The Sun’s sale to Sinclair executive David D. Smith includes a contract that keeps payments coming to Alden. more

As we kick off the new year, a great question to ask yourself is: what’s in your sales toolkit? Or better yet, do you have a sales toolkit? If you want to start 2024 off right, then it is essential to understand the critical components of a successful sales toolkit. more

The mention of mis- and disinformation (MisDis for short) brings a dark cloud over industry conversations. Social media platforms could do more. But media companies have not done enough either. more

Along with its investment in new infrastructure, Presteligence is setting ambitious goals to enhance its marketing strategies and strengthen customer relationships in the upcoming year. more

Recent supply chain issues and geopolitical developments, along with the increasing focus on sustainability, have created challenges for printers seeking a reliable supply of plates from suppliers focused on minimizing their carbon footprint. In light of these challenges, KODAK SONORA XTRA Process Free Plates, manufactured at Kodak’s Columbus, Georgia, facility is a smart choice for any printer. more

Valentine’s Day usually means love and romance. Kid Scoop recommends giving and spreading kindness as well. This special Kindness page gives children an opportunity to write about and practice kindness in your community. more

Black Press Ltd. announced Monday that as part of its restructuring, its two largest existing debt-holders — Canadian institutional investors Canso Investment Counsel Ltd. and Deans Knight Capital Management Ltd. — along with community media company Carpenter Media Group would join forces in the potential purchase. more

Black Press Ltd. and certain of its subsidiaries, have announced that it obtained an Initial Order on Jan. 15 under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) from the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver. more

The Black Family has announced that David Black, president and majority owner of Black Press, is retiring after a long and distinguished career leading the company. more

Reilly Kneedler has been named Wick Communications’ chief of staff, a new role for the family-owned local media company. more

A Colorado journalist, Justin Wingerter of the Denver business-news outlet BusinessDen, is refusing to comply with a prior restraint ordering him to return records that the court itself released. more

Iris Chyi concedes that despite her analysis, the industry keeps winding down print in favor of digital transformation. more

Surprisingly, publishers don’t feel like their companies fared that badly in 2023. And they think their companies’ prospects for 2024 are bright. Also surprisingly, though, they feel differently about the media industry as a whole. This is according to a Digiday+ Research survey of 54 publisher professionals conducted late in the fourth quarter of 2023. more

The University of Texas at Austin has selected Rachel Davis Mersey to serve as the next dean of the Moody College of Communication. Mersey, who holds the Everett D. Collier Centennial Chair in the School of Journalism and Media at UT, begins her new appointment effective immediately. more

It may be pushing the season for a year-end column but I’d like to share updates on several stories from 2023. Besides, I only recently mailed Christmas cards. I’m pleased to report that three local news ventures I wrote about, including an online startup and two brave newspaper projects, are doing well and slowing the spread of news deserts in Washington. more

"If we want politicians to be held accountable in local elections, corruption to be detected and exposed, and small communities to thrive, we need local journalists. We need the state and federal government to help save local news." — Chance Phillips, Opinions Editor, The Crimson White more

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States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization, has launched Utah News Dispatch to provide free, non-partisan coverage of the state issues that most affect Utahns’ daily lives. more

January 11, 2023 - News leaders told a U.S. Senate subcommittee that journalism is at risk of being snuffed out by tech giants that apparently care more about growing profits than preserving this cornerstone of democracy. Wednesday’s hearing focused on the latest threat to the battered local news industry, artificial intelligence systems scraping and regurgitating the work of print and broadcast journalists with little to no attribution or compensation. more

The U.S. Department of Labor issued its final rule, interpreting the definition of  employee versus independent contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (the “Final Rule”).  The Final Rule jettisons an earlier attempt under the prior Administration to modernize and simplify how to determine who is an employee and who is a contractor by focusing on two core factors. The Final Rule instead purports to return to an ambiguous totality-of-the-circumstances approach, while also placing a thumb on the scale in favor of more workers being deemed employees under the FLSA. more