Tradition meets start-up: ppi Media has created a new spin-off, ppi n3xt, specializing in digitization services for small and medium-sized enterprises. more

ppi Media offers a NEW fully automated solution for scalable social media marketing that allows social media campaigns with small budgets to finally be efficient for a large number of different target groups. more

He was known just as the town’s youth soccer manager, but he wanted everyone to know he was an attorney with an historic law firm. So when the publisher of The Ravena News-Herald in Ravena, New York, offered this “secret” attorney an opportunity to sponsor Kid Scoop, Attorney Carlo A. C. deOliveira jumped at the chance. more

The Wilson County News in Floresville, Texas, is a long-time customer of Our-Hometown, Inc., and one of the first to take advantage of our brand new Audio Articles Podcast feature to get its new podcast off the ground. more

An increasing number of companies are turning to online community panel survey research to stay current with their customers and identify evolving consumer trends. This is especially the case in these uncertain times. Learn about the benefits of online panel research. more

Stacker and the Local Media Consortium have announced a partnership that will help LMC members around the country gain free access to hundreds of original data-driven stories for their local coverage each month. more

Graphic Developments Inc. has subscribed to ProImage’s NewsWayX Cloud workflow. Instead of hosting the software locally, company executives decided to use ProImage’s redundant Cloud system to manage production. more

Christy Johnson  has been named managing editor of The Greenville Advocate, The Luverne Journal and The Lowndes Signal, three Alabama newspapers owned by Boone Newspapers, Inc. more

Courtnay Kim, a 20-year veteran of the Minneapolis  Star Tribune newsroom, has been named assistant managing editor of business news, taking leadership of coverage of the Minnesota business community digitally and in print. She is the first woman of color to be appointed to the role at the Star Tribune. more

Marlon A. Walker has been named executive editor of the Clarion Ledger in Jackson and the Mississippi state editor for the USA TODAY Network, which includes the Hattiesburg American.  more

Stillwater News Press Publisher Jill Hunt has announced her retirement from the Oklahoma daily. She joined the News Press staff in April 1998 and was promoted to publisher in October of 2019. more

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has announced a tightly focused brand strategy that recognizes the enterprise’s long history, points to an increasingly digital future, and highlights the personal calling and rigorous work of its journalists. Now, all products will carry a single, new masthead, designed to ensure readers know all news and information produced by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is credible, fact-based local journalism regardless of where or how it is published. more

Times Review Media Group once relied on a traditional production workflow system that involved paper-based ad tickets and invoices, triplicate forms, job jackets containing scraps of clip art and ad copy, and wire baskets that organized production work. This inefficient approach resulted in poor interdepartmental communication, process bottlenecks and delays, which frustrated the newspaper publisher’s sales team and the art department. Learn how Times Media went paperless and improved productivity. more

The parent of The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, is proposing to spin off its newspaper division and other subsidiaries into three separate businesses under a plan to realign the holdings of the family-owned company, it was announced April 5. The restructuring of Charleston-based Evening Post Industries is expected to be completed by Sept. 30, CEO John Barnwell said. more

The Courier Journal's building in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, went on the market today with a listing price of $17 million. The paper's newsroom, however, is dedicated to being a strong presence in Louisville, likely downtown. more

April 7, 2021 - “As HSPA prepares potential legislation for the 2022 session,” says Executive Director Steve Key of the Hoosier State Press Association, “we hope to convince the leadership that public policy should continue to embrace the four key elements of effective public notice — accessibility, verification, archivability, and an independent conduit for the distribution of those notices to the public.” more

April 7, 2021 - Legislators in Texas have introduced at least 20 separate bills this session that could have an impact on public notice. Fourteen were introduced last month alone. more

April 7, 2021 - Newspaper publishers from across the country are watching the moves taking place in the Florida legislature.  The Public Notice Resource Center reports that one of the primary concerns to be addressed during a hearing scheduled for Thursday, April 8, concerns the type of free newspapers that may qualify to carry notices.  This hearing on SB 402 is scheduled in Florida's Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice. more

With a world permanently changed from a global pandemic, what is in store for the news publishers, and how should we best meet the challenges ahead? E&P assembled four industry leaders — including America's Newspapers CEO Dean Ridings — to address these questions, plus discuss media property values, achieving diversity in our newsrooms, maximizing consumer revenue, non-profit models and more. more

The Altoona (Pennsylvania) Mirror leadership torch has been passed. Ed Kruger, who has held the publisher position since 1998, is retiring and wrapping up a 60-year newspaper career. He will be succeeded by Circulation/Operations Manager Dan Slep, a fifth-generation descendent of Mirror founder Harry E. Slep. more