More voters. More advertiser value. More revenue. Text-to-Vote gives media companies a new way to turn Best Of engagement into measurable growth. more

Every advertiser is about to decide what stays in next year’s plan, and they cut what they can’t explain first. The partners who bring evidence to year-end reviews, not activity reports, keep the business. more

Rob Galloway already knew The Center Square’s reporting from its daily newsletter. What he hadn’t realized was that The Center Square was an open-access newswire. A sponsored post made that connection — and gave him a way to supplement local coverage with statewide stories his readers had reason to care about. more

Shaw Media is the first local news publisher to use the new DataDesk service from United Robots. DataDesk is a tool which covers the local sources that matter to each newsroom and serves up ranked summaries of the data it surfaces. more

As a publisher or designer, have you found yourself wondering whether an AI-generated ad or image is safe to run? The growing use of generative AI presents new legal and copyright concerns for publishers everywhere. more

Election Day traffic across BLOX Digital’s network rose 61% above the yearlong daily average, offering a clear reminder of the role community news organizations play when people need trusted information close to home. more

Each year, Philippe van Mastrigt, managing director, Europe at AdvantageCS, conducts a deep analysis of publishing trends and their implications for publishers’ business models. His review of 2026 draws on approximately 500 industry news articles, conference insights, discussions with prospective clients and client meetings.  more

Automated image toning helps a newspaper printer reduce weekly color-correction time from seven to eight hours to just minutes, improving consistency across 25 newspapers. more

Global businesses making decisions about energy costs, logistics, safety, market exposure and future investment often need to know quickly what is happening and whether it can be trusted. Reuters reporting, with its rigorous verification and editorial standards, is designed to meet that need. more

Every newsroom has a plan for the predictable: election night, the budget vote, or the Friday print deadline. What breaks a newsroom is rarely the event on the calendar. It is the photo nobody can find, the legal sign-off stuck in an inbox, and the one editor who has become the only person able to approve everything. more

Last year, Wehaa introduced FirstPage Plus (FP+) and answered a question often heard from publishers: “What tools can help us convert small businesses into new digital advertisers?” In this article, Wehaa shares a couple of success stories on how publishers are putting that answer into action. more

SinglePilot, being developed directly within the SingleComm platform, will help publishers simplify subscriber service configuration with AI, enabling teams to manage campaigns and workflows faster, reduce complexity and respond more quickly to changing needs. more

Search, Social, Retail Media and AI (SSRA) is a framework for understanding how discovery works today. Rather than treating these channels as separate marketing tactics, SSRA recognizes that they work together throughout the customer journey. Read AdCellerant's latest blog to learn more. more

An AI coding agent turns a plain-English request into working code. Here is how it works, and how to use one to change a paywall in five steps. more

Breaking news does not create workflow problems; it reveals them. For local and regional newspapers, treating every breaking story as a live stress test is one of the most valuable,  and most underused, sources of operational insight available. more

Jobiqo’s AI-powered spam detection automatically evaluates new employer profiles to identify potential fake recruiters, helping job boards reduce fraudulent listings and manual reviews. Customizable spam thresholds and flexible moderation options let administrators choose whether to flag or automatically block suspicious accounts. more

As publishers move from isolated AI experimentation toward wider adoption, governance is becoming a more important part of AI readiness. This article explores three broad governance models, the trade-offs between them, and why the “Centre of Enablement” model is increasingly relevant to publishers scaling AI responsibly. more

Your advertisers already trust you with part of their digital budget. Many of them would also pay for help ranking in organic search and showing up when customers ask AI assistants for a recommendation. more

For a news publisher serving readers where Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin meet, regional coverage means following developments across all three states. As TH Media plans for a future beyond its longtime Associated Press relationship, it is learning how The Center Square can help fill those coverage needs. more

For about a year, Shaw Media in Illinois has been publishing automated content about local real estate sales on its news site. The newsroom, business and readers have benefited in a number of ways: … more