When Teresa Stewart was laid off from The Ely Times during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, she took a job at a local clinic. She worked there five months before realizing she missed the hustle and bustle of newspaper work. But in a small town, there aren’t many …
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Kirk Kern knows a thing or two about moving on. Throughout his long newspaper career, he has never been without a job. But his position as chief operating officer at Battle Born Media and publisher of the company’s Mesquite Local News was eliminated in March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic …
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The 81st annual National Newspaper Week is a recognition of the service of newspapers and their employees across North America and is sponsored by Newspaper Association Managers. Visit www.nationalnewspaperweek.com for more content, including editorials, cartoons and ads that you can run during National Newspaper Week and in the weeks that follow. …
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By Bart Pfankuch Depending on where you live and work as a journalist, there are two basic levels of importance when it comes to coverage of the agriculture industry: “very important” or “extremely important.” How and where food is grown or raised, how it is processed and transported, what it …
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The Newspaper Association Managers’ Relevance Project has released its extensive Revenue Resource 2020 to assist newspapers in aiding businesses of all sorts during the problematic pandemic. “Our goal is to keep expanding this new resource,” said Steve Nixon, NAM president. “We appreciate our associations’ support of The Relevance Project and …
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The Department of Labor published its final rule on Sept. 27, 2019, increasing the threshold used to determine the exempt status of white-collar employees under the minimum wage and overtime rules of the Fair Labor Standards Act. While the new threshold in the final rule may require some small market …
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By Teri Saylor for the Nevada Press Association and the National Newspaper Association Despite having to find a new printer for his newspapers on short notice, Kirk Kern (photo below) considers himself lucky. Last July, Kern, the chief operating officer of Battle Born Media in Boulder City, Nevada received a …
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The theme for this year’s National Newspaper Week, Oct. 6-12, is “Think F1rst — Know Your 5 Freedoms” and encourages readers to cherish all of the guarantees of the First Amendment. Nevada newspapers will find several ideas for localizing their Newspaper Week efforts at this site hosted by Newspaper Association …
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By Peter W. Wagner Little Johnny Jones hit a home-run at his pee-wee baseball game last Friday, but most of the town won’t know about it until they see the story and photo when the town’s newspaper comes out next Wednesday. The school board, meanwhile, hired a new high-school principal …
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by Matt DeRienzo Flat is the new growth, many would say, when it comes to declining volume of daily newspaper print circulation, especially as success has been found in raising prices among the most loyal subscribers. So maybe it’s time for publishers to radically lean in to serving and retaining …
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