"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.
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.
A video version of "E&P Reports" is also available on YouTube or on the E&P Website at: http://www.EditorandPublisher.com/vodcasts
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
133 ARPA Funding gives 150 Businesses Access to Advertise with the R-J
April 09, 2022 14:34 - 38 minutes - 40.2 MBLiz White, Publisher & Executive Vice President of Record-Journal Publishing Company (R-J Media), states during this “E&P Reports” interview, "I got the idea from reading my own newspaper." White explains how she learned that their city of Meriden, Connecticut was receiving $36 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to help the community recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. White said upon learning that the funds would be allocated by a local American Rescue Plan Steering Committe...
132 Meet Ben August, the new owner of NYC’s voice of labor, The Chief.
April 02, 2022 15:59 - 43 minutes - 46.2 MBOn September 1, 2021, E&P reported that The Chief-Leader, the 100+-year-old, family-owned NYC weekly, whose nearly 30,000 subscribers are almost entirely New York City municipal workers, was sold to Ben August. August has no roots in journalism or media, having sold a lucrative human resource services company he built. And since then, devoting himself to his Napa Valley vineyard and a nonprofit group that investigates who really wrote the plays attributed to Shakespeare. But his passion...
131 This 108-year-old Alaskan newspaper is free for the taking.
March 27, 2022 14:15 - 29 minutes - 32.3 MBIn the March issue of Editor & Publisher, the Cordova Times was featured as an “honorable mention” in “10 That Do it Right,” E&P’s yearly salute to top news media companies. The small weekly in remote South-Central Alaska (only accessible by boat or plane) was awarded “Best Comprehensive Coverage of the COVID Pandemic” across all media, broadcast and print, and “Alaska’s Best Weekly” for two years in a row by the Alaska Press Club. The Cordova Times covers local news, city government, com...
130 News vets exit the daily to start a growing nonprofit
March 23, 2022 11:10 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBAppalachian news veterans exit the daily newspaper to start a growing non-profit — The Cardinal News. On February 27th, the Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan published a story entitled, “This rural news start-up has two reporters and an editor with no broadband. Already, it’s made an impact,” and suddenly, the entire world is made aware of the story of an Appalachian digital-only news site called The Cardinal News. Founded in July of 2021 and going live a few months later, this online-only,...
129 Florida's public notice reversal. A panel discussion
March 17, 2022 09:47 - 43 minutes - 46.1 MBAs E&P reported earlier this week (Florida legislators put news publishers — in the state and beyond — on notice), the news publishing industry was stunned to learn that the Florida State Senate voted in favor of a bill that changed the requirement for government entities to place public notices in local newspapers. The amendment that changed the existing bill, which just went into effect a few weeks earlier, will now allow local governments and private parties to provide notice about govern...
128 Florida reverses recently approved legislation requiring public notices on local newspapers
March 13, 2022 18:27 - 39 minutes - 44.2 MBOn Thursday, March 10, 2022, the Florida State Senate voted in favor of a bill (FL HB 7049) that changed state government entities' requirements to place public notices in local newspapers. The amendment that passed changed some language from the existing bill, which was just approved in 2021, allowing public notices to remain in the public domain through newspapers, their websites, and online at www.floridapublicnotices.com. The floridapublicnotices site is a free and independent site opera...
127 One-on-one with columnist Rex Huppke, as war breaks out during his 1st week at USA Today
March 06, 2022 10:50 - 45 minutes - 48.1 MBThe Chicago Tribune states proudly, "Rex Huppke is considered (by himself) to be America's most-beloved columnist, though there is no empirical evidence of that.” And recently, after almost 20 years at the “Trib,” this famous satirical humorist announced that he would be “jumping ship” to pen his thoughts for a larger international audience at USA TODAY. Rex’s first column for Gannett did not disappoint, as he took a comedic swipe at the far-right anti-COVID-mandate truckers by suggesting t...
126 Getting to know the Military Veterans in Journalism
February 27, 2022 11:52 - 31 minutes - 33.1 MBMeet Russell Midori, a New York City freelance news photographer, documentary filmmaker and co-founder and president of the Military Veterans in Journalism (MVJ), a relatively new professional association that builds community for vets, supports their career growth and advocates for diversifying newsrooms through hiring and promoting more vets. Midori served as a combat correspondent in the Marine Corps from 2008 to 2012, working as a video producer for Marine Forces Europe and Africa and the...
125 100-percent sponsored content. Jed Williams & Dave Arkin’s Check Out DFW
February 20, 2022 14:27 - 51 minutes - 55.8 MBCheck Out DFW proudly states on the site that it is: “The first-of-its-kind real estate and local recommendations product that helps locals live more enjoyable lives.” Launched in the fall of 2021 in a very media crowded Dallas/ Ft. Worth metroplex market, Jed Williams, who spent one year as Chief Revenue Officer at Ken Doctor's experimental start-up Lookout Local and close to four years managing strategy and innovation for the Local Media Association, teamed up with well-known industry vete...
124 Why we need and how to achieve diversity, equity and inclusion
February 12, 2022 13:52 - 39 minutes - 40.2 MBIn a recent post from the American Press Institute, they cited: "Concentrated efforts to highlight diversity are necessary for reaching new audiences and staying relevant to younger changing audiences. Readers pay attention to the content that speaks to or serves their identity. Diversity is a journalism imperative.” The API goes on to add that more diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) within the news publishing industry is imperative because: "Without accounting for the range of lived ex...
123 When a Texas daily folds, a weekly tabloid explodes.
February 06, 2022 15:24 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBOn Nov. 18, 2020, the Del Rio News-Herald printed its final edition leaving this border town of 35,000+ without a local news outlet. But just one month later, a weekly free tabloid entitled The 830 Times (named after the local area code) appeared throughout the town and surrounding Val Verde County. The new newspaper grew out of a then 5-month-old entertainment-based local website started by 56-year-old air force veteran Joel Langton. Langton relocated to the area 16 years before when he wa...
122 News industry advocates appeal to Congress to pass safe-harbor bill
February 01, 2022 15:30 - 42 minutes - 45.5 MBThe Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) hopes to bring big tech to the bargaining table with U.S. news publishers. On this 122nd episode of E&P Reports, Danielle Coffey, executive vice president and general counsel for the News Media Alliance (NMA), and economist Dr. Hal Singer, managing director, Econ One discuss why this legislation is urgently needed and offer advance insight into this week’s Congressional hearing before the Senate's Antitrust Committee, where the JCPA wil...
121 A frank chat with news publishing technology veteran Kurt Jackson
January 29, 2022 18:10 - 40 minutes - 42.2 MBAccording to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median number of years an employee works for a company is four years and one month. The "exception to that rule" might be Kurt Jackson, who has worked atSoftware Consulting Services (SCS), according to his Linkedin profile: "28 years and ten months." Kurt started his career in news publishing in 1989 as a circulation executive for the Journal Register Company. As new digital technology was evolving, Kurt's passion for helping innovate com...
120 American Journalism Project makes good on a promise to fund nonprofit local news
January 23, 2022 10:38 - 37 minutes - 40.4 MBIn this 120th episode of “E&P Reports” American Journalism Project (AJP) CEO Sarabeth Berman and AJP’s Co-Founder and Vice President for Portfolio Success Anna Nirmala talk about several AJP grants they recently awarded including $1.6 million given to Block Club Chicago and their contribution to the 20 million in seed being given to a new, nonprofit, Houston based local news outlet. Joining in on the discussion is Block Club Chicago’s Publisher and Co-Founder Shamus Toomey and Co-Executive E...
119 Auto ad dollars are up for grabs, per Borrell's latest study
January 15, 2022 14:58 - 42 minutes - 43.7 MBBorrell Associates' latest study: 2022 Local Automotive Advertising Outlook, released on Monday, Jan 7, 2022, predicts significant changes in this highly lucrative media advertising category for the next few years. Within the 30-page report, 18 charts and graphs reveal that local dealers spent an estimated $8.7 billion on advertising in 2021, a 15% increase over 2020. In 2022, the forecast is for an 8.8% increase in ad spend. However, due to a "steep decline" in available inventory to sel...
118 Reporters share insights into reporting on January 6th attack and domestic extremism
January 10, 2022 11:23 - 35 minutes - 38.9 MBE&P devoted its January 2022 cover story (“At the front lines, on the homefront”) to memorializing the January 6th assault on the nation’s Capitol and to inform our readers — news publishers — about what it’s like to report on domestic extremism; what the perils are to journalists; how to prepare for potentially violent or dangerous conflicts; and why these stories matter nationally and within our local communities. In this 118th episode of E&P Reports, E&P Publisher Mike Blinder is jo...
117 6AM City takes a bold move into the digital news future
December 31, 2021 19:25 - 32 minutes - 35.7 MBAs newspapers’ online presence matures, many still struggle with monetizing it. Often, an outside perspective is where new ideas are born. They disrupt the norm and reveal new monetization opportunities. That realization is how Ryan Johnston, a former commercial real estate professional, and Ryan Heafy, a former engineer, envisioned 6AM City. Its 24 editions (currently) in most regions of the U.S., joins Axios Local, Patch, WhereBy.Us and other news disruptors in the local digital newslet...
116 A preview of Borrell Miami
December 18, 2021 15:03 - 29 minutes - 31.5 MBAs live conferences return and industry moguls get a chance to mingle again, there is no question that Borrell Miami on March 6-8th at the Miami Hilton will once again be a "who's who" of C-suite executives from all sectors of media. This year's event is entitled "The Path to 2032," with a predicted audience of 300 or more, and promotes itself online as the “skip the hype/follow the money” conference with “crisp information that flows from the stage that’s chocked full of new data.” E&P ...
115 An update on the antitrust case against Google & Facebook
December 13, 2021 19:19 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBIn this 115th episode of "E&P Reports," Mike Blinder the Publisher of E&P chats with David Chavern, President / CEO of the News Media Alliance and Lee Wolverton, VP News/ Executive Editor at HD Media about the latest developments in the class action lawsuit naming both Google and Facebook as defendants in a federal antitrust lawsuit. Also on the panel is Gretchen Peck E&P's Contributing Editor.
114 A home page with over 100 ads
December 08, 2021 11:11 - 33 minutes - 36.4 MBHoward Owens published his first newspaper in fourth grade, which is likely why soon after graduating from Point Loma Nazarene University with a degree in literature, he and a partner became owners of The Beacon, a biweekly newspaper in the City of San Diego. After that, he decided to branch out to other publishing companies as a reporter and editor. In 1995, he and a partner founded East County Online (ECO), the first chain of weekly newspapers with Web sites. ECO featured not only content ...
113 States starve publishers of ad dollars if they refuse to pledge political allegiance
December 02, 2021 11:06 - 41 minutes - 43.8 MBIn this 113th episode of “E&P Reports, Alan Leveritt publisher of the Arkansas Times and ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Brian Hauss join Editor & Publisher’s (E&P) publisher, Mike Blinder, and E and P contributing editor Gretchen Peck to talk about a two year battle, that has gained international prominence, between the Times and the state of Arkansas, on the newspapers’ refusal to sign a pledge to support Israel in order to continue receiving advertising dollars from the state university. Also...
112 Alden Global Capital's bid for Lee Enterpises, what the heck does it mean?
November 23, 2021 18:56 - 30 minutes - 33.2 MBIn 2018, news media analyst Ken Doctor penned a column that, in part, read: “Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism, it might not want to stop any time soon.” Now, fewer than five months since the ink dried on Alden Global Capital’s acquisition of the Tribune titles, it’s making a formal play for Lee Enterprises, a digital marketing services company and publisher of local newspapers across 26 U.S. states. The initial offer was for $24/share. The news sent L...
111 TV Sales Expert, Jim Doyle's book, "Selling with a Servant Heart"
November 13, 2021 14:23 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBFor the past 30 years, Jim Doyle has been helping salespeople make more money as one of the top sales trainers for the broadcast industry. His latest book, Selling with a Servant Heart, outlines ten lessons that ultimately lead to greater joy in sales while also increasing income. Doyle describes the concept by saying: “When you commit to serving customers as a ‘Servant Heart Seller,’ you’ll find more success, greater customer loyalty, and far less churn. And you’ll have a lot more fun, to...
110 Urgent and Sustained Advocacy Needed for the LJSA
November 07, 2021 19:31 - 28 minutes - 31.5 MBOn this 110th episode of "E&P Reports," Publisher and Host Mike Blinder sat down with the National Newspapers Association’s (NNA) chair, Brett Wesner, and E&P contributing editor Gretchen Peck to talk about the urgency for advocacy for the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (LJSA). On Friday afternoon, November 5th, word had come that at least part of the LJSA — payroll tax credits for newsrooms — remained in the Build Back Better Reconciliation bill being bandied about in Congress. It’s le...
109 From TV network news producer to editor of 90 local, online only news sites
November 01, 2021 18:57 - 29 minutes - 31.5 MBWhile a student at Southern Methodist University, Adam Darsky was bitten by the "journalism bug" writing for "The Daily Campus," so upon graduation, he took an entry-level job as a sports reporter at a small newspaper outside of Dallas. It wasn't long before he jumped from newspapers to broadcast, landing an internship at the Dallas all-sports radio station. Darsky leaped from radio to TV, beginning his 25-years as a broadcast TV news producer running the prompter and ripping scripts at KX...
108 Fighting for a Native American free press
October 23, 2021 18:37 - 36 minutes - 39.6 MBThere are over 550 federally recognized tribal governments and more than 300 Indian reservations in the United States. Tribal reservations are sovereign nations and are not required to comply with many federal or state laws, including freedom of information and open meetings laws. Legally, tribe members enjoy the same constitutional rights as every American, but there is no independent safeguard on reservations to protect those rights, such as freedom of the press. Since tribal councils ...
107 Prognostications, predictions and prophecies from industry execs
October 18, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutes - 32.6 MBAs live events slowly return, America's Newspapers' Senior Leadership Conference took place live at the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs. Just under 200 attended sessions on growing audience, maximizing revenue, building a better internal culture for our operations and more. On Monday, October 18th, 2021, Editor & Publisher's participation included the announcement of the 2021 Publisher of the Year recipient: Judi Terzotis, followed by the moderation of a robust lunchtime panel discussi...
106 With 27 community papers meet Cherry Road Media
October 10, 2021 11:01 - 30 minutes - 33.3 MBIn September of 2021, Cherry Road Media, a Parsippany, New Jersey-based technology company, announced it had acquired 20 newspapers from the Gannett company, bringing their total count of publications owned to 27. Their list of titles now stretches across seven states: Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and Alabama. Cherry Road CEO Jeremy Gulban stated in a recent press release that "This was his way to give back to local communities by supporting media houses that add s...
105 Behind Raw Story’s Progressive Mission
October 03, 2021 13:13 - 37 minutes - 39.3 MBRaw Story is an American progressive news website founded in 2004 by John K. Byrne. It describes its mission as bringing attention to stories they see as downplayed or ignored by other media outlets. Raw Story’s recent reporting has focused on homegrown extremism. One such story entitled “We’re gonna kill Congress”: Trump’s far-right supporters promise violence at today’s DC protests,” was published the morning of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, predicting exactly what would happen on that fateful...
104 Fighting PIO chokepoints
September 29, 2021 09:30 - 42 minutes - 44.2 MBFor decades many federal agencies have been prohibiting reporters from talking to anyone without first requesting access through a public information officer (PIO). And over those years, these “PIO chokepoints” have gotten tighter and tighter, including oversight on conversations and demands for questions ahead of any interview. Reporters today are often not allowed to speak to anyone, even after acquiescing to censorship and controls. First Amendment attorney and head of the Brechner Cen...
103 Word in Black: Helping the Black Press Survive & Thrive
September 20, 2021 13:44 - 38 minutes - 40.3 MBWith a mission to help Black-owned newspapers to "survive and thrive," ten Black newspapers have joined forces to create Word in Black, a platform to “amplify the Black experience by reporting, collecting and sharing stories about real people in communities across the country,” The initiative is part of the Fund for Black Journalism, founded last year by the Local Media Association (LMA), who initially received funding from the Walton Family Foundation to do stories about COVID-19 and educat...
102 One File Helps Distinguish Between Real & Fake News
September 11, 2021 14:58 - 32 minutes - 34.9 MBJournalList.net is a non-profit membership organization that originated and currently maintains the trust.txt reference document. Trust.txt is a simple page of code with the goal that it would be used worldwide to distinguish legitimate news organizations from non-legitimate ones. The idea of having a universal code that achieves mass adoption by digital platforms is not a new one. Back as early as 1994, before the internet reached widespread use, a company called Nexor initiated the robot...
101 Radically Rural: Focusing on small-town America
September 06, 2021 13:39 - 32 minutes - 35.3 MBThe Radically Rural Summit started in 2018 as a partnership between The Keene Sentinel and a local non-profit called The Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship. This organization provides space, tools and connections to assist in the successful development of entrepreneurs who are committed to building a vibrant community. Each year Radically Rural hosts an event with a mission to help share ideas and build networks tailored to rural communities and give a stage to those who have found so...
100 What You Need to Know About Launching a News Website
September 01, 2021 17:20 - 43 minutes - 46.1 MBPerhaps you know Henry Scott from years in senior management positions at the New York Times or as VP/ CMO at Creative Loafing. However, you may not know that Henry decided in 2012 to move to West Hollywood, California to start a digital-only local news presence he called WEHOville.com. In 8-years, he built a viable, profitable business with a sizable audience consuming award-winning content across multiple platforms. Then, just a few months ago, Scott sold the site to enter the world of med...
99 Meet the New CEO at The Center for Public Integrity
August 22, 2021 19:56 - 37 minutes - 39.5 MBWith a mission to “investigate inequality with and for the people who are affected by it,” The Center for Public Integrity(CPI) is one of the oldest nonprofit investigative news organizations in the country. Over the years, their reporting has led to hundreds of law and policy changes, forced the federal and state governments to release information critical to the public interest, and held corporations to account for abuses of power. It was also recognized with the Pulitzer Prize and coun...
98 They're Hiring 250+ Journalists for 50+ New News Outlets
August 15, 2021 20:03 - 40 minutes - 46.9 MBOverstory Media Group (OMG) is a startup media group that operates newsletter-based local media outlets and currently manages ten local brands in British Columbia, Canada. Recently they announced plans to hire 250 new journalists and launch 50 new outlets within the next 24-months. The growth is financed by Canadian tech entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson who partnered with a local digital journalist Farhan Mohamed to manage OMG. OMG will provide salaries, benefits, and legal support for the...
97 New Book Follows 50+ Years of Community Journalism
August 07, 2021 13:04 - 38 minutes - 39.7 MBGreg Little has been a journalist since his first efforts at a small newspaper while he attended junior high school. His career has spanned five decades, winning a number of awards for reporting that helped an Indian reservation in Montana stop violent crime to stopping illegal dumping of sewage sludge in Tennessee. He has worked for large companies and family owners and spent time teaching journalism. Today he currently lives in Mariposa, California, with his wife, Nicole where they own the...
96 The Time is Now to Support the Local Journalism Sustainability Act
July 31, 2021 18:36 - 28 minutes - 30.6 MBOn June 16, 2021, U.S. Representatives Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Arizona, and Dan Newhouse, R-Washington, introduced H.R. 3940, the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (LJSA) for the 117th Congress, a bipartisan bill that seeks to help local newspapers sustain financial viability through a series of three tax credits: A local newspaper subscription credit that incentives Americans to subscribe A local newspaper journalist compensation credit that provides publications the ability to hire A loc...
95 The GNI Ad Transformation Lab: Helping Black and Latino News Publishers Grow Digital Revenue.
July 25, 2021 12:32 - 53 minutes - 54.5 MBIn January 2021, the Google News Initiative, in partnership with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN), the National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP), and the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), kicked off the GNI Ad Transformation Lab: A six month program to help Black and Latino news publishers in the U.S. and Canada advance their advertising strategies and grow digital revenue. Twenty-eight different organizations participated in the program. Over the six...
94 Steve Mattingly Speaks on the Future of Print
July 21, 2021 09:55 - 40 minutes - 41 MBIf you have been involved in any form of production and operations over the past three decades, odds are you have spoken with the Southern Lithoplate's (SLP) Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Steve Mattingly. Mattingly joined SLP in 1989 and helped this small, privately-held North Carolina lithoplate manufacturer become one of the leading consumables suppliers to North American printers and one of the top five largest manufacturers in the world. During those 30-plus years, Mattingly...
93 Hearst CT Media: +1000% Growth in Digital Subscribers & Now Going Statewide
July 10, 2021 15:03 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBHearst Connecticut Media Group (HCMG) has made a big investment in a new online platform offering statewide news called: CTinsider.com. The new site provides a mix of original content and articles selected from across all 24 HCMG sites, offering hard news, features, sports and opinion columns. The articles CTinsider.com are chosen by a central editorial team working with editors from each site who also suggest what content should go statewide. The new site will likely augment the growing rea...
92 Selling on the Backside of COVID
July 03, 2021 17:11 - 42 minutes - 45.1 MBRyan Dohrn is a well-known industry sales coach who has traveled far and wide helping media companies of all sizes perform better (and he writes our monthly Ad Sales Life column). On his website, it states, “Ryan actively sells print, digital, broadcast, event sponsorships, exhibit space, and radio.” On his Twitter account, his description reads: Ryan Dohrn is a “motivational speaker, 28-year sales and marketing strategist.” And on the top of his LinkedIn page, there are just six words: “Sal...
91 Reporting in Galveston as Juneteenth Achieves Global Prominence
June 27, 2021 10:50 - 30 minutes - 33 MBJuneteenth is widely considered the final “nail in the coffin” of slavery in the U.S. The New York Times reported that the first written reference of the term occurred in the Galveston (Texas) Daily News. Owned by Southern Newspapers, the masthead proudly states it is the oldest newspaper in Texas, published since 1842. Even the original announcement of General Granger’s words freeing the slaves was recorded on the pages of the Daily News. Daily News publisher Leonard Woolsey states that...
90 ‘Unpublishing’ Our News Content
June 21, 2021 09:02 - 40 minutes - 43.6 MBAccording to Google, the word “unpublish” is defined as a verb that means “to make content that has previously been published online unavailable to the public. As in ‘The magazine first amended and then unpublished the article.” Years ago, publishers did not face problems of information permanence when a daily printed product was quickly discarded the next day. But more and more news publishers today are receiving requests from individuals to remove, obscure or significantly alter once-acc...
89 Serving Lattes & Brews Funds The Sentinel Newsroom!
June 14, 2021 16:00 - 43 minutes - 47.7 MBPlease Follow this Podcast Series What do two millennial media execs from New York City do when they move to Texas? They buy a small market weekly newspaper and transform it into the center of the community. And how do they do this? By purchasing and renovating a building to house not only the newspaper’s office but a restaurant/ bar/ coffee shop and banquet center called The Sentinel. In this segment of “E&P Reports” Publisher Mike Blinder interviews Max Kabat the co-founder of a New Yo...
88 E&P checks in with Ken Doctor, CEO and founder of Lookout Local, a startup that offers a new local news model.
June 08, 2021 21:00 - 48 minutes - 52.3 MBPlease Follow this Podcast Series For 15 years, Ken Doctor has been preaching innovative news publishing business models through Newsonomics, his own company and website. Six months ago, he started his experiment Lookout Local, which launched with Lookout Santa Cruz, the company’s first site based in Santa Cruz County, Calif. Doctor’s intention with the site is to show the industry his vision on what is needed to be the local news leader this decade. Today he boasts over 12,000+ email foll...
89 E&P checks in with Ken Doctor, CEO and founder of Lookout Local, a startup that offers a new local news model.
June 08, 2021 21:00 - 48 minutes - 52.3 MBPlease Follow this Podcast Series For 15 years, Ken Doctor has been preaching innovative news publishing business models through Newsonomics, his own company and website. Six months ago, he started his experiment Lookout Local, which launched with Lookout Santa Cruz, the company’s first site based in Santa Cruz County, Calif. Doctor’s intention with the site is to show the industry his vision on what is needed to be the local news leader this decade. Today he boasts over 12,000+ email foll...
88 Serving Lattes & Brews Funds The Sentinel Newsroom!
June 06, 2021 16:00 - 43 minutes - 47.7 MBPlease Follow this Podcast Series What do two millennial media execs from New York City do when they move to Texas? They buy a small market weekly newspaper and transform it into the center of the community. And how do they do this? By purchasing and renovating a building to house not only the newspaper’s office but a restaurant/ bar/ coffee shop and banquet center called The Sentinel. In this segment of “E&P Reports” Publisher Mike Blinder interviews Max Kabat the co-founder of a New Yo...
0 Gordon Borrell -2-minute Trailer
June 06, 2021 11:07 - 2 minutes - 2.22 MBThis is 2-minute "trailer" from "E&P" Reports episode #76 "Gordon Borrell is (Finally) Bullish on Newspapers.
87 Covering George Floyd’s Death Transforms a Newsroom
May 29, 2021 14:48 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBPlease Follow this Podcast Series In the June 2021 Editor and Publisher cover story, editor-in-chief Nu Yang takes an in-depth look at how a number of Minneapolis journalists covered the events from George Floyd’s death to the conviction of the police officer deemed responsible. In this edition of E&P’s Vodcast series “E&P Reports,” publisher Mike Blinder has a frank discussion with the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s editorial management on what it was like to run a newsroom remotely, while ...