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Links to news items of interest to NCPA members.

Highlights from the 2010 NCPA Winter Institute held in the Dean Smith Center on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill.

Horace Carter, whose work earned his Tabor City Tribune a Pulitzer in 1953, died Wednesday. He was 88. Read the story. Gov. Perdue vetoes bill that would have kept legislative documents secret. Read the story. NCPA sends letter to the governor. Get it here.
Wilmington newspaper wins open records case but judge rules Star-News can't recover its attorney fees. Read the story. Gallery of post-election day 2008 front pages from North Carolina Newspapers. Click here. Gallery of North Carolina newspapers' front pages from the 2009 presidential inauguration. See them here.
New president orders federal officials to handle FOIA requests with a bias toward openness. Read the story Postmaster General: Mail days may need to be cut, and it may not be Saturdays. Read more.

Judge orders RDU to pay legal fees for newspaper lawsuit. Get the story
NYT Regional Group names one publisher for three papers in the Carolinas, including Hendersonville and Lexington. Read the story.

Before leaving office, Gov. Easley signs an executive order concerning the retention of state government e-mails. Read the order.

 Mount Airy Messenger goes from five days to three days. Get the details.
Longtime fixture of North Carolina newspapers, Jordan Whichard announced his retirement as publisher of The Daily Reflector, effective immediately. Get the details. Gov. Mike Easley said newspapers should be nice to him. Read the N&O story. CLICK HERE to listen to the News & Record interview with Gov. Easley referenced in the story to the left.
The Sunshine in Government Initiative sent four proposals to the president-elect outlining how his administration could restore openness. Read the release. In cities and towns served by a community newspaper of 25,000 circulation or less, 86% of the population read a community newspaper each week. Get the details in the latest NNA study. Asheville Citizen-Times eliminates Monday and Tuesday classified sections. Read more.
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 Federal court rules in favor of racks at RDU airport. Get the details.
API issues an official release on the Crisis Summit held Nov. 13. Read it. Who attended the Crisis Summit? Get the list here. Read a live blog from the API Crisis Summit. Go to it.
MediaNews Group VP says newspapers need to stop the self-flagellation when it comes to reporting circulation declines. Read the item. Not for Sale: Landmark decides now isn't the time to sell off its newspapers. Get the details.
Major chain putting its North Carolina newspapers up for sale. Will anyone be buying in these market conditions? What's the story? Study shows smaller markets not experiencing the same woes as larger-market papers. Read about it. UNC's Philip Meyer writes in American Journalism Review that a smaller, less frequently published newspaper packed with analysis and investigative reporting and aimed at well-educated news junkies may well be a smart survival strategy. Read the story.