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

  In this wide-ranging interview with Jeffrey Sleete, a seasoned media sales consultant with a rich radio and TV advertising sales background, we delved into his approach to media sales and the principles that have guided his successful career. Sleete, who now writes a column for E&P Magazine, shared his ideas on various aspects of how to successfully engage small businesses in today's challenging...

During this exclusive E&P interview, Gordon Borrell, CEO of Borrell Associates, provided critical insights into the evolving landscape of local media. Highlighting a seismic shift in the industry, Borrell emphasized content as a key differentiator in what he terms the "final phase" for local media. To underscore this, he announced the relocation of Borrell Associates' 2025 annual conference from M...

In an era marked by rampant misinformation and polarized media landscapes, NewsGuard has emerged as both a champion of credible journalism and a lightning rod for controversy. Founded in 2018 by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, the company aims to rate the reliability of news websites based on transparent, objective criteria. However, NewsGuard's mission has been challenging, facing legal battles,...

Dallas Morning News (DMN) publisher Grant Moise explains the decision to reintroduce the public editor position despite industry trends of cost-cutting, stating, "We looked at data points, we looked at our own internal reasons why subscribers were leaving us, and we just decided we couldn't afford not to make a bold move like this. So, we said, some papers will say, 'They can't afford it.' We said...

In September of 2021 ,  CherryRoad Media , a Parsippany, New Jersey-based technology company, surprised the news media industry with its purchase of 20 newspapers from the Gannett. Since then, the company has continued to grow and expand its US holdings, now owning 85 newspapers across 18 states.\ Beyond purchasing existing titles, CherryRoad has also built new operations in some "news desert" com...

Detroit Public Television, now rebranded as Detroit PBS , is making a notable return to the heart of the city, signifying a renewed dedication to serving its community with quality, trust, and fairness in media. In this exclusive interview with Rich Homberg, President & CEO of Detroit PBS, he reflects on his journey into public media and the organization's strategic shift towards strengthening loc...

Daniel Richardson, a Marine Corp veteran, UT Martin business management graduate and former CEO of Magic Valley Publishing, is making waves in the world of local community media. With a vision to bolster local journalism, Richardson has reopened several recently closed Tennessee newspapers once owned by Holler Media, adding to his growing media empire under the new Richardson Media Group banner. R...

The Local Media Association (LMA) and the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association (PNA) have united to establish the Pennsylvania Fundraising Lab. This groundbreaking venture is designed to empower Pennsylvania news organizations with the expertise and understanding needed to secure philanthropic funding for their reporting projects , thereby enhancing their financial sustainability and enabling them t...

In a groundbreaking move, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a 2025 state budget that includes $90 million in tax credits for local news media outlets, marking a significant victory for the press and local journalism. The Empire State Local News Coalition , which helped champion this legislation, initially formed with 100 news publishers in February 2024 to work together and advocate for what w...

In a dramatic turn of events, the Kansas Reflector , a news affiliate of the non-profit States Newsroom , found itself at the center of a contentious battle with Facebook. Sherman Smith, the Editor-in-Chief of the Kansas Reflector, revealed the unfolding saga during an exclusive interview with Mike Blinder, Publisher of E&P Magazine. The saga began when Facebook rejected an editorial titled " When...

For more than three decades, The Chronicle of Philanthropy has stood as the foremost beacon of insight and information for professionals and organizations within the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors. Through its printed and online platforms, The Chronicle offers comprehensive coverage of trends, challenges, and best practices in the philanthropic world, serving as an invaluable resource for tho...

While attending the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, Laura Krantz McNeill decided to interview 26 separate media leaders she considered to be "change-makers and innovators" and asked them what they think the essential skills that the next generation of news leadership will need to move us clos...

The Association of Community Publishers (ACP) is a dynamic organization dedicated to supporting and empowering free, community-based media outlets across the United States. Founded to promote excellence in local journalism and foster collaboration among community publishers, the ACP represents a diverse array of publications, including newspapers, shoppers, magazines, directories and digital news...

Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy have become recognized and respected news media analysts with their highly listened to podcast series: " What Works. The future of local news. "  However recently, Clegg a three-decade Boston Globe veteran who helped get a few Pulitzer Prizes for the paper and Kennedy a Northeastern University journalism professor who writes the  Media Nation blog , have released a crit...

In September 2023, E&P reported on the Arizona Newspapers Association and the Arizona Broadcasters Association merger. In the past year, there have been several legacy newspaper and public media mergers, such as Chicago Public Media's acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times , The Steinman's "gifting" of their 150+-year-old Lancaster, PA newspaper to the local public broadcasting outlet and the Denton...

Recently, Public Media Consultant Tom Davidson wrote an op-ed published in "Current," the industry's quarterly trade magazine, "decrying the lack of awareness in public media about  Press Forward , the $500 million foundation effort to reinvigorate local news." Since then, National Public Radio (NPR) published its own  white paper to support public media, and the Public Media Content Collective (f...

On February 4 th , 2024, the president of Rebuild Local News and co-founder of Report for America, Steven Waldman , penned an op-ed for E&P Magazine entitled " In defense of (some) old media. Writing off legacy media will lead to bad public policy."   In the very first sentence of the piece, Waldman took aim at the January 24 th , 2024 article, " Is it time to give up on old news? " which was penn...

As reported by E&P in May of 2023 (" Ghost papers: Journalists find themselves alone or with just a few left in the newsroom "), UNC's Hussman School of Journalism and Media's Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics, Penelope Muse Abernathy stated, "Although the exact number is hard to pin down, we estimate, based on news accounts and industry data, at least 1,000 of the 7,200 newsp...

Darren Samuelson, a seasoned journalist known for his insightful political reporting, first made his mark at Politico , a Washington-based digital newspaper company founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton. During his nearly 10 years there, Samuelson demonstrated a keen ability to dissect complex political issues and provide readers with comprehensive analysis. After establ...

On Tuesday January 23, 2024, one of the 100-plus reporters who was laid off via Webinar from the Los Angeles Times, stated it was "like a drive-by," as it was clear that very few at this iconic 142-year-old newspaper had any idea, that in a matter of minutes, they were told that more than 20% of their staff was to be let go. And when events like this take place within a unionized newsroom, the wor...

As publisher of the Chattanooga Times in 1877, Adolph Ochs (who would later purchase the New York Times) added a slogan to the paper's masthead: "To give the news impartially, without fear or favor." This quote remains on top of current issues of the Chattanooga Times Free Press today, now owned by WEHCO Media . WEHCO, a fourth-generation, family-owned, 115-year-old newspaper company, is under the...

The Word in Black website states a mission: "To be the most trusted news and information source for, about, and by Black people."   Founded on June 7, 2021, just after the entire world witnessed the tragic death of George Floyd, 10 of the nation's most prestigious Black legacy newspaper publishers joined together to launch a collaborative online news presence to work together to serve their local...

Chris Lytle, best-selling author of "The Accidental Salesperson " and "The Accidental Sales Manager ," walked into an am radio station in 1972 with a political science degree, hoping to secure a news reporting job. The manager stated that the newsroom was full and offered Chris a sales job, which he accepted. That changed the course of his career forever. Ten years later, after mastering the art o...

Rick Goldsmith's website: New Day Films states that his mission as a filmmaker is to "tell stories that encourage social engagement and active participation in community life and the democratic process, and to stimulate young minds to question the world around them." And when one watches his latest work: " Stripped for Parts: American Journalism at the Crossroads ," a 90-minute documentary that te...

In late November, the entire news publishing industry was surprised to hear that Canada's government reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100 million Canadian annually to the country's news industry to comply with Canada's Online News Act (Bill c-18), requiring tech companies to pay publishers for their content. Actual verbiage on the government's website pages that describe t...