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Here’s a periodic action item for every newspaper: Ask reporters to identify the community newsmakers. Better yet, divvy up newspapers from the last several weeks and circle the names and faces in the words and photos.Then identify those folks who …
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By Jim Pumarlo
Red Wing, Minnesota
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11/25/15
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Working on two unusually challenging images, the press and production crews at the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Bulletin in Bend, Oregon, proved the excellence of their work by taking home the top awards in this year’s Southern …
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Mark Fitzgerald
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10/27/15
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Marc Wilson was editor and publisher of the Bigfork (Mont.) Eagle when he created TownNews.com, a content management system platform provider. One of the first customers was Liberty Group Publishing. The CEO at the time, Ken Serota, suggested he get …
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Mark Fitzgerald
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10/15/15
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As a young man, Charles Pittman was an outstanding football player, an All-American in his senior year as part of the first class Joe Paterno recruited to Penn State University who played in the NFL for the St. Louis Cardinals and Baltimore Colts. …
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Mark Fitzgerald
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10/1/15
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Publishers mostly think their ad revenue and bottom lines won’t tick up much in 2016, but they appear more confident than ever in the future of newspapers. That’s the takeaway from the latest Cribb, Greene & Cope Publisher Confidence Survey …
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Mark Fitzgerald
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9/30/15
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The Daily Herald, based in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, has struck a content sharing alliance with the Chicago Sun-Times in a partnership of the market’s second- and third-largest dailies.In the initial phase of the alliance, the Daily …
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9/29/15
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At Inland’s Transforming Your Local Sales Model Conference last month, several speakers openly fretted about the challenge of attracting a new generation to the newspaper industry.
“Where is the next generation of newspaper leadership coming …
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Mark Fitzgerald
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8/3/15
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Advertising flyers are read, looked into or accessed by more than nine out of ten Canadian adults, and newspapers are the most popular medium for flyers, a new study finds.
For the fourth year, Newspapers Canada, the principal association for …
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8/3/15
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This past June, Second Street had a special opportunity to host nearly 200 media professionals, including many Inland Press Association members, from around North America in St. Louis for the second annual Promotions Summit. It was a unique …
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Matt Coen, Saint Louis
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8/3/15
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Small business owners have two key responsibilities: doing the thing—that is, whatever products or services they offer—and marketing the thing. Most of their time and energy is absorbed doing the thing or managing others that are doing it. Small …
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By Jim Hart
DM for Newspapers
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8/3/15
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The Dallas Morning News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Sacramento Bee, The Seattle Times and Star Tribune in Minneapolis are among the major-market newspapers joining the launch of MediaWorks Publisher Consortium.
Tribune Publishing Co., the …
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8/3/15
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More media organizations are launching Instagram sweepstakes--in which people enter to win a contest by posting a photo along with a specific hashtag—because of the many opportunities they open.
These contests are incredibly social, and a great …
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By Matt Coen
SAINT LOUIS
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8/3/15
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Newspaper options for monetization in a difficult market environmentFourth in a seriesIn the first three articles in this series, we evaluated various aspects of the valuation, restructure and disposition of core and excess real estate assets within …
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By David Kirshenbaum
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7/2/15
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At the Durango (Colo.) Herald, Digital Content Editor Josh Stephenson and a photographer bought drones to get comfortable with flying them. Go on YouTube and you can see video of the rugged off-road dunes at a Michigan state park, shot with a drone …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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7/1/15
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August 6-7, 2015 in Chicago
It’s a Culture Issue! The corporate cultural changes that will help you recruit and retain top talent
As the newspaper industry experiences continuing tectonic shifts, corporate culture is changing from the …
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6/1/15
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Grow your audience, grow your revenueAugust 4–5, 2015, ChicagoTake home dozens of ideas to implement immediately.
Circulation Health Assessment: Your Roadmap to a Revenue and Expense Win
Could your circulation operations benefit from a fresh …
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6/1/15
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By 2012, real estate advertising had collapsed into rubble at Uniontown Newspapers Inc. in Pennsylvania.
“They had no real estate lineage in any of their print or digital products,” Lisa Reese, vice president/publishing at Uniontown …
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3/13/15
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In the years since the Great Recession, newspaper conferences have attracted a blend of attendees and speakers who fall into either the doom-and-gloom camp that seems to delight in hectoring their peers, or optimists of the naïve or clear-eyed …
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Mark Fitzgerald
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3/13/15
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2/3/15
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The metric critical to acquiring the best prospects, and evaluating the potential of new products
My column in the December issue of The Inlander talked about a book that changed the path of my career. This month, I’m going to share a story …
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By Jim Hart
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2/3/15
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Will Randall will again be at an Inland Family Owners and Next Generation Leadership Conference when it convenes later this month in Atlanta—but this time he will be attending as the fifth generation member of his family to lead the parent company …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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2/3/15
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USA Weekend, which had been the nation’s second-largest Sunday supplement, folded with its final edition Dec. 28.
With the announcement of USA Weekend’s closing, publisher Gannett Co. indicated it would offer its expanded weekend Life content …
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1/6/15
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1/6/15
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The Alliance for Audited Media has named Joe Hardin as vice president of product leadership. In his new role, Hardin will lead development of AAM products and services to serve evolving client needs in traditional and digital media.
A market …
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1/6/15
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