America’s Newspapers launches Sales Management Academy

America’s Newspapers, the leading advocate for local newspapers, announced the launch of the America’s Newspapers Sales Management Academy, a new year-long program designed to equip sales leaders in family-owned small to midsize newspapers with the skills and strategies necessary to drive revenue growth across both print and digital platforms.

Share your expertise at the 2025 Mega-Conference

America's Newspapers invites industry leaders and Solutions Partners to contribute presentation ideas and speaker proposals for the 2025 Mega-Conference, scheduled for April 14-16 in Orlando, Florida.

Register for Mega-Conference before rates increase

Early-bird registration for the 2025 Mega-Conference is open now. Lock in your savings by registering today!

Note: We have shifted the pattern slightly and will now start the conference with the opening reception on Monday, April 14, and have sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday, ending on Wednesday afternoon.

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Lay it on the line in 2025

This is the most important year in your newspaper's history. If you’re reading this column, you likely own, lead, manage or help operate one of the oldest and most trusted businesses in your community. Whether your paper prospers — or even survives — is largely up to you. And living up to that challenge is getting tougher all the time, isn’t it?

Boost Valentine’s Day sales

Valentine’s Day is a golden opportunity for florists, with a significant portion of consumers planning to purchase flowers for their loved ones. Local newspapers provide the perfect platform to capture these potential customers — offering unmatched reach and trust in the community.

Meta’s shift to ‘Community Notes’ makes trusted local newspapers even more vital

In response to Meta's announcement that it will end its fact-checking program with independent third parties and pivot to a “Community Notes” model that uses crowdsourced fact-checking contributions from users, America's Newspapers issued the following statement:

Meta’s recent decision to replace third-party fact-checking with a crowdsourced system called “Community Notes” further highlights the importance that local newspapers play in providing reliable, vetted information to their communities. While social media platform approaches to content moderation are often politically-oriented and vulnerable to bias and manipulation, local newspapers continue to prioritize accuracy, fairness and accountability.

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America's Newspapers welcomes CarrierTrack Technologies into membership

CarrierTrack® is an advanced distribution software that incorporates audible and visual delivery information and live turn-by-turn directions.

The AP establishes style guidance on the Gulf of Mexico and Mount McKinley

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday shortly after his inauguration calling for the Gulf of Mexico to be renamed the Gulf of America, and Denali, the tallest peak in the United States, to revert to the name Mount McKinley. The Associated Press has sent style guidance for both geographic areas to its staff.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook is eliminating fact-checking may amount to a double whammy for people living in this country’s ever-expanding news deserts.

The chain CNHI furloughed 46 staffers, or about 3% of its workforce. It’s likely a weather vane for industry trouble ahead.

David Scott to lead new AP elections unit

AP Executive Editor Julie Pace and Chief Revenue Officer Kristin Heitmann announced that David Scott will take on a new role as vice president of U.S. election services, a new business unit for AP.

Joe Imel, who began his journalism career in rural Kentucky 38 years ago, has been named regional publisher of eight Carpenter Media Group newspapers in Kentucky, as well as one property in both Tennessee and Ohio.

Nicole Stockdale, a native Midwesterner who has helped oversee five newsrooms in California for McClatchy in recent years, will become the next executive editor of The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) and The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina).