For four years, every word uttered, action taken, and tweet sent by Donald Trump dictated the day’s media coverage. I hope that changes, though I am unsure whether journalists will have much of a choice; once a reality star president, always a reality star president. more

After Elizabeth Green successfully launched Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to covering education across America, in 2014, the CEO and co-founder decided to replicate the model last year. Called Votebeat, the pop-up newsroom was committed to reporting the local election administration and voting in eight states. more

HD Media, the West Virginia-based publisher of the Charleston Gazette-Mail & the Herald-Dispatch, is making its own news with the recent announcement that they have filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google and Facebook. The purpose is to hopefully help the entire industry receive some form of compensation from the 70% plus of local advertising revenue these tech giants make from the content they exploit. more

American Hometown Media has partnered with a number of media companies with the expansion of the CuratorCrowd™ Traffic & Engagement Platform. Built specifically to help digital website’s drive audience engagement, increase traffic and earn new, additional revenue CuratorCrowd™ is a turn-key solution generating high-quality recipe content and video through a proprietary platform.  more

Smart publishers already know the consumer will not save their local newspaper. The limited attention span of the digital information consumer keeps local papers from pinning their hopes on subscribers. Without a robust number of subscribers, display advertising suffers. more

The obituary has been a newspaper staple for more than 250 years. AdPay's Memoriams' solution helps families on this most difficult day and creates additional revenue opportunities for both newspapers and the funeral homes that assist in selling and placing them. more

Collaboration is a buzzword that we hear a lot. To some extent, we all know why it’s important: More eyes on a project can lead to more ideas, better troubleshooting, etc. And while collaboration is all well and good, it’s important to consider the real, operational costs of bringing everyone together. more

A new year typically means a blank slate. But to me, 2021 is like a dry erase board that has been used one too many times. No matter how hard you scrub with your eraser, the faded images and text still linger, even when you write over it. Yes, we have a new president heading into office and a vaccine for COVID-19 is here, but the lasting effects of 2020 will remain for quite some time. So, how can we solider on? more

It wasn’t too long ago that the family-owned Silver City (N.M.) Daily Press Publishing Co. announced  that it would print its final edition. But, 24 hours later, it was still printing under new, local ownership. It was then-general manager Nickolas Siebel (now publisher) who quickly reached out to local civic leaders for help in putting together a loan to allow him to keep this hometown paper alive. more

In a recent conversation I had with a news media company and its audience director and publisher, they were excited and proud they had been able to increase their audience pricing in both print and online successfully. Additionally, they had been able to implement these increases while reducing their print footprint and maintaining their digital footprint with little damage. more

It’s nice when a newsroom experiment pays off in unexpected ways. In Arizona, ProPublica teamed up with the Arizona Daily Star to sponsor a story by Amy Silverman that looked into why the state’s Division of Developmental Disabilities turned down thousands of people who sought assistance. more

Google and Facebook have made a lot of money from platforms that have been blamed for the viral spread of misinformation, intentional disinformation campaigns and hate speech. In the process, they’ve also commoditized digital advertising and disrupted the traditional business models that support the journalism that cuts through that misinformation. more

Borealis Philanthropy’s Racial Equity Journalism Fund (REJ) and the American Press Institute (API) recently partnered to launch a new Listening and Sustainability Lab, which will support four publishers of color who want to delve into practices for listening and engagement with audience segments in order to lead to stronger journalism and new revenue streams. The lab—a pilot program, funded largely by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation—was announced late last year. According to Amy Kovac-Ashley, vice president and senior director at API, the chosen publishers will develop a listening plan after selecting their audience segment. more

American Hometown Media has partnered with a number of media companies with the expansion of the CuratorCrowd™ Traffic & Engagement Platform. Built specifically to help digital website’s drive audience engagement, increase traffic and earn new, additional revenue CuratorCrowd™ is a turn-key solution generating high-quality recipe content and video through a proprietary platform.  more

With a new year ahead of us, everyone wishes 2020 was just a bad dream, and newspapers can find their footing once again to explore new opportunities post-pandemic. As this past year took its toll on advertisers and our subscriber base and economy in general, many newspapers looked at consolidation, reducing print days, cutting pages, reducing staffing levels, and more of the same “economies” we’ve been forced to practice for several years now. more

Printing 300,000+ dailies, 160,000+ weeklies and 180,000+ shoppers, Trib Total Media (TTM) still has a strong commitment to print along with a full-service agency as well. And even in a COVID-19 impacted marketplace, TTM achieved close to 90 percent of last year’s revenue.  more

Transforming legacy media to a revenue-growing digital-subscription model is now much easier, according to the January 13th Editor & Publisher Webinar. Managers of TH Media, which publishes the Telegraph Herald, discussed how much the publication has benefited from the integration of iQ Audience+ from TownNews to tighten the newspaper’s paywall, increase membership and engagement and maximize subscription and advertising revenues. more

It is undeniable that newsroom revenue is becoming more and more dependent on website and social media clicks. This also means that it has become easier to track exactly how well an individual article does in relation to the rest of the organization’s content. more

Voice is building a social media platform based on realness, at a time when the value of information is at a premium but society’s trust in its institutions, including the media, is at its lowest. The rise of the label “fake news” has diminished the efficacy of real journalism. On Voice, journalists have a place to be valued for their expertise without the need to shout over the din of fake accounts and well-meaning but misleading citizen journalists. more

This year, the Inquirer and Mirror in Nantucket, Mass. will celebrate its 200th anniversary. And as one of the oldest newspapers in the country, it is now back in the hands of local owners after Gannett, its previous owner, sold it to 41 North Media LLC last November. The move ends 30 years of corporate ownership. more