PNNA keeps members up to date on how the association is working for them, on what's new at other member newspapers and trends in the newspaper industry through its Bulletin.
2009 Dolly Connelly winner announced
Mar 09, 2010
"Hidden Wells, Dirty Water," a three-day series in the Yakima Herald-Republic, is winner of the 2009 Dolly Connelly Excellence-in-Environmental-Journalism Award, presented annually by PNNA..
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API/Poynter newsroom seminar in 2 weeks
Mar 09, 2010
The American Press Institute invites PNNA-member editors to "Beyond the Newsroom," an intensive workshop March 22-24 in Reston, Va.
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Mobile, e-readers focus of new AP unit
Mar 09, 2010
With its new AP Gateway business unit, the Associated Press, a PNNA Allied member, aims to help its members to sell their products in the growing mobile and e-reader markets, said Tom Curley, the AP's chief executive.
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Inland webinars cover classified, new business, motivation
Feb 25, 2010
PNNA members receive the Inland Press Association-member rate for pertinent webinars. See what's on tap for March.
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New webinars cover sales, design, social media
Jan 26, 2010
A new roster of webinars is available to PNNA members through a partnership with Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and the Iowa Newspaper Foundation.
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2009 Print Quality Award winners named
Jan 25, 2010
PNNA is pleased to announce the winners of the PNNA 2009 Print Quality Awards. The contest originated in 1992 as a competition among members and subsequently was expanded to include non-members.
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Compensation survey deadline now March 12
Jan 15, 2010
PNNA members are encouraged to participate in the Newspaper Industry Compensation Survey conducted by the Inland Press Association. PNNA is a co-sponsor of the survey.
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FOI fund fills in gaps
Jan 07, 2010
A Knight Foundation grant will provide state open-government groups
with the up-front costs of litigation in freedom of information cases, the National Freedom of Information Coalition reports.
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Oregonian's Patrick Stickel retires
Jan 07, 2010
Patrick Stickel, president of The Oregonian, retired Dec. 30, 2009. He had been interim publisher since his father, Fred, retired in September.
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In Memoriam: Jack Mullowney, 91
Jan 07, 2010
Jack Mullowney, a 1960s publisher of the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho, died Dec. 29, 2009, at home of natural causes, The Times-News reports. He was 91.
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Dadisman to GM in Everett
Dec 18, 2009
David Dadisman has been named general manager of the Daily Herald in Everett, WA.
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January webinars: Parternships, promos, mobile, video
Dec 18, 2009
PNNA members are invited to log in on Thursday mornings in January for
a new webinar series from Borrell Associates. The Webinars are $75
each, or save $50 and buy all four for $250 (ends Jan 4).
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Selling into new display network pays off
Dec 16, 2009
PNNA's 2x2 display network is working for its member newspapers. One newspaper earned $300 commission on ad sold into the network.
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New webinars: Classified, time management, sales skills
Dec 16, 2009
PNNA members receive the Inland rate of $75 for Inland Press
Association webinars. They offer an efficient way to stay informed and
competitive. You need a computer with Internet connection and
telephone, a clear block of time and a resolution to learn.
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Back in time: 1999 Internet guide
Dec 16, 2009
A guide to the Internet published 10 years ago shows us that we've come a long way since.
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Lutz heads online at Wenatchee World
Dec 16, 2009
Genie Lutz is the new director of online media and strategic marketing
at The Wenatchee World. She
had been with Price Waterhouse
Coopers.
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Bhatia to editor at Oregonian
Dec 08, 2009
Peter Bhatia becomes editor of The Oregonian in Portland, the newspaper reports. He succeeds Sandra Mims Rowe.
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Web five years out: 15 predictions
Nov 13, 2009
In five years, web consumers will utilize plenty more micropayments, they'll view horizontally scrolling content on wider screens, and online content will be a lot more interactive.
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Your one-stop guide to publishing online
Nov 13, 2009
To start your own online news empire, Robert Niles says at the Online Journalism Review, you need a brand, a blog, a promotional plan, a tracking tool ... and a revenue stream.
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Anderson named publisher of Oregonian
Oct 26, 2009
N. Christian Anderson III becomes publisher of The Oregonian in Portland, the newspaper reported. He succeeds Fred Stickel, who retired in September.
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Bryan named publisher in Juneau
Oct 23, 2009
Mark Bryan is the new publisher of the Juneau Empire. He had been publisher of the Newport (Ore.) News-Times.
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Share your Summit comments with us
Sep 25, 2009
Members who attended the 2009 Summit are asked to complete an evaluation form.
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Presenters share files from Summit
Sep 25, 2009
Thanks to our Summit presenters, PNNA is able to share these presentation files and links from the Sept. 17-18 PNNA Summit.
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Board accelerates on ad networks
Sep 25, 2009
At the annual meeting of the members of PNNA, held Sept. 18 in Seattle, several motions were approved. First was a decision to mitigate dues for any PNNA-member newspaper that agrees to become a partner in the two networks being offered by the association.
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Blethen Award winners announced
Sep 18, 2009
The 2009 C. B. Blethen Memorial award winners were announced Thursday, Sept. 17 at the
89th Pacific Northwest Press Summit in Seattle.
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Parrish named publisher in Longview
Sep 15, 2009
Rick Parrish is now publisher of The Daily News in Longview, Wash., that newspaper reported. He had been publisher in Racine, Wisc., and succeeds Linda Lindus.
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Stickel retires at Oregonian
Sep 09, 2009
Fred Stickel has announced his retirement from The Oregonian after 35 years as publisher, The Oregonian reports.
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The Wenatchee World names Janine Bakken as Director of Finance
Jul 14, 2009
WENATCHEE, WA — The Wenatchee World is pleased to announce the hiring
of Janine Bakken as its Director of Finance. In that capacity, she
will oversee all financial affairs for the 23,000 circulation,
family-owned daily newspaper in North Central Washington.
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Horton named Kitsap Sun publisher
Jul 09, 2009
Charles Horton has been named President and Publisher of the Kitsap Sun.
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Reuters Handbook of Journalism goes online
Jul 09, 2009
The handbook is "the guidance Reuters journalists live by," and until now, it hasn't been freely available to the public.
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Newspapers As Supermarket Loss Leaders?
Jul 09, 2009
Apart from hotels and the like giving away newspapers very seldom does one find the newsstand price discounted.
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Single copy's a buck in outlying areas
Jul 02, 2009
In Spokane, the Spokesman-Review is raising single-copy prices for its Monday-through-Saturday editions to $1 per copy in zones outside its core distribution area, the paper reported.
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What great-great-granddad said
Jun 11, 2009
Ryan Blethen, who has succeeded Jim Veseley as opinion editor at The Seattle Times, is the great-great-grandson of Alden J. Blethen, who bought The Seattle Times in 1896. He predicts any change in the editorial pages to be subtle, with a feisty edge.
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It was one fine building, Bellingham
Jun 11, 2009
The Bellingham Herald building, which recently sold for $2.3 million, cost $325,000 to complete in 1926.
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Start charging online, document urges
Jun 11, 2009
Talking point No. 1 of the API Newspaper Economic Action Plan, presented recently at a Chicago gathering of newspaper corporate executives: "True Value. Establish that news content online has value by charging for it. Begin 'massive experimentation with several of the most promising options.'"
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In Memoriam: Stan Strick, 68
Jun 11, 2009
Stanley Richard Strick, retired executive editor of The Daily Herald in Everett, Wash., died June 4, 2009, from complications related to cancer treatment. He was 68.
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PNNA to launch 2x2 ad network
Jun 11, 2009
At its May meeting, the directors of PNNA agreed that in these difficult times for newspapers, it was necessary to develop a way to mitigate dues. After discussing alternative revenue-producing strategies it was decided that a 2x2 ad program, in addition to the existing classified program, offered the best solution.
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Twitter: It's the new duct tape
May 11, 2009
Think of Twitter as modern-day duct tape, says Steve Mullen, editor of The Commercial Dispatch in Mississippi.
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We forgot the comics; yeah, it's a big deal
May 11, 2009
Leaving out the comics was a darn-fool blunder, a community newspaper editor says, taking it on the chin. But it happens.
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Media freight train slow to change course
May 11, 2009
Jack Myers, who gave the keynote speaker at the America East Newspaper Conference in Hershey, Penn., says the economic path for media executives is leveling a little, though there's still some trudging to do.
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'We missed the story,' business press admits
May 11, 2009
Panelists at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers conference concurred that the business press missed the mark in covering the money meltdown in a way that media consumers could understand.
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Best of the West winners posted
May 11, 2009
The Best of the West journalism contest, open to newspapers and their websites in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, has announced the 2009 winners.
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Battle of the e-readers will pay off
May 11, 2009
The post-Kindle scramble to create a market-leading digital news-reader will sort itself out in time, says an Ars Technica overview piece.
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Warning: Kindle users trend older
May 11, 2009
Seventy percent of the users of Amazon's Kindle device who were tabulated in an unscientific poll are over 40. More than half are over age 50.
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Le Masurier named Olympian publisher
Mar 23, 2009
George Le Masurier is the new publisher of The Olympian in Olympia, Wash. He had been publisher of The Peninsula Gateway in Gig Harbor and The Herald in Puyallup.
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Ellensburg publisher will miss press rumble
Mar 17, 2009
The rumble of the press will be missing at The Daily Record in Ellensburg, which has moved its printing to the Yakima Herald.
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Stick up for your product, editor says
Mar 17, 2009
TV stations have a long-lived habit of ripping and reading from newspapers. Karen Peterson, executive editor of the News Tribune
in Tacoma, wrote in February that she tracks down this uncredited
borrowing, courteously, of course, and asks that the station include
the newspaper's name with the item.
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Salute to The Post-Intelligencer
Mar 17, 2009
On the occasion of its final print edition, fellow PNNA members acknowledge the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on their opinion pages.
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PNNA 2008 Print Quality Winners
Jan 07, 2009
PNNA has announced the winners of the
2008 PNNA Print Quality Contest Awards. Judging was done by California
Polytechnic State University's Graphic Communications Department in San
Luis Obispo, headed by Harvey Levenson, Ph.D.
Awards are given in first and second place in two circulation categories, under 25,000 and over 25,000.
- First Place Circulation 25,000 and over:The Bulletin, Bend, Ore.
- Second Place Circulation 25,000 and over: Yakima Herald-Republic, Yakima, Wash.
- First Place Circulation under 25,000: The Chronicle, Centralia, Wash.
- Second Place Circulation under 25,000: The Grants Pass Daily Courier, Grants Pass, Ore.
IAB focuses on efficient online ads
Dec 18, 2008
The Internet Advertising Bureau has released new guidelines to streamline online media buying and ad-serving.
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Olympian printed in Tacoma
Dec 18, 2008
The News Tribune in Tacoma has begun printing newspapers for The Olympian. The move follows similar changes at McClatchy Co. papers in Boise, Idaho, and Bellingham, Wash., and in Sacramento and Modesto, Calif.
Skagit Valley goes to 75 cents
Dec 18, 2008
The Skagit Valley Herald in October raised its single-copy price to 75 cents and Sunday price to $1.50. Home delivery prices were not changed. It was the first single-copy increase in nearly a decade, the Mount Vernon paper reported, attributing increases to the higher costs of fuel, newsprint and ink.
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