Gannett has announced the creation of 60 jobs to better tell the full stories of communities across the United States and has set a goal of achieving parity in terms of gender, racial and ethnic diversity in local newsrooms by 2025.  Annual progress will be reported by the newspapers. more

In his new role, Jaime Cárdenas will help Gannett newsrooms across the country develop strategies to grow digital subscriptions and foster loyalty with readers. more

Dennis Palmer has been named regional publisher of The Greenville (Alabama) Advocate, Luverne Journal, Lowndes Signal and Demopolis Times. Palmer has been publisher of The Selma (Alabama) Times-Journal since 2006 and will continue in that role. more

Kevin Passon has been named managing editor of the Antigo (Wisconsin) Daily Journal, effective Aug. 31.  more

As part of an effort to  help newsrooms build deep, reciprocal relationships that generate community-led solutions, revenue streams and business models to ensure their survival, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and Local Voices Network yesterday held the first of what will be several online convenings between residents, business owners and local media. more

As many students return to school, The Lufkin (Texas) Daily News ran a front-page article last week promoting a  fun, educational resource called Kid Scoop to local parents. 

Jay Gillispie, development director of circulation, sales and business at The Lufkin Daily News, said Kid Scoop is an attempt to reconnect with a younger audience many newspapers have lost touch with. more

Guest columns and letters to the editor are an important part of The Daily News in Galveston, Texas. In this column inspired by a handwritten response to a recent guest column in the paper, Publisher Leonard Woolsey wrote: "I strongly feel our community deserves a forum that fosters civil and respectful discussions. ... Regardless of whether The Daily News agrees or not with a local resident’s opinion, we will always value that resident’s voice and fight for the person’s right to speak." more

The International Newspaper Group and Editor & Publisher magazine are accepting nominations for this year's Operations All-Stars.  The deadline for nominations is Sept. 30. more

A most unusual college football season is less than a month away and the preseason AP Top 25 presented by Regions Bank is scheduled to be released Aug. 24, marking the 85th year of its existence. The AP will also release its preseason All-America team the following day. more

The Orlando Sentinel announced Wednesday it will leave its downtown building, the newspaper’s home since 1951. more

The Winston-Salem (North Carolina) Journal has promoted Jeri Young, a 20-year veteran with the newspaper, to managing editor. more

Linnie Pride is taking on the role of distribution and audience development director for the Ohio Division of Adams Publishing Group. more

Charlie Callari has been named general manager of Bainbridge Newsmedia, LLC, publisher of The Post-Searchlight (Bainbridge, Georgia), Bainbridge Living, and its affiliated publications and websites. He succeeds Mark Pope, who remains at his request in his former position of managing printing and production for The Post-Searchlight, and the affiliated and non-affiliated publications the newspaper prints. more

Presteligence has announced that Signature Offset will deploy NewsXtreme Cloud services for its print production. More than 14,000 plates per month will be produced through the workflow as part of a Southern Lithoplate plate deal. more

The Post and Courier (Charleston, South Carolina) has launched a video series called "We the Women," with accompanying podcasts to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. more

Over the next three months, Lee Enterprises will make up to $5 million in advertising credits available to locally owned and operated businesses to help them communicate with their customers. Monthly grants to local businesses will range from $250 to $15,000. more

Adams Publishing Group, which already relied upon Memoriams for a number of its western region properties, reports that it has experienced double-digit increases on local orders and an over 25% increase in out-of-area obituaries since switching to Memoriams for obituary self-serve across all of its properties. more

The editorial board of The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California, is calling on its readers to ask California legislators to act before the end of the year to prevent an only-in-California problem that could leave community newspapers facing a crushing financial blow. more

Brendan J. Lyons, a veteran journalist whose stories have ranged from police misconduct to ethical misdeeds at the state Capitol, has been named managing editor for enterprise and investigations at the Times Union in Albany, New York. more

The Detroit (Michigan) News reports that it will begin offering a digital subscription next week when it launches a redesigned detroitnews.com for readers who seek full access to all digital content. It's the first time in the 25-year history of the newspaper's website that it will charge for coverage. more