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Enter your best, most courageous work for this year's Carmage Walls Commentary Prize
Awards for excellence in editorial writing (representing the view of the newspaper) and awards for excellence in column writing (columns written by one or more individuals) will be presented this October in Phoenix, Arizona, at the America's Newspapers Senior Leadership Conference. Win cash prizes and recognition!
A total of $15,000 in cash prizes will be awarded this fall. But, entries are being accepted now!
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Make plans to join us in April for the 2024 Mega-Conference in Phoenix, Arizona | |
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As we welcome the New Year, be sure the 2024 News Industry Mega-Conference, to be held April 14-16 in Phoenix, Arizona, is on your calendar. The conference will be held at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown — located near the Phoenix Convention Center, just minutes from Sky Harbor Airport.
Newspaper executives: Register early at the lowest discounted rates. And, save an additional $200 by taking part in the popular Roundtable Sessions to be held during the conference.
Solutions Partners: Your early registration also is encouraged.
For information about reserving a hotel room, click here.
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A warm America's Newspapers welcome to Roxen
After almost three-decades of Web CMS development, Swedish Mediatech innovator Roxen has, for the last few years, focused its entire R&D resources on the development of a cloud service — Roxen Editorial Portal — as the best product for publishing content in print with minimum effort using automation-assisted editing. All this without having to give up any control over the end-result. Roxen Editorial Portal uses standard integrations with major Web CMS such as Arc XP and Brightspot. The company also provides APIs for seamless integration with newspapers' Web CMS of choice.
Roxen has offices in Sweden, the U.S. and Mexico with customers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer, Shaw Media, Forum Communications Company and Schibstedt.
Per Ostlund is president and CEO and can be reached at per.ostlund@roxen.com.
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$25,000 Collier Prize entry deadline is approaching
The Collier Prize, one of the largest journalism awards in the nation, recognizes the best professional investigative reporting on state government in any medium or on any platform and is available to any U.S. news organization. Deadline to enter is midnight, Jan. 31.
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Marshall News Messenger welcomes Lauren Rosenberg as sports editor
Lauren Rosenberg started working at the Marshall (Texas) News Messenger on Jan. 2 and will be covering all sports in Marshall, Harrison County and Marion County.
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The Dallas Morning News hires Anna Butler as real estate reporter
Anna Butler's first day with The Dallas Morning News will be Monday, Jan. 22.
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Consider a different type of diet in 2024
Lately, I have been reading, watching and consuming less news and information — and surprisingly, I am feeling better about myself.
I am taking control of my life in a world of information — where invasive technology spews news, commercial messages and information like a swarm of hungry mosquitos.
Doing so might sound odd for someone in the media business, but give me a few moments here.
READ MORE from Leonard Woolsey of The Daily News (Galveston, Texas)
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Free Press roundup: A ‘bloodbath’ of news layoffs but also impactful stories in 2023
As in the wider world, local journalism enters an uncertain new year after a brutal 2023.
Poynter.org tallied the “bloodbath” of news layoffs last year, including at least 2,681 across an industry that’s already lost two-thirds of its newspaper newsroom jobs in the last 15 years.
The nonprofit cited a Challenger, Gray and Christmas report that found 20,324 job cuts in the broader media sector, more than the previous two years and the highest since 30,211 were lost at the pandemic’s onset.
READ MORE from Brier Dudley of The Seattle Times
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America's Newspapers calendar | |
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April 14-16, 2024 - News Industry Mega-Conference, Phoenix, Arizona
October 18-19, 2024 - Family and Independent Owners Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina
October 20-22, 2024 - Senior Leadership Conference, Charleston, South Carolina
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