"E & P Reports" from Editor & Publisher Magazine hosted by Mike Blinder
251 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsEach 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.
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Each episode is hosted by Publisher Mike Blinder.
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183 Covering multiple major stories simultaneously. One month in the life of the Nashville Tennessean
April 16, 2023 13:10 - 31 minutes - 34.9 MBImagine 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 MBOn 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 MBThere’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...
180 Two embedded journalists are making an impact thanks to the JFP
March 23, 2023 20:08 - 31 minutes - 34.6 MBOn its website, the Journalism Funding Partners (JFP) states a mission to “Increase the depth, diversity and sustainability of local journalism by building and stewarding connections between funders and news organizations.” Founded as a 501 (C)(3) in 2019 by the former publisher of the Raleigh News & Observer, Orage Quarles and internationally recognized reporter and senior consultant for the Democracy Fund, Sheila Solomon. JFP has secured and managed more than $5 million in grants to help s...
179 Six diverse news disrupters band together to create the Alliance for Sustainable Local News
March 16, 2023 17:14 - 26 minutes - 28.5 MBOn February 21, 2023, six news publishing companies: The Baltimore Banner, Block Club Chicago, The Colorado Sun, the Daily Memphian, Long Beach Post and Lookout Local/Lookout Santa Cruz, announced they were forming an organization they collectively called the Alliance for Sustainable Local News (ASLN). Their industry press release stated these six publishers all shared a “belief in the power of local news to make communities and people’s lives better.” These six have also “found common gro...
178 Small-town citizens share support for the saving of their newspaper.
March 11, 2023 17:18 - 21 minutes - 24.8 MBOn February 8, 2023, the citizens of Pulaski, TN were shocked to hear that their 167-year-old newspaper was to be shut down. Then owner David Lake, along with publisher Scott Stewart announced in a statement that: “Declining advertising and subscription revenues combined with increasing costs, finally reached a point where maintaining the Pulaski (Tennessee) Citizen as a business has not been possible, and that county will have no newspaper or news platform dedicated solely to covering local...
177 Foreign affairs expert Richard Haass asks us to be a “better informed” citizenry in his latest book.
March 03, 2023 20:01 - 33 minutes - 35.3 MBFor two decades, Dr. Richard Haass has been the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent, nonpartisan think tank organization that states this mission on its website: “To help people better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.” Also, his expertise in international affairs and U.S. foreign policy has been tapped by our government, acting as the chair for the multiparty negotiations in Northern Ireland in 2012....
176 Ryan Dohrn on selling in a post-covid marketplace and why he is “all in” on Niche Media
February 25, 2023 14:13 - 34 minutes - 37.1 MBRyan Dohrn is a motivational speaker, won an Emmy for sales & marketing, has been recognized by Forbes.com with the “Best of the Web” award for his business strategies and is considered one of the top media sales trainers in the world today. Since 2008, Dohrn’s Brain Swell Media consulting company has helped over 200 media companies find new revenue through innovative sales strategies and his unique ad sales training. Today, Dohrn is also the owner and CEO of Niche Media, an organization...
175 Medford, Oregon: As one paper dies, another begins all in a few weeks.
February 18, 2023 16:33 - 38 minutes - 40.6 MBThe Medford, Oregon Mail Tribune can trace its roots back to 1909 when the morning Medford Mail and afternoon Tribune merged under the Putnam family, creating what the paper claimed to be "The largest printing and publishing establishment in Southern Oregon.” It was decades later that this venerable brand would begin a journey of "swap and sale," moving from Down jones/ Ottaway ownership to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., to Newcastle Investment Corp. (an affiliate of Fortress Investment Grou...
174 Meet the Pulitzer Prize ADN journalist who helped inspire ABC's "Alaska Daily."
February 11, 2023 14:43 - 33 minutes - 37.1 MBIn May of 2020, The Anchorage Daily News (ADN) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for their yearlong series entitled “Lawless,” which provided an in-depth look at the criminal justice system's failures across Alaska. The team who created the series was led by ADN special projects editor Kyle Hopkins who had the assistance of ProPublica, the nonprofit entity that assists news publishers nationwide with investigative reporting projects. As “Lawless” was being picked up by national news sources ...
173 University of Oregon journalism chair asks Gannet to donate The Eugene Register-Guard to the school.
February 03, 2023 12:16 - 41 minutes - 44.1 MBIn the January 2023 issue of Editor & Publisher Magazine, E&P featured an article about Dr. Peter Laufer's book, “Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer,” and the subsequent film documentary "Slow News" that speaks to how media companies chasing "clicks" in a digital age has led to the erosion of quality journalism and the public’s trust. However, what this professor of journalism and James N. Wallace Chair of Journalism at the University of Oregon was chasing was a persona...
172 Steve Waldman’s Rebuild Local News Coalition — aggregating industry advocacy
January 28, 2023 17:29 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBThe numbers are staggering. As the U.S. population grows, the number of local newsroom employees continues to decline, as an average of two newspapers shut down each week. Moreover, research shows that a shortage of local news harms the very fabric of our communities. With less new coverage comes more government corruption and local apathy regarding voting or civic involvement. And today, with large corporations and hedge funds who now own what was once vibrant family-owned local news oper...
171 The Bucks County Herald: A story of survival, moving from family to foundation-owned
January 21, 2023 13:55 - 28 minutes - 30.4 MBFor just under two decades, residents in Bucks County, Penn., a suburb of Philadelphia, were served by the Bucks County Herald, a weekly publication started by Bridget Wingert and her late husband, Joseph T. Wingert. In 2020, as a global pandemic ravaged its advertising base, the family ownership, now including Bridget's son and Publisher Joseph Wingert, had to face the possibility of ceasing publication, which so many other community news publishers did, leaving voids in local cities acro...
170 Ken Doctor pulls no punches on why the JCPA was a bad idea & updates us on two years at Lookout Local.
January 14, 2023 15:52 - 35 minutes - 38.5 MBOn December 5th, 2022, well-known news publishing analyst Ken Doctor, published a 2800-plus word updatevia Nieman Lab on the 2-year progress of his innovative Santa Cruz, CA digital news start-up, Lookout Local. Within the document, Doctor pulls no punches about his opinion on the state of legacy media and its desire to help bolster a sustainable business model via big tech compensation by writing: "Lookout Local has never been about money itself, but money to the end of the mission —...
169 The JCPA. What the heck happened, and what's next?
January 07, 2023 15:29 - 41 minutes - 44 MBAs Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the News Media Alliance, Danielle Coffey leads the advocacy efforts for the NMA's over 2000 news and magazine publishing members worldwide. 2022 was a busy year for Coffey as the U.S. Congress held committee meetings to consider passage of the well-publicized “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act” (JCPA), introduced in the House (H.R. 1735) by Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) and Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), and in the Senate (S. 673) by Sen. ...
168 Emmy award-winning broadcaster born without legs is helping others with disabilities find media careers. Meet Dave Stevens.
December 31, 2022 14:07 - 29 minutes - 31.1 MBDave Stevens is an athlete, a seven-time Emmy Award-winning sports broadcasting professional, and the only person to ever play college football and minor league baseball without legs. Stevens, a congenital amputee, always had a passion for sports. In high school, he was a three-sport athlete playing football, baseball, and wrestling. Later, he tried out for the Dallas Cowboys, the Cincinnati Reds, and the Minnesota Twins. Stevens even played outfield with former Major League players Barry ...
167 Journalism Trust Initiative. Elevating journalistic integrity
December 18, 2022 12:32 - 38 minutes - 40.3 MBServing as a forum for personal and professional networking is a benefit of social media, but its global reach and popularity have resulted in the posting of information — often described as “news” — from less-than-transparent and unverifiable sources. In this environment, the public has difficulty trusting what they read, hear or see, even when it’s the work of professional journalists and media organizations. To make it easier for the public to recognize trustworthy journalism, Reporters...
166 This year’s “best-ofs” from E&P columnist/ contributor Rob Tornoe
December 11, 2022 12:21 - 35 minutes - 36.9 MBRob Tornoe is a journalist/ cartoonist for the award-winning Philadelphia Inquirer, where some of his work (including political spoofs from Al Gore to Peanuts) is syndicated and internationally recognized. Tornoe also writes & illustrates each month for Editor & Publisher about the many aspects of the news publishing industry. In this 166th episode of “E&P Reports,” internationally recognized journalist/ cartoonist Rob Tornoe reviews some of his 2022 monthly contributions to E&P Magazine...
165 The best of 2022 E&P's "The Corner Office," from consultant/ columnist Doug Phares
December 03, 2022 13:00 - 33 minutes - 34.5 MBDoug Phares is a passionate business consultant who helps executives find ways to get past all the hurdles and challenges that slow us down. From small-scale work like examining product bundling to assisting decision-makers in developing 3-year plans, Phares has seen it all over the course of his career. In his news media career, Phares was most recently the CEO of the Sandusky Newspaper Group (SNG), a media holding company operating in Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee. Before that, he was Bo...
164 A frank one-on-one with the LMA's Nancy Lane
November 26, 2022 14:49 - 34 minutes - 35.3 MBRecently Meta (formally Facebook) made it official that it was leaving the news business, as they included most of the staff that worked within their “Meta Journalism Project Accelerator Program" in the 11,000 company positions eliminated in their mid-November 2022 mass layoffs. Since 2019, the U.S.-based Local Media Association (LMA) and associated Local Media Foundation worked in partnership with Meta as a facilitator providing administrative services and publishing case studies about ho...
163 ProPublica founder Dick Tofel speaks on funding/ philanthropy flaws and more
November 12, 2022 15:16 - 31 minutes - 32.4 MBAfter senior management positions at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, Dick Tofel helped start and eventually led the well-known, nonprofit investigative journalistic entity ProPublica for 15 years. Today he consultants the industry as the principal of Gallatin Advisory. However, Tofel recently "lit up the Twittersphere" when he posted on his blog, "Second Rough Draft," an unabashed and unvarnished assessment and warning about how philanthropic funds are awarded to journalistic enterp...
162 Against big tech comp, paywalls & more. 1-on-1 with Jeff Jarvis
November 04, 2022 13:37 - 49 minutes - 56.5 MBAs the news publishing industry continues to fight the big tech giants, Google & Facebook, for what is considered fair compensation for the content journalists create and that the tech companies monetize via clicks and posts, one voice tweets to over 170,000 followers: "Klobuchar's JCPA is shit legislation” and “Protectionism is not a business model. Whining is not a business model. Handouts are not a business model. Lobbying politicians is not a business model. Adding value to communities a...
161 One-on-one with Community Impact’s John Garrett
October 29, 2022 14:50 - 39 minutes - 40.7 MBIn 2005 John Garrett started Community Impact Newspaper from the game room of his home with his wife and best friend, Jennifer. They began with the creation of the Pflugerville, Texas edition. Today that one paper is part of a growing empire of over 30 monthly printed and 24/7 digital hyperlocal community news platforms that serves four Texas metropolitan areas. In 2016, printing and mailing over 2.5-million papers required John to open a 36,000-square-foot printing facility housing a $10 ...
160 Mourning a newspaper's death through the words of the residents impacted
October 22, 2022 12:43 - 30 minutes - 32.7 MBAndrew Conte, founding director of the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University, has been receiving wide industry acclaim for his latest book “Death of the Daily News,” which tells the story of how residents in one Pennsylvania community have identified and sorted local news and information since their local newspaper stopped publishing after 131 years. The book also addresses how “citizen gatekeepers” run a new local newspaper and an online news outlet, post to social media s...
159 One man’s fight to return public notices to his Kansas publication.
October 15, 2022 11:35 - 32 minutes - 34.5 MBMost United States municipalities have laws requiring that all public notices must be published by a third-party independent newspaper — a concept that dates to the 1700s. This practice is based on the idea that the people of a democracy have the right to know what is going on with their government and the legal proceedings that occur within their community. There is no question that the newspaper industry, especially on individual state levels, spends a good deal of resources to maintain ...
158 A Texas newspaper acquired by local public broadcasting. A new trend?
October 09, 2022 10:16 - 35 minutes - 36.2 MBThe Denton Record-Chronicle, the main newspaper for the city of Denton and Denton County Texas, a suburb of the Dallas/ Fort Worth “Metroplex” with a population slightly under 1-million, recently announced that it is being acquired by KERA public media, the regional public broadcasting facility of north Texas. Assisting to make the deal happen is the National Trust for Local News, a non-profit entity that has a focus on developing the financial end of new business models for local news. And ...
157 Celebrating forty years! USA TODAY’s Nicole Carroll talks about four decades of reporting the news in accessible but innovative ways
October 02, 2022 11:58 - 27 minutes - 28.7 MBIt has only been a few years since the February 2018 announcement that Nicole Carroll was to succeed Joanne Lipman as editor-in-chief of USA Today. She was by no means an outsider to the operation, being part of their Network of more than 200 local digital properties in 45 states. As an editor and vice president of news at The Arizona Republic, Carroll led a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. Today, Carroll not only manages this Gannett flagship, but she is also one o...
156 “He runs one of the largest media operations you’ve never heard about.” Meet Kevin Dilley
September 25, 2022 11:46 - 40 minutes - 42.3 MBWhen Editor & Publisher Magazine (E&P) opened the nomination process for the yearly "25 over 50" salute, one entry from Emily Metzgar, a director at the School of Media & Journalism at Kent State University, stated that Kevin Dilley, the director of Kent State Student Media, “Has built one of the largest media operations you’ve never heard about.” Emily wrote E&P that “Kevin wrangles a $750,000 budget annual budget, 400+ students each semester, nine distinct media outlets, one business off...
155 One-on-one with Chris Stirewalt
September 17, 2022 12:30 - 44 minutes - 47.5 MBBefore joining Fox News, Chris Stirewalt served as political editor for the Washington Examiner. As a top editor and election forecaster for Fox News’ decision desk during the 2020 election, Stirewalt stood firm to defend the network being the first to correctly call Arizona for Joe Biden on election night — the first sign that Donald Trump would lose the 2020 presidential race. What resulted was a backlash from Trump, his supporters and even calls for his being imprisoned as part of an elec...
154 1-on-1 with I Messenger Media's Cheryl Smith, 2022 NABJ Hall of Fame inductee
September 10, 2022 11:47 - 40 minutes - 41.1 MBOne of the 2022 inductees for the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame included the publisher/editor of Dallas, Texas-based I Messenger Media: Cheryl Smith. This latest honor was presented at the August 2022 NABJ Annual Convention in Las Vegas, where her numerous awards, years of service to the industry and contributions to black journalism were recognized. Smith has more than 35 years of experience in the news publishing industry. She is the current executive di...
153 1-on-1 with Mike Barnicle, a frank discussion on covering a democracy in crisis
September 03, 2022 13:22 - 33 minutes - 34.9 MBWith elections, law enforcement agencies, the courts, elected officials, branches of the government and the very rule of law under sustained and concerted attack by its own citizens and elected leaders, there is no question that the media has an essential role to play in addressing these important issues. E&P’s September 2022 cover story “American Democracy in Crisis” reports on the need for the news media industry to reframe democracy coverage during this perilous & critical moment in U.S. ...
152 As Trust in T.V. news & newspapers continue to decline, NewsGuard offers “trust ratings” for over 7,500 websites.
August 27, 2022 13:33 - 26 minutes - 26.7 MBThe latest Gallup poll came with a warning flare: “Americans’ confidence in two facets of the news media — newspapers and television news — has fallen to all-time low points.” Since 1973, Washington, D.C.-based Gallup, Inc. has polled Americans about their trust in newspapers and, in 1993, began tracking American sentiments about television/cable news. A mere 16% of Americans “have a great deal/quite a lot of confidence in newspapers,” Gallup’s Research Consultant Megan Brenan summarize...
151 LBGTQ+ media exec DJ Doran talks niche publishing & his run for mayor of Chicago
August 21, 2022 12:34 - 27 minutes - 28.8 MBAequalitas is Latin for “equality.” But it would be hard to find an industry executive equal to Aqualitas Media Group founder and executive director DJ Doran, who spent 23 years as a U.S. Air Force Reserve Pilot before purchasing a hotel and entering the news publishing industry. Today, Doran owns eight online publications targeted to the LGBTQ+ reader in several U.S. major markets, including his hometown of Chicago. Doran, who is openly gay, is now planning a run for Chicago mayor in the ...
150 A one-on-one with Rick Rogers, now six months in as the Owner/ Publisher of Star Local Media
August 13, 2022 13:43 - 30 minutes - 33.8 MBOn January 28th, 2022, The Dallas Morning News reported on the purchase of a local, suburban metroplex group of weekly newspapers, stating, "Instead of a trip to Hawaii to celebrate 25 years together, Rick and Elizabeth Rogers bought a community newspaper company.” That company is Star Local Media, a community publishing group based in the affluent northeast suburb of Plano, Texas, that prints 14 community newspapers across cities in Denton, Collin, and Dallas counties, with some titles mor...
149 Data is fundamental to The Washington Post's “Unaccountable” series
August 06, 2022 14:24 - 30 minutes - 32.9 MBDamian Daniels had three encounters with the local police during the last 48 hours of his life. The Army veteran was in his home in August 2020, amid a mental health crisis, when his brother — 800 miles away in Colorado — called the Red Cross for help. The agency, in turn, called 9-1-1, and police officers were dispatched for a welfare check that turned deadly, culminating in an officer shooting Daniels twice, killing him. Tragedies like this — when a person in the throes of a mental healt...
148 Chicago Sun-Times' new executive editor covers a mass shooting in 1st few weeks
July 30, 2022 17:01 - 34 minutes - 36.5 MBJennifer Kho loves that Chicago is a “two-newspaper town.” She’s the new executive editor at one of those two newspapers, the Chicago Sun-Times. Kho was E&P Publisher Mike Blinder’s guest on this 148th episode of E&P Reports vodcast. Prior to being named executive editor, Kho was the managing editor at HuffPost and, before that, managing editor at The Guardian (US). While at HuffPost, she became the director for strategic innovation and created an innovation team. She was laid off by the d...
147 Meet the new managing editor of Axios Local, Delano Massey
July 23, 2022 10:55 - 34 minutes - 39.2 MBDelano Massey was covering several executive-level jobs at CNN, including supervising producer of both race and equity and crime and justice reporting, when he joined the team at Axios as managing editor of Local, just as the company launched a dozen new markets. Having spent over three years at AP and attending Maynard Institute's Media Academy at Harvard University, he gained national recognition when he was selected as one of MIPAD’s 2021 “Most Influential People of African Descent.” ...
146 Exploring The Tributary, Jacksonville's new nonprofit news outlet
July 16, 2022 14:48 - 41 minutes - 44.3 MBOn their website, JaxTrib.com, the team of Jacksonville, Florida's newest news outlet, posted, "Before it’s too late, we must rethink what news will look like and how it will be delivered in our community. For the Tributary, the future of local journalism is about accountability and accessibility. This nonprofit news hub feeds investigative stories to area partners, filling a gap in coverage of entrenched problems and solutions to strengthen the entire Northeast Florida news ecosystem.” Fo...
145 “Abernathy Report" confirms the expansion of "news deserts" & misinformation.
July 09, 2022 14:26 - 43 minutes - 44.1 MBOn June 29th, 2022, the Local News Initiative at The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications of Northwestern University released their latest study, “The State of Local News 2022, Expanding News Deserts, Growing Gaps, Emerging Models.” The primary author of the report is Penelope Muse Abernathy, who is nationally known for her “news deserts” research and acts as visiting professor at Northwestern and has served as Knight Chair in Journalism at the University ...
144 Meet Juana Summers, NPR’s new cohost of 'All Things Considered'
June 27, 2022 11:09 - 24 minutes - 27.2 MBJuana Summers knew she wanted to be a reporter since high school in Kansas City, where she started writing for her school newspaper. After graduating in 2009 from the University of Missouri with a degree in Convergence Journalism, she has quickly established a remarkable career with reporting positions covering politics for CNN, AP, Mashable and National Public Radio (NPR). Summers will join All Things Considered Starting on June 27th, filling the hosting position left vacant by Audie Corn...
143 Hearst Connecticut Media is on track to hit 100k paid subscribers
June 18, 2022 16:58 - 31 minutes - 34.7 MBWhile most news publishing outlets are downsizing, the Hearst Connecticut Media Group (HCMG) continues to grow its operations with a recent expansion statewide and in Greater Hartford, the backyard of the now hedge fund-owned Harford Courant. In March 2022, HCMG announced hiring 13 new staff members, including 11 journalists who will focus their reporting on statewide topics, and local news and enterprise in the state capital area. They will publish that content online within the one-year-ol...
142 Checking in on The Boston Globe’s move into Rhode Island
June 12, 2022 13:17 - 38 minutes - 39.6 MBIn the summer of 2019, the Boston Globe surprised the industry by launching an initiative just 53 miles down the I-95 corridor in neighboring Providence, Rhode Island. When most local news operations were aggressively downsizing, the Globe had already shown an appetite for expansion by hiring more journalists and launching new verticals covering marijuana, health, life sciences and even the Catholic Church. However, this expansion placed them in the backyard of one of the nation's most...
141 Meet TV star & columnist: Peter Funt. A “Candid” interview.
June 05, 2022 13:52 - 40 minutes - 47.2 MBChildren of celebrities often have difficulty finding their path. There are countless stories of their wrong choices. However, Peter Funt, son of Allen Funt, creator of Candid Camera, one of TV's longest-running and most popular shows, was able to walk the fine line between honoring his father’s achievements and forging his own – and very successfully. Peter became a member of the Candid Camera family at an early age. He portrayed a shoeshine boy at the age of 3 and offered shines to busin...
140 Meet Francesca Chambers, USA Today’s new White House Correspondent
May 28, 2022 12:39 - 30 minutes - 32.6 MBFrancesca Chambers is the new White House Correspondent for USA Today. However, she is not new to reporting on D.C. politics, having covered presidents, vice presidents and politicians, including former Presidents Obama and Trump, former Vice President Pence, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senators Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, and Lindsey Graham. Before this new position at USA Today, Chambers covered politics and the White House for McClatchy, DailyMail.com and the Daily Mail...
139 Exploring two centuries of “Clash” between presidents and the press
May 21, 2022 12:56 - 36 minutes - 41.2 MBJon Marshall teaches media history and reporting as an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications. In his new book “Clash: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis,” he examines the adversarial relationship between presidents and journalists amid periods of national crisis. Some administrations he explores within the pages of “Clash” include how in 1798, John Adams used a newly enacted Alien and Sedition Ac...
138 The trilingual La Gaceta: News, politics and opinion, all rolled into one.
May 15, 2022 11:59 - 28 minutes - 31.4 MBIn 1913, Victoriano Manteiga came to the United States from Cuba and went to work as a “lector,” reading the news of the day to the immigrant workers of the Morgan Cigar Factory in Ybor City, a National Historic Landmark District in Tampa. In 1922 he founded a newspaper for those workers that is now celebrating 100-years of service. Today Victoriano’s grandson Patrick Manteiga is “at the helm" of La Gaceta, the nation’s only trilingual newspaper still informing, influencing, and thriving as ...
137 Merger of News Media Alliance (NMA) and The Association of Magazine Media (MPA) is a go!
May 06, 2022 15:47 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBToday, two of the premier industry associations representing news and magazine publishers join forces. It’s official: the News Media Alliance (NMA) will merge today with the Association of Magazine Media, still fondly known by its former acronym, “MPA,” or the Magazine Publishers Association. News businesses and magazine publishers have largely traveled similar but parallel paths since the advent of the internet. They’ve been challenged to build digital products and attract new audiences t...
136 Stewart Bainum’s journey to launch the Baltimore Banner
April 30, 2022 10:34 - 27 minutes - 29.6 MBThe Baltimore Banner website proudly displays a mission: to be the leading provider of news and lifestyle content in the Baltimore metro area, which Nielsen ranks as the 26th largest Designated Market Area (DMA) in the United States. Currently, the city has 11 newspapers, four broadcast TV news operations and a full-time news/talk radio outlet. But when the well-known CEO of Choice Hotels International and philanthropist Stewart Bainum’s battle with Alden Capitol to acquire the Baltimore ...
135 Deep-fake videos make people doubt what they see with their own eyes
April 23, 2022 11:06 - 34 minutes - 32 MBYou may already be familiar with "deep fakes" — the colloquial term for manipulating video, warping its reality with a particular rhetorical objective in mind. But how pervasive, easy to use and convincing have deep fakes gotten in recent years? On this 135th episode of E&P Reports, Host and E&P Publisher Mike Blinder; guest Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS.org; and E&P contributor Gretchen Peck discuss Artificial Intelligence (AI) in video and audio and how computer-generated grap...
134 Latest Borrell study shows OTT on the rise surpassing search in 3-years.
April 18, 2022 16:34 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBThe latest Borrell Benchmarking report from Borrell Associates was just released, showing that local digital advertising will grow 9% to over $92 billion, which will amount to almost two-thirds of all available local advertising dollars, rising to nearly three-quarters by 2025. The major shift in purchase behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic seems to center on how local businesses moved a good deal of their budgets from Google paid search to targeted banners served programmatically. The...