In 2024, Trib Total Media is exploring how to harness the power of AI, couple it with their core competencies, and come up with a strategy to address the fundamental challenges facing their business. Guiding imperatives were hyper local audience development, improved engagement, accessing new advertisers, new revenue opportunities, and little to no new headcount. An endeavor that could create enormous implications for the future of their 18 printed newspapers and 35 hyper-local news sites. Join Matt Miller - CRO of TTM, Joe Lawrence - general counsel of TTM and CEO of MeSearch, along with moderator Landon Morales - COO of OwnLocal.

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The Mega-Conference is packed full of compelling sessions that will run all day on Monday and Tuesday, April 15 and 16. In making your travel plans, please note that Tuesday sessions will run until 3 p.m. You won't want to miss those sessions. Take a look at the agenda here.

Doorfront Direct:

Doorfront Direct, the nation's largest network of magazine/catalog delivery affiliates, provides distribution revenue to newspaper companies. By delivering national magazines and catalogs in their local markets, newspapers gain additional money to help fund their distribution operations and to infuse extra income on carriers' routes.

Since the program began six years ago, Doorfront Direct’s affiliates have delivered more than 50 million publications, adding millions of dollars in distribution income.

Currently, Doorfront Direct operates in 70 markets, delivering 18 magazine titles plus catalogs. Delivery affiliates include newspapers owned by Gannett, Hearst, Lee and McClatchy.

Randall S. Brant is executive director and can be reached at rbrant@doorfrontdirect.com.

Triadic Group:

Triadic Group is an independent professional services collaborative that provides vision, planning, assessments and implementation support for its clients, including the newspaper industry, that want to improve their contact centers’ strategy, engagement, process, performance, tools and technology.

Whether for customer service, technical support, customer acquisition, retention or other applications, Triadic possesses the ability to help clients improve outcomes and results through quantitative and qualitative-centered consulting and advisory services.

Connect with Bob Friedman, operations lead, at bob.friedman@triadicgroup.com.

Carmage Walls Commentary Prize to award cash prizes honoring courageous columns and editorials

Awards for excellence in editorial writing (representing the view of the newspaper) and awards for excellence in column writing (columns written by one or more individuals) will be presented this October in Phoenix, Arizona, at the America's Newspapers Senior Leadership Conference. Win cash prizes and recognition!

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Carpenter Media Group completes acquisition of Black Press Media

Carpenter Media Group has completed its acquisition of U.S. and Canadian publisher Black Press Media in a stock purchase with Canadian financial partner Canso Investment Counsel, LTD. New corporate entities were formed in the U.S. and Canada to hold the stock and assets. CMG and Canso will share total ownership equally, and CMG will manage the companies.

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Effectively immediately, America's Newspapers has a new mailing address for dues, invoice payments and membership. Our new address is:

America's Newspapers

2615 Centennial Blvd., Suite 200

Tallahassee, FL 32308-0592