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"E & P Reports" from Editor & Publisher Magazine hosted by Mike Blinder

248 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratings

Each week, Editor & Publisher Magazine (E&P) produces a Vodcast of timely interviews with newspaper, broadcast, online and all forms of news publishing and media industry leaders.

E&P has been publishing since 1884 and is considered the "bible" and "authoritative voice" of the North American newspaper industry.
Each episode is hosted by Publisher Mike Blinder.

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230 Understanding the skills necessary to lead the newsroom of tomorrow

March 23, 2024 16:18 - 18 minutes - 20.1 MB

While attending the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, Laura Krantz McNeill decided to interview 26 separate media leaders she considered to be “change-makers and innovators” and asked them what they think the essential skills that the next generation of news leadership will need to move us closer to a healthier and more sustainable future for the news media industry.1 The result of that...

229 The “whats, whys and hows” of The Association of Community Publishers (ACP)

March 16, 2024 16:05 - 17 minutes - 18.8 MB

The Association of Community Publishers (ACP) is a dynamic organization dedicated to supporting and empowering free, community-based media outlets across the United States. Founded to promote excellence in local journalism and foster collaboration among community publishers, the ACP represents a diverse array of publications, including newspapers, shoppers, magazines, directories and digital news platforms — all with no paid access to the print or online content they provide. This year's...

228 Exploring their new book: “What Works in Community News,” from authors Ellen Clegg & Dan Kennedy

March 09, 2024 18:01 - 20 minutes - 21.9 MB

Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy have become recognized and respected news media analysts with their highly listened to podcast series: “What Works. The future of local news.”  However recently, Clegg a three-decade Boston Globe veteran who helped get a few Pulitzer Prizes for the paper and Kennedy a Northeastern University journalism professor who writes the Media Nation blog, have released a critically acclaimed book entitled: “What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the...

227 A look at the broadcast news industry from RTDNA CEO Dan Shelley

March 03, 2024 17:11 - 22 minutes - 24.5 MB

In September 2023, E&P reported on the Arizona Newspapers Association and the Arizona Broadcasters Association merger. In the past year, there have been several legacy newspaper and public media mergers, such as Chicago Public Media's acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times, The Steinman's "gifting" of their 150+-year-old Lancaster, PA newspaper to the local public broadcasting outlet and the Denton (TX) Record-Chronicle becoming part of Dallas-Fort Worth's KERA Public Broadcasting operat...

226 A frank discussion about public media with industry expert Tom Davidson

February 24, 2024 16:38 - 26 minutes - 28.1 MB

Recently, Public Media Consultant Tom Davidson wrote an op-ed published in “Current,” the industry’s quarterly trade magazine, “decrying the lack of awareness in public media about Press Forward, the $500 million foundation effort to reinvigorate local news.” Since then, National Public Radio (NPR) published its own white paper to support public media, and the Public Media Content Collective (formally the Public Radio Program Directors Association) added a panel to their fall conference th...

225 Jeff Jarvis and Steven Waldman debate the hard questions facing the news media industry.

February 18, 2024 18:15 - 42 minutes - 45.1 MB

On February 4th, 2024, the president of Rebuild Local News and co-founder of Report for America, Steven Waldman, penned an op-ed for E&P Magazine entitled “In defense of (some) old media. Writing off legacy media will lead to bad public policy.”  In the very first sentence of the piece, Waldman took aim at the January 24th, 2024 article, “Is it time to give up on old news?” which was penned and published by Jeff Jarvis, author and former professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for En...

224 No more downsizing, as Gannett is hiring locally at all levels.

February 14, 2024 16:43 - 22 minutes - 24.1 MB

As reported by E&P in May of 2023 (“Ghost papers: Journalists find themselves alone or with just a few left in the newsroom”), UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media’s Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics, Penelope Muse Abernathy stated, “Although the exact number is hard to pin down, we estimate, based on news accounts and industry data, at least 1,000 of the 7,200 newspapers still published in this country — and perhaps as many as 1,500 — have lost significantly mor...

223 An inside look at The Messenger — from startup to shut down — 10 months and 50 million dollars later

February 07, 2024 22:09 - 22 minutes - 24.2 MB

Darren Samuelson, a seasoned journalist known for his insightful political reporting, first made his mark at Politico, a Washington-based digital newspaper company founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton. During his nearly 10 years there, Samuelson demonstrated a keen ability to dissect complex political issues and provide readers with comprehensive analysis. After establishing himself as a respected figure in journalism, Samuelson embarked on a new chapter in his ...

222 An inside look at the LA Times with Guild President, Matt Pearce

January 31, 2024 19:06 - 20 minutes - 21.8 MB

On Tuesday January 23, 2024, one of the 100-plus reporters who was laid off via Webinar from the Los Angeles Times, stated it was “like a drive-by,” as it was clear that very few at this iconic 142-year-old newspaper had any idea, that in a matter of minutes, they were told that more than 20% of their staff was to be let go. And when events like this take place within a unionized newsroom, the workforce looks towards their guild leadership for help and support. Those tasks fell quickly on ...

221 Hussman announces four $25k prizes for best in fair and impartial reporting.

January 27, 2024 16:34 - 15 minutes - 17.5 MB

As publisher of the Chattanooga Times in 1877, Adolph Ochs (who would later purchase the New York Times) added a slogan to the paper's masthead: "To give the news impartially, without fear or favor." This quote remains on top of current issues of the Chattanooga Times Free Press today, now owned by WEHCO Media. WEHCO, a fourth-generation, family-owned, 115-year-old newspaper company, is under the leadership of the founder's grandson, Walter E. Hussman, Jr., who proudly prints that exact ph...

220 Word in Black's journey from a pilot project to a public benefit corporation

January 21, 2024 18:01 - 20 minutes - 22.2 MB

The Word in Black website states a mission: "To be the most trusted news and information source for, about, and by Black people.”   Founded on June 7, 2021, just after the entire world witnessed the tragic death of George Floyd, 10 of the nation's most prestigious Black legacy newspaper publishers joined together to launch a collaborative online news presence to work together to serve their local readers and combine their resources and content into a single branded platform.   Word i...

219 Media sales icon Chris Lytle shares tried and true insights that still apply today.

January 13, 2024 19:48 - 18 minutes - 20.4 MB

Chris Lytle, best-selling author of "The Accidental Salesperson" and "The Accidental Sales Manager," walked into an am radio station in 1972 with a political science degree, hoping to secure a news reporting job. The manager stated that the newsroom was full and offered Chris a sales job, which he accepted. That changed the course of his career forever. Ten years later, after mastering the art of media sales, he started his own consulting business, Instant Sales Training. It has helped t...

218 A new film tells a story of how hedge funds are destroying local journalism.

January 06, 2024 17:15 - 15 minutes - 17 MB

Rick Goldsmith’s website: New Day Films states that his mission as a filmmaker is to “tell stories that encourage social engagement and active participation in community life and the democratic process, and to stimulate young minds to question the world around them.” And when one watches his latest work: “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism at the Crossroads,” a 90-minute documentary that tells the tale of how hedge fund Alden Global Capital’s entry into the news publishing industry ha...

217 The future of “big tech” compensation, now that Google's $100 million deal with Canada is law

December 31, 2023 17:53 - 18 minutes - 20.4 MB

In late November, the entire news publishing industry was surprised to hear that Canada's government reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100 million Canadian annually to the country's news industry to comply with Canada’s Online News Act (Bill c-18), requiring tech companies to pay publishers for their content. Actual verbiage on the government's website pages that describe the bill read, "News outlets play a vital role in maintaining a healthy democracy. News and jo...

216 Shannon Kinney’s entrepreneurial advice

December 16, 2023 19:34 - 20 minutes - 21.9 MB

Shannon Kinney is the founder and client success officer of Dream Local Digital, a digital marketing agency headquartered in Rockland, Maine. Dream Local Digital works with newspapers, media companies, ad agencies and directly with small to medium-sized businesses on all aspects of their online marketing plans. Kinney is also a news media digital pioneer who has held start-up positions at some of the industry's most iconic legacy brands, such as the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, ...

215 Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins. A one-on-one with the SPJ’s new president.

December 10, 2023 15:29 - 19 minutes - 20.8 MB

Recent reports concerning the future of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) have stated, with one September post from NiemanLab saying that both membership and revenues are so low that the organization is set to "end the year $391,000 in the red," according to an audit prepared by an external accountant and dated August 2023. The same article by Sarah Scire featured the sub-head, "If we don’t change our thinking, the next incoming president will be the last president.” That new...

214 Marty Baron discusses his new book, his experiences at The Post and his views on news media today

December 02, 2023 17:23 - 19 minutes - 22.3 MB

Martin (“Marty”) Baron may be best known in pop culture as a character played by actor Liv Schreiber in the 2015 Academy Award Winning film “Spotlight," which re-told the story of the Globe's 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting on the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals. But many in our industry followed Baron closely years later when he moved from the Globe to The Washington Post, succeeding Marcus Brauchli in 2013 as executive editor. Shortly after the move, the Graham ...

213 Unpacking the Medill "State of Local News" report

November 25, 2023 16:49 - 24 minutes - 26.1 MB

In mid-November, the Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University issued its annual  "State of Local News Project" report, which now counts 6,000 newspapers in the United States, which comprises approximately 1,200 dailies and 4,790 weeklies. This year, the study also reported on 550 digital-only local news outlets, 700 ethnic media organizations and 225 public broadcasting stations producing original local news. The report's exec...

212 A 16-year-old launches a news site that is out-reporting the local Gannett "ghost paper."

November 11, 2023 16:19 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MB

On September 11, 2023, Jason Sethre, publisher of the Fillmore County (MN) Journal, posted an op-ed with the headline: "One Moment, Please… Hutchinson News in Kansas or Minnesota?" Within the piece, he reported that subscribers to the Hutchinson (KS) News were greeted one day with a front page showing a group of senior citizens having an outing on a lake in Hutchinson, Minnesota, with a headline of a story showing how the Hutchinson Senior Center keeps seniors busy with an array of activitie...

211 An email cry for help saves this 138-year-old newspaper from extinction

November 05, 2023 16:13 - 18 minutes - 19.6 MB

Friday, October 13th, 2023, was a scary day for the citizens of Meeker, the largest town in Colorado's Rio Blanco County, nestled on the Rockies' western slope, with a population of slightly over 6,500. It was on this day that Niki Turner and Caitlin Walker, the mother and daughter owners of the area's primary local news source, the Rio Blanco Herald Times, sent out an email with the subject line: "Crisis alert: Save your community paper." Within this ominous message, Niki and Caitlin rev...

210 Ryan Dohrn’s “ad sales punch list” to maximize revenue into 2024.

October 28, 2023 15:00 - 22 minutes - 24.1 MB

Ryan Dohrn is an Emmy award-winning, globally recognized media revenue consultant who has worked with hundreds of media companies, trained over 30,000 ad sales reps, and, through his proven sales training methods, has helped create over half a billion dollars in new sales and event sponsorship. Holding a Psychology of Leadership Certification from Cornell University, Dohrn’s resume includes time in promotions and sales at The NY Times Company, Disney, Cumulus, Citadel Comm, Vance Publishin...

209 Small North Carolina community is now a two-newspaper town.

October 14, 2023 15:30 - 17 minutes - 19.3 MB

Morgantown, North Carolina, the county seat of Burke County, is now a two-paper town. The nonprofit The Paper proudly reports local news online and in a weekly, Saturday-home-delivery, 30-plus-page full-color print product.   Founder and Publisher Allen VanNoppen is no stranger to news media, having spent his first years out of college as a reporter for the then family-owned local newspaper of record, The Morgantown News Herald, and later at the nearby Greensboro (NC) News & Record. Cont...

208 Branding is back: The latest Borrell study un-packed.

October 08, 2023 11:38 - 20 minutes - 22.7 MB

Borrell Associates has been tracking U.S. advertising since 2001, providing data that encompasses every facet of local marketing expenditures, including promotions, marketing services, research, public relations, loyalty marketing and digital services. Recently, Borrell released its 2024 forecasts revealing that U.S. local advertising will grow a healthy 4.4% in 2024 to $157.1 billion. On top of that, Borrell’s recent “Business Barometer” showed a strong uptick in local advertiser optimis...

207 Checking in with the Chicago Sun-Times/ Public Media merger.

September 30, 2023 15:36 - 19 minutes - 20.5 MB

On January 31, 2022, some would say industry history was made when Chicago Public Media, owners of the PBS affiliate WBEZ announced the acquisition of the iconic, daily tabloid: The Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago Public Media raised $61 million in multiyear philanthropic commitments for the acquisition and then transitioned the publication to nonprofit ownership. At the time of the announcement the New York Times reported that the merger of: “The hard-hitting tone of tabloid journalism and t...

206 Community leaders speak frankly about losing their local paper and having a new publication start within 30 days.

September 23, 2023 15:56 - 23 minutes - 25.3 MB

On July 17th, 2023, Bedford County, Tennessee, and its county seat of Shelbyville lost their 149-year-old newspaper of record, the Times-Gazette, as Holler Media locked the doors and fired the staff of all six community publications they owned that served counties around Nashville. Within a matter of just a few weeks, Morristown, Tennessee-based Lakeway Publishers, who owns and operates nine other community newspapers in the state plus others in Missouri and Virginia, had hired a number of...

205 A mission is to transform global news coverage by recruiting, training and then employing women journalists world-wide.

September 17, 2023 13:44 - 19 minutes - 20.6 MB

Cristi Hegranes is an award-winning journalist and founder of the Global Press Institute (GPI), a nonprofit organization that builds and maintains news bureaus in some of the world’s least-covered locations, like: Cameroon, Haiti, Kashmir, Mongolia, Nepal, Zambia and more. The organization recruits local women in the areas and then implements a 16-week training-to-employment program in which they learn the principles and practice of investigative journalism. Upon completion, graduates are ...

204 Arizona's newspaper and broadcast associations merge into Arizona Media Association.

September 06, 2023 15:19 - 19 minutes - 21.4 MB

Lisa Simpson, the former executive director of Arizona Newspapers Association, and Chris Kline, the former president/ CEO of Arizona Broadcasters Association, have known each other for years since they both lobby on issues that affect their association's members similarly. The major difference between the two is Lisa's members are from newspapers, and Chris' are broadcasters. But in a world where more and more media content is being shared and consumed on the same devices by the same audie...

203 A reluctant witness for Google’s antitrust defense. One-on-One with, Kenny Katzgrau

August 27, 2023 18:21 - 17 minutes - 19.9 MB

In the spring of 2018, Kenny Katzgrau, CEO of Broadstreet, a SaaS ad management company designed for media companies and direct sales teams, penned and published an online 34-page white paper entitled “10 Advantages That Small Publishers Have Over Tech Giants in Selling Ads.” His purpose for the document was to offer encouragement and advice to smaller news publishers on how they can use some of their competitive advantages to gain back some of the 70%+ of local ad dollars captured by big te...

202 One-on-one with industry veteran John Ellis

August 19, 2023 14:53 - 19 minutes - 20.4 MB

Media industry veteran John Ellis has been a political analyst for NBC News, a columnist for The Boston Globe, a political editor for Business Insider, a News Corp advisor and SVP at the Fox Business Network. In 2016, he launched News Items, which became The Wall Street Journal CEO Council’s morning newsletter. Ellis restarted News Items as an independent newsletter in August 2019. His articles have been published in Fast Company, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Real Clear Po...

201 Exploring NOLA Advocate’s digital-only Shreveport expansion into a Gannett market that still prints six days a week.

August 12, 2023 22:37 - 15 minutes - 17.4 MB

Reporting on the news publishing industry’s fight for survival amid circulation and advertising revenue declines has been focusing more and more on the continuing closure of news outlets, propagating "news deserts," and the downsizing of newsrooms creating "ghost papers." However, some media companies are finding opportunities during these troubling times by exploring underserved communities' need for local journalism and utilizing current resources to enter these markets with news brands ...

200 The USA TODAY Best-Selling Books List is back. Meet the new editor, Barbara VanDenburgh.

August 06, 2023 17:41 - 19 minutes - 20.6 MB

In August of 2022, Gannett, the nation’s largest newspaper chain, with more than 200 dailies, terminated 3% of its workforce (around 400 employees) after posting a loss of $54 million, on revenues of $749 million, in its second quarter. One of the layoffs included Mary Cadden, who spent 17 years as editor of the USA TODAY Best-Selling Books List, a weekly ranking of the 150 top-selling titles based on U.S. book sales. Caden started at USA TODAY in 1995 as a researcher. After the layoff was...

199 Meet The Washington Post’s new GenZ voice - Renee Yaseen

July 29, 2023 19:09 - 19 minutes - 21.1 MB

In early June of 2023, The Opinions and “Next Gen" teams of The Washington Post announced that Renee Yaseen would be their newest Op-Ed columnist. But unlike some venerable, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who publish their prose under the iconic one hundred fifty-year-old Post masthead, Yaseen is not listed as a company employee but instead uses the title in her byline: Post Grad Intern. Her twice-weekly column, Post Grad, is published as a free newsletter inviting readers to gain “ti...

198 The new Community News and Small Business Support Act

July 25, 2023 16:18 - 20 minutes - 21.4 MB

In June of, 2021, U.S. Representatives Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Arizona, and Dan Newhouse, R-Washington, introduced H.R. 3940, the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (LJSA), a bipartisan bill designed  to help local newspapers sustain financial viability through a series of tax credits.. The LJSA was originally the brainchild of Arizona-based Francis Wick, CEO of Wick Communications and fellow news publisher Alan Fisco, President of the Seattle Times, who each, along with support from America’...

197 Insights into maximizing digital ad revenue — one-on-one with Brock Berry.

July 15, 2023 15:56 - 18 minutes - 20.3 MB

Brock Berry has spent the last two decades as an advertising and marketing leader in the news media industry during what many call the "digital revolution." Just as more and more news consumers were accessing local content online, Berry found his comfort with digital concepts a vital asset as he became the head of the advertising sales department at the Denver Post. And when that major market newspaper underwent ownership changes, he found himself designing and leading the parent company's d...

196 One-on-one with News Media Canada's Paul Deegan as their country's battle with Big Tech heats up.`

July 08, 2023 11:23 - 19 minutes - 22 MB

Some might say that one of the most important dates to affect the future of the North American local news media industry was June 22, 2023. On that day, Canada’s Senate passed Bill C-18, a law requiring Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms. Many pundits are now blogging and editorializing about the upside and downside of C-18's passage and how it will likely impact pending similar legislation currently being discuss...

195 Borrell’s latest survey: Ad spend to rise with newspapers hanging in there

July 03, 2023 20:17 - 20 minutes - 21.9 MB

Each year, Borrell Associates, an advertising and marketing research firm with customers across the U.S. and Canada, surveys local advertisers and ad agencies. Participants are invited through the active advertiser lists of various media companies nationwide. Although companies would need to purchase the local results for their individual markets, Borrell does release to the industry several insights and predictions garnered from the aggregate results. This week Borrell released the find...

194 A quick audit of the top issues facing Danielle Coffey, now 3-weeks in as the new CEO of the News/Media Alliance

June 24, 2023 15:46 - 22 minutes - 23.7 MB

Danielle Coffey’s first ew weeks as the News/Media Alliance (NMA) chief executive were anything but "business as usual." After being appointed the new president and CEO of this leading trade organization, representing over 2,000 news and magazine media outlets worldwide, some of the most critical issues and advocacy concerning Western news media's future required immediate attention. That list includes Gannett’s recent stand-alone antitrust filing against Google; Canada's final passage of t...

193 Gannett CEO Mike Reed on Google antitrust lawsuit

June 21, 2023 22:02 - 12 minutes - 13.1 MB

Gannett Co., Inc. filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Google for “monopolization of advertising technology markets and deceptive commercial practices.” According to Gannett’s press release, “The lawsuit seeks to restore competition in the digital advertising marketplace and end Google’s monopoly, which will encourage investment in newsrooms and news content throughout the country.” Others have filed similar lawsuits. A bipartisan...

192 One-on-one with Peter Bhatia, CEO of the new nonprofit, free-access Houston Landing

June 17, 2023 15:11 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MB

To say that Peter Bhatia is a successful newspaper editor would be akin to stating that Tom Brady was a good quarterback. As Bhatia reminisces during this vodcast interview with E&P Publisher Mike Blinder, when he left Stanford in 1975 to begin his journalism career, the first operation he worked at was using "hot type”  typesetting to lay out the daily edition. Since those early days, Bhatia has managed newsrooms that collectively have won 10 Pulitzer Prizes. He spent time in academia as ...

191 NewsGuild President Jon Schleuss on TNG-CWA’s “most active year” of strikes and walkouts

June 09, 2023 17:02 - 22 minutes - 23.7 MB

As E&P Reported in our February 2023 cover story, "Labor puts it all on the line,” 2022 was a very active year for union membership, walkouts and strikes. And perhaps no one knows this more than Jon Schleuss, the president of The NewsGuild - Communications Workers of America (TNG-CWA). Schleuss grew up in rural Arkansas, as he admits, in a "very republican world," where the idea of unions and strikes was far from the political discourse he and his family would ever discuss. Schleuss entere...

190 One-on-one with the outspoken Evan Brandt, the last reporter left at The Mercury

June 04, 2023 14:03 - 20 minutes - 23 MB

There are hundreds of Evan Brandts in our industry today, doing their jobs alone or in a greatly reduced newsroom, working the same beats covered by tens or hundreds more just a few years ago. It’s easy to cite the reasons for the growth of what many today call "ghost papers," where a community is being underserved in local news coverage. Some blame it on the unregulated "Big Tech" industry that monetizes content while also absorbing local advertising revenues that rightly belong to the ne...

189 Ballantine enters a Gannett “ghost paper” town, starting a five-day-a-week free, printed tabloid

May 27, 2023 14:51 - 18 minutes - 20.7 MB

In 1952, Arthur and Morley Ballantine wanted to enter the news publishing industry, and they picked southwest Colorado as the place to do it — purchasing a publication that is now the Durango Herald. Over the years, the company expanded, adding new titles, video services, digital services, and local phone directories to its publishing empire. And today, their son, Richard G. Ballentine is chairman of the board of Ballantine Communications, continuing a mission of serving the readers and bu...

188 The NPPA’s Mickey Osterreicher. Helping both the police & journalists understand the 1st Amendment.

May 20, 2023 16:17 - 22 minutes - 23.6 MB

For over 15 years, Mickey H. Osterreicher has served as general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), where he helps support, train and advocate for First Amendment rights. Starting his journalism career in the 1970s, Mickey was a staff photojournalist as an undergraduate for his campus newspaper at the University of Buffalo. He later became an award-winning photojournalist whose work has been published and broadcast over the years by the New York Times, Time Magazi...

187 The new MaineJF: Fighting to keep Maine news media pristine and hedge-fund free.

May 13, 2023 15:22 - 23 minutes - 25.6 MB

The daily Portland Press Herald and its statewide sister publication Maine Sunday Telegram were, for over a century, the leading news and information providers to residents of Maine. Based in the state's largest city of Portland, these two major newspapers were the cornerstones of Guy Gannett Communications. This Maine-based family-owned business also owned a handful of television stations. In 1998, Guy Gannett decided to sell the entire company, with the newspaper holdings eventually purc...

186 A one-on-one with Trust Project CEO Sally Lehrman

May 06, 2023 15:15 - 23 minutes - 24.9 MB

A recent Gallup/Knight Foundation study revealed, "Only 26% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the news media, the lowest level since Gallup and Knight began tracking in 2017.”  But this study also suggests: "Many Americans are not solely skeptical of news today — they feel distrust on an emotional level, believing news organizations intend to mislead them and are indifferent to the social and political impact of their reporting.” The main takeaway from the study may be that it state...

185 Guy Tasaka’s takeaways for news publishers from the NAB

April 28, 2023 20:57 - 25 minutes - 29.6 MB

To those media executives that attend major conferences or keep their "ears to the ground" through industry news blogs and sites, Guy Tasaka is already well known as an expert and resource that many have followed to stay on top of technology and navigate the turbulent waters of the ever-changing media landscape. Guy's innovative career spans decades as senior director of product management at WideOrbit, general manager of mobile at GateHouse Media, vice president and chief digital officer ...

184 Philanthropy and local journalism, as seen through the eyes of the giving community

April 21, 2023 12:11 - 22 minutes - 26 MB

According to a recent report from the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy, total giving from all sources in the U.S. rose from $124.31 billion in 1993 to just over $360 billion last year (2022). However, the report cites that the total giving figure has continued to track closely with the size of the U.S. economy, where the overall "giving " figure remained at roughly 2% of the national GDP over those 20 years. What the report does show as a major shift is a change from total givin...

183 Covering multiple major stories simultaneously. One month in the life of the Nashville Tennessean

April 16, 2023 13:10 - 31 minutes - 34.9 MB

Imagine you are managing a downsized, metro, state capital newsroom. Within four weeks, your newsroom covers once-in-a-generation tornado devastation, a school shooting that takes the lives of six individuals, a legislature that expels two minority members erupting into a globally watched real-time protest, the crash of two Black Hawk helicopters that took nine lives at nearby Fort Campbell and the passage of several local and statewide anti-LBGTQ bills, one that bans the performance of drag...

182 Exploring Ogdensburg, NY’s two years as a 'news desert' and how the community rallied to bring back its voice

April 06, 2023 17:46 - 17 minutes - 19.1 MB

On April 5, 2019, Alec Johnson, the editor & publisher of The Waterville Times, the flagship publication of the Johnson Newspaper Corporation, of which he is also president, penned an editorial entitled “Readers think newspapers are doing fine: here’s the truth.”  Within the article, one can almost feel his frustrations, citing a Pew Research survey that stated 71% of Americans believed that local news media organizations were doing well financially, while just 14 percent said they have dire...

181 The Charleston Post and Courier: Committed to statewide coverage one market at a time

March 29, 2023 18:14 - 28 minutes - 30.7 MB

There’s no question that Evening Post Publishing, owners of the Charleston Post and Courier (P&C), have been expanding their commitment to local journalism, while other media companies publishing in South Carolina have been downsizing their newsrooms. E&P initially reported in July of 2020 that the P&C had opened news operations in Greenville, where Gannett owned the legacy title, and in Myrtle Beach, a  McClatchy market. And again, in June of 2022, E&P published a feature story on how e...

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