The State - News from April 21, 1986
About 2,000 members of the American Newspaper Publishers Assn. gathered in San Francisco for the organization’s 100th convention. Former President Richard M. Nixon was the opening-day speaker. Other speakers scheduled during the three-day meeting include literacy expert Jonathan Kozol; Thomas J. Peters, co-author of “In Search of Excellence”; New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, and William K. Coors of the Adolph Coors Co. Association Chairman Richard J. V. Johnson, president of the Houston Chronicle, was the scheduled keynote speaker Sunday, and Nixon addressed the delegates at lunch. The convention is also to include panel discussions on terrorism, the Pacific Rim and the Challenger tragedy. In addition, a number of speakers will address specific problems of the newspaper business. The association was begun by 46 newspapermen from 12 states and Canada. Its first convention was in Rochester, N.Y., in 1887.
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