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From APW and BeyondCarol Griffee update
Dear APW friends: Carol Griffee is in hospice care at a North Little Rock nursing home. She has end-stage COPD and lung cancer. It could be a few weeks up to a few months. She asks for no visitors, phone calls or flowers. She's using what little energy she has to wrap...
Job opening-Mountain Home
A radio station in Mountain Home with an extraordinary news department is seeking a staffer with strong news judgment, news writing, production and board skills. Contact Bob Knight at 501-425-3101.
Fall professional development
Keep your calendars open for the second Saturday in November for an APW professional development event. We are still open for session ideas and presenters. Thanks to Helen Plotkin, we will likely be meeting at Hendrix in Conway. One strong suggestion was a session or...
Associate editor needed
Job opening Associate editor Arkansas Catholic in Little Rock seeks an associate editor for its publications. The associate editor would contribute stories and photos to the diocesan weekly newspaper as well as contribute to Arkansas Catholic en Espanol, the Diocese...
It’s a girl!
Congratulations to Kristin Netterstrom, APW second vice president and HS contest guru, and her husband Dusty, on the birth of their daughter, Kahlan Frances Higgins. She was born Monday, 6:48 p.m. She is 8 pounds, 9 ounces and 22 inches long. Mom and baby are doing...
Blow your own horn!
Members, if you're looking for copy to publicize your placings in the 2010 APW Communications Contest, you may download the APW 2010 press release and the Arkansas Press Women contest winners. Thanks to Debbie Miller and Kristin Netterstrom for putting these...
Summer Board Meeting Minutes
Please review the attached summer board meeting minutes and submit corrections to mary.hightower@gmail.com.
2010 Summer Awards meeting
One of the great things about APW's annual meeting is that even though it might've been a year since you last saw your fellow members, once we're together again, it's like we never left. We had a good turnout at the headquarters of the University of Arkansas...
Ark HS students win national journalism awards
Arkansas high school students win national journalism awards Little Rock – Five Arkansas high school students won National Federation of Press Women journalism awards for work published last year in their student newspapers. The national contest is open to first place...
2010 Summer Meeting
Research, citizen journalism, awards mark 2010 summer meeting LITTLE ROCK – Fresh mass communications research and one man’s journey into citizen journalism are among the highlights of the 2010 Arkansas Press Women annual summer meeting set for June 5. The meeting...