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Report for America invites America’s Newspapers members to apply for host newsroom consideration
Earl Johnson | Report for America

Participate in a virtual webinar on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 1 p.m. CT.

Report for America opens applications for 2027–2028 host newsrooms
Press Release | Report for America

Report for America is now accepting applications from local news organizations interested in hosting a corps member beginning in July 2027. Applications are due Oct. 19.

The new revenue opportunity you can’t miss
Julie Foley | Second Street

Text-to-Vote is more than a new way to collect votes. It is a bridge between advertiser promotion, audience participation and new revenue.

Tune up your calendar before the busy fall event season
Lauren Hurlock | CitySpark

Fall is the busiest stretch on any local calendar — back-to-school nights, festivals, markets and a wave of concerts before the holidays. For publishers, that surge is either a revenue opportunity or a missed one, depending on your calendar strategy right now.

A decade in digital media? Congratulations, you've earned your crisis
Staff | Membrana Media

The digital media crisis isn’t a lack of audience — it’s a failure to monetize the attention publishers already have. A unified approach to advertising, registration and subscriptions can turn more of that existing audience into meaningful revenue.

The right bets for subscription businesses: A conversation with COO Bryan Varblow
Staff | AdvantageCS

Bryan Varblow, COO of AdvantageCS, talks about the capabilities subscription organizations need to build now to remain flexible, efficient and customer-focused in the years ahead.

The tertiary market challenge
Brian Rossi | BellCornerstone

Lately, BellCornerstone, having helped repurpose more than 1,000 newspaper buildings across North America, is doing an awful lot of work selling properties in tertiary markets. Tertiary America is made up of thousands of smaller cities and communities outside major metropolitan areas.

Beyond reader revenue: Interview with Angela Mackay, CCO & managing director, Asia Pacific
Staff | FT Strategies

Angela Mackay, chief commercial officer and managing director, Asia Pacific at the Financial Times, shares lessons from the FT’s revenue diversification journey and explores how media organizations can build more resilient businesses while protecting the value of their core brand.

Making AI governance a newsroom advantage
Staff | WoodWing

Unregulated AI use isn't a shortcut to efficiency; it's a slow leak in the trust, accuracy and legal standing that local journalism depends on. Governance isn't red tape. It's the framework that lets publishers use AI both aggressively and safely at the same time.

How business intelligence helps digital marketing businesses make faster, more profitable decisions
Business Development | AdCellerant

Digital marketing businesses have access to more data than ever. The challenge is not getting the data. It is getting the right information in one place, when you actually need it.

The shift from reactive to proactive operations
Staff | TCN

Contact centers face a nonstop influx of routine requests like password resets, delivery updates and billing questions. Automating these repetitive tasks allows agents to move beyond reactive support and focus on delivering meaningful customer value through more proactive, intent-based service.

How United Robots’ Data Services are already saving local newsrooms time
Cecilia Campbell | United Robots

At local news conferences in the U.S. over the past couple of years, editors have asked us a version of the same question: can you help us pull stories, and information, out of the public data we already have access to but can't keep up with? “Yes — we can help you!”

How to build a high converting subscriber journey
Lessons from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Substack
Staff | Pelcro

Reader loyalty can't be left to chance. Leading publishers have turned their onboarding journeys into carefully engineered funnels: every click, from first visit to subscription, is orchestrated to maximize conversion and retention. See how The New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Substack approach this goal.

Illustration by GPT Image 2 utilizing Lovart.com and human prompts, plus Chat GPT.
An ‘ecosystem’ is not a business model
Newspapers need a new money tree. Here’s where it can grow.
Eric Larson | The ORG Detectives

Imagine a time in the near future when your news organization is once again paid by local businesses in spades. Not for ad space — that ship has long sailed — but for myriad other business services: branding, sales, staff recruitment, IT and accounting, just to name some broad categories of help that companies need right now and always will.

Press Gazette and Flip-Pay launch newsroom tool enabling editors to check for AI-generated content before publishing
Made by Humans checks text, images, video and audio within publishers’ own content management systems, as EU brings in new AI transparency rules
Staff | Flip-Pay and Press Gazette

Editors can now check whether content is AI-generated or manipulated before publishing, using a specialist tool designed for newsrooms. Press Gazette has partnered with Flip-Pay to build Made by Humans, a platform designed to help media owners manage the editorial, legal and reputational risks associated with publishing AI-generated content.

“NewsWayX helps us complete a couple of long-standing issues we have had with our other software, including bin sorting and web growth adjustments,” says Victor Anderson, imaging department manager at The Villages Media Group.
The Villages Media Group enhances production efficiency with ProImage’s NewsWayX
Staff | ProImage

The Villages Media Group has chosen ProImage’s NewsWayX to streamline its production workflow and address long-standing challenges. The installation of NewsWayX, a cloud-based workflow management solution, has enabled the company to achieve greater flexibility, efficiency and accuracy in the printing processes.

Bridging the readership generational gap
Laura Malm | Brandpoint

For newspaper publishers, long-term sustainability hinges on delivering what loyal, traditional subscribers expect while offering digital-first audiences what they desire. How do news organizations build daily reader habits with a younger demographic without alienating their core base? The answer is diversifying the content mix to include modern lifestyle content.

Fair use or fair game?
Best practices for avoiding copyright liability over the use of photographs in news reporting
Joanne Richardson | MIC Ltd./Mutual Insurance Company

Copyright law is designed to make sure that most uses of someone else’s creative content are compensated. So, what are the best practices to mitigate the risk of drawing a copyright suit and to put yourself in the best position to win a copyright suit if one is filed?

Are your reps using MCP to become Super Reps?
recruitlayer connects sales reps and employers with the AI assistants they already use
Michael Dawes | recruitlayer

recruitlayer connects sales reps and employers with the AI assistants they already use.

Could niche media be a strategic add-on for legacy publishers?
Kelli Bultena | Dirks, Van Essen & April

As publishers look beyond traditional newspaper acquisitions, niche media brands offer opportunities to reach highly engaged audiences, diversify revenue and build long-term value. While not every niche product will succeed, audience-focused media may become an increasingly important part of broader growth strategies.

PubGen.AI + AffinityX: The optimum solution for media companies
Staff | AffinityX

PubGen.AI + AffinityX combines a complete AI-native publishing platform with proven implementation and production expertise — more capability, less complexity and lower total cost.

Mirabel Technologies launches new Opportunity Dashboard for publishing and media sales teams
New interactive dashboard gives publishers greater visibility into pipeline performance, forecasting, deal health and sales team results
Staff | Mirabel Technologies

Designed to give sales managers and media executives a clearer view of their entire sales pipeline, the Opportunity Dashboard brings key opportunity metrics, performance trends, forecasting data and risk indicators together in one centralized, interactive view.

Are job boards optimizing the wrong thing?
Lou Goodman (and team) | Jobiqo

Jobiqo’s recently published Job Board Revolution Report asks a fundamental question: what problem are job boards actually solving today, and is that problem still aligned with what employers and candidates need?

What publishers are learning about AI and human oversight
Staff | Mediaferry

In a Sept. 17 webinar with E&P Magazine, Mediaferry’s Robert Berkeley and Tariq Husain will present: “Close More Ad Sales: How AI Helps You Create Better Ads Faster.” The webinar will examine where the industry is headed, the role of AI and human judgment, and what that shift means for how sales and production teams are organized.

Legacy marks 25 years of 9/11 remembrance — with a new way to connect to your community
Staff | Legacy

Legacy's September 11 memorial holds more than 250,000 tributes — but for the 25th anniversary, Legacy has made it possible to find the ones that matter most close to home. A new search filter lets readers surface tributes and stories tied to their own state or city, turning a national archive into a local connection.

60% of subscriber calls never reached an agent. Here’s why that matters for publishers.
Staff | SingleComm

Traditional IVR has already demonstrated how much subscriber demand can be handled through automation. But the experience itself has historically come with a tradeoff: subscribers have to navigate rigid menus and learn the system's language. Conversational AI is beginning to change that.

Presteligence reaches 268 live publications with Dynamic Production
Milestone demonstrates real-world adoption of automated newspaper page production
Jeff Pawlowski | Presteligence

Surpassing 260+ live publications represents a significant milestone for Presteligence and demonstrates the growing adoption of automated production technology across the newspaper industry.