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By Jim Stasiowski Years ago, I learned a painful lesson watching Donald Trump. No, not the one who is our president-elect; the candidate whose coverage I witnessed was running for county commissioner, and although he lost, he was Trump-like: loud, uninhibited, angry and loose with facts and accusations. He also …

By Kevin Slimp A few years ago, I spent several days with a newspaper in Tennessee. They were converting from an editorial workflow based on QuarkXPress to InDesign and asked if I would be on hand when they sent their first issue using the new system to press. There wasn’t …

Is 2017 a Great Unknown or do we now have CLUES in order to prepare for a GIANT classified windfall? 1. JOBS: Will construction infrastructure programs pass and fill each state with loads of blue collar jobs which LOVE newspaper classifieds? Will you be ready to attract that advertising? 2. …

This webinar has been canceled.   When a union is trying to organize a newspaper’s employees, employers have many rights of communication – and there are many rules to follow. Union organizing has been largely dormant in the Southeast for many years. However, the NewsGuild recently organized two newspapers in …

The Georgetown, Ky., News-Graphic has important, well-read content nobody else has — its local public notices. So, why not draw as much attention as possible to what otherwise may seem like dull, government-required boilerplate? Take a look: “Under our state law,” notes Kentucky Press Association director David Thompson, “the newspaper …

With the start of the 2017 legislative session two months away, a couple of bill drafts have been proposed that would have significant effects on public notices in Nevada. One is Senate Bill 10, prefiled by the state Treasurer’s Office, to change how unclaimed property notices are published in the …

It’s no longer the Rebel Yell. The student newspaper at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will become The Scarlet & Grey Free Press, according to the newspaper’s editor. Stories in the Las Vegas Sun and the Las Vegas Review-Journal note there had been calls from within the newspaper and …

Matt Dierlam has taken over as general manager for Winnemucca Publishing, replacing Holly Rudy-James, who retired after serving in that job for the past 14 years. Dierlam most recently worked in sales and marketing for Alaska Direct Media and, prior to that, was general manager for Alaska Media LLC, according …