Designed for publishers by publishers, The Newspaper Manager is capable of handling any functions a media company could ever need, including: contact management, billing and accounts receivables, project management, sales management, ad sales management, audience development, marketing and more!  more

In this dynamic session, newspapers will reveal how they’ve cost-effectively developed personalities who deliver innovative content that has grown new local audiences, opened new lucrative revenue streams and helped positively position their legacy brands for decades to come. more

Netflix Executive Amy Reinhard has been nominated to join the board in June. more

Ken Harding has been appointed senior vice president of business effectiveness for Hearst Newspapers. The announcement was made by Hearst President and CEO Steven R. Swartz and Hearst Newspapers President Jeffrey Johnson. more

America needs strong local journalism. The Local Journalism Sustainability Act is a giant step forward for the industry while it continues to evolve. more

The Associated Press has named Chrissie Thompson as director of the Education Reporting Network. In this role, she will serve as the head of a new program designed to drive accountability reporting on the lasting impacts of the pandemic on education, and lift local newsrooms’ abilities to reach their audiences with engaging education news, too. more

“We’re excited to be able to grow into additional communities in West Virginia, providing the important local and state news coverage, as well as sports and activities that are a part of these communities.” — Brian Jarvis, president and owner, WV News more

A 32-year rivalry between two Storm Lake newspapers has ended after the Storm Lake Times Company recently purchased the Pilot-Tribune from Hallmark II Publishing of Charles City. more

Dick Kelsey, a retired Associated Press broadcast editor who was revered as much for his humor as his hardworking nature, has died after a seven-year battle with cancer. He was 76. more

Central Connecticut Communications today announced it has sold The Bristol Press/The New Britain Herald and the Chronicle in Willimantic to Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers, also known as RISN Operations. more

In a recent dispatch from Moscow, BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg noted that a new Russian law required him to refer to the invasion of Ukraine as a “special military operation.” Then he quoted a Russian human rights lawyer who liberally used what is now a forbidden word: “war.” more

James Briggs has been promoted to general manager of the Star Beacon in Ashtabula, New York. more

The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pennsylvania, has promoted managing editor William B. Bowman to editor of the newspaper. more

Rust Communications has sold the Le Mars Daily Sentinel, Cherokee Chronicle Times, Spencer Daily Reporter and several other northwest Iowa publications to Gene Hall and his son Chris, according to Randy Cope of Cribb, Cope & Potts, who represented the Rust family in the sale. more

Ethiopia’s Supreme Court has upheld the order to release on bail journalist Amir Aman Kiyaro, who has been imprisoned for four months without charges, rejecting a police effort to block his … more

The number of journalists employed in the United States fell by at least 2,500 last year, new statistics from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics suggest. Average journalist pay also fell by nearly $3,000 between 2020 and 2021. more

Here are a few suggestions of how newsroom leaders can support disabled journalists. more

Journalists at the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald and Bradenton Herald are walking out after over a year and a half of first contract negotiations. more

The news industry’s relationship with Google and other technology companies is a critical issue impacting the future of local journalism. During the opening session, the 2022 Mega-Conference will welcome Chris Jansen, head of Local News, Global Partnerships with Google, for an open discussion about Google’s relationship with the news industry and what can be done to improve the state of local news. more

U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) and Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) introduced a bipartisan resolution honoring the journalists and news staff covering the war in Ukraine. The resolution also recognizes the journalists tragically killed while reporting in Ukraine — Yevhenii Sakun, Brett Renaud, Sasha Kuvshinova and Pierre Zakrzewski. more