From Andy Rieger
Editor, The Norman Transcript:

Newstrain, a journalism training venture sponsored by the Associated Press Managing Editors and the Mid-America Press Institute, will be held Sept. 25-26 in Norman at OU’s Gaylord College of Journalism.
The first track of the two-track seminar features “hands-on” training on making better use of web videos and social media, a luncheon talk with award-winning television reporter Bob Dotson.

Editorial
The Joplin, Mo., Globe

We can only imagine the uproar this week in The Washington Post’s newsroom when editors and reporters discovered an offer was circulating that would have played them like pawns.

Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth, on Thursday, canceled plans for an exclusive gathering at her home that would cost lobbyists and other executives $25,000 a meal for off-the-record access to Obama administration officials, members of Congress and some of the paper’s reporters and editors.

By Ed Henninger
edhenninger.wordpress.com

OK, MAYBE IT’S ME. But I…don’t…think…so…

For years now, I’ve been listening to the dire predictions of the death of newspapers. I just don’t buy it and, frankly, I’m getting just a bit tired of hearing it again…and again…and again.

(Photo by Toni Hopper/The Duncan Banner)
Beverly Guthrie talks with Harry Nichols and Danny Wright, right, after buying PRN Print Shop from CNHI on Monday.

By Toni Hopper
CNHI News Service

DUNCAN — A print shop whose copiers and presses have been working since the early 1970s is changing its name under new owners.

Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. on Monday sold PRN Printing in Duncan to Beverly and Rick Guthrie, who will operate the business as Scissortail Printing. Beverly Guthrie has managed the shop since October 2007.

Terry Connor

By Terry Connor
CNHI News Service

The images will live forever.

The heartbreaking moment caught in time when firefighter Chris Fields carried the body of baby Baylee Almon from the rubble of the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995.

The fiery Twin Towers just seconds after two airplanes crashed into them and minutes before the buildings collapsed into an enormous cloud of dust on Sept. 11, 2001.

The smiling face of then President-elect Barack Obama holding hands with wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha as thousands cheered on election night 2008.