The Hartford City Council (Connecticut) has thumbed up a resolution pushing Alden Global Capital, the parent of the Hartford Courant, to refrain from more layoffs, which have “decimated” the staff, and to have the paper go back to local ownership, the paper reported. https://www.courant.com/…
News & Tech has gotten word that Heinz Schmid has died.
A new nonprofit news source, Mountain State Spotlight, has launched in West Virginia and is seeking donations.
Meredith Corporation cut 180 workers last week, the Des Moines Register reported. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2020/09/18/meredith-corporation-cuts-180-jobs-minimal-impact-des-moines/5824016002/
Telegraph Media Group has chosen Twipe as the partner to work on their recently relaunched daily edition app, says Belgium-based Twipe.
News Corp plans to shift the printing of several of its publications in New York to a different facility in the city.
• Tribune Publishing is shuttering the Daily Press office in Newport News (Virginia), the paper reported. Par Ridder, general manager of the Daily Press and other Tribune papers, said office will close permanently by the end of this month. Most Daily Press staff members have been working fro…
America’s Newspapers has launched a national print advertising network.
Quantum Design, a manufacturer of automatic splicers and turret rewinders and owner of the KTI product line, announced an agreement with Hunkeler, provider of digital print finishing solutions based in Wikon, Switzerland. The agreement will make Quantum Design the exclusive supplier of autom…
SCS has released Community Publishing System (CPS), a content workflow solution.
The Washington Post and Financial Times are offering a new joint digital subscription. From now through October 8, readers who buy a Washington Post subscription will get three months of the Financial Times included, and readers who buy a Financial Times subscription will get 90 days of digi…
Kodak and PerfectPattern, a specialist in artificial intelligence solutions for manufacturing industries, have a new agreement by which Kodak will take a license for the source code of PerfectPattern’s sPrint One software.
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Since 2008, Connecticut-based MediaBids has been driving print ad revenue to newspaper publishers through a performance-based print advertising program.
Public notice platform Column will power notices for The Washington Post, providing software for The Post’s online distribution of public and legal notices in the DC-Maryland-Virginia region.
Schneps Media has bought Dan’s Independent Media, a media company on Long Island’s East End.
The long talked-of merger between Taboola and Outbrain is off, TechCrunch reported.
• Hilton Head Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette Editor and President Brian Tolley announced that McClatchy would voluntarily recognize their union, according to the NewsGuild. It’s is the first voluntary recognition by a McClatchy paper in recent years, says the guild.
Capital Gazette (Annapolis, Maryland) staff protested Sept. 7 as parent company Tribune Publishing has shuttered the newsroom’s office in Annapolis, citing budget issues due to COVID-19, WJZ in Baltimore reported.
Printing technologies trade fair drupa is extending its digital offering: starting in October the online platform drupa preview will offer exhibitors and visitors an additional channel for touching base with the sector, discussing trending themes and presenting product portfolios.
• Capital Newspapers is stopping print production of the Reedsburg Times Press (Wisconsin). The last edition will go out Sept. 17. Capital Newspapers is based in Madison and owned by Lee Enterprises and The Capital Times Company.
Google is bringing Your News Update to Google Podcasts and also making it easier to listen to local news when you ask Google Assistant, Google said in a blog. https://blog.google/products/assistant/your-news-update-google-podcasts/
Reuters has a new a partnership with Facebook to produce live U.S. election night results for social media users. https://www.reuters.com/article/rpb-facebookelectionnightresults-idUSKBN25U1RI
The Roanoke Times (Virginia) is cutting 10 staff members in October, according to the Timesland News Guild. The cuts come as owner Lee Enterprises moves to consolidate design in the Midwest. https://www.timeslandnewsguild.com/news
The last weekend of August saw the end for daily TV listings in the print editions of The New York Times. The feature debuted on May 18, 1939. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/insider/TV-listings-ending.html
Paxton Media Group has bought the Wilkes Journal-Patriot newspaper in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, from Carter-Hubbard Publishing, according to Randy Cope of Cribb, Greene & Cope, who represented the Hubbard family in the sale.
New Jersey-based hedge fund Chatham Asset Management has completed its buy of McClatchy, Chatham announced. The purchase transitions the McClatchy operation out of bankruptcy. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mcclatchy-acquired-by-chatham-asset-management-llc-301124648.html
NJ.com (serving a number of New Jersey papers, including The Star-Ledger, The Express-Times and other daily and weekly papers) has launched a Subtext campaign sending text updates on school reopenings in New Jersey.
Starting Sept. 3, print editions of Trib Total Media’s weekly community newspapers will again be delivered to the mailboxes of more than 154,000 households across the region each week, Trib Total Media (southwestern Pennsylvania) has announced.
Many Americans remain skeptical toward the news media, questioning not only the quality of journalists’ work but their intentions behind it, says a Pew Research Center analysis, which culminates a yearlong study on Americans’ views of the news media
Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong has pledged to make a quarter of the Times’ newsroom Latino over the next five years, The Wrap and others reported.
Several items of note to report involving Facebook.
Clarity Media Group says that it will begin publishing a daily, Denver-focused digital newspaper starting Sept. 14.
The Los Alamos Monitor (New Mexico) will publish its last edition on Aug. 30, the paper announced. Landmark Community Newspapers owns the paper.
• Free Press has launched News Voices: Colorado, a collaboration with the Colorado Media Project and COLab to “ensure that communities across the state have access to the information they need and are represented in the stories being told.” The nonprofit Free Press has an office in Washingto…
The drop in U.S. ad spending fell at its lowest rate of decline in July since the economic fallout of COVID-19 became apparent post-March, MediaPost reports.
A Pew Research Center survey done in June finds that around three-quarters of U.S. adults say it is very (37%) or somewhat (36%) likely that social media sites intentionally censor political viewpoints that they find objectionable. Just 25% believe this is not likely the case.
Gannett announced a new push to make its workforce as diverse as the country by 2025 and to increase the number of journalists covering issues related to race, identity, social justice and equality, USA Today reported.
Trade group Digital Content Next’s CEO Jason Kint has written a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking for disclosure of the terms of a deal between Amazon and Apple and asking if “anyone meeting the conditions” can apply to get the deal.
• Westplex Media Group has bought The Mexico Ledger (Missouri) from Gannett, the twice-weekly paper reported.
