MSU J-School to offer newsroom management course online in 2010

Michigan State University's School of Journalism is offering an online news management class for professionals and advanced students designed to help newsrooms “during the changing industry environment,” according to Lucinda Davenport, acting director of MSU's J-School.

Will your best employees leave you as the economy starts to improve?

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Michigan weekly sells assets; buyer says local coverage to remain intact

The Houghton Lake (Mich.) Resorter has purchased assets of the Roscommon County Herald-News in Roscommon, Mich. for an undisclosed amount, according to Cribb, Greene & Associates, the brokerage firm headquartered in Bozeman, Mont.

How to really know more about your paper's customer service

When is the last time you called your newspaper from an outside line to find out what it would be like to be a customer?

Should you seek legal counsel before outsourcing printing?

Before the Kenosha (Wis.) News entered into an agreement earlier this year to outsource the printing of the 24,000-circulation daily to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s production plant, it sought legal counsel.

Help for the newsroom manager

A former editor and publisher is offering a 15-week, online course this fall on how to manage a newsroom at a community newspaper.

Do you know how to lead your people in a bear market?

It’s a bear market, but Bill Osborne, a consultant who has spent his entire career with newspapers, isn’t bearish.

How to get more of your employees to be engaged in their work

Well-managed businesses know the value of a good employee.

UPDATED: U.S. dailies see declines in revenue, profits over 5-year span

A triple whammy of declining circulation, advertising and classified revenue has been eroding the profits at U.S. dailies over the past five years, according to a report by the Inland Press Association. The sole circulation group showing a hopeful sign was the under 15,000-circulation category, which actually showed a 2.5 percent growth in gross revenues during the five-year period ending in 2008.

Wisconsin paper's decision to outsource printing was not an easy one

Howard J. Brown, president of Kenosha (Wis.) News, said the recent decision to outsource the printing of the 24,000-circulation daily wasn’t easy.

Downsizing your work force isn't a cure-all

What’s a newspaper to do when revenues keep dropping but people costs don’t go down at all? “Obviously, the American answer is: ‘Downsize immediately,’” said Robert J. Greene, CEO of Reward Systems Inc. in Glenview, Ill.

An alternative to making cuts to your newspaper

Newspapers run the risk of not seeing good returns over a long period of time when department budgets are cut to the bone, according to Chris Kubas, vice president of Kubas Consultants, a 32-year-old international company headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Good managers are key to creating a high-performance work force

Ask any manager if he or she would like to have a high-performance work force, and answer is likely to be a resounding “yes.”

Consumer behavior hints at greater reliance on digital technology

The clock is ticking on newspapers.

A review of changes to Family and Medical Leave Act

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