Wabuska Mangler

Congratulations to our friends at the Reno Gazette-Journal for winning four awards in the Best of Gannett competition among the 92 newspapers in the company. Here’s a link to the RGJ’s story. Of particular note were a first place for public service reporting for a series on water usage, written …

(Updated to add CIA director’s comments, clarifications.) Why shouldn’t Apple simply be a “good corporate citizen,” as some police and politicians have suggested, and crack an iPhone in the investigation of the San Bernadino massacre? It could. But it doesn’t have to. And there’s the rub. What the FBI is …

The secret is out. The typical American newspaper is small, making money and deeply ingrained in its community. You thought you knew that already? Well, you haven’t been listening to the morticians of print trudging across the digital expanse crying ‘Bring out your dead.’ They don’t read smalltown newspapers, probably …

By Kevin Slimp It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke: “What do you get when you gather 760 newspaper executives and ask them how things are going at their papers?” That’s just what I did in late January, and a few of their answers came as a surprise …

Are you spending DAYS putting together your graduation edition? Are you manually placing hundreds of photos and copying and pasting text just to realize at the last minute that someone was left out and you have to rebuild part of the section? Learn how InDesign’s built-in Data Merge can help …

Defenders of print, unite! If journalism were a Marvel comic, I’d want some superhero — Clark Kent, perhaps? — to make that exclamation in bold type every time the evil digital minions cackle over the demise of a newspaper. The cackles came around again this weekend when the Independent, a …

Update: After getting an email from Carolyn Tanner, general counsel for the PUC, I’ve added at the bottom her analysis of where I’m wrong in the statute. Nevada’s Public Utilities Commission had a chance Tuesday to clarify its status under the Open Meeting Law when questioned by legislators, but unfortunately …

By David Chavern, CEO of Newspaper Association of America I was recently invited by Digital Content Next, an association of premium digital content creators, to attend their members’ summit in Miami. The summit was a great chance for me to hear from digital content managers representing a wide variety of …

Start early and simplify. I listened to John Kimball, of The Kimball Group, describe the $11 billion in political advertising to be spent this year and his advice for how newspapers can grow their share. While presidential politics is gathering all the ink right now, 75 percent of that money …