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I was honored to be elected your association president at last month’s Annual Meeting. Consider this column my first order of business. I’ll continue the terrific practice begun by my predecessor …
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10/5/18
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The Paddock family is selling its ownership stake to Paddock Publications’ Employee Stock Ownership Plan, converting to full employee ownership 120 years after Hosea C. Paddock bought a newspaper …
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10/5/18
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United Communications Corporation has sold the Attleboro (Mass.) Sun Chronicle and its related publications and websites to Triboro Massachusetts News Media Inc., a new corporation formed by Canadian …
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10/5/18
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The Northrop family is selling its Observer Publishing Co. assets to Ogden Newspapers, owned by the Nutting family of Wheeling, West Virginia.
OPC publishes the daily Observer-Reporter, based …
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Sun Media Group has sold The Westerly (R.I.) Sun and its related publications and websites to Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers, also known as RISN Operations.
Dirks, Van Essen, Murray & April, a …
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10/5/18
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Three news organizations are collaborating to expand coverage of Oregon politics and government.
The three media companies are Pamplin Media Group, publisher of the Portland Tribune and two dozen …
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Adams Publishing Group has purchased the assets of Cooke Communications LLC, based in Greenville, North Carolina, and in Key West, Florida, including iwwts print publications, websites and commercial …
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10/5/18
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D-R Media and Investments LLC, the Dunn-Rankin family publishing group, has bought Sun Publications of Florida, a group of four weeklies in central Florida, from Lakeway Publishers.
Publications …
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10/5/18
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GateHouse Media purchased Oklahoma Media Co., publisher of The Oklahoman, from The Anschutz Corp. for an undisclosed amount.
The purchase of The Oklahoman, its NewsOK website, the Big Wing …
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10/5/18
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Newspaper publishers applauded the decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission to terminate the duties that had been applied to newsprint imported from Canada.
“We are pleased and …
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10/5/18
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Wilson, North Carolina, civil authorities recognized the historic importance of The Wilson Times this summer by dedicating a marker near the site of the newspaper’s original downtown building. …
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Mike Rand is the new CFO of Wick Communications.
“Mike brings a body of experience that will help build upon the work of previous CFOs,” CEO Francis Wick said. “His eye on hitting targets …
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10/5/18
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Bill Hudnutt has been named president of Lorain County Printing and Publishing (LCPP), the Elyria, Ohio-based parent company of The Chronicle-Telegram, The Medina Gazette and radio stations in …
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10/5/18
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Aaron Becher—who had been general manager of The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and West Fargo Pioneer since 2012 and became director of advertising operations for parent Forum Communications earlier this …
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10/5/18
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“Grit & Ink: An Oregon Family’s Adventures in Newspapering, 1908-2018” a history of the 110-plus-year-old publishing company that became EO Media Group, is peppered with anecdotes about the …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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10/5/18
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Adpay has released a new look and feel for their website, www.adpay.com. Designed in a mobile-friendly format, it is intended to quickly answer key questions about Adpay solutions.
The site …
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10/5/18
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Newsday Media Group, a leading news source for Long Island and New York City and publisher of the ninth largest newspaper in the United States, has selected SCS to install SCS/Track for print and …
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10/5/18
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Discussing Herald-Mail Media’s pivot from selling individual products to selling its audience, President and Publisher Andy Bruns issued this declaration of independence:
“We are not going to …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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10/5/18
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Don’t manage to goal—manage to meetings. Say your revenue goal for a certain period is $40,000. If your average deal is $2,000, that means you’ll need 20 deals. And to get 20 deals you’ve got …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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10/5/18
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When Tran Ha—the former editor of the Tribune Co.’s RedEye in Chicago and founder of Tiny Collaborative—began her session on design thinking, she had each attendee draw a portrait of the person …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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10/5/18
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Borrell Associates’ Jim Brown, leaning on marketing statistics, and Pamplin Media’s Brian Monihan, relating real-life success stories, and The Blinder Group’s Mike Blinder, bringing his sales …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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10/5/18
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When design thinking comes to the newsroom the result is something called “public-powered journalism.”
Basically it flips the usual model for reporting from giving the public what the …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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10/5/18
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Local newspapers are at an inflection point when it comes to getting on board the fast-growing voice assistant smart home devices platform, argued Jeremy Mims, head of strategy and partnerships for …
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10/5/18
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The Southeast Missourian is being applauded by readers for a new policy on how its crime reports are made available to search engines.
Under the policy, the newspaper’s daily crime report will …
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10/5/18
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The second annual Executive Voices conference exclusively for newspaper executives is now open for registration.
Inland’s Executive Voices 2.0 builds on last year’s conference which featured …
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