KENTUCKY REPORTS                                                                  AUGUST 2008

                      

                       Photo of the Month

 

 

 

 

Clay Jackson of the Advocate Messenger is the winner of the Kentucky member photo contribution of the month for July for his picture of a barn near the North Danville Bypass reflected in a small pond as the morning began Thursday, July 10, 2008, in Danville, KY.

Jackson will receive $100 and his winning photo will be showcased on PhotoStream.

Members are urged to transmit news and feature photos to the State Photo Center in Washington on a daily basis in order to produce a strong daily photo report, and each picture transmitted will be considered for the award.  If you don't share, you can't win.

The winning photographer receives $100 and the Photo of the Month moves in a special display on the wire along with an advisory alerting members about the winner.  At the end of the year, the photo of the year will be selected from the monthly winners and the winning photographer will receive a plaque.

 

 


New version of AP Exchange offers new features

A new version of AP Exchange includes a number of helpful new features including a link to news about local Olympians and an increase in archive history for stories, from 14 days to one month. 

These changes will be incorporated in ongoing training efforts for your newsroom staff. If you're interested in training, please contact your chief of bureau to arrange a session.  

Other enhancements now available in Exchange include:

  • a new “Browse Topics” tab that allows users to drill down to specific subjects such as “alternative medicine” or “green technologies”

  • the ability to customize the timestamp on content to your local time zone

  • a link to the Iraq war casualty database

  • a link to AP Images for access to archive photos

  • the availability of multimedia interactives for customers who subscribe to that service

For more information, please contact your local chief of bureau or visit http://www.ap.org/apexchange/index.html

 

 

 


Expanded celebrity news options capture the A-list
 

AP offers two new services to expand your coverage of celebrities. Only AP can offer this breadth of quality and global coverage.

Celebrity Extra is AP’s premium celebrity service that captures the Hollywood A-list at home and abroad. It’s your lens on the fast lane – with profiles, parties and red carpet action from Hollywood and beyond. You’ll receive up to five breaking news and background video stories every weekday, plus 50 additional photo images per day.

The A-list Appetizer offers the best of the day’s celebrity video in a video starter pack for online subscribers who want entertainment video for their Web sites.  With it, you receive two un-narrated video stories a day that are between a minute and two and a half minutes long. This is accompanied by brief story details and essential metadata.  The clips will need no further editing, but you may add your own narration, if required.

From red carpets and box office figures to celebrity news, AP reporters from around the globe give you the latest entertainment developments in text, photo, audio and video formats. With a variety of packages to choose from, AP helps make your site or service the source for entertainment news.

Choose from other essential services including:

· AP Entertainment Online - breaking entertainment text news and photos brought to you around the clock

· AP Entertainment Extra - five to six online video clips per day including breaking entertainment news and daily feature clips, including TV week, music/DVD releases, celebrities, movies and video games, and also provides fully produced clips with voice-overs; clips are also available unvoiced with scripts.

 Access All Areas (coming in January 2009) – breaking entertainment text news, photos and video clips around the clock and fully linked, along with celebrity Q&As, feature stories, movie reviews, music reviews, play reviews and box office results. 

For more information on all AP Online Entertainment services, contact your local chief of bureau or visit http://entertainment.ap.org/. 

 


 


AP Money & Markets EXTRA helps readers decipher volatile investing world

With the markets flirting with bear market territory, readers want to know how to make the best of their hard-earned money. AP Money & Markets Extra gives your readers investing, news, trends and tools geared to weekend newspapers. With more than 30 visually appealing, analytic modules, you can give them the information they want.

Like Money & Markets Daily, modules snap together to build pages, or they can be used throughout a business section. For most members already taking a stock service, Extra is available at no extra cost.

For examples of the 30 modules and more information about M&M Extra, check out www.ap.org/markets.

To learn more, contact your AP chief of bureau.
 

 


AP Lifestyles Online offers food, fashion, homes and more 

AP Lifestyles explores the lives your readers lead: what they’re eating, wearing and talking about.

Providing a broad range of daily features and news-you-can-use, AP Lifestyles offers timely trend stories and more timeless content in fashion, living, pets, parenting, relationships, food, home and garden.  A full package of text, photo, video and interactives offers easy ways to build niche sites and increase inventory attractive to advertisers.

For more information about AP Lifestyles Online, contact your chief of bureau.
 


 


AP Mobile News Network participation jumps nearly 600 percent 

More than 700 newspapers have joined AP’s Mobile News Network – a 580 percent jump in media participation – since its launch in May.

“It is an exciting time for the Mobile News Network as we realize our goal of becoming the news portal for mobile devices,” said Jeffrey Litvack, AP global director for new media markets. “With over 700 news content providers, the Mobile News Network is now the first national footprint for local news on the mobile phone. Leveraging this network, marketers can build integrated campaigns at the neighborhood level both in mobile and print, and mobile users can access their local trusted sources of information wherever and whenever they want.”

The award-winning Mobile News Network Web application can be found at www.apnews.com. The Mobile News Network’s iPhone application is available for free download at the Apple App Store on iPhone or iPod Touch or via iTunes at www.itunes.com/appstore.

Read more about the Mobile News Network’s jump in participation at: http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_072108a.html

 

 


AP Business News is realigned around 12 core beats 

The Associated Press realigned its Business News department around 12 core beats headed by editors who will now lead coverage by the teams of reporters newly assigned to the beats. Reporters will be based in New York, Washington and 28 other domestic bureaus to provide authoritative coverage of companies and news sources on each beat. The teams will have 5-10 reporters each. Some two dozen business reporters in international bureaus will provide additional coverage of the beats.

Among the 12 beat editors are Joyce M. Rosenberg (financial markets), Patrick Rizzo (economy), Amy Finklestein (retailing), Brian Bergstein (technology), Laura Impellizzeri (media, entertainment, leisure and lodging), Michael Lee (health care), Joseph Altman (autos), Greg Stec (airlines), Charles Sheehan (energy) and David Brinkerhoff (manufacturing). Rounding out the 12 are Trevor Delaney and Noelle Knox, previously announced as the AP’s new editors for personal finance and real estate, respectively.

To read more about the new business news beats, go to AP’s corporate Web site at: http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_071608a.html. 

 

 


Special Editions

The “Teens & Tweens” Special Edition, which moves Aug. 5, includes stories on:

  • the tighter teen-driving restrictions enacted by many states

  • how parents can help children find and keep their first job

  • one mom’s reflection on her teenage daughter’s skimpy fashion sense

  • a survey of some of the rites of passage that different cultures use to mark the transition from childhood to adulthood

  • a look at how parents can connect with kids on social networking sites

  • the story of a film critic who let his son drop out of school as long as he watched certain movies each week with his dad, and what both learned from the experience

      Upcoming AP Special Editions include:

  • Sep. 9 – Cars

  • Oct. 7 – Crafts/Hobbies

  • Nov. 4 – Holidays

  • Dec. 9 - Weddings

 


 

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