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.
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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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Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said it’s scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with a Community Notes program written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk’s social media platform X.

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