Always Money Makers: The Latest in Events, Contests and Promotions |
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Monday at the Mega-Conference ... |
Events, contests and promotions are more effective than ever at generating reader engagement and new advertising revenue.
A Monday afternoon session next week at the Mega-Conference will focus on the latest trends in events as the world returns to normal and will highlight successful promotions and contests that generate incremental revenue. Attendees are sure to come away with new ideas that will more than pay for the conference!
Our presenters are Jay Horton, president, digital media, WEHCO Media, Inc., and Vince Johnson, publisher, The Sumter Item, and group publisher, Gulf Coast Media.
This session will be facilitated by Julie Foley, senior manager of customer success at Upland Software.
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Sale of Jackson County newspapers announced by pending owner, WV News |
WV News has announced it is taking ownership of the Jackson Star and Jackson Herald, effective May 1.
The Jackson Newspapers are currently a part of Gannett’s USA TODAY Network.
In addition, WV News is also purchasing the Mineral Daily News Tribune in Keyser.
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Rust Communications sells several Iowa newspapers to the Hall Family |
Rust Communications has sold the Le Mars Daily Sentinel, Cherokee Chronicle Times, Spencer Daily Reporter and several other northwest Iowa publications to Gene Hall and his son Chris, according to Randy Cope of Cribb, Cope & Potts, who represented the Rust family in the sale.
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2 rival Storm Lake newspapers become one following purchase |
A 32-year rivalry between two Storm Lake newspapers has ended after the Storm Lake Times Company recently purchased the Pilot-Tribune from Hallmark II Publishing of Charles City.
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James Briggs promoted to Star Beacon GM |
James Briggs has been promoted to general manager of the Star Beacon in Ashtabula, New York.
Briggs will retain his position as the newspaper’s advertising director, and was also named the advertising director of the Meadville Tribune, another paper owned by Star Beacon parent company CNHI.
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Bill Bowman named editor of The Daily Item, Danville News |
The Daily Item of Sunbury, Pennsylvania, has promoted managing editor William B. Bowman to editor of the newspaper, Publisher Fred Scheller has announced.
Bowman, 46, succeeds Dennis Lyons, who is moving to Charlotte, North Carolina, in his new, full-time role as vice president-national editor of CNHI, LLC, parent company of The Daily Item.
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America's Newspapers Calendar |
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April 9-10 - Newspaper Executive Development Program, Orlando, Florida (in conjunction with the Mega-Conference).
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