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Green Valley News and The Sahuarita Sun employees are enjoying their new office
Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Green Valley News and The Sahuarita Sun employees are enjoying their new office, with soaring ceilings, murals featuring dozens of photos, and framed historic front pages from newspapers around the nation — with one dating to 1798.
“This is an exciting move for us,” Publisher Pam Mox said. “As our delivery and customer traffic needs grew, we needed to find a location more conducive to our type of business.
“Our new facility is convenient for both Green Valley and Sahuarita residents and we look forward to showing it off,” Mox said.
The office is near the border of the two communities and is drawing a thumbs-up from everybody who drops in to get a look.
The newspapers are part of a revitalization of a former furniture store. By year’s end, they’ll be joined in the building by Ross Dress for Less and Big Lots. The building is in Sahuarita, but it has a Green Valley mailing address: 18705 S. Interstate 19 Frontage Road, Suite 125, Green Valley, AZ.
The decor is an open floor plan with high, open ceilings. The back wall holds 95 feet of vinyl murals featuring some of the newspapers’ best photographs, making the new office a place readers really enjoy. There also is a computer that gives archive access to the public, along with bound volumes. The common area media center is visually separated from the rest with free-flowing shoji screens suspended from the ceiling. It’s modern and fresh and has accolades from all who have visited.
The Tucson Weekly won three awards in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' 2010 Altweekly Awards. The results were announced Friday, July 17, at the AAN annual convention.
Weekly art director Adam Kurtz nabbed top honors in the editorial layout category (less than 50,000 circulation) for his print layout of "The Strange Saga of Geronimo's Skull" (June 11, 2009)
Renee Downing nabbed second place honors for political column. She won for "Unfortunately, Arizonans Are Getting What We're Paying for" (Dec. 10, 2009), "Price Tags: The Elephant in the Room in Health Care" (Nov. 12, 2009) and "If You May One Day Need to Go to an ER, You Should Support Health-Care Reform" (Sept. 17, 2009).
Tim Vanderpool won his third Altweekly Award in the last three years, this time earning honorable mention in the short-form news category, for his coverage of Tucson Greyhound Park: "Kennel No. 1" (April 23, 2009), "Ordinance Ignored" (Oct. 15, 2009) and "Greyhound Runaround" (Dec. 3, 2009).
In other news, Tucson Weekly editor Jimmy Boegle was elected to the AAN Board of Directors as the chair of the Diversity Committee.
The world lost the ultimate newspaper man
Thursday, 15 July 2010
BY HOLLY LELEUX-THUBRON THE DAILY IBERIAN
JEFFERSON, Texas - Fred Bandy once posed for his mug shot that ran alongside his columns and editorials in an old-fashioned press hat complete with badge and seated next to a typewriter; the familiar image of newspapermen for decades.
The world lost the ultimate newspaper man when Bandy, who has lived in Jefferson, Texas, since his retirement from The Daily Iberian, died Saturday at age 83 in Marshall, Texas.
He spent 50 years chasing the news, with his last post of 15 years as senior news editor at The Daily Iberian. His son, Steve Bandy of Rayne, who also was drawn to the profession and now works as the general manager of The Scott Connection and the Rayne Independent, said his mom and dad retired to east Texas far away from where his dad¹s newspaper career unfolded because they knew he would not be able to stay out of the newsroom. He had many stories he liked to share, Steve Bandy said, of those he encountered during his long career, including former Gov. Edwin Edwards. Fred Bandy covered Edwards first election to political office to the Crowley City Council in the 1950s. The two remained friends up until his death, Steve Bandy said.
It was always fun to get him talking, Steve Bandy said, adding his east Texas home was full of mementos, photographs and old writings spanning five decades.
Bandy was a member of the first graduating class from Northwestern State University School of Journalism in Natchitoches. After a tour in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, Bandy's career in journalism began at the former Daily Signal in Crowley. He moved from there to the Daily Star in Hammond, The Daily World in Opelousas and KATC-TV in Lafayette before coming to New Iberia.
His years in New Iberia were some of the most enjoyable of his career, his son said. Fred and Marie Anne Bandy loved New Iberia and knew few strangershere.
He enjoyed writing his regular column, which was called Bandying About, a favorite among readers, particularly military veterans.
Hearing the news of Bandy's death was a sad moment for longtime Daily Iberian Teche Life Editor Jennifer May, who retired in 2009.
He hired me, and on good days I thanked him for that and on bad days not so much, May said with a chuckle.
May said when she met Bandy he was the ultimate newspaper man and all that she imagined a newspaper person would be like. He was tough but fair andoffered high praises for a job well done, she said.
He retired from The Daily Iberian in October 1995 and has spent the past several years enjoying retirement with his wife in east Texas.
Daily Iberian Publisher Will Chapman said Bandy's death is a great loss. Fred was a terrific newspaperman but an even better individual, Chapman said.
A memorial service for Fred Hall Bandy will be held at 7 p.m. today with a burial in DeQueen Cemetery in DeQueen, Ark., at a later date. Haggard Funeral Home of Jefferson, Texas, is in charge of the arrangements.
Publisher announces semi-retirement as his 40-year mark with company nears
Friday, 09 July 2010
Terry Maddox
St. Tammany News Publisher Terry Maddox recently announced his semi-retirement, which was effective July 1.
On that date he began working part-time, but is continuing to write his column, “Top o’ the Mornin,” remain active in the advertising operations of the newspaper and represent the paper at community functions through 2012.
On Jan. 1, 2011, Maddox will be designated as publisher emeritus, said John Mathew, CEO of Wick Communications, the parent company of St. Tammany News.
Looking forward to full-time retirement, Maddox will have served the company for 40 years in November 2012.
“I very much appreciate the opportunity afforded to me by Wick Communications,” said Maddox. “My aspiration was to become a newspaper publisher, and I was put on a path to accomplish that goal.”
Maddox joined the company in 1972 as the advertising manager for the Daily News in Bogalusa. Two years later, the company began publishing the Northlake Sunday News, later to become the News Banner, headquartered in Covington and serving the western portion of St. Tammany Parish, and Maddox was named its advertising manager as well. Then in 1976, the company purchased the Daily Sentry-News in Slidell, and he was named advertising director for all three papers.
In 1977, Maddox was promoted to general manager of the Daily Sentry-News and moved to Slidell. He continued in that role until 1992, when he was named publisher of the paper.
During Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the offices of the Slidell Sentry-News were destroyed. Fortunately, its sister paper, the News Banner, was not, and at that time the two merged into what is now known as St. Tammany News, serving all of St. Tammany Parish.
“We have a deep appreciation for the long service of Terry Maddox in his variety of roles over the years,” said Mathew, chief executive officer of Wick Communications. “We’re also pleased that as he steps back from a full-time role, we’ll be able to count on his expertise and knowledge of the market.”
Berndt named Montana Newspaper Association president
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Libby Berndt
Libby Berndt, publisher of the Sidney Herald, will serve as the president for the Montana Newspaper Association for the 2010-2011 term. She is currently the association's second vice president. She will take ovre the president's duties after the annual meeting June 17-19 in Bozeman.
Berndt will serve as the annual convention's host when it is held in Lewistown next June.
She has served as the Herald's publisher since 2001. Her career with the Herald started as a typesetter in 1987. She's also held the positions as classified advertising manager, display advertising consultant and office manager/bookkeeper.
Berndt currently serves on the Foundation for Community board, president of the Sidney Lions Club, member of the Sidney Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture's leadership taskforce and Town and Country Festival committee, along with many other community projects. She and her husband, Randy, are parents to two grown children and grandparents to two "grand dogs."
Roanoke Rapids, NC Customer Appreciation Sale
Friday, 25 June 2010
The Daily Herald in Roanoke Rapids, NC had a Customer Appreciation Sale on June 22. The advertising sales team phoned customers during the morning to thank them for their business and offer some very special rates. The sale featured 2 x 5 ads with pricing that decreased when the number of multiple ads purchased increased. The account execs were paid a bonus for each ad sold and earned extra bonuses for every 6 ads sold, meeting individual goal and meeting team goal. Extra bonuses of various amounts were hidden in balloons that had to be popped to reveal the bonus.
The team sold 108 ads on nine pages that were published on June 25 and generated more than $5,000.
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