The Ogden Company today announced the appointment of Cameron Williams as chief operating officer. In this newly expanded role, Williams will lead strategic and operational initiatives across The Ogden Company’s portfolio of businesses, driving growth, operational excellence and long-term organizational success. more

USA TODAY, part of USA TODAY Co., (NYSE: TDAY) announced that Ryan J. Rusak will join USA TODAY as opinion editor, effective Monday, Nov. 30. In this role, he will lead USA TODAY’s opinion strategy and coverage, overseeing editorials, columnists and guest contributors. more

Steve Lange, who has been with the Post Bulletin since 2000, has been serving as the organization's general manager since June 2023. He will continue to be the editor of Rochester Magazine. more

Registration is now open for the 2027 Mega-Conference, April 19–21 at Signia by Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek. The largest U.S. conference serving family-owned and independently owned news organizations, the event will bring together owners, publishers, sales leaders and content producers from across the country to explore the opportunities and challenges shaping the local news industry. more

More voters. More advertiser value. More revenue. Text-to-Vote gives media companies a new way to turn Best Of engagement into measurable growth. more

Every advertiser is about to decide what stays in next year’s plan, and they cut what they can’t explain first. The partners who bring evidence to year-end reviews, not activity reports, keep the business. more

Rob Galloway already knew The Center Square’s reporting from its daily newsletter. What he hadn’t realized was that The Center Square was an open-access newswire. A sponsored post made that connection — and gave him a way to supplement local coverage with statewide stories his readers had reason to care about. more

Shaw Media is the first local news publisher to use the new DataDesk service from United Robots. DataDesk is a tool which covers the local sources that matter to each newsroom and serves up ranked summaries of the data it surfaces. more

As a publisher or designer, have you found yourself wondering whether an AI-generated ad or image is safe to run? The growing use of generative AI presents new legal and copyright concerns for publishers everywhere. more

Election Day traffic across BLOX Digital’s network rose 61% above the yearlong daily average, offering a clear reminder of the role community news organizations play when people need trusted information close to home. more

Each year, Philippe van Mastrigt, managing director, Europe at AdvantageCS, conducts a deep analysis of publishing trends and their implications for publishers’ business models. His review of 2026 draws on approximately 500 industry news articles, conference insights, discussions with prospective clients and client meetings.  more

Automated image toning helps a newspaper printer reduce weekly color-correction time from seven to eight hours to just minutes, improving consistency across 25 newspapers. more

Global businesses making decisions about energy costs, logistics, safety, market exposure and future investment often need to know quickly what is happening and whether it can be trusted. Reuters reporting, with its rigorous verification and editorial standards, is designed to meet that need. more

Every newsroom has a plan for the predictable: election night, the budget vote, or the Friday print deadline. What breaks a newsroom is rarely the event on the calendar. It is the photo nobody can find, the legal sign-off stuck in an inbox, and the one editor who has become the only person able to approve everything. more

Last year, Wehaa introduced FirstPage Plus (FP+) and answered a question often heard from publishers: “What tools can help us convert small businesses into new digital advertisers?” In this article, Wehaa shares a couple of success stories on how publishers are putting that answer into action. more

Polling wasn’t the only clue before Tuesday’s election that the spell President Donald Trump cast over America was fading. Another sign was that people are trusting the press again. Surveys in late summer found trust in news media rebounding, even among Republicans who fell for the “fake news” malarkey that Trump peddled for a decade. more

Lee Enterprises has tapped an award-winning veteran journalist and news leader with deep ties to Montana to be publisher and editor of the Great Falls Tribune. more

Most Americans — including majorities of both Republicans and Democrats — say criticism from news organizations keeps political leaders from doing things that they shouldn’t, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in August. more

America’s Newspapers filed an amicus brief Oct. 30 supporting news publishers in their copyright litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft, urging a federal court to consider the stakes for local newspapers and the communities that depend on them. more

Meta has indefinitely delayed its proposed commercial terms of service, which would have permitted the company to scrape the websites of Meta Business account users. more