A company-wide National Sweepstakes strategy drove engagement, list growth and huge revenue. more

TCN Inc. has announced the successful launch of its new Smart Answering Machine Detection solution. This product is an advanced, AI-powered Answering Machine Detection and call-sorting solution that is seamlessly embedded within the TCN Operator platform. more

Audience still matters, but Mather’s Subscription Proficiency Index, which benchmarks publishers across six drivers of subscription performance, suggests it is no longer the primary factor separating top performers from the rest. more

In this Executive Exchange conversation, FT Strategies Director Lisa McLeod speaks with Financial Times CEO Jon Slade about leading through disruption, balancing AI with human judgment and building a more resilient, customer-centric media organization. more

Platforms and search are going through another reset and the old playbook of chasing referral spikes is losing its power as AI answer engines and changing algorithms divert traffic away from publisher sites. The conversation at recent events has shifted toward something more fundamental. more

As AI continues to reshape customer service, one question comes up again and again: How do we embrace innovation without losing the human touch? In this month's featured article, SingleComm explores why the future of customer interaction isn't about replacing people — it's about empowering them. more

Most digital marketing campaigns do not struggle because they fail to drive traffic. They struggle because businesses miss opportunities to engage potential customers when they are ready to act. AdCellerant's latest blog explores how businesses can close this costly lead gap. more

America’s Newspapers has filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Salazar v. Paramount Global, urging the Court to reject an interpretation of the federal Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) that could have significant consequences for local newspapers and other news publishers across the country. more

Georges Media Group, parent company of The Times-Picayune | NOLA.com, The Advocate, The Acadiana Advocate and The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate, announced the hiring of Chase Heatherly as chief revenue officer. more

The spring Collier Spotlight award, a quarterly certificate recognizing groundbreaking reporting on state government institutions, is awarded to The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, for its investigation of the treatment of the mentally ill in state prisons and jails.   more

July 6, 2026 - It’s hard to keep track of everyone suing AI companies for stealing their work. Those gleaming AI platforms, the costliest computer systems ever built, are peddling more stolen goods than a seedy pawnshop. But it’s worth following a lawsuit filed June 24 by a group of small newspapers, alleging that OpenAI and Microsoft pilfered news stories to train their AI systems. more

Betsy Edwards, who retired as the Virginia Press Association’s executive director on June 30, championed digital innovation, defended public notices, expanded statewide reader engagement and helped position Virginia newspapers for a more sustainable future. more

Dave Gould, president and CEO of Main Street Media of Tennessee, is the new president of the Tennessee Press Association (TPA).  Gould succeeds Alison Gerber, editor of the Chattanooga Times Free Press. more

Two hundred fifty years ago, the Declaration of Independence was adopted in Philadelphia. But America did not become a country only in that room. It became a country as the news moved from community to community. Most colonists did not witness the debates of the Continental Congress. They learned about independence through the newspapers that served their towns and colonies.

Reprint Dean Ridings' editorial, plus this editorial cartoon more

In a 6-to-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the limits political parties — and the entities that fund them — can spend on coordinated ad spending with candidates. more

About a quarter of Americans (23%) say they have ever spoken with or been interviewed by a local journalist or reporter, according to a December 2025 Pew Research Center survey from the Pew-Knight Initiative. more

Cindy Ross Scoppe: “After I gave up trying to convince Rick Nelson not to retire as The Post and Courier’s editorial page editor, I spent a while thinking about what a responsible opinion staff does and looks like. Actually I spent a while organizing my thoughts, because after nearly three decades of writing editorials and opinion columns, I already had some pretty clear ideas.” more

A massive coalition of local newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit June 24 against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the technology companies systematically copied copyrighted reporting from nearly 400 local newspapers to train and develop commercial artificial intelligence products, including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, without permission or compensation. more

The Houston Chronicle has named Renae Merle as its new business editor. A veteran journalist and newsroom leader, Merle brings more than two decades of experience covering and editing some of the most consequential stories shaping the nation. more

James Bright's tenure as general manager and editor of the Texarkana Gazette will end July 17. more