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

Good email structure and reader-friendly styling can improve your user’s experience while helping you achieve your reader revenue goals. Here are five easy ways to make the most of email newsletters. more

Seyfarth Shaw's Vaccine Policy Playbook is an essential resource in designing, communicating and deploying your company’s vaccine policy. more

In today’s media landscape, publishers have access to unprecedented volumes of information. However, without the right technology to manage your data, your team could be wasting valuable time on tasks like gathering data instead of acting on it, which hinders your media organization’s growth. more

World News Day is an annual day to celebrate professional journalism. This year, World News Day is Sept. 28 and the theme is climate change. We're offering your newspaper a free "Going Green" Kid Scoop page to publish if you participate in World News Day! more

Recently, Our-Hometown announced our brand new Audio Articles Playlist feature, allowing listeners the ability to tune in to entire playlists of Audio Articles rather than just a single article at a time. With this feature, listeners can find playlists for the Latest Audio Articles,  This Week’s or Last Week’s News, as well as playlists for each individual article category. more

Presteligence, an industry leading software developer and innovator, announces Rossmoor News, a print-centric weekly for a senior community located in Walnut Creek, California, will utilize My New 360 CMS and editorial page production. more

As digital advertising continues to grow and accelerate, it can be challenging for quality publishers to stand out in a programmatic environment that often can be complex and opaque. As a result, media buyers waste money on fraudulent websites that offer no real ROI while publishers lose out on missed revenue opportunities. more

This morning, your readers — your neighbors, your UPS driver, your kid’s teacher — woke up, scrolled through their daily obituaries, and found the name of someone they knew. Their first thought? “How can I help?” more

Children are quick to recognize unfairness. When someone is teasing, bullying or accusing another, kids see it clearly. Words can hurt. Opinions can hurt. Conflicts often mix up facts and … more

Long-time SCS customer Lee Enterprises, based in Davenport, Iowa, has selected SCS/ClassPag to automate the pagination of its classified pages across legacy Lee publications in 26 states. This includes The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Times of Northwest Indiana and the Lincoln Journal-Star. more

So far this year, Creative Circle Media Solutions has helped local newspapers in 14 communities redesign their papers as they transition to local ownership. The company is also helping re-launch papers that have folded, assisting entrepreneurs who are launching new media outlets and helping local publishers stay in business during the pandemic. more

The long-term sustainability of news publishers relies on the ability to intelligently manage the transition to a digital future. In this post, Matthew Lulay of Mather Economics briefly investigates the makeup of print to digital conversions, including how E-Edition engagement is proving to be a leading indicator. He also discusses some strategies for publishers to consider to preserve revenue on converted subscribers. more

Newspapers seeking to keep costs in line and focus their resources on local and original reporting can leverage Field Level Media’s syndicated content products to suit their specific needs. Dozens of daily and weekly newspapers rely on FLM as their primary provider of syndicated sports content. With more than 200 writers and editors across North America, FLM provides robust news feeds along with coverage of more than 7,000 annual events. more

PAGE is actively presenting solutions for its members to help bridge the migration to digital.  When PAGE was founded in 1984, internet and mobile channels supplying digital content and the devices to read that content, did not exist.  Today, PAGE is stepping up with solutions and services to cross that bridge by promoting digital solutions from existing preferred partners as well as bringing on new partners with leading edge products and services for digital applications, digital editions, digital marketing and digital revenue.  more

Spending on home and garden products has grown about 14.4 percent annually since 2016, according to research group Future Commerce; however, the first half of 2020 saw spending nearly double from the same time frame in 2019. As consumers continue to invest heavily in their indoor and outdoor living spaces, look to your MCC Libraries for engaging layouts, ideas, articles and images to build sales from related local advertisers.  more

Like most news organizations, the team at Wick Communications is always on the hunt for new ways to grow reader revenue. When Reilly Kneedler, digital audience editor at Wick, learned that TownNews was seeking beta testers for their revamped audience development platform — iQ Audience+ — he was eager to see what it could do. more