Do you know how to calculate your public notice rates? Are you charging accurately? Have you leveraged the full value of your newspaper’s digital archive? Bill Goff, director of the newspaper certification program for the Wisconsin Department of Administration, and Denise Guttery, WNA Media Services Director, addressed these topics and more during an hour-long public notice webinar at noon on Thursday, July 18.
Goff discussed the newspaper certification process, how to measure font sizes and columns widths, and how to calculate your public notice rates. Guttery discussed how to properly code notices and how to access your digital archive. They also answered questions about newspaper publication of public notices in Wisconsin.
Speakers
Denise Guttery is Media Services Director for the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. In this role, she manages the WNA newspaper archive, WisconsinPublicNotices.org and the WNA’s media monitoring service, News Tracker. Before joining the WNA in 2010, she worked as the director of technology for the Illinois Press Association, where she was responsible for website maintenance, the association’s member database, office computer systems and audio/visual needs.
Bill Goff is Procurement Specialist at Wisconsin’s Department of Administration, where he oversees statewide printing contracts and the state’s Newspaper Certification Program. In this role, he manages the annual application and renewal process for certifying newspapers to publish legal notices, which includes updating font sizes, column widths, address or name changes, closures and rate changes.
