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Licht joins Reporter news staff (01/19/10)
New Spencer Daily Reporter staff writer Gabe Licht never intended to be a journalist. In fact, his first experience with journalism did not come until he transferred to Dordt College in 2007, when he took Introduction to Journalism, a prerequisite for his communications major...

Campbell presented 2009 Wedel award (10/13/09)
Longtime broadcaster and current Iowa Great Lakes Red Cross Director Bill Campbell was announced the Jack Wedel Community Service Award winner for 2009 at Monday evening's Spencer Chamber of Commerce annual meeting. "Since the age of 18 this person has been very vocal -- in more ways than one," teased last year's winners Sam and Suzi Harper prior to naming Campbell...

Bill Monroe featured speaker at the Spencer Chamber annual meeting (09/11/09)
The Spencer Chamber of Commerce annual meeting is set for Monday, Oct. 12, at the Clay County Regional Events Center. Social time will begin at 5 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. The program, including the unveiling of the 2009 Jack Wedel Award winner, presentation of the Chamber board members and featured guest speaker, Bill Monroe, deputy executive director of the Iowa Newspaper Association, will begin at 7:30 p.m....

Daily Reporter recognized with INA honors (02/11/09)
The Daily Reporter, serving Spencer and neighboring communities, was recognized with six first place awards in the small dailies category at the 2009 Iowa Newspaper Association Convention in Des Moines Friday night. All totaled, the Daily Reporter received recognition in 14 categories at the annual event, competing in the Dailies Class 1 which includes papers with circulations under 10,000...

Area newspapers merging (11/04/08)
Subscribers to The Hartley Sentinel and The Everly-Royal News will view a "new" newspaper this Thursday when the Sentinel-News appears in their mailboxes. The two weekly newspapers are merging. According to Ed Robinson, who will serve as co-publisher and co-editor of the newly-merged newspaper along with his son, William "Will" Robinson, talk of a possible merge began over one year ago...

National writer wonders: Does 'Dewey' mark end of publishing's 'dog' days? (08/09/08)
Self-professed dog person Craig Wilson probably didn't believe the assignment when he heard it the first time, either. "One of the editors came over to my desk yesterday or the day before," Wilson said. "He'd gone to the meeting -- they have a monthly meeting that tells everybody all the cover stories for the month ahead -- so he said: 'So, you're going to Iowa to do a story on a cat that's dead.' I said 'yes, I kind of wish the cat was still alive.'"...

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