Current macroeconomic conditions have publishers and consumers alike considering how to navigate this new economic climate. Companies across all industries are trying to determine the right balance between raising prices in the face of higher production costs while maintaining demand and profitability.

This week, Lon Haenel of Newspaper Subscription Services caught up with Pat Leader of the Spokane (Washington) Spokesman-Review. Leader, an expert in working with subscribers who intend to cancel, shared how she and her team deployed and leverage the NSS Online Cancellation Intervention app to listen AND respond to subscribers who are about to cancel.

If we’ve learned anything from the COVID years, parents of young children crave learning materials right at home. Your newspaper can provide just what parents of preschool children need, with Kid Scoop JUNIOR. This half-page weekly feature was created by a teacher of young children, a mom of two boys, to enrich the growing brains of little ones. Take a look, then keep reading for ways to fund this educationally-sound, super-fun feature.

To complement the already robust client data security strategies that it has in place for Adpoint and Amplio users, Lineup is introducing an additional layer of protection for critical system backups in the form of immutable storage. This technology ensures an object cannot be deleted or edited.

Over the past several months, PressReader surveyed hundreds of professionals working in English-language news and publishing around the globe. The survey was conducted to get a sense of views on the current state and future direction of the industry — with a particular focus on the problem of news deserts.

Nexta.io has heard it over and over again. Traditional advertising (print, radio, TV) is declining. The time of digital advertising is rising and clients are asking for it. While platforms or managed services are perfectly fitted to service large campaigns and high budgets, they are too expensive and still demand significant publisher ad ops staffing to serve the large percentage of SMB clients. Nexta can help with this!

New analytics are coming! If you've seen the notices from Google there's no need to panic, because TownNews is here to help. They can answer your questions about what changes to expect, when to expect them and what you can do to prepare.

Albuquerque Journal’s Robert Rivera got his start in the industry right out of high school by delivering newspapers at retail rack and dealer locations for the company. More than 20 years later, he’s Albuquerque Journal’s vice president of circulation. Here he shares how his company rewards committed employees, the value of growing together as a team and what advice he would give to someone starting out in the industry.

Kendal Hampton is the administrative assistant at Fort Wayne Citilink, the public transportation operator for the Fort Wayne and Allen County metro area in Indiana. One of the many tasks that falls on Hampton’s shoulders is posting public notices in Fort Wayne’s local newspaper — the Journal Gazette — for all of Citilink’s board and committee meetings. Posting these public notices used to be a frustrating process for Hampton. Read how Column changed that!

A locally owned Florida newspaper recently revamped its special sections program for greater ad revenue and reader engagement. Here’s how the West Volusia Beacon did it ...