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From APW and BeyondAPW Scholarship deadline March 15
APW awards a $1,000 scholarship each spring to an undergraduate student – male or female – studying at an Arkansas college or university who is planning a career in mass communications or journalism. The application deadline is March 15. Eligibility Applicant...
APW, SPJ, APA co-sponsor FOIA panel March 15
The Arkansas Pro Chapter of the SPJ, the Arkansas Press Women, and the Arkansas Press Association will host a panel discussion from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, March 15, on the Freedom of Information Act and how it is being impacted by legislation in the 2013 General...
Why digital natives hate newspapers
From Editor and Publisher: The repudiation of the print delivery system by young people is probably the single greatest factor in the sharp decline Pew detected in newspaper readership in the last decade. Pew found that only 29 percent of the American population read...
HS Contest Call for Entries
High school journalists -- it's that time again. Collect your best work. Read the contest entry instructions closely (there are changes!) and enter!
HS Contest – Heads up!
Just a heads up for our high school journalists. March 1 is the postmark deadline for the high school awards. NFPW has updated information at http://nfpw.org/highSchoolContest.cfm. More to come, so stay tuned.
Critical contest info
Among all the communications about the 2013 APW Communications Contest, I neglected to mention that the entries are $5 a piece at the state level. (Thanks to Vivian Hogue for asking!) And a reminder, if you win a category at the state level and have a full NFPW/APW...
Banished word list – 2012
Amazing. Baby bump. Ginormous. Just a handful of the words and phrases that made the annual banished word list from Lake Superior State University. What words or phases would you ban from copy? Add your nominees in the comments section.
Plopper retiring
Former APW member and UALR faculty member Dr. Bruce Plopper is retiring at month's end. See Tammy Keith's story here: http://m.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/dec/09/longtime-journalism-professor-retiring/
APW @ NFPW
Arkansas Press Women members had a big presence at the National Federation of Press Women meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz. Thanks to Carol Sanders for the photos and reporting. APW member Tammy Keith was sweepstakes runnerup in the NFPW Communications Contest. She...