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 …
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If you’re in the newspaper business — large daily, small weekly, it doesn’t matter — then you owe it to yourself to read an interview with Publisher Rena Mlodecki in the current issue of California Publisher. She’s the regional publisher for Horizon Publications, owner of the Inyo Register in Bishop …
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A Douglas County judge closed a pre-trial hearing to the public and press in a criminal case involving the death of a 2-year-old child, prompting The Record-Courier to protest. District Judge Tod Young granted a motion from defense attorneys for Trent Getty, who is accused of killing his daughter a …
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Craig Moon, the former publisher of USA Today, was named this morning as the new publisher at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which has been making nearly as much news as it has been reporting in recent weeks. According to the story in the R-J, former publisher Jason Taylor is moving …
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Newspaper endorsements of candidates for president are flying hot and heavy these days, which brings up the inevitable question of whether such endorsements matter. Of course they do. Just not in the way most people think. You can look at polling numbers and try to determine whether people’s minds are …
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By David Chavern President and CEO of Newspaper Association of America If you want to know who still believes in a future for news media, just turn to some of our most respected businessmen: Warren Buffett. Jeff Bezos. John Henry. Glen Taylor. All of them have made significant investments in …
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I just added a polling function to this web site, and now I’m going to write about the uselessness of polls. Yes, they’re fun. They give people something to write about when there isn’t any actual news. Probably in some circumstances, they have a worthwhile function. But political polls? Bunk. …
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Ha ha. Good one. He really got us this time. I’m talking, of course, about South Carolina state Rep. Mike Pitts, who pulled a fast one on the press by introducing a bill that would have required journalists to register. It was all a clever way to make a point …
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If Congress does not act quickly to reform the U.S. Postal Service, small-town America can expect a further slow-down of the mail, said Chip Hutcheson, publisher of The Times-Leader in Princeton, KY, when he testified to a U.S. Senate committee Jan. 21. Hutcheson, president of the 130-year-old National Newspaper Association, …
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Welcome to the newest member of the Nevada Press Association: Elevate Nevada. It’s been publishing since May 2015, with distribution mainly in Clark County, and covers the burgeoning medical marijuana industry in Nevada. In charge are a couple of people familiar to journalism veterans around the state: Guy Bertuzzi, who …
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