There are many things we can do. Here’s a start. more

At the America’s Newspapers Senior Leadership Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado, CherryRoad Media (Parsippany, New Jersey) has contracted with SCS to implement the Community Advertising System and Community Publishing System to standardize the advertising, production and editorial workflows across its 27 community newspapers. more

America's Newspapers is honored to welcome BellCornerstone and JB O'Brien Associates into membership this week. more

As U.S. and Canadian communities prepare to recognize Veterans Day and Remembrance Day on Thursday, Nov. 11, your MCC Libraries provide a host of resources for honoring veterans and saluting today’s troops, including sponsorship opportunities for local businesses.  more

More than a year after George Floyd’s killing focused attention on efforts to diversify newsrooms, the ability to measure real progress is proving elusive. The News Leaders Association, a journalism trade group, extended the deadline for responses to its survey about employment practices at news organizations for two months, after expressing disappointment about how few are willing to reveal the diversity of their staffs. more

Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday condemned one of Missouri’s largest newspapers for exposing a flaw in a state database that allowed public access to thousands of teachers’ Social Security numbers, even though the paper held off from reporting about the flaw until after the state could fix it. more

Todd Benz has been named general manager of The Lima (Ohio) News. He succeeds Kirk Dougal, the publisher of the newspaper and a regional vice president for AIM Media Midwest since June 2019. more

We're very excited to be celebrating two major milestones this week at Pugpig: our 10th birthday, and the launch of our latest and greatest mobile and web publishing platform. And we're letting you in on our birthday celebrations! more

Publishers achieve significant boosts in revenue and subscriptions by understanding what content should be classified as “premium” and placed behind a paywall. more

A weekly community publisher in the Southeastern part of the United States came into a huge digital revenue stream with AdCellerant before and during the Coronavirus pandemic. Before partnering with AdCellerant, this publisher leveraged a different digital fulfillment company and was having trouble accomplishing its revenue goals. more

As the chief financial officer at PAGE, I am focused on the numbers that add value to our 450 member publications and I want to shine a light on the sometimes overlooked numbers and benefits of the PAGE Cooperative. more

The Associated Press has started surveying local news outlets in the U.S. to assess their readiness to adopt technologies that use artificial intelligence, a first step in the news agency’s two-year commitment to help local newsrooms expand their use of AI tools. more

Social media is a great resource for marketing that should be automated as much as possible (using Buffer or a website plugin). In this case study, a community newspaper had 20,000 followers on Facebook, but no website. Launching its first site a few weeks ago was like building a town in 1850 with no connection to the transcontinental railroad. But by posting article links to the website on Facebook, the paper created an immediate channel from the audience it had been developing for years. more

We are thrilled to announce that the Florida Press Association recently became the latest member of the Column Partner Program. Florida is a key frontier for public notice policy innovation, and Column looks forward to collaborating with FPA in the wake of a historic legislative package. We are committed to empowering Florida publishers and the FPA with the technology they need to meet this new policy framework head-on. more

America's Newspapers is honored to welcome STN Video and Webstop into membership this week. more

The project, funded by the European Climate Foundation, will provide members with unique access to leading experts, forums and research. more

Today, The New York Times is beginning recruitment for testers to participate in a new experience called “New York Times Audio.” Curated by Times journalists and editors, “New York Times Audio” is an app that will help listeners engage with the latest news, ideas, criticism and stories that matter to them. more

For many years, The State Gazette has published the annual Breast Cancer Awareness section in the month of October. We are proud to continue that tradition this year. For 2021, the special section will print on Saturday, Oct. 30, and feature various stories ranging from survivors and those within the medical field who help individuals and families combat cancer. more

Jeremy L. Halbreich, chairman and CEO of Dallas-based AIM Media Management, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Inland Press Foundation Distinguished Service Award. Halbreich will receive the award at the annual meeting of America’s Newspapers on Oct. 18 in Colorado Springs. more

Honoring excellence in editorial writing has been the goal of the Carmage Walls Commentary Prize, presented for many years by the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association.  Beginning in 2022, this award will again be presented — by America's Newspapers — and underwritten by Southern Newspapers, Inc. more