June 2018

In this issue

• The Siebold Company partnering with color control and registration specialists QIPC-EAE

  The Siebold Company (TSC) is now the authorized agency of QIPC-EAE—the Dutch company specializing in color control and registration equipment—in the United States, the Caribbean and Canada. …

• Final Countdown to Mission One: Revenue

  Mission One: Revenue focuses on finding new revenue from any of the sources available to newspaper, from digital to events to niche products to social media. But the agenda for Mission One: …

• Summertime means long-range Inland planning by your hardworking boards

  It’s finally summer, and summertime is a busy one for the Inland Press Association, staff and boards! As you read the June edition of The Inlander, the boards of Inland Association and …

• GateHouse acquiring The Pueblo Chieftain

  GateHouse Media is buying The Pueblo Chieftain, the oldest daily newspaper in Colorado, from the Rawlings family-owned The Star-Journal Publishing Corp. The sale was expected to close in …

• O’Connor, Ward promoted at Black Press’ Sound Publishing

  Josh O’Connor has been named president and publisher of Sound Publishing. The appointment was announced by Rick O’Connor, president and CEO of Sound Publishing’s parent, Black Press Group Ltd. …

• Gloria Fletcher, former Sound Publishing president, named president and publisher of the Tulsa World

  Gloria Fletcher is the new president and publisher of the Tulsa World. Fletcher was also named a vice president of BH Media Group, the newspaper’s parent company. She will oversee BH Media …

• Inland welcomes U.S. Senate bill to roll back newsprint tariffs hurting publishers

  Taking action to protect publishers and printers from unjustified tariffs, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators have introduced the “Protecting Rational Incentives in Newsprint Trade Act of 2018,” …

• Innovation on the agenda at Inland’s Annual Meeting

  For its 133rd Annual Meeting September 9 to 11, Inland is coming home to Chicago and reaching out to other industries to find success stories in innovation that can be emulated by newspapers. Two of …

• A few minutes with…David Holgate

  So what is it you do, David Holgate? I’m the Indiana and Michigan group president for Paxton Media Group, and publisher of The Herald-Palladium in St. Joseph, Michigan.  And how did …

• Sara April promoted to name partner at Dirks, Van Essen brokerage

  Sara April has been promoted to a name partner in the newspaper brokerage firm that has been renamed Dirks, Van Essen, Murray & April. “We couldn’t have found a better partner. …

• Get with the disruption program: Move from mass marketing to direct marketing

  I think we’re going on roughly 24 years of trying to figure out this internet thing and what we should do about it. Being the incumbent market share leader in the face of massive disruption is …

• Nominate an Inland Fellow. Get a management-ready employee

  The Inland Fellows Program is calling for nominees for its next class. You likely have a potential Inland Fellow in your newsroom, your sales team, your circulation or production departments. He …

• Put your newsroom photographers on display by entering the Inland News Photo Contests

  Did your newsroom capture an amazing action shot at the local football game? Is there a “wow”-worthy photo that every one can’t stop sharing? Ensure your photographers get the …

• You’re having a birthday! So we’re generating new revenue

  Every reader has a birthday. The Northwest Florida Daily News turned that obvious fact into an email campaign that increased reader engagement, enlarged its database—and generated more than $80,000 …