FT Strategies is the digital growth consultancy from the Financial Times. It powers customer growth through creative and dynamic digital transformation strategies from conception to execution.

Staffed by the experts who successfully transformed the FT’s business model in the face of disruption, FT Strategies works with organizations worldwide, from a wide range of sectors, helping them increase recurring revenue, monetize their audience, grow subscriptions, build engagement, create a customer-centric culture, transform their organization, build new products and ventures, and future-proof their businesses.

Daisy Donald, principal, can be reached at daisy.donald@ft.com.

A third generation veteran of the newspaper business has been named publisher of The Lufkin (Texas) Daily News.

Greg Weatherbee was named the newspaper’s publisher in an announcement by Leonard Woolsey, president of Southern Newspapers Inc.

USA TODAY editor-in-chief Nicole Carroll has joined the ASU Media Enterprise as executive director of a new initiative focused on reimagining local journalism.

Thirty years ago, the U.N. General Assembly established World Press Freedom Day as an opportunity to bring the international community together each year to recognize the importance of press freedom and the foundational role journalists play in supporting human rights and free societies.

I’m here to tell you today that this vision is at great risk.

The Family and Independent Owners Meeting is designed for the senior executives, owners and family members who are directly involved in their company’s operations.  The meeting provides these executives the opportunity to network and share successful strategies to move their business forward.  From issues related to basic operations, business structures or familial transitions, the Family and Independent Owners Meeting fosters a spirit of partnership and innovation.

The 2023 Summer Meeting will be held at the PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — home of the Pittsburgh Pirates! Sessions will begin Tuesday, July 18, at 2 p.m. EDT, followed by a reception and Pirates baseball game that evening. On Wednesday, July 19, sessions will run from 9 a.m to 12:30 p.m., followed by an optional Pirates game that afternoon.