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In a time of great transformation in our industry, it’s vital that inland remain focused on the critical question that will allow us to serve our membership well.
What will our industry look …
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10/20/16
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Hearst Newspapers LLC has bought Houston Community News and Media Group, a cluster of a daily and 23 Houston, Texas-area weeklies, from 1013 Star Communications.
Included in the transaction …
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10/20/16
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Family-owned Adams Publishing Group said Aug. 10 that it is acquiring ECM Publishers Inc., the Coon Rapids, Minn.-based company that is one of the larger publishers of weeklies in the U.S.
ECM, …
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10/20/16
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Virginia News Group, publisher of the Arundel family-owned Loudoun Times-Mirror, has sold three weeklies—the Fauquier Times, Prince William Times and Gainesville Times to a group of local …
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10/20/16
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Star Tribune Media Company, publisher of the StarTribune in Minneapolis, has engaged LEAP Media Solutions to engineer, manage and deploy its marketing automation and analytics platform, known as …
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10/20/16
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The sentiment that newspapers are dying is gaining much traction among publishers themselves, with most saying local and regional newspapers can be sustained for the foreseeable future—and 33% …
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10/20/16
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Local newspapers and their websites and social media outlets are the number one source for community news and advertising, according to a new survey.
Asked about where they got local news, …
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10/20/16
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Okay, so what are these takeaways? They began as a quick one-sheet summary of the key points made during the many webinars Inland conducts through the year. Think of them as a kind of Cliffs Notes …
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10/20/16
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In combing through the feedback from this year’s exhaustive Inland member survey, I was struck by this suggestion:
“Feature what successful operations have done to make their …
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10/20/16
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Events are powerful for many reasons. They are big revenue drivers, they help you engage your target audience, and they generate leads. For vendors and sponsors, events can provide excellent …
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By Matt Coen, Saint Louis
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10/20/16
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On Page 241 of “Slip of the Knife,” a thriller by Scottish author Denise Mina, the protagonist describes her sister as “smoking fluently.”
That combination of words …
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Jim Stasiowski, Sparks, Nevada
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10/20/16
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted in August to keep in place its rules prohibiting most newspapers from owning broadcast outlets in the same market.
In its quadrennial …
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10/20/16
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What’s not changing for exempt employees: The duties, such as management and supervisory roles, and the way salary is paid, that is, a fixed sum no matter how often or how much he/she …
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10/19/16
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The Pioneer News Group, in cooperation with Microsoft Corp. and Posh Technologies, has launched an innovative new initiative increasing subscribers’ access to news—and puts the power of …
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10/19/16
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Everything Shaw Media’s expanding company does has three goals, its president and CEO Tom Shaw says: “In all we do we’re pursuing our three-legged stool of providing relevant …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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10/19/16
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Lloyd Case was a CPA and CFO with a Fargo, N.D., plumbing supplies manufacturer in 1982 when he noticed an ad in the local daily The Forum. The Marcil family’s newspaper and broadcast company …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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10/19/16
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As a media executive, you are focused on several initiatives to help you reach your goals. Those goals include revenue growth, audience engagement, increasing pageviews, social media growth, and …
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By Matt Coen, St. Louis
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10/19/16
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This year, Inland welcomes four new Inland Fellows.
The two-year program — for employees identified as having the potential for a successful leadership career in the newspaper …
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By Maureen Hart
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10/19/16
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Barraged by advertising sales reps—calling an average of nearly 24 times a month — local businesses are shifting their marketing money away from traditional media and into their own web sites and social media …
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10/18/16
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AMG/Parade has named Dave Barber executive vice president of the company’s Newspaper Relations Group.
Barber most recently served as a consultant for AMG/Parade. He had worked for Parade and …
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10/18/16
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At the recent Graph Expo 2016 printing industry show, ProImage launched its new generation of workflow—NewsWay-X.
This latest newspaper workflow by ProImage features a single, …
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10/18/16
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Schurz Communications has bought the Watertown (S.D.) Public Opinion from United Communications Corp.
Schurz also owns the American News and Farm Forum in Aberdeen, S.D.
Terms of the …
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10/18/16
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Slechta Communications, a group of three community newspapers in Iowa, has been purchased by Anamosa Publications.
The papers involved in the transaction, terms of which were not disclosed, are …
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10/18/16
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Jones Media, a fourth-generation family-owned newspaper publisher, sold its assets to Adams Publishing Group, another family-owned publisher headed by Steve Adams. Financial terms of the sale were …
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10/18/16
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Family-owned Paxton Media Group has purchased three Midwestern papers from Brehm Communications, the Princeton (Ind.) Daily Clarion, the Mount Carmel (Ill.) Register and The Standard in Booneville, …
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10/18/16
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