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Your connection to industry & member news | April 1, 2020
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COVID-19 updates and resourcesFree Webinar:
- Digital and print subscription benchmarks, best practices during COVID-19 pandemic | April 2, 2020 | 2 p.m.
In light of the COVID-19 disruption on news media business models, Mather Economics will share benchmarks and tactics on how successful organizations are using this time to double-down on both digital and print subscription revenue. During this webinar, you will have the opportunity to ask questions directly to Mather’s president, Matt Lindsay, as well as Arvid Tchivzhel, senior director of product development, and Matthew Lulay, senior director of consulting services.
Thanks to America's Newspapers for making this webinar available to SCPA members at no cost! Space is limited to the first 1,000 seats. Register here.
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No SCPA Foundation internships provided for 2020 due to COVID-19The SCPA Foundation will not be providing interns to S.C. newspapers this summer.
The decision was made by the Foundation Board in the interest of student and staff safety.
However, the Foundation will be awarding one Mundy Scholarship. The recipient of this scholarship will be announced soon.
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Missouri judging updateWe are so thankful for the 60+ members who have volunteered to judge Missouri Press Association’s News Contest! Because of the coronavirus, there have been a couple changes since we originally recruited volunteer judges in early 2020.
Judging was originally set to take place in mid-April to early May. Because of COVID-19, MPA has extended their entry deadline to mid-April. That means that SCPA members will likely judge entries a little later than planned – probably late April to mid-May (depending on what the virus does).
SCPA’s judges will have a month to review entries and place winners. All judging will take place online.
If you didn’t originally sign up to help, but now have some extra time on your hands, please volunteer.
As we get closer to the judging period, SCPA will be in touch with more concrete details.
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Jen Madden welcomes baby boySCPA Assistant Director Jen Madden and her husband, Jeremi, welcomed their second child, Miller Barclay Madden, on Wednesday, March 25 at 9:52 p.m. Mom and baby are doing great, and big sister, Grace, is over the moon. Jen will be on maternity leave until mid-May, but her email will be checked regularly by other SCPA staff during her leave. Please call the office if you need immediate help.
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Bender files friend of court motion regarding Summerville Board of Agricultural Review
SCPA Attorney Jay Bender has filed a friend of the court motion asking the Supreme Court to review a ruling about meetings of the Summerville Board of Architectural Review approving a construction project.
The Board had divided into subgroups to avoid having a quorum for purposes of the Freedom of Information Act.
“It is apparent on its face that the scheme of the BOA…was to divide and hide,” Bender wrote, calling the meetings a secret decision-making process.
Bender concluded that the Supreme Court should review the Court of Appeals decision that the group’s decision to meet secretly with a developer was not a violation of the FOIA because each of the subgroups did not constitute a quorum of the BOA as a whole, thus endorsing a blatant evasion of the open meeting requirements of the FOIA.
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Coronavirus forces furloughs, layoffs and print reductions at newspapers across North America
We all saw it coming, but it doesn’t make it any less jolting — or depressing. Newspapers are getting slammed by the coronavirus.
A significant drop in advertising has already claimed many of the country’s alt-weeklies, which have been forced to temporarily (and perhaps, permanently) shutter without the ad revenue needed to keep them afloat. Now daily newspapers, already struggling before the coronavirus, are taking a hit.
Monday produced two grim newspaper stories. First, Gannett, one of the country’s leading newspaper chains, which owns USA Today and more than 260 daily U.S. newspapers, announced major cuts. Many staffers will see one week of unpaid furloughs for each of the next three months, while executives will take a 25% pay cut.
By Tom Jones, Ponyter | Read more
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