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The urgent email to Jill Carmody came during a break at Inland’s Human Resources Management Conference in March. In the email, her boss, KPC Media Group Inc. CEO Terry Ward, said he needed W-2 form information on all employees—and fast.Carmody, …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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5/2/16
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From pool installers to local events, here are seven advertisers looking for an opportunity to get in front of summer spendersThe summer months are when consumer spending on vacations, outdoor activities, home repairs, and yard improvements greatly …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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5/2/16
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NEW OVERTIME REGSAs soon as this month, the U.S.Department of Labor will issue regulations updating the Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA) that will require pay for overtime to many more workers—an estimated five million nationwide.Those regulations …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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5/1/16
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By their very nature, newspapers are complicated workplaces for human resources management. The workforce includes blue-collar and white-collar employees plus large numbers of independent contractors performing laboring in dizzyingly diverse …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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5/1/16
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NLRB RULE CHANGESMeeting almost exactly one year after new union representation election rules from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) became effective, Inland’s Human Resources Management Conference heard that these changes—known as …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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4/30/16
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THE PUSH FOR PAY EQUITYHR conferences always include plenty of discussion about compensation—how to structure sales commission and base pay, or payments to the independent contractors who delivery the paper, or severance.But recently, much of the …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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4/30/16
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When I find the time, I’m a fairly good woodworker. I’ve made a full set of oak raised panel kitchen cabinets, a spiral staircase out of wenge, the dark, African-sourced wood, and a few other things. I’ve assembled a pretty well-equiped …
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By Jim Hart
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3/29/16
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Shaw Media is buying Kaneland Publications, publisher of Chicago far-suburban weeklies and niche publications including the Elburn Herald and Sugar Grove Herald.The purchase, from Kaneland owner Ryan Wells, was expected to close in early …
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3/29/16
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For Sandusky Newspapers, adopting Publisher Benchmarks when it was launched two years ago was a nearly literal eye-opening experience. “When we introduced Publisher Benchmarks, the company did not really share data among themselves to know how …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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3/29/16
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Globally, newspapers generated $92 billion in print and digital audience revenue in 2014. That was more than their combined annual advertising revenue of $86 billion—the first time audience revenue exceeded advertising revenue in several decades. …
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By Matt Lindsay
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3/29/16
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Since the great newspaper swoon began at the dawn of this century, industry gatherings have mostly been anxious occasions with strategies of varying plausibility offered to audiences who seemed to be thinking, “could this really work?”
Though …
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3/3/16
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With responsibilities ranging from the reporter on the beat to slap of a paper on a porch, newspaper human resources professionals face a uniquely numerous array of issues with the potential for peril or performance enhancement.Only one industry …
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3/3/16
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Ten ways any size newsroom can increase engagementAccording to David Arkin, GateHouse Media’s senior vice president of content and product development.1. Be conversational. Hit the right tone on social media instead of treating it like an RSS …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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3/3/16
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Calkins Digital, Forsyth County News (Cumming, Ga.), Oklahoma Media Company, and Proven Performance Media LLC (Belo) have been selected as finalists for the inaugural Mega-Innovation Award. Their work and others will be showcased and the winner …
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2/1/16
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Red Wing, MinnesotaElections 2016 should be an on the agenda of every newsroom as we turn the calendar. The time is now—even overdue—to begin planning.As a starting point, poll your newsroom. What’s your collective Election IQ?Who can identify …
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By Jim Pumarlo
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1/30/16
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Coming off a year of big newspaper sales and rising valuations, 2016 will see a continuing seller’s market, brokers say. The appetite for daily newspapers reached a post-Great Recession high in 2015 for both the dollars involved—more than $800 …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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1/30/16
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United Communications Corporation is making some changes in its executive suites and newsroom leadership, chairwoman Elizabeth K. Brown announced in January. Lucy Brown Minn, who has led the family-owned company as president since March 2013, will …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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1/30/16
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Santa Fe, New MexicoWhether it’s great writing, photography or videography, news organizations have always sought to give readers the feeling that they were at the scene of the news.From the great paragraph that makes us smell the food cooking in …
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By Henry Lopez
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1/30/16
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The Omaha World-Herald, apparently the last all-day metro in America, is eliminating its afternoon edition next month. Starting March 7, all subscribers will get home delivery in the mornings. The paper said about a third of its subscribers get …
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1/30/16
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LEAP Media Solutions is now offering a new data visualization and dashboard reporting solution for audience data analysis, LEAP Dimensions. Powered by software from Tableau, LEAP Dimensions gives marketing and advertising professionals the ability …
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1/25/16
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A flurry of newspaper sales in December served as a fitting ending to a year that saw families getting out of the business after generations of ownership—and other family groups often snapping up properties.
Brokers throughout 2015 reported …
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12/28/15
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Susan Scripps Wood, an owner and former board chairwoman of Skagit Publishing parent company Pioneer News Group, died Dec. 14 in her home in Mount Vernon, Washington. She was 80.A Seattle native, Wood was a great-granddaughter of the newspaper …
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12/27/15
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The Washington bureau is an endangered, if not yet extinct, newspaper species. But as more publications and chains retreat from D.C., one group has inaugurated its first bureau inside the Beltway. Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. opened a bureau …
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12/27/15
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From the very start of the 130th Annual Meeting—technically before its formal start—one theme dominated: There are way more ways to make money in the newspaper business than simply selling ads in a printed paper. The pre-conference NextTech …
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Mark Fitzgerald
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11/25/15
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One way to measure the importance of an industry conference is the number of attendees. An even better way is look at the caliber of the speakers it attracts. By that metric, the 2016 Key Executives Mega-Conference has cemented its status as among …
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Mark Fitzgerald
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11/25/15
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