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Times Media Co. Publisher Bill Masterson Jr. has been named vice president at Berkshire Hathaway’s BH Media Group and will leave The Times in May, the company announced.
Lisa Daugherty, Times advertising director and general manager of the company’s Crown Point office, has been named interim publisher.
The 52-year-old Masterson said leaving The Times was the most difficult decision he has made in his long newspaper career. Read more »
By Steve Key
Hoosier State Press Association
Our industry’s product is news, but it appears we need to do a better job of spreading the news about the impact of newspapers in a community.
There were four bills filed in the 2013 legislature with the intent to divert either all, some or a particular public notice from publication in newspapers to posting on government websites.
Two of the bills received hearings – one in the House and one in the Senate.
Once it was shown how effective newspapers are compared to government websites and that Hoosiers want and expect the notices to be published, none of the four bills moved forward with the language impacting publication of public notices. Read more »
HSPA thanks member newspapers who joined the association’s efforts to preserve public notice advertising and appeals to those who haven’t yet signed on.
The board of directors is upgrading the statewide public notice website. To make the site a success for all newspapers, HSPA requests that members print a code –
hspaxlp – at the end of all public notices and upload PDF’s of newspaper pages to an FTP site.
For more information about the project, contact Steve Key, HSPA executive director and general counsel, at skey@hspa.com. Read more »
The chief photographer at The Herald (Jasper) has been judged the nation’s best.
Dave Weatherwax was named the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism 2013 Photojournalist of the Year for smaller markets. Read more »
