In a column to readers, Publisher Ken Harty took a look back at the year 1873, when the Daily Journal began publication in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

He noted that according to onthisday.com, "Uysses S. Grant was sworn in for his second term as President of the United States and Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York, began production of the first practical typewriter. Imagine that, the Journal was founded the same year as the first practical typewriter."

In 1898, James Cox purchased the struggling Dayton (Ohio) Evening News and changed its name to the Dayton Daily News. That began a journey which continues today of service and important journalism in the community.

Throughout 2023, the Daily News and Cox Enterprises will be celebrating the paper's 125th anniversary. The paper continues to be operated by the fourth generation of the family.

Why you should attend and bring your team:

Learn from our Solutions Partners — particularly how new technologies can improve sales and save money.

Case studies of newspapers’ successful strategies that you can implement at your newspaper.

The all-important hallway conversations with colleagues.

The Mega-Conference also is a great opportunity to reward your managers, boost their confidence and help them get their swagger back!

But act fast; there are a limited number of registrations available at this rate! Team membership discounts are for newspapers only.

Solutions Partners: Attend the 2023 Mega-Conference to connect with executives and decision-makers! Vendor and supplier companies that support the news industry can register to attend the conference with full access to sessions, receptions and the Mega-Conference Town Square. Solutions Roundtables are limited to Roundtable sponsors and news media attendees.

Sponsorship opportunities at the Mega-Conference also are available! Contact Patty Slusher at pslusher@newspapers.org for more information!

America's Newspapers is honored to welcome a new Solutions Partner member!

Adroitsquare partners with newspapers, media companies and others to provide creative digital/print graphic design solutions. Adroitsquare has a highly motivated and extremely talented team of design professionals who deliver a wide variety of creative design projects. With its in-house training programs, the designers are constantly learning and upgrading skill sets to meet new requirements.

Operating 24/7 with decades of industry experience and business acumen, this world-class design team of 100+ performs within the newspaper and magazine industry worldwide. Adroitsquare offers ad design services, custom design production, campaign development and turnkey pagination/layout. No matter the medium, print or digital, Adroitsquare is a one-stop for anything and everything regarding ad production, as well as pagination and website design.

The company says that partnering with it typically helps clients reduce creative costs by 40 percent to 60 percent. The payoffs for a newspaper or magazine's bottom line are enormous.

Dinesh Kummar is CEO and can be reached at dinesh@adroitsquare.com.

Welcome to membership!

Michael Distelhorst is the new publisher of the Herald and News (Klamath Falls, Oregon), succeeding Mark Dobie.

Since 2014, Dobie served as the publisher of the Herald and News, and, later, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle in Montana as well.

The Glenwood Springs (Colorado) Post Independent has seen some internal promotions recently.

Peter Baumann, who has served as editor of the Post Independent since late August 2019, was named publisher in December.

Joel Simon, who has worked tirelessly as a champion of press freedom around the world, will join the Newmark J-School on Feb. 1 as the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative.

The Journalism Protection Initiative will conduct and host research into the growing threats to journalism and journalists in the U.S. and around the world, with a focus on disinformation and propaganda, tech regulation and policy, rising authoritarianism, and the use of violence, repression and lawfare to suppress critical voices.