Enghouse Systems Limited has acquired the business assets of VoicePort LLC, a provider of SaaS automated solutions based in Rochester, New York. more

The obituary market is at a crossroads. Read Part 2 of this position paper. more

Revlyst, a leading media consulting firm, and MIDTC, a full-services media technology company, have teamed up to provide free IT and digital assessments for local media companies. more

Creative Circle Media Solutions and eType Services have announced they will be supporting one another’s clients by cross-selling some of their services. more

Two years ago, Keven Zepezauer, president of Restoration NewsMedia, made the decision to switch his papers over to Column, whose core software product streamlines the entire public notice process for newspapers and their customers. Once his papers started using the software, Zepezauer's team reduced the time they spent on public notice by 50%. “It was a huge time-saver,” he said. more

Benchmark research from North American news media companies indicates acquisition of digital products is likely to remain at current levels without a significant news event occurring to increase traffic. more

The Kansas Press Association announces the launch of a Digital Initiative program during this WEBINAR EVENT REPLAY streamed live on Friday, July 29. View the replay and see how your newspaper could benefit from this program. more

During an almost 30-minute podcast, retention guru, E&P columnist and industry insider Richard Brown joins Lon Haenel of Newspaper Subscription Services to discuss how he uses KPIs (key performance indicators) to build his retention equation. He keeps it simple and effective by creating, executing and measuring. Listen to this podcast at your convenience. more

In these inflationary times, parents still want to provide smart activities for their children. You can help parents save $5 per month when you have sponsors insert the weekly Kid Scoop youth activity page for children. Did you know that most children’s activity books cost upwards of $5 or more per book? more

Automation is shaking up the publishing industry, and media companies should welcome the disruption. Exciting advances in tech — and especially AI — are letting publishers explore new ways to automate everything from content translation to video editing. more

In a new article series, “Web Analytics 101: The Digital Publisher’s Guide to Better Data,” the Alliance for Audited Media shares how invalid traffic affects publishers’ website data and provides steps to remove this traffic from analytics to improve audience insights. more

GoalGetters has been serving the newspaper industry for more than three decades. The rewards card system has been proven highly effective for retaining subscribers and appealing to prospective subs. The low cost affords your newspaper the opportunity to be armed with a sales tool worth $500 to $1,000. How's that for an attractive subscription perk? more

Journalism’s challenges continue to multiply the media's need to rely on the latest technological advances. Newsroom 3.0 has three fundamental pillars: the automation of processes, the elimination of repetitive tasks and the search for new processes. more

CitySpark’s custom HTML export enables publishers to automatically get community events from their website into their newsletters.  As publishers increasingly look to email newsletters as a channel to reach audiences, it has become critical to efficiently include the same content that would be found in other channels in these newsletters.  more

Stacker and Patch Labs are joining forces to provide independent publishers the content, services and technology they need to scale their operations. Their new partnership will provide Patch Labs publishers free access to the Stacker Newswire. more

Alma mater interest helps drive 600,000 newspaper obituary views in one month. more

Yesterday, we announced that Column has raised a $30M Series A Round led by Lux Capital. The round brings the total funding we've raised to $33.3M. more

Most media publishers do not offer dynamic digital campaigns to their local advertisers. Several factors are to blame, but the bottom line is time and expense. Dynamic creative requires not only design but also development-integrating product feeds. Then there is the task of tying in performance metrics with advertiser reports. And reports are what it’s all about! DataBanner is a great solution. more

Rust Communications, located in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, has committed to move its prepress production workflow to NewsXtreme Cloud from Presteligence. more

McClatchy has entered into an agreement with Zette, an online subscription platform that enables consumers to access premium content from participating news publishers. Through this agreement, Zette subscribers will have access to paywalled McClatchy content on an article-by-article basis. more