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

Rob Tornoe is a journalist/ cartoonist for the award-winning Philadelphia Inquirer , where some of his work (including political spoofs from Al Gore to Peanuts) is syndicated and internationally recognized. Tornoe also writes & illustrates each month for Editor & Publisher about the many aspects of the news publishing industry.  In this 166 th episode of "E&P Reports," internationally recognized j...

Doug Phares is a passionate business consultant who helps executives find ways to get past all the hurdles and challenges that slow us down. From small-scale work like examining product bundling to assisting decision-makers in developing 3-year plans, Phares has seen it all over the course of his career. In his news media career, Phares was most recently the CEO of the Sandusky Newspaper Group (SN...

Recently Meta (formally Facebook) made it official that it was leaving the news business, as they included most of the staff that worked within their " Meta Journalism Project Accelerator Program " in the 11,000 company positions eliminated in their mid-November 2022 mass layoffs. Since 2019, the U.S.-based Local Media Association (LMA) and associated Local Media Foundation worked in partnership w...

After senior management positions at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, Dick Tofel helped start and eventually led the well-known, nonprofit investigative journalistic entity ProPublica for 15 years. Today he consultants the industry as the principal of Gallatin Advisory . However, Tofel recently "lit up the Twittersphere" when he posted on his blog, " Second Rough Draft ," an unabashed and un...

As the news publishing industry continues to fight the big tech giants, Google & Facebook, for what is considered fair compensation for the content journalists create and that the tech companies monetize via clicks and posts, one voice tweets to over 170,000 followers: " Klobuchar's JCPA is shit legislation " and " Protectionism is not a business model. Whining is not a business model. Handouts ar...

In 2005 John Garrett started Community Impact Newspaper from the game room of his home with his wife and best friend, Jennifer. They began with the creation of the Pflugerville, Texas edition. Today that one paper is part of a growing empire of over 30 monthly printed and 24/7 digital hyperlocal community news platforms that serves four Texas metropolitan areas. In 2016, printing and mailing over...

Andrew Conte, founding director of the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park University , has been receiving wide industry acclaim for his latest book " Death of the Daily News ," which tells the story of how residents in one Pennsylvania community have identified and sorted local news and information since their local newspaper stopped publishing after 131 years. The book also addresses how "...

Most United States municipalities have laws requiring that all public notices must be published by a third-party independent newspaper — a concept that dates to the 1700s. This practice is based on the idea that the people of a democracy have the right to know what is going on with their government and the legal proceedings that occur within their community. There is no question that the newspaper...

The Denton Record-Chronicle , the main newspaper for the city of Denton and Denton County Texas, a suburb of the Dallas/ Fort Worth "Metroplex" with a population slightly under 1-million, recently announced that it is being acquired by KERA public media, the regional public broadcasting facility of north Texas. Assisting to make the deal happen is the  National Trust for Local News , a non-profit...

It has only been a few years since the February 2018 announcement that Nicole Carroll was to succeed Joanne Lipman as editor-in-chief of USA Today. She was by no means an outsider to the operation, being part of their Network of more than 200 local digital properties in 45 states. As an editor and vice president of news at The Arizona Republic , Carroll led a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in Expl...

When Editor & Publisher Magazine (E&P) opened the nomination process for the yearly " 25 over 50 " salute, one entry from Emily Metzgar, a director at the School of Media & Journalism at Kent State University, stated that Kevin Dilley, the director of Kent State Student Media , "Has built one of the largest media operations you've never heard about." Emily wrote E&P that "Kevin wrangles a $750,000...

Before joining Fox News, Chris Stirewalt served as political editor for the Washington Examiner. As a top editor and election forecaster for Fox News' decision desk during the 2020 election, Stirewalt stood firm to defend the network being the first to correctly call Arizona for Joe Biden on election night — the first sign that Donald Trump would lose the 2020 presidential race. What resulted was...

One of the 2022 inductees for the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame included the publisher/editor of Dallas, Texas-based I Messenger Media: Cheryl Smith. This latest honor was presented at the August 2022 NABJ Annual Convention in Las Vegas, where her numerous awards, years of service to the industry and contributions to black journalism were recognized . Smith has more...

With elections, law enforcement agencies, the courts, elected officials, branches of the government and the very rule of law under sustained and concerted attack by its own citizens and elected leaders, there is no question that the media has an essential role to play in addressing these important issues. E&P's September 2022 cover story " American Democracy in Crisis " reports on the need for the...

The latest Gallup poll came with a warning flare: "Americans' confidence in two facets of the news media — newspapers and television news — has fallen to all-time low points." Since 1973, Washington, D.C.-based Gallup, Inc. has polled Americans about their trust in newspapers and, in 1993, began tracking American sentiments about television/cable news. A mere 16% of Americans "have a great deal/qu...

Aequalitas is Latin for "equality." But it would be hard to find an industry executive equal to Aqualitas Media Group founder and executive director DJ Doran, who spent 23 years as a U.S. Air Force Reserve Pilot before purchasing a hotel and entering the news publishing industry.  Today, Doran owns eight online publications targeted to the LGBTQ+ reader in several U.S. major markets, including his...

On January 28 th , 2022, The Dallas Morning News reported on the purchase of a local, suburban metroplex group of weekly newspapers, stating, "Instead of a trip to Hawaii to celebrate 25 years together, Rick and Elizabeth Rogers bought a community newspaper company." That company is Star Local Media , a community publishing group based in the affluent northeast suburb of Plano, Texas, that prints...

Damian Daniels had three encounters with the local police during the last 48 hours of his life. The Army veteran was in his home in August 2020, amid a mental health crisis, when his brother — 800 miles away in Colorado — called the Red Cross for help. The agency, in turn, called 9-1-1, and police officers were dispatched for a welfare check that turned deadly, culminating in an officer shooting D...

Jennifer Kho loves that Chicago is a "two-newspaper town." She's the new executive editor at one of those two newspapers, the Chicago Sun-Times . Kho was E&P Publisher Mike Blinder's guest on this 148th episode of E&P Reports vodcast. Prior to being named executive editor, Kho was the managing editor at HuffPost and, before that, managing editor at The Guardian (US). While at HuffPost, she became...

Delano Massey was covering several executive-level jobs at CNN, including supervising producer of both race and equity and crime and justice reporting, when he joined the team at Axios as managing editor of Local , just as the company launched a dozen new markets. Having spent over three years at AP and attending Maynard Institute's Media Academy at Harvard University, he gained national recogniti...

On their website, JaxTrib.com , the team of Jacksonville, Florida's newest news outlet, posted, "Before it's too late, we must rethink what news will look like and how it will be delivered in our community. For the Tributary, the future of local journalism is about accountability and accessibility. This nonprofit news hub feeds investigative stories to area partners, filling a gap in coverage of e...

On June 29 th , 2022, the  Local News Initiative at The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications of Northwestern University released their latest study, " The State of Local News 2022, Expanding News Deserts, Growing Gaps, Emerging Models."  The primary author of the report is Penelope Muse Abernathy, who is nationally known for her "news deserts" research and acts a...

Juana Summers knew she wanted to be a reporter since high school in Kansas City, where she started writing for her school newspaper. After graduating in 2009 from the University of Missouri with a degree in Convergence Journalism, she has quickly established a remarkable career with reporting positions covering politics for CNN, AP, Mashable and National Public Radio (NPR). Summers will join  All...

While most news publishing outlets are downsizing, the  Hearst Connecticut Media Group  (HCMG) continues to grow its operations with a recent expansion statewide and in Greater Hartford, the backyard of the now hedge fund-owned Harford Courant. In March 2022, HCMG announced hiring 13 new staff members, including 11 journalists who will focus their reporting on statewide topics, and local news and...

In the summer of 2019, the Boston Globe surprised the industry by launching an initiative just 53 miles down the I-95 corridor in neighboring Providence, Rhode Island. When most local news operations were aggressively downsizing, the Globe had already shown an appetite for expansion by hiring more journalists and launching new verticals covering marijuana, health, life sciences and even the Cathol...