Lay it on the line in 2025

This is the most important year in your newspaper's history. If you’re reading this column, you likely own, lead, manage or help operate one of the oldest and most trusted businesses in your community. Whether your paper prospers — or even survives — is largely up to you. And living up to that challenge is getting tougher all the time, isn’t it?

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Meta’s shift to ‘Community Notes’ makes trusted local newspapers even more vital

In response to Meta's announcement that it will end its fact-checking program with independent third parties and pivot to a “Community Notes” model that uses crowdsourced fact-checking contributions from users, America's Newspapers issued the following statement:

Meta’s recent decision to replace third-party fact-checking with a crowdsourced system called “Community Notes” further highlights the importance that local newspapers play in providing reliable, vetted information to their communities. While social media platform approaches to content moderation are often politically-oriented and vulnerable to bias and manipulation, local newspapers continue to prioritize accuracy, fairness and accountability.

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New Year, New You: Local newspapers are the perfect fit for weight loss and nutrition advertising

The New Year brings fresh starts and big goals — especially when it comes to health and fitness. For businesses in the weight loss and nutrition industry, this is the prime time to connect with consumers eager to kick off their health journeys. Local newspapers offer a unique opportunity to reach these motivated individuals right when they’re setting their resolutions.

America’s Newspapers: Year-end advocacy report

As the 118th Congress is coming to its end, Alan Fisco, president and CFO of The Seattle Times and legislative co-chair of America’s Newspapers, along with America’s Newspapers CEO Dean Ridings, met with key leadership in Washington, D.C., last week to discuss the reintroduction of the Community News and Small Business Support Act (HR4756).
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Gannett and Reuters launch bundle content offering

Gannett Co., Inc. and Reuters have announced an agreement to provide media brands and publishers with a unique offering that includes ready-to-publish local, regional, state, national and international multimedia news and content.

Just days after Tennessee announced it had a new manual for executing death-row inmates, the state’s top prison officials said they would not release the document to the public.

The DallasNews Corporation has struck a deal to sell its Plano-based printing operation for $43.5 million, part of a previously articulated strategy to shed assets and return to profitability.

McClatchy names new executive editor for The News & Observer and Herald-Sun

Nicole Stockdale, a native Midwesterner who has helped oversee five newsrooms in California for McClatchy in recent years, will become the next executive editor of The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) and The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina).

Katherine Miller, a veteran newspaper executive who began her career in Joplin, Missouri, has been appointed publisher of The Joplin Globe.

Cox Enterprises has named Shereta Williams as executive vice president of Growth Operations. In this role, Williams will continue to help drive the company's diversification strategy and oversee all Cox Enterprises' majority-owned businesses outside of its core operating divisions, Cox Communications and Cox Automotive.