Kevin Slimp

Young Kansas publisher quickly learns secrets of success

When Tommy Thomason invited me to spend a couple of days at the Texas Center for Community Journalism a few months ago, I was...

Submit your best work of the year, Publick Occurrences Award deadline is July 21

The Publick Occurrences Award was established in 1990 to recognize individual and team merit at New England newspapers to mark the 300th anniversary of...

The ‘blue shirt’ won. Is that the best we can do?

Local names and faces are the lifeblood of community newspaper content. There’s no better way to spotlight your readers than through photos. After all, “a...

2022 Publick Occurrences Awards Announced

2022 PUBLICK OCCURRENCES AWARDS Seven Days: Roaches and Broken Locks, the Bove family as local slum landlords. Lots of research and a strong contrast between...

Mother’s Day During COVID-19 Stay At Home Orders

Mother's Day 2020 is about as different as it can get with stay at home orders in place in most of the...
Kevin Slimp

2019 Publishers survey offers insights into future of industry

Kevin Slimp is director of the Institute of Newspaper Technology. Email questions to him at kevin@kevinslimp.com.

September Obituaries 2021

CONNECTICUT Thomas P. McMahon Jane McIntosh Seel Martha E. Stopkoski Barbara Varrick MASSACHUSETTS Ralph E. Gordon, Sr. Milton Jaffe Gun Anthony Kavanaugh Sr. Phyllis N. Kirkpatrick William Bill Perley Richard E. Sheehan Frank Sousa William Wasserman MAINE None ReportedNEW...

Gannett commits to make workforce as diverse as America

Gannett, the owner of USA TODAY and more than 260 local news operations, announced a broad initiative last week to make its workforce as...
Winter Convention 2019 Register

Registration Is Open For The 2019 New England Newspaper Convention

Believe it or not 2019 is right around the corner ... and so is the largest newspaper convention in New England. The 2019 New England...

CJR Op-ed: Post merger, Gannett must keep local journalist jobs

Mariya Manzhos | Columbia Journalism Review. | January 3, 2020 In an op-ed published by the Columbia Journalism Review....