Georgia Press Association
Annual Convention
Bay Point Marriott
Panama City Beach, Florida
June (4) 5 - 7, 2008

Click here for schedule and online registration

Win a 7-Day Stay in Tuscany!!!

Prize Includes $1000 American Express Gift Card,
To Be Put Toward Airfare Or Used As Spending Money
Enter GPEF's Raffle to win a Trip and Money.
Each ticket costs $50 and all proceeds benefit GPEF, which awards scholarships
and internships to deserving journalism students in Georgia.

Contact Ashley Holt to enter

Drawing will be held during the Better Newspaper Contest Awards
dinner at the GPA Annual Convention on the Evening of June 6, 2008.
Click here for more information

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Download the PDF Here

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GPEF
Scholarships Awarded for 2008-2009

Honor Scholarships
Mariam Abuhaideri $2000 McAlister Scholarship State University of West Georgia	Pria Abraham $2000 Morris Scholarship Armstrong Atlantic State University
Carolyn Crist $2000 Rogers Scholarship University of Georgia	Whitney Hancock $2000 Sutlive Scholarship University of Georgia
GPEF Scolarships
Sara Caldwell $1000 University of Georgia	Deena Cheek $1000 Valdosta State University
Lauren Culpepper $1000 Georgia Southwestern State University	Tania Dowdy $1000 Emory University
Katie Allie Jackson $1000 Gainesville College	Harrison Little $1000 University of Georgia
Sara McCall $1000 Valdosta State Univeristy	Nazish Mithaiwala $1000 Agnes Scott College
Chari Sutherland $1000 Georgia Perimeter College	Mary Beth Temples $1000 Valdosta State University

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Postal Discount takes effect May 12
for community newspapers
NNA's 10-year effort secures 5% mailing discount for community newspapers
... read more

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Member News
Rome web site wins national recognition ...more

Industry News
Georgia Court of Appeals backs The Albany Herald in libel case ...more

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2008 Summer Intern Host Newspapers

GNS
The Alma Times
The Augusta Chronicle
The Blackshear Times
Early County News, Blakely
The Brunswick News
Calhoun Times
Cherokee Tribune, Canton
The Clayton Tribune
White County News, Cleveland
Cordele Dispatch
The Covington News
Forsyth County News, Cumming
Dawson Community News, Dawsonville
The Monroe County Reporter, Forsyth
The Times, Gainesville
Lake Oconee News, Greensboro
The Press-Sentinel, Jesup
LaGrange Daily News
The Metter Advertiser
The Millen News
The Walton Tribune, Monroe
The Tifton Gazette
The News-Reporter, Washington
Waycross Journal-Herald
The True Citizen, Waynesboro

GPEF
Cedartown Standard
The Courier Herald, Dublin
The Johnson Journal, Wrightsville
The Eatonton Messenger
Pickens County Progress, Jasper
The Macon Telegraph
Marietta Daily Journal
Rome News-Tribune
Tribune & Georgian, St. Marys

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Public Notice Site Hits 100 Percent
By Sean Ireland, Publications Editor
A longtime goal of the Georgia Press Association was met this month when the last of Georgia's
159 counties began to have public notices published online at
www.GeorgiaPublicNotice.com
The Web site now offers 100 percent coverage of public notices from across Georgia. Anyone
with Internet access can find a public notice from any Georgia county online at the site. Given that
local public notices are also published in the legal organ newspaper for each county in the state, the
Georgia newspaper industry can boast of providing the widest possible access to public notices of
any state in the nation.
... more

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Free GeorgiaPublicNotice.com promotional ads

Shirts are available in several sizes Price: $25	Press Lanyards $2.00 each

Georgia Legal Rate Chart
The updated
Legal Rate Chart
is now available from GPA.
Price: $25.00

To order any of these items
Contact Brannon Wiley or call 770-454-6776