New Year, New You: Local newspapers are the perfect fit for weight loss and nutrition advertising

The New Year brings fresh starts and big goals — especially when it comes to health and fitness. For businesses in the weight loss and nutrition industry, this is the prime time to connect with consumers eager to kick off their health journeys. Local newspapers offer a unique opportunity to reach these motivated individuals right when they’re setting their resolutions.
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SciLine, a nonprofit organization that helps journalists incorporate more scientific evidence into their work, has produced a new, free toolkit for newsrooms aimed at helping journalists cut through the political back-and-forth on hot button issues and reach a heavily polarized audience with a strictly nonpartisan focus on expert research on a given topic.
The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company,holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States.
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Congress labeled the app’s Chinese ownership a national security risk and passed a law that would ban the social media platform unless it was sold. TikTok and creators say that violates their free speech rights.
A new report further documents the evisceration of Washington’s capitol press corps as the state’s news industry shrank in recent years. Sadly, this comes as new state leaders take office next week and the Legislature convenes with a $10 billion-plus budget deficit that will lead to policy changes affecting a generation of Washingtonians.
Sarah Leach, who was fired for talking to a Poynter columnist, launched the nonprofit Ottawa News Network with backing from local sponsors.
In response to Meta's announcement that it will end its fact-checking program with independent third parties and pivot to a “Community Notes” model that uses crowdsourced fact-checking contributions from users, America's Newspapers issued the following statement:

Meta’s recent decision to replace third-party fact-checking with a crowdsourced system called “Community Notes” further highlights the importance that local newspapers play in providing reliable, vetted information to their communities. While social media platform approaches to content moderation are often politically-oriented and vulnerable to bias and manipulation, local newspapers continue to prioritize accuracy, fairness and accountability.

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The transfer marks a milestone in the fight against tech companies that featured journalism on their platforms but failed to compensate companies creating the content.
A family man and newspaper entrepreneur, Gary Rust spent his final days surrounded by loved ones, sharing humor, songs and cherished memories. His legacy of love and devotion endures.
Poynter has created a glossary of terms used in newsrooms and their definitions, so you can stay in the know.
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said it’s scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with a Community Notes program written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk’s social media platform X.
Just days after Tennessee announced it had a new manual for executing death-row inmates, the state’s top prison officials said they would not release the document to the public.
Gannett Co., Inc. and Reuters have announced an agreement to provide media brands and publishers with a unique offering that includes ready-to-publish local, regional, state, national and international multimedia news and content.
As the 118th Congress is coming to its end, Alan Fisco, president and CFO of The Seattle Times and legislative co-chair of America’s Newspapers, along with America’s Newspapers CEO Dean Ridings, met with key leadership in Washington, D.C., last week to discuss the reintroduction of the Community News and Small Business Support Act (HR4756).
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The Des Moines Register's parent company, Gannett, has filed a petition to remove a lawsuit President-elect Donald Trump filed against the Register to federal court from Polk County district court.
The state’s largest news media organization, Hearst Connecticut Media Group, is in talks to buy the Republican-American newspaper, a Waterbury-based daily newspaper that traces its roots back to 1844.
“Several readers have asked recently what they can do individually to help save local journalism. This is much appreciated, as are the rest of the people helping just by subscribing to their local newspaper. Usually I suggest that they tell state and national elected representatives that saving local journalism is an urgent priority.” — Brier Dudley, The Seattle Times
The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders is urging Apple to remove its newly introduced artificial intelligence feature that summarizes news stories after it produced a false headline from the BBC.

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