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Gannett-owned weekly papers to stop publication
Six weeklies published by the Daily Messenger (Canandaigua, New York) will stop publication the week of Oct. 24, the Daily Messenger reported. Gannett owns the papers. The papers stopping publication are the Ontario Post , Monroe Post South, Monroe Post West, Monroe Post North, Wayne Post and Wayne County Pennysaver. The moves comes after the 2019 merger of GateHouse Media and Gannett.
Strategy ‘more important than the tech stack.’ Advice from one digital audience editor that can save money, effort
Reilly Kneedler, digital audience editor at Wick Communications Reilly Kneedler As we know, much of the focus in the media industry today is on subscription strategies, particularly concerning digital. That makes a digital audience editor one of the most on-point people at a news/media operation. You want people there who think about what they’re doing and whose skill goes beyond the tech.
Salesforce launches streaming service
Salesforce has launched Salesforce+, a streaming service with live and on-demand content for “every role, industry and line of business, all in one place,” says the company. Salesforce+ includes live experiences, original series, podcasts, and other programming “Over the last 18 months, we’ve had to reimagine how to succeed in the new digital-first world.
NNA’s Rush on postal bill, PPP loan trouble; Tribune shareholders approve Alden buy
News & Tech talked to National Newspaper Association General Counsel Tonda Rush this week about postal reform, a bureaucratic malfunction on PPP loans and other D.C. matters. “We're involved in a half dozen discussions on different kinds of legislation that would help newspapers,” says Rush. Among those efforts, Rush and the National Newspaper Association are advocating for passage of the Postal Service Reform Act. Rush authored a posting on the act here.
Gannett papers in New Jersey vote to unionize; other union news
Journalists at three Gannett-owned papers in New Jersey have voted to unionize, the News Guild of New York says and the New York Post reports. The papers are the Bergen Record, the Daily Record in Morris County and the New Jersey Herald in Newton. The vote was 59-4 for the union, says the Post. The union will be named the Record Guild.
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News Media Alliance counsel on journalism preservation bill; hearing today
Eyes will turn to the news industry today on Capitol Hill, as the House Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law Subcommittee holds a hearing titled "Reviving Competition, Part 2: Saving the Free and Diverse Press." Among those to testify are David Chavern, News Media Alliance president & CEO; Brad Smith, president of Microsoft; Emily Barr, CEO of Graham Media; Jonathan Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild; Glenn Greenwald, journalist and constitutional lawyer; and Clay Travis, founder...
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Lee launches Feast and Field
Lee Enterprises has launched Feast and Field, a new food-focused digital magazine exploring farming, food production, culinary history and cooking. “Food is deeper than the dish from your favorite restaurant and broader than a go-to recipe,” said Cat Neville, executive editor of Feast and Field, in a press release.
Vote on Australia’s pay-for-news bill expected Tuesday
Australia continues to wrangle with Big Tech over paying for news content. Proposed legislation in that country would have Facebook and Google pay news outlets for material. It’s a case that’s being closely watched around the world. The final vote on the bill is expected tomorrow. The laws would allow the government to name an arbitrator to determine content licensing fees if private negotiations get nowhere, says Reuters.
LA Times owner not looking to sell, says paper
Patrick Soon-Shiong “reaffirmed his commitment” to the LA Times last week, the paper reported, after a Wall Street journal report that claimed he’s looking at selling the paper. The billionaire investor bought the paper in 2018 for $500 million. “WSJ article inaccurate. We are committed to the @LATimes,” read a tweet from Soon-Shiong.
Members of Congress may introduce bill aimed at smaller outlets
Bipartisan members of Congress plan to introduce a bill soon aimed at making it less difficult for smaller news outlets to together negotiate deals with Facebook and other Big Tech companies, Reuters reported.
BuzzFeed finalizes deal for HuffPost, EIC search continues
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New York Times sees ad drop, surpasses 7.5 million subscriptions
2020 was NYT’s top year for adding subscribers, The New York Times Company said in its fourth-quarter earnings report. “Our work, which was consumed at historic levels, led to a year of strong business results, including a record 2.3 million net new digital-only subscription additions, with 627,000 total net additions in the fourth quarter, 425,000 to our news product.
Action on public notice bills in several states
There was action on bills involving public notice in several states. • A bill that would eliminate the requirement for public notices to be published in newspapers is moving in the Idaho legislature, the Post-Register reported. Last week, the state’s House State Affairs Committee recommended passage of the bill, sponsored by Rep. Jon Weber, R-Rexburg.
Changes to McClatchy’s local news experiment
McClatchy is making changes to its Compass Experiment. The effort is a local news laboratory founded by McClatchy and Google News Initiative’s Local Experiments Project. The Compass Experiment started Mahoning Matters in Youngstown, Ohio, in 2019 and The Longmont Leader in Longmont, Colorado, in 2020. The plan was to start another local news operation, but market conditions shifted, according to a Medium post from Mandy Jenkins, the general manager of the Compass Experiment.
Njus knows podcasts
For insight into newspaper podcasts, News & Tech turned to a source who’s very in the know: Elliot Njus, podcasts editor for The Oregonian/OregonLive. For over 10 years at The Oregonian/OregonLive, Njus covered community news, business, housing and transportation as a reporter. Now he manages podcasts and edits weekend breaking news. Njus took the time to provide us with the useful info below. Also, scroll down to catch our podcast roundup. It's got recent headlines and trends concerning podcasts.
Podcast roundup
Podcasts have been getting a lot of attention in recent years. The market is well served; it seems at times that there are as many podcasts as there are listeners. Nearly 900,000 new podcasts were launched in 2020, according to Chartable. “By every metric, podcasting performed well: ad revenues were up 15%; 17,000 new podcasts were started each week; 160 advertisers bought ads for the first time each week; and Chartable measured over 180% more monthly downloads,” says Chartable.
AAM creates audit program for digital publishers
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New Jersey weeklies going non-profit
The new Corporation for New Jersey Local Media has an agreement with the New Jersey Hills Media Group to work together to convert the group’s 14 weeklies to nonprofit ownership under the Corporation for New Jersey Local Media. CNJLM is a registered New Jersey nonprofit corporation operating under the aegis of the non-profit Community Foundation of New Jersey.
HD Media files suit against Google, Facebook
HD Media, a West Virginia newspaper company, filed a federal antitrust lawsuit Jan. 29 against Google and Facebook charging the companies with monopolizing the digital advertising market. This is believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind filed by a newspaper company against the tech giants for their monopolistic practices, said a HD Media news release.
Medill survey: Few see ads as best answer to money woes
The financial distress threatening the future of the local news industry is now a pervasive concern of those working in the media business, and few of them see ad revenue as the best path forward, according to a new survey by Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Asked to rate their concern about the future sustainability of local news, 81.2% said they were very concerned and 17.7 were somewhat concerned.
Idaho daily realizing automation, waste-reduction goals
Take a look behind the scenes at The Lewiston’s Tribune’s production center. The Lewiston Tribune (Idaho) recently tapped manroland Goss to add inline controls automation to the publisher’s Uniset press. The 4-unit press was originally installed in 2007. The upgrade — which The Tribune has been evaluating for the past couple of years — includes new density, register and ribbon control systems that went live in September 2020.
Yuma Sun maximizing efficiencies of NewsWay upgrade
Horizon Publications’ Yuma Sun (Arizona) has been managing its local editions with ProImage NewsWay workflow since 2005. At that time, the paper was owned by now-defunct conglomerate Freedom Communications. Over the past 15 years, the Sun has leveraged NewsWay for edition planning, tracking pages, load balancing RIPs, page impositioning, softproofing plates, adjusting images for fan-out and managing output to their two CTP devices.
Tribune-Review CEO reflects on A1 editorial
While USA Today recently felt the need to defend the value of editorials, one paper has scrapped endorsements and another may bail on the editorial concept altogether, the Pittsburgh-area Tribune-Review prominently employed the form with an A1 editorialurging readers to take the COVID-19 vaccine. The editorial involved a matter "that would result in action by readers for the good of the community," according to Jennifer Bertetto, president and CEO of Tribune-Review owner Trib Total Media.
For local nonprofit news, 2020 was a very good year, and 2021 will be even better
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Programmatic digital display advertising is having an identity crisis
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Ricketts starting news outlet
Billionaire Joe Ricketts is starting an online national news outlet called Straight Arrow News, the Omaha World-Herald reported. The operation will be based in Omaha, the paper says. Online job ads for Straightarrownews.com say the outlet will be “dedicated to unbiased, nonpartisan reporting” and is planned to launched in February. “I think there’s a gap in the market — there’s no source for unbiased, fact-based news.
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