2012 Utah Press Association winter convention
March 17, 2012
Springville Museum of Art
126 East 400 South
Springville, Utah
Registration:
One day registration: $99.00
Awards Dinner only: $60.00
There is a very limited amount of room at the facility. Registration will be cut off when attendance registrations reach 200. Please register early to avoid being disappointed. Cut off date for registrations is Friday, March 9, 2012 at 5 p.m.
Tentative schedule of events
8:30 a.m.- Board meeting in museum board room.
10 a.m. to noon - General membership meeting
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. - Two educational sessions, one each for editorial and advertising
11 a.m. to noon - Educational session for strategic planning for all attendees
Noon to 2 p.m. - Lunch and honors awards
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. - Sponsor presentations, The Bright Ideas Contest and a brainstorming session
4:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. - Social time reception
5 p.m. to 7 p.m. - Dinner, High School Newspaper Awards, and Better Newspaper Contest Awards. Winners of basket bids will be awarded during the BNC awards.
Please click here for the registration form
HOTELS NEAR THE MUSEUM
Days Inn Springville
520 South 2000 West, I-15 exit 260 Springville, UT 84663 801-491-0300 BEST WESTERN Mountain View Inn
1455 N 1750 W Springville Utah 84663-4901 801-489-3641 Victorian Inn Bed & Breakfast
94 West 200 South Springville, UT 84663 888-489-0737 Hampton Inn Provo
1511 South 40 East Provo, UT 84601 800-627-1587
BETTER NEWSPAPER CONTEST
Celebrate the excellence of Utah's newspapers with us when we announce the winners of the Better Newspaper Contest on Saturday, March 17, at Winter Convention.
ONLINE LEGAL NOTICES WEB SITE INFORMATION
To view SB208, the bill that amends provisions of the Utah Code to allow posting of legal notices on a website and makes technical corrections, click here.
For a simple guide to legal notice changes at-a-glance, please click here
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Joel Campbell, Utah Press Association legislative monitor, 801-362-4298, foiguy@gmail.com.
Utah newspapers improve government transparency through online legal notices Web site
SALT LAKE CITY – Along with viewing legal notices in their local newspaper, Utahns will have a second way to read, search and browse statewide legal notices through a new Web site. The site will improve government transparency.
UtahLegals.com, created by the Utah Press Association, follows the passage of SB208 during the 2009 Legislative Session. The law requires the local governments and other agencies post notices on the Web site Jan. 1, 2010. As part of the law, Utah newspapers agreed to create a central and searchable online depository of legal notices.
The Web site will allow citizens log on to search the entire Utah database or their local newspaper database. Users can also track notices for their local community or keyword via e-mail or RSS feeds. With a long history in the United States, legal notices are important to a democracy because they are a third-party notification to the public of everything from foreclosures to bids to court summons to hearings about tax increases.
“The Web site is a national model of a private-public partnership. Utah’s daily and weekly newspapers have built the Web site at no cost to citizens,” according Michael J. Fox, Utah Press Association executive director. “Residents will now have two ways to receive and use legal notices – in their local newspaper or online. Online they will have the advantage of searching one central database for most of Utah state and local government legal notices.”
UtahLegals.com provides the following features:
--Browse functions
--Key word search
--Search by date
--Search by newspaper
--RSS feeds by newspaper
--E-mail alert function based on key word
Under the statute:
-- Between Jan. 1, 2010 and Jan. 1, 2012: All notices which are now required to be published in a newspaper still must continue in a “newspaper of general circulation.” The notices will also published online by the Utah Press Association. Newspapers may continue to charge for the printed legal notice, but cannot charge for the Web notice, which will be provided as a service by Utah newspapers. Government agencies and attorneys need only continue to work with their local newspaper to have their adds placed in print and online.
-- After Jan. 1, 2012, government entities in Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, Utah and Washington counties may choose to publish the notice in the newspaper. Entities will be able to place and purchase the ad directly through the online Web site. This function is currently under development and expected to functional in January. After Jan. 1, 2012, government entities in counties of 3rd to 6th class will still be required to publish in BOTH the printed newspaper and online after Jan. 1, 2012. This maintains the status quo in these counties.
-- Along with the traditional placement through newspapers, individuals may be able to place legal notices through the online system expected to be functional by January 2010. The online system will require users to select a local newspaper of general circulation for publication and then pay the legal notice rate for that publication.
-- This bill did not affect public meeting notices. Government entities will still be required to post public meeting notices on the State Public Meeting Notice Web Site http://www.utah.gov/pmn and notify newspapers of public meetings by e-mail through the online subscription system.
On December 17, 1893 a small group of Utah’s publishers met to form what would become known as the Utah Press Association. Since that day, the Association has continually represented Utah’s newspapers and helped people gain access to print and now online media. The purpose of Utah Press Association is to function as a collective voice and a legislative representative for all Utah member newspapers.
For more information about UtahLegals.com contact Joel Campbell at 801-362-4298.
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