Creative Circle’s dynamic news and features service for websites — Premium Pages — has added 10 new topic pages and new content providers.  more

When running a Best Of or Readers’ Choice ballot for your publication, you should have two primary goals: increase reader engagement and drive revenue. Here are three quick tips to increasing reader engagement and revenue in your contest. more

Working with Adpoint, Lineup’s omnichannel advertising solution for media companies, Gannett has slashed invoicing time by 90 percent.  With Gannett’s explosive growth due to the merger with GateHouse along with other subsidiaries and brands, they are now producing some of the largest volume of monthly media invoices and statements. more

Kristin Roberts will be joining Gannett on March 27 as chief content officer to drive the company’s digital transformation and content strategy across USA TODAY and the USA TODAY Network of more than 200 local publications. more

If young people are spending so much time on social media, it stands to reason that’s a good place to reach them with news. more

EO Media Group has opted to change the name of its start-up newspaper in Medford, saying it faced legal threats from the former owner of the defunct Mail Tribune newspaper. more

Jordan Wertlieb has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Hearst, effective May 1, Hearst President and Chief Executive Officer Steven R. Swartz has announced. Wertlieb, 58, who is currently president of Hearst Television, succeeds Mark E. Aldam, 59, who is stepping down after five years in the job and 17 years at Hearst, including six years as president of Hearst Newspapers. more

Jessica Hogue will be responsible for driving Hearst’s data strategy across its consumer media businesses, which include magazines, newspapers and television, and supporting innovative solutions and personalized experiences that leverage the scale of Hearst’s media assets. more

Greg Borowski, who has covered Milwaukee’s City Hall, mentored numerous young journalists and edited national prize-winning stories, has been named the top editor of his hometown newspaper.  more

Nancy Kaffer, a national award-winning columnist, has been named editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press. Kaffer, 47, is the first woman in the newspaper’s 191-year history to hold that title.  more

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has announced that Justin Price has been hired as a data journalist for the newsroom’s Digital Storytelling team. more

The Claremore (Oklahoma) Daily Progress has welcomed Joe Mack as the new regional advertising director. more

"Adding Lineup and Tubular to the Chartbeat toolkit fully equips our clients’ teams with a cutting-edge technological answer at every part of the reader journey." — John Saroff, CEO, Chartbeat more

Musk’s personal account was responsible for part of that traction increase, the Science Feedback study found. more

The Alliance for Audited Media and BPA Worldwide have completed a merger, creating the largest not-for-profit media auditing organization dedicated to increasing trust, transparency and assurance across the media industry. more

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: As a digital news start-up, the Border Belt Independent partners with local newspapers to provide them with long-form stories at no cost. It helps grow our audience and provides them with in-depth reporting their readers expect. more

The Center for Public Integrity will steward and grow a powerful tool that puts public records at the fingertips of journalists across the country, thanks to support from the Reva and David Logan Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. more

A conversation with Anna Brugmann of Rebuild Local News. more

New philanthropic gifts will allow the Miami Herald and its Spanish-language partner publication, el Nuevo Herald, to reinstitute regular news coverage of religion and communities of faith in South Florida. more

A former Las Vegas-area elected official endured searing questions from a state court judge but got the go-ahead Tuesday to represent himself at trial on a murder charge in the killing of a veteran investigative journalist. more