SPJ luncheon panel Oct. 25 on state Ethics Commission

Topic: Tennessee's Ethics Commission -- Mission or Mess?
Views of Officials, Media, Lobbyists, Public Advocates

• Bruce Androphy, executive director, Tenn. Ethics Commission
• Courtney Pearre, chairman, Tennessee Association of Lobbyists
• Frank Gibson, executive director, Tennessee Coalition for Open Government
• Ben Cunningham, Tennessee Tax Revolt

Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007
$15 journalists, $25 all others
ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS ADVISED - SEATING LIMITED
milt.capps@nashvillepost.com

Phone: (615) 250-1544
Registration begins 11:15 a.m.
Luncheon served 11:30 a.m.
Location: Sunset Grill, 2001 Belcourt Ave (37212)

Commercial Appeal seeks access to sealed Ford records

A hearing is slated for next week on the Memphis paper's request to see records in the John Ford case, AP reports.

Founding editor of Gallatin paper to be inducted into TN Newspaper Hall of Fame

Col. Thomas Boyers, founding editor of the Gallatin Examiner (now the Gallatin News-Examiner), will be inducted along with former Commercial Appeal editor Frank Ahlgren, former News Sentinel editor Ralph Millett Jr., and UT journalism professor Willis Tucker, according to a story in the newest edition of The Tennessee Press. Boyers died in 1895, Ahlgren in 1995, Millet in 2000 and Tucker in 1974. The event will be Friday, Nov. 16, at the Marriott Knoxville.

Ethics commissioner: We didn't deny it - we just 'deferred' it

State Ethics Commission opts not to post a defense of itself for not giving up information that had been sought in a request under the state's public records act, The City Paper reports.

Nell Adams LaFon, former assistant to 'Tennessean' publisher, dies at 90

LaFon, of Jackson, was executive assistant to Tennessean publisher Silliman Evans. She was also an aunt of former Vice President Al Gore. Services were held yesterday, The Jackson Sun reported.

Scene publisher Ferrell leaving to start new media company

As quoted in a blog post by Liz Garrigan:

"I have worked with some of my favorite people in Nashville for the last
three years, and week in and week out we put together a paper that matters to this city in terms of our coverage of news, our support of the arts and of culture," Ferrell says, sitting on this editor’s thrift store couch drinking coffee from a chipped mug. "And that’s across the board—from our edit staff to our marketing and promotions department to supporting our advertisers and causes that they support. I have loved my time at the Scene. This was just too good an opportunity for me to pass up."

Mark your calendars for Oct. 25 SPJ panel on state ethics commission

Get ready for the panel planned for Oct. 25! More details as they come available.