Missouri Press Association
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Wednesday, April 8
Where in the state are you located? Perryville, in southeastern Missouri. Who owns the newspaper? Smith Newspapers, Inc. In addition to publishing a newspaper, what other services do you/it …
Tuesday, April 7
Some tasks in life — updating your will or canceling underutilized digital subscriptions — often end up in the “Get Around To It” file. So it is with modernizing an organization’s …
Monday, April 6
Recently, the Reynolds Journalism Institute held a webinar to demo the projects from its 2025-26 Fellows. While all of the projects have appeal to some facet of journalism, one product in particular …
Sunday, April 5
Maryville Forum returns to Cobb Publishing Phil and Chaundee Cobb reacquired the Maryville Forum and The Post from Ken Garner’s Garner Media Holdings in February. The Cobbs previously owned …
Friday, April 3
Communities facing the loss of their newspaper may want to consider the cooperative model of ownership, where the paper is owned collectively by a group of stakeholders. When Sheridan, Missouri, …
Thursday, April 2
A Missouri Appeals Court last month upheld a trial court finding that a county sheriff has misused the investigation exception to producing investigative records. The facts of the case were …
Wednesday, April 1
There are a lot of things we do in this business that are easy to measure — revenue, page views, contracts signed, campaigns delivered. Recognition, on the other hand, is often treated as something …
Tuesday, March 31
Roxie Murphy is the Missouri Press Foundation’s new Newspapers In Education (NIE) coordinator, replacing Helen Headrick, who retired March 31. Murphy, assistant editor of Warden Publishing and …
Monday, March 23
George Kennedy, 84, former managing editor of the Columbia Missourian, died March 20, 2026. Earning both his undergraduate and doctorate from the University of Missouri, Kennedy joined the …
Wednesday, February 25
Doris E. Barnhart, 89, died Feb. 19, 2026. Barnhart spent her childhood working around the newspaper office. She once complained to her father about the ink on her hands, and he told her that once …
