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By Kevin Slimp If a person hangs around long enough, he’s bound to get noticed. That’s my theory anyway. When asked why I receive so many requests for help from newspapers, I simply mark it down to longevity. I’ve been around the business long enough for most publishers, and others, …

By Kevin Slimp There is a rule of thumb which almost always proves to be true at newspaper conventions: attendance drops drastically on Saturday morning. There are plenty of theories on the subject from “too much fun on Friday night” to “heading home to be with the kids.” Whatever the …

Are you spending DAYS putting together your graduation edition? Are you manually placing hundreds of photos and copying and pasting text just to realize at the last minute that someone was left out and you have to rebuild part of the section? Learn how InDesign’s built-in Data Merge can help …

By Kevin Slimp In October, I traveled to Albuquerque, where I gave the Saturday keynote address at the New Mexico Press Association Convention. On Sunday morning, I caught a flight to Orlando, where I spoke at an international conference made up of newspaper and magazine publishers. My assignment in Florida …