If you look on amnews.com, you’ll find Emily Toadvine has a blog called “Tweaking,” which she describes as a finetuning of domestic life. It includes inside info on shopping, mothering, home remedies, country living and the like.
“Tweaking” also is an apt description for the job Emily performs at The Advocate-Messenger. She’s the paper’s Web content producer and she’s constantly tweaking and finetuning the paper’s online presence at amnews.com, which is always a work in progress.
Dear Black Ink readers:
This is Joe Reader again.
I need to make a stop at the Milltown Courier. Where’s their office? Can’t remember whether it’s on High Street or Highland Road. I’ll Google it. Here they are. All kinds of stuff on this site. Now where’s the address? Dang, where is it? I’ll give ‘em a call. Where’s the phone number? Dang! Stupid #@$%^!
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COLUMBIA, MO—Did you know that 80 percent of America’s newspapers have a circulation of 15,000 or less?
Did you know that there are about 8,000 community newspapers in America that fit that description?
Did you know that 86 million Americans read those community newspapers every week?
Yet if you read the “the newspaper industry is failing” stories online, in the major daily newspapers and on television, it’d be a good guess that those reporters and bloggers don’t have a clue, don’t care, or can’t be bothered. Read the rest of this entry
Editor’s Note: KPA has just received the following from Max Heath, KPA Past President and chair of the National Newspaper Association’s Postal Committee. It is a memo from U.S. Postmaster General John Potter.
On behalf of newspapers across Kentucky, we appreciate the efforts of Max and NNA in their diligent work with the U.S. Postal Service.
To Postal Service Customers
Many of you have expressed concerns regarding mailing costs for 2010. The tough economic climate has presented significant challenges to all of us and pessimistic speculation has suggested that postal prices could increase by as much as 10 percent. Read the rest of this entry
By JR Raphael
PC World
If the iPhone is the “Jesus phone,” it now appears as if the still-sheathed Apple tablet may become the “Jesus reader.”
The oft-discussed (but never confirmed) tablet, you see, is poised to save us — the humble scribes of print media — from an unseemly demise. At least, that’s what the latest and greatest Apple rumor predicts. And, as we know, those rumors are never wrong.
By Adam Rose
Time magazine
Amazon, the online retailing giant, did more than any other company to turn the sale of digital books into a real business with the 2007 launch of the Kindle electronic reader. The company has sold an estimated 1.7 million of the handheld devices in the U.S., and it’s getting ready to ship millions more. On Oct. 6, Amazon announced it would soon begin selling Kindles — complete with a key feature that allows users to wirelessly download e-books from Amazon — in more than 100 countries.
Success breeds imitators. Amazon is about to be attacked by a squadron of would-be Kindle killers being brought to market by some of the biggest names in consumer electronics and publishing.
Major newspaper and magazine publishers, which are suffering mightily from loss of subscribers and advertisers to recession and the Internet, are also getting involved. News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Wall Street Journal, is reportedly considering a deal with Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony, which in 2004 introduced the first commercially viable e-reader, to use a black-and-white display technology called electronic ink (also used by the Kindle). Sony is rolling out a new family of e-readers, including a pocket-sized version and one with a large screen geared for newspapers and magazines.
To read the whole Time magazine piece, click here:
By David T Thompson
KPA/KPS Executive Director
With apologies to Willie Nelson, “On the road again, just can’t wait to get on the road again.”
If KPA had a theme song, that would be it for 2009. The KPA/KPS Board of Directors and staff spent most of 2008 involved in an extensive strategic planning process. From that, KPA developed a rebranding/marketing strategy that includes a new logo; an emphasis on social networking and involving newspapers in that technology; focusing attention more on the services members say they use and need; and, a plan to visit every newspaper, or at least every newspaper publisher.
That’s where the theme song comes in.
