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package to show what she’d be like today.”
Harold was moved to a room today (Monday) and is showing improvement, is doing some walking, but still has the feeding tube. If he continues to improve, they may transfer him closer to home, which would help Mom (Linda) immensely. All his numbers have looked good for several days, so everything sounds positive.
his body as it should have.LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) – A small newspaper in north central Arkansas is considering changing its policy on obituaries after a local man complained that the Batesville Daily Guard discriminated against him for being gay.
Terrence James said that through a funeral home, he submitted an obituary to the Daily Guard for his partner, John Millican, who died on June 11 of spinal meningitis. James listed himself as Millican's partner on the obituary form. When the free obituary was printed, James' name was omitted.
"I was already in shock and grieving over John's death," James told Reuters. "It never even occurred to me I would find my last slap in the face after his death at my local newspaper."
Oscar Jones, whose family has owned the newspaper for 82 years, told Reuters that the Daily Guard has a policy of not listing names of unmarried partners, gay or straight, in free obituaries. Paid obituaries cost $85.
"Our policy has more to do with space and manpower issues than it does sexual orientation," said Jones, who is the newspaper's attorney. His mother, Pat Jones, is the Daily Guard's owner and manager.
Oscar Jones said that it might be time to reconsider the policy. He said that since James objected, he has talked with the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation about possible ways to update the policy.
"Those policies are stuck in a drawer and don't get review often," Jones said. "Frankly, it hasn't come up before, but it's something that needs to be reviewed. I truly sympathize with this family."
James said that the newspaper told him that if he had chosen a paid obituary, he could have even listed pets.
"That was even worse, comparing John to a pet," James said. "It also reeked of hucksterism."
The Center for Artistic Revolution, a non-profit gay rights group "that fights for fairness and equality for all Arkansans," has launched a campaign for people to call the newspaper to protest.
Randi Romo, a Center representative, said the paper has no right to determine who is a family member and who is not.
"At every turn we are reminded we are not equal and this was a rather stark reminder that even in death there is no equality," Romo told Reuters.
Romo said that the Center will continue to challenge the newspaper until the policy is changed.
"Sometimes the surviving grieving partner, gay or straight, only has that little piece of paper as a last memento of their loved one's life," she said. "They need to know that families look very different than they did 25 years ago."
Sixteen projects that push the future of news and information will receive a total of $4.7 million in funding. The 2011 Knight News Challenge winners are:
* Adaptive Path (San Francisco) for iWitness; $360,000; Jesse James Garrett, project lead
* The Associated Press (New York) for Overview; $475,000; Jonathan Stray
* The Awesome Foundation (Boston) for The Awesome Foundation: News Taskforce; $244,000; Tim Hwang
* Chicago Tribune for PANDA; $150,000; Brian Boyer
* Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) (Columbia, Mo.) for DocumentCloud Reader Annotations; $320,000; Aron Pilhofer
* The Kiwanja Foundation (Palo Alto) for FrontlineSMS; $250,000; Sean McDonald
* Media and Place Productions (Cambridge, Mass.) for Zeega; $420,000; Kara Oehler
* The Miller Center Foundation (Charlottesville, Va) for The State Decoded; $165,000; Waldo Jaquith
* El Mostrador (Santiago, Chile) for Poderopedia; $200,000; Miguel Paz
* NextDrop (Berkeley) and Hubli-Dharwad (India) for Nextdrop; $375,000; Anu Sridharan
* Open Knowledge Foundation (Cambridge, England) for Spending Stories; $250,000; Martin Keegan
* The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (Cambridge, Mass.) for The Public Laboratory; $500,000; Jeffrey Warren
* ScraperWiki (Liverpool, England) for ScraperWiki; $280,000; Francis Irving
* The Tiziano Project (Los Angeles) for Tiziano 360; $200,000; Jon Vidar
* University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) for OpenBlock Rural; $275,000; Ryan Thornburg
* Ushahidi (Orlando) for SwiftRiver; $250,000; David Kobia
hn said the surgery was 9 hours and he did fine. Had to remove 4 ribs because the cancer had gone into a rib. Dr. said he was pleased with the surgery and felt they got it all. He was being fed by IV because he was having trouble swallowing.
June 21, 2011
To: All US Community Publishing employees
From: Bob Dickey
As we reach the mid-point of the year, the economic recovery is not happening as quickly or favorably as we had hoped and continues to impact our U.S. community media organizations. We have made continued progress on the many initiatives underway to seek new sources of revenue, build a world class sales force and better serve our customers through watchdog reporting and stronger Sunday newspapers. While we are seeing improved circulation results and audience growth, weakness in the real estate sector, slow job creation and now softer auto ad demand continue to challenge revenue growth in the division.
National advertising remains soft and with many of our local advertisers reducing their overall budgets, we need to take further steps to align our costs with the current revenue trends. Each of our local media organizations faces its own market conditions, challenges and opportunities. Therefore, it has been up to each local publisher to determine his or her unique course of action.
While we have sought many ways to reduce costs, I regret to tell you that we will not be able to avoid layoffs. Accordingly, approximately 700 employees within USCP, or about 2% of our company’s overall workforce, will be let go. Publishers will notify people today and we will make every effort to reach everyone by end of day. It is important to note that these decisions do not reflect individual performance and we thank and respect those employees for their work. We will do everything we can to help them and to minimize the impact on our other employees going forward. In an effort to reduce the number of people being let go, there will be furloughs in the coming months but they will be limited only to those on the USCP corporate payroll who make over a certain salary. You will be notified by your publisher if you are among this group.
These have been extremely difficult and painful decisions to make. I know the impact is felt by everyone within USCP and companywide.
I appreciate and thank you for all that you do to create and deliver award-winning journalism to our customers and communities every day. Even under these challenging circumstances, I know you will continue to do so and your efforts are greatly appreciated by our customers and colleagues within Gannett.
As always, please feel free to email me directly at rdickey@gannett.com with any questions you may have.
Parrish, publisher of the company’s Idaho Statesman since July 2006, succeeds Mark 
Zieman, who recently became a vice president of operations at McClatchy after 25 years at The Star.
Parrish, 40, had been deputy managing editor for features and visuals at the Minneapolis Star Tribune when promoted to the publisher’s post in Boise, Idaho.
Her journalism career has included work at the San Francisco Chronicle, Arizona Republic, Chicago Sun-Times and Virginian-Pilot.
“The Kansas City Star has a storied history, and I’m humbled to be part of its future,” Parrish said.
remain an important source of local news, and they have done a good job of cutting costs, resulting in healthy profit margins of around 20%.Mrs. Golz, 61, suffered a brain hemorrhage while driving from the Beacon Journal to her Wadsworth home late Friday and died Saturday at Akron General Medical Center.
Mrs. Golz hit another car and when police arrived, she reported that she thought she had suffered a stroke, according to her husband, Mike Golz. There were no other
injuries, Golz said.
Beacon Journal Metro Editor Rich Desrosiers said Mrs. Golz had moved from the newspaper's library, where she was a library researcher, to her current job in 2007.
She worked at night, splitting her time between the editorial section and the newsroom.
She enjoyed her new role, which included going out on assignments and making nightly calls to area police and fire departments.
Mrs. Golz, ''knew many of the dispatchers by name,'' Desrosiers said.
''She just loved to meet people.''
Mike Golz agreed.
''She just really enjoyed people . . . telling people's stories,'' he said.
He said his wife ''was one of the rare people who has had a lot of truly good friends. She had a whole bunch of best friends.''
Mrs. Golz's daughter, Carrie Frederick, said her mother ''was very giving, not only to her family and friends, but to strangers and other people in her community.''
Mrs. Golz began working for the Beacon as a correspondent in the late 1980s, covering various government meetings. Previously, she was a freelancer for area weekly and other local newspapers.
She became a Beacon employee in the early 1990s, working as a part-time library researcher. She was hired full time in 2001 before becoming a Beacon staff writer in 2007.
Mrs. Golz, a native of Pontiac, Mich., graduated from high school in Waterford, Mich., before moving to Northeast Ohio in the early 1970s.
Mike Golz said his wife was proud to be working as a professional journalist, even though she had no college degree. ''She did it on her own with no formal education,'' he said.
Mrs. Golz's only son, Jeff Little, died in a car accident in 1991. In addition to her husband and daughter Carrie Frederick, she is survived by daughter Alyson Brickey of Wadsworth and stepdaughter Laurie (Erik) Eberhardt of Massillon.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
[Beacon Journal, Akron, OH, Monday, June 13, 2011, page B4, col. 4]
Founder/Training Director
September 2001. Lou was a graduate of Springfield High School and Kent State University's School of Journalism. She was editor of the Record-Courier and received numerous awards for her work as a journalist. Luella was a member of The Chapel and its choir for many years.
Caroline Moore Krack in van that is taking her back to Minnesota
