
- Neglected in recent technological boom, mailrooms now receiving
some attention, July, p. 13
- Newspapers face choice in automating libraries, July, p. 15
- Pagination: The next newsroom breakthrough, July, p. 18
- Preparing for the day the computer goes 'poof,' Aug., p. 34
- Teacher challenges technology, Oct., p. 39
- Lasers in printing: Lighting the way to a graphic future, Oct., p. 40
- Fiber optics: offering a faster way to transfer more data, Nov., p. 39
- Electronics boom a gamble or sure bet?, Dec., p. 4
- Officials of England's "electronic newspaper" predict no early de-
mise of print media, Dec., p. 6
- Attempting to bridge the information gap, Dec., p. 8
- Microwave relay: a radio-wave highway for moving the news, Dec.,
p. 37
Equipment/machinery/processes
116 of 268 papers have repair crews for electronics, April, p. 35
Lighting changes enhance VDT usage, April, p. 40
Photo supply prices ease as silver cost drops, May, p. 50
Silver still best photographic emulsion, but some processes cir-
cumvent its needs, May, p. 50
Newspapers turn to recovery of silver, May, p. 51
On-line inserter installed at first U.S. newspapers, May, p. 54
- Good news for a change: aluminum seen stable, June, p. 23
- Market for portable VDTs expanding, June, p. 30
Investment credit also applies to equipment produced abroad,
June, p. 36
Newspapers plan 32 percent capital spending hike, June, p. 37
Exhibit potpourri valued at $100 million, July, p. 6
Era of electronic camera approaches, July, p. 9
- Chicago Sun-Times sues manufacturing company for negligence
and misrepresentation, July, p. 25
Copley Press donates equipment to Belize paper, July, p. 29
- TRS-80 adapted for editorial, display ads, Sept., p. 35
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- Preparing multiple zoned pages with one paste-up, one negative,
July, p. 43
- Book "tells all" in newspaper equipment field, Sept., p. 35
- Typesetting equipment loan approved, Sept., p. 50
- Getting $10 worth of work from every $1 in computer equipment,
Nov., p. 38
- Protect the computer, and it will protect you, Nov., p. 46
- New reporttracks increase in usage of VDTs and OCRs, Dec., p. 36
Free circulation publications
- Free papers authorized to carry legal ads, May, p. 41
- Shoppers: a successful tool for market saturation, Oct., p. 5
- Newspapers of various sizes hike penetration with free publica-
tions, Oct., p. 6
- Former shopper, now a daily, swings full circle, Oct., p. 8
Insurance [See also FIRST AMENDMENT]
- MarketDyne pays insurance dividends, July, p. 62
- Libel insurance available from six different carriers, Nov., p. 10
Minority employment
- To desegregate newsrooms, simple: Hire minority editors, Oct., p.
52
- Fewer black newspapers serving U.S. readers, Oct., p. 54
- New York Times agrees to $549,000 settlement in bias suit, Oct., p.
54
- Ways newspapers can assure diversity, no unintended bias, Oct.,
p. 55
- Black journalists' group plans to compile census, add staff, Nov., p.
48
- Slide show highlights achievements by blacks, Nov., p. 48
Personnel
- Len H. Small killed in car accident in Kankakee, Ill., April, p. 4
- Nebraska's Harold Andersen: global view of press freedom, April,
p. 22
- Kay Graham at ANPA helm: "Progress" is the watchword, May, p.
32
- 20 years a professor, Ed Bassett returning to newspapering, Sept.,
p. 23
- Newsman to professor: thoughts on transition, Sept., p. 24
- Editor Percy Qoboza: His golden pen comes to America, Oct., p. 26
- John Morton: charting who's up, who's down in newspaper indus-
try, Nov., p. 20
- Seeking to get away from the hubbub, publisher, wife see dream
trip sink away, Nov., p. 49
- Mike O'Neal: Death threat, boycott keep his juices flowing, Dec., p.
24
Printing/presses
- Rather than dump "scrap" ink, Florida newspapers reclaim it, April,
p. 43
- St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times and Evening Independent ink reclama-
tion system, April, p. 43
- Ink disposal is expensive, troublesome, April, p. 44
- Presses: Technology is catching up, June, p. 4
- ANPAPRESS: U.S. manufacturers begin to adopt the technology of
lightweight unit, June, p. 6
- "Cutoff" a key factor in choosing new press, June, p. 33
- ANPAPRESS adaptations: Gloucester, N.J., single width press,
Boston double-width letterpress press, June, p. 34
- Most papers in survey favor direct-screen color separation, June,
p. 37
- New press technology examined, July, p. 17
- Commercial printing offers both revenue, risks, July, p. 42
- ANPA/RI adds specialists to study non-oil inks, Aug., p. 35
- Offset and DiLitho: a perfect marriage for Bridgeport Post, Sept., p.
34
- Ink-jet printing: its process, promise, Sept., p. 36
- Commercial jobs keep presses humming, Oct., p. 38
- ANPA/RI survey details extent of trend toward offset printing, Oct.,
p. 39
- ANPA Research Institute expanding test services, Nov., p. 40
- ANPA describes pressroom safety at OSHA meeting, Dec., p. 16
- New color ink standards developed, Dec., p. 35
- Precise color blending depends on weight, Dec., p. 35
Promotion
- Print promotion material available, April, p. 49
- Newspaper Week observance Oct. 12-18, Oct., p. 57
- INPA bibliography lists useful sources, Nov., p. 46
- Comic strip to inform readers about newspapers to debut, Nov., p.
48
Readership Project promotional ads seek daily readers, Dec., p. 31
General
FEC regulates newspapers on debates, April, p. 16
"Good friends" help after Raleigh fire, April, p. 48
News Council raps Synanon on letters, April, p. 49
Fired, they sue publisher, April, p. 49
Summer start-up slated for New York Times Midwest edition, May,
p. 62
Post-census help sought from newspapers, June, p. 24
Standard Metals Corp. sues publishing company alleging violation
of disclosure requirements, July, p. 25
- Court finds conspiracy charges against Barron's baseless, July, p.
25
- American Press Institute asks papers for data on internal commu-
nications, July, p. 61
Dailies vying for bigger bite of Big Apple, Aug., p. 46
Public spends billions on daily, Sunday papers, Sept., p. 31
Newspapers treated in summary fashion, Sept., p. 48
Comments sought on proposals to change wire-service code,
Sept., p. 50
- Court rules Standard Metals Corp. failed to show publishing com-
pany violated disclosure requirements, Oct., p. 15
- Atlanta papers fight order barring vending-machine sales, Nov., p.
15
- New headache for papers: crime, security, Nov., p. 44
- Syndicate "star system" returns with Bendix saga, Nov., p. 47
- The beat goes on for P.M.s to A.M.s, Dec., p. 48
Consumption
- Consumption continues to climb, April, p. 56
- Quarterly consumption up, May, p. 60
- April consumption declines, June, p. 46
Survey shows Arkansas led in 1979 growth, July, p. 50
Consumption declines again, July, p. 51
- Consumption declines third straight month, Aug., p. 45
- Consumption declines again in July, August, Oct., p. 48
- Consumption for letterpress up .7 percent in 1979, Nov., p. 36
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- Slump in consumption continues in Sept., Nov., p. 37
- 1981 consumption seen at 1979's record level, Dec., p. 45
- Consumption slides fourth straight month, Dec., p. 46
- Offset consumption soars by 39.1 percent in 1979, Dec., p. 47
Forecasts
- More mill capacity brightens newsprint picture, Udell says, July, p.
12
- A glowing appraisal for newspapers and newsprint capacity, July,
p. 52
- Slump forecast for Canada's paper industry, Nov., p. 34
- Newsprint capacity growth forecast at 2.6 million tons, Nov., p. 35
Labor
- Contract talks set April 9, April, p. 57
As contracts in Canada expire, talks and mill work continue, May, p.
59
- CPU, eight Canadian newsprint companies break off negotiations,
June, p. 45
- United Paperworkers and Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers begin
merger negotiations, June, p. 47
- International Paper Co. reaches agreement with two unions to im-
prove productivity, June, p. 47
- CPU, Abitibi-Price talks break down; strike looms, July, p. 49
- Talks resume, but mill strikes go on, Aug., p. 44
- CPU-Abitibi settlement ends strike at six mills, Sept., p. 46
- Unions, newsprint companies reach agreement, Oct., p. 48
- Strikes continue at two Abitibi mills in Quebec, Nov., p. 35
- Two mill strikes continue in Quebec, Dec., p. 45
Machines and mills: Shutdowns/start-ups/expansions
- Ontario Paper Co. to modernize and expand its newsprint mill,
April, p. 58
- Consolidated-Bathurst to invest $32.4 million to speed up a paper
machine, April, p. 58
- Consolidated-Bathurst's newsprint mill the first in Canada to oper-
ate three twin-wire, wetend formers, April, p. 58
- British Columbia cabinet approves plan to phase out Ocean Falls
Corp.'s mill, April, p. 58
- Noranda Mines Ltd. acquires interest in Maclaren Power & Paper
Co., April, p. 58
- Newsprint mill projects to add 2.2 million tons of capacity, May, p.
59
- Canadian International Paper Co. to modernize, expand its New
Brunswick mill, May, p. 61
- Southwest Forest Industries holds off conversion of Kraft linerboard
machine, June, p. 47
- Cooperative newsprint mill to be built in Mississippi, July, p. 49
Boise Southern Co. has new newsprint machine in Louisiana, July,
p. 49
- Donohue Normick Inc. provided grant by Canadian government for
construction of newsprint mill, July, p. 49
- Canadian International Paper to sell 33 percent of equity in its New
Brunswick International Paper Co., July, p. 49
- Volcano aftermath shuts mills, July, p. 50
Donohue Malbaie Inc. to purchase new winder for paper machine,
Aug., p. 44
- Great Lakes Forest Products receives modernization grant for two
mills, Aug., p. 44
- Publishers Paper Co. starts up second line of new de-inking facili-
ties, Sept., p. 46
Southwest Forest Industries to start conversion of linerboard ma-
chine to newsprint, Sept., p. 46
Quebec to invest $101.4 million in new mill, Oct., p. 49
Ontario Paper Co. and Consolidated Fibres establish joint venture
company, Nov., p. 36
British Columbia Forest Products, Doman Industries and Whon-
nock Industries to purchase Rayonier Canada, Nov., p. 36
Canadian government to grant additional $37 million to mills in east-
ern Canada, Nov., p. 36
Southeast Paper Co. conducting feasibility study for new newsprint
machine, Nov., p. 36
Amalgamation of Reed Paper approved, Nov., p. 36
Map of newsprint mills still available from ANPA, Nov., p. 36
Consolidated-Bathurst to build $200 million newsprint mill, Dec., p.
45
Canadian International Paper Co. starts up rebuilt paper machine,
Dec., p. 45
Price Co. agrees to sell interest in jointly owned newsprint machine,
Dec., p. 45
Price Increases
- Four more companies to increase prices to $435-$456 per metric
ton, April, p. 57
- COWPS review of hikes won't start before July, May, p. 61
- Bowater announces hike to $457.50 per metric ton, Sept., p. 46
- International Paper ups price to $470 a ton, Oct., p. 49
- Seven more newsprint firms announce price boosts, Nov., p. 34
- Wage, price council examines newsprint increases; guideline vio-
lations possible, Nov., p. 34
Pulp substitutes
- "Sugar cane newsprint" to be tested in Cuba, June, p. 45
- Fresno State begins kenaf growth test, July, p. 50
Recycling
- Eight N.J. towns begin mandatory program to recycle newsprint,
May, p. 61
- N.J. legislature to receive statewide recycling plan, Aug., p. 21
General
- International Paper Co. to sell newsprint by area, not weight, April,
p. 57
- British Columbia Forest Products successful bidder for logging
company, April, p. 58
- Newsprint shipped by rail often entitled to free delivery from track to
plant, April, p. 58
- British Columbia Resources Investment Corp. agrees to purchase
interest in MacMillan Bloedel, April, p. 58
- Knight-Ridder opposes basis-weight reduction, May, p. 58
- Abitibi-Price to become first Canadian newsprint manufacturer to
use pelletized waste wood as fuel source, May, p. 61
- Three-month financial reports of paper companies, June, p. 45
- Reforestation in Ontario areas to shift from province to paper com-
panies, June, p. 47
- World newsprint demand jumped 3.7 percent last year, July, p. 49
- Reed Paper Ltd.'s board approves reorganization plan, Aug., p. 44
- Canadian International Paper Co. receives award for pulp-making
process, Aug., p. 44
- Newsprint and the shrinking newshole, Sept., p. 46
- Six-month financial report of paper companies, Sept., p. 46
- Caliper measurement resumes, Sept., p. 47
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- Nine-month financial reports of paper companies, Dec., p. 45
- Newsprint Statistics 1979 now available, Dec., p. 45
General
- Study offers newspapers "fine tuning" tips to meet needs of readers
and potential readers, June, p. 25
- Readership linked to accuracy, balance, June, p. 25
- Graphic strategy outlined for newspapers, Oct., p. 30
- New study discusses reader preferences among business, sports
and foreign news, Oct., p. 31
- Many occasional readers discovered in massive survey of 54,000
readers, Oct., p. 31
- News research panel ponders study targets for next year, Dec., p.
30
OSHA
(Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
[See SAFETY/HEALTH]
POSTAL AFFAIRS
Delivery schedules
- ANPA opposes move to end Saturday mail, April, p. 19
- Postal budget cuts could raise rates plus end six-day delivery, May,
p. 29
- End near for six-day mail?, June, p. 13
- House panel proposes to keep six-day mail, July, p. 26
- House defers decision on six-day mail funding, Sept., p. 10
Postal Service
- Publishers study USPS plan for voluntary, 9-digit ZIP Code, April, p.
19
- $250-million cut in postal subsidies asked, Aug., p. 19
- Postal Service may "localize" 51-percent rule after protests, Sept.,
p. 10
- Bolger OKs incentives for expanded ZIPs, Oct., p. 15
- New rules set on use of mailboxes, Oct., p. 16
- USPS will drop 51-percent rule, Nov., p. 14
- Problems mount for newspapers and mail, Dec., p. 18
Rates
- Next phased rate increase due in July, May, p. 29
- USPS board proposes changes in second-class rate schedule,
June, p. 13
- PRC recommends "red tag" surcharge, June, p. 13
- USPS board votes end to free "red tag" handling, Aug., p. 19
- ANPA requests intervenor status in "red tag" appeal, Sept., p. 10
- ANPA opposes postal categories merger, Nov., p. 14
- International air-mail rates to jump 65 percent, Nov., p. 14
- Uncertainities surround "red tag" surcharge, Dec., p. 19
- Outlook for next year: three rate hikes ahead, Dec., p. 21
General
- Canada's Liberals may reintroduce postal reform bill, May, p. 29
- A Johnny Carson zinger, May, p. 29
- Bolger to probe reports USPS faulted newspapers, Aug., p. 19
- Nation's top postman says he wants to keep papers as customers,
Dec., p. 22
PRESS ORGANIZATIONS
[See also ANPA]
General
- Glossary of communications and press organizations, April, p. 8
- Media should regulate selves, Sen. Heflin tells NNA meeting, April,
p. 48
- NNA's Cuban study mission set, April, p. 48
- AP elects, re-elects seven to board, May, p. 7
- AP devotes annual meeting to preparations for "the satellite era,"
May, p. 8
- NAB reports to its membership, May, p. 12
- UPI unveils satellite program with rebates for purchasers, May, p.
13
- UPI correspondents assess balance of power, May, p. 13
- Boston Globe's Winship sets priorities for 1980-81 ASNE presi-
dency, May, p. 34
- IPI scores MacBride Report's theme tying media to government,
June, p. 14
- AP delays purchase of satellite receiving dishes after RCA petition,
June, p. 22
- UPI's Beaton urges media support of two wires, June, p. 23
- Ombudsmen of the world unite, June, p. 24
- ASNE hits CIA use of journalists, June, p. 24
- Look to 1981 for gains, ANCAM members say, July, p. 36
- New NAB slide show promotes newspapers, July, p. 38
- AP, 11 newspapers, CompuServe to offer home-computer informa-
tion experiment, July, p. 45
- UPI offers newspapers local CAN news outlet, July, p. 45
- American Press Institute asks papers for data on internal commu-
nications, July, p. 61
- ASNE plans relocation to Newspaper Center when ANPA/RI moves,
Aug., p. 24
- Separating tasks may improve circulation, ICMA speaker says,
Aug., p. 27
- Train sales staffs in new skills, INAE told, Aug., p. 29
- Building expansion allows increase in API seminars, Aug., p. 33
- IFRA Congress set, Aug., p. 35
- Bill Mullen resigns as NNA staff head, Aug., p. 48
- ANPA, PNPA to form liaison committee, Oct., p. 58
- Two press association managers die, Nov., p. 15
- AP writing guide to aid newcomers and veterans alike, Nov., p. 22
- API dedicates new addition, Nov., p. 27
- ANPA helping NNA in fiscal crisis, Nov., p. 41
- Bailey, Street take NNA helm, Nov., p. 42
- INPA bibliography lists useful sources, Nov., p. 46
- Black journalists' group plans to compile census, add staff, Nov., p.
48
- IAPA describes threats to press freedom, Dec., p. 28
- ANPA, ASNE and APME will team up to help editors build manage-
ment skills, Dec., p. 34
- Press associations: changes in command, Dec., p. 50
RAILROADS
[See TRANSPORTATION]
Newspaper Readership Project
- NRP budget set at $958,700 for FY 1980-81, May, p. 38
- Readership Council members listed, Oct., p. 32
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- Readership Project promotional ads seek daily readers, Dec., p. 31
General
Advertising
- South Dakota legislature again defeats proposal to levy advertising
-
TV viewing at record high, April, p. 48
tax, April, p. 20
-
Newspapers: aid to family conversation, May, p. 38 -
Newfoundland's ad tax to get court challenge, May, p. 41
-
Single-copy buying not "on impulse," new study shows, May, p. 39 -
Florida press expects revival of battle over ad sales tax, July, p. 27
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Eight of 10 Floridians read a daily pa
er
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Study offers newspapers "fine tuning" tips to meet needs of readers Estate
and potential readers, June, p. 25 -
ANPA to cosponsor seminar on estate planning, April, p. 54
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Readership linked to accuracy, balance, June, p. 25 -
Estate tax bill doesn't go far enough, publisher tells Senate finance
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Voters more likely to read newspapers, June, p. 25
panel, Sept., p. 22
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CDNPA publishes do-it-yourself guide to reader surveys, Sept., p. -
Rob Small to head newspaper tax law panel, Oct., p. 16
31 -
First estate planning seminar provides guides on valuations, Dec.,
-
Study finds similarity in readership interests, Sept., p. 31
p. 34
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and foreign news, Oct., p. 31 -
Wisconsin officials stop trying to levy sales tax on front-end sys-
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Many occasional readers discovered in massive survey of 54,000
tems, May, p. 30
readers, Oct., p. 31 -
Newsprint, ink tax overturned in Minn., July, p. 27
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Sunday newspaper: for reading and relaxing, Oct., p. 32 -
New treaty allows U.S. taxpayers to take deductions for meetings
-
Panel ponders study targets for next year, Dec., p. 30
attended in Canada, Nov., p. 12
-
Minnesota court to rule on newsprint, ink tax, Nov., p. 15
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Carcinogens
p. 15 Cable TV
ANPA, others monitoring OSHA carcinogenic rules
April
,
,
Supreme Court rules OSHA overstepped bounds by tightening
workplace exposure limits to benzene, Aug., p. 14
- ANPA officials queried on new cable network, July, p. 17
- Mass. paper protests ruling on cable eligibility, July, p.27
- UPI offers newspapers local CAN news outlet, July, p. 45
- CAN ad bureau may begin this year, Oct., p. 34
OSHA Inspections
- What to do when OSHA pays a visit
July
p
23
Electronic home Information transfer
,
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,
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- Bill to limit inspections hits snag in committee, July, p. 23
AT&T's home video plans eyed warily, May, p. 48
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ANPA opposes OSHA proposal to inspect without prior notice,
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Aug., p. 16
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OSHA reinstates "walkaround pay" rule, Dec., p. 16
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NIOSH study on VDTs delayed, May, p. 47
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Washington Post, Star to participate in teletext system, July, p. 45
AP, 11 newspapers, CompuServe to offer home-computer informa-
tion experiment, July, p. 45
All signs point to home-computer revolution, July, p. 46
Eyes on Texas as AT&T plans test in Austin, Dec., p. 17
NIOSH: another dish of federal alphabet soup for newspapers,
Satellites
A
17
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ug., p.
- Joint Satellite Task Force transmits report to boards, April, p. 21
NIOSH considers rest intervals for VDT workers, Aug., p. 17
- AP devotes annual meeting to preparations for "the satellite era,"
Tests disclose no link between birth defects, Toronto VDTs, Sept.,
May, p. 8
- UPI unveils satellite program with rebates for purchasers, May, p.
13
General
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- AP delays purchase of receiving dishes after RCA petition, June, p.
Court rules on work hazards
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22
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Lighting changes enhance VDT usage
April
p. 40
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Test planned for national ad fax system
July
p
44
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OSHA issues rules on medical records
June
p. 10
,
,
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ANPA names 'SAT-FAX' representatives
Aug
p
20
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EPA drops effluent standards affecting newspapers
p. 10
July
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Dow Jones to expand transmissions by satellite
12
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ANPA/RI reviews waste hazard form sent to newspapers
July
p. 62
,
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,
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Transmissions by satellite: pages today
wire news tomorrow
ads
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Meeting the challenge of toxic regulations
Aug.
p. 36
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in the future
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Rule on health records to take effect
p. 13
Oct.
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An explanation of the AP and UPI systems
Oct
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22
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ANPA describes pressroom safety at OSHA meeting
Dec.
p. 16
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SAT-FAX Project forms panels to examine marketing, design, fi-
nance and law, Oct., p. 23
STRIKES
[See EMPLOYEE RELATIONS]
General
- Technology: It can be bane or blessing for newspapers, May, p. 10
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IPTC calls for "reasonable return" rates for world telecommunica-
tions services, June, p. 22
Graham says technology brings new competitive challenges, July,
p. 8
Experts see threat, promise in telecommunications devices, July, p.
16
Legislative activity focusing on AT&T deregulation bills, July, p. 44
Telecommunications deregulation moves ahead, Aug., p. 20
New delays could thwart AT&T bill this Congress, Sept., p. 12
Rep. Wirth: "We need more voices ... not fewer," Sept., p. 13
AT&T asks permission to end "Telpak" rate, Oct., p. 13
Doubt grows on 1980 passage of deregulation, Oct., p. 23
Newspapers eye new, low-power TV-station plan, Nov., p. 14
Wirth amendment faces tougher fight next year, Nov., p. 16
Task forces to focus on specifications, marketing, training, Nov., p.
17
Attempting to bridge the information gap, Dec., p. 8
Will technology stretch First Amendment too far?, Dec., p. 25
Motor carriers
- Many Canadian provinces adopt new bill-of-lading terms for truck
shipments, April, p. 17
- Manuals for private truck operators available, April, p. 17
- ICC increases fuel-recovery surcharge for truckload traffic, April, p.
17
- Order forms for truck fleet safety materials available from ANPA,
May, p. 62
- Rail, truck deregulation advances on Capitol Hill, May, p. 62
- Greyhound to seek rate hike, July, p. 35
- Congress passes bill which substantially deregulates trucking in-
dustry, July, p. 35
- ICC lowers fuel-recovery surcharge for truckload traffic, Aug., p. 49
- Transportation Department allows a driver-log exemption, Aug., p.
49
- Greyhound and Trailways eliminate unprofitable bus service, Oct.,
- Hertz Corp. states cost of driving rose 3.8 cents a mile in 1979, Oct.,
p. 33
- Kit available on how to develop program to curb tailgating, Oct., p.
33
- Greyhound, 13 other lines hike rates for newspaper, Nov., 27
Railroads
- Milwaukee Road scales down service, April, p. 17
- Judge denies creditors' requests to liquidate Milwaukee Road,
April, p. 17
General
- Bankrupt Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad scheduled to
- ABA seminar to study Gannett decision, April, p. 13
end service, April, p. 17
- Papers expand training programs, April, p. 32
- Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific sign final merger agreement,
- 116 of 268 papers have repair crews for electronics, April, p. 35
April, p. 17
-
ANPA to cosponsor seminar on estate planning, April, p. 54
- U.S. Railway Association approves funding for Delaware & Hudson
-
Program offers journalists education in law, May, p. 23
and Conrail, April, p. 17
-
Ford Foundation to stop sponsoring press/law seminars, May, p. 24
- ICC says railroads must earn 11-percent return on net investment,
-
ABA forum scheduled on communications law, May, p. 25
April, p. 17
-
Management skills to be focal point of Texas seminar, May, p. 63
- Two-percent freight-rate increase levied, April, p. 17
-
Computerized circulation symposium set, May, p. 39
- Rail, truck deregulation advances on Capitol Hill, May, p. 62
-
NIE training seminar set, June, p. 29
- Sixteen railroads providing interim service on parts of Rock Island
-
Executive seminar re-slated, June, p. 50
railroad, May, p. 62
-
Technical service shortage growing worse for newspapers, July, p.
- Judge clears way for Milwaukee Road to borrow $30 million, May, p.
10
- Colorado plans seminar for women managers, July, p. 60
- Marketing seminar to have new instructor, July, p. 60
- Penn State seminar set for minority journalists, July, p. 60
- Conference for young people gives broad newspaper view, Aug.,
p. 32
- NAB seminar to focus on "new era" marketing, Aug., p. 32
- Building expansion allows increase in API seminars, Aug., p. 33
- Courses scheduled on library automation, Aug., p. 33
- ANPA announces seminars for first half of 1981, Sept., p. 32
- Computer symposium to include workshops, exhibits, Sept., p. 31
- Newsroom needs personnel skills, study shows, Sept., p. 38
- Economics series for journalists set, Sept., p. 50
- Short course on energy planned for journalists, Sept., p. 50
- Indiana University slates seminar on electronic news, Oct., p. 57
- API dedicates new addition, Nov., p. 27
- First estate planning seminar provides guides on valuations, Dec.,
p. 34
- ANPA, ASNE and APME will team up to help editors build manage-
ment skills, Dec., p. 34
- ANPA Committee to survey members' training programs, Dec., p.
34
62
- ICC grants railroads permission to collect 1.2-percent fuel sur-
charge, May, p. 62
- Southern Pacific Co. and Santa Fe Industries sign memorandum of
intent to merge, June, p. 13
- Burlington Northern Inc./St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Co.
merger postponed, June, p. 13
- ICC extends operating authority of eight railroads over Milwaukee
Road, June, p. 13
- Judge grants preliminary approval to Union Pacific Railroad's pur-
chase of Milwaukee Road in Wash. and Idaho, June, p. 13
- Rock Island Railroad seeks authority to abandon entire system,
June, p. 13
- Senate approves intensifying review of Conrail, July, p. 35
- Study proposes ways to improve New England's railroads, July, p.
35
- ICC approves general freight-rate increases, Aug., p. 49
- ICC to investigate 1.2 percent fuel-based surcharge, Aug., p. 49
- ICC again extends operating authority of 13 railroads over Milwau-
kee Road, Aug., p. 49
- Judge authorizes Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad to aban-
don its entire system, Aug., p. 49
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Judge orders sale of New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad,
Aug., p. 49
AAR announces two new information services for railroads and
shippers, Aug., p. 49
Freight traffic increased slightly on major U.S. railroads during first
half of 1980, Aug., p. 49
ICC again extends operating authority of 15 railroads over Milwau-
kee Road, Oct., p. 33
Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific railroads ask
ICC to approve merger plans, Oct., p. 33
Southern Pacific Co. and Santa Fe Industries Inc. terminate merger
proposal, Oct., p. 33
ICC grants New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway Corp.
authority to operate over lines marked for liquidation, Oct., p. 33
ICC extends date to allow railroads use of Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railroad Co. tracks, Oct., p. 33
Railroads to request ICC to approve 5 percent general freight-rate
increase, Oct., p. 33
Rail decontrol law gives rate flexibility, Nov., p. 27
ICC authorizes railroads to file for 5 percent freight-rate increase,
Dec., p. 17
ICC authorizes railroads operating over Milwaukee Road to con-
tinue operation, Dec., p. 17
Stockholders of Southern Railway and Norfolk & Western Railway
approve merger, Dec., p. 17
Stockholders of Illinois Terminal Railroad vote to liquidate and
transfer assets, Dec., p. 17
ICC approves Chessie System and Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
merger, Dec., p. 17
General
- International Longshoremen's Association and ocean shipping in-
dustry to complete new labor agreement, April, p. 17
- Navigation season on St. Lawrence Seaway, April, p. 17
- United Parcel Service to implement 6.8-percent rates and charges
increase, May, p. 62
- Concern over gasoline, other fuels dominates transportation
workshop, July, p. 18
- Dec. 15 last day for St. Lawrence River section passage without
paying late charges, Dec., 17
WORLD PRESS
Coverage
Press must avoid negativism, a hopeful Waldheim says, May, p. 15
Iran coverage praised, May, p. 16
Foreign reporting criticized by U.S., Soviet spokesmen, May, p. 16
Two studies refute Third World claims that Western media em-
phasize bad news, Oct., p. 24
FIEJ (International Federation of Newspaper Publishers)
- FIEJ director dies, May, p. 19
- FIEJ urges full media access to electronics, July, p. 28
- FIEJ symposium to focus on information explosion. Oct., p. 25
- Maribel Bahia named FIEJ director, Oct., p. 25
UNESCO
- U.S. urges speedy development of Third World communications,
May, p. 37
- ANPA panel concerned over MacBride Report, May, p. 49
- ANPA tells UNESCO of MacBride Report dangers, June, p. 14
Administration to be urged to speed appointments to UNESCO
conference, June, p. 15
UNESCO to move into "action" phase, Aug., p. 18
Abel expected to be named to U.S. UNESCO delegation, Sept., p.
11
M'Bow takes scaled-down program to UNESCO, Oct., p. 24
UNESCO takes communications under wing, Nov., p. 18
Next step uncertain at UNESCO, Dec., p. 26
Differing voices on freedom of the press will continue to clash in
international forums, Dec., p. 26
World Press Freedom Committee
- WPFC expects UNESCO to approve international communications
institute, May, p. 19
- Copley Press donates equipment to Belize paper, July, p. 29
- WPFC mounts new drive for funds to support its Third World pro-
jects, Oct., p. 25
General
- Gauging world press freedom, April, p. 6
- Glossary of communications and press organizations throughout
the world, April, p. 8
- The map of freedom, April, p. 11
- Foreign correspondents are staging a comeback, April, p. 18
- Nebraska's Harold Andersen: global view of press freedom, April,
p. 22
- "New World Information Order": a bad idea that refuses to die, April,
p. 23
- Marcos defends regime to publishers, May, p. 9
- Correspondents assess balance of power, May, p. 13
- Publishers urged to focus attention on "human needs," May, p. 15
- Journalist's release ordered, May, p. 37
- Brazil newspaperman named IAPA manager, May, p. 37
- 10 Fulbrights available for journalism, May, p. 37
- IPI scores report's theme tying media to government, June, p. 22
- ASNE hits CIA use of journalists, June, p. 24
- ANPA Directors find "friend" in China, June, p. 48
- WorldPaper going monthly, July, p. 29
- Anti-press acts in Venezuela, Nicaragua deplored by IAPA, July, p.
29
- Bolivia jails, then expels correspondent, Sept., p. 11
- China closes magazines, arrests six editors, Oct., p. 25
- ANPA appoints new international group, Nov., p. 19
- Controversial publisher named IAPA president, Nov., p. 19
- Kansas papers aid Paraguayan, Nov., p. 19
- Schools set open-door policy for visiting Chinese journalists, Dec.,
p. 28
- IAPA describes threats to press freedom, Dec., p. 28
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New Foundation materials help
students study the community
ANPA Foundation has published a 178-
page set of camera-ready materials com-
prising activities to enable students in
grades 7-12 to study their community
through the use of the newspaper.
The materials are offered to newspapers
to print as a manual or as a set of cards for
student use. Space for the newspaper's
nameplate is provided on the cover.
Linda Skover, manager of educational
services for the Foundation, said, "We
hope many newspapers will take advan-
tage of this kit for their Newspaper in Edu-
cation programs."
Deigh is publications specialist for ANPA
Foundation.
NIE Conference
to include session
on new technology
ANPA Foundation's 1981 Newspaper in
Education Conference-"Newspapers in
Education: Newspapers in Evolution"-will
be April 1-3 at Monteleone Hotel in New Or-
leans.
The annual conference [presstime,
May, 1980, p. 42] gives NIE professionals
an opportunity to exchange ideas and to
attend a number of "focus sessions" con-
ducted by NIE managers, educators and
educational consultants.
The focus sessions will include dis-
cussions of future newspaper technology,
public-speaking techniques, NIE funding,
marketing, setting up NIE programs, and
organizing state and regional NIE groups.
Registration fee is $180 ($200 after Feb.
25) for employees of newspapers and edu-
cational organizations, and $280 for rep-
resentatives of commercial firms which
provide NIE materials and/or services.
For more information, contact Linda
Skover, manager/educational services for
the Foundation, at The Newspaper Center,
Reston, Va. ^
"Our Living Community" was written by
Dr. John Guenther, professor of curriculum
and instruction at the University of Kansas.
It contains more than 150 activities as well
as instructions and forms with which stu-
dents can chart their progress. Activities
are based on social, political and eco-
nomic issues.
According to Edward F. DeRoche, dean
of the school of education at the University
of San Diego, "This packet, with its care-
fully designed concepts, skills and activ-
ities, will become a major resource in
social-studies classrooms across this
country."
"If there ever was a basic skill," De-
Roche added, "it belongs to informed citi-
zens who learn to make personal and
social decisions based on knowledge
rather than emotion. . . . 'Our Living Com-
munity' is the kind of educational resource
all social-studies teachers have been
looking for."
In order to complete the exercises, stu-
dents are required to use news articles,
sports stories, editorials, cartoons, horo-
scopes, personal columns and many other
features of the newspaper. Each activity
page has two exercises. The pages can be
printed on heavier stock and cut to form a
card set for easy reference.
Exercises are designed to make stu-
dents think for themselves. For example,
an activity called "In Case You Missed It"
asks students to write a mock weekly col-
umn of community news for those who may
not have read the newspaper. "Write the
column in any style you wish. You may want
to include comments on what you believe
was the most interesting story, the biggest
blunder or the most humorous incident,"
the activity states.
"Our Living Community" can be ordered
from ANPA Foundation at The Newspaper
Center, Reston, Va., for $35 per copy. ^
5 school papers win Pacemaker Awards
for excellence in content and appearance
Five high school newspapers have been
named winners of the annual Pacemaker
Awards jointly sponsored by ANPA Foun-
dation and the National Scholastic Press
Association.
They are:
? The Senator, Borah High School,
Boise, Idaho
? The Statesman, Woodrow Wilson High
School, Portland, Ore.
? The Torch, J.F. Kennedy High School,
Bloomington, Minn.
? Bear Facts, Bear Creek High School,
Lakewood, Colo.
? U-High Midway, University High
School, Chicago.
"It is heartening to see the excellent
quality of work these young men and
women have put into their high school
newspapers and to know that those who
choose newspapers as a profession will
bring this excellence with them later in their
lives," said Alvah H. Chapman Jr. of
Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc., chairman
and president of ANPA Foundation.
In Pacemaker competition, entries are
judged for best overall content and ap-
pearance.
Judge for the 1980 contest was Gregory
Favre, managing editor of the Chicago
Sun-Times. El
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Newspapers carry tips to parents
Children can learn with TV
By Kathleen Hunt Baird
presstime special writer
One of the chief reasons Johnny can't
read is because of television. Right? Every-
body says it. Television is destroying
youngsters' ability to read.
Well, Dr. Rose-
mary Lee Potter,
sixth grade teacher
and reading spe-
cialist at Harbor
Middle School in
Miami, has a better
idea. She uses tele-
vision to teach
reading. And with
an assist from
newspapers, she
thinks her idea can Rosemary Potter
work for parents interested in improving
their children's reading skills.
Potter writes a weekly column-now be-
ing carried by three big-city dailies-in
which she outlines how parents can use
commercial television to help children:
? Develop reading, vocabulary, listen-
ing and speaking skills
? Sharpen powers of observation and
recall
? Learn to categorize data, scan
material and take notes
? Discern cause and effect, fact and
fiction
? Clarify values and deepen under-
standing of human nature.
"Many learners are visual learners in the
first place," asserts Potter, who says she is
among perhaps 15 to 20 people heavily in-
volved in the television-as-teacher field. "It
isn't as odd as it seems that we're moving
beyond a 'Gutenberg only' approach. But
the bottom line is words. After all, there's
nothing on TV that doesn't begin as
words."
Potter's interest in the field goes back a
decade, to the time she was working on her
doctorate in elementary education and En-
glish at the University of Miami. Since that
time, she has written extensively on the
subject (books as well as magazine arti-
cles and newspaper columns) and devel-
oped a resource kit for teachers. Currently,
she is engaged in a new book project
Taking dummy layouts to paste-up stage
provides added dimension to editing class
By R. Thomas Berner and
H. Eugene Goodwin
Students in the Penn State University
newspaper editing course now get to see
what their scribbles on a layout sheet look
like when translated into stories, headlines
and photographs on a pasted-up page.
This added dimension is the result of a
cooperative arrangement between the
school of journalism and Penn State's inde-
pendent student daily newspaper, The
Daily Collegian.
The Collegian's production department
produces the paste-ups-warts and all-
Berner and Goodwin are members of the fac-
ulty of the Pennsylvania State University School
of Journalism.
from dummies students lay out in weekly
lab sessions. The simulated newspaper in-
cludes AP, UPI and local copy and photos.
The paste-ups are seldom pretty, what
with stories that are supposed to fit coming
up an inch and a half short (or long), head-
lines extending into the gutters and cap-
tions set the incorrect width or running too
deep. The teaching value is worthwhile,
though, because students can compare
the dummy with the pasted-up result.
All 16 to 18 students in the course take
an interest in a pasted-up page even
though in a given week it's the product of
only three of them-a page editor and two
copy editors. They review each pasted-up
page, discussing what went right and what
went wrong.
Students originated the paste-up idea,
based on those columns.
Potter's debut in the newspaper arena
was a mere two and a half years ago when
she started her column, "Making the Most
of TV." She sold it first to the St. Petersburg
(Fla.) Times, which continues to run it in the
TV-log supplement. The Plain Dealer of
Cleveland and The Seattle Times have
since bought it.
In it, Potter offers hints about how to
watch television-and about what to avoid.
She also encourages parents to discuss
programs with their children, drawing out
opinions and correcting misinterpreta-
tions.
A consultant for the National Council for
Children and Television, Potter says she
hopes parents will learn about their chil-
dren as children learn skills during tele-
vision viewing.
In a recent column, she wrote, "Families
can take advantage of award shows as one
way to talk about standards-standards
for excellence.... What makes a program,
a record or a film 'good'? Who decides
what 'good' is? How about setting some
family standards or at least stating what the
family considers excellent in everything
from food to television. Some parents are
surprised to learn that youngsters have
some strong opinions on what's good."^
having long wanted to see how their work
would look. But it was not until late 1979,
when the Collegian needed additional
space to house its new Compugraphic
system of 16 VDTs, that this became prac-
tical. It was agreed that three terminals
would be installed in one of the journalism
editing labs, to be used by the newspaper
at night and by journalism students during
the day.
At the end of each class, the instructor
decides which page offers the best teach-
ing examples. The Collegian's production
department puts the copy into type and
provides us with a paste-up for $18 a page.
What we don't have on the page is a bona
fide flag, halftones or line shots. To save
money, we use red litho knockouts to rep-
resent photographs.
The student daily receives no tax money
and pays rent for the space it occupies on-
campus in a building it shares with the
school and the Classics Department. ^
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Journalism scholarship guide available
The Newspaper Fund's 1981 Journalism
Career and Scholarship Guide is now
available, with listings of $2.4 million in fi-
nancial aid for journalism undergraduate
and graduate programs.
The 133-page guide, published annually
for more than 20 years by the Dow Jones &
Co. Inc.-sponsored fund, includes a direc-
tory of college and university programs
leading to degrees in journalism.
The guide notes which of those pro-
grams are accredited by the American
Council on Education for Journalism (soon
to become known as the Accrediting
Council on Education in Journalism and
Mass Communication).
According to the booklet, a survey of
colleges offering journalism programs
showed that costs rose between 8.1 and
10.3 percent from the 1979-80 academic
year to the current one; nine months at a
four-year public college averaged $3,409
while costs at a four-year private college
averaged $6,082.
Single copies are available at no charge,
and bulk orders at 50 cents per copy, from
The Newspaper Fund, P.O. Box 300,
Princeton, N.J. 08540. ^
Media History Digest begins publication
Media History Digest, a quarterly maga-
zine on the history of newspapers and
other media, has begun publication.
Its staff includes history scholars, print
and broadcast journalists and others.
The magazine's first issue includes arti-
cles on "The First President and the Press,"
"Editors Who Ran for President," black
World War II correspondents and the life of
Little Orphan Annie. Other articles are enti-
tled " 'The King' Remembers: Spotlight on
Movie Pioneer Vidor," "Radio's Father
Coughlin: A Last Interview," and "Ameri-
can Magazines That Predate the U.S."
The 65-page publication also features a
"TV History Trivia" crossword puzzle, book
reviews and humorous clippings from 18th
century newspapers.
Single copies are $2 and a one-year
subscription is $8. For more information,
contact Media History Digest, P.O. Box
867, William Penn Annex, Philadelphia, Pa.
19105. ^
Canadian journalism schools'
edia
v ~HjStO
VDT training scored
velop and/or extend internship programs
during the school year in addition to sum-
mer employment programs
? Editors and journalism educators
should be encouraged to work together as
closely as possible.
The committee recommended that
CDNPA continue its three-year-old prac-
tice of surveying journalism schools, their
recent graduates and newspaper manag-
ing editors to maintain a profile on journal-
ism education in Canada. ^
The Editorial Division Committee of the
Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers As-
sociation-after reviewing CDNPA studies
of journalism education in Canada- has
concluded:
? Money spent on VDT training could
better be spent on "more pertinent"
courses and/or expanding faculty
? Greater emphasis should be placed
on training of copy editors
? Schools and newspapers should de-
NAB schedules
sales workshops
Top advertising sales people from
throughout North America will have 15 op-
portunities in the next six months to attend
the Newspaper Advertising Bureau's
workshop-seminar, "The Selling Way."
The 2Y2-day program, aimed at devel-
oping the sales person as well as the sales
program, will be offered at the following
times and places:
Jan. 13-15, Sheraton-Harbor Island Ho-
tel, San Diego; Jan. 27-29, Red Lion Motor
Inn, Jantzen Beach, Portland, Ore.; Feb.
18-20, Host International, Houston; Feb.
24-26, Sheraton Inn-Airport, Atlanta;
March 17-19, Sheraton Inn-Airport, Phila-
delphia; March 24-26, Ramada Inn-South,
Cincinnati; April 14-16, Four Seasons Ho-
tel, Toronto, Ontario; April 22-24, Bureau
Retail Sales Development Conference
Room, New York City; April 28-30, Shera-
ton Inn-Airport, Pittsburgh; May 12-14, Hol-
iday Inn-Airport, Salt Lake City; May 19-21,
Sheraton Hotel, Billings, Mont.; May 27-29,
Calgary Inn, Calgary, Alberta; June 7-9,
Host International Hotel, Detroit; June 10-
12, The Hamilton, Chicago; June 16-18,
Bayshore Inn, Vancouver, British Colum-
bia.
Steve Van Osten, NAB vice president/re-
tail sales, will conduct the workshops. ^
Canadian press groups
protest supplement tax
A 9-percent tax on the printing of adver-
tising supplements carried by newspapers
has been imposed in Canada.
The tax took effect immediately after be-
ing proposed Oct. 28 by Canada's Finance
Minister Allen J. MacEachen. It is being
protested by the Canadian Daily Newspa-
per Publishers Association and the Ca-
nadian Community Newspapers Associa-
tion.
According to CDNPA General Manager
John E. Foy, a similar plan was success-
fully fought in 1978. Although the current
proposal was implemented, it must be
acted upon by Parliament. Foy says he
foresees a debate on the issue in the
House of Commons. "Ultimately, I could
see a court case" over the tax, he adds. F1
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TDNA plans formal complaint
on AT&T's Austin experiment
The Texas Daily Newspaper Association
will file a formal complaint with the Texas
Public Utilities Commission about the
home-information experiment AT&T and
Southwestern Bell are planning to launch
this June in Austin.
And in Massachusetts, a proposed new
"public announcement service" of New
England Telephone has drawn the atten-
tion of the Massachusetts Newspaper Pub-
lishers Association, which plans to present
its views on the development.
Telecommunications observers in the
newspaper business are watching these
situations closely; they say serious public-
policy questions regarding new electron-
ics technology will be raised not only at the
federal level with proposed telecommuni-
cations deregulation, but also at the local
level, where state utility commissions regu-
late.
The Texas publishers' filing "will request
that the PUC immediately lift the tariff (the
state's implicit 'permission' for the project)
pending a hearing" on the plan, explained
Phillip A. Meek, vice president/general
manager of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
and chairman of a new TDNA telecommu-
nications task force. The filing was ex-
pected to be made in late December.
TDNA's task force canceled plans to
meet Dec. 1 with PUC chairman George M.
Cowden [presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 17],
deciding that a formal complaint would be
more appropriate than a meeting between
one interested party and the chairman of
the regulatory body. There also arose the
question of whether such a meeting would
violate a Texas law on ex parte (one-sided)
contacts.
Southern Bell's Austin experiment is de-
signed in part to determine consumer and
advertiser attitudes toward such a videotex
system.
In Massachusetts, the Department of
Public Utilities is considering an applica-
tion of New England Telephone for a serv-
ice known as "Dial-It." Charles T. Reardon,
public relations manager for New England
Telephone, said the service will resemble
the "Dial-It" program in effect in New York
that offers sports scores, a daily horo-
scope, "Dial-A-Joke" and other informa-
tion.
The public utilities department has as-
sured MNPA-at the association's re-
quest-that it will be notified when a
hearing is scheduled on the plan so that
newspapers may present their position on
the matter. ^
Videotex plans presented to newspapers
GTE Telenet has contacted various
newspapers in the United States to discuss
preliminary plans for a videotex system to
be operated by newspapers on a local
"franchise" basis.
The project is being introduced in the
form of a prospectus and is subject to
change.
GTE spokesman John B. Lawrence
would not discuss details, except to say
that the company is "talking to potential in-
formation providers and potential custom-
ers" and trying to see what the market will
bear. "There is still a lot to be determined in
the market: what people want, what people
don't want."
ViewdataNideotex Report, a newsletter
of Link Research Corp. of New York, has
reported that the concept of GTE Telenet's
"Infovision" [presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 4]
includes offering newspapers a "starter kit"
with a main computer, two editing termi-
nals and 2,000 home-user terminals. The
kit would cost just under $1 million.
In a related development, a former GTE
Telenet consultant who had been dis-
cussing the Telenet videotex plan with
newspapers, has independently invited 16
U.S. newspaper companies to participate
in preparing a "business plan" leading to a
joint venture "that would exploit the unlim-
ited potential of interactive 'videotext' (also
known as videotex) services."
The consultant, William F. von Meister,
would not comment on his proposal, called
"Vistavision." ^
Telecommunications
notes
Dow Jones & Co. Inc. announced Dec. 5
it will provide a one-way news service to
the cable television industry starting
early this month.
Associated Press, United Press Interna-
tional and Reuters also offer similar serv-
ices to cable systems. The Dow Jones
service, however, will be edited for a
"broad-based consumer and investor au-
dience, emphasizing developments in en-
ergy, inflation, taxes, interest rates,
housing and securities markets," the com-
pany said. Information will appear on the
screen as a "scroll feed," consisting of
lines of type moving across the screen
without pictures or other graphics.
Dow Jones also said it intends to offer
the cable news report as an advertising ve-
hicle.
Two key Republican senators who will
decide the fate of legislation to deregu-
late the telecommunications industry
apparently disagree on how that bill should
proceed.
At issue is the Justice Department's anti-
trust suit against AT&T scheduled to go to
trial this month [presstime, Oct. 1980, p.
23]. Sen. Robert Packwood (Ore.), in line to
become chairman of the Commerce Com-
mittee, said in one published interview that
he would like to "settle the suit by legis-
lation...." But Sen. Barry Goldwater (Ariz.),
scheduled to become chairman of the
Communications Subcommittee, in an-
other interview said he doesn't want to
make any changes in the Bell System "until
we get some action from the courts."
A group of 10 Arizona newspaper pub-
lishers and Robert G. Marbut, president
and chief executive officer of Harte-Hanks
Communications Inc. and chairman of the
ANPA Telecommunications Committee,
met with Goldwater Dec. 19 in Phoenix and
discussed the legislation.
The SAT-FAX Steering Committee, a
group formed to help develop a test sys-
tem for studying the possible delivery of
national advertising to newspapers via sa-
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tellite, has invited manufacturers to submit
proposals for full-page facsimile receiv-
ers based on SAT-FAX specifications
[presstime, Oct. 1980, p. 23].
Steering Committee Chairman Marbut of
Harte-Hanks urged vendors to give the re-
quest their "immediate and urgent" atten-
tion.
Field Communications, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Field Enterprises Inc. which
also owns the Chicago Sun-Times, on Nov.
19 asked the FCC for permission to oper-
ate a teletext experiment in Chicago.
The experiment would be conducted
over the vertical blanking interval of Field's
UHF station WFLD. The signal would be re-
ceived only on specially equipped tele-
vision receivers. WFLD Vice President and
General Manager Derk Zimmerman said
the experiment initially will be "just a test to
see if it (teletext) is technically feasible."
It has not been determined how many
homes will be involved in the test, Zimmer-
man said.
Cable television and newspapers will
be the topic of three seminars in coming
months.
Production News magazine will sponsor
"The Cable TV Revolution in Newspapers"
Feb. 9-11 in Orlando, Fla. Registration fee
is $250. For information, contact Produc-
tion News, Epping, N.H. 03042; (603) 679-
2222.
Landon Associates, an advertising sales
and marketing firm, will conduct "Cable TV
and the Newspaper" Feb. 24-25 in Chi-
cago and March 19-20 in New York City.
Cost is $295. For information, contact
Landon Associates, 750 Third Ave., New
York, N.Y. 10017; [phone].
Communications Satellite Corp. Dec. 17
filed application with the Federal Commu-
nications Commission for authority to build
a satellite for a subscription service, di-
rect-to-the-home, satellite broadcasting
system. It would be the first such system
[presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 6].
The service could be implemented in
1985 or 1986 at the earliest, assuming FCC
approvals are forthcoming, said a Comsat
spokesman. ^
Transportation notes
(Compiled by the ANPA Newsprint/Traf-
fic Department, this column features infor-
mation about transportation developments
that may affect newspapers' shipments of
newsprint and equipment.)
The U.S. Supreme Court Nov. 25 cleared
the way for merger between the Burling-
ton Northern Inc. and the St. Louis-San
Francisco Railway, reversing a lower
court that had blocked the deal on petition
of competing railroads. The Supreme
Court also rejected other attempts to delay
the merger. But it failed to resolve whether
the plan is legal-allowing merger oppo-
nent MKT Railroad the option of pursuing
that issue in court. [presstime, June
1980, p. 13].
The Interstate Commerce Commission
set a March 1 deadline for railroads, ship-
pers, railroad labor organizations and
other creditors to file claims against the
Kansas City Terminal Railway stemming
from the KCT's directed-service opera-
tions over the bankrupt Chicago, Rock Is-
land & Pacific Railroad [presstime, Oct.
1980, p. 33]. Creditors missing the dead-
line may face substantial delays in the pro-
cessing and payment of claims. Also,
shippers missing the deadline must look
only to the KCT for payment-even on in-
terline movements, so long as other rail-
roads in the movement filed their claims on
time.
with the ICC in September [presstime,
Oct. 1980, p. 33].
The Association of American Railroads
again is offering a winter weather briefing
service that newspapers may find useful in
keeping track of newsprint shipments by
rail. To obtain the special AAR weather re-
port, call the association in Washington.
D.C., at [phone].
Another source of weather data is West-
ern Union's "For Your Information" (FYI)
service at Telex number 8513, TWX num-
bers 710-988-5956 or 910-221-2115 using
the code word "Rail."
Western Union also will send weather re-
ports to subscribers automatically five
days a week at a cost of 47.5 cents per min-
ute of Telex transmission or 70 cents per
minute via TWX, regardless of location. To
subscribe contact Mary Ann Thompson,
Western Union, 1405 G St., NW, Washing-
ton, D.C. 20005; [phone]; Telex 89-
612; TWX 710-822-0188.
By a 2-to-1 margin, Arizona voters on
Nov. 4 approved a proposition to deregu-
late the state's trucking industry. The
Arizona Corporation Commission's eco-
nomic jurisdiction over trucking ends July
1, 1982, for everything but safety rules and
taxation. Florida last July became the first
state to implement trucking deregulation
[presstime, Aug. 1980, p. 49].
The ICC has agreed to consider applica-
tions filed by the Union Pacific, Missouri
Pacific and Western Pacific railroads to
consolidate into a single rail system. The
ICC has until Oct. 15, 1982, to complete
hearings on the proposal and until April 13,
1983, to issue a final decision. The rail-
roads announced their intent to consol-
idate last January and filed applications
The ICC in early December reinstated
the 13.5-percent fuel-recovery sur-
charge for truckload traffic after lowering
it to 13 percent last summer [presstime,
Aug. 1980, p. 49]. The commission also
raised the surcharge from 2.3 to 2.4 per-
cent for less-than-truckload traffic. Fuel
surcharges for bus companies increased
in late November from 5 to 5.1 percent.^
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Personnel relations
Five executives outline human resource goals
There should be little doubt that in a labor-intensive business,
such as a newspaper, human resources planning must be a con-
tinuous process, integral to the successful accomplishments of
both business and employee objectives. As a new year begins, it
might be helpful to review what results some people responsible
for newspaper personnel relations would like to achieve in 1981.
To ascertain this, we surveyed five managers: H. Michael Ty-
son, vice president/administration of the Houston Chronicle, a
member of the ANPA Training Committee; George D. Veon, vice
president of human resources of Lee Enterprises Inc., Davenport,
Iowa, immediate past president of the Newspaper Personnel Re-
lations Association and member of the ANPA Labor and Personnel
Relations Committee; Allan W. Teather, vice president and gen-
eral manager, The St. Catharines (Ontario) Standard; Cleatis R.
Carroll, personnel director of Donrey Media Group, Fort Smith,
Ark; and John E. Plesko, general manager of The Daily Leader,
Pontiac, III.
If the personnel department could produce one major result for
your newspaper in 1981, over and beyond those activities nor-
mally associated with personnel operations, what would you want
it do do?
Tyson: We would want to develop a supervisor's and manage-
ment development training program. There are certain skills we
would like to see our supervisors have to help them deal with em-
ployees. These skills could help them understand, or be in tune
with, the employees' needs and interests and to get the employee
and company in tune with each other.
Veon: Make managers sensitive to the change in values of
their employees. Too often supervisors still think that people in
their departments who have different values from their own are not
the kind of worker the newspaper should have. They need to know
that because an employee doesn't want to work overtime, but
would rather be backpacking, doesn't mean that employee is not
valuable. We want them to know how to work with these people
and how to increase the employee's interest in the paper.
Teather: Something which will contribute to employee job sat-
isfaction is what we are most interested in doing. We believe that
our proposed new handbook will help. Also, we have just started,
and will continue, to interview all our employees to discover what
their concerns and interests are. It is surprising how easy it is for
management to respond to some things that are disturbing peo-
ple.
Carroll: Develop a good benefits communication program.
We began developing a program in December and hope that by
July or August we will be communicating benefits to all employ-
ees. We are planning a multi-media approach which will include
some mailings to the home, slides, information in employee publi-
cations, posters, booklets and meetings.
Plesko: Design a good employee handbook. Communicating
to employees about the company is very important.
If improvement could be achieved in only one area of present
personnel operations, what area would you select?
Tyson: There are actually two areas we could work on in 1981.
First, we would like to build a more innovative approach to recruit-
ing new employees. We want to attract the best available people
as employees. Second, I would like to see our benefits program
improved. The Chronicle, as well as other companies in our busi-
ness, probably needs to enhance benefit packages to remain
competitive. I know you asked for only one, but I'd like to mention
one other area which is not new to the business but is not yet prev-
alent-salary administration. We have employed a compensation
manager who is developing a program which we hope to have in
place by the end of the first quarter of this year.
Veon: Improve communications. I would want to look at the
amount of real communication between the publisher and his or
her employees. Communication must go both ways. At Lee, we
think we are doing a good job in this area but want to do it even
better. We have instituted rap sessions at our newspapers.... We
thought we were doing a good job communicating with all employ-
ees, until we tried this.
Teather: Broaden understanding of the benefits program. We
are not doing a good job of communicating what our benefits are
to our employees. I want to do that better. At the Standard, we are
looking at benefits statement formats and items to include in order
to help our employees understand what they actually have and the
value of it. Doing a better job in counseling is also important to us.
Employees seek help about many things, including economic
counseling for business and personal situations. I want to be able
to give the best assistance possible.
Carroll: Training would be more targeted, particularly in the
realm of training supervisors how to properly conduct a selection
interview and check references. Also, I want them to be able to do
a good job providing orientation for new employees. These skills
are particularly important to Donrey Media, because many of our
properties do not have a personnel manager and individual super-
visors are responsible for hiring and orientation. We would like to
develop a method, or a training program, to work with supervisors
of various competency levels on the issue I've mentioned.
Plesko: We are-talking about whether to expand benefits to
include dental coverage. We want to be competitive in our bene-
fits program at The Daily Leader. Some other businesses in the
community do have dental coverage. While we know it is expen-
sive, it is one of the areas that was mentioned in an employee sur-
vey we made a year ago. If we decide to offer dental coverage, we
would be meeting our employees' expressed interests.
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What criteria would you use to determine the effectiveness of
the personnel function at your paper?
Tyson: There are not many formal measurements for the per-
sonnel function. One thing we look at is the average time it takes to
fill a new employee requisition. Another is how many of our new
employees are attending the orientation program. We started this
program during the last year, and I believe it is important in con-
trolling short-term turnover. People should know about their job,
the company and that people in the company are interested in
them. Measuring the effectiveness of the personnel department
on the rate of turnover can be pretty tough since outside events
also can affect turnover.
Veon: The first measures of success are whether the paper is
financially successful and if we put out a quality product ... not
necessarily in that order. We are just beginning to experiment with
specific measures such as rate of profit or cash flow per $100 of
compensation, direct and indirect. . . . We are always asking,
"Have we done a good job of finding and utilizing human re-
sources?" Many times the best people are hired but not properly
utilized.
Teather: Two things are important to us in deciding if our per-
sonnel operations are successful: first, if good working relations
are maintained with our unions; and second, if employee turnover
is reduced.
Carroll: We view our personnel operation as results-oriented,
but it is not as measurable as other functions. We would have to
look at improvement in our reduction of turnover, the quality of ap-
plicants, the lack of EEOC problems and a good safety record
when discussing effectiveness. It is difficult to measure the overall
effectiveness of the personnel function.
Plesko: We don't have an organized plan to get feedback. I do
meet with department heads to learn what is happening with their
staff. We also have a suggestion box and usually hear from em-
ployees if there is an unclear policy or a disliked policy.
What selection criteria would you recommend to a newspaper
hiring a personnel manager in 1981?
Tyson: We separate our industrial relations and our personnel
relations. Therefore, the first thing I would be seeking would be a
person who has good generalist experience in personnel such as
recruiting, hiring, records management, benefits, wage and sal-
ary administration, safety; second, would be the ability to recog-
nize special personnel needs, such as training, and the ability to
develop programs to satisfy these needs. The person would not
necessarily have to do the training but should be able to concep-
tualize regarding the problem and the design of a program to
solve the problem.
Veon: I look for intelligence and motivation, which I define as a
willingness to work hard. Next would be intellectual curiosity. Un-
derstanding of behavior is important, but this does not mean that a
candidate has to have formal behavioral science training to have
this understanding. I might add that we try to promote from within
our organization, so our personnel people do have newspaper ex-
perience.
Teather: A personnel manager must have high-level skills in
human relations and above all be a good listener.
Carroll: I might look at an inexperienced person with a B.A. in
human relations. If it were a candidate with experience, then I
would want direct personnel experience, but not necessarily in the
newspaper business. I would actually prefer that they not be from
another newspaper department. This person should have enough
financial ability to manage the personnel department in a respon-
sible way. If the personnel manager is a department head, then he
or she would be involved in total business operations and financial
activities of the company. Personnel people who do not know the
effect personnel operations have on the bottom line will not last
long.
Plesko: Someone with good general personnel experience
but who is fundamentally people oriented. A person who sees the
personnel manager's responsibility as one of looking out for the
individual. They should also have good administrative skills and
ability to train employees. Experience in a newspaper would be
helpful, but it is not essential.
In what one area would you most like to see newspaper per-
sonnel people expand their skills?
Tyson:... that those responsible for personnel policies and
practices make certain these policies, including compensation,
are fair, equitable and consistently administered.
Teather: Continue to improve counseling skills and devel-
opment of stronger, interpersonal skills.
Carroll: Some knowledge in or about data processing.
Plesko: Help top management recognize the value and pur-
pose of personnel.
Veon: Planning ... all of us are too willing to do it by the seat of
our pants. 0
In this section
AftthMlon$:
Victoria (British Columbia) Tares-Colonist, ITu-Award directs reinstatement of 20
laid-off printers, p. 39
Additional arbitration awards, p. 39
Court gaoioloera:
San Francisco Say area dailies, Gu d-Four newspapers must give union data on
compensation paid to non-union correspondents, p. 40
Walla Walla (Wash.) Union-Bulletin, I nt Dion--One of four editors ex-
cluded from bargaining will, p. 40
EEOC:
Sexual harassment redefined in arrienckrienit to guidelines, p. 39
NLRB:
Bonuses boost salaries of some regional directors above that of board members, P.
37
Elections, p. 37
VANejo(Calif.)Ti -Herald, Gu Inds no unWAA manaEsn ntpartici-
pon in decertification atterrpt, p. 37
Five newspaper wiscutives outline personnel goals, p. 34
Buffalo (N.Y.)E News T s -***day p. 36
Delta (British Colum ia) optli id- Twweryweek S"M enr p. 37
Trenton (Ii Ti ers, T s- Publication, delivery continue during ear, 11 40
Outer:
Contract s, P. 36
Fora-day workweek rare in newspaper , P. 38
t f-ITU n*W committees meat, p. 35,
ITU dials visit The Newspaper Center, p. 40
San Frances electricians hoNest paid, p. 30
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Closing prods
unions to sign
new contracts 4RBU
By Clark Newsom
presstime labor writer
Three unions at the York (Pa.) Daily Re-
cord agreed to new three-year contracts
during a two-week shutdown by the news-
paper that climaxed months of negotia-
tions.
And when the Record (morning, circula-
tion 35,144) resumed publication Dec. 1, it
faced additional competition in the form of
a new morning newspaper started by the
Record's evening rival.
Named The Morning Journal, it had been
launched by The York Dispatch (evening,
50,284) on Nov. 17, two days after the Re-
cord suspended publication. The devel-
opment coincides with the installation of a
new seven-unit, multi-color, offset Harris
press at the Dispatch plant.
With a population of about 44,000, York
is the fifth smallest city in the United States
with separately owned daily newspapers,
and it now has the added distinction of be-
ing the smallest city with competing morn-
ing dailies. "As long as we have public
acceptance, The Morning Journal is here
to stay," said Dispatch Publisher Robert L.
Young.
The settlements at the Daily Record in-
volved Local 218 of The Newspaper Guild,
representing 44 editorial, circulation and
advertising employees; Local 242 of the In-
ternational Typographical Union, rep-
resenting 19 printers; and Local 329 of the
International Printing and Graphic Com-
munications Union, representing eight
pressmen.
Top officials of the International Typographical Union and The Newspaper Guild conferred at
Guild headquarters in Washington prior to a Dec. 8-12 meeting of the two unions' merger com-
mittees. They were (from left) Robert S. McMichen, ITU first vice president; Thomas W. Kopek,
ITU secretary-treasurer; Charles Dale, Guild secretary-treasurer; and J. William Blatz, Guild
field operations director. The discussions were the latest in a series dating back to 1977
[pressttme, Oct. 1980, p. 45]. A "summit" committee meeting is scheduled for early February.
The Guild and ITU contracts had expired
June 30, 1980. The IPGCU contract, which
expires June 30, 1983, was reopened for
wage negotiations. All three contracts will
now run through June 30, 1983.
The Guild and ITU contracts are retroac-
tive to July 1 but include no wage increases
in the first year.
The pressmen agreed to forfeit a nego-
tiated cost-of-living clause in the second
and third years of their contract. Their 12-
percent wage increase will be frozen be-
ginning in July. The following year, the
pressmen will receive an increase based
on that received by the printers and Guild-
represented employees. The actual in-
crease will depend on the financial condi-
tion of the company.
Daily Record Publisher David B. Martens
said the key issue with the ITU involved the
installation of a new front-end system. The
ITU agreed to surrender the jobs of six of its
members, effective March 1. The six print-
ers will be guaranteed compensation
through the end of 1982. Their "buyout"
Recent contract settlements
Minneapolis Star and Tribune, Mailers: Three-year contract effective July 1, 1980,
through June 30, 1983.
Providence (R.I.) Journal and Bulletin, GAIU: Three-year agreement covering pho-
toengravers retroactive to Jan. 1, 1980.
San Francisco Newspaper Agency, San Jose (Calif.) Mercury and News, IPGCU:
Three-year contract covering pressmen effective Jan. 1, 1980.
San Jose Mercury and News, Guild: Three-year agreement covering editorial and
commercial employees retroactive to Jan. 1, 1980.
(Details in ANPA Labor & Personnel Relations Letter No. 9, December.)
amounts to $28,000 for each in wages,
severance pay, medical and hospitaliza-
tion benefits and pension contributions,
the newspaper reported.
Martens said the issue with the Guild
concerned contract language. "We want-
ed language that would give us the ability
to manage the newspaper," he said.
The York Dispatch has new agreements
with the IPGCU and ITU but is negotiating
currently with the Guild to replace a con-
tract that expired June 30, 1979. ^
Strike by drivers
stops publication
The Buffalo (N.Y.) Evening News
reached an agreement Dec. 3 on new con-
tract terms with Local 449 of the Team-
sters, ending a one-day strike.
Delivery truck drivers represented by the
union struck Dec. 2. About 10,000 copies
of the News were printed before pressmen
represented by the International Printing
and Graphic Communications Union de-
cided to observe the drivers' picket line.
The strike issue concerned differential
pay for the drivers.
A new one-year contract was made ret-
roactive to Nov. 3, 1980, the day the old
agreement expired. Richard K. Feather,
vice president of the News, said there was
no change in the monetary offer made to
the union prior to the strike.
Normal publication resumed Dec. 4. O
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NLRB clears company in attempt to oust Guild
A divided three-member panel of the Na-
tional Labor Relations Board has dis-
missed a complaint alleging that the
Vallejo (Calif.) Times-Herald had unlawfully
participated in an employee petition to the
NLRB for an election to decertify the San
Francisco-Oakland Newspaper Guild as
bargaining agent.
The Guild had charged that the newspa-
per had violated Section 8(a)(1) of the Taft-
Hartley Act by encouraging a supervisor,
Sports Editor Richard L. Waters, to solicit
employee support for the petition.
But Administrative Law Judge Clifford H.
Anderson ruled that the company "bears
no responsibility" for Waters' activities be-
cause he was a member of the involved
bargaining unit under the terms of the last
labor agreement and because he had
acted independently [presstime, Oct.
1980, p. 46]. Anderson recommended dis-
missal of the complaint.
Board Chairman John H. Fanning and
member John A. Penello agreed with An-
derson over the objections of member
Howard Jenkins Jr.
The Guild was one of five unions that
struck the newspaper in 1978. The Times-
Herald hired permanent replacements for
the strikers and continued publication.
In his dissenting opinion, Jenkins noted
that Waters had been hired as a replace-
ment and thus had no "common cause"
with the strikers. "Moreover," he said, "the
bare fact of inclusion of the sports editor
classification in the contractual unit de-
scription, particularly here in the absence
of any agreement for almost three years,
holds more significance as an historical
fact than as a current industrial reality."
Jenkins said that Waters' role in hiring
"other strikebreakers" distinguished him
from rank-and-file employees "in their
eyes," giving them reason to believe that
he was acting as a member of manage-
ment.
Fanning and Penello pointed out, how-
ever, that the board has "long held" that
striker replacements "like Waters" are pre-
sumed to support the union in the same ra-
tio as those they replace. Also, they noted,
the board has held that a striker replace-
ment "is not presumed" to reject the union
as bargaining representative.
Pact ends Guild strike
against Canadian weekly
A 20-week strike by The Newspaper
Guild against a weekly newspaper in the
Vancouver, British Columbia, suburb of
Delta ended Nov. 19 with the signing of a
three-year contract.
Local 115 of the Guild struck The Delta
Optimist July 3 over terms of an initial con-
tract [presstime, Aug. 1980, p. 37]. The
newspaper continued publication through-
out the strike.
The union represents a unit of all employ-
ees, but management negotiator Roger
McAfee said that only two of the 10 who
struck last summer returned to work. ^
(Times-Herald Inc. and San Francisco-
Oakland Newspaper Guild, Local 52, 253
NLRB No. 66) ^
16 NLRB workers paid more than top 6
Sixteen employees of the NLRB re-
ceived performance bonuses of $7,200
each last year, boosting their salaries
above that of the five board members and
general counsel.
This unusual situation-subordinates
being paid more than their bosses-is a re-
sult of the 1978 Civil Service Reform Act,
which created the Senior Executive Serv-
ice.
The act was designed to increase the
productivity of federal career employees.
Those who join the SES give up the right to
automatic, Civil-Service pay increases in
exchange for the possibility of receiving
bonuses of up to 20 percent of their annual
base salaries.
The 16 SES bonus winners at the
NLRB-eight assigned to NLRB head-
quarters in Washington and the regional di-
rectors in Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis,
New York, Peoria, Phoenix, St. Louis and
Seattle-receive an annual salary of
$50,112.50. The awards brought their in-
come to $57,312.50.
The six top officials, who are presidential
appointees ineligible for bonuses, ap-
proved the awards. The board chairman
receives $55,387.50; the other five are
paid $52,750. ^
NLRB elections
Danville (111.) Commercial-News, IPGCU: Motor route drivers and bundle haulers
voted 29-15 in favor of representation by Pressmen's Union No. 257.
(NLRB Case No. 33-RC-2671)
Grass Valley (Calif.) Union, ITU: Advertising, business office, editorial and production
employees voted 22-14 in favor of representation by Central Valley Typographical Union
No. 46. Circulation employees, with the exception of one bookkeeper, were excluded from
the unit. In 1979, a unit that included circulation employees voted 24-21 against the union
[presstime, Feb. 1980, p. 38]. (NLRB Case No. 20-RC-15145)
Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel, Guild: Composing room employees voted 29-6
against further representation by The Newspaper Guild in a decertification election. The
union was certified to represent the employees in 1975 [ANPA Labor and Personnel Rela-
tions Bulletin, Dec. 8, 1975, p. 630], but the parties were unable to reach agreement on a
labor contract. (NLRB Case No. 10-RD-718)
Sacramento (Calif.) Suburban Newspapers, Guild: Editorial, commercial and com-
posing room employees of the group of weekly newspapers voted 29-16 in favor of rep-
resentation by the Central Valley Newspaper Guild. (NLRB Case No. 20-RC-15135)
Seattle Times, Teamsters: Distribution driver-spotters voted 31-14 in favor of rep-
resentation by Local 763 of the Teamsters. The union already represents motor route driv-
ers and branch employees.
(NLRB Case No. 19-RC-9926)
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Four-day workweek is rarity
among papers, study shows
By Barbara Startz
Despite its gains in other sectors of North
American industry, the four-day workweek
remains a rarity among newspapers.
According to files in the ANPA Labor and
Personnel Rela-
tions Department,
only eight newspa-
per companies-
four in the United
States and four
in Canada-have
some departments
on a four-day
schedule. A ninth
company which ex-
4"1 perimented with the
Barbara Startz system is returning
to the traditional, five-day week. (These
statistics are not necessarily all-inclusive
for the business.)
The degree of satisfaction with the four-
day workweek has varied from place to
place.
Le Soleil in Quebec City (evening, circu-
lation 130,736) has had most departments
operating under a four-day workweek for
more than eight years. The sales depart-
ment and office staff, because they must
be available to the public, have retained
the traditional five-day workweek. How-
ever, their workday was reduced to match
the 32-hour week of other departments,
notes General Manager Paul Audet.
The four-day week was agreed upon
during labor negotiations over the intro-
duction of new photocomposition and Let-
terflex equipment. Weekly wages were not
reduced despite the reduction in hours.
With no substitutes available, the com-
pany often must call in employees to work
the fifth shift at overtime.
At The Gazette of Montreal (morning,
208,749), the four-day workweek is limited
to production departments. It was imple-
mented originally as a trade-off to allow the
Startz is labor relations associate in the ANPA
Labor and Personnel Relations Department.
company to bring in new technology and to
offer termination incentives to reduce staff.
The employees had been working a 32-
hour, five-day week. Hours remained at 32
when the transition to four days was made,
but later evolved to a 30-hour, four-day
week in all departments except the
pressroom, which now has a 28-hour
week.
Ronald A. Barnett, director of produc-
tion, emphasizes that the four-day week is
greatly valued by production employees.
Rotations can be arranged so that every
three weeks employees receive five con-
secutive days off.
Barnett further notes that direct costs in
the composing room were not adversely
affected by the four-day week, but in the
pressroom and mailroom, with time con-
straints and negotiated unit manning, they
increased.
When the company decided to accord
foremen the same four-day schedule as
other production employees, the extended
days off resulted in "disjointed supervi-
sion," Barnett says. He adds that with night
rates of pressroom journeymen soon to
reach $483 for 28 hours of work, The Ga-
zette may be out of step.
The Altoona (Pa.) Mirror (evening,
35,292) has been operating its composing
room under a four-day system for a year
and a half. Weekly hours were reduced
from 371/2 to 34, while weekly wages for the
day shift increased from $288.95 to $330.
One of the effects, notes Vice President J.
Daniel Slep, was that pressroom employ-
ees were given a substantial raise to offset
the shorter workweek in the composing
room.
Most Mirror employees work a 35-hour,
five-day week. While the composing room
is the only department with a compressed
workweek, other departments have crea-
tively scheduled the five-day week so that
employees may rotate working Saturdays.
The larger the department, the greater
number of Saturdays an individual em-
ployee has off.
At the Des Plaines (III.) Publishing Co.,
which publishes three weekly papers,
Controller and Credit Manager R. James
Forbing says he is very pleased with the
optional, four-day workweek in the ac-
counting department. Two of its three em-
ployees have chosen it, working a 10-hour
shift each day to meet the 40-hour week.
One advantage, Forbing notes, is that em-
ployees find it convenient to make up per-
sonal time taken off during the week by
coming in to work the make-up hours on
the fifth day.
Among nine newspaper
companies with the four-day
workweek, the degree of
satisfaction has varied from
place to place.
The San Diego Union (morning, 198,830,
Sunday, 316,151) and The Evening Trib-
une (123,422) are now in the process of re-
verting to a five-day system for the majority
of composing room employees after two
years on a four-day schedule.
Employees met the four-day workweek
with "mixed emotions," according to a
company spokesman. The seven-hour
shift was retained so that employees
worked 28 hours a week instead of 35.
Over the period, weekly wages were frozen
at the 1976 scale for five shifts until such
time as negotiated wage scales exceeded
that figure in February 1980. But for those
employees with other interests, including
businesses on the side, the extra day off
was welcomed.
With more journeymen accepting termi-
nation incentives, thereby reducing the
work force, most employees in the depart-
ment are returning to a five-day workweek.
Some of the senior employees prefer to
continue working the four-shift schedule.
The company has the flexibility to sched-
ule four or five shifts based on production
needs.
Other companies known to have four-
day weeks are the Austin (Texas) Ameri-
can-Statesman (all-day, 127,078, Sunday,
142,428) (composing room), The Anchor-
age (Alaska) Times (evening, 43,226, Sun-
day, 56,273) (press room), and La Presse
(morning, 174,945) and Le Journal (morn-
ing, 322,301, Sunday, 283,987) of Mon-
treal (production departments). ^
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SF Newspaper Agency
electricians receive
highest hourly rate
The highest paid craft/production em-
ployees in the newspaper business are at
the San Francisco Newspaper Agency,
where 16 electricians represented by the
International Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers are paid straight-time earnings of
$20.77 an hour for a 35-hour workweek on
the day shift.
On June 1, the scale goes to $23.72 an
hour.
In addition, the night rate is 10-percent
higher: the graveyard shift, 15-percent
higher. Double time is paid for overtime.
Under terms of the labor agreement, 12
percent is deducted from weekly gross
pay, with 4 percent going into a holiday
fund, 4 percent into a vacation fund and 4
percent into "thrift savings."
The newspapers served by the agency,
the San Francisco Chronicle and San Fran-
cisco Examiner, historically have agreed to
accept the wages negotiated by the San
Francisco Electrical Contractors Associa-
tion and Local 6 of the IBEW. ^
ANPA comments on FLSA
ANPA has told the Minimum Wage
Study Commission that the FLSA ex-
emption for employees engaged in the
delivery of newspapers to the consumer
should be retained. (See story, p. 16.)
Arbiter reinstates 20 printers
An arbitrator has directed The Times-
Colonist of Victoria, British Columbia, to re-
instate 20 of 24 composing room employ-
ees who were laid off Sept. 1 when The
Daily Colonist (morning) and Victoria
Times (evening) were combined into one
newspaper with morning and evening edi-
tions.
The publisher and Vancouver Typo-
graphical Union No. 226 had agreed to ar-
bitrate the propriety of the layoffs following
a one-day work stoppage [presstime,
Oct. 1980, p. 43].
Arbitrator Hugh G. Ladner noted that the
layoffs at issue, involving the 24 junior-
most printers of the 97 then employed, had
trimmed "the admitted fat" from the com-
posing room staff. The consolidation re-
sulted in a reduction in the number of
pages that had to be remade in the aver-
age 56-page newspaper from 42-44 to 6-
10. The same editorials and other features
now appear in both editions, he noted.
The labor agreement provides that no
employees will lose their jobs as a result of
technological change. However, "normal"
layoffs, such as those occurring as a result
of a decline in business, are permitted.
Ladner said he had "no difficulty" in con-
cluding that a layoff resulting from the
merger is a "normal layoff." The union had
contended that only four of the employees
were laid off as a result of the merger and
that the rest of them were protected.
The arbitrator ruled that the merger itself
was not "technological change," but that
the company had taken advantage of tech-
nological change in the past which made
the reduction in employees possible. He
agreed with the union that the "manpower
savings" resulting from the merger were
no more than four" employees.
The publisher is appealing to the British
Columbia Labor Relations Board. ^
EEOC reaffirms sexual harassment policy
The Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission has issued a "final amend-
ment" to "reaffirm" that sexual harassment
is an unlawful employment practice under
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Published in the Nov. 10 Federal Regis-
ter, the amendment to the EEOC's "Guide-
lines on Discrimination Because of Sex"
supersedes an earlier version that had
taken effect last spring [presstime, May
1980, p. 47].
Additional arbitration awards
Detroit Free Press, Teamsters: Russell A. Smith ruled that a truck driver was properly
given a three-day disciplinary suspension for not completing deliveries as scheduled.
Houston Post, IBEW: A. A. White, ruling in a wage-opener for the last year of a three-
year contract, awarded electricians a $1.68-per-hour increase to $10.28.
New York Times, Deliverers: Howard G. Gamser denied the union's grievance pro-
testing a change in the advance distribution of certain sections of the Sunday edition.
New York Times, ITU: James V. Altieri upheld the company's right to transfer a supervi-
sory employee from a night shift to a day shift over senior journeymen's claims to day work.
San Francisco Newspaper Agency, ITU: Sam Kagel ruled that VDT key stroking for
borders and rules by editorial employees of the San Francisco Chronicle and San Fran-
cisco Examiner-rather than by composing room employees-did not violate an automa-
tion agreement with the printers' union.
(Full texts available from the ANPA Labor and Personnel Relations Department at The
Newspaper Center, Reston, Va.)
Those interim guidelines defined sexual
harassment as conduct which "substan-
tially" interferes with an employee's work
performance. The EEOC said it received
many comments questioning the meaning
of "substantially." Therefore, according to
agency head Eleanor Holmes Norton, the
word "unreasonably" was substituted be-
cause it "more accurately states the intent
of the commission."
Because sexual harassment allegations
are reviewed on a case-by-case basis,
"any further questions will be answered
through commission decisions which will
be fact specific," she said.
The final amendment left unchanged a
provision holding employers responsible
for the acts of their supervisory employees.
But a newly added section states that em-
ployers also may be responsible for the
acts of a non-employee-a salesman, for
example-where either the employer or
supervisors know "or should have known"
of the conduct and fail to take "immediate
and appropriate corrective action." What
the agency considers to be "appropriate"
will be seen "in the context of specific
cases through commission decisions,"
Norton said. ^
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Appeals court leaves 3 editors
in bargaining unit, removes one
A federal appeals court recently ruled
that three editors of the Walla Walla
(Wash.) Union-Bulletin were properly in-
cluded in a union's bargaining unit. How-
ever, the court said a fourth editor was a
managerial employee who should have
been excluded from the unit.
The case concerned the appropriate
unit of newsroom employees represented
by an independent union, the Union-Bul-
letin Employees Group.
The National Labor Relations Board had
rejected the company's contention that all
four should have been excluded because
they were supervisors or managerial em-
ployees [ANPA Labor and Personnel Rela-
tions Bulletin, Dec. 29, 1978, p. 527].
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
upheld the NLRB's conclusion that the
photo, sports and wire editors were not su-
pervisory employees and ruled that they
were properly included in the unit.
"We do not find the Union-Bulletin's reli-
ance on several newspaper cases to be
persuasive," the court said. "Each case
that involves the determination of whether
an employee is a supervisor turns on its
own particular facts. The newspaper in-
dustry is not sufficiently homogeneous to
allow us to draw a universally applicable
line between supervisory personnel and
other employees."
At the same time, the court upheld the
company's contention that the editorial
page editor should have been excluded.
In reviewing his duties, the court noted
that he attended meetings with other man-
agement representatives. His responsibili-
ties "place him in a position of potential
conflict of interest between the employer
and the union," the court said. "In such a
situation, the employee is properly classi-
fied in management."
The court also affirmed the NLRB's find-
ing that the newspaper committed an un-
fair labor practice by refusing to bargain
with the union, pending judicial review of
the board's decision. "We recognize some
unfairness in finding that an employer com-
mits an unfair labor practice by refusing to
bargain with a unit that is ultimately found
to be inappropriate," the court said. "Nev-
ertheless, we also find it unfair to allow an
employer to delay bargaining with a large
unit on the chance that one employee may
have been improperly included."
(Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Inc. v. NLRB,
No. 78-3656) ^
Telecommunications Issues were discussed during a Dec. 12 visit by International Typograph-
ical Union officials to The Newspaper Center, Reston, Va. ANPA Director/Telecommunications
Affairs Kathleen Criner (right) reviewed various systems being tested and answered questions
from (left to right) Robert L. Wartinger, ITU second vice president; Leon Olson, president of San
Francisco Bay Area Typographical Union No. 21; Jerry Ahue, president of Honolulu Typograph-
ical Union No. 37; Charles Cole, ANPA manager/labor relations; Roy W. Anderson, ANPA vice
presidenViabor and personnel relations; and Allan J. Heritage, ITU third vice president.
4 papers ordered
to give union data
on pay for writers
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has
ruled in four cases that newspapers must
give a union data on compensation paid to
non-union, independent correspondents.
The court said the San Francisco-Oak-
land Newspaper Guild was entitled to the
information because it was relevant to a le-
gitimate union need-that of framing unit
wage demands in contract negotiations.
Four San Francisco Bay area newspa-
pers-The Independent and Gazette of
Richmond, The Times and News Leader of
San Mateo, The Press Democrat of Santa
Rosa and the Vallejo Times-Herald-had
appealed decisions of the NLRB.
In each of its decisions, the NLRB or-
dered disclosure of aggregate amounts
paid so that individual payments remained
confidential [ANPA Labor and Personnel
Relations Bulletins, Oct. 13 and Nov. 24,
1978, pp. 462, 505].
However, the court questioned the need
for confidentiality and remanded the cases
for clarification of that issue. "While the
board may have correctly balanced the
competing interests of the parties involved,
we have insufficient basis upon which to
review its assessment," the court said.
(Press Democrat Publishing Co. et al. v.
NLRB, Nos. 79-7086-87-88-89) ^
Trenton Times continues
to publish during strike
The Trenton (N.J.) Times is continuing
publication and distribution despite a
strike by Local 628 of the Teamsters.
The strike began Nov. 22 in a dispute
over an initial contract for mailers.
Truck drivers represented by the union
in a separate unit are observing the picket
line. The drivers are covered by a contract
running from June 1, 1980 to Dec. 1, 1982.
Pressroom employees represented by
the International Printing and Graphic
Communications Union are crossing the
picket line. Composing and editorial em-
ployees are not represented by a union.
The newspaper has made other ar-
rangements for truck distribution during
the strike. ^
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Inserting of supplements
can be the stuff of genius
The Bangor (Maine) Daily News is not
unique in striving to provide maximum lo-
cal news in each of its seven editions, but it
faces special challenges from its large cir-
culation area 'about three-fourths of the
state.
In its search for maximum efficiency, the
81,693-circulation morning daily has ap-
plied computer technology not only to its
newsroom operations [presstime, Nov.
1980, p. 38], but also to its mailroom, pack-
aging and distribution procedures.
The nexus of change is the arrangement
of two Harris 848 inserting machines.
The normal design, which incorporates
two paper inlet points and two exit points
for the completely inserted copies, has
been modified for "single-in, single-out"
operation-with one entry and one exit
point.
The inlet and outlet chutes that were de-
commissioned now serve as an additional
inserter hopper, raising to eight the num-
ber of inserts that can be added to a news-
Neddenien is a technical writer at the ANPA
Research Institute.
paper during a single cycle through the
machine.
The inserters also differ from the norm in
the way they are supplied with newspa-
pers. Most newspapers provide each in-
serter with a separate conveyor line, so that
two inserters work in parallel; but the
Bangor mailroom uses a single conveyor to
supply both inserters, which are set up in
series. The first inserter either can take all
the newspapers, or it can allow half of them
to pass on to the second machine.
Production Manager Henry Downs ex-
plains how the system works:
"Two conveyor lines lead from the press
folders to a junction where the stream is di-
rected to the inserters or directly to the
stackers.
"When the inserters are operating, the
stream must pass through a batcher,
which holds back the copies and counts
them to form a 14-paper block or'slug.' The
slugs are separated by empty space as
they move toward the inserters.
"During a straight press run, the first in-
serter accepts one slug and allows the next
to pass to the second machine, so that the
presses are not held back excessively by
the slower speed of the inserters."
The two five-unit Hoe presses can run at
up to 50,000 copies per hour, while the in-
serters can each handle about 17,000 per
hour, Downs reports.
During a straight run, the first inserter ac-
cepts as many copies as it can and passes
any additional ones to the second unit.
If the second cannot accommodate the
entire flow, the excess is passed to an
overflow stacker and to a table where the
papers are held for later introduction into
the inserter system.
"We designed it to be quite flexible so
that we're ready for nearly any situation,"
Downs notes.
Each inserter is monitored by a Digital
PDP 11 /03 computer. By noting differences
in thickness as the newspaper passes
through the inserting cycle, the computer
can detect misses or double inserts. If a
copy does not receive a particular insert, it
is sent back around the cycle again to re-
ceive the missing insert.
The computer is programmed to shut
down and alert an operator if three passes
through the cycle still do not produce the
missing insert. This number can be
changed.
The stuffed newspapers are conveyed
to either of two EDS-IDAB NS440 stackers
that are controlled by a microcomputer.
(On a non-insert run, the papers travel di-
rect from the pressroom to these stackers.)
The microcomputers use information
stored on floppy disks to prepare each
bundle according to the number of copies
needed the next morning.
One stacker also incorporates an auto-
matic Avery mail labeling unit.
Each conveyor line carries the bundles
past an electric eye and to a Signode plas-
tic tie machine. "The electric eyes are set at
a specific height to trigger the tying opera-
tion," Downs says. "If a bundle passes be-
neath the eye without triggering it, it
probably is small enough to not need the
plastic tie to hold it together. It is allowed to
pass untied to the 'shrink-wrap' unit.
"The shrink wrap is enough to hold the
small bundles, and the larger ones are re-
inforced by the plastic tie so that they don't
shift around and break the shrink wrap,"
Downs explains. "We use the plastic tying
material only when it's needed."
Following a quick pass through the
shrink-wrap oven, the bundles slide down
an incline to the waiting delivery trucks.^
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How to be taken to the cleaners
and still realize big savings
Inspired, perhaps, by Henry Ford's in-
genuity, The Detroit News (all-day, circula-
tion 629,598) has adapted a dry-cleaning
conveyor system to move offset printing
plates from the platemaking area to the
press.
The system, which involves the familiar,
angled, coat-hanger-carrying hooks tra-
versing overhead tracks, is a byproduct of
the newspaper's conversion to offset print-
ing [presstime, June 1980, p.6], accord-
ing to Production Manager Raymond J.
Eby.
While the TKS system conversion was
underway, Eby and Assistant Production
Manager Jack Delphy sought an efficient
method of transporting the offset plates.
Their light weight-about eight ounces
each, compared to the heavy, lead plates
they were replacing-provided substantial
leeway in design.
But there was one very important consid-
eration. The News' pressroom houses
three press lines made up of 18 Goss Mark
V units and three folders each, and "we
needed some sort of system that would
convey the offset plates from the platemak-
ing operation through the pressroom and
to each individual press, Eby explains.
The newspaper sought a commercially
produced plate conveyor but found none
to suit its requirements. Other newspapers
were asked how they had approached
similar situations, but their responses were
not adaptable to the News' particular
needs. Subsequently, Delphy came up
with the idea of the dry-cleaning conveyor
system.
"My main problem was mounting the off-
set plates on wire coat hangers so they
would fit the conveyor hooks," he says.
Working at home, he discovered that a
modified drapery hook could be inserted
into the plate's center register hole to bal-
ance it on the coat hanger.
Eby recalls that "Jack would come up
with something and then go over to the dry-
cleaning shop to see if it could go around
the entire conveyor without falling off. He
came up with a system that works very well.
We're very pleased with it."
The Kenilworth, N.J.-based White Ma-
chine Co., installed the system according
to the newspaper's specifications. The
585-foot-long conveyor is powered by two,
/z-horsepower electric motors. Where it
passes through walls, plant safety is main-
tained by automatic fire doors.
The trip along the conveyor begins in the
platemaking room, where a coat-hanger-
mounted plate is attached to one of the
conveyor modules. Each module carries
an angle-mounted row of hooks, each of
which is at a different height and marked
according to the press it serves.
Each press has a retrieval rod that is
mounted at the height of the conveyor
module hook that serves it. As the plate-
bearing module passes the press, the re-
trieval hook guides the coat hanger off the
hook and down a gentle slope to a resting
point, where it awaits installation on the
press.
It takes less than five minutes for a plate,
Detroit News' Edward Melendez puts plate,
attached to coat hanger, on conveyor.
traveling at a speed of about 70 feet per
minute to reach its destination.
Up to 1,200 plates may pass along the
conveyor for a Sunday press run, Eby
says, with a daily average of 800-1,000.
Because the system is built of parts that
are in common use, the newspaper does
not need to stockpile spare parts, and
maintenance is easy.
The system, which began operating last
May, cost about $65,000. It will pay for itself
in labor savings by March, Eby reports.^
When a newspaper reeks even before
it's used to wrap fish, something's wrong
By Alan Janesch
presstime technical writer
Last October, readers of 10 Midwestern
newspapers reported that certain editions
stank. The blame was laid on a batch of
foul-smelling ink manufactured by Heri-
tage Ink Co. of Addison, III.
One day in November, readers of a large
Western daily registered a similar com-
plaint. Again, ink was blamed, the supplier
in this instance being U.S. Printing Ink
Corp. of East Rutherford, N.J.
But exactly what caused the inks' bad
odor remains a mystery. Heritage Ink has
asked an independent testing laboratory to
try to solve it, and U.S. Ink is running tests in
its own lab.
President Robert Boese of B and W Con-
sulting Forensic Chemists of Downers
Grove, Ill., reported that tests on the Heri-
tage ink have been "inconclusive" thus far.
"There's really nothing to hang my hat
on.... You don't know if it's the paper, or
the ink, or the press, or a combination...."
Heritage President George Murphy said
the foul-smelling ink amounted to an esti-
mated 80,000 pounds-only 4 percent of
Heritage's estimated 2-million-pound an-
nual ink production figure. (By compari-
son, Flint Ink of Detroit-the world's
biggest news-ink company-produces an
estimated 350 million pounds annually.)
Murphy said larger papers used up their
supply before the problem became appar-
ent, and smaller papers sent the ink back.
"We're in our 11th year, and this is the first
(such complaint), and it's the same damn
formula," he commented.
Chicago's Southtown Economist, whose
plant prints 148 different newspapers
[presstime, Oct. 1980, p. 38], got a batch
of the Heritage ink and spread the smell
around.
"It happened to us-the same thing-
about two, three years ago," recalled
Trever Bricker, the Economist's production
coordinator, although he said he doesn't
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remember who that supplier was.
Bricker said he believes the bad odor
occurs when ink suppliers mark the
change from summer to winter by starting
to use lighter-weight oils in their ink. Heri-
tage probably "just added a little too much
varnish (used to keep the ink from rubbing
off the paper) to their ink," he speculated.
The papers "smelled something like ker-
osene," Bricker added. "We couldn't smell
it when the papers came off the press, but
when they were unloaded off the trucks, it
was awful."
In the case of the 276,997-circulation
Rocky Mountain News of Denver, the smell
was likened to that of crude oil.
Business Manager William Fletcher said
the problem didn't manifest itself until the
papers were delivered. "There was one
pressman who commented to one foreman
that he thought he smelled something
funny, but that was all we had" prior to dis-
tribution, he said.
Affected was 40 percent of the Nov. 26
press run. About 10,000 pounds of the bad
ink was used in printing those copies; U.S.
Printing Ink later pumped out the remaining
70,000 pounds of the batch, Fletcher said.
In a Dec. 5 news story, the News re-
ported that readers complained the smell
made their noses run and aggravated
asthmatic conditions.
As a result of some of the complaints, the
Denver regional office of the U.S. Environ-
mental Protection Agency looked into the
matter. EPA toxicologist Dr. James Baker
said the problem did not pose a public
health hazard.
In its article, the News identified a hydro-
carbon resin used in making the ink as the
culprit in the case.
According to experts, hydrocarbon resin
is used to make a higher-quality, more
smudge-resistant ink. One of the ingre-
dients of the resin-and a possible odor-
causing agent-is an organic compound
called dicyclopentadiene. A liquid, it is
supposed to be stripped off as the solid
resin is formed. If it's not, it will reek like rot-
ten eggs, only worse, the experts say.
However, Herb Edelman, vice presi-
dent-manufacturing of U.S. Printing Ink,
said a definitive cause has not been identi-
fied. "We don't even make a supposition at
this time," he said, pending completion of
the company's chemical analysis. ^
Abitibi-Price offer accepted
The Confederation of National Trade
Unions has voted to accept Abitibi-Price
Inc.'s contract offer at two Quebec news-
print mills [presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 45].
The settlement was patterned after those
reached earlier in 1980 at other mills in
Eastern Canada.
However, workers at the Kenogami mill,
closed since May 19, and at the Alma mill,
closed since July 1, remained on strike, de-
manding a "protocol" for return to work.
Meetings were being held at press time to
settle the issue.
In the United States, a new three-year
contract was ratified Nov. 15 by members
of the United Paperworkers International
Union at Bowater Southern Corp.'s Cat-
awba, S.C., newsprint mill. The contract
provides an 8-percent increase in each of
the three years.
Settlement also has been reached with
the UPIU at Kimberly-Clark Corp.'s mill at
Coosa Pines, Ala. Details were unavail-
able.
Also in the United States:
? Abitibi Southern Corp., Augusta,
Ga.-The UPIU in December rejected a
company offer for a second time.
? St. Regis Paper Co. (Southland Divi-
sion), Houston-exchanged agendas
Dec. 8; meetings are in progress. The con-
tract expired Dec. 31.
This year contracts will expire at eight
North American mills, compared to 46 in
1980 [presstime, Nov. 1979, p. 55].
Affected will be all four British Columbia
mills, on June 30; Southwest Forest Indus-
tries' Snowflake, Ariz., mill on March 1;
Boise Cascade Corp.'s Steilacoom,
Wash., mill on June 1; and at Crown Zeller-
bach Corp.'s Port Angeles, Wash., mill;
and Garden State Paper Co. Inc.'s Gar-
field, N.J., mill on Oct. 1 ^
Multi-company
talks may return
Several major paper companies and the
Association of Western Pulp & Paper Work-
ers are considering a return to multi-com-
pany negotiations in bargaining scheduled
in 1981 for the U.S. West Coast.
Twenty local unions representing 7,300
AWPPW members have elected to enter
the first phase of multi-company negotia-
tions involving six companies, including
two which manufacture newsprint and
which are up for contract negotiations this
year-Boise Cascade Corp. and Crown
Zellerbach Corp.
Among advantages seen in multi-com-
pany negotiations are establishment of a
clear pattern settlement for the region, con-
siderable savings in negotiating time and
expense for both sides and elimination of
"whipsawing"-successively higher set-
tlements in individual mill negotiations
which management says has contributed
to wage escalation in the West. ^
Newsprint notes
Consolidated-Bathurst Inc. said it will
further modernize production facilities at
its PortAlfred Division newsprint mill at Ville
de la Baie, Quebec. In the $85-million pro-
ject scheduled for completion in 1984,
three newsprint machines will be speeded-
up as will a fourth, which also will be mod-
ernized. Additional capacity will reach 72,-
000 metric tons per year.
Southwest Forest Industries has ap-
proved the proposed conversion of a liner-
board machine at its Snowflake, Ariz., mill
to produce newsprint [presstime, Sept.
1980, p. 46]. The $45-million project,
scheduled to be completed in 1982, will in-
crease the mill's annual newsprint capacity
by 109,000 metric tons. The new machine
will run more than 80 percent of the time on
pulp made from recycled newspapers.
? ? ?
Kruger Inc.'s Bromptonville, Quebec,
newsprint mill was shut down by a fire Nov.
16 that destroyed the mill's electric substa-
tion and damaged a paper machine. While
partial production was restored early last
month, estimated production loss so far
amounts to about 9,400 metric tons. ^
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November report
Consumption climbs
to 13-month high
U.S. newsprint consumption reached an estimated 920,000
metric tons in November, compared with 908,000 metric tons a
year ago, a gain of 1.3 percent.
It was the highest monthly consumption level since October
1979. However, there was an extra Sunday in November 1980,
and without it, consumption would have been down about 1.5 per-
cent.
Estimated consumption of all U.S. daily newspapers was 2.3-
percent lower in November-692,671 metric tons, compared with
709,327 in November 1979.
For the first 11 months of 1980, U.S. consumption of all users
reached 9,224,000 metric tons-down 1 percent from 1979. For
U.S. daily newspapers, it was 7,102,325 metric tons, or 1.4 per-
cent below the same period a year earlier. ^
19790 19800
1,200 --
1979-80
Estimated U.S. Consumption
Thousands of Metric Tons
Estimated consumption of all
U.S. daily newspapers'
Region
October 1910
October 1979
% Change
Northeast
175,796
174,988
+0.5
North Central
159,396
175,544
-9.2
South
206,354
205,886
+0.2
West
150,927
150,768
+0.1
Circulation alas
0-25,000
60,379
63,257
-4.5
25,001-100,000
129,159
118,665
+8.8
over 100,000
502,935
525.264
-4.3
October totals
692,473(r)
707,186
-2.1(r)
Ten-month totals
6,409,654(r)
6,492,845
-1.3(r)
Ragon
November 1910
November 1979
% Charge
Northeast
173,540
173,935
-0.2
North Central
160,666
173,010
-7.1
South
209,330
210,269
-0.4
West
149,135
152,113
-2.0
Circulation alas
0-25,000
57,742
61,597
-6.3
25,001-100,000
125,331
120,455
+4.0
over 100,000
509,598
527,275
-3.4
November totals
692,671(p)
709,327
-2.3(p)
Eleven-month totals
7,102,325(p)
7,202,172
-1.4(p)
Estimated consumption of all U.S. users
1980
1979
% Change
September totals
823,000(r)
862,000
-4.5(r)
October totals
917,000(r)
924,000
-0.8(r)
November totals
920,000(p)
908,000
+ 1.3(p)
Eleven-month totals
9,224,000(p)
9,313,000
-1.0(p)
Production
Caned.
U.S.A.
North Amsrka
November 1980
707,590
357,897
1,065,487
November 1979
748,775
329,739
1,078,514
Increase or
-41,185
+28,158
-13,027
decrease
-5.5%
+8.5%
-1.2%
Eleven months 1980
7,933,765
3,900,297
11,834,062
Eleven months 1979
8,023,879
3,377,706
11,401,585
Increase or
-90,114
+522,591
+432,477
decrease
-1.1%
+15.5%
+3.8%
November 1980 figures are preliminary.
September and October 1980 figures are revised.
Shipments
From Canadian
mills
U.S.A.
Canada
Export
Total
November 1980
478,080
82,157
130,452
690,689
November 1979
544,807
86,502
112,999
744,308
Eleven months 1980
5,585,038
893,705
1,408,181
7,886,924
Eleven months 1979
5,808,303
887,032
1,309,485
8,004,820
From U.S. mills
November 1980
335,510
10,385
345,895
November 1979
318,133
9,426
327,559
Eleven months 1980
3,718,297
158,773
3,877,070
Eleven months 1979
3,296,803
77,164
3,373,967
From North American
milt
November 1980
813,590
82,157
140,837
1,036,584
November 1979
862,940
86,502
122,425
1,071,867
Eleven months 1980
9,303,335
893,705
1,566,954
11,763,994
Eleven months 1979
9,105,106
887,032
1,386,649
11,378,787
Stocks
U.S. publishers2
(Days' supply
on hand)
(DM' supp-Y
In transit)
September 1980
782,246
36
6
September 1979
611,564
26
6
October 1980
762,829(r)
33(r)
6(r)
October 1979
584,051
23
6
November 1980
692,768(p)
33(p)
6(p)
November 1979
556,538
24
6
Camden mills
November 1980
208,535
--
--
November 1979
203,789
--
--
U.S. m
November 1980
39,558
November 1979
23,769
'Based on stratified data from ANPA-member newspapers in statistical sample; figures in this and
other tables in metric tons
2Represents stocks of ANPA-member newspapers in statistical sample
(r) = revised
(p) = preliminary
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Most see bright 1981 for newspapers
By Elise Burroughs
presstime staff writer
The U.S. Department of Commerce sees
a bright year ahead for the newspaper in-
dustry, and a presstime sampling of
newspaper executives and analysts dis-
closed general agreement.
"With the economy expected to resume
growth during 1981, newspaper pub-
lishers can also expect their business to
flourish," the department says in its annual
U.S. Industrial Outlook, scheduled for re-
lease this month.
The department forecasts a 10-percent
increase in total receipts from newspaper
advertising and circulation, reaching $19.3
billion from an estimated 1980 level of
$17.5 billion. That estimate is an 8.5-per-
cent increase from 1979, and department
economists note newspapers achieved
the growth "despite a dip in their advertis-
ing revenues in selected categories as a
result of the economic slump during 1980."
The government assessment was based
on projections made in October and No-
vember, before the late-1980 prime-inter-
est rate climb. Despite those soaring rates,
however, the analysts and publishers sur-
veyed in mid-December still expect the
newspaper business generally to make an
increasingly healthy recovery as the year
progresses.
"As far as earnings go, 1981 will be bet-
ter than 1980," predicts Bruce Thorp, a me-
dia analyst with John Muir & Co., who
forecasts 1981 earnings increases in the 8-
12-percent range.
Ken Noble, an analyst with Paine Web-
ber, says he expects "modest growth" of
10-15 percent. The best performances,
Noble adds, will come from groups of
smaller newspapers in monopoly markets.
Thorp, Noble and several publishers
believe newspaper profits in 1981 depend
on how quickly the economy pulls out of the
"slump."
"Everyone is fearful about the first quar-
ter," explains Frederick G. Harris, vice
president for finance of Dow Jones & Co.
Inc. Thorp agrees, noting that while the first
quarter is traditionally weak for newspa-
pers, he expects the economy and the
newspaper business to recover toward the
end of the year. "A weak fourth quarter
would really cut into earnings," he says.
Looking ahead to the next five years, the
Commerce Department predicts that as
the value of the nation's goods and serv-
ices increases by nearly 50 percent in cur-
rent dollars, newspapers "will maintain an
annual average rate of growth of between 9
and 10 percent."
"By 1985, total (newspaper) receipts
should be between $27 billion and $28 bil-
lion," it adds. Factoring in inflation, the
newspaper industry should maintain the
real growth rate it has "historically exhibi-
ted"-between 3 and 4 percent, according
to the report.
"Newspapers will continue to
be the most popular
advertising medium, carrying
almost 30 percent of total ad
expenditures," the Commerce
Department predicts.
Noble says his crystal ball shows a 15-
percent growth rate for 1982 and an even
better year for 1983.
As for advertising alone, the government
agency says "newspapers will continue to
be the most popular medium, carrying al-
most 30 percent of total ad expenditures."
All media-ad expenditures are projected
to increase 9 percent this year, from an es-
timated $55.5 billion in 1980 to $60.5 bil-
lion, with newspapers accounting for $16.1
billion and $17.5 billion, respectively.
The department's Bureau of Industrial
Economics believes that by mid-decade
"advertising expenditures will exceed an
estimated $83 billion with the newspaper
share forecast at $24 billion."
Private predictions are for modest
growth in advertising volume-on the or-
der of 1-2 percent, according to Thorp.
That growth, combined with expected in-
creases in rates, should produce overall
advertising revenue increases in the range
of 10-12 percent. The increases for individ-
ual newspapers, however, depend a great
deal on economic conditions in individual
markets.
In Peoria, III., for example, Henry P.
Slane, president and publisher of the Pe-
oria Journal Star (all-day, circulation
102,709), finds his advertising revenue is
closely tied to the ups and downs of local
manufacturers. "If the U.S. State Depart-
ment decides Russia can't have our pipe-
layers (equipment), Caterpillar Tractor
loses a major order. They employ 35,000
people and have a major effect on the local
economy," he explains.
In Billings, Mont., George Remington,
publisher of The Billings Gazette (morning,
58,926), says growth has been "a little
slower than anticipated" in 1980, with a
drop in classified advertising as the big-
gest problem. Although Billings is a "big
energy area" that is still growing, Reming-
ton, like many other publishers, has a "wait-
and-see" attitude toward this year's eco-
nomic climate.
Also sharing the general expectation of
1981's developing into a good economic
year for newspapers-barring a sudden
downturn-are Allen H. Neuharth, chair-
man and president of Gannett Co. Inc.; Al-
vah H. Chapman Jr., president and chief
executive of Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Inc.; and Peter Manigault, publisher of The
News and Courier (morning, 69,062) and
The Evening Post (evening, 37,510) of
Charleston, S.C.
Manigault says his biggest worry is "not
getting caught in a cost squeeze." Even if
advertising revenues rise, as they are ex-
pected to in his thriving seaport city, in-
creasing costs-mainly, for energy-may
mean "somewhat of a decline in profits," he
explains.
Dow Jones' Harris says his company,
like other larger groups, initiated cost con-
trol strategies in 1980 that should help deal
with surging expenses in 1981.
But from Chicago comes a more sober-
ing forecast.
High unemployment and poor perfor-
mance in the dominant durable goods in-
dustries are expected to bring a drop in
advertising, according to Thomas M. Talla-
rica, vice president/finance for the Chicago
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Sun-Times (morning, 655,332). The econ-
omy's downturn, he says, has seriously af-
fected three major types of classified
advertising-help wanted, auto sales and
real estate.
"I don't see that it will be a very good
year," he says, adding that "Chicago is
probably getting hit harder than the rest of
the country."
The Commerce Department's generally
bullish forecast for newspapers also is not
without its cautions.
Economists in the agency's Forest Prod-
ucts, Packaging and Printing Division warn
that "competition for local advertising is ex-
pected to increase over the next decade
as cable and pay television strengthen
their positions in local markets." Their re-
port also notes publishers' concern about
yet another threat to newspapers'
"traditional advertising markets"-"tele-
phone company access to home computer
terminals."
And the report notes that "newspaper
circulation, in aggregate, has not kept
pace with population growth."
"Publishers' profit margins," it continues,
have been aided not only by increasing ad
revenues but also by "high rates of worker
productivity."
Newspaper employment rose 3 percent
last year, from 423,000 in 1979 to an esti-
mated 436,000, according to the report. It
forecasts another 3-percent gain this year,
with the industry-wide workforce reaching
449,000 employees.
"Total employment in the industry has
made a sound recovery from its dip of
1975," the report adds, "but the number of
production workers expressed as a per-
centage of the total continues to decline."
The department says that compared to the
industry-wide employment increase of 3
percent, the number of production person-
nel edged upward by 1 percent last year,
from 168,700 to an estimated 170,000. An-
other 1 percent increase, to 172,000, is
predicted for 1981.
According to the report, production
workers now comprise about 40 percent of
total industry employment, compared to 49
percent a decade ago.
Payrolls get nearly 40 cents of every dol-
lar spent by newspapers, while "newsprint
is a newspaper publisher's second largest
cost" at almost 30 cents of that typical dol-
lar, the report says. ^
Graham condemns increase
in court orders against press
"Direct efforts by the government forc-
ibly to enlist journalists in inappropriate
functions are ... on the rise," ANPA Chair-
man and President Katharine Graham told
members of the Society of Professional
Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, at their an-
nual convention.
Prosecutors, defense attorneys and the
courts seem increasingly to view the press
as "just another investigative resource,"
she said, noting that the Reporters Com-
mittee for Freedom of the Press has deter-
mined that the number of court orders
pending against journalists or news organ-
izations was at an all-time high.
At the time of the Nov. 19-21 convention
in Columbus, Ohio, 19 reporters or news
organizations from across the country
were under court order to disclose informa-
tion or were in contempt for refusing, she
said.
Mrs. Graham, chairman of the board of
The Washington Post Co., said that in addi-
tion to confronting such problems with gov-
ernmental bodies, newspapers need to
address the question of "how we are faring
with our readers."
Referring to a report recently issued by
the Public Agenda Foundation [press-
time, Nov. 1980, p. 47], she said "when
more than half of our readers believe we
are unfair and inaccurate, I think we have
got to face up to the fact that something is
wrong."
Her views were echoed by new SPJ, SDX
President Howard Graves.
"I believe that the news media, at all lev-
els, must listen more to the public and its
concerns," Graves told presstime. The
public is telling the press that "some other
things (are) bothering us than the press
freedom issues that are irritating you. At the
same time, the news media should con-
tinue their vigilant role to keep the flow of
information to the public."
The newly elected Graves, Oregon bu-
reau chief for the Associated Press, said he
does not anticipate the creation of any new
programs this year but looks for the devel-
opment and expansion of existing ones.
Encouraging "higher professional stan-
dards and ethics in the field of journalism"
is one of his goals for the year. The society
already has begun doing that, he noted,
through a task force on continuing educa-
tion programs for professional journalists
created by his predecessor, Jean Otto of
The Milwaukee Journal.
Another recently established task force,
on minorities in journalism, is looking at
ways to "reach young people at the high
school level to talk about a career in jour-
nalism" and at ways to retain minority pro-
fessionals in journalism, Graves said. ^
New association organized to represent
independent free-circulation newspapers
About 50 publishers of shoppers and
free-circulation papers have formed a new
association to serve the interests of free
papers independently owned by compa-
nies that derive at least 75 percent of their
publication income from free-circulation
publications.
Charles A. Hawken, vice president of the
new organization called Independent Free
Papers of America, said IFPA members
were disenchanted with the recent open-
membership policy of another, much
larger organization for free-circulation
publications, the National Association of
Advertising Publishers [presstime, Oct.
1980, p. 5].
Hawken, publisher of the 30-year-old
Flashes Shopping Guide in Stuart, Fla.,
said many NAAP members compete
against large, "chain-owned," free papers
whose free-circulation business is not their
mainstay. Representatives of those big
companies attend NAAP meetings and
learn competitive secrets of the small pub-
lishers, he added.
IFPA, which held its "founding confer-
ence" recently in Lansing, Mich., will ex-
clude those competitors, Hawken said. ^
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Gannett plans
satellite system;
eyes U.S. paper
Citing American consumers' "intense
hunger for information," Gannett Co. Chair-
man and President Allen H. Neuharth an-
nounced Dec. 16 that the giant commu-
nications company is establishing a na-
tionwide satellite communications network
capable of transmitting "news, information,
advertising and entertainment."
Neuharth did not disclose specific uses
of the system, although options being in-
vestigated include a "new national general
interest daily newspaper" called U.S.A.
TODAY.
The satellite activities will be coordi-
nated by a new Gannett Satellite Informa-
tion Network, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Gannett Co. Inc. that was established after
a year of research into the public's informa-
tion needs, Neuharth said. The subsidiary
will be based in Washington, D.C., and the
earth station will be installed at the nearby
Springfield, Va., production facilities of
Army Times Publishing Co.
GSIN this year will create prototypes for
U.S.A. TODAY, which could be launched in
1982 if market tests are positive, the com-
pany announced.
Also to be studied is the possibility of
transmitting radio and cable-television
programs, advertising supplements, news
supplements and unspecified other "pro-
ducts and services."
Neuharth would not comment on
whether the Virginia transmission facility
could be used for the SAT-FAX project, the
newspaper industry's plan for a test sys-
tem in which national advertising would be
delivered to newspapers via satellite
[presstime, Oct. 1980, p. 23]. The ques-
tion of who actually would transmit SAT-
FAX materials remains undecided.
The Gannett chief executive also said he
had no estimate on the costs of the GSIN
research and new facilities.
Neuharth, former ANPA chairman and
president, told an annual gathering of 250
Gannett publishers, managers and other
executives in Washington that the new tele-
communications network and proposed
newspaper will not compete with or affect
the autonomy of Gannett's 81 newspapers,
seven television stations and 13 radio sta-
tions. Material transmitted via satellite,
however, could be used for company-
owned media, including the corporation's
38,000 billboards.
Thirty Gannett newspapers already have
satellite receiving dishes to obtain Asso-
ciated Press news services. Gannett will
be leasing time through the American Sat-
ellite Co. on Westar III, the same satellite
used by AP and United Press International.
Technically, therefore, the satellite dishes
already in place could be used to receive
both new Gannett transmissions as well as
AP and UPI data.
Lawrence Sackett, vice president/opera-
tions for the satellite network, said that
GSIN has not yet "explored the whole
range of questions" regarding the legality
of such use. "We have not contacted AP or
UPI," Sackett said.
Other key executives of GSIN, some of
whom participated in the research leading
to its creation, are:
? Maurice Hickey, 46, former publisher
of Gannett newspapers in Florida, New
York, Illinois and Michigan, who was
named president of GSIN
? Ron Martin, 43, former editor of The
News-American of Baltimore, named vice
president/news
? Frank Vega, 32, former distribution
executive for Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Inc., named vice president/distribution
systems
? Thomas J. Baskind, 33, vice presi-
dent/communications for CBS Sports,
named vice president/marketing commu-
nications
? Linda Peek, 29, former director of
communications for the Carter-Mondale
re-election campaign, named vice presi-
dent/public affairs.
Referring to Gannett's recent desig-
nation by Dun's Review as one of the five
best-managed companies in the United
States, Neuharth said the company will
continue its "deft" mixture of acquisitions,
internal expansion, central planning and
local autonomy.
He also announced that Gannett fin-
ished 1980 with a gain in profits for the 53rd
consecutive quarter. Overall sales for the
year were expected to reach $1.2 billion.^
Freedom Newspapers Inc., Santa Ana,
Calif., acquired the Huron (S.D.) Daily
Plainsman, daily circulation 13,724.
Worrell Newspapers Inc., Charlottes-
ville, Va., acquired The Middlesboro (Ky.)
Daily News, daily circulation 7,030. ^
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When Norman Rockwell visited a country weekly
By Doug Crews
More than 35 years have passed since
the famous American artist, the late Nor-
man Rockwell, traveled to Paris, Mo., to
document in sketches and oil painting per-
haps the nation's best-known country edi-
tor of the era, Jack Blanton, and the
Monroe County Appeal.
Rockwell visited Paris in April 1945, and
his feature on Blanton and the Appeal was
published in the May 25, 1946, issue of the
Saturday Evening Post. The artist's paint-
ing of the front office at the Appeal (see
above) appeared in full color. The original
painting now hangs in the National Press
Club in downtown Washington, D.C.
The Post issue provided this description
of the front-office scene:
"Blanton is shown batting out a last-min-
ute editorial. That picture above his desk is
one of his father, who founded the Appeal.
Crews is editor of The Missouri Press News
and assistant director of the Missouri Press As-
sociation. This article is reprinted by permission
from The Missouri Press News.
The gold-star service flag hangs beneath a
picture of a grandson of Blanton's, who
would have succeeded him as editor if he
hadn't lost his life in the Army Air Forces.
Peering over Blanton's shoulder is the Ap-
peal's printer, Paul Nipps, whose experi-
enced eye is gauging the number of
printed lines the editorial will take up. At
right, Malcolm Higgins, combination city
editor and reporter, is talking over sub-
scriptions with a couple of customers. The
man in the wicker chair just dropped in to
read a back number. At left, typing, is Sec-
retary Fernelle (Blondie) Wood. Dashing
past her with a piece of copy is Dickie
Wyatt, the printer's devil."
Rockwell is "bursting in at the door." The
magazine comments, "Naturally, Rockwell
has allowed himself a certain amount of ar-
tistic license; he didn't actually catch him-
self in the act of breaking and entering. The
fact is that he hung around the place for
days sketching the staff and an occasional
visitor, and he couldn't resist the tempta-
tion to make himself part of the friendly
scene."
The only two people shown in the paint-
ing who are still living are Higgins and
Wood.
Higgins, who now lives in Topeka, Kan.,
and is retired as an editorial writer from the
Topeka Capital-Journal, says the two sub-
scribers with whom he was talking were Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Wood, Blondie's parents.
He also remembers "sitting in that wicker
chair with my hat pulled low across my face
and doubling for the man who dropped in
to read the newspaper. Rockwell may later
have posed someone else for a model
there, but I think not."
Rockwell's visit came the week following
President Franklin Roosevelt's death. The
two pictures in the upper left corner of the
Appeal edition the "customer" is reading
are those of Roosevelt and his successor,
Harry Truman. Word of FDR's death came
just after the April 12 issue was printed, so
it was a top story the next week.
"Rockwell was a friendly man with a
good sense of humor and a genuine inter-
est in people," Higgins recalls. "We soon
realized why his pictures were so appeal-
ing: Rockwell enjoyed people and had a
keen insight into human nature.
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"In many ways he was like Jack Blanton
Blanton liked people, loved to converse
with them and to find out what they were
doing; he liked to 'kid' with them and to
praise the good things they did."
Higgins believes Rockwell went to Paris
at the request of Ben Hibbs. the Saturday
Evening Post editor. Hibbs, a Kansan, had
been editor of the Country Gentleman, Cur-
tis Publishing Co.'s farm magazine; he had
read Blanton's editorials on farm topics
and rural living, and once had sent a Coun-
try Gentleman writer to Paris to do a story
on Blanton, Higgins says.
Rockwell first entered the office on
Thursday afternoon, press day. Higgins re-
calls that a photographer from the Univer-
sity of Missouri-Columbia accompanied
him. The photographer took more than 100
shots of the office and of various people
and groups in scenes arranged by Rock-
well after he had questioned the staff about
newspaper routine and shop procedure
and decided what would make the most in-
teresting pictures.
Rockwell did not paint while in Paris-
though he may have made some sketches,
and he noted colors and other information
which helped him make his pictures life-
like.
After the newspaper was printed and
things were less hectic, the staff had time
to show Rockwell around, answer ques-
tions and help him plan. Higgins and some
of the staff ate with him at a restaurant Fri-
day noon, Higgins recalls.
Rockwell was in Paris three days, stay-
ing at the old Jefferson Hotel. One night,
Blanton hosted a dinner party in Rockwell's
honor at Pine Springs restaurant at the Pa-
ris golf course. Guests were the advertis-
ers, other leading Paris citizens, news-
paper people from neighboring towns and
Appeal staff members. Rockwell furnished
the entertainment with an interesting and
amusing talk about his work as an artist.
While in Paris, Rockwell also addressed a
school assembly and the Paris Rotary Club
meeting, according to accounts in the Ap-
peal.
Higgins offers the following recollections
about the Rockwell sketches (some re-
printed here):
"Staff members were taken aback when
they saw the picture of the press. That
folder never would have turned, because
the chain hung down by the watering can
instead of being connected to a cogwheel
on the press. (The picture was made Fri-
day, the day after press day, and in push-
ing the folder back up to the press, we
forgot to attach the chain.) I wonder how
many old printers had a good laugh at our
expense when they saw the Post?
" 'Why a watering can near the folder?' a
cold-type journalist may ask. The folder
was just across from the smelter where
Blondie and Dickie are shown melting Li-
notype metal. After the lead 'pigs' were
poured into an iron mold and a crust had
formed, water was sprinkled on them to
hasten cooling. Woe to anyone who
poured too soon, before they became
solid, for water on molten lead caused a mi-
Calamity! Printer's devil Wyatt
trips, scrambles hand-set ad.
Printer Nipp at Intertype
nor explosion;
"The Linotype (really an Intertype Model
C) was attached to a tank of liquified gas
just outside the window. When one tank ran
out of fuel, the operator went outside and
switched to the full bottle. Usually he didn't
realize the fuel had run out until the metal in
the melting pot began to get cold. We al-
ways hoped it wouldn't happen on press
day.
"The picture of Dickie Wyatt and the
scrambled type does him an injustice. I
don't think the young man, who was in my
Boy Scout troop, ever pied any type. And
we seldom locked ads in job-press
chases, such as he was holding-unless
they were auction ads and we wanted to
print some sale bills.
"Mr. Blanton's farm and livestock column
was a good one. Melvin Eichor, with whom
he is shown conversing, was an auctioneer
who often furnished Mr. Blanton with farm
and stock items. Sales days at Eichor's
auction ring and Saturdays brought lots of
farmers to town, and it wasn't too hard to
pick up items, since Mr. Jack (Blanton) had
accustomed people to telling about their
projects.
"The best story about the farm column
was that Mr. Jack tried to include news
about the poultry flocks and reports of egg
production. But the women, who had
charge of this phase of farm management,
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resisted giving information: 'We're afraid
someone will come and steal our hens!' Mr.
Blanton would look the protesting lady
straight in the eye and say firmly: 'Ma'am,
the Monroe County Appeal has no chicken
thieves on its subscription list.' He usually
got his story."
The pictures give a good idea of what the
old newspaper office looked like, Higgins
says. The building has since been razed.
"When I got my copy of the magazine (in
1946) out in Salina, Kan., where I had gone
to work, it was like a trip back into the Ap-
peal office," Higgins says. "Things looked
thoroughly familiar-from the green front
doortothe missing bulbs in the wall fixtures
to the broken slat on the venetian blind.
"Mr. Blanton had a knack of making peo-
ple feel that Paris was an extra-special
place. And so it was," Higgins noted. "And
Norman Rockwell did the same." ^
Credit Bureau tops off big year NNA, ANPA discuss
The 1980 recession helped contribute to
a banner year for Credit Bureau Inc.,
credit and collection agency that is a
wholly owned subsidiary of ANPA
[presstime, Aug. 1980, p. 48].
CBI in 1980 collected a record $1.6 mil-
lion, $400,000 more than in 1979, its pre-
vious high year.
Over the past two years, the number of
CBI subscribers has doubled-to 360.
CBI Vice President James Ralph said
computerization played a role in the bu-
reau's performance by helping to improve
reporting and collection data, thereby al-
lowing the bureau to handle more sub-
scribers and other customers.
As the economy tightens, accurate infor-
mation about advertisers and efficient col-
lection are becoming more important to
clients, he said. "Some big ad agencies
have been going under."
CBI offers its subscribers-which in-
clude newspapers, magazines and broad-
cast stations-a package of credit
reporting and collection services, includ-
ing a credit index, answers to credit inquir-
ies, a monthly report on accounts received
for collection, bulletins on fraudulent ads
and other significant developments, col-
lection service on both local and national
advertising, and credit management semi-
nars.
CBI receives a 10-percent commission
on funds collected for subscribers. It also
provides collection service to non-sub-
scribers for a 15-percent commission. ^
Newsroom Guide price
reduced to $10 a copy
The single-copy price of ANPA's
"Newsroom Guide to Polls and Surveys"
has been reduced from $12.50 to $10.
The per-copy price for orders of 10 or
more remains at $8 [presstime, Oct.
1980, p. 31 ].
The guide is designed to help report-
ers, editors and others interpret and
analyze polls.
cooperative effort
The National Newspaper Association's
cooperative discussions with ANPA are
continuing.
NNA, which recently has suffered finan-
cial problems, is considering various cost-
saving measures which might involve co-
operation with ANPA [presstime, Nov.
1980, p. 41 ].
ANPA Vice Chairman William C. Marcil
met Dec. 19 in Washington, D.C., with
members of the NNA Executive and Fi-
nance' committees. Marcil, publisher of
The Forum, Fargo, N.D., has been autho-
rized by the ANPA Board to hold talks with
NNA.
During NNA's annual convention last
October, the organization's Board of Direc-
tors authorized a study into the various
possibilities, including location of some
NNA offices at The Newspaper Center in
Reston. Later that month, members of the
NNA Board toured ANPA facilities at The
Newspaper Center in Reston, Va., and met
with senior ANPA officials. ^
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In Minnesota,
newspapers say
`How wonderful!'
St..J aoeitx ?azetfz
St. J 00,eh. 05 azett)e
The Minnesota Newspaper Foundation's
most generous benefactor has been iden-
tified.
He is Jared How, publisher of the Free
Press in Mankato, Minn., and immediate
past president of the Minnesota Newspa-
per Association. His gift could reach six fig-
ures, depending on the generosity of
others.
"We tried-and did-keep his identity a
secret," MNA Manager Robert M. Shaw ex-
plained in a recent bulletin. "But the prob-
lem was that some members believed
there was no 'mystery man' at all-that it
was some sort of promotional gimmick to
raise money."
How's pledge is to match dollar-for-dol-
lar contributions made to the foundation
endowment from 1980 through 1982, up to
a maximum of $100,000. So far, $19,000
has come in. Only the interest accrued on
the donations from How and others may be
spent.
The foundation was established a year
ago to provide comprehensive training
for Minnesota newspaper personnel.
It will sponsor its first program, a Man-
agement Clinic, Jan. 8-10 at Monticello,
Minn. ^
Editors at the St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette Dec. 9 corrected what may qualify as the world's oldest,
most frequently repeated typo. They replaced the Old English "I," with which they had been
erroneously spelling the newspaper's nameplate for more than 77 years, with a "J." The newspa-
per owned up to the mistake in a front-page story that began "Are we embarrassed!" A reader
had pointed out the misspelling. It was traced to 1903 when the newspaper's ownership and
management changed hands. The Incorrect (top) and the correct (bottom) versions of the logo
appear above. Would you have noticed?
Safe Driving Campaign pays dividend
Information on the annual ANPA-Interna-
tional Circulation Managers Association
Safe Driving Campaign was mailed to pub-
lishers of daily newspapers in December.
The campaign, started in 1941, is de-
signed to reduce highway fatalities and in-
juries in the United States and Canada,
and to build a safe-driving record in the
newspaper business leading to reductions
in insurance premiums for newspaper-dis-
tribution vehicles [presstime, June 1980,
p. 24].
The accident rate in 1979 was 31-per-
cent lower than that of 1941. In the inter-
vening years, many insurance companies
have reduced newspaper industry-wide
premiums on several occasions, resulting
in savings conservatively estimated at $1.5
million a year.
Officials also note that 565 daily newspa-
pers participated in the program in 1979.
Other papers are urged to participate
Associated Press Managing Editors Association, at its annual meeting Nov. 18-21 in
Phoenix, Ariz., elected the following officers:
? President-Larry Allison, editor, Long Beach (Calif.) Independent and Press-Tele-
gram
? Vice President-Robert Haiman, executive editor, St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
? Secretary-Edward D. Miller, executive editor, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.
? Treasurer-James F. Daubel, editor and publisher, The News-Messenger, Fremont,
Ohio.
Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, at its annual meeting Nov. 19-
22 in Columbus, Ohio, elected the following officers:
? President-Howard Graves, chief of bureau, Associated Press, Portland, Ore.
? President-elect-Charles R. Novitz, managing director, Independent Television
News Association, New York City
? Vice President for Campus Chapter Affairs-Burt Bostrom, associate professor of
journalism, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
? Secretary-Steven R. Dornfeld, political writer, Minneapolis Tribune
? Treasurer-Phil J. Record, managing editor, Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram. ^
this year. The campaign is open to all daily
newspapers at no charge.
Further details are available from the
ANPA Newsprint/Traffic Department or
from ICMA, both of which are located at
The Newspaper Center, Reston, Va. ^
First Amendment insurance
offered to non-ANPA weeklies
The Potomac Insurance Co. Ltd. this
month began offering First Amendment in-
surance to weekly newspapers that are not
members of ANPA.
The company, a wholly owned subsid-
iary of Mutual Insurance Co. Ltd. of Hamil-
ton, Bermuda, is the second firm to offer
newspapers insurance coverage for legal
expenses relating to First Amendment
cases; the first was Mutual [presstime,
Nov. 1980, p. 10], which made it available
in early 1980 to all ANPA members.
In addition, the National Association of
Broadcasters is sponsoring a new libel
/First Amendment insurance plan for
broadcasters, underwritten by CNA Insur-
ance Co. of Chicago and supervised by
Media/Professional Insurance Inc. ^
Inland sets cost clinics
Two clinics on how newspapers should
budget, set up an economic model and
use cost information have been scheduled
by the Inland Daily Press Association for
Feb. 10-11 in Toronto and March 5-6 in San
Francisco.
Twenty-five participants at each meeting
will have an opportunity to pose questions
about Inland's 1980 cost study and to ob-
tain help in completing cost study forms.
Registration costs $150. For more informa-
tion, contact Bill Boykin or Don Durkes at
312-782-0513. ^
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Board adopts budget, sets priorities for '81
The ANPA Board of Directors at its De-
cember meeting adopted a 1981 program
and budget which initiates some new,
high-priority activities and enhances Asso-
ciation efforts in such areas as government
relations, telecommunications, SAT-FAX,
the kenaf project, consulting engineering
and technical training for newspaper exec-
utives.
Estimated total cost of the 1981 program
is $7,191,800, and anticipated revenue for
the year is $7,446,125.
To finance the expanded Association
program, the budget calls for general in-
creases in most Association fees and
charges-for such activities as training
courses, publications, the Convention,
Production Management Conference,
etc.-and a 5-percent increase in the dues
formula. The dues action was taken by the
Board under authority granted it by the
membership at the 1980 Convention.
Among the decisions made by the Board
and included in the 1981 program were the
following:
? Staff members will be added in the
Government Affairs and Telecommunica-
tions departments to support growing As-
sociation activity in those areas.
? A telecommunications "demonstra-
tion room" will be established at The News-
paper Center for the use of newspaper
executives who wish "hands-on" experi-
ence with new media and new commu-
nications technologies.
? An engineer will be added to the Re-
search Institute staff to assist particularly in
the further testing of new press-technology
projects, including work at the several test-
site installations of ANPAPRESST" units at
the plants of member newspapers.
? A total of $125,000 will be provided
for a study of kenaf growing, harvesting
and processing techniques to be con-
ducted by Soil and Land Use Technology
Inc., Columbia, Md. [presstime, July
1980, P. 50].
? A total of $200,000 will be provided to
assist in the SAT-FAX project work being
done cooperatively by several newspaper
business groups under the direction of the
SAT-FAX Steering Committee [press-
time, Oct. 1980, p. 23].
? Presstime will continue on a
monthly schedule with its distribution list
stabilized at about the present 9,500-copy
level.
In addition to new and special-priority
projects, the 1981 budget will allow ANPA
to continue its high level of operation in all
present activities such as training, labor
and personnel relations, government rela-
tions, technical research and testing serv-
ices, court defenses of cases important to
Facilities Planning Committee authorized
to begin design work for Reston expansion
The ANPA Board of Directors has auth-
orized the Association's Facilities Planning
Committee to initiate preliminary architec-
tural design work for an addition to The
Newspaper Center in Reston, Va.
An addition would house the personnel
and operations of the ANPA Research In-
stitute, now in Easton, Pa., and some other
activities [presstime, March 1980, p. 51 ].
The preliminary-design study will be per-
formed by architects of Wigton-Abbott
Corp. of Plainfield, N.J., the firm which su-
pervised original construction of ANPA's
headquarters in the early 1970s.
Completion of analyses and drawings in
this design phase will permit the Board to
decide by spring when it might wish con-
struction to start. Estimated construction
time is about 18 months.The Board is
scheduled to consider at its February
meeting various possible financing options
for any new construction.
Also at its December meeting, the Board
reaffirmed the Association's policy of
continuing to provide space for the offices
of other newspaper-business associa-
tions, societies and groups within a
"Newspaper Center" concept. Other or-
ganizations now co-located with ANPA in
Reston include the American Society of
Newspaper Editors, the International
Newspaper Promotion Association and the
International Circulation Managers Associ-
ation. Several other groups have indicated
they would consider locating in an ex-
panded Newspaper Center. ^
the business, information sharing through
publications, and the annual Convention
and Production Management Conference.
The Board also expressed a desire that
this year even more systematic opportuni-
ties be provided for the participation of the
Association's standing committees in the
program planning and budget devel-
opment process. A consultant will be re-
tained early in the year to work with the
Board and the staff on development of a
somewhat more formal planning and prior-
ity-selection process. ^
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Minority fellowships approved
The ANPA Foundation Board of Trustees
has approved plans for a minority
fellowship program for 1981.
It will provide funds for as many as 15
minority newspaper professionals and fac-
ulty members at historically black colleges
to attend ANPA training sessions. Nomi-
nation and selection procedures will be an-
nounced this month.
The fellowship program is included in
the Foundation's 1981 operating budget of
$462,675, adopted by the Trustees at their
Dec. 4 meeting in New York City.
General emphasis of the Foundation will
remain on the Newspaper in Education
program. The work of two NIE field advi-
sors will continue; several new curriculum
materials will be offered to newspapers in
camera-ready form; and marketing of NIE
to educational organizations will increase.
The Trustees also allocated funds to
support NIE research and several educa-
tional slide shows to be developed by the
Newspaper Readership Project.
In addition, the Foundation this year will:
? Publish a manual to encourage news-
papers and journalism schools to cooper-
ate in developing internships concen-
trating on newspaper business operations
? Conduct a new seminar, "Teaching
Literacy Through Journalistic Writing," for
secondary school teachers of English
composition and journalism
? Provide financial assistance to The
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press and to the American Council on Edu-
cation for Journalism-soon to become
the Accrediting Council on Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication
[presstime, Dec. 1980, p. 31 ]. ^
Convention program
begins to take shape
Registration information will be mailed
this month for the 95th Annual ANPA Con-
vention May 4-6 at the Hyatt Regency in
Chicago [presstime, Nov. 1980, p. 49].
The Convention Arrangements Commit-
tee will meet again Jan. 13 to discuss pos-
sible Convention topics.
Subjects currently under consideration
include: the Republican mandate in Con-
gress; the presidential nominating pro-
cess; new newspaper promotion efforts;
alternative newspapers; the FTC's volume
discount ad case against the Los Angeles
Times; the space shuttle program and the
100,000-ASA electronic camera.
Telecommunications developments and
issues will receive major attention.
Consideration also is being given to ses-
sions on a variety of circulation issues, in-
cluding alternate delivery systems, total
market coverage and shoppers.
Entertainment will be by Peter Duchin
and his orchestra and by Victor Borge.
Suggestions for topics should be di-
rected to Committee Chairman Clayton
Kirkpatrick of the Chicago Tribune Co., or
to ANPA Assistant General Manager
Thomas C. Fichter. ^
New members
i
Metrospan Community Newspapers, Wil-
lowdale, Ontario, group of eight newspa-
pers: Scarborough Mirror, North York
Mirror, Oakville Journal Record, Etobicoke
Advertiser/Guardian, Richmond Hill/Thorn-
hill Liberal, Aurora/Newmarket Banner,
Woodbridge & Vaughan News, and Bolton
Enterprise (total circulation 176,500). John
Baxter, president.
0, 4amusutlle Mmes-3Enterprise
Thomasville, Ga. (circulation 10,535). L.
Edward Kelly, publisher.
111t JaUrii (0tmu-Nulls
Lanett, Ala. (circulation 10,569). Tom
Walls, publisher.
NmmJHe#vdd
Panama City, Fla. (circulation 26,401).
Scott Fischer, publisher.
Equipment for sale
Compugraphic 2961 (HS) with wire stripper, two Font
Strips (81/2 and 91/2 points); $2000. Contact B J. To-
maso, production manager, Milford Daily News, 159 S
Main St., Milford, Mass 01757, [phone]
Stepper Paper-man has fold 'n tyer with wrapping
feature, like new, $5,000 Contact Cecil 0 Flowers, di-
rector of operations, The Jackson Sun, 245 W La-
fayette St., Jackson, Tenn. 38301, [phone]
DEC PDP-81 computer Two RK05 removable disks,
one DF32 fixed head disk, one LPO2 line pointer, two
TU56 tape units, one CR8 card reader and one ASR33
console device. This is a complete running system with
interfaces for all peripherals, available immediately
Contact Lynn Hamilton, business manager, The Arkan-
sas Democrat, Little Rock, Ark 72116; [phone]
Two Compuscan model 170's, serial numbers L4292
and L4294, 16K memory, soft drives, BRPE interfaces
and punches, 1/O boards, IBM 1130 interface and ca-
bles, scan header program; makes forms, prints and
documentation; in excellent condition and running On
line now to a PDP 11/70. Will demonstrate
Also, Chemco Spartan II Roll Film Camera, three-roll
capacity, contact screen mechanism, external flash,
Berkey-Ascor Pulser Xenon Lights, 6 kw, and Luxome-
ter 80-602 light integrator.
All in excellent condition. Contact James P. Quinn,
production manager, The Home News, 123 How Lane,
New Brunswick, N.J 08903, [phone].
Mid-States wire-tying machine, model 2-125B-
VHDS, $1,000, 50 rolls of twist-wrap wire $27 per roll,
Graphotype model 6440, $500; Addressograph model
2605 and eight boxes of plates; Addressograph model
600, $500. Contact Sidney H Bliss, assistant general
manager, The Janesville Gazette, 1 S Parker Drive,
Janesville, Wis. 53545, [phone].
Disc guard for Photon Mark Ito IV non-segmented
Disc, protects matrix from scratches when removing
disc and installing disc, made of clear plexiglass, price
$12.95 plus postage and handling. Contact C. W.
Boyer, The Trentonian, P.O. Box 231, Trenton, N.J.
08602.
Complete copy processing system available either
as a lot or piecemeal: three Harris 1253 Microstor cen-
tral processors; one remote adapter for Microstor; one
Computype Ministor central processor with two disc
drives; 15 Computype Compuedit terminals; six Titus
1 700/Z terminals; one Pacesetter phototypesetter inter-
face; three tape punches; one tape reader; one four-
way multiplexer, spare parts kits for central processors,
terminals and interface; miscellaneous manual boxes,
cable, plugs, etc. Contact Peter DeRose, Daily Hamp-
shire Gazette, 115 Conz St., Northampton, Mass.
01060; [phone].
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Communications
I read with interest your article on (inter-
nal) communications in the December is-
sue of presstime (employee relations).
You are correct that effective communica-
tions is the link that helps improve compa-
nies. We have a unique way of addressing
communications at the Telegraph Herald.
Our concept, introduced and developed
by the University of Chicago, is called the
Design Group-Steering Committee con-
cept. This concept attempts to link the "in-
formal" system with the "formal" communi-
cations system-although many of the
newspapers in your article are attempting
to improve communications, I feel they still
try to address communications in a much
too formal manner.
Our communications efforts are part of
an overall organizational improvement pro-
cess which addresses other problems
such as supervisor training, goal setting,
problem solving and team building. Ulti-
mately, communications is not an end, but
a means of achieving more efficiency and
productivity in the workplace-it cannot be
isolated from the other challenges facing
the company and its management.
Sid Scott
Director of organizational development
Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa
More media critics
David Shaw of the Los Angeles Times
knows better, and presstime should
have.
When presstime ran Shaw's essay
(Nov. 1980) in which he self-servingly dec-
orated his paper for being the only one in
the United States with a full-time media
critic, presstime did more than become a
conduit for polluting the truth. Shaw's fur-
ther indiscretion via presstime was to de-
mean unfairly the work of several
newspaper ombudsmen.
My completion in January 1981 of seven
years as the full-time media critic at The
Louisville Times knocks the stuffings out of
Shaw's claim of being inimitable.
It was January 1974 when publisher
Barry Bingham Jr. of the Louisville dailies
created the new role of media critic and
asked me to fill it.
The (Louisville) papers already had their
pace-setting ombudsman in place, in the
person of John Herchenroeder (replaced
upon retirement in 1979, after a dozen
years, by Frank Hartley). But Bingham
wanted in addition a column-writing media
critic with untrammeled discretion to call
the tune on all manner of news agencies-
beginning with his newspapers but ex-
tending to other dailies, community news-
papers, magazines and local and network
broadcast journalism.
I suspect it is ... parochialism that led
Shaw to kiss off the work of all column-writ-
ing ombudsmen as dealing only with spe-
cific mistakes made by their own papers,
and not with broad press issues.
That is a harsh and inappropriate put-
down of the performance record of Thor
Severson, until recently ombudsman at
The Sacramento Bee, and of Richard Cun-
ningham of the Minneapolis Tribune,
among others. Indeed, Shaw did a disser-
vice to the occasional column forays on
press issues of Austin Wehrwein of The
Minneapolis Star.
It was certainly inappropriate to overlook
the many occasions when basic, broad
questions of press performance were dealt
with in print by Charles Seib and before him
by Robert Maynard, as ombudsmen at The
Washington Post.
As my string as media critic nears its run-
out point in mid-1981, I must sadly agree
with Shaw's observation of how few news-
papers have seen the self-serving wisdom
of establishing their own gadfly. But let's
not compound the deliquency in the public
eye by reminding people that we in journal-
ism are so lacking in candid self-examina-
tion that we persist even in missing some of
the brave efforts that do exist.
Bob Schulman
News critic
The Louisville Times
Louisville, Ky.
Liked auto ad story
I just finished the excellent story on the
automotive situation in the November is-
sue, and Hugh Quinn and I want to compli-
ment Margaret Genovese on the accurate
manner in which she handled our several
phone conversations.
I think she did an outstanding job of tak-
ing a lot of unrelated (and perhaps ram-
bling) thoughts about our problems and
opportunities in the automotive area and
put them together in a highly readable and
extremely factual article.
We appreciate her professional talent in
getting a good handle on a complex story,
quoting us fairly and explaining to your
publisher audience the current automotive
advertising situation at the factory and
dealer level.
Val Corradi
Vice president, automotive marketing
Newspaper Advertising Bureau
New York, N.Y.
`Shoppers' report
Your "special report" on "shoppers" in
your October issue included information
about Newsday's total market selling pro-
gram. For the record, I'd like to correct two
errors in your story:
? Newsday's Weekly Special, which is
distributed free to nonsubscribers, is not
printed in an outside plant. It is printed on
our own presses every week.
? The editorial material in the Weekly
Special is not "timeless, feature-type edi-
torial material." This editorial material con-
sists of selected stories that appeared in
the regular editions of Newsday within the
past week. Most of this editorial material is
keyed locally to the three areas of Long Is-
land that receive appropriate local editions
of the Weekly Special.
Jack Squire
Director of promotion and public affairs
Newsday
Long Island, N.Y.
Satellite coverage
I thought the article in the October issue
of presstime on satellite distribution sys-
tems is the most comprehensive article on
the subject that I have seen so far.
As one who has been coordinating the
UPI satellite project, I can understand the
complexities you had to deal with in writing
the article.
Frederick H. Marks
Executive assistant to the president
United Press International
New York, N.Y.
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speeches
Single copies of the following speeches are available from the ANPA Public Affairs De-
partment:
? Address by Katharine Graham, ANPA chairman and president and chairman of
the board, The Washington Post Co. Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma
Delta Chi annual convention, Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 21.
? Newspapers-Surviving the '80s. Frank A. Bennack Jr., president, The Hearst
Corp. Inland Daily Press Association annual meeting, Chicago, Oct. 20.
? Maintaining the Newspaper as an Essential Component of our Communica-
tions System. Harold A. Schwartz, director of circulation, Milwaukee Journal and
Sentinel. International Newspaper Promotion Association Western conference,
Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 7.
? History of Computerizing a 5-county Area. Glenn L. McCurdy, circulation direc-
tor, Evansville (Ind.) Printing Corp. Circulation Computer Systems Symposium,
Chicago, Oct. 9.
? Federal and State Waste Regulations and their Possible Implications for News-
papers. George R. Cashau, coordinator of operations, ANPA Research Institute.
National Safety Congress and Exposition annual meeting, Chicago, Oct. 21.
? Newspaper Management Trends and Readership Trends In the 1980s. Robert L.
Burke, director of readership and training, ANPA. New Jersey Press Association
convention, Absecon, N.J., Nov. 20.
? Newsprint as the Decade Progresses. Jon G. Udell, ANPA economics consultant
and Irwin Maier professor of business, University of Wisconsin. ANPA Newsprint
Committee and Newsprint Section of the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association
meeting, Washington, D.C., Nov. 14.
? The Press: Special Position or Special Privilege? Roger Tatarian, professor of
journalism, California State University at Fresno, and former vice president and
editor in chief, United Press International. Colby College, Waterville, Maine, Nov.
? UNESCO and the Media: A Report on Developments at Belgrade. Dana Bullen of
The Washington Star, journalist in residence, Edward R. Murrow Center of Public
Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Medford,
Mass., Nov. 10.
? The Publisher's Responsibility to Marketing. Helen K. Copley, ANPA director
and chairman and chief executive officer, The Copley Press Inc., La Jolla, Calif.
? The Politician Views the Press. Louis A. Lerner, editor and publisher, Lerner
Newspapers Inc., Chicago, and former U.S. ambassador to Norway.
? Television-Screen Newspaper. Claus Detjen, director, German Newspaper Pub-
lishers Association.
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ANPA calendar
January
ANPA Convention Arrangements Committee meeting
Hyatt Regency-Chicago, Jan. 5
ANPA/R1 Basic Offset Press and Plate Seminar
ANPA Research Institute, Easton, Pa., Jan. 5-9
ANPA/RI Camara Techniques Seminar
ANPA Research Institute, Easton, Pa.,Jan. 5-9
ANPA nternational Newspaper Promotion Association Promotion Managers Workshop
Fort Lauderdale (Fla) Marriott Hotel, Jan. 12-14
ANPALabor and Personnel Relations Conference
Del Webb's Mountain Shadows Resort and CountryClub, Scottsdale, Ariz., Jan. 14-17
ANPA Training Committee meeting
Union-Tribune Building, San Diego, Jan. 15
ANPA Labor and Personnel Relations Committee meeting
Del Webb's Mountain Shadows Resort and Country Club, Scottsdale, Ariz., Jan. 17 11 ANPA/RI Management introduction to New Technology Seminar
ANPA Research Institute, Easton, Pa., Jan. 19-23
ANPA Research and Production Committee meeting
ANPA Research institute, Easton, Pa., Jan. 20-22
ANPA/international Circulation Managers Assocfation/Newspaper Personnel Relations Associ-
atloMNPA Circulation Managers Workshop
Marina del Rey Marriott inn, Los Angeles, Jan. 26-2$
February
ANPA Board of Directors meeting
Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Kamuela, Hawaii, Feb. 2-4
ANPA/RI Basic Offset : Press and Plate Seminar
ANPA Research institute, Easton, Pa., Feb. 2-6
ANPA Management Development Workshop
Drake Hotel, Chicago, Feb. 23-27
ANPA/RI Direct Screen Color Separation Seminar
ANPA Research Institute, Easton, Pa.; Feb. 23-27
March
ANPA/iNPA Strategic Planning Seminar
Houstonian Inn, Houston, March-1-4
ANPA Telecommunications Committee and the American Working Party of the International
Press Telecommunications Council meeting
Hyatt Regency Washington, March 5-6
ANPA Labor Negotiators Seminar
Drake Hotel, Chicago, March 8.11
ANPA Press/Bar Relations Committee meeting
international Club, Washington, March 9:
ANPA/Ri Basic Offset Press and Plate Seminar
ANPA Research Institute, Easton, Pa., March 9-13
ANPA Executive Committee meeting
The Washington Post, March 16
ANPA/American Bar Association Task Force meeting
L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, March 10
ANPA Government Affairs Committee meeting
L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, Washington, March 10-11
ANPA Conference for Young Newspaper Men and Women
Don CeSar Hotel, St. Petersburg, Fla., March 15-16
ANPA/RI Camera Techniques Seminar
ANPA Research Institute, Easton, Pa., March 23-27
ANPA Newspaper Executive Marketing Seminar
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