A single newsroom tool has the potential to boost engagement and user experience, drive page views, gather valuable customer data, enable higher advertising rates, promote transparency and trust, and enhance readers’ willingness to pay for content.
Full story: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/columns/industry-insight-to-connect-w…
There’s a new offering from The Associated Press available in the App Store: AP News. The free app lets users personalize their news experience in a big way so they can stay on top of breaking stories of special interest to them.
Full Story: https://blog.ap.org/announcements/stay-connected-with-the-new-ap-news-a…
Advertisers who are cutting back on newspaper advertising are missing a beat. This is the message of a new study, conducted by effectiveness consultancy Benchmarketing for Newsworks, which claims that advertising with newspapers increases overall revenue return on investment by three times.
A new, two-part survey by Pew Research Center, conducted in early 2016 in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, reveals a public that is cautious as it moves into this more complex news environment and discerning in its evaluation of available news sources.
July 6, 2016
By Richard Karpel
NNA Public Policy
WASHINGTON—Generally speaking, public policy in Washington is a game of inches. Move the ball forward a little, consolidate your gains, and then do it again. Keep pushing your agenda until you eventually reach the goal line.
By Max Heath
Postal Tips
Community newspapers have options to save money and improve delivery times under price and rule changes during the past decade, notably in 2007 with the last postal reform bill. From time to time, I like to review these for newcomers to the business or others who may have missed them. Updates to DMM citations and changes are made as well as percentage changes.
IN-COUNTY PRICE DISCOUNTS
By Randy Cope
In the 1970s my folks had four children still at home, so when they decided to build a new house they purchased six spacious acres and designed a house with plenty of rooms for the whole family.
A few years ago, however, they realized that all of that house and all of those acres were way more than they needed or wanted to care for so they decided to downsize to a smaller home that better met their needs.
Here’s an example of newspapers – and in this case all regional media – banding together to shine the light.
See: http://www.sfgate.com/homeless/article/SF-Homeless-Project-Letter-to-the-City-8326254.php
We have to sympathize with businesses and public institutions attempting to function in the age of social media.
A great example of what they face played out Tuesday and Wednesday as Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Galveston was attempting to deal with a Facebook post by a woman claiming her daughters contracted staph or strep infections there.
‘Retaliation for use of the Open Records Act will inhibit every citizen from using it.’
A North Georgia newspaper publisher was indicted on a felony charge and jailed overnight last week – for filing an open-records request.
Fannin Focus publisher Mark Thomason, along with his attorney Russell Stookey, were arrested on Friday and charged with attempted identity fraud and identity fraud. Thomason was also accused of making a false statement in his records request.