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November 2010
The Kansas City Star
again wins Gold Cup
The Kansas City Star has won 16 of the
last 17 Gold Cups in the daily newspaper division of the annual Missouri
Press Foundation Better Newspaper
Contest. Contest awards have point
value according to place won. Gold
Cups go to the daily and weekly
newspapers that get the most points.
Missouri Press President Kevin Jones,
far right, presented the cup to staffers
from The Star. They are, from left, John
Sleezer, Matt Schofield, Mike Fannin,
Karen Dillon and Keith Myers.
Missouri Lawyers
Weekly wins 2nd cup
Missouri Lawyers Weekly won the Gold
Cup in the weeklies division of the
Better Newspaper Contest. The paper
also won the cup two years ago. In the
photo, from
the left, are
MPA President
Kevin Jones,
Missouri Lawye r s We e k l y
photographer
Karen Elshout,
managing editor Heather
Cole, reporter Kelly Wiese, publisher
Richard Gard, reporter Anna Vitale and
editor Rick Jackoway. Allison Retka of
the newspaper’s staff also attended
the program, but during the presentation of awards before the Gold
Cup was announced, she received
a surprise marriage proposal on the
stage from Cory Spence (inset). Retka
said “yes.” She missed the Gold Cup
presentation.
Regular Features
President 2
NIE Report 20
Scrapbook 17
Jean Maneke 22
On the Move 10 Obituaries 21
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Embracing change — a beautiful sight
I
’ll be right upfront. “Change” and I don’t get along. I’ve
And, WE ARE!
gone to the same barber—without fail—for the last 34
I can think of several examples from the recent MPA convenyears, sported a mustache for 25 years and worn only tion — new things, different things.
one brand of jeans my entire life.
One of the best-attended breakout sessions examined video
All my shirts must face the same way in my closet. If one’s for websites. This interactive session prompted several reporters
facing the wrong way, I wash it again. I arrange all of our and photographers to talk about what they are doing with video.
hangers according to size first, and then color, light to dark.
Here’s something different. A young man actually proposed
(I know what you’re thinking, ladies: “What a catch!”)
marriage on stage at our Saturday awards luncheon to a reporter
Truth is, to many of us the word “change” hints that with Missouri Lawyers Weekly. That was a first, as far as I know.
we’re doing something wrong. My outfit must
(She said “yes,” by the way).
be wrong, because my wife told me I need to
I was personally moved by our “converting”
“change” it. “Do you want to change seats?”
our Thursday evening during the MPA Convenmeans someone thinks his spot isn’t good
tion to a celebration. We had a great ’70s Dance
enough. That restaurant needs to “change” its
Party, the first with that theme for MPA. Many
menu (yikes). You need to “change” doctors.
of the folks sported bright patterns, long hair
When I first started attending Missouri Press
and a Disco beat, including people in their 20s,
conventions and board meetings a while back, a
40s and 60s.
was impressed that EVERY Missouri Press
recurring phrase seemed to echo through each
staffer got into the theme. Each had many
meeting: “Well, we’ve always done it this way.”
convention duties, and each brought a carload
Whether it was regarding the convention, or
of stuff to the convention. The easiest thing for
selecting board members, or setting meeting
them to do would be simply to not dress up.
dates, or selling advertising, the answer would
Kevin Jones
They didn’t have to go to the trouble of getting
inevitably be “well, we’ve always done it this
St. Louis American
costumes and hauling them to Lake Ozark with
way.”
MPA President
all the MPA baggage, but they did.
The more I thought about it, the more I
Other “changes” include a revised nomination
realized that we said the same thing around our
and selection process for MPA board members
office in St. Louis. Whether it was the layout
of the paper or the flow of our events, that phrase came up. and amended bylaws adding two more members to the board.
The reason: It takes more effort to change than to do things (We’re considering changing the date of the first board meeting
the same way. For example, if my art director lays out the of the year to coincide with Day at the Capitol, possibly with
front page of the paper this week the same way he did last a reception with legislators the evening before.)
We’re changing some of the ways Missouri Press sells advertisweek, it will cut his work time in half for that page.
f the word “change” scares you, use a word like “alter” or ing in your newspapers — changes for the better. Advertisers
“vary” or “convert.”
are beginning to ask Missouri Press about sticky notes, web
We certainly don’t want to forget our past, but let’s build ads, video lead-ins, inserts, frequencies and much more. Look
on it and alter our business for our readers and advertisers. I for memos from Missouri Press outlining all of these exciting
have to do things differently. My company has to do things new revenue opportunities.
differently. Missouri newspapers have to do things differently.
Instead of just being “open for business,” more Missouri
MPA has to do things differently.
newspapers are demonstrating that they’re “open,” period!
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VOL. 78, NO. 11
NOVEMBER 2010
Official Publication of
Missouri Press
Association, Inc.
PRESIDENT: Kevin Jones, St. Louis American
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT: Joe May, Mexico Ledger
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT: Phil Conger,
Bethany Republican-Clipper
SECRETARY: Steve Fairchild, Mount Vernon,
Lawrence County Record
TREASURER: Walt Gilbert, Louisiana,
Lakeway Publishers of Missouri
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Doug Crews
ADVERTISING DIRECTOR: Greg Baker
EDITOR: Kent M. Ford
DIRECTORS: Vicki Russell,
Columbia Daily Tribune
Brad Gentry, Houston Herald
Joe Spaar, The Odessan
Richard Gard, St. Louis, Missouri Lawyers Media
Jon Rust, Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian
Dennis Warden, Gasconade County Republican
Kate Martin, Perry County Republic-Monitor
Mark Maassen, The Kansas City Star
Arnie Robbins, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
NNA REPRESENTATIVE: Jeff Schrag,
Springfield Daily Events
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Kevin Jones of the St. Louis American, center-left foreground,
presided over his final meeting of the MPA and MPS boards on
Oct. 14 at The Lodge of Four Seasons, Lake Ozark. Current First Vice
President Joe May, at Jones’ left, was elected 2011 President during
the annual MPA Business Meeting held Oct. 15 during the 144th
annual Convention, which was held at the Lodge.
Joe May elected MPA President
J
Mexico Ledger publisher will succeed Kevin Jones on Jan. 1
oe May, publisher of The
amended its bylaws to add two
Mexico Ledger, was elected
directors. Elected to the two new
2011 President of the Missouri
positions are Jim Robertson, CoPress Association on Oct. 15.
lumbia Daily Tribune, and Linda
Members of MPA elected May
Geist, Monroe City Lake Gazette.
and other officers and directors at
Continuing on the MPA Board
the 144th annual MPA Convenin 2011 are directors Brad Gention and Trade Show at The Lodge
try, Houston Herald; Kate Martin,
of Four Seasons, Lake Ozark.
Perryville Perry County RepublicMay, 63, publisher of The Ledger
Monitor; Richard Gard, St. Louis
since 1990, currently is First Vice
Daily Record; and Joe Spaar, The
President of MPA. On Jan. 1 he
Odessa Odessan.
ones, this year’s president, will
will succeed Kevin Jones of The St.
serve on the 2011 board as imLouis American as President.
mediate past president.
May is a native of Columbia and
2011 officers and directors of
a 1974 graduate of Columbia ColMissouri Press Service, the adlege. He worked for the Columbia
vertising/marketing division of
Daily Tribune from 1970 to 1976
MPA, will be: President, Vicki
and became advertising director
Russell, Columbia Daily Tribune;
with The Ledger in 1977.
Vice President, Jack Whitaker,
May and his wife, Phyllis, have
Hannibal Courier-Post; Secretarya son, a daughter and three grandTreasurer, Dave Bradley, St. Joseph
children, all living in Columbia.
ther MPA officers and direcNews-Press; Directors: Steve Oldtors elected are: First Vice
field, Adrian Journal; and John
President, Phil Conger, Bethany
Spaar, The Odessan.
Republican-Clipper; Second Vice
Those whose terms on the
President, Mark Maassen, The Kanboards have ended are Gary Sossas City Star; Secretary, Bill Miller,
niecki (MPS Board), formerly of
Jr., Washington Missourian; TreaThe Vandalia Leader; Walt Gilbert
surer, Jeff Schrag, Springfield Daily
(MPA Treasurer) of Lakeway PubEvents; Directors: Jon Rust, Cape
lishers of Missouri; Steve Fairchild
Girardeau Southeast Missourian; Joe May and his wife, Phyllis, posed in the president’s suite (MPA Secretary), Mt. Vernon
before the Newspaper Hall of Fame banquet on Oct. 15.
and Dennis Warden, Owensville May will become MPA President on Jan. 1.
Lawrence County Record; and Arnie
Gasconade County Republican.
Robbins (MPA Board), St. Louis PostTrevor Vernon, Eldon Advertiser, was Newspaper Association.
Dispatch.
Also at its business meeting, MPA
elected state chairman to the National
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20th
Annual
Induction
Ceremony,
Missouri
Newspaper
Hall
of Fame
Five people were inducted into the Missouri Newspaper Hall of Fame on Friday, Oct. 15, during the 144th Annual
Missouri Press Association Convention. Pinnace Awards for two of the honorees, the late Si Colborn, editor of
the Monroe County Appeal in Paris, Mo., and the late Donald Reynolds, owner of the Macon Chronicle-Herald
and Donrey Media, were accepted by representatives. Past MPA President Chuck Haney of Chillicothe again
served as master of ceremonies. In the photo, from the left, are Bob Wilson, publisher of the Milan Standard,
Anita Brixey, grand-niece of Colborn; Dean Mills, dean of the Missouri School of Journalism, accepting for
Reynolds; Jo Hoffman, former Trenton publisher and Kansas City Star editor; and Harold Ellinghouse, publisher
of the Wayne County Journal-Banner in Piedmont. Plaques with likenesses and brief biographies of all Hall of
Fame inductees hang in the William A. Bray Conference Room at the MPA office in Columbia and in group
display cases in the student lounge of Lee Hills Hall at the School of Journalism.
Fame inductee pines for another ‘dinky weekly’
H
all of Fame inductee Jo Hoffman entertained the
assembly with her remarks. She talked about her
few years as a weekly publisher in Trenton.
“Another thing I believed then—and still believe—is that
names are the news: births, deaths, weddings, graduations,
the police blotter, real estate transactions, and yes, occasionally, scandal!—all the minutiae of life in the community.
I wouldn’t make that product available on my website for
free, except possibly very brief death notices.
“I would give the freeloaders a good dose of last night’s
city council meeting, election results, proposed road work
and so on, along with a bunch of teaser paragraphs about
the print edition.
“I wouldn’t charge for obits, weddings, etc., in the paper.
All such news—along with country correspondence—
would be written or edited in-house. Not every story can
be made interesting to every reader, of course, but I’d try
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to make every one of them worth the ink and paper they
used up.
“… So many editors write insipid editorials—what I
call mother/apple pie stuff. I would put in a little pizzazz,
some old-fashioned righteous anger, perhaps. And I’d
write a casual ‘heard on the street’ column for every issue
of the print edition. (Was it William Allen White who
said people read his paper, not because they didn’t know
what was going on, but to find out if the editor knew?)
“…I’d run a lot of pictures, making sure the faces were
large enough to be recognizable… Oh yes, I’d hire a
crackerjack ad salesman too. The community would want
to—have to—subscribe, no question.
“In retrospect, my years as a publisher were the best of
a lifetime in the news business. Just thinking about what
I’d do and what I’d try makes me want to go right out and
buy another dinky weekly, and … well, maybe next year.”
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Dalton Wright, at left above, publisher of the Lebanon Daily Record, visits with Sue and
Dean Mills in the exhibition hall at The Lodge of Four Seasons. Wright was appointed by
Gov. Jay Nixon in October to the Coordinating Board for Higher Education (story page
10). Dean Mills is the dean of the Missouri School of Journalism.
Gary Forsee, right, president of the University of Missouri, addressed the Convention
guests at breakfast on Friday. He talked about University efforts to promote development
in Missouri and about the tight higher education budget. He suggested that one way
to raise money would be to increase Missouri’s taxes on cigarettes and liquor. Other
breakfast speakers were May Scheve Reardon, director of The Missouri Lottery, and
Roger Wilson, President and CEO of Missouri Employers Mutual.
Missouri Press Association has a tradition that during
election years it hosts candidate forums at its annual
Convention. This year’s annual meeting featured forums
for candidates for Missouri Auditor and U.S. Senate.
Here, MPA Executive Director Doug Crews holds the
basket as the Senate candidates draw for speaking order.
Participating in the forum were U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt,
Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, Constitution
Party candidate Jerry Beck and Libertarian candidate
Jonathan Dine. Participating in the forum for state
auditor candidates were incumbent Susan Montee and
Republican candidate Tom Schweich.
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Convention
sponsors, Trade
Show exhibitors
T
Enjoying the ’70s Disco Party at the Convention are, from left,
Suzy Wilson of Milan, Kevin Jones of St. Louis, Jeanine York and
Jane Haberberger of Washington and Jeff Schrag of Springfield.
Haberberger won the prize for best outfit among the women.
hese are the sponsors for the
2010 MPA Convention.
Missouri Press appreciates their
support and encourages all of its
members to extend thanks.
Sp
Ele
Platinum
Branson Lake Area
Convention & Visitors Bureau
Missouri National Guard
Missouri Employers Mutual
Gold
Missouri Press Service
Silver
CenturyLink
Bronze
Athlon Sports
Independent Colleges
and Universities of Missouri
Metro Creative Graphics
Missouri Beverage Association
Others:
Marco Santi, left, explains the Community Sports Desk service to Dwight Bitikofer
of Times Newspapers, St. Louis County, in the Trade Show at the Convention.
This foursome won
the Championship
Flight in the Convention golf outing
at Sycamore Creek
Golf Course. From
left they are Mark
Maassen, Kansas
City, Gary Sosniecki,
LeClair, Iowa; Wendell Lenhart, Trenton;
and Randy Atkisson
with the Cellit company, a Trade Show
exhibitor. Sixteen
golfers entered the
event. Each foursome won its flight
and shared its prize
of a package of
Snickers candy bars.
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The Missouri Lottery
Newz Group
Stone Hill Winery
Charton Communications
Publishing Group of America
St. Louis American
Trade Show Exhibitors:
Atomic News Tools
Branson Lake Area
Convention & Visitors Bureau
Cellit
Community Sports Desk
Maneke Law LC
Missouri Division
of Labor Standards
Missouri Division of Tourism
The Missouri Lottery
Missouri National Guard
Missouri Press Service
MPA Postal Consultant
Ron Cunningham
Missouri State Parks
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Editorial cartoonist Lee Judge of
The Kansas City Star discussed
some of his work that didn’t get
past the Star’s editors. He spoke
and showed slides during a Friday
afternoon general session at the
Convention.
Chad Johnston of the Sullivan Journal visits
with Darren Heckman after Heckman’s Saturday breakfast session at the Convention on
using social media.
Above, Walt Gilbert of Louisiana, left, and Scott
Seal of the Portageville Missourian News watch
as Gilbert’s wife, Valerie, publisher of the Louisiana Press-Journal, and Hazel Smith, a former
Kahoka publisher, bid on items in the Foundation
silent auction. The various fund-raisers at the
Convention raised $4,362 for the Missouri Press
Foundation. At left, Charles Overby, chief executive officer of The Newseum in Washington, D.C.,
talked about the value of newspapers as historical and artistic works. During his presentation at
lunch Friday Overby suggested that community
newspapers find places in their communities to
display their historic front pages, which he called
works of art. If traffic at the Newseum is an indication, newspapers remain very popular with
Americans, he said.
At right, Vicki Russell of
the Columbia Daily Tribune and Michael Bushnell of the Kansas City
Northeast News listen as
Rebecca Rivas of The
St. Louis American talks
about creating video for
her newspaper’s website.
Rivas’s video reporting for
The American has won a
number of awards. She
showed several videos
and talked about the cameras and equipment she
uses.
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Above, Rene Barker of The Lebanon
Daily Record looks on as retail advertising and marketing specialist Jeff
Greene speaks during his Thursday
afternoon session on “Successful
Selling in Hard Times.” Greene, a former vice president of the Newspaper
Association of America, also had a
Saturday morning presentation titled
“90 Ads in 90 Minutes.”
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New Springfield publisher an MU grad
L
inda Ramey-Greiwe became
president and publisher of the
Springfield News-Leader effective
Oct. 11, succeeding Thomas Bookstaver, publisher since
2002. Bookstaver
retired Oct. 8.
Ramey-Greiwe
(pronounced Raymee Gry-vee) also
is West Group vice
president for Gannett Co., which owns
The News-Leader. Tom Bookstaver
She will oversee the
U.S. Community Publishing markets
in Mountain Home, Ark.; St. Cloud,
Minn.; and Sioux Falls, S.D.
Ramey-Greiwe is a University of Missouri home economics journalism graduate. She holds an MBA from Webster
University. She and her husband, Terry,
have two children, and they have family
near St. Louis. Ramey-Greiwe is an avid
bicyclist and runner.
Since January 2008, Ramey-Greiwe
Huntington, W.Va., the Montgomery
(Ala.) Advertiser and the Post Crescent in
Appleton, Wis., before joining the NewsLeader. He also was finance director at
the Tennessean in Nashville.
Bookstaver was vice president of Gannett’s West Group. He was previously
vice president of the company’s Midwest
and Piedmont groups.
His family plans to stay in southwest
Missouri.
has been president of the Newspaper
Network of Central Ohio.
She has been active in the Newspaper
Association of America and served on
the Display Federation Board. She currently serves on her
local United Way
and YMCA boards.
She is also active in
Rotary.
Ramey-Greiwe
began her career
with Gannett in
Linda RameyGreen Bay, Wis., in
Griewe
advertising. She also
has worked in Rockford, Ill., Louisville,
Ky., Palm Springs, Calif., and Phoenix,
primarily in advertising roles, and as a
publisher in Salinas, Calif.
Bookstaver’s career with Gannett began in 1973 when he went to work as a
computer programmer at the Marion,
Ind., Chronicle-Tribune. He was a publisher at the Valley News Dispatch in
Tarentum, Pa., the Herald-Dispatch in
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INTEGRITY
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On the Move
• Lee’s Summit/Correction — It was
reported in the October issue that Debbie Van Pelt had joined the staff of the
Lee’s Summit Journal.
Van Pelt actually joined the staff of
the Lee’s Summit Tribune. She is a news
editor.
• Ozark / Nixa — Chris Basnett, 30,
has joined the Christian County Headliner News and the
Nixa Xpress as sports
editor. He previously was a sports writer
for the Kearney Hub,
a 12,000-circulation
daily in Nebraska.
Basnett is a 2003
graduate of the University of Nebraska
Chris Basnett
at Kearney and a
1998 graduate of Ravenna, Neb., High
School.
He and his wife, Megan, were married in June. They moved to the Ozarks
in August so she could attend graduate
school at the Forest Institute of Professional Psychology.
• Boonville — Nate Birt, editor of
The Boonville Daily News for the past
year, has taken a position in Clayton/
Richmond Heights with Patch.com, an
AOL company.
Eric Berger has been named to replace
Birt as news and online editor of the
Daily News.
Birt worked part-time at the Missouri
Press Association for a time while attending the School of Journalism.
• Ironton — Judy Schaaf-Wheeler,
publisher of The Mountain Echo for the
past 18 years, retired on Sept. 10 after 32
years in the newspaper industry — the
last 22 with the Mountain Echo.
Steve Russell, formerly of Lebanon,
has succeeded Schaaf-Wheeler. His
wife, Nancy, is serving as assistant to the
publisher. The couple owned Grassroots
Publications and Marketing for the past
seven years.
Schaaf-Wheeler started with The
Mountain Echo in 1982 as office manager
for her late husband, Dennis Schaaf, who
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published the paper. After two years he
was transferred to The Chief in Donaldsonville, La.
The Schaafs returned to The Mountain Echo in 1990. Judy served as sales
manager until she
was named publisher in 1992 after
her husband’s retirement due to illness.
Schaaf-Wheeler
and her husband,
Joe, plan to remain
in Ironton.
A 1976 graduate
of
Chillicothe High
Steve Russell
School, Russell began his newspaper career at the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune during his
junior year in high school assisting in
the circulation department.
He has held newspaper management
positions at weekly and daily newspapers in Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and
Arkansas. He is a former member of the
board of the Arkansas Press Association.
• Clinton — Georgia Hughett, office
manager of The Democrat, left the paper
on Sept. 30. She moved to Colorado to
live with her son while being treated for
cancer.
• Wellsville — Tracy Hoffman has rejoined the Optic-News, replacing Sandy
Canterbury, who retired after more than
30 years.
Hoffmann, who is in charge of advertising, worked at the weekly from
1993 to 1998. She’s a 1982 graduate
of Wellsville-Middletown High School,
lives in rural Montgomery City with
her husband, Kenny, and helps with his
transport business.
• Higginsville — Ryan Cornelius, a
reporter for the Higginsville Advance for
about a year, has taken the position of
sports editor at the Marshfield Mail and
the South County Mail, Rogersville.
• Joplin — Katherine Miller, 38, assistant sales manager at The Joplin Globe,
has been named advertising director for
the Athens News-Courier, a six-day paper
in Alabama.
Community Newspaper Holdings,
Inc., owns The Globe and the Alabama
paper.
Miller is a Carl Junction native. She
started part-time at The Globe and has
worked there 14 years.
• New Haven — Dorris KeevenFranke has joined the staff of the New
Haven Leader as a sales representative
and graphic artist. Her job combines the
duties performed by two former staffers.
The weekly also announced that it
will close its office at 1 p.m. on Tuesday
and remain closed on Wednesday.
• Sullivan — Kathleen Brueggemann,
a senior at Sullivan High School, is working as an intern at the Sullivan Journal.
Brueggemann plans to study journalism at the University of Missouri. She
told readers in an introductory column
that she became interested in journalism two years ago when she attended
the Missouri Scholars Academy at MU.
Dalton Wright named to education board
D
alton Wright, president of Ozark
Media and publisher of the Lebanon Daily Record, was appointed by Gov.
Jay Nixon on Oct. 13 to the Coordinating Board for Higher Education. His
term will end in 2012.
Thomas Strong of Springfield also was
appointed to the board.
Wright, who served as president of
the Missouri Press Association in 1986,
is the current chairman of the Lebanon
Downtown Business District and the
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Missouri Military Preparedness and Enhancement Commission. He also holds a
Presidential appointment as the Civilian
Aide to the Secretary of the Army for
Missouri (West).
Wright also has served as president
of the National Newspaper Association
and the Central Missouri and Ozark
press associations. He is a graduate of
the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Missouri Press inducted Wright into
its Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2000.
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Guests at the MPA Convention at Lake Ozark look over winning
entries in the Better Newspaper Contest. Winning entries were
displayed on tables and display boards in the exhibition hall at
The Lodge of Four Seasons throughout the Oct. 14-16 meeting.
Better Newspaper
Contest winners
T
he Kansas City Star and Missouri
Lawyers Weekly won the Gold
Cups in the 2010 Missouri Press
Foundation Better Newspaper Contest.
The Star has won the Gold Cup in the
Dailies Division 16 of the past 17 years.
Missouri Lawyers Weekly also won the
Weeklies Division Gold Cup in 2008.
Award winners in the Foundation’s
annual contest were announced Oct. 16
during the 144th annual Missouri Press
Association Convention. The meeting
was held at The Lodge of Four Seasons,
Lake Ozark.
Gold Cups are awarded to the daily
and weekly newspapers that accumulate
the most points in the contest. These are
all of the winners in this year’s contest.
WEEKLIES
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1. General Excellence
Division 1
1: Kearney Courier; 2: Smithville Herald; 3:
Missouri Lawyers Weekly
Division 2
1: Nixa Xpress; 2: Houston Herald; 3:
Marshfield Mail
Division 3
1: Springfield Business Journal; 2: Ft Leonard
Wood Guidon; 3: Liberty Tribune
Division 4
1: Webster-Kirkwood Times; 2: St. Louis
American; 3: St. Louis Business Journal
2. Best Design
Division 1
1: Missouri Lawyers Weekly; 2: Kearney
Courier; 3: Houston Herald
Division 2
1: Ft Leonard Wood Guidon; 2: St. Louis
Business Journal; 3: St. Louis American
3. Best Front Page
Division 1
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1: Smithville Herald; 2: Christian County
Headliner News; 3: Kearney Courier; HM:
Jackson County Advocate
Division 2
1: St. Louis Business Journal; 2: St. Louis
Suburban Journal; 3: St. Louis American; HM:
Jefferson County Leader
4. Breaking News Story
1: Gasconade County Republican - Dave
Marner; 2: Bolivar Herald-Free Press - Sarah
West; 3: Lee’s Summit Journal - Miranda Wycoff
5. Best News Story
Division 1
1: Missouri Lawyers Weekly - Scott Lauck
“Condemning;” 2: Ashland Boone County
Journal - Bruce Wallace “Charged;” 3: Missouri
Lawyers Weekly - Heather Cole “Death;”
HM: North Stoddard Countian - Corey Noles
“Brothers”
Division 2
1: Houston Herald - Jeff McNiell; 2: Gasconade
County Republican - Linda Trest; 3: Ste.
Genevieve Herald - Jean Feld Rissover
Division 3
1: Liberty Tribune - Angie Borgedalen
“Murder;” 2: Christian County Headliner News
- Amelia Wigton “Digital Dirt;” 3: Christian
County Headliner News - Amelia Wigton
“Drunk Driving;” HM: Branson Daily News Mindy Honey
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Division 4
1: St. Louis Suburban Journal - Shawn Clubb
“Riders;” 2: St. Louis Suburban Journal - Kevin
Carbery “Dilemma;” 3: St. Louis Suburban
Journal - Raymond Castile “Abuse;” HM:
Webster-Kirkwood Times - Don Corrigan
“Helmets”
6. Best Feature Story
Division 1
1: Missouri Lawyers Weekly - Kelly Wiese
“Judge;” 2: Kearney Courier - Kevin M. Smith
“ghost;” 3: Smithville Herald - Nancy Hull
Rigdon “neighbor;” HM: Bloomfield North
Stoddard Countian - Corey Noles
Division 2
1: Lee’s Summit Journal - Emily Jarrett “Fetch;”
2: Warren County Record - Tim Schmidt
“unemployed;” 3: Lawrence County Record Charlie Meeks “dogs”
Division 3
1: Christian County Headliner News - Emily
Hoffman “tooth;” 2: Jackson County Advocate Seann McAnally “officer;” 3: Christian County
Headliner News - Emily Hoffman “Dr. K;”
HM: Branson Tri-Lakes News - Mindy Honey
Division 4
1: St. Charles Suburban Journal - Steve Pokin
“Body;” 2: St. Louis Green Park Call - Evan
Young “iconic;” 3: St. Louis Business Journal
- Lisa R. Brown “Game On;” HM: Gladstone/
Sun Tribune - Ray Weikal
7. Best News or Feature Series
Division 1
1: Missouri Lawyers Weekly - “Science or
Fiction;” 2: Jackson County Advocate - Andrea
Wood, Seann McAnally, Arthur McGregor
“Valor;” 3: Grain Valley,
The Point, Christopher Fischer “Freedom Center Group
Home;” HM: Belton Star Herald - Allen
Edmonds “Closing”
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of Four Seasons, Lake Ozark.
Division 2
1: St. Louis Suburban Journal - Raymond Castile
“home;” 2: Kansas City Sun Tribune - Ray
Weikal “Mark;” 3: St. Louis American - “Jails;”
HM: Eldon Advertiser - Tammy Witherspoon
“Fasco”
8. Tilghman Cloud Memorial Editorial
Division 1
1: Belton Star Herald; 2: Cass Co. DemocratMissourian; 3: Bolivar Herald-Free Press; HM:
Cass Co. Democrat-Missourian
Division 2
1: Liberty Tribune; 2: Arnold-Imperial Leader;
3: Jefferson County Leader; HM: St. Charles
Suburban Journals
9H. Best Humorous Columnist
1: Centralia Fireside Guard - Lorry Myers; 2:
Jefferson County Leader - Patrick Martin; 3:
Boone County Journal - Bruce Wallace
9S. Best Serious Columnist
1: St. Charles Suburban Journal - Steve Pokin;
2: Jefferson County Leader - Patrick Martin; 3:
Green Park Call - Mike Anthony; HM: Cass Co.
Democrat-Missourian - Dennis Minich
10F. Best Feature Photo
Division 1
1: Gasconade County Republican - Dave
Marner; 2: Missouri Lawyers Weekly - Karen
Elshout; 3: Platte County Landmark - Bill
Hankins
Division 2
1: Gladstone Sun Tribune - Anna Faltermeier;
2: Washington Missourian, Weekend - Jeanne
Miller Wood; 3: St. Louis Suburban Journal Andrew Jansen; HM: Gladstone Sun Gazette Matt Frye
10I. Best Photo Illustration
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Division 1
1: Jackson County Advocate - Andrea Wood,
Arthur McGregor; 2: Jackson County Advocate
- Andrea Wood, Mary Kay Morrow; 3: Houston
Herald - Jeff McNiell “Puzzle;” HM: Houston
Herald - Jeff McNiell “Hit”
Division 2
1: St. Louis Business Journal - Michael Behrens;
2: Fort Leonard Wood Guidon - Matt Decker
“Heritage;” 3: St. Louis Business Journal Michael Behrens “Payoff;” HM: Kansas City
Northeast News - Erica Van Dee and Emily
Randall “Art”
10N. Best News Photo
Division 1
1: Clinton County Leader - Brett Adkison; 2:
Warren County Record - Bill Barrett; 3: Warren
County Record - Bill Barrett; HM: Gasconade
County Republican - Will Johnson
Division 2
1: Washington Missourian, Wed - Jeanne Miller
Wood; 2: St. Louis American - Wiley Price; 3:
St. Charles Suburban Journal - Ryan Prewitt
10S. Best Sports Photo
Division 1
1: Lee’s Summit Journal - Julie Scheidegger;
2: Platte County Landmark - Bill Hankins; 3:
Mound City News - Adam Johnson; HM: Lee’s
Summit Journal - Julie Scheidegger
Division 2
1: Washington Missourian, Weekend - Craig
Vonder Haar; 2: Washington Missourian,
Weekend - Bill Battle; 3: Arnold ImperialLeader - Matt O’Harver
11. Best Photo Package
Division 1
1: Gasconade County Republican - Dave
Marner; 2: Warren County Record - Tim
Schmidt; 3: Platte County Landmark - Bill
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Hankins
Division 2
1: St. Louis Suburban Journal - Chris Oth
“Revised;” 2: Christian Co. Headliner News Brady Brite “Railroad;” 3: Cass Co. Democrat
Missourian - Mark Webber “Fourth”
12A. Best Ad / Advertiser
1: Christian County Headliner News - Adam
Letterman “Fremont;” 2: Odessa Odessan Linda Gillis “Freedom;” 3: Odessa Odessan
- Pam Schuchner “Puddle;” HM: Washington
Missourian Wed. - Ron Emig
12N. Best Ad / Newspaper
1: Washington Missourian Wed - Doug Warden
and Ethan Busse “News;” 2: Christian Co.
Headliner News - Adam Letterman “Game;”
3: Republic Monitor - Amy Brant “Toy;”
HM: Bolivar Herald Free Press - Billie Marsh
“National Newspaper Week”
13. Best News Content
Division 1
1: Warren County Record; 2: Smithville Herald;
3: Missouri Lawyers Weekly
Division 2
1: Washington Missourian Weekend; 2: St.
Louis Business Journal; 3: Jefferson County
Leader
14. Community Service
1: St. Louis American; 2: Washington
Missourian Weekend; 3: St. Louis Business
Journals
15. Best Editorial Page
Division 1
1: Kearney Courier; 2: Smithville Herald; 3:
Christian Co. Headliner News
Division 2
1: Washington Missourian; 2: St. Charles
Suburban Journal; 3: Arnold-Imperial Leader;
HM: Liberty Tribune
16. Best Sports Page
Division 1
1: Kearney Courier; 2: Warren County Record;
3: Platte County Citizen
Division 2
1: Liberty Tribune; 2: St. Louis American; 3:
Branson Tri-Lakes News
17. Best Sports News Story or Package
Division 1
1: Houston Herald - Jeff McNiell “Note;”
2: Christian County Headliner News - Jeff
Kessinger “brawl;” 3: Lee’s Summit Journal Stephen Bubalo “Flying”
Division 2
1: St. Louis Business Journal - Christopher
Tritto “Not Playing on the Same Team;” 2:
Webster-Kirkwood Times “First;” 3: St. Louis
Business Journal - Christopher Tritto “Kroenke’s
Empire;” HM: Washington Missourian, Wed.
“Knights”
18. Best Sports Feature Story
Division 1
1: Houston Herald - Jeff McNiell “Srsly: Txt
Missouri Press News, November 2010
is Way 2 Talk 2 Players;” 2: Christian Co.
Headliner News - Jeff Kessinger “A Bird without
a Flock;” 3: Lee’s Summit Journal - Stephen
Bubalo “Feats of Strength;” HM: Christian Co.
Headliner News - Brady Brite
Division 2
1: Missouri Lawyers Weekly - Richard Jackoway/
David Baugher “Scott;” 2: Warren County
Record - Derrick Forsythe “Elevate;” 3: Arnold
Imperial Leader - Kevin Kraus “Jaguars;” HM:
Jefferson County Leader - Phil Gaitens “Smash”
19. Best Sports Columnist
1: Christian Co. Headliner News - Jeff
Kessinger; 2: Liberty Tribune - Kevin Goodwin;
3: Kearney Courier - Chris Geinosky; HM:
Jefferson County Leader - Warren Hayes
20. Best Special Section
Division 1
1: Missouri Lawyers Weekly “WJA;” 2: Cassville
Democrat “Progress;” 3: Lawrence County
Record “Cookbook”
Division 2
1: Springfield Business Journal - Maria Hoover
“Economic;” 2: Christian Co. Headliner News
“Sesquicentennial;” 3: Christian Co. Headliner
News “Business Digest;” HM: Christian Co.
Headliner News “Graduation 2009”
21. Best Investigative Reporting
1: St. Louis American; 2: Washington
Missourian - Ed Pruneau, Gregg Jones “Patrol;”
3: St. Louis American “Tillis;” HM: Ashland
Boone County Journal - Bruce Wallace “Cost”
22. Best Local Business Coverage
1: St. Louis Business Journal; 2: Liberty Tribune;
3: St. Louis American; HM: Jackson County
Advocate
23. Best Business Story
Division 1
1: Smithville Herald - Nancy Hull Rigdon
“Clydes;” 2: Christian County Headliner News
- Amelia Wigton “Winery;” 3: Missouri Lawyers
Weekly - Anna Vitale “Trademark;” HM:
Jackson County Advocate - Seann McAnally
“Pump”
Division 2
1: St. Louis Business Journal - Lisa R. Brown
“Downtown: Making the Grade?;” 2: St. Louis
Business Journal - Greg Edwards “Midwestern
Value(s);” 3: Washington Missourian, Wed. Karen Cernich “We’re Problem Solvers;” HM:
St. Louis American - Alvin A. Reid “Casino
Diversity”
24. Best Coverage of Government
1: St. Louis American “Mayoral;” 2: Nixa Xpress
“Scandal;” 3: Kearney Courier “Zone”
25. Best Story About Rural Life or Agriculture
Division 1
1: Houston Herald - Kathy Richardson “Koch
family;” 2: Lawrence County Record - Charlie
Meeks “Heritage;” 3: Cedar County Republican
- Becky Groff “Orchard”
Division 2
1: St. Louis Business Journal - Lisa R. Brown
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“Algae;” 2: Washington Missourian Wed - Karen
Cernich “Fox;” 3: Ft. Leonard Wood Guidon Carolyn Erickson “Garden”
26. Best Story About Religion
1: Missouri Lawyers Weekly - Allison Retka
“God;” 2: Washington Missourian - Karen
Cernich “Bloom;” 3: Kansas City Northeast
News - Emily Randall “Revival;” HM: Houston
Herald - Kathy Richardson “Church”
27. Best Story About Education
Division 1
1: Missouri Lawyers Weekly - Kelly Wiese
“Braggin’;” 2: Missouri Lawyers Weekly - Kelly
Wiese “Judge;” 3: Christian County Headliner
News - Emily Hoffman “Policies;” HM:
Christian County Headliner News - Emily
Hoffman “Ivy”
Division 2
1: St. Charles Suburban Journal - Kalen Ponche
“Math;” 2: Washington Missourian - Karen
Cernich “Girls;” 3: Webster-Kirkwood Times Fran Mannino “Epworth”
28. Best Story About Outdoors
1: St. Charles Suburban Journals - Kalen Ponche
“Fanatics;” 2: Washington Missourian, Wed Karen Cernich “Fox;” 3: Lee’s Summit Journal
- Stephen Bubalo “Lake”
29. Best Story About History
Division 1
1: Lee’s Summit Journal - Miranda Wycoff
“Honored;” 2: Gasconade County Republican
- Linda Trest “Soldier;” 3: Clinton County
Leader - Becky Black “Mecca”
Division 2
1: St. Louis American - Sandra Johnson “Riots;”
2: Missouri Lawyers Weekly - Richard Jackoway
and David Baugher “Flood;” 3: Cass Co.
Democrat-Missourian - Mark Webber “Veteran”
30. Best Family Living Coverage
1: Eldon Advertiser; 2: Lee’s Summit Journal; 3:
Jackson County Advocate
31. Best Page Design
1: St. Louis Suburban Journal - Chris Oth
“Football;” 2: St. Charles Journal - Chris Oth
“Body;” 3: Bolivar Herald-Free Press - Jessica
Oliver “Veterans;” HM: St. Charles County Chris Oth “Body”
32. Best Information Graphic
1: St. Louis Business Journal - Michael Behrens
“Kroenke;” 2: Springfield Business Journal Aaron J. Scott “Housing;” 3: St. Charles Journal
- Chris Oth “Touchdown”
33. Best Editorial Cartoon
1: Lee’s Summit Journal - Mike Gempeler
“Messerli;” 2: Jefferson County Leader - Judy
Dixon “Mayoral;” 3: Houston Herald - R.T.
Smith “Costumes”
34. Best Newspaper In Education Program
1: Washington Missourian; 2: Odessa Odessan;
3: Bolivar Herald-Free Press
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35. Best Online Newspaper / Website
1: Houston Herald; 2: Smithville Herald; 3: Call
Newspapers - Jason Lasher, Evan Young; HM:
St. Louis Business Journal - Jeremy Elwood
36. Best Video
1: St. Louis American - Rebecca S. Rivas; 2:
St. Louis American - Rebecca S. Rivas; 3: Ft.
Leonard Wood Guidon -Matt Decker
37. Best Headline Writing
1: St. Charles Suburban Journal - Russell
Korando; 2: Liberty Tribune; 3: Missouri
Lawyers Weekly; HM: Lee’s Summit Journal
DAILIES
38. General Excellence
Division 1
1: Richmond Daily News; 2: Neosho Daily
News; 3: Carthage Press
Division 2
1: Camdenton Lake Sun Leader; 2: Columbia
Missourian; 3: Fulton Sun
Division 3
1: Columbia Tribune; 2: Jefferson City News
Tribune; 3: Independence Examiner
Division 4
1: Kansas City Star; 2: St. Louis Post-Dispatch;
3: Joplin Globe
39. Best Design
Division 1
1: Carthage Press; 2: Neosho Daily News; 3:
Columbia Missourian
Division 2
1: Kansas City Star; 2: Independence Examiner;
3: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
40. Best Front Page
Division 1
1: Carthage Press; 2: Warrensburg Daily StarJournal; 3: Neosho Daily News
Division 2
1: Independence Examiner; 2: Sedalia
Democrat; 3: Kansas City Star
41. Best Breaking News Story
Division 1
1: Fulton Sun - Don Norfleet; 2: Richmond
Daily News; 3: Dexter Daily Statesman Noreen Hyslop
Division 2
1: Kirksville Daily Express - Greg O’Rear,
Vincent Brennan and Josh Hunsicker; 2:
Lebanon Daily Record - Ken York and Julie
Turner-Crawford; 3: Warrensburg Daily StarJournal; HM: Park Hills Daily Journal - Chris
Cline
Division 3
1: Jefferson City News Tribune - Jeff Haldiman;
2: Columbia Daily Tribune - Brennan David;
3: Jefferson City News Tribune - Jeff Haldiman
Division 4
1: St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Kim Bell, Denise
Hollinshed, Jeremy Kohler and Patrick
O’Connell; 2: Kansas City Star - Donald
Bradley; 3: Joplin Globe; HM: Kansas City Star
- Judy Thomas
42. Best News Story
Division 1
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1: Kirksville Daily Express - Greg O’Rear,
Vincent Brennan and Josh Hunsicker; 2:
Neosho Daily News - Amye Buckley; 3: Neosho
Daily News - John Ford, Rick Rogers and Todd
G. Higdon
Division 2
1: Sedalia Democrat - Sarah Nail; 2:
Independence Examiner - Michael Glover; 3:
Columbia Missourian - Andrew Denney, Matt
Pearce and Tram Whitehurst; HM: Warrensburg
Daily Star-Journal - Jack Ventimiglia
Division 3
1: Kansas City Star - Karen Dillon; 2: Kansas
City Star - Judy Thomas, David Bradley and
Brian Burnes; 3: Kansas City Star - Donald
Bradley; HM: St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Stephen
Deere, Elizabethe Holland and Doug Moore
1: St. Joseph News-Press - Alonzo Weston; 2:
Kansas City Star - Matt Schofield; 3: St. Joseph
News-Press - Steve Booher; HM: Columbia
Daily Tribune - Irene Haskins
43. Best Feature Story
Division 1
1: Neosho Daily News - John Ford “Coach
Crowder;” 2: Neosho Daily News - John Ford
“Woodstock;” 3: Marshall Democrat - Kathy
Fairchild; HM: Dexter Daily Statesman Noreen Hyslop
Division 2
1: Columbia Missourian - Jordan Hickey; 2:
Lebanon Daily Record - Delevan Ogle; 3:
Columbia Missourian - Kelsey Allen; HM:
Camdenton Lake Sun - Joyce Miller
Division 3
1: St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Todd Frankel
“Million Dollar Bill;” 2: Kansas City Star Donald Bradley “A country drive into bullet’s
path;” 3: St. Joseph News-Press - Erin Wisdom
“A small, strong survivor;” HM: Jefferson City
News Tribune - Michelle Brooks “No bars to
learning”
47I. Best Photo Illustration
Division 1
1: Independence Examiner - Adam Vogler; 2:
Independence Examiner - Adam Vogler; 3:
Carthage Press - Cody Dyer; HM: Independence
Examiner - Adam Vogler
Division 2
1: St. Joseph News-Press - Eric Keith; 2: St.
Joseph News-Press - Eric Keith; 3: Columbia
Daily Tribune - Parker Eshelman
44. Best News or Feature Series
Division 1
1: Boonville Daily News - Nate Birt; 2:
Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal - Jack
Ventimiglia; 3: Richmond Daily News - Sean
Comer, Jo Ellen Black; HM: Warrensburg Daily
Star-Journal - Jack Ventimiglia
Division 2
1: Kansas City Star - Tony Rizzo “Murder
Factory;” 2: Jefferson City News Tribune - Kris
Hilgedick, Rosa Ruiz, Richard McGonegal and
Gerry Tritz “Recycling;” 3: Park Hills Daily
Journal - Paula Barr “Back Yard;” HM: St.
Joseph News-Press - Alonzo Weston and Ken
Newton “Home”
45. Best Editorial
Division 1
1: Boonville Daily News; 2: Neosho Daily News;
3: Fulton Sun; HM: Mexico Ledger
Division 2
1: Kansas City Star; 2: St. Louis Post-Dispatch;
3: Columbia Daily Tribune
46S. Best Serious Columnist
1: Kansas City Star - Matt Schofield; 2: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch - Kevin Horrigan; 3: Kansas
City Star - Barbara Shelly; HM: Columbia
Missourian - Erin O’Neill
46H. Best Humorous Columnist
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47F. Best Feature Photo
Division 1
1: Nevada Daily Mail - Ralph Pokorny; 2:
Fulton Sun - Joshua Vince; 3: Warrensburg
Daily Star-Journal - Jack Ventimiglia; HM:
Richmond Daily News - Jo Ellen Black
Division 2
1: Kansas City Star - Keith Myers “Bird Lady;”
2: Independence Examiner - Adam Vogler
“First;” 3: Sedalia Democrat - Sydney Brink
“Lake Center;” HM: Sedalia Democrat - Sydney
Brink “Day at the Market”
47N. Best News Photo
Division 1
1: Columbia Missourian - Laura Herring;
2: Neosho Daily News - Amye Buckley; 3:
Columbia Missourian - Zach Seibert
Division 2
1: Columbia Daily Tribune - Parker Eshelman;
2: Kansas City Star - Todd Feeback; 3: St. Joseph
News-Press - Eric Keith; HM: Joplin Globe - T.
Rob Brown
47S. Best Sports Photo
Division 1
1: Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal - Corey
Edwards; 2: Columbia Missourian - Joshua A.
Bickel; 3: Nevada Daily Mail - Ralph Pokorny
Division 2
1: Kansas City Star - John Sleezer; 2: Columbia
Daily Tribune - Don Shrubshell; 3: Kansas City
Star - Mike Ransdell
48. Best Photo Package
Division 1
1: Columbia Missourian - Kyle Spradley and
Sam O’Keefe; 2: Warrensburg Daily StarJournal - Jack “Miles” Ventimiglia; 3: Fulton
Sun - Justin Kelley; HM: Richmond Daily
News - Brenda Jensen
Division 2
1: Kansas City Star - Keith Myers; 2: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch; 3: Kansas City Star - Keith
Myers; HM: St. Louis Post-Dispatch - JB Forbes
49A. Best Ad Idea / Advertiser
1: Columbia Missourian; 2: Kansas City
Star - Tod Machin, Jacquie Lehatto and Judy
Revenaugh; 3: Columbia Daily Tribune Jennifer Vanderpool
49N. Best Ad Idea / Newspaper
1: Columbia Daily Tribune - Jill Rugen; 2:
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Kansas City Star - Mike Nickells; 3: Carthage
Press
50. Best News Content
Division 1
1: Columbia Missourian; 2: Warrensburg Daily
Star-Journal; 3: Neosho Daily News
Division 2
1: Kansas City Star; 2: St. Louis Post-Dispatch;
3: Joplin Globe
51. Community Service
1: Kansas City Star; 2: St. Louis Post-Dispatch;
3: Columbia Missourian
52. Best Editorial Page
Division 1
1: Neosho Daily News; 2: Independence
Examiner; 3: Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal;
HM: Sedalia Democrat
Division 2
1: Kansas City Star; 2: St. Louis Post-Dispatch;
3: Columbia Daily Tribune
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53. Best Sports Page
Division 1
1: Columbia Missourian; 2: Fulton Sun; 3:
Kennett Daily Dunklin Democrat
Division 2
1: Kansas City Star; 2: St. Louis Post-Dispatch;
3: St. Joseph News-Press; HM: Columbia Daily
Tribune
2: Fulton Sun - Chris Waller; 3: Neosho Daily
News - Cody Thorn; HM: Park Hills Daily
Journal - Paula Barr
Division 2
1: Columbia Daily Tribune - Rus Baer; 2:
Independence Examiner - Bill Althaus; 3: St.
Joseph News-Press - Ross Martin; HM: St.
Joseph News-Press - Ross Martin
54. Best Sports Story or Package
Division 1
1: Independence Examiner - Bill Althaus; 2:
Columbia Missourian - Robert Mays III; 3:
Lebanon Daily Record - Israel Potoczny and
Julie Crawford-Turner
Division 2
1: St. Louis Post-Dispatch; 2: Kansas City Star J Brady McCollough; 3: Kansas City Star - Kent
Babb
56. Best Sports Columnist
1: Kansas City Star - Jason Whitlock; 2: Kansas
City Star - Joe Posnanski; 3: St. Louis PostDispatch - Bernie Miklasz; HM: St. Louis PostDispatch - Bryan Burwell
55. Best Sports Feature Story
Division 1
1: Columbia Missourian - Andrew Astleford;
57. Best Special Section
Division 1
1: Neosho Daily News; 2: Neosho Daily News;
3: Marshall Democrat-News; HM: Carthage
Press
Division 2
1: West Plains Daily Quill; 2: Columbia
Missourian; 3: Kirksville Daily Express - Jason
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Plains Daily Quill - Allison Wilson
Division 3
1: St. Louis Post-Dispatch; 2: Columbia Daily
Tribune; 3: The Kansas City Star
58. Best Investigative Reporting
Division 1
1: Columbia Missourian - Chad Day and
Jacob Barker “Transportation Districts;”
2: Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal - Jack
Ventimiglia “Freshman Freebies;” 3: Columbia
Missourian - Rebecca Berg and Max Reiss
“Pollution at Lake of the Ozarks;” HM:
Boonville Daily News - Nate Birt “Pirate Press”
Division 2
1: St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Joe Mahr and
Jeremy Kohler; 2: Joplin Globe - Greg Grisolano
and Derrek Spellman; 3: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Todd Frankel and Steve Crowe; HM: KC Star Jason Noble and Steve Kraske
59. Best Local Business Coverage
1: Kansas City Star; 2: St. Louis Post-Dispatch;
3: Independence Examiner
60. Best Business Story
Division 1
1: Columbia Missourian - Chad Day and Jacob
Barker; 2: Columbia Missourian - Joel Walsh; 3:
Columbia Missourian - Greg Mitchell; HM: St.
Louis Daily Record - Donna Walter
Division 2
1: The Kansas City Star - Mark Davis; 2: St.
Louis Post Dispatch - Phillip O’Connor; 3: The
Joplin Globe - Wally Kennedy
61. Best Coverage of Government
1: Kansas City Star; 2: St. Louis Post-Dispatch;
3: Columbia Missourian; HM: The Joplin
Globe
62. Best Rural Life or Agriculture Story
Division 1
1: Columbia Missourian - Furqaan Sadiq
“Falling prices;” 2: Warrensburg Daily StarJournal - Jack Ventimiglia “Pellet Power;” 3:
Columbia Missourian - Seth Putnam “Battling
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to save the bees;” HM: The Fulton Sun - Roger
Meissen “Cheap Milk”
Division 2
1: St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Phillip O’Connor;
2: The Kansas City Star - Lee Hill Kavanaugh;
3: The Joplin Globe - Wally Kennedy
63. Best Story About Religion
1: Kansas City Star - Eric Adler; 2: St. Louis
Post-Dispatch - Tim Townsend; 3: St. Joseph
News-Press - Erin Wisdom
64. Best Story About Education
1: Columbia Daily Tribune - Jonathan Braden
“Schools face learning curve;” 2: St. Louis PostDispatch - Kavita Kumar “Parents need not
apply;” 3: Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal Jack Ventimiglia “No child left behind;” HM:
Columbia Missourian - Eva Dou “Endowed
chairs”
65. Best Story About Outdoors
1: Joplin Globe - Wally Kennedy; 2: Kansas City
Star - Brent Frazee; 3: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Cynthia Gregorian; HM: Columbia Missourian
- Heather Peters and Mike Menderski
66. Best Story About History
Division 1
1: Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal - Jack
Ventimiglia; 2: Columbia Missourian - Andrea
Van Dam; 3: Park Hills Daily Journal - Paula
Barr
Division 2
1: KC Star Magazine - Brian Burnes; 2: Kansas
City Star - Brian Burnes; 3: St. Louis PostDispatch - Phillip O’Connor; HM: The Joplin
Globe - Scott Meeker
67. Best Coverage of Family Living –
Young People
1: The Kansas City Star; 2: Warrensburg Daily
Star-Journal; 3: Jefferson City News Tribune
68. Best Page Design
1: Kansas City Star - Hector Casanova and Neil
Nakahodo; 2: Lebanon Daily Record - Ken
York; 3: Independence Examiner - Stephanie
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Boothe; HM: Kansas City Star - Gentry Mullen
69. Best Information Graphic
1: Kansas City Star - Dave Eames, Matt
Campbell and John Sleezer “Room with a
view;” 2: Kansas City Star - Dave Eames and
Mark Morris; 3: Columbia Missourian - Linda
Waterburg and Andrew Van Dam; HM: St.
Louis Post-Dispatch - Rich Rokicki “New
Highway 40”
70. Best Editorial Cartoon
1: St. Louis Post-Dispatch - RJ Matson; 2:
Columbia Daily Tribune - John Darkow; 3:
Jefferson City News Tribune - Jim Dyke
71. Best NIE Program
1: Kansas City Star; 2: St. Louis Post-Dispatch;
3: Hannibal Courier-Post; HM: Columbia
Daily Tribune
72. Best Video
1: St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Cardinal Culture;”
2: St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Robert Cohen
“Medal of Honor;” 3: Sedalia Democrat - John
Hansen “Sedalia Symphony Orchestra;” HM:
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Robert Cohen
73. Best Headline Writing
1: Kansas City Star; 2: Sedalia Democrat; 3: St.
Louis Daily Record
Bolivar sports editor joins
high school’s Hall of Fame
BOLIVAR—Bill Breshears, a lifelong
resident of Bolivar and sports editor of
The Herald-Free Press, was among three
people inducted into the Bolivar High
School Hall of Fame on Sept. 25.
Breshears is a 1967 graduate of Bolivar
High School. He became sports editor
of the paper in 1982. He and his wife,
Pearlene, have two children and four
grandchildren.
Missouri Press News, November 2010
Scrapbook
• Hannibal — The Hannibal-LaGrange College Art Department held
an exhibit in September featuring the
photography of Danny Henley, reporter
at the Hannibal Courier-Post, and his son
and daughter, Jacob and Amber.
Amber Henley is a professional photographer and is an owner of Footsteps
Photography in St. Louis. Jacob Henley
specializes in nature and architecture
photography.
forerunners of the St. Joseph News-Press,
appeared to have been used for insulation.
Those unable to participate in the run
took part in a one-mile walk around
Lions Lake.
Minnesota author and children’s literature instructor Margi Preus was the
guest author for the event. Her book
“Heart of a Samurai” was a Missourian
Book Buzz Pick in September.
Proceeds from Run to Read buy
books for area school libraries.
• Republic — The Republic Monitor
hosted a debate on Oct. 21 for candidates for presiding commissioner of
Greene County.
A panel of media members questioned
the candidates, and members of the audience submitted written questions.
• Trenton — The Republican-Times
reported to its readers in mid-September
that hackers had attacked its website,
preventing users from gaining access to
the site.
• St. Louis — The Post-Dispatch has
• Columbia — The Columbia Daily combined features from its Saturday
Tribune on Oct. 7 was inducted into Lifestyle and Sunday Explore sections
the Boone County Historical Society’s into a new Sunday section called “Home
• Bolivar — The Herald-Free Press
Hall of Fame. Inductees are recognized & Away.”
and the Downtown Bolivar Association
for significant contributions to the deSaturday editions of the paper no lon- in September sponsored the first Polk
velopment, growth and preservation of ger are sold at single-copy outlets in the County Picnic Car Show’s Online PeoBoone County and its
ple’s Choice Award.
history.
Car enthusiasts
Milan Standard ane Pratt, society writer for The Milan
The Tribune rewere invited to
ceived the Hall of
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Standard, celebrated her 100th birthday ansociety writer
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at an open house on Sept. 5.
observes 100th niversary
Award for 2010.
newspaper’s webPratt was born Aug. 31, 1910, in Milan. She
Its “contribution to
site. Readers were
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is a 1928 graduate of Milan High School and
Boone County is best
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anniversary
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Missouri.
during stories recordon their favorite car.
She taught English in Browning and Milan,
ed and shared every
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married a Milan man and had three sons. After
day in the newspaper
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her husband’s death, she remarried and moved
that both covers and
winner
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service
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news and features for The Standard.
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• Troy — As an incentive to get readers
to sign up for its new “Breaking News”
mobile phone service, the Lincoln County
Journal held a drawing for $100. Everyone who signed up through Oct. 11 for
the service was eligible for the drawing.
The free service delivers game scores,
breaking news and other fresh information to users’ phones.
• Washington — The fifth annual
Run to Read, organized by the Washington Missourian and the Four Rivers
Area Family YMCA, was held Oct. 23.
Promoting reading and fitness is the
goal of the event. Every participant
receives a free book at the finish of the
5K run through downtown Washington.
Missouri Press News, November 2010
Metro area. Home-delivery subscribers
still receive a Saturday paper.
The three-star early edition of the
Sunday Post-Dispatch, available at singlecopy outlets, is available an hour earlier
on Saturday mornings. It contains the
latest news and prep sports from Friday
night.
Copies of the later five-star edition
of the Sunday paper, which subscribers
receive, are available for single-copy
purchase on Sunday.
• Parkville — Copies of the old St.
Joseph Gazette were found by workers
replacing windows in a building at Park
University. The 103-year-old papers,
www.mopress.com
• Columbia —
ColumbiaMissourian.com, a website of the School of
Journalism, has started a “Show-Me the
Errors” project. It invites readers to win
prizes by pointing out errors of spelling
and grammar.
Each month, the reader who earns
the most points for pointing our errors
will receive a Missourian mug and a
“Glamour of Grammar” book by Roy
Peter Clark.
• Branson — Newspapers in Branson
and in Taney and Stone counties participated in the Skaggs Regional Medical
Center’s 60th Anniversary Diamond
Challenge.
Half-carat diamonds were given to
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the winners of four weekly trivia contests. Questions about Skaggs Regional
Medical Center were printed in Medical
Center ads in the papers and posted on
websites. All correct answers were entered into drawings for diamonds.
• Carthage — The family of Marvin VanGilder, the late
Jasper County historian
and former editor of The
Carthage Press, placed a
bench on the grounds of
the Jasper County Courthouse in his honor.
VanGilder died in July
at age 83. The bench was
dedicated on Sept. 24,
which would have been
his 84th birthday.
Miller was recognized for volunteer
community service and for supporting
Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Francis
Borgia parishes through the newspaper.
• Poplar Bluff — While it completed
a major circulation upgrade over several
days in September, the Daily American
phrase were entered in a drawing for the
movie tickets.
• St. Louis — Missouri Lawyers Weekly
named 49 young lawyers “Up & Coming” attorneys at an event Sept. 22 at the
Rams Club in the Edward Jones Dome.
The attorneys from around the state
were recognized for their
careers and community
work.
• Nixa — The Nixa
Xpress has rebuilt its website (NixaXpress.com) to
provide more breaking
news, give readers more
interactive/feedback features and carry more real Little Brown Jug remains in Kansas
estate, automotive and job The Kansas Press Association’s golf team held on to the Little Brown Jug after
listings.
two rounds of golf Sept. 23-24 at the Excelsior Springs Golf Course. Kansas
scored 10 points to 5 for the Missouri team. Missouri Press golfers, in the center
• Richmond —
Workers evacuated the
building when a plate
burner at the Richmond
News caught fire about
8:30 a.m. on Sept. 24.
No other building or
equipment damage occurred.
The newspaper staff
took computers and
other equipment to publisher JoEllen Black’s
home to produce the
day’s paper, which was
printed at the Cameron
Citizen Observer’s plant.
The Excelsior Springs
Standard, which usually
is printed in Richmond,
also was printed in Cameron on Sept. 24.
• Hamilton — The in the photo, were (from left) Dave Berry, Bolivar; Kevin Jones, St. Louis; Dane
Caldwell County News Vernon, Versailles; and Trevor Vernon, Eldon. The Kansas golfers on the left were
has moved its office from John Settle and Jay Lowell, and on the right Tom Broeckelman and Brad Lowell.
412 S. Davis to the in- MPA last won the annual tournament and brought home the jug in 2006. KPA
Executive Director Doug Anstaett took the picture.
tersection of Davis Street
• Nevada — In Sepand Business Route 36, a
tember thieves broke
building vacated by Missouri Gas Utility. Republic gave away its digital edition to into and took money from newspaper
The weekly moved because the build- ensure all customers received papers.
vending machines belonging to the Neing that housed it was sold.
vada Daily Mail, the Fort Scott (Kan.)
• Sedalia — The Sedalia News-Journal Tribune and other newspapers in that
• Perryville — A dedication ceremony has made a couple of layout changes to region.
was held Sept. 25 in a Perryville park to inside pages to accommodate requests
dedicate the Robert J. Miget Memorial for more color advertising.
• St. Joseph — The News-Press
Pavilion.
Obituaries were moved from page 2 magazine Josephine held its sixth-annual
Miget, an employee of The Perry to page 8, and stories that jump from Josephine Expo on Oct. 2 in the Civic
County Republic-Monitor from 1959- page one will land on page 2 rather Arena. Activities focusing on women of
2001, was mayor of Perryville from 1984 than page 8.
all ages included live music, demonstrauntil his death in 2007.
The changes were made to provide tions, food, shopping booths and fashion
more room on page 2 for color ads, shows.
• Washington — On Sept. 21 in St. publisher Greg Melton said.
The expo began after a big response
Louis, the Most Rev. Robert J. Carlson,
to a small birthday party in honor of
archbishop of St. Louis, presented the
• Versailles — The Leader-Statesman the one-year anniversary of the women’s
Cardinal Rigali Service Award to Wil- in September gave away four movie tick- magazine. This year’s event was expected
liam L. Miller, Sr., editor and publisher ets to readers who found special phrases to attract around 2,500 women.
of the Washington Missourian, at a rec- in advertisements.
ognition luncheon at the Cardinal Rigali
Readers were given a phrase in each
Center.
week’s issue. Those who found the
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Jo Hoffman, Lee’s Summit
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Ben and Lisa Weir, Longmont, Colo.
Vicki Russell, Columbia
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Patricia Smith, Lebanon
Louann Sornson, Lincoln, Neb.
Dawn Kitchell, Marthasville
Duane Dailey, Columbia
Doug and Tricia Crews, Columbia
Phil Leslie, Columbia
The Maneke Law Group, L.C.
Bill Jr. and Anne Miller, Washington
Chuck Haney, Chillicothe
Convention Auction Buyers
Joe and Phyllis May, Mexico
Kate Martin, Perryville
Mary Williams, Mo. National Guard
Gary Sosniecki, LeClair, Iowa
Betty Spaar, Odessa
Frank Martin III, West Plains
Dalton Wright, Lebanon
Rex Rust, Cape Girardeau
Don and Jeannie Warden, Owensville
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Newspaper In Education Report
community who can lead workshops.
Otherwise, you can tap into a teacher
in a nearby community who has attended the training, seek out a teacher
who could take resources provided by
MPA to lead a workshop or make arrangements with me to come to your
community.
As time allows I am available to travel
to
communities to provide training on
Keep teachers motivated to use the resource
using the newspaper in the classroom.
hat happens to the news- popular GLE and MAP Moments series The host newspaper is responsible for
papers we deliver to schools and can be accessed with the download expenses, but there is no charge for
when we drop them at the code: mapguide.
the trainer.
door? I know most of us believe the
Other teacher guides we have ar- In early Octeachers will know what
chived, all correlated tober, The
to do with the resource,
to Missouri’s learning O d e s s a n
but you’d be surprised
standards, are: “Critical held trainhow many don’t. I’ve had
Thinking Through Core ing during
several calls recently about
Curriculum: Using Print an in-service
teacher workshops – and
and Digital Newspapers” day at the
many of those have come
(code: niewk10), “Con- local school.
from teachers seeking
nect to the World” (code: Here’s what
Using the Newspaper to
ways to learn how to inniewk08), “Keep It Real” Renee Spaar,
Improve Test Scores
tegrate the newspaper into
(code: niewk06), and who coorthe classroom.
“By the Numbers” (code: dinates The
How can we prevent
math07).
O d e s s a n’ s
unused newspapers in the
Teacher
workshops NIE efforts,
classroom?
are the best way to help had to say:
The easiest way is for
teachers maximize your
“Thanks so much for coming to
newspapers to include Dawn Kitchell is MPA’s NIE newspaper in the class- Odessa and providing my Newspaper
director. Contact her at
turnkey youth features. (636) 932-4301; kitchell@
room. There are three In Education teaching staff with new
Missouri Press has hun- yhti.net.
approaches to teacher ideas and information. I know our prodreds of them. This
workshops — in-service gram needed this boost as we have had
month, you can publish one or all of training offered by the school district, a a lot of faculty changes during the 10
the new geography features. In Decem- workshop hosted by your newspaper at years we have had an NIE program.
ber you can publish the family health a central location, or funding a teacher The new teachers came away with a
literacy series or our feature on the Bill to attend the MPA Living Textbook fresh outlook on what NIE is, and the
of Rights. In January, you can partici- workshop in July.
teachers who have been using NIE for
pate in the Reading Across Missouri
By sending a teacher to Living Text- a while were re-energized to utilize the
project and publish the serial story book, you’ll have a trainer in your newspaper in different ways. Even the
“Three Generals.”
principal is a new fan of
All of these features are
Newspapers in Education!
available to you at no cost.
“I have received thankMake sure you tell the teachyou messages which indieography Action Week Features (Nov. 14-20) —
ers you are publishing them!
cate the teachers are already
Missouri Geographic Alliance will partner with
eacher guides are a good
putting your ideas to work.
MPA to provide a series of three features promoting geresource and you can
We are creating newspaper
ography awareness. This year’s theme will be fresh water.
get them into the teachers’
readers in Odessa. Thank
Family Health Literacy – LIFT, Missouri’s Literacy
hands either by downloading,
you for your help!”
Resource Center, will partner with MPA to provide
copying and delivering, or
Call or email me to
three features in December focusing on important
by giving teachers the access
brainstorm ways you can
reading skills to keep families healthy – deciphering
information. We have five
reach out to teachers in
medicine labels, nutrition and exercise.
guides available at www.moyour community to help
Bill of Rights Day – Dec. 15. MPA has two feanie.com – including a new
them help you connect
tures available — quarter-page and half-page — at
one, “Using the Newspaper
with young readers.
www.mo-nie.com, download code: rights.
to Improve Test Scores.” This
guide is a compilation of our
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Obituaries
and two sisters. One of her sisters, Wendy, is the wife of Gary Rust, chairman
of Rust Communications.
Carthage
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St. Louis
Raymond Peoples
aymond Peoples, 85, a 51-year employee of The Carthage Press who
retired in 1997, died Sept. 13, 2010.
Mr. Peoples worked as circulation
manager, accounting manager and general manager during his half century at
the paper, which began in 1946.
Survivors are a son, a daughter, a
brother, a sister, three grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren.
St. Louis
E
eorge H. Stroud, 81, a retired editor of the Post-Disptach, died Oct.
3, 2010.
Mr. Stroud retired in 1990 after working at the Post-Dispatch for about 30
Duane Dailey honored for 50 years
of service to ag industry and citizens
F
Ed Schafer
d Schafer, 71, who spent 27 years
covering the St. Louis region and
eastern Missouri for The Associated
Press, died of a heart attack on Sept.
14, 2010.
Mr. Schafer worked for the Bloomington (Ill.,) Pantagraph, at the Wall Street
Journal office in suburban St. Louis, and
for the Sporting News before joining the
AP in 1972. He retired from AP in 1999.
He leaves his wife and a sister.
Cape Girardeau
K
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George H. Stroud
Kim McDowell
im McDowell, 58, head of human
resources at the Southeast Missourian, died of cancer Oct. 1, 2010.
She is survived by her husband, Terry;
years as a copy editor, wire news editor
and makeup editor. A daughter, Jerri
Stroud, was a reporter for the paper for
33 years.
Two of Mr. Stroud’s brothers, both
deceased, were editors for the Detroit
Free Press and Philadelphia Inquirer. A
nephew is a columnist for The ExpressNews in San Antonio.
Surviving are his wife, Madie; two
daughters, three grandchildren and one
great-grandchild.
riends, associates and the University
of Missouri honored MPA associate
member Duane Dailey on Sept. 24 for
50 years of serving the citizens and agriculture industry of Missouri.
Dailey, a resident of Columbia, writes
news and makes photographs for the
College of Agriculture. He has traveled
the countryside of Missouri for decades
writing about agriculture and farming.
Speakers included Thomas Payne,
vice chancellor and eean of the College
of Agriculture; Charlie Kruse, president
of the Missouri Farm Bureau, and others.
The program also featured Doug
Crews, executive director of the Missouri
Press Association, and Dave Marner,
managing editor of the Gasconade
County Republican in Owensville.
An endowment fund in Dailey’s name
has been established to provide funds for
journalism students interested in agricul-
ture to travel to meetings of the North
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Contributions to this fund can be sent
to: F. Duane Dailey Student Enrichment Fund, c/o Darcy Wells, CAFNR
Advancement, 2-4 Agriculture Building,
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
65211.
Dailey writes a weekly column published by a number of Missouri newspapers. He attends most Missouri Press
Association annual conventions and
some district press association meetings.
In 2006, Dailey was inducted into the
Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame
in Washington. For years he has assisted
with the Missouri Photo Workshop,
sponsored by the Missouri School of
Journalism.
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Closed meeting notice
needs specific reason
State auditor chides MSU on two issues
O
ne of the privileges of being Law), regarding closed meetings were
your hotline attorney is that it not always followed. Open meeting
gives me a view into the many minutes of the Board of Governors do
reporting endeavors going on in the state not always document the specific reaamong its newspaper reporters. You have sons for closing the meeting or the secno idea how much fun this is for me! tion of law which allows the meeting
During the years I spent in law to be closed. For example, minutes for
school, my greatest frusopen session meetings
tration was not being
typically stated the Board
“on the front lines” of
of Governors would enthe news as I had been as
ter closed session to disa reporter at the Springcuss personnel, litigation
field Leader & Press (now
and real estate; however,
News-Leader). And the
while in closed session,
best thing about practicthe Board only discussed
ing law with all of you is
one or two of these topics
that I see what you are doand not all three as the
ing in your newsrooms.
open meeting minutes
And so, the release a few
indicate.”
days ago of the state audit
If you will remember,
of Missouri State Univerlast spring I asked for
sity was as exciting for me Jean Maneke, MPA’s Legal
copies of meeting agenas it was for the staff of the Hotline attorney, can be
das from a variety of
Springfield News-Leader, reached at (816) 753-9000, public bodies throughI’m sure. I have worked [email protected]. out the state. In reviewwith that staff numerous
ing those, this was one of
times in the last few years analyzing the biggest abuses I found. It is almost
concerns about the actions of MSU’s de rigueur among public bodies in the
Board of Governors in holding closed state. In fact, the Board of Governors,
meetings that reporters felt were an in their formal response to the audit,
abuse of the sunshine law. had the audacity to call this practice “a
I have helped draft sunshine law placeholder.” document requests with reporters and
The sunshine law doesn’t provide
pondered how to further request access that “placeholders” may be used in nowhen the reply from the university was tices. What’s the purpose of a notice to
not as forthcoming as the reporters had the public if you feed them bologna? anticipated. It was clear, in many cases,
Clearly, the intent of the notice rethat responses were narrowly crafted quirement is to tell specifically what is
and that documents were being with- going to be discussed. The notice is just
held or severely edited before being re- as important as the vote that is taken
leased. to close the meeting, and waiting until
learly, MSU was not operating in a the vote to give the reason seems a clear
spirit of sunshine.
violation of the law. And numerous
The report issued by State Audi- public bodies in the state are engaged
tor Susan Montee on MSU on Oct. in this practice. The evidence of that
19 doesn’t mince words. “Numerous is sitting on the corner of my desk.
closed sessions were held by the Board
The audit report goes on to cite
(of MSU) but the various requirements closed meeting discussions that appear
in Chapter 610, RSMo (the Sunshine to be about issues which do not fall
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under proper closure exceptions. The
University board tries to excuse this
claiming “the first few times” this had
some tenuous tie to a proper reason for
closure. The report also notes that redactions
were made to document requests that
“did not appear appropriate,” noting
that specifically in one case “two of
these paragraphs (redacted) documented audit evidence of non-prudent use
of university funds.” Clearly, that was
what the local news reporter who made
the request wanted. And just as clearly,
the University sought to hide that evidence.
In its response, the university claims
words were redacted “to shield the
employee’s identity” because this was
an internal audit of a department and
involved an employee who was disciplined for improper conduct.
In her response, Auditor Montee
notes that the sunshine law only allows
closure of information “related to the
performance or merit of the employee” and that the law is supposed to be
strictly construed to promote the state
policy of openness.
uring the recent debate between
Montee and Tom Schweich, as
candidates for the state auditor position,
held at the Missouri Press Association
Convention at Lake Ozark in October,
Montee made an extremely telling statement, I thought. “A large number of
audit requests are due to local governmental bodies not complying with the
Sunshine Law,” she said. And among the comments posted on
the Springfield News-Leader’s website
was this: “It’s about time to hit them
with the Sunshine Law over and over til
they finally learn some respect for the
taxpayers who fund them.”
It’s not just the media who cares
about this subject. We are the representatives of the public. They definitely
care, and we are there in an effort to
bring information they want to them. We as an association cannot thank
State Auditor Susan Montee enough
for continuing the practice of including a Sunshine Law audit in her audit
of governmental bodies on a regular basis. It is an ongoing reminder to public
bodies of the importance of this law for
the public.
D
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NORTHWEST MISSOURI PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Matt Daugherty, Smithville/
Kearney; Vice President, Phil Cobb, Maryville; Secretary, Kathy Conger, Bethany; Treasurer,
W.C. Farmer, Rock Port. Directors: Past President Jim Fall, Maryville; Dennis Ellsworth, St.
Joseph; Leslie Speckman, Savannah; Jim McPherson, Weston; Chuck Haney, Chillicothe;
Adam Johnson, Mound City; Steve Tinnen, Plattsburg; Jamey Honeycutt, Cameron; Kay
Wilson, Maryville; Steve Booher, St. Joseph.
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SHOW-ME PRESS ASSOCIATION: President, Linda Geist, Monroe City; First Vice
President, David Eales, Paris; Secretary-Treasurer, Sandy Nelson, News-Press & Gazette
Co. Directors: Dennis Warden, Owensville; Stacy Rice, Drexel; Past President/Director,
Judy Spaar, Odessa.
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Regina Wynn, Gainesville; Secretary-Treasurer, Dala Whittaker, Cabool. Directors: Roger
Dillon, Eminence; Brad Gentry, Houston; Jeff Schrag, Springfield; Keith Moore, Ava; Chris
Case, Cuba; Tianna Brooks, Mountain View.
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Vice President, Sherry Greminger, Park Hills; Second Vice President, Donna Denson, Cape
Girardeau; Secretary-Treasurer, Michelle Friedrich, Poplar Bluff; Executive Secretary, Ann
Hayes, Southeast Missouri State University; Historian, Peggy Scott, Festus. Directors:
Gera LeGrand, Cape Girardeau; Kim Combs, Piedmont; Judy Schaaf-Wheeler, Ironton;
H. Scott Seal, Portageville; Kate Martin, Perryville; Deanna Nelson, Sikeston.
DEMOCRATIC EDITORS OF MISSOURI: President, Richard Fredrick, Paris; First Vice
President, Bob Cunningham, Moberly; Secretary, Beth McPherson, Weston; Treasurer,
Linda Geist, Monroe City.
MISSOURI CIRCULATION MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: President, Brenda Carney,
Harrisonville; First Vice President, Jack Kaminsky, Joplin; Second Vice President, Steve
Edwards, St. Joseph; Secretary, David Pine, Kansas City; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia.
Directors: Jim Kennedy, Bolivar; Ken Carpenter, Kansas City; Rob Siebeneck, Jefferson City.
MISSOURI ADVERTISING MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION: President, Stacy Rice, Drexel;
First Vice President, Dennis Warden, Owensville; Second Vice President, Jane Haslag,
Jefferson City; Secretary, Jeanine York, Washington; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia.
Directors: Bruce Wallace, Ashland; Joe Jordan, Poplar Bluff; Lisa Miller, Camdenton; Jana
Todd, Warrenton. Past President, Suzie Wilson, Milan.
MISSOURI ASSOCIATED DAILIES: President, Joe May, Mexico; Vice President, vacant;
Secretary, Shelly Arth, Marshall; Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia; Past President, Larry
Freels, Kirksville. Directors: Jack Whitaker, Hannibal; Arnie Robbins, St. Louis; Don Wyatt,
Springfield; Dan Potter, Columbia.
MISSOURI PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATORS: President, Colene McEntee, St.
Charles; President-Elect, vacant; Secretary, Peggy Koch, Barnhart; Treasurer, Roxanne
Miller, Ballwin; Public Relations Officer, Suzanne Corbett, St. Louis; Membership Officer,
Linda Briggs-Harty, St. Louis; Contest Director, Janice Denham, Kirkwood; Quest Awards
Directors, Susan Fadem, St. Louis, and Marge Polcyn, St. Louis; Conference Director,
vacant; Archivist, Dee Rabey, Granite City, Ill.; Past President, Fran Mannino, Kirkwood.
MISSOURI PRESS SERVICE: President, Jack Whitaker, Hannibal; Vice President, Dave
Bradley, St. Joseph; Secretary-Treasurer, Steve Oldfield, Adrian. Directors: John Spaar,
Odessa; Gary Sosniecki, former co-publisher in Vandalia.
MISSOURI PRESS FOUNDATION, INC.: President, Mrs. Betty Spaar, Odessa; First Vice
President, Wendell Lenhart, Trenton; Second Vice President, Kirk Powell, Pleasant Hill;
Secretary-Treasurer, Doug Crews, Columbia. Directors: R.B. Smith III, Lebanon; Rogers
Hewitt, Shelbyville; James Sterling, Columbia; Edward Steele, Columbia; Robert Wilson,
Milan; Dane Vernon, Eldon; Vicki Russell, Columbia; Bill James, Harrisonville; Bill Miller
Sr., Washington, Tom Miller, Washington; Chuck Haney, Chillicothe. Directors Emeritus:
Mrs. Wanda Brown, Harrisonville; Wallace Vernon, Eldon; Mrs. Avis Tucker, Warrensburg.
MISSOURI-KANSAS AP PUBLISHERS AND EDITORS: Chairman, Susan Lynn, Iola,
Kan. Missouri AP Managing Editors: Chairman, vacant; Past Chairman, Carol Stark, Joplin.
MISSOURI COLLEGE MEDIA ASSOCIATION: President, Leah Randazzo, Missouri State
University; Vice President, Lyndsie Manusos, University of Missouri; Secretary, Alexandra
Nicolas, Missouri Southern State University; MPA Liaison, T.R. Hanrahan, Missouri Southern
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NDEPENDENCE—A carrier for the
Independence Examiner reported to
police she was robbed at gunpoint Oct.
7 in Blue Springs.
Police said they received a call at 3
a.m. from a woman who said she was
rolling newspapers in a parking lot when
two men stopped and asked for directions. The woman said the men pulled
out a shotgun and pointed it at her. They
stole $50 cash, a cell phone and jewelry.
Police said they received two more
reports about the same time of women
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