Stacker and Patch Labs are joining forces to provide independent publishers the content, services and technology they need to scale their operations. Their new partnership will provide Patch Labs publishers free access to the Stacker Newswire.

Benchmark research from North American news media companies indicates acquisition of digital products is likely to remain at current levels without a significant news event occurring to increase traffic.

GoalGetters has been serving the newspaper industry for more than three decades. The rewards card system has been proven highly effective for retaining subscribers and appealing to prospective subs. The low cost affords your newspaper the opportunity to be armed with a sales tool worth $500 to $1,000. How's that for an attractive subscription perk?

In these inflationary times, parents still want to provide smart activities for their children. You can help parents save $5 per month when you have sponsors insert the weekly Kid Scoop youth activity page for children. Did you know that most children’s activity books cost upwards of $5 or more per book?

During an almost 30-minute podcast, retention guru, E&P columnist and industry insider Richard Brown joins Lon Haenel of Newspaper Subscription Services to discuss how he uses KPIs (key performance indicators) to build his retention equation. He keeps it simple and effective by creating, executing and measuring. Listen to this podcast at your convenience.

Two years ago, Keven Zepezauer, president of Restoration NewsMedia, made the decision to switch his papers over to Column, whose core software product streamlines the entire public notice process for newspapers and their customers. Once his papers started using the software, Zepezauer's team reduced the time they spent on public notice by 50%. “It was a huge time-saver,” he said.

CitySpark’s custom HTML export enables publishers to automatically get community events from their website into their newsletters. As publishers increasingly look to email newsletters as a channel to reach audiences, it has become critical to efficiently include the same content that would be found in other channels in these newsletters.

Automation is shaking up the publishing industry, and media companies should welcome the disruption. Exciting advances in tech — and especially AI — are letting publishers explore new ways to automate everything from content translation to video editing.

Journalism’s challenges continue to multiply the media's need to rely on the latest technological advances. Newsroom 3.0 has three fundamental pillars: the automation of processes, the elimination of repetitive tasks and the search for new processes.

In a new article series, “Web Analytics 101: The Digital Publisher’s Guide to Better Data,” the Alliance for Audited Media shares how invalid traffic affects publishers’ website data and provides steps to remove this traffic from analytics to improve audience insights.

The Kansas Press Association announces the launch of a Digital Initiative program during this WEBINAR EVENT REPLAY streamed live on Friday, July 29. View the replay and see how your newspaper could benefit from this program.

Powered by Content That Works, the America's Newspapers release of the Breast Cancer Awareness package is now available.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, providing a great opportunity to match advertisers and sponsors with relevant content that your readers want.  You can publish the content how you please, releasing digitally, filling space in a weekly column, or packing together as a traditional tab. Once you have the content, you are welcome to use it however works for your publication.