June 7, 2022
Free webinar on June 23:
Increasing revenue with digital
From AdCellerant and The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
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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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has received a $50,000 donation from the Kendeda Fund and 1Earth Fund to expand coverage of climate change in Georgia. The one-year grant, made possible by Journalism Funding Partners, will be used to increase the volume and depth of reporting on how climate change is affecting metro Atlanta and the state.
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Neil Brown and Tommie Shelby elected co-chairs of Pulitzer Prize Board
Neil Brown, president of The Poynter Institute, and Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and professor of philosophy at Harvard University, have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
Jason Cato joins The Post and Courier staff as managing editor
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Reporter Lauren Williams joins AJC’s sports team to cover the Atlanta Hawks
Lauren Williams has joined The Atlanta Journal-Constitution where she will cover the Atlanta Hawks for the newspaper.
What we're reading ...
During these changing times, a free press must be preserved

Newspapers are not yet dying. But they are certainly changing.

Locally owned and operated news is mostly confined to radio, rather than newsprint (electronic or pulp), and the degree of local control is fading fast. ...

Across the nation, Gannett owns more than 100 dailies and over 1,000 weeklies.
 
As a paper for the entire nation, USA Today itself was a risky experiment. And what has been happening with Gannett and some other large aggregators is a reverse-engineering of this: placing a national template on what are already active, vibrant, local contexts. 

This has not been entirely seamless, but Gannett and others have breathed new financial and editorial life into a critically important aspect of community and oversight. The local newspaper yet lives.
Wisconsin justices OK release of employer coronavirus data to newspaper

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled the state’s largest business group cannot block the state from releasing records a newspaper requested showing how many employees at some businesses tested positive for COVID-19 or had contact with someone who tested positive.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel requested records in the summer of 2020 about some Wisconsin employers’ coronavirus activity, responding at the time to large outbreaks at meatpacking plants and other businesses.
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