The 80th annual National Newspaper Week, celebrated this year Oct. 4 -10, is a recognition of the service of newspapers and their employees across North America and is sponsored by Newspaper Association Managers.
A content kit to promote the event is available for download at no charge to daily and non-daily newspapers across North America. The kit contains promotional ads, editorial cartoons, and more.
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Community leaders from across the nation once again connected on September 24 for the Radically Rural summit, an annual gathering focused on the challenges facing America’s small towns.
The Keene Sentinel and the Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship co-hosted the summit, now in its third year, which is normally held in venues throughout downtown Keene. Amid the pandemic, Thursday’s sessions were held online, with 500 registrants tuning in from at least 40 states.
Six program tracks focused on sharing ideas around the advantages of rural communities: arts and culture, community journalism, entrepreneurship, Main Street, renewable energy, and land and community.
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The community journalism track really delivered some great ideas and resources to keep newspapers and media companies moving forward.
Read the stories written by students from the Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH journalism program that appeared in a special section published in The Keene Sentinel.
Pulse Research, Inc., a leader in audience value presentations using shopping research for newspapers, and revenue development company, Advantage Newspaper Consultants (ANC), have formed an alliance to deliver Pulse Research and Pulse Sales Tools to ANC newspaper partners.
As a part of the agreement, ANC media analysts will use Pulse Sales Tools when they work with newspaper and media partners to develop revenue. This will provide ANC and their partners current shopping intelligence and the best ways to engage and help customers with the goal of closing more print and digital annual contracts.
The International Women’s Media Foundation has partnered with Craig Newmark Philanthropies to establish the United States Journalism Emergency Fund. This fund will directly support U.S. journalists in need so they can resume work essential to our functioning democracy. Made available to U.S. based journalists regardless of gender including men, these funds will:
Applicants must be U.S. journalists with journalism serving as their primary profession and must provide proof of their financial need. Funding is available to both staff journalists and those working independently.
The Society of Professional Journalists has partnered with experienced Black and LGBT journalists and educators, including the newly formed Trans Journalists Association, to launch a free race and gender hotline.
The hotline will offer fast answers for uncertain or confused journalists. You’ll speak to Black and LGBT experts who are getting paid for their time. But you don’t pay them. SPJ does.
You will gain confidential and nonjudgmental advice for your specific reporting situation in a calm conversation about controversial topics. This is a business transaction, no different than consulting a First Amendment attorney on a story.
Even if you choose not to follow that advice, you’ll hang up with an enlightened grasp of the race-and-gender issues currently in the news media. And whatever happens on your call, it’s all off the record.
Contact SPJ Race and Gender Hotline
NENPA has learned that former Portland Press Herald reporter Josie Huang was arrested last night while covering a protest in California.
According to a story in KPCC/LAist, where Huang has been a correspondent since 2012, deputies arrested her last night while she was covering the ambush shooting of two deputies in Compton.
Huang was wearing a lanyard with her press credential hanging from her neck when she was thrown to the ground and recorded the encounter.
She was released at about 4 a.m. this morning without bail, but was cited for an obstruction charge.
The incident has sparked outrage among fellow journalists, who are calling her arrest a violation of the First Amendment.
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Huang was a newspaper reporter in New England from 1999 – 2008 working first at the Springfield Republican for almost two years, then almost seven years at the Portland Press Herald.
Before heading to California Huang was a Producer/Host for the Maine Public Broadcasting Network from 2008 – 2012. She has been at KPCC/LAist since 2012.
Pulse has launched the second wave of their Covid-19 Impact Survey to help determine the impact of the pandemic on local shopping intentions. It’s not too late for NENPA members to participate for free and gather their own data and use it to drive revenue.
On Sept. 10 Sammy Papert from Pulse told NENPA, “It’s not too late we will keep the survey open for another month. That’ll give us time to process the data and have it on all client sites early in October for the Fall selling season. The only cost is pixels and paper. Everyone will get a copy of the relevant state or regional data; and, we have 30+ clients working to get their sample. We’re glad to help anyone do that!”
Pulse hopes the survey results will help address some of the business uncertainty. Giving local businesses, newspapers, and sales teams a better understanding of the next few months.
It’s simple to participate and Pulse provides the promotional materials. Invite your readers and website visitors to participate in the survey through ads in print, online, through any email news products and social media. Get a minimum sample to the survey, so that Pulse can verify promotion and you are on your way. Once the survey is completed Pulse will send you the survey results.
Pulse provides incentives for your audience to respond. They will award $1,000 to one respondent of the entire survey and promotion materials emphasize that responses are completely confidential.
To participate contact Papert at, (214) 505 – 6420 or spapert@sbcglobal.net.
Since March, The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University has been collecting data on U.S. newsroom cutbacks that have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
News of cutbacks – sourced from news reports, press releases, Twitter announcements – was collected by Tow researchers and supplemented by aggregated lists produced elsewhere.
The digital advertising world changes quickly. Is your sales team up to speed on the latest selling strategies?
Join America’s Newspapers beginning September 16 for a special four-part sales training program developed specifically for sales managers and their teams.
These sessions are free to America’s Newspapers members, NENPA, and other state press association members.
Each one-hour session will focus on a selling skill to compete in today’s competitive environment and provides the perfect opportunity for managers to engage with their team members and coach them to improve their digital sales knowledge and grow revenue.
Presented by Charity Huff, CEO of January Spring, and additional successful sales leaders.
Four Training Modules:
Jump Start Sales – Building Your Pipeline
September 16, 11 am CDT / Noon EDT
Pricing, Packaging and the Value of ROI
September 30, 11 am CDT / Noon EDT
Show, Don’t Tell – The Power of the Case Study
October 14, 11 am CDT / Noon EDT
Audience, Audience, Audience
October 28, 11 am CDT / Noon EDT
By registering, you’re eligible for all four sales training modules.
REGISTER NOW
It’s recommended that you attend the training live to get the full benefit of the sessions and have the opportunity to ask questions. However, the training sessions will be recorded and available for viewing after the sessions are complete.
For registration questions, please contact Patty Slusher, director of programming, America’s Newspapers, at 847-282-9850, ext. 102 or pslusher@newspapers.org.
