Gannett reported a disappointing first quarter this week. While acquisitions led to some revenue growth, print advertising was down 17.7 percent compared to Q1 2016 and circulation revenues were down …
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4/26/17
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Newspaper publishers across the U.S. already strapped by years of declining revenue say they're dealing with an existential threat: Recently imposed tariffs on Canadian newsprint …
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IVAN MORENO, Associated Press
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4/12/18
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Paxton Media Group is buying Landmark Community Newspapers, including all 47 newspapers in the Shelbyville, Kentucky-based chain.
The sale, announced Wednesday, will give Paducah-based Paxton …
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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5/27/21
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Local newspapers that have been struggling are trying to get feedback from readers about what they can do better in order to maintain high readership. They are getting feedback from surveys, but most …
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Kat Duncan
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11/9/18
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In 2021, the media platform with the highest weekly reach in the United States is audio. Data published last month by Nielsen revealed that radio — just one component of this medium …
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6/1/21
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The N.C. Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear an appeal on Monday of a Superior Court’s judge’s year-old ruling dismissing media companies’ petition for release of law enforcement …
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11/28/22
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From 1990 to 2016, the number of newspaper employees in the United States dropped from from 456,300 to about 183,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those numbers understate the decline …
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4/13/18
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Just when news organizations are feeling the weight of unprecedented audience urgency, the numbing sear of burnout, and the effects of cratering ad revenues, foundations are uncorking millions of …
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LIZZY HAZELTINE
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5/5/20
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — May 28, 2021 Contact: Tonda Rush, tonda@nna.org
NEWS OF STARKLY HIGHER POSTAGE RATES GREETS AMERICAN PUBLIC AT START OF HOLIDAY WEEKEND
The United …
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6/2/21
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Last year was officially the much-awaited “year of mobile” in the advertising industry. For the first time, mobile advertising represented more than half of the spending that marketers …
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Mike Shields, Wall Street Journal
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4/27/17
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Together for Colorado Springs is a civic group that is thinking about buying the Denver Post from Alden Global Capital, the company that is facing criticism from The Post for continual layoffs and …
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Sydney Ember
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4/13/18
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Military veterans struggle with crippling medical debt, and many are uninsured, which causes their medical bills to pile up.
McClatchy is hoping to help uninsured veterans by collaborating with …
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Melynda Fuller
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11/13/18
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A coalition of more than two dozen media outlets including The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer filed a lawsuit on Thursday seeking the release of a list of records related to COVID-19 …
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NICK OCHSNER
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5/29/20
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Today, McClatchy announced its partnership with DanAds, in developing McClatchy Ad Manager, a new self-service platform for advertisers of all sizes
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, …
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12/13/22
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Report for America, an organization that has been recently started, is a nonprofit that seeks to replenish understaffed newsrooms with 1,000 journalists by 2022. It will benefit reporters, newspapers …
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Nellie Bowles
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4/16/18
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The American Society of News Editors released its annual diversity survey. The survey gathers responses from newsrooms that are print and digital-only. It seeks to look at the demographics of …
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Rick Edmonds
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11/16/18
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This article was originally published on Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative website and is republished here with permission.
Switching newspaper delivery …
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12/13/22
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n the wake of the 2016 election, everyone from President Obama to Pope Francis has raised concerns about fake news and the potential impact on both political life and innocent individuals. Some fake news has been widely shared, and so-called “pizzagate” stories led a North Carolina man to bring a gun into a popular Washington, D.C. pizza restaurant under the impression that it was hiding a child prostitution ring.
According to a new survey by Pew Research Center,
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12/16/16
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Last month Apple Inc. decided to buy Texture, a magazine-subscription application. The move is part of Apple's plan to create its own subscription service in order to generate more revenue from …
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Mark Gurman & Gerry Smith
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4/17/18
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If you are covering a public body that has resumed meeting in person but is forcing you to participate remotely, they are breaking the law.
Over the past year, the pandemic …
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Beth Soja
beth@smvt.com
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6/17/21
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