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

Children of celebrities often have difficulty finding their path. There are countless stories of their wrong choices. However, Peter Funt, son of Allen Funt, creator of Candid Camera , one of TV's longest-running and most popular shows, was able to walk the fine line between honoring his father's achievements and forging his own – and very successfully. Peter became a member of the Candid Camera f...

Francesca Chambers is the new White House Correspondent for USA Today . However, she is not new to reporting on D.C. politics, having covered presidents, vice presidents and politicians, including former Presidents Obama and Trump, former Vice President Pence, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senators Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, and Lindsey Graham. Before this new position at USA Tod...

Jon Marshall teaches media history and reporting as an associate professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications. In his new book "Clash: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis," he examines the adversarial relationship between presidents and journalists amid periods of national crisis. Some administrations he explores within t...

In 1913, Victoriano Manteiga came to the United States from Cuba and went to work as a "lector," reading the news of the day to the immigrant workers of the Morgan Cigar Factory in Ybor City, a National Historic Landmark District in Tampa. In 1922 he founded a newspaper for those workers that is now celebrating 100-years of service. Today Victoriano's grandson Patrick Manteiga is "at the helm" of...

Today, two of the premier industry associations representing news and magazine publishers join forces. It's official: the News Media Alliance (NMA) will merge today with the Association of Magazine Media , still fondly known by its former acronym, "MPA," or the Magazine Publishers Association. News businesses and magazine publishers have largely traveled similar but parallel paths since the advent...

The Baltimore Banner website proudly displays a mission: to be the leading provider of news and lifestyle content in the Baltimore metro area,  which Nielsen ranks as the 26 th  largest Designated Market Area (DMA) in the United States. Currently, the city has 11 newspapers, four broadcast TV news operations and a full-time news/talk radio outlet. But when the well-known CEO of Choice Hotels Inter...

You may already be familiar with "deep fakes" — the colloquial term for manipulating video, warping its reality with a particular rhetorical objective in mind. But how pervasive, easy to use and convincing have deep fakes gotten in recent years? On this 135th episode of E&P Reports, Host and E&P Publisher Mike Blinder; guest Sam Gregory, program director at WITNESS.org; and E&P contributor Gretche...

The latest Borrell Benchmarking report from Borrell Associates was just released, showing that local digital advertising will grow 9% to over $92 billion, which will amount to almost two-thirds of all available local advertising dollars, rising to nearly three-quarters by 2025. The major shift in purchase behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic seems to center on how local businesses moved a good d...

Liz White, Publisher & Executive Vice President of Record-Journal Publishing Company (R-J Media), states during this "E&P Reports" interview, "I got the idea from reading my own newspaper." White explains how she learned that their city of Meriden, Connecticut was receiving $36 million in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding to help the community recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. White said u...

On September 1, 2021, E&P reported that The Chief-Leader , the 100+-year-old, family-owned NYC weekly, whose nearly 30,000 subscribers are almost entirely New York City municipal workers, was sold to Ben August . August has no roots in journalism or media, having sold a lucrative human resource services company he built. And since then, devoting himself to his Napa Valley vineyard and a nonprofit...

In the March issue of Editor & Publisher, the  Cordova Times was featured as an "honorable mention" in " 10 That Do it Right ," E&P's yearly salute to top news media companies. The small weekly in remote South-Central Alaska (only accessible by boat or plane) was awarded "Best Comprehensive Coverage of the COVID Pandemic" across all media, broadcast and print, and "Alaska's Best Weekly" for two ye...

Appalachian news veterans exit the daily newspaper to start a growing non-profit — The Cardinal News. On February 27 th , the Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan published a story entitled, " This rural news start-up has two reporters and an editor with no broadband. Already, it's made an impact ," and suddenly, the entire world is made aware of the story of an Appalachian digital-only news site c...

As E&P reported earlier this week ( Florida legislators put news publishers — in the state and beyond — on notice ), the news publishing industry was stunned to learn that the Florida State Senate voted in favor of a bill that changed the requirement for government entities to place public notices in local newspapers. The amendment that changed the existing bill, which just went into effect a few...

On Thursday, March 10, 2022, the Florida State Senate voted in favor of a bill (FL HB 7049 ) that changed state government entities' requirements to place public notices in local newspapers. The amendment that passed changed some language from the existing bill, which was just approved in 2021, allowing public notices to remain in the public domain through newspapers, their websites, and online at...

The Chicago Tribune states proudly, "Rex Huppke is considered (by himself) to be America's most-beloved columnist, though there is no empirical evidence of that." And recently, after almost 20 years at the "Trib," this famous satirical humorist announced that he would be "jumping ship" to pen his thoughts for a larger international audience at USA TODAY.  Rex's first column for Gannett did not dis...

Meet Russell Midori , a New York City freelance news photographer, documentary filmmaker and co-founder and president of the Military Veterans in Journalism (MVJ), a relatively new professional association that builds community for vets, supports their career growth and advocates for diversifying newsrooms through hiring and promoting more vets. Midori served as a combat correspondent in the Marin...

Check Out DFW proudly states on the site that it is: "The first-of-its-kind real estate and local recommendations product that helps locals live more enjoyable lives." Launched in the fall of 2021 in a very media crowded Dallas/ Ft. Worth metroplex market, Jed William s, who spent one year as Chief Revenue Officer at Ken Doctor's experimental start-up Lookout Local and close to four years managing...

In a recent post from the American Press Institute , they cited: "Concentrated efforts to highlight diversity are  necessary for reaching new audiences and staying relevant to younger changing audiences . Readers pay attention to the content that speaks to or serves their identity. Diversity is a journalism imperative." The API goes on to add that more diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) within...

On Nov. 18, 2020, the Del Rio News-Herald printed its final edition leaving this border town of 35,000+ without a local news outlet. But just one month later, a weekly free tabloid entitled The 830 Times (named after the local area code) appeared throughout the town and surrounding Val Verde County. The new newspaper grew out of a then 5-month-old entertainment-based local website started by 56-ye...

The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) hopes to bring big tech to the bargaining table with U.S. news publishers. On this 122nd episode of E&P Reports, Danielle Coffey, executive vice president and general counsel for the News Media Alliance (NMA), and economist Dr. Hal Singer, managing director, Econ One discuss why this legislation is urgently needed and offer advance insight int...

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median number of years an employee works for a company is four years and one month. The "exception to that rule" might be Kurt Jackson, who has worked at Software Consulting Services (SCS), according to his Linkedin profile : "28 years and ten months." Kurt started his career in news publishing in 1989 as a circulation executive for the Journal...

In this 120 th episode of "E&P Reports" American Journalism Project (AJP) CEO Sarabeth Berman and AJP's Co-Founder and Vice President for Portfolio Success Anna Nirmala talk about several AJP grants they recently awarded including $1.6 million given to Block Club Chicago and their contribution to the 20 million in seed being given to a new, nonprofit, Houston based local news outlet. Joining in on...

Borrell Associates ' latest study: 2022 Local Automotive Advertising Outlook , released on Monday, Jan 7, 2022, predicts significant changes in this highly lucrative media advertising category for the next few years. Within the 30-page report, 18 charts and graphs reveal that local dealers spent an estimated $8.7 billion on advertising in 2021, a 15% increase over 2020. In 2022, the forecast is fo...

  E&P devoted its January 2022 cover story (" At the front lines, on the homefront ")  to memorializing the January 6th assault on the nation's Capitol and to inform our readers — news publishers — about what it's like to report on domestic extremism; what the perils are to journalists; how to prepare for potentially violent or dangerous conflicts; and why these stories matter nationally and withi...

As newspapers' online presence matures, many still struggle with monetizing it. Often, an outside perspective is where new ideas are born. They disrupt the norm and reveal new monetization opportunities. That realization is how Ryan Johnston , a former commercial real estate professional, and Ryan Heafy , a former engineer, envisioned 6AM City . Its 24 editions (currently) in most regions of the U...