Doug McAvoy, an accomplished newspaper executive, has been appointed publisher of The Goshen News in Indiana. He succeeds Tricia Johnston, who was recently named West Virginia publisher of three newspapers for CNHI, the parent company of The Goshen News. more

Jim Urbanski, who served as president of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association from 1989-90, died last month at the age of 93.  more

The Associated Press celebrates its 175th anniversary this month, marking nearly two centuries of advancing the power of factual journalism. more

Lee Enterprises, Incorporated has selected Alexa Wilson to be vice president – brand and strategic marketing for the company. more

A judge on Tuesday tossed out a motion by Gila Regional Medical Center’s attorneys to dismiss the lawsuit filed last year by the Daily Press in Silver City, New Mexico, against the county-owned hospital over its denial of an Inspection of Public Records Act request concerning COVID-19 patient statistics. more

For years, newsrooms have been encouraged to diversify their staff, their stories and their coverage. Unfortunately there has been minimal meaningful change in the industry, until the recent racial reckoning in America moved the needle a little more. This has inspired the National Association of Black Journalists to create a new platform, NABJ Media Network, where it will work to tell and share often untold stories about Black communities through the work of  Black journalists. more

Adams Publishing Group has named Clint Wolf editor of the Beloit (Wisconsin) Daily News. more

America's Newspapers is honored to welcome the Long Island Herald into membership. more

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) told members of America's Newspapers on Tuesday, May 11, that she will seek about $2.3 billion worth of tax credits and grants  for local newspapers and broadcasters as part of President Biden's infrastructure plan. more

The Washington Post has named Sally Buzbee executive editor of the newspaper, effective June 1.  She succeeds Marty Baron, who left The Post at the end of February. more

The Record Guild — part of the NewsGuild of New York — represents editorial staff at The Bergen Record, the Daily Record and the New Jersey Herald. They organized over demands for better pay and health benefits, diverse hiring practices and a transparent and standardized system for promotion and pay raises. more

After a decade with the Idaho Press, as a reporter and editor, Managing Editor Holly Beech is departing the newspaper for a new role with the Idaho Office for Refugees. The Boise-based Idaho Office for Refugees provides resources and programs to those new Idahoans who were forced to leave their former homes. more

"We are the oldest and largest African-American newspaper in America. Established in 1884, we've got a long history," said Robert W. Bogle, CEO of The Philadelphia Tribune. "TownNews has allowed us to grow our audience and grow our traffic year-over-year. Even in the pandemic year of 2020, we continued to grow unique visitors by 24%." The award-winning newspaper covers Greater Philadelphia with print, e-Edition and online. "We also saw an average growth of 33% in unique visitors and 40% growth in pageviews each year from 2017 to 2019." more

The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and The Advocate in Baton Rouge switched to a narrower web width for their print newspapers on May 1 and readers approved. Creative Circle Media Solutions helped both papers make the switch by creating new InDesign templates and libraries and offering a series of minor design changes aimed at streamlining design and production, improving readability and standardizing the look of both papers, especially on shared pages. more

Times-Shamrock Communications  owns daily papers and radio stations throughout Northeast Pennsylvania, as well as Times-Shamrock Creative Services, a centralized group of graphic artists that creates ads for multiple newspapers throughout the U.S., including their own daily and weekly papers. The seven-year-old company grew from a need to improve efficiency and save on expenses. In order to do that to the best of its ability, TCSC needed a robust and customizable ad-tracking and online content-proofing system. more

A U.S publisher wanted to reduce churn from digital subscriptions by leveraging Mather Economics’ predictive modeling and email targeting capability. A four-month test showed that personalized email campaigns are an effective and low-cost method to reduce churn. more

May is National Barbecue Month, Beef Month and Hamburger Month, all leading up to Memorial Day and Victoria Day weekends: the unofficial start of the summer grilling season! As many consumers remain more comfortable spending time in the safety of their homes and enjoying their own outdoor living spaces, turn up the heat on your coverage of this topic using resources from your MCC libraries. more

We're excited to announce that Column recently partnered with APG Media of Chesapeake, an Adams Publishing Group company comprising 25 newspapers and other publications across 19 counties in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia. more

Eastman Kodak has acquired the assets of ECRM Incorporated’s CTP (computer-to-plate) device business for the graphic arts and newspaper industries. Based in Massachusetts, ECRM is a world-class manufacturing company and a global leader in imaging technologies for the graphic communications industry. The transaction includes the equipment, contracts, inventory and intellectual property of the acquired business. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. more

The Associated Press has appointed Tom Januszewski to head the news agency’s business development initiatives globally. He will be responsible for driving revenue growth, building out content and service lines, introducing new revenue channels and leading a team focused on new markets. more