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A newspaper editor cries for help, in a surprisingly frank way, and gets it; his embarrassed publisher is glad he did
Oct 1, 2022
Under a headline reading, "Will you cheer the death of an institution or come to its aid?" Editor Chad Hobbs told how the paper was suffering from social media, a boycott by some advertisers upset about ...
Materials for National Newspaper Week, Oct 2-8
Sep 13, 2022
National Newspaper Week is quickly approaching. This year we will celebrate on October 2-8 for the 82nd year in recognition of the service of newspapers and their employees throughout the United States ...
Citizens key to saving community newspapers
Aug 1, 2022
We’ve lost 60% of America’s journalists, those who keep an eye on government and tell the stories of our communities. More than 70 million Americans live in communities without a newspaper ...
What happens when a letter-writer wants to take back their letter?
Aug 1, 2022
Q: A reader sent a letter to the editor on a topic of great controversy in our community. Then, after thinking more about it, the reader told us not to publish. But we have the letter. We have the ...
Fighting for our local papers
May 1, 2021
We can’t stand by and watch this happen to our independent press. That’s why I have introduced bipartisan legislation with Sen. John Kennedy (R-Louisiana) and Reps. David Cicilline (D-Rhode ...
Letter to editor: From what I’ve read in news accounts about the Jan. 6 crowd
Mar 1, 2021
I always enjoy Publishers’ Auxiliary, reading that my fellow journalists and newspaper owners are going through many of the same things as I am. In the February issue I found myself agreeing with ...
Leave ‘legals’ alone
Oct 30, 2020
If this partnership is broken, a huge measure of public confidence in its government will be lost. Without the independent newspaper publishing the information for all to see, public assurances that the ...
From republic to romance: Saving the USPS will preserve essential communication
Oct 1, 2020
Newspapers and post offices have partnered for this nation’s general welfare since long before their joint role in providing post-Revolutionary Americans the details they needed to ponder and ratify ...
Surviving a crisis — is your newspaper in trouble?
Oct 1, 2020
Jerry Bellune shared the following editorial that ran in the Sept. 24 edition of the Lexington (South Carolina) County Chronicle & The Dispatch News. "It's a letter to our readers and advertisers ...
