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Eastern Ky. papers launch new edltions
By LISA CARNAHAN masthead. (Floyd County Times) already had a Sunday, so
KPA Member Services Director The Floyd County Times and the Hazard the plan to make it a regional paper emerged.”
Spring brought change to Eastern Herald are both properties of Community The newspaper is called “The Sunday
Kentucky in more ways than the blooming of Newspaper Holdings, Inc. (CNHI) and Rod Edition of the Times Herald” and it covers
dogwoods and swelling of rivers. Two new edi— Collins serves as publisher of both newspapers. Leslie, Perry, Knott, Floyd, Johnson, Pike,
tions of multi-county coverage newspapers hit Collins came to Prestonsburg in April 1999 Letcher and Magofﬁn counties. Collins says
the streets -— one a merged Sunday edition from the Richmond Register and within three plans have also been made to extend coverage
between the Floyd County Times and Hazard months, took the newspaper to a Sunday edi- into Martin and Breathitt counties.

. Herald that’s focusing on seven counties initial— tion. He took over at Hazard last October. “We’ll cover everything that’s regional,” said
ly and the second, a Friday edition of the Perry “There was a deﬁnite need for another edi- Collins. “Most of these areas have their own lit-
County News that covers ﬁve counties and car— tion in that area,” said Collins. “We had already tle pockets of news, with each newspaper
ries the name “Kentucky River News” as the merged our shoppers, so it seemed natural. We See EDITIONS, page 7

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teachers came from across the state A panel of journalists and journalism educators took students’ questions about journalism ethics at the 2001 .
to learn more about this thing KHSJA State Convention. ‘
called “journalism.” overnight. The event featured print from the students. Graves County High School took
This year’s meeting started the and broadcast professional journal- The main highlight of the con- home the Grand Champion Award,
evening before the convention with ists who shared insights about their vention was presentation of the which recognizes the school with
a pizza party and dance for those career choices with the students. KHSJA awards for best newspaper, the best all-around journalism pro-
students and advisers traveling The journalists also took questions yearbook and broadcast entries. See CONVENTION, page 3
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Medla role in public s Vlew of youth Violence debated 2*
By JACINTA FELDMAN those crimes newsworthy. statements about the media’s cover- 3 '
KPA News Bureau Director “1 think you can say that about age of youth violence. Other mem- ‘
Professionals on both sides of a lot of things we cover,” said bers on the panel included Jim Ogle, ‘ . 2 .
the issue debated how much, if any, Lexington Herald-Leader Editor senior vice president for news at
the media’s coverage of youth vio- and Senior Vice President Pam WKYT-TV, Michael Marsden, 3
lence sways public perception dur- Luecke. “We cover war dispropor- Provost and Vice President of
ing a speaker series at Eastern tionately to its role in society, we Academic Affairs at Eastern, Dena
Kentucky University on March 30. cover sports disproportionately to Tackett, student editor of The
Criminologists said the media its role in society. Lord knows we Eastern Progress and Liz Hansen,
covers youth violence disproportion- cover sports disproportionately.” associate professor in the universi-
ately to its role in society. Luecke was on a ﬁve-member ty’s department of communications.
Journalists said the very fact that it panel that reacted to Criminal Kappeler said that the media
is rare and unusual is what makes Justice Professor Victor Kappeler’s See MEDIA, page 10