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Volunteer to participate in an ANA committee. There always is room for more brain power.
Here is our meeting schedule. Most meetings are by conference call unless otherwise noted.

Government & Public Policy
Michael Chihak, Chair
TIME: 9 a.m.

NEXT: October 20
3rd Friday of Oct., Nov., & Dec. by conference call

Minutes, Sept. 13 meeting

Agenda, Sept. 29 meeting

Marketing

1st Wed of each month

TIME: 11 a.m.

NEXT: October 4

by conference call

Dick Larson, Chair

An in-person meeting will be held at noon, Oct. 13 at Chaparral Suites, Scottsdale

Minutes: Sept. 6 meeting

Task Force
for Education

By conference call
John Wolfe, Chair
TIME: 10 a.m.

NEXT: October 18

Minutes: Sept. 13 meeting

Newspapers In Education Advisory Committee

By conference call
Pat Oso, Chair
TIME: 10 a.m.

NEXT: ?

Minutes: Sept. 28

First Amendment Coalition

Quarterly @ Perkins Coie

NEXT: Oct. 5

TIME: Noon

ANA Finance Committee

By conference call

NEXT: Thur. Sept. 28

TIME: 3 p.m.

By Conference Call

Board Calendar

AZ Newspapers Foundation Board

TIME: 10 a.m.

NEXT: Oct. 13

Paloma I Room, Chaparral Suites, Scottsdale

Minutes: Sept. 15, 2006

By Laws

ANA Executive Committee

NEXT: Oct. 13

TIME: 1 p.m.

Paloma II Room, Chaparral Suites, Scottsdale

ANA/Ad Services Board

NEXT: Oct. 13

TIME: 2 p.m.

Paloma I Room, Chaparral Suites, Scottsdale

Seminar Calendar

Fall Convention

Hall of Fame: Oct. 13

TIME: 6 p.m.-9 p.m.

Convention: Oct. 14

Chaparral Suites, Scottsdale

Kevin Slimp

DATE: Nov 8 & 9

TIME: TBD

Other Dates

NNA 120th Conven-tion & Trade Show

October 11-14, Oklahoma City

Legislative Alert link

With the 2006 Arizona legislative session now in progress, click here to go to our Legislative section then click the link to the edition you want to read.

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Delinquent Tax Public Notices
Each county's delinquent tax public notices are posted on the ANA website. Go to our TAX NOTICE page and click the Automatic link to find them easily. This page also shows which counties are posted.

This Week	@	ANA
Quick News Hits & Hot Links about Arizona Newspapers & People READ CURRENT ISSUE

2006 Better Newspaper Contest winners:

Payson, East Valley Tribune repeat as 'Newspapers of the Year'

Freedom of Information awards presented

Take a look at this year's winners. See the presentation slides and download lists of winners.

Members: Classified Ad Aggregation information

Search 1,000s of ads from

Many newspapers in

One place!

ANA's Digital Page Archive Service used by Fountain Hills

The digital Page archive service offered to members of the Arizona Newspapers Association now contains 10-years of the Fountain Hills Times.

Click to see a sample, then click the DEMO MODE link in the first line of the blue box. Call publisher Alan Cruikshank, or technical staff Duke Kirkendoll, at the Times if you have questions, (480) 837-1925.

Pricing of the system has been simplified.

You can help ANA meet its goal of five members using the system by signing up with our order form.

For more Page Archive information click here.

ANA offers aggregated classifieds

Free classified ad aggregation for perhaps as many as 50 member newspapers is a new program that was approved June 7 by the ANA/Ad Services executive committee.

No Waiting:

Sign-Up
on line

Get started now!

Deadline EXTENDED TO Oct. 31, 2006

Board members believe it will allow newspapers to increase revenue and be a tool to compete with online-only classified ad web sites.

The board committed to spend up to $30,000 from ANAs Ad Services company to seed acceptance among members.

The contract is with Verican, a silicon valley company that created a classified advertising network in conjunction with the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

Many Arizona newspapers already do business with Verican, which provides them an online classified ad order web site.

Dick Larson of Western Newspapers, chairs the ANA Marketing Committee that researched the program and recommended Verican. He and other Western employees are developing marketing materials for the association to use in explaining the program to members, and signing them up.

The first newspaper to sign up for the aggregation is Todays News Herald in Lake Havasu City. Its publisher, Mike Quinn, is the ANA president who pushed the programs development and suggested ANA pay the fees for six months.

When members sign up, a Verican employee will contact them. Uploading the word ads can be done several ways.

The result is that members will point their website classified ad links to a URL supplied by Verican. Their technicians say such pages show all the ads in the system, sorted by distance from that newspaper.

ANA also will create a statewide site to display the ads.

Public Notice promotion ads grow to four

Two more ads in the recent series of ads to let the public -- and legislators -- know the value of public notices in newspapers, and collected into one internet database www.publicnoticeads.com/az, have been released by the Arizona Newspapers Association.

Newspapers should consider printing these house ads to let the public and legislators know what we are doing.

Down load them by clicking these images or links:

So many cities Etc., so little time

Legislators understand it is WHAT you know

So much government, so little time

Yellow Page government listings hard to find

Bill, Darlene Toops inducted into Hall of Fame. Read about it.

Media Law handbooks available

The Fifth Edition of the Arizona Reporters' Handbook on Media Law is available. Mark Scarp, president of the First Amendment Coalition of Arizona, said the new edition, like its four predecessors, is a newsroom mainstay on how to proceed when denied access to public records or meetings.

Click this link to go to the complete story in the Newsroom..

Good web resources for journalists

Prof. Steve Doig, Knight Chair at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University, li