Podcasts about local media association

The Bulletin welcomes The Afro's Frances (Toni) Murphy Draper for a conversation about the importance of journalism. Find us on Youtube. In this episode, Clarissa Moll and Nicole Martin welcome Frances (Toni) Murphy Draper, publisher of The Afro newspaper, in conversation about the role of the media in telling stories and documenting history from a Black perspective. Draper's grandfather, Carl Murphy, founded The Afro in 1892, and her new book, Prayer and Pen, collects prayers he wrote during his lifetime. GO DEEPER WITH THE BULLETIN: Find Draper's new book of her grandfather's prayers: Prayer and Pen Join the conversation at our Substack. Find us on YouTube. Rate and review the show in your podcast app of choice. ABOUT THE GUEST:  Frances (Toni) Murphy Draper , PhD, is chair of the board and publisher of the Baltimore-based Afro-American newspaper—a publication founded by her great-grandfather in 1892. In 2021, the Local Media Association named her Content and Audience Innovator of the Year, and in 2022 the National Newspaper Publishers Association named her Publisher of the Year. She is a graduate of Morgan State University and Johns Hopkins University. ABOUT THE BULLETIN: The Bulletin is a weekly (and sometimes more!) current events show from Christianity Today hosted and moderated by Clarissa Moll, with senior commentary from Russell Moore (Christianity Today's editor in chief) and Mike Cosper (director, CT Media). Each week, the show explores current events and breaking news and shares a Christian perspective on issues that are shaping our world. We also offer special one-on-one conversations with writers, artists, and thought leaders whose impact on the world brings important significance to a Christian worldview, like Bono, Sharon McMahon, Harrison Scott Key, Frank Bruni, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Local Media Association (LMA) and the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association (PNA) have united to establish the Pennsylvania Fundraising Lab. This groundbreaking venture is designed to empower Pennsylvania news organizations with the expertise and understanding needed to secure philanthropic funding for their reporting projects , thereby enhancing their financial sustainability and enabling them to continue delivering high-quality journalism.   In a recent episode of 'E&P Reports,' Frank Mungeam, LMA chief innovation officer, and Bill Cotter, PNA president, shared the success story of the LMA's Lab for Journalism Funding. With over $23 million raised for journalism funding through the national lab, the decision to expand to a state-level initiative in Pennsylvania was a logical progression. The Pennsylvania Fundraising Lab will operate within a six-month ‘cohort learning format,' offering participating newsrooms the opportunity to learn from philanthropic fundraising experts, share best practices, and receive guidance from experienced mentors. Bill Cotter emphasized the importance of strong leadership and community-focused projects in driving the success of the Fundraising Lab. "Newsroom leaders play a critical role in championing fundraising efforts and ensuring that selected projects address local community needs," stated Cotter. “This lab encourages proactive, solutions-oriented journalism that makes a tangible impact on communities, fostering support and engagement from local audiences.'" The Pennsylvania cohort will be led by Liz White, a former newspaper owner/publisher and an LMA Advanced Fundraising Lab graduate. LMA staff and a team of coaches will also provide one-on-one support to the participating newsrooms.  In a recent statement, the PNA explained that preference for participation will be given to media organizations that: Have solid local leadership and deep ties to the community. Are focused on high-quality local journalism. Have leadership-level buy-in to participate in this lab and make the time/resource commitment. Value staff and leadership diversity. The statement went on to say that each publisher in the cohort will set a fundraising goal, in consultation with the coaches, that aligns with that publisher's market size. Participating publishers will also attend the LMA Fest in September and meet with funders and other fundraising lab participants. Case studies and an industry playbook will be published, sharing best practices and lessons learned. During the E&P interview, Cotter shared the Lenfest Institute's involvement in the project, stating: “They will play a crucial role by providing programmatic support, guest speakers and case studies to enrich the learning experience for participants,” Cotter went on to highlight the Institute's expertise in assisting news enterprises with fundraising through the Lenfest News Philanthropy Network and its focus on digital transformation for historically print news organizations through the Lenfest Beyond Print program. Cotter said, “This collaboration underscores the commitment of all stakeholders involved to equip Pennsylvania news organizations with the resources and knowledge necessary to navigate the evolving media landscape effectively.” To offer additional support, the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association will also award participating Lab newsrooms three $20,000 grants at their 100th Anniversary Gala.      

The Word in Black website states a mission: "To be the most trusted news and information source for, about, and by Black people.”   Founded on June 7, 2021, just after the entire world witnessed the tragic death of George Floyd, 10 of the nation's most prestigious Black legacy newspaper publishers joined together to launch a collaborative online news presence to work together to serve their local readers and combine their resources and content into a single branded platform.   Word in Black was initially incubated inside the Local Media Foundation (LMF), a 501(c)(3) organization affiliated with the Local Media Association. As of January 1, 2024, as part of the original plan, the foundation has sold the assets to Word in Black's newly formed public benefit company. It will continue to provide support as a shareholder in the new entity.   Today, Word in Black boasts a newsroom with 10 full-time journalists and freelancers covering topics including health, education, finance, climate justice, religion and more — all outlined in their recently published Impact Report.   The 10 founding newspapers include: ·      AFRO News ·      The Atlanta Voice ·      Dallas Weekly ·      Houston Defender ·      Michigan Chronicle ·      New York Amsterdam News ·      The Sacramento Observer ·      The Seattle Medium ·      The St. Louis American ·      The Washington Informer    In this episode of "E&P Reports," we explore Word in Black. This three-year-old online news collaboration includes 10 of the most prestigious Black newspapers in America that announced its transition to public benefit company status. Appearing along with Nancy Lane, co-CEO of the Local Media Association, whose foundation helped incubate the project, are founding members: Dr. Frances “Toni” Draper, CEO and publisher of AFRO News, Elinor R. Tatum, publisher and editor-in-chief of the New York Amsterdam News and Patrick Washington, CEO/co-Publisher of the Dallas Weekly.    

Shannon Kinney is the founder and client success officer of Dream Local Digital, a digital marketing agency headquartered in Rockland, Maine. Dream Local Digital works with newspapers, media companies, ad agencies and directly with small to medium-sized businesses on all aspects of their online marketing plans. Kinney is also a news media digital pioneer who has held start-up positions at some of the industry's most iconic legacy brands, such as the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, over the past 25 years. She was also on the cusp of helping move traditional classified advertising into the worldwide web. Kinney worked in the late nineties at Cars.com and later as Senior Director of Classifieds of Knight Ridder. She has also helped develop new industry initiatives as a Local Media Association board member. Today, hundreds of media companies turn to Kinney and her "honey badgers" team for advice, training and product development, helping thousands of businesses acquire essential multimedia solutions. Recently, Kinney issued a list of "tips" from her "entrepreneurial journey" in a newsletter. She offers valuable advice to anyone who wishes to do business in a disruptive environment. She also points out how some of her frustrating experiences trying to get legacy media companies to adapt will offer hard lessons for anyone who resists change. In this episode of “E&P Reports,” we chat with respected media executive Shannon Kinney about the entrepreneurial advice she offers that is derived from her 25+ year journey, starting as an integral part of legacy media's early adoption of the digital world to today's massively complex multimedia ecosystem.

Todd Handy, Chief Revenue Officer at SEBPO, and BIA's Rick Ducey unpack the ongoing transformation of local media companies to cross-media advertising platforms in this enlightening podcast discussion.Listen to hear how media companies can scale revenue, save on expenses, and succeed for advertising clients. Todd discusses how media companies can leverage business process outsourcing to generate revenue and maximize performance. He also shares a real-life example of a local media company netting over 50% digital revenue and delivering robust performance metrics. A well-respected executive, Todd was Beasley Media Group's first Chief Digital Officer before SEBPO. At Beasley, he led the company's fast-growing digital media business, realizing a 165% increase in digital revenue over three years. In addition to his role at SEBPO, Todd is a member of the Local Media Association's Board of Directors, serves on various sales and digital marketing advisory boards, and is a former member of the Local Media Consortium's Executive Committee. 

Recently Meta (formally Facebook) made it official that it was leaving the news business, as they included most of the staff that worked within their “Meta Journalism Project Accelerator Program" in the 11,000 company positions eliminated in their mid-November 2022 mass layoffs. Since 2019, the U.S.-based Local Media Association (LMA) and associated Local Media Foundation worked in partnership with Meta as a facilitator providing administrative services and publishing case studies about how over $16.8 million in funds were distributed across North America to local publishers. The funds were to assist them in initiatives that included building reader revenue, monetarizing branded content and others. Some within the news publishing industry have criticized big tech companies like Google and Meta's journalistic philanthropy, stating it was just a means to help them lobby against pending legislation. That legislation — the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (JCPA) (H.R. 1735 and S. 673) — would allow news publishers to collectively negotiate with the tech platforms for fair compensation for the use of their content. Others, like former ProPublica president Dick Tofel, have been adding their voice to many who feel that there are flaws in how these hundreds of millions in big-tech philanthropy have been allocated through organizations and not directly from the providers themselves. However, LMA CEO Nancy Lane has been very outspoken lately in defending the positive impact the Meta Journalism Project has had on the industry, posting a statement about their organization's Meta dollars, "Most of the $16.8 million ($12+ million) was distributed through the COVID-19 relief fund and nearly 80 percent of recipients were family- or independently-owned.” Lane stated: “More than half of the funds were used to benefit publishers by or for communities of color; nearly 40% were digitally native publishers, and over 1/3 were nonprofits." She also stated that "82% used the grants to expand their local reporting on COVID-19 issues. 23% said the funding outright saved their newsrooms from extinction.” In this 164th episode of "E&P Reports," we go one-on-one with Local Media Association (LMA) and associated Local Media Foundation CEO Nancy Lane on her impressions of how the millions of dollars that Meta/ Facebook has donated to the news publishing industry since 2019 has benefited local journalism and the impact it may have in the future as those funds cease to exist. We also posed questions on the future of local news enterprises and what she feels are viable, sustainable business models for local journalism.

Check Out DFW proudly states on the site that it is: “The first-of-its-kind real estate and local recommendations product that helps locals live more enjoyable lives.” Launched in the fall of 2021 in a very media crowded Dallas/ Ft. Worth metroplex market, Jed Williams, who spent one year as Chief Revenue Officer at Ken Doctor's experimental start-up Lookout Local and close to four years managing strategy and innovation for the Local Media Association, teamed up with well-known industry veteran David Arkin (who led content initiatives for Gatehouse, Local Media Association, Community Impact Newspapers and others) to go all-in with sponsored content in this new venture. Arkin is Check Out DFW's chief content officer, and Williams is chief revenue officer.     Right now, the platform focuses on the area's most affluent and growing communities offering content "verticals" for each area defined as Schools, Subdivisions, Resources, Guides, Things to do, Profiles, New to town, New to Texas and more. Plus, there is a growing newsletter database as well. However, all content is sponsored by a local business crafted as a marketing partnership between Check Out DFW and the Advertiser. In this 125th episode of “E&P Reports,” Publisher Mike Blinder interviews industry veterans Jed Williams and David Arkin about why they decided to move entirely into the sponsored content space with Check Out DFW. And what they see as the opportunity for initially growing audience and revenue in Dallas, Ft. Worth with this new model, and then moving into other markets as well.  

Shana is joined by Statehouse Representative Janine R. Boyd from District 9. Rep. Boyd tells us about the 4 bill that are currently making their way through the legislation and how we the public can make sure our voices are heard. The podcast is part of our Amplify Ohio series, a collaborative with The Buckeye Flame, Black Girl Media, and ColumbusBlack.com, and sponsored by Local Media Association. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blackgirlirl/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blackgirlirl/support

With help from the Local Media Association (LMA), three Ohio News Publishers are uniting together in a new initiative called “Amplify Ohio” with a goal of publishing stories together that focuses on health disparities impacting the local Ohio Black and LGBTQ communities they serve. Their collaborative storytelling will use available tools such as podcasts, videos, explainers and more. On the business side, the LMA team will work with consultants to launch a community contribution portal for all three publishers: Black Girl Media, Columbus Black and the Buckeye Flame, with hopes to create a common technology stack and seamless user experience that can possibly be deployed in other local markets to help provide an innovative system for publishers to collaborate together on common topics. In this segment of E&P Reports, publisher Mike Blinder chats with Nancy Lane, CEO of The Local Media Association who is helping fund and guide the project, along with: Shana Black, founder and publisher of Black Girl Media; Kevin Lloyd, founder and chief executive officer of Columbus Black and Ken Schneck, editor of The Buckeye Flame speak on their common goals to help address the health care disparities their readers experience, plus other common topics of concern their communities share with each other.  Related links: More about Amplify Ohio: https://www.localmedia.org/lma-launches-amplify-ohio-a-diverse-digital-media-coalition/ Black Girl Media Website: https://www.blackgirl.media Columbus Black Website: https://columbusblack.com   Buckeye Flame Website:

Faced with an advertising crisis, many local media companies pivoted in a new direction that may foretell their future. In this episode, Corey & Gordon take a look at how one trade association blazed a very different path for broadcast and print media in 2020 that has them working together and finding support from communities they serve. It features an interview with Nancy Lane, a former publisher and now CEO of the Local Media Association.

The Branded Content Project, an initiative by the Local Media Consortium, Local Media Association and Facebook Journalism Project, today released the results of a report on content marketing in collaboration with Borrell Associates Inc., which found that, despite the effect Covid-19 had on businesses, content marketing remained relatively steady and is projected to be more of a priority in 2021. "Sizing the Content Marketing Opportunity" measured how vast the content marketing space is, what types of media benefit most and what kind of businesses are most inclined to utilize it and at what rates. In this segment of E&P Reports, Mike Blinder speaks with Julia Campbell of the Branded Content Project and Corey Elliott of Borrell Associates about the report's findings and what local media can do to seize the opportunities of content marketing.

Ken Doctor Finally Reveals Lookout Local For more than a decade, media analyst Ken Doctor sat on the sidelines evaluating, commenting and even making sweeping predictions about where the news publishing industry was heading and how he felt about the factors that impacted it. But today, Ken has moved into the fray as CEO of a new startup he has been teasing the industry about called Lookout Local. Lookout hopes to expand across the country, but it's first model will launch in Santa Cruz, Calif. (Ken’s hometown) with Lookout Santa Cruz with funding from the Knight Foundation, Google News Innovation Challenge, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism and various other foundations. In this segment of E&P Reports, E&P publisher Mike Blinder interviews both Doctor and newly-announced Chief Revenue Officer Jed Williams who recently left the Local Media Association after a four-year stint as chief strategy officer. Related links: Lookout Local Announcement: https://lookoutlocal.com/lookout-local-launch-release/ Nieman Lab Article about Launch: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/in-the-arena-ken-doctor-is-moving-from-media-analyst-to-media-ceo-with-lookout-his-plan-for,170327  

Plain and simple, Ruth Presslaff, is a data geek.  She doesn't know how it happened, it just did. (Spoiler alert: it MAY have had something to do with Ellen’s brother, Vance DeGeneres!  Her online campaigns, contests and surveys have generated impressive ratings and revenue for media clients the world over.  Now Ruth leads the Enterprise Sales Team for Second Street Media as well as consulting other companies on the value, creation and use of effective digital marketing. Ruth has been highlighted at numerous conferences around the world including the National Association of Broadcasters, Commercial Radio Australia, RAIN, WOMMA, Local Media Association and the Radio Advertising Bureau. Just last year, Ruth added Radio Ink’s Most Influential Women Legend to her list of awards and accolades.

Peter Newton was a huge part of GateHouse Media’s expansion into the digital service sector with the launch of their Propel and ThriveHive initiatives. But Newton was a big part of driving the entire industry into selling more than just advertising solutions to their customers. It was during those six years in senior management that the company had its most growth in market acquisitions. Now that Newton has left the country’s largest newspaper company, he continues to work within our industry consulting some of our digital partners as well as leading a drive to innovation through the Local Media Association’s Accelerate Local Project.  Mike Blinder goes one-on-one with Newton as the former GateHouse COO speaks about where he thinks the industry has been and where it is going today in our challenging times. He also gives advice to independent newspapers who lack some of the resources that large company company ownership can provide.

This week, 2019 E&P Publisher of the Year P.J. Browning, publisher of the Post and Courier in Charleston, SC, is the lead guest on “E&P Reports,” the official podcast of Editor & Publisher Magazine. E&P editor-in-chief Nu Yang talks to Browning about what it’s like being a publisher today and what it was like winning the ultimate recognition from the news publishing industry in the same year that she coped with a major cancer diagnosis. In addition, Jed Williams, Local Media Association’s chief strategy officer, takes questions from E&P managing editor Evelyn Mateos about the Google News Initiative Subscriptions Lab and critical publisher benchmarks for digital subscription success. Related links: • Read "2019 E&P Publisher of the Year P.J. Browning, Post and Courier"by Nu Yang on Editor and Publisher Magazine's website: https://www.editorandpublisher.com/feature/2019-ep-publisher-of-the-year-p-j-browning-post-and-courier/ • Complete 2019 EPPY Award winners list: https://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/2019-eppy-award-winners-announced/  • Read "GNI Subscriptions Lab Aims to Help Find a Sustainable Business Model for Local News"by Evelyn Mateos on Editor and Publisher Magazine's website: https://www.editorandpublisher.com/a-section/gni-subscriptions-lab-aims-to-help-find-a-sustainable-business-model-for-local-news/ Subscribe to daily headlines from Editor & Publisher Magazine: https://EditorAndPublisher.com And please subscribe to this podcast for a new E&P Reports podcast every week! It's free! For more newsmaker conversations with E&P Reports host Bob Andelman, please check out his long-running podcast, “Mr. Media Interviews,” at https://MrMedia.com . Thanks for watching; thanks for listening. Let’s talk, edit and publish again next week!  

A CNA 2.0, a post-sale quarterback strategy, and a blowy thing might be all you need to win at sales in 2018! This week, George chats with Jed Williams, Chief Innovation Officer of the Local Media Association to discuss how personalized, business-specific data can help you drive sales. Tune in to hear them discuss how to execute a better customer needs assessment, and the post-sale fulfillment strategy. Also something about a #blowything. Don't miss an episode — Subscribe today. And join in the discussion on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter! #conquerlocal — Jed Williams is the Chief Innovation Officer at the Local Media Association, where he leads industrywide digital revenue and business transformation initiatives for newspapers, radio and TV broadcasters, digital publishers, and R&D partners. These programs include Innovation Missions, Chief Digital Club executive networking groups, and LMA’s strategic consulting practice. Previously, Williams was a Senior Analyst and Vice President of Strategic Consulting at BIA/Kelsey, where he managed the company’s consulting division. He has led projects for AT&T, Constant Contact, Google, Time-Warner Cable, and Yahoo!. He has also advised local media companies such as GateHouse Media, Advance Digital, CNHI, Raycom, and Valpak He also previously led business development and strategy for two venture-backed technology companies, Vendasta and Main Street Hub. Williams’ insights have been cited by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Digiday, Bloomberg, FOX Business, and the BBC, among others. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and corporate meetings. He has written extensively on creative destruction and disruptive media. His work has been published and taught by the Columbia Journalism School and the Yale School of Management.

It was the 1970s; Big hair, bell-bottomed pants, Elvis sideburns and puka shell necklaces. The drugs, the freedom, the Me Generation, the lime green leisure suits.  And then there was the music and how it defined a generation. The birth of Philly soul, the Jersey Shore Sound and disco.  The stories behind the memorable albums in The Vinyl Dialogues, The Vinyl Dialogues Volume II: Dropping the Needle and The Vinyl Dialogues Volume III: Stacks of Wax will surely resonate with many — from the artists crafted them to the listeners, like you and me, who still appreciate the music that filled up the soundtracks of our lives.  Throw in a little political intrigue - The Guess Who being asked not to play its biggest hit, "American Woman," at a White House appearance and Brewer and Shipley being called political subversives and making President Nixon's infamous "enemies list" - and The Vinyl Dialogues and The Vinyl Dialogues Volume II: Dropping the Needle offers a first-hand snapshot of a country in transition, hung over from the massive cultural changes of the 1960s and ready to dress outrageously and to shake its collective booty.  All seen through the eyes, recollections and perspectives of the artists who lived it and made all that great music on all those great albums.  Mike Morsch is a 40-year veteran of the newspaper business, having served as a reporter, columnist, and editor at newspapers in Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Mike has earned several awards for his writings from the Illinois Press Association, Suburban Newspapers of America (now the Local Media Association), the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, the Philadelphia Press Association and the New Jersey Press Association. He has written four books: "Dancing in My Underwear: The Soundtrack of My Life" in 2012; and three in "The Vinyl Dialogues series, including "The Vinyl Dialogues: Stories behind memorable albums of the 1970s as told by the artists" in 2014; "The Vinyl Dialogues Volume II: Dropping the Needle" in 2015; and "The Vinyl Dialogues Volume III: Stacks of Wax" in 2016.   Find all of Mike's books on Amazon and on Mike on Facebook here.    Please subscribe, rate and review and head over to Patreon to help support our network of rock based podcast.

Shannon is the Founder and Client Success Officer of Dream Local Digital, a digital marketing agency that has worked with thousands of small businesses across North America. She has over 15 years’ experience in the development of successful internet products, sales and marketing strategies and has worked on the team developing successful Internet Brands such as cars.com and careerbuilder.com, and over 60 online media properties for newspapers all over the U.S and Canada. Prior to that, she spent over 10 years in media sales and sales management in Maine. Shannon is considered an expert in the field of online marketing and social media and speaks regularly at conferences on the subject. She was recently named a Digital Innovator of the Year by Local Media Association. http://womentakingthelead.com/shannon-kinney/