Clovis Media Inc. Editor David Stevens was inducted into the Panhandle Press Association Hall of Fame during the organization's 105th annual meeting in Amarillo.

Stevens began his journalism career in 1979 with the Amarillo Daily News and Globe-Times. He became editor for the Clovis, Portales and Tucumcari newspapers in 2001.

An open-government group and the state press association are asking a court to overturn legal agreements that have repaid taxpayers millions of dollars from a long-running scandal because the State Investment Council failed to comply with the Open Meetings Act.
An attorney for the New Mexico Press Association and the Foundation for Open Government argues that the settlements with investment advisers, consultants and money managers were negotiated and approved by a portion of the full State Investment Council, called the Litigation Committee.  Story   Amicus Brief 

LAS CRUCES >> A media analyst is reporting that Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper publisher, is preparing to acquire the Las Cruces Sun-News, the El Paso Times and their sister papers in New Mexico including those in Alamogordo, Deming, Silver City, Carlsbad, Ruidoso and Farmington as well as properties in Pennsylvania.

Ken Doctor, writing in his Newsonomics blog, said the information came from several sources he declined to name. Gannett and Digital First Media - the current majority owner of the Texas, New Mexico and Pennsylvania papers - did not comment.

Just days removed from an invigorating discussion on the state of engagement in media, Dissecting Engagement attendees are buzzing about strategic content deployment strategies necessary to win greater connectivity with users. The purpose of the conference was to tackle recurring engagement issues, and to break new ground on solutions to confounding user disconnects. Here are five important takeaways from the conference, which was held at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute:  Story