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Newspapers removed from broadcasters' public notice requirement
Oct 1, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Communications Commission in September unanimously voted to remove from newspapers the public notices previously required by broadcasters seeking to acquire or renew ...
Poor customer service sabotages newspaper notice in Indiana
Dec 27, 2018
When the Air Quality Division of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management announced a proposal last year to move all of its public notice advertising from newspapers to its own website, its motivation ...
How newspaper notice is supposed to work
Oct 22, 2018
When the Board of Elections in majority-black Randolph County, GA, introduced a proposal this summer to close seven of the county’s nine polling places, many residents were angry. Some even accused ...
Unclaimed property public notice under attack
Aug 26, 2018
Q Is there still a public notice in newspapers for unclaimed property?
Small West Virginia town has a secrecy habit
May 4, 2018
If a contest was held for the least transparent city government in the U.S., the small town of Williamson, WV, would have to be considered a strong contender.
Lockwood elevates the art of public notice journalism
May 4, 2018
Examining the public notice display in newspapers, their tombstone layout and dry legalese might not appear to be riveting journalism. But scratch beneath the surface and you might find a treasure trove ...
MI reporter wins public notice journalism award
Apr 9, 2018
Garret Ellison, a reporter for MLive and The Grand Rapids Press, was named winner of the Public Notice Resource Center’s 2018 Public Notice Journalism Award.
Public officials dismissed over notice issues
Dec 28, 2017
The failure to publish proper notice is rarely punished, so it was surprising to see local officials in Maine and Illinois recently relieved of their positions as a result of breakdowns in the public notice ...
More newspapers should do this
Oct 16, 2017
The Aug. 30 issue of the Scranton (PA) Times-Tribune featured a story by public-notice reporting wiz Jim Lockwood about the annual “upset sale” of tax-delinquent properties in Lackawan-na County. ...
