Courtnay Kim, a 20-year veteran of the Minneapolis  Star Tribune newsroom, has been named assistant managing editor of business news, taking leadership of coverage of the Minnesota business community digitally and in print. She is the first woman of color to be appointed to the role at the Star Tribune. more

Marlon A. Walker has been named executive editor of the Clarion Ledger in Jackson and the Mississippi state editor for the USA TODAY Network, which includes the Hattiesburg American.  more

Stillwater News Press Publisher Jill Hunt has announced her retirement from the Oklahoma daily. She joined the News Press staff in April 1998 and was promoted to publisher in October of 2019. more

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has announced a tightly focused brand strategy that recognizes the enterprise’s long history, points to an increasingly digital future, and highlights the personal calling and rigorous work of its journalists. Now, all products will carry a single, new masthead, designed to ensure readers know all news and information produced by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is credible, fact-based local journalism regardless of where or how it is published. more

Times Review Media Group once relied on a traditional production workflow system that involved paper-based ad tickets and invoices, triplicate forms, job jackets containing scraps of clip art and ad copy, and wire baskets that organized production work. This inefficient approach resulted in poor interdepartmental communication, process bottlenecks and delays, which frustrated the newspaper publisher’s sales team and the art department. Learn how Times Media went paperless and improved productivity. more

The parent of The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, is proposing to spin off its newspaper division and other subsidiaries into three separate businesses under a plan to realign the holdings of the family-owned company, it was announced April 5. The restructuring of Charleston-based Evening Post Industries is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, CEO John Barnwell said. more

The Courier Journal's building in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, went on the market today with a listing price of $17 million. The paper's newsroom, however, is dedicated to being a strong presence in Louisville, likely downtown. more

April 7, 2021 - “As HSPA prepares potential legislation for the 2022 session,” says Executive Director Steve Key of the Hoosier State Press Association, “we hope to convince the leadership that public policy should continue to embrace the four key elements of effective public notice — accessibility, verification, archivability, and an independent conduit for the distribution of those notices to the public.” more

April 7, 2021 - Legislators in Texas have introduced at least 20 separate bills this session that could have an impact on public notice. Fourteen were introduced last month alone. more

April 7, 2021 - Newspaper publishers from across the country are watching the moves taking place in the Florida legislature.  The Public Notice Resource Center reports that one of the primary concerns to be addressed during a hearing scheduled for Thursday, April 8, concerns the type of free newspapers that may qualify to carry notices.  This hearing on SB 402 is scheduled in Florida's Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice. more

With a world permanently changed from a global pandemic, what is in store for the news publishers, and how should we best meet the challenges ahead? E&P assembled four industry leaders — including America's Newspapers CEO Dean Ridings — to address these questions, plus discuss media property values, achieving diversity in our newsrooms, maximizing consumer revenue, non-profit models and more. more

The Altoona (Pennsylvania) Mirror leadership torch has been passed. Ed Kruger, who has held the publisher position since 1998, is retiring and wrapping up a 60-year newspaper career. He will be succeeded by Circulation/Operations Manager Dan Slep, a fifth-generation descendent of Mirror founder Harry E. Slep. more

Ogden Newspapers has named John Kridelbaugh as the general manager of the Sandusky Register and Norwalk Reflector in Ohio. more

The daily print editions of the Opelika-Auburn News and its other Alabama Group products, including the Dothan Eagle, are now being printed in Montgomery by Gannett Publishing Services, which prints the Montgomery Advertiser as well as other newspapers throughout the state. more

Eugene Jackson has been appointed vice president of advertising and marketing sales for The Dispatch group of publications in central Ohio and for the USA TODAY Network Ohio news organizations in northeastern Ohio. He succeeds Chris Pettograsso, who has taken another job. more

Chip and Joanna Gaines are buying the 70-year home of the Waco (Texas) Tribune-Herald newspaper at 900 Franklin Ave., planning to make it their Magnolia brand’s corporate nerve center. more

Tribune Publishing Company today announced that the special committee of its board of directors, in consultation with its legal and financial advisers, has determined that a revised, non-binding proposal from Newslight, LLC, an entity jointly owned by Stewart Bainum and Hansjörg Wyss, dated April 1, to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Tribune common stock for $18.50 per share in cash would reasonably be expected to lead to a "Superior Proposal" as defined in Tribune's merger agreement with affiliates of Alden Global Capital LLC. more

Beginning in May, newspaper readers in four North Carolina counties (Columbus, Bladen, Robeson and Scotland) will see their community papers carrying in-depth investigative articles originating from a new online news source, the Border Belt Independent. more

In an attempt to prevent the Orlando Sentinel from being sold to hedge fund Alden Global Capital, two Florida businessmen have said they’re interested in buying the 145-year-old Orlando newspaper to keep it in local hands. more

Through interviews with prisoners, their families, the Minnesota Department of Corrections and criminal justice experts, The Rochester Post Bulletin, a Forum Communications company, found that inmates bore the brunt of a system ill-equipped to handle COVID-19. more