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How a Small Town With a Big Heart Shaped Me

Montgomery Advertiser, Sept. 6, 2016 It took some time for me to realize that most 24-year-olds probably aren’t excited about going to speak at a small town Rotary Club. My editor actually had to point that oddity out to me. The situation didn’t strike me as unusual...

Gillis Morgan Honored in Auburn

The Auburn University Advisory Journalism Council recently honored Gillis Morgan with the Distinguished Alabama Community Journalist Award. Morgan was among five journalists honored at the ceremony in Auburn on Sept. 9. In his early career, Morgan worked as a young...

New chair for UA’s Department of Journalism and Creative Media

Dr. Cory Armstrong began work in July as the new chair of the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama. Armstrong comes to Alabama from University of North Texas where she was a professor and the director of the Mayborn School of...

Overtime rule faces legal challenge, time ripe to contact Congressional delegation

In light of a new legal challenge (brought by 21 states, including Alabama) to the U.S. Department of Labor’s move to increase threshold for overtime consideration by more than 100 percent, publishers concerned with the impact on their operations should consider...

Nominations sought for APA Lifetime Achievement

The APA board of directors is seeking nominations for the Alabama Press Association Lifetime Achievement Award for 2017. The award was established in 2003 to honor and recognize outstanding service and accomplishments spanning a career in journalism in Alabama. The...

Dial interns with the Gadsden Messenger

By Mary Elizabeth Dial Editor’s Note: The APA Journalism Foundation awarded 15 $1,500 internships over the summer. Here is a report from The Messenger in Gadsden. This is just one example of the benefits of your pledges to the Foundation. If you have not made...

Garrison to Run for Hartselle Mayor

Hartselle Enquirer Publisher Randy Garrison has announced he is running for mayor of Hartselle. Garrison and his wife of 30 years, Lynn Brown Garrison, are both lifelong residents of Hartselle. They have two adult sons, Jordan, a pharmacist and Jacob, a civil...

Summer Convention a Success

Delegates attending the 2016 APA Summer Convention gave high marks to the programs and the festive BNC celebration, with the top score going again this year to the luncheon speaker. The luncheon speaker was Morley Piper, a D-Day survivor, who told his story of landing...

Wilcox Progressive Era goes Digital

You can read the original article by clicking here. The Wilcox Progressive Era newspaper in Camden, AL announced Wednesday their plans to reveal a new website to the public on June 23rd, 2016. This new addition will be the first digital media venture the publication...

BETTER NEWSPAPER CONTEST 2016 WINNERS ANNOUNCED

2016 BNC Winners Press Winners of the 2016 Alabama Press Association Better Newspaper Contest were announced this week by Dee Ann Campbell, chairman of the APA Better Newspaper Contest Committee. 110 newspapers submitted 2,775 entries in the annual contest. Louisiana...

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