Gaines family to sell Bowling Green Daily News |
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Bowling Green Daily News to be sold to Carpenter Newsmedia, LLC/Boone Newspapers Inc. |
After 140 years of local ownership by the Gaines family of Bowling Green, an agreement has been reached to sell the Bowling Green (Kentucky) Daily News to Carpenter Newsmedia LLC, an affiliate of Boone Newspapers Inc., a family owned organization based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, according to Randy Cope, director, Cribb, Cope & Potts, who represents the Gaines family.
The sale is expected to close June 30. The transaction includes the Daily News, along with four other publications — the Country Peddler weekly shopper and three magazines: Bowling Green Home and Lifestyles, South Central Kentucky Homes and Auction Guide.
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Free webinar on Thursday:
Grow your digital sales
From AdCellerant and The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
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Learn best practices to get your ad sellers comfortable with selling more digital! |
Noon-1 p.m. EDT | 11 a.m.-Noon CDT |
10-11 a.m. MDT | 9-10 a.m. PDT
There is power in partnerships. Experts from the dynamic duo, AdCellerant and The Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), want to share their essential tips for increasing your revenue generation from this quarter, next and the remainder of the year.
Hear how a true partnership with your digital provider can help you drive more new business, increase renewals, uncover upselling opportunities and what products are best pitched to complement your legacy products. Takeaways will include easy ways to get started and best practices to get your sellers comfortable with selling more digital!
This webinar will be led by Ben Bouslog, vice president business development with AdCellerant, and Robert Young, vice president digital solutions with The Advocate.
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Karen Bennett to become Cox Enterprises EVP & CPO |
Cox Enterprises has announced that Karen Bennett will move from Cox Communications to Cox Enterprises as the company’s new executive vice president and chief people officer, effective Jan. 1, 2023.
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Eric Stirgus named education editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
The Atlanta (Georgia) Journal-Constitution has named Eric Stirgus as the newspaper’s education editor.
Stirgus has been a journalist with the AJC since November 2001, and its readers have benefited from his reporting across metro Atlanta and Georgia. Prior to being named education editor, he was the newspaper’s higher education reporter.
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New biography shines a spotlight on a legendary journalist who won one of the last great newspaper wars in the U.S. |
“Burl” is the story of one man’s unlikely rise from the coal mines of Appalachia to the pinnacle of journalism.
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Can Congress save local news? Two bills backed by Northwest lawmakers may help
America’s local news outlets are in crisis and in search of a new business model, forced to cut staff or close altogether amid rising costs and falling revenue. But two proposals backed by Northwest lawmakers in Congress may offer a solution.
The Local Journalism Sustainability Act, introduced in 2021 by Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell, a Democrat, and GOP Rep. Dan Newhouse of Sunnyside, would use tax credits to let news outlets hire more journalists and help subscribers and advertisers pay for their services. Those measures could offer a temporary lifeline while another bill, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, would let news publishers negotiate to get fair compensation for the content they create.
As news and advertising has moved from the printed page to the webpage, tech giants Google and Facebook have reaped the benefits, scooping up ad revenue while squeezing the news outlets that create the content on which those online platforms rely. According to the News Media Alliance, an association that represents about 2,000 outlets, as much as 70% of digital ad revenue goes to Google and Facebook — and their respective parent companies, Alphabet and Meta.
This story can be republished by other organizations for free under a Creative Commons license. For more information on this, please contact the newspaper’s managing editor.
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Why good investigative journalism matters
Recently, a couple of reporters at The New York Times published an intriguing story about conversations between House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and other members of his leadership team. It was shortly after the events of Jan. 6 at the Capitol, and they were talking about what to do about then-President Trump. ...
I happen to believe these stories are important for the insight they provide into key politicians’ thinking at a dark moment in our history — and on those politicians’ willingness to backtrack in the year since. But whether you agree or not, the willingness of two reporters to dig deep into what actually happened and set the record straight has sent shockwaves through Washington and cast the behavior of powerful officials in a new light.
This is what good investigative journalism does. It is an essential part of our representative democracy, offering all of us — the people who have the most at stake in who represents us in Washington and how they and other officials behave on our behalf — the chance to understand more fully what’s going on. I often think to myself how dull our lives would be without the difficult, important work that enterprising journalists do. They get for us the facts and — mostly — put them in context so that we can understand what we need to know.
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