The cutoff for reserving hotel rooms in our room block for the Senior Leadership Conference is 5 p.m. (Central time) on Friday. 

Rooms may be difficult to reserve after the cutoff due to the Chicago Marathon. 

If you have not reserved your room yet, please do so as quickly as possible at this link.

The newspaper industry has an excellent opportunity to benefit from two critical pieces of legislation in Congress right now. But the time is now for publishers to take action! 

This session at the Senior Leadership Conference will focus on the critical issues impacting advocacy efforts and what publishers should do to improve the chances for success. Attendees will come away with powerful information to help them make local decisions and a road map on how to build relationships with legislators and readers for success.

• What’s happening in Washington? A behind-the-scenes look at what’s happening with the Community News & Small Business Support Act and JCPA.
• The State of Newspapers: Headlines from the America’s Newspapers industry research study on what local newspaper publishers think about the future of the industry. 
• What Publishers Must Do: Open discussion on the state of newspapers and what publishers must act on now. Plus, how to effectively engage with your representatives — and your community — on critical issues impacting newspapers. 

Among the presenters are Dean Ridings, CEO of America's Newspapers, and Danielle Coffey, president and CEO of the News/Media Alliance.

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The Family & Independent Owners meeting is a unique opportunity to gather and collaborate with other newspaper families that have similar business organizations, challenges and opportunities.

The Family & Independent Owners meeting is about sharing experiences and learning from other organizations like yours. In Chicago we’ll hear directly from executives at several family owned operations who will share their stories on how they’re making it work, their unique structures and the communities they serve, and their plans for the future, including:

Diversifying business plans

Structures with family and non-family owners

Revenue strategies and successes

And more!

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New publisher joins Idaho Press

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Rocky Mount Telegram names new editor

Eugene Tinklepaugh, 42, has been tapped to succeed the late Gene Metrick as editor of the Rocky Mount (North Carolina) Telegram by the newspaper's publisher, Kyle Stephens.

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