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by John Foust
Newspaper Advertising Trainer – Raleigh, NC
One of the basics of selling is to get the right kind of information from prospects. There is a big focus on asking about prospects’ goals, target audiences, marketing budgets …
By Jim Pumarlo
Newsroom Strategies Training
Nothing is more satisfying than looking at your product – whether it’s the print or digital edition – and smiling in approval, “We’ve got it covered. We’re connecting with our readers.”
Developing relationships with …
By Kevin Slimp
CEO, newspaperacademy.com
Publisher at Market Square Books
Answers from publishers at growing papers provide insights
Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken (virtually) at five state and regional press association conventions. In all but one, my leadoff
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by John Foust
Newspaper Advertising Trainer – Raleigh, NC
As a co-founder of Southwest Airlines, Herb Kelleher was focused on innovation and efficiency. According to legend, he once took his executive team to the Indianapolis 500 to study the …
By Jim Pumarlo
Newsroom Strategies Training
Editors and reporters are facing some of their biggest challenges in gathering news during the pandemic. Access to everyday sources is increasingly limited with no relief on the horizon.
Reporters no longer can walk …
Publishers planning for 2021 postage budgets will see no increase in prices for carrier-route level sortations in Within County mailings.
Marketing mail, High-Density Plus and Saturation sortations will also see no price increase, while regular High Density will see increases …
By Kevin Slimp
CEO, newspaperacademy.com
Publisher at Market Square Books
2020 Publishers Survey: Examining the differences
Each year, I survey U.S. publishers and general managers about the health of their newspapers. During the late spring/early summer of 2020, I received
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by John Foust
Newspaper Advertising Trainer – Raleigh, NC
Newscaster Edward R. Murrow once said, “To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.” Although he was …
Washington, D.C. — The Fallen Journalists Memorial (FJM) Foundation, News Media Alliance, National Newspaper Association and National Association of Broadcasters today commended the U.S. House of Representatives on passing bipartisan legislation authorizing the FJM Foundation to establish a national memorial …
NNA ISSUE BRIEF:
Completing Your Statement of Ownership
If Your Periodical Frequency Changed
It is nearly time to complete USPS form 3526 declaring statement of ownership for Periodicals permits. This declaration is required by statute every year for Periodicals permit
By Jim Pumarlo
Newsroom Strategies Training
Election season is in its final stretch, and newspapers have been there at every step. You’ve introduced candidates. You’ve quizzed them on the issues. You’ve covered the debates. Your coverage has laid the foundation …
By Kevin Slimp
Publisher at Market Square Books
CEO, newspaperacademy.com
Comparing the health and ownership of papers to previous years
It’s a fascinating time in the newspaper business, especially from a research perspective. 2020 marks my fifth straight year polling
By Tonda Rush
Director of Public Policy,
General Counsel to the National Newspaper Association
The federal Department of the Treasury has issued long-awaited guidance on how the payroll tax deferral announced on Aug. 8 will work. As expected, the tax …
Damian Radcliffe, Professor of Journalism at the University of Oregon, in collaboration with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, recently relaunched a new survey to better understand life at local newspapers in 2020.
We recognize that local …
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by John Foust
Newspaper Advertising Trainer – Raleigh, NC
These days, ad professionals are conducting more digital presentations than ever before. While there are some similarities with in-person meetings, there are some significant differences. Let’s take a quick look …
By Jim Pumarlo
Newsroom Strategies Training
Everyday news reports are filled with statistics as COVID-19 continues to dominate headlines.
The number of individuals who have tested positive and those who have died of the coronavirus. Patients hospitalized and those in …
By Tonda Rush
Director of Public Policy,
General Counsel to the National Newspaper Association
NNA President Matt Adelman, publisher of the Douglas (Wyoming) Budget, has been assured by the USPS Postal Service Chief Operating Officer David E. Williams that the …
By Tonda Rush
Director of Public Policy
and serves as General Counsel to the National Newspaper Association
A new U.S. Postal Service experiment called Expedited to Street/Afternoon Sortation (ESAS) came to light in mid-July to threaten delays in newspaper delivery.…
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by John Foust
Newspaper Advertising Trainer – Raleigh, NC
Over the years, I’ve heard ad professionals talk about the outstanding copywriting that can be found in catalogues. Of course, there are other approaches to advertising creativity, but catalogues excel …
I hope you noticed NNA’s statement of support last week for HR 7640, the Local Journalism Sustainability Act.
NNA wants to thank its members with Wick Newspapers who were the brainpower working with original sponsor Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick in devising …
Born into a newspaper family, Elliott Freireich started his own paper, the West Valley View, in the Phoenix suburbs in 1986. Before selling it 31 years later, he managed to win a highly publicized lawsuit against “America’s Toughest Sheriff” and …
By Jim Pumarlo
Newsroom Strategies Training
Minnesota is in the spotlight following the recent death of a black man during a police arrest. Racial unrest has erupted everywhere and forced all institutions and organizations – everyone –to examine attitudes toward …
Dear Arizona Newspaper Association Publishers,
Representatives Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ) and Dan Newhouse (R-WA) are planning to introduce legislation early next week that would provide a range of tax credits that would support local newspapers, small- …
The Small Business Administration and Department of Treasury today released the identities of loan recipients under the Paycheck Protection Program that received more than $150,000 in loans.
Newsrooms interested in looking into data may access the information by state here:…
The U.S. Postal Service has notified the Periodicals industry that it is extending eligibility for past-due subscribers to October 31, 2020. The eligibility period for the extension began January 25. 2020.
Normally, after subscribers fall into a past-due status for
By Kevin Slimp
Publisher at Market Square Books
CEO, newspaperacademy.com
Kevin tackles colors, styles, Photoshop settings & more
So, what do professional speakers do during a pandemic? I can’t speak for all the speakers in the world, but among other
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by John Foust
Newspaper Advertising Trainer – Raleigh, NC
Years ago, a keynote speaker at a local Ad Club meeting asked us to put ourselves in a consumer’s shoes. “Let’s say your name is John Doe,” he said. “One …
Press Freedom Defense Fund launches new relief fund for journalists who continue to be impacted by COVID-19 pandemic
First Look Media
The Press Freedom Defense Fund (PFDF), a program of First Look Media, is launching a $200,000 emergency financial assistance …
The Native American Journalists Association joins the National Association of Black Journalists, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, Asian American Journalists Association, and Society of Professional Journalists to call for immediate discontinuance of race-based sports mascots in media.
NAJA is joined …
For immediate release:
The Small Business Administration has released a simplified form for PPP loan forgiveness. It requires fewer calculations.
If you are in process of requesting your loan forgiveness, making sure your lender is aware of the form revision …
Submitted to Department of Justice to Inform Investigation of Google’s Anticompetitive Behavior
Arlington, VA – Today, the News Media Alliance released a White Paper, “How Google Abuses Its Position as a Market Dominant Platform to Strong-Arm News Publishers and …
By Jim Pumarlo
Newsroom Strategies Training
A publisher once asked how I defined aggressive reporting. During my tenure at the Red Wing Republican Eagle, we considered it our badge of honor. If someone threw up roadblocks to information we considered …
Quick guide: Q & A from Michigan Press Association on Press Protections at a Protest.
1. DO I HAVE A FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO COVER A PROTEST?
Yes, with limitations. Freedom of the press protects the right to collect and …
Below is a joint statement by the News Media Alliance, America’s Newspapers and the National Newspaper Association.
The last several days, journalists have been risking their lives to report on the ground at the scenes of protests across the country …
National Newspaper Association today celebrated the bipartisan passage of new House legislation that would give newspapers more flexibility in the use of Paycheck Protection Program loans, a part of the CARES Act. NNA urged the Senate to quickly move the …
The leaders of two Congressional oversight bodies today dropped in a $25 billion appropriation bill to help the U.S. Postal Service stave off financial disaster. Reps Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, chair of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee; and Gerald …
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by John Foust
Newspaper Advertising Trainer – Raleigh, NC
When I heard the doorbell ring that Saturday afternoon, I did something I had never done before. I bought something from a door-to-door salesperson.
It was a pest control representative …
By Kevin Slimp
Publisher at Market Square Books
CEO, newspaperacademy.com
Minnesota publisher shares tips from ten straight years of growth
Just before the world turned upside down in early March, I was making preparations to speak at the Kansas Press
This week, the National Newspaper Association (NNA) joined in a partnership with The New York Times (NYT), as it launched a campaign promoting the need to fund local journalism. We managed to get all NNA member newspapers listed in their …
National Newspaper Association (NNA) today cheered a bipartisan group of senators who are out to correct the Treasury Department’s decision that Paycheck Protection Act recipients cannot deduct their payroll costs.
Led by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-IA, five senators announced that …
By Jim Pumarlo
Newsroom Strategies Training
Digital platforms go a long way toward leveling the playing field among daily and nondaily newspapers. Even the smallest of newsrooms can compete with their larger counterparts by posting news as it happens, and …
Many issues remain to be resolved on how the loan forgiveness phase of the Paycheck Protection Program is supposed to work. Small Business Administration and the Treasury Department are working on another set of regulations to address that part of …
For Immediate Release
Nearly 1,000 community newspapers added their voices to a letter to the 116th Congress: Save the Postal Service!
Amid the flurries of legislation to protect the U.S. economy from the coronavirus damage, Congress has been asked to …
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by John Foust
Newspaper Advertising Trainer – Raleigh, NC
Richard is an advertiser who has seen years of sales presentations. His pet peeve is any salesperson who shows up unprepared. “It’s a waste of valuable time to be in …
By Kevin Slimp
Publisher at Market Square Books
CEO, newspaperacademy.com
It’s a crazy time for all of us. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. Like many of you, I’ve been working out of my home office
By Matthew Adelman
National Newspaper Association, president
Newspapers in the United States have traveled rough seas to the First Amendment freedoms we enjoy today. From the colonial Stamp Act through wartime censorship to today, when thousands of newspapers were slammed …
New guidance is coming daily from the federal government on how the Payroll Protection Program is supposed to work. One new wrinkle is Treasury Department’s decision that the borrowers have to begin spending the loan money within 10 days of …
Everyone steps up to challenge amid virus
Dear alumni and friends,
I wanted to fill you in on how the School of Journalism is faring during this topsy-turvy time. I’m so proud of the way that our faculty, staff and …
Background:
Newspapers are considered essential businesses in statewide shut-down orders. Community newspapers serving small towns, rural areas and neighborhoods continue to attempt to publish in most cases even though they have lost all or most of their revenue stream …
The Public Notice Resource Center (PRNC) sent an email yesterday regarding the danger of suspending publication during the COVID-19 crisis.
The town of Glastonbury, Connecticut announced last week it would begin publishing public notices on its website in lieu of …
For release:
America’s Newspapers, an association of approximately 1,500 local papers of all sizes, has launched a campaign to remind communities about the essential role their local newspapers play in providing critical information during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The first of …
For immediate release:
ARLINGTON, Virginia – Today, four national media organizations representing thousands of local newspapers and local broadcast media outlets – the National Newspaper Association (NNA), News Media Alliance, National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and America’s Newspapers – jointly …
For release:
Attached is the final letter that was sent by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and eighteen other Senate Democrats calling for funding to support local journalism and media in any future COVID-19 relief package. Here is a key quote …
By Jim Pumarlo
Newsroom Strategies Training
The coronavirus pandemic is dominating headlines, generating stories on issues touching nearly every aspect of lives.
Reports addressing the health and safety of citizens are obviously center stage. At the same time, the pandemic …
By Kevin Slimp, The News Guru
Publisher at Market Square Books
CEO, newspaperacademy.com
The Department of Labor has released new regulations explaining how new paid sick leave requirements for small businesses will operate. The regulations include the first explanation for how businesses with fewer than 50 employees may exempt
Source: National Newspapers Association
Newspapers are lining up for the Payroll Protection Program loans. Regulations covering this forgivable loan program are coming into focus. Here is an issue brief answering common questions.
Public invited to submit questions ahead of 6 p.m. Thursday broadcast
TV and radio stations across Arizona will simulcast a live hourlong interview with Gov. Doug Ducey to explore the impact of coronavirus on the state.
The TV special, a …
April 1 will be the last print edition of The Apache Junction & Gold Canyon News
By Trish Hoagland
COO, The Apache Junction & Gold Canyon News
It’s been 17 days since The Apache Junction & Gold Canyon News team …
Colleagues,
Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during these extremely difficult times.
On Friday the president signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES ACT) into law. The CARES Act provides historic stimulus for small businesses. Most …
President and CEO of the News Media Alliance, David Chavern, and CEO of America’s Newspapers, Dean Ridings, which represent thousands of local news publishers across the United States, today sent a letter to President Donald Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch …
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by John Foust
Newspaper Advertising Trainer – Raleigh, NC
Rob is the marketing director for an outdoor apparel company. I remember a conversation with him about his philosophy of promoting their products. “It’s all about benefits,” he said. “Every …
A look inside the rapid-fire response to keep students safe, while delivering quality education during a pandemic
The word came at 4:28 p.m. on a Wednesday in the middle of spring break: All classes at Arizona State University would be …