A state lawmaker’s personal grudge against the newspaper industry could end up hurting workers and delaying delivery for early risers.
Sen. Trudy Wade, R-Guilford, filed a March 28 bill that …
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Wilson Times editorial
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6/7/17
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Like his predecessors in the General Assembly, Onslow County Sen. Michael Lazzara makes the same misguided arguments in his SB 200 that government should take over notifying the public of important …
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Bill Moss, Editor
Hendersonville Lightning
NCPA President
Lockwood Phillips, Owner, Editor, Publisher
Carteret Publishing Co.
Carteret County News-Times
Tideland News
Phil Lucey, Executive Director
NC Press Association
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4/18/23
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If you’re a journalist who has ever sought police body camera or dashboard camera recordings, you probably used the forms provided by the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts …
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Beth Soja & Mike Tadych
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4/26/23
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Raleigh, NC - April 14, 2023- North Carolina press association (NCPA), a leading newspaper trade association in Raleigh, is proud to endorse the Illinois Press Association's …
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Phil Lucey, NCPA
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4/28/23
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If you make public records requests in North Carolina, you are undoubtedly familiar with N.C. Gen. Stat. § 132-6(a), which requires a public body to furnish responsive records “as promptly …
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Beth Soja
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5/30/23
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Members of the N.C. Press Association from around the state converged upon Goldsboro late Friday morning to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the group's formation.
The relevance extends …
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Phyllis Moore
Goldsboro News Argus
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5/13/23
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We frequently get calls to the hotline when law enforcement officials redact the names of witnesses, perpetrators, juveniles or victims in crime and incident reports. Journalists want to know – …
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Beth Soja (beth@smvt.com) & Karen Rabenau (karen@smvt.com)
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6/30/23
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Do you make New Year’s resolutions? I usually do. Sometimes they are elaborate, with different resolutions for different areas of my life – work, home, fitness. …
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Amanda Martin, NCPA General Counsel
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12/27/16
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The North Carolina General Assembly remains poised to make open government history next week when lawmakers return to Raleigh for the last time in 2021. It has been a while since our legislature has …
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Sandy Hurley & Bill Moss
North Carolina Press Association
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11/22/21
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When a journalist calls for help on legal issues such as public meetings or access to public records, Amanda Martin answers the phone.
Martin, the counsel for the N.C. Press Association, …
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Ross Chandler
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7/20/23
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School’s out! I am fresh off teaching media law at the UNC School of Media and Journalism over the 2017-2018 academic year. I loved it and loved my students! I am happy, though, to now have time to …
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Amanda Martin
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6/18/18
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Oct. 1 is the deadline for paid distribution newspapers to file the Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation form ( PS Form 3526 ) with your postmaster.
Remember that paid electronic …
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9/15/20
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A recent newsroom workshop prompts me to offer up a refresher on how to stay out of copyright trouble. Imagine a member of your newspaper is working on a story about the end of summer and the …
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Amanda Martin
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7/31/23
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2023 NCPA Editorial and Advertising Awards Press Release
Contact: Philip Lucey, NCPA Executive Director, phil@ncpress.com
For Immediate Release
Thursday, August 24, …
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8/24/23
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The North Carolina Press Association will continue to fight to ensure access to public notices for all citizens, not just those with a computer and Internet connection. The statistics clearly show …
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6/29/17
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A reader emailed to mention that I’d recently written a column listing New Century Schoolbook (among others) as a typeface to toss, but that I hadn’t suggested a text face that might be …
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Ed Henninger
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1/9/17
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When you peel back the layers of advertising philosophy and technique, it all comes down to one thing: Motivation. People buy things because they are motivated. And the most effective ads are …
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John Foust
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1/9/17
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Newspaper legal notices can be dull stuff, but they’re attracting a lot of interest from state lawmakers. Bills that would change public notice laws were introduced in 21 states this year. Almost …
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N&O Editorial Board
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6/29/17
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Although you may have participated in the past, all newspapers must re-register on the contest website. The association code is "ncpress" and is also listed in the rules.
There have …
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10/9/20
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FAYETTEVILLE — CityView, a Fayetteville-based online news organization, and The Assembly, a digital-first magazine covering power and place in North Carolina, have launched a strategic …
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8/28/23
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