"E & P Reports" from Editor & Publisher Magazine hosted by Mike Blinder

As live conferences return and industry moguls get a chance to mingle again, there is no question that Borrell Miami on March 6-8 th at the Miami Hilton will once again be a "who's who" of C-suite executives from all sectors of media. This year's event is entitled "The Path to 2032," with a predicted audience of 300 or more, and promotes itself online as the "skip the hype/follow the money" confer...

In this 115th episode of "E&P Reports," Mike Blinder the Publisher of E&P chats with David Chavern, President / CEO of the News Media Alliance and Lee Wolverton, VP News/ Executive Editor at HD Media about the latest developments in the class action lawsuit naming both Google and Facebook as defendants in a federal antitrust lawsuit. Also on the panel is Gretchen Peck E&P's Contributing Editor.

Howard Owens published his first newspaper in fourth grade, which is likely why soon after graduating from Point Loma Nazarene University with a degree in literature, he and a partner became owners of The Beacon, a biweekly newspaper in the City of San Diego. After that, he decided to branch out to other publishing companies as a reporter and editor. In 1995, he and a partner founded East County O...

In this 113 th episode of "E&P Reports, Alan Leveritt publisher of the Arkansas Times and ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Brian Hauss join Editor & Publisher's (E&P) publisher, Mike Blinder, and E and P contributing editor  Gretchen Peck to talk about a two year battle, that has gained international prominence, between the Times and the state of Arkansas, on the newspapers' refusal to sign a pledge to...

In 2018, news media analyst Ken Doctor penned a column that, in part, read: "Alden Global Capital is making so much money wrecking local journalism, it might not want to stop any time soon." Now, fewer than five months since the ink dried on Alden Global Capital's acquisition of the Tribune titles, it's making a formal play for Lee Enterprises, a digital marketing services company and publisher of...

For the past 30 years, Jim Doyle has been helping salespeople make more money as one of the top sales trainers for the broadcast industry. His latest book, Selling with a Servant Heart , outlines ten lessons that ultimately lead to greater joy in sales while also increasing income. Doyle describes the concept by saying: "When you commit to serving customers as a 'Servant Heart Seller,' you'll find...

On this 110th episode of "E&P Reports," Publisher and Host Mike Blinder sat down with the National Newspapers Association's (NNA) chair, Brett Wesner , and E&P contributing editor Gretchen Peck to talk about the urgency for advocacy for the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (LJSA). On Friday afternoon, November 5 th , word had come that at least part of the LJSA — payroll tax credits for newsroo...

While a student at Southern Methodist University, Adam Darsky was bitten by the "journalism bug" writing for "The Daily Campus," so upon graduation, he took an entry-level job as a sports reporter at a small newspaper outside of Dallas. It wasn't long before he jumped from newspapers to broadcast, landing an internship at the Dallas all-sports radio station. Darsky leaped from radio to TV, beginni...

There are over 550 federally recognized tribal governments and more than 300 Indian reservations in the United States. Tribal reservations are sovereign nations and are not required to comply with many federal or state laws, including freedom of information and open meetings laws. Legally, tribe members enjoy the same constitutional rights as every American, but there is no independent safeguard o...

As live events slowly return, America's Newspapers' Senior Leadership Conference took place live at the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs. Just under 200 attended sessions on growing audience, maximizing revenue, building a better internal culture for our operations and more. On Monday, October 18 th , 2021, Editor & Publisher's participation included the announcement of the 2021 Publisher of t...

In September of 2021 , Cherry Road Media , a Parsippany, New Jersey-based technology company, announced it had acquired 20 newspapers from the Gannett company, bringing their total count of publications owned to 27. Their list of titles now stretches across seven states: Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota and Alabama. Cherry Road CEO Jeremy Gulban stated in a recent press releas...

Raw Story is an American progressive news website founded in 2004 by John K. Byrne. It describes its mission as bringing attention to stories they see as downplayed or ignored by other media outlets. Raw Story's recent reporting has focused on homegrown extremism. One such story entitled "We're  gonna kill Congress": Trump's far-right supporters promise violence at today's DC protests ," was publi...

For decades many federal agencies have been prohibiting reporters from talking to anyone without first requesting access through a public information officer (PIO). And over those years, these "PIO chokepoints" have gotten tighter and tighter, including oversight on conversations and demands for questions ahead of any interview.  Reporters today are often not allowed to speak to anyone, even after...

With a mission to help Black-owned newspapers to "survive and thrive," ten Black newspapers have joined forces to create Word in Black, a platform to "amplify the Black experience by reporting, collecting and sharing stories about real people in communities across the country," The initiative is part of the Fund for Black Journalism , founded last year by the Local Media Association (LMA), who ini...

JournalList.net is a non-profit membership organization that originated and currently maintains the trust.txt reference document. Trust.txt is a simple page of code with the goal that it would be used worldwide to distinguish legitimate news organizations from non-legitimate ones. The idea of having a universal code that achieves mass adoption by digital platforms is not a new one. Back as early a...

The Radically Rural Summit started in 2018 as a partnership between The Keene Sentinel and a local non-profit called The Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship . This organization provides space, tools and connections to assist in the successful development of entrepreneurs who are committed to building a vibrant community. Each year Radically Rural hosts an event with a mission to help share i...

Perhaps you know Henry Scott from years in senior management positions at the New York Times or as VP/ CMO at Creative Loafing. However, you may not know that Henry decided in 2012 to move to West Hollywood, California to start a digital-only local news presence he called WEHOville.com. In 8-years, he built a viable, profitable business with a sizable audience consuming award-winning content acros...

With a mission to "investigate inequality  with  and  for  the people who are affected by it," The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) is one of the oldest nonprofit investigative news organizations in the country. Over the years, their reporting has led to hundreds of law and policy changes, forced the federal and state governments to release information critical to the public interest, and held co...

Overstory Media Group (OMG) is a startup media group that operates newsletter-based local media outlets and currently manages ten local brands in British Columbia, Canada. Recently they announced plans to hire 250 new journalists and launch 50 new outlets within the next 24-months. The growth is financed by Canadian tech entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson who partnered with a local digital journalist F...

Greg Little has been a journalist since his first efforts at a small newspaper while he attended junior high school. His career has spanned five decades, winning a number of awards for reporting that helped an Indian reservation in Montana stop violent crime to stopping illegal dumping of sewage sludge in Tennessee. He has worked for large companies and family owners and spent time teaching journa...

On June 16, 2021, U.S. Representatives Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Arizona, and Dan Newhouse, R-Washington, introduced H.R. 3940, the Local Journalism Sustainability Act (LJSA) for the 117 th  Congress, a bipartisan bill that seeks to help local newspapers sustain financial viability through a series of three tax credits: A local newspaper subscription credit that incentives Americans to subscribe A local...

In January 2021, the  Google News Initiative , in partnership with the  Association of Alternative Newsmedia  (AAN), the  National Association of Hispanic Publications  (NAHP), and the  National Newspaper Publishers Association  (NNPA), kicked off the  GNI Ad Transformation Lab : A six month program to help Black and Latino news publishers in the U.S. and Canada advance their advertising strategie...

If you have been involved in any form of production and operations over the past three decades, odds are you have spoken with the Southern Lithoplate's (SLP) Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Steve Mattingly. Mattingly joined SLP in 1989 and helped this small, privately-held North Carolina lithoplate manufacturer become one of the leading consumables suppliers to North American printers...

Hearst Connecticut Media Group (HCMG) has made a big investment in a new online platform offering statewide news called: CTinsider.com . The new site provides a mix of original content and articles selected from across all 24 HCMG sites, offering hard news, features, sports and opinion columns. The articles CTinsider.com are chosen by a central editorial team working with editors from each site wh...

Ryan Dohrn is a well-known industry sales coach who has traveled far and wide helping media companies of all sizes perform better (and he writes our monthly Ad Sales Life column). On his website, it states, "Ryan actively sells print, digital, broadcast, event sponsorships, exhibit space, and radio." On his Twitter account, his description reads: Ryan Dohrn is a "motivational speaker, 28-year sale...