Gannett’s LOCALiQ division, which provides digital marketing services, will offer Snap ads to its more than 100,000 small business clients. more

The Sunshine Week content toolkit offers free resources for any media outlet, journalist, school, civic or non-profit organization — anyone interested in publishing the content during the week to amplify the importance of access to public information. more

The Madison (South Dakota) Leader, which has been published by the Hunter family for 75 years, has been sold to Wick Communications, a third-generation family-owned and operated media company based in Sierra Vista, Arizona. more

Pam James has been named editor of the Daily Jeffersonian in Cambridge, Ohio, to succeed Beth Bailey, who has accepted a new position within Gannett. more

In his new role, John Torres will be focused on continuing and enhancing the paper's engagement efforts with the Space Coast community, leading its editorial board and overseeing the opinion page. more

Adams Publishing Group’s APG Media of Southern Minnesota announced Wednesday that it will begin publishing a business-to-business magazine in April. more

Today you are asked to consider joining the effort to Protect Our Press, an initiative to reinvest in local professional journalism. It involves a simple pledge offering everyone the opportunity to make a difference. more

Six of the 10 news publishers recognized yesterday by Editor & Publisher magazine as "10 News Publishers That Do It Right" are members of America's Newspapers!  Congratulations to the Record-Journal, Meriden, Connecticut; News-Gazette, Champaign, Illinois; Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Daily Gazette, Schenectady, New York; Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pennsylvania; and The Tennessean, Nashville. more

How is it that the creators of news, knowing full well they have legal copyright protection under the U.S. Copyright Act, have allowed the digital platforms to gain such power? more

A veteran reporter who has steered the Apalachicola Times in Florida for the past two decades will be expanding those duties to take the helm at a second weekly paper, The Star. more

After 30 years mostly as sports editor at the Fulton Sun in Fulton, Missouri, Ryan Boland is in the editor's seat. He previously served two brief stints as the Sun's news editor. more

Mike Boyd has been named editor-in-chief of the Mohave Valley Daily News in Bullhead City, Arizona. more

The Associated Press has named Anna Jo Bratton as U.S. enterprise editor on the news cooperative’s Global Enterprise Team, where she will work with colleagues across the United States to produce high-impact journalism for the country and for international audiences. more

Discrimination against Latino journalists in the United States affects the environment of freedom of expression and access to information for the Hispanic communities they frequently report on and write about. This is the main conclusion of research conducted by Fundamedios in a Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellowship. To address this issue, Fundamedios created a toolkit to address these issues by training journalists to improve their negotiation skills. more

Nine years after joining The Paris (Texas) News as an advertising representative, Clay Carsner will assume the role of publisher. more

Eric Mayberry, who most recently was regional vice president of Amplified Digital, was named president and director of local sales and marketing of The Daily Progress in Charlottesville. And, Sam Worthington was appointed president and director of local sales and marketing for Lee’s Roanoke region. more

A national search has begun for a new editor for the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Wendy Fullerton Powell, who has been editor in Fort Myers/Naples, will serve as interim editor. more

Mary Irby-Jones will be the first woman and second African American to lead The Courier Journal in Louisville, Kentucky. Her first day on the job will be March 15. more

The Bertie Ledger-Advance in Windsor, North Carolina reports that scammers have been calling area residents trying to sell deeply discounted subscriptions to the newspaper and other Adams Publishing Group-ENC publications. more

“I’m excited to acquire Hot Springs Village Voice," says Jennifer Allen. "It has been my home for 14 years and this will be the first time in those 14 years the Voice will be locally owned.”   more