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Symposium offers tips on advertising, news, HR
This year's Witham Symposium on Excellence in Newspapers will feature presentations on advertising, writing and reporting, human relations basics and more. The annual event sponsored by the North Dakota Newspaper Association Education Foundation will be held Oct. 17-18 at the Bismarck Public Schools Career Academy located on the campus of Bismarck State College.

Drayton publisher fills NDNA board vacancy
Lesa Van Camp, editor and publisher of the Valley News and Views of Drayton, has been appointed to fill a vacancy on NDNA's board of directors.

NDNA now accepting grant applications
Applications are now open to NDNA members for the 2019-2020 NDNAEF grant program.

Sales, reporting and a little HR
Seminars on advertising sales and reporting will highlight the Witham Symposium on Excellence in Newspapers Oct. 17 and 18, with a little HR instruction thrown in.

State's top newspapers recognized
North Dakota’s top newspapers by circulation class are The Bismarck Tribune, The Dickinson Press, The Walsh County Record of Grafton, The News Monitor in Hankinson and the Walsh County Press of Park River.

Two join NDNA's 50-year club
Ken Beauchamp of Beulah and Connie Kjos of Grafton have become members of the North Dakota Newspaper Association 50-year club.

NDNA & NDNAEF Board Elections
Karen Speidel, editor of the News Monitor, has been elected president of the North Dakota Newspaper Association, the 126th person to lead the association in its 133-year history.

Convention makes learning fun
Newspaper folk from North and South Dakota will attend to plenty of business at the joint convention May 30 to June 1. But it just wouldn't be right to meet in Medora without folding some fun into the itinerary, too.

Panel planned on covering race issues
As racial tensions boil over world wide, a panel discussion on covering race issues in the Dakotas has been added to the lineup for the joint NDNA-SDNA convention in Medora.

From golf to music to shop talk
This summer newspaper folk from the Dakotas will golf in the picturesque Badlands and watch an acclaimed musical review in a natural outdoor amphitheater, and in between they'll talk a lot of shop. It's all at the NDNA-SDNA joint convention to be held May 30 to June 1 in the tourist town of Medora, at the doorstep to Theodore Roosevelt National Park.