Foreign correspondents venture far from home to tell consequential stories of people, politics, conflict and crisis — often encountering funding challenges, logistical hurdles and operational dangers. In E&P’s September “Association Insider,” Bob Miller introduces readers to the Overseas Press Club of America and the journalists and journalism it salutes.

What separates a trusted sales adviser from someone simply selling advertising? In her September “Ad Sales Life” opinion column, Shannon Kinney argues that the best media sales professionals look beyond a client’s marketing needs to uncover the business challenges driving them. She explores how curiosity, business acumen and even AI can help sales teams deepen client relationships — and ultimately build more sustainable revenue.

After 35 years, cartoonist Lincoln Peirce has retired the daily “Big Nate” comic strip, but he’s not quite ready to leave the 6th grade behind. In his “News Media Today” op-ed column, E&P’s Rob Tornoe talks with Peirce about the remarkable evolution of “Big Nate,” the culture loss that comes as newspapers and their comic pages decline, and why editors should make room for a new generation of cartoonists.

An interested advertiser shouldn’t become a lost sale while your team waits for creative. Mediaferry combines AI-powered ad production with human expertise to help publishers create better ads faster across print, digital and video. In this E&P webinar, Robert Berkeley and Tariq Husain explain how that approach reduces repetitive work and keeps campaigns moving from concept to completion. Watch to learn how faster creative can strengthen sales conversations and help turn advertiser interest into signed business.

Mentor Medier’s developers were spending time maintaining article pages and homepages that Francis Lundh believed a specialized provider could handle. As chief product officer of the Scandinavian publishing group and CEO of its technology company, Unite, he wanted that talent focused on subscription products. Moving to Labrador CMS gave journalists more control over daily publishing while allowing the company to step away from custom front-end development. The shift put its development resources behind technology designed to strengthen reader relationships and grow the subscription business.

Rob Galloway already knew The Center Square’s reporting from its daily newsletter. What he hadn’t realized was that The Center Square was an open-access newswire. A sponsored post made that connection—and gave him a way to supplement local coverage with statewide stories his readers had reason to care about. For a newsroom that can’t get to every important story, that discovery opened the door to more coverage of housing, fire and other issues that hit home.

A local advertiser may need more than another standard display banner. It may need a podcast recorded at a neighborhood brewery, a sponsored story, a newsletter placement, a print campaign or a large, interactive digital unit that commands attention. Independent publishers can make those choices because they know the businesses, control their inventory and can adapt without waiting for an algorithm. Uriah Kiser of Potomac Local News and Julie Beth Maglio of the Hernando Sun show how publishers can use that freedom to build campaigns the largest platforms are not designed to deliver.

Editor & Publisher (E&P) became the first publisher to earn AAM’s Ethical AI Certification, putting its own policies and practices through independent review. In this recorded E&P Solutions Series conversation, Publisher Mike Blinder, Editor-in-Chief Gretchen Peck and AAM’s Richard Murphy explain what the process revealed, what E&P refined and how responsible AI use supports both business growth and audience trust. Watch the discussion and download practical resources to help your organization get started.

Daybreak is free. It requires no contract, no credit card and almost no work from the publisher. Yet Community Impact CEO John Garrett says the tool has delivered hundreds of advertising leads and helped produce more than $40,000 in documented sales. At a time when getting a business decision-maker to answer a call or open an email can be the hardest part of media sales, Daybreak helps interested prospects raise their hands first.

What if public-notice modernization didn't have to come at newspapers' expense? That's the question Arizona answered this summer when lawmakers approved a new framework that expands digital access while preserving the newspaper's role as the trusted, independent keeper of the public record. Rather than resisting change, Arizona publishers helped shape it. Their experience may provide a roadmap for news organizations facing similar debates across the country.

trusted relationships with local businesses. Duda gives them the white-label technology to transform those relationships into scalable, recurring digital-services revenue. Its enterprise platform helps media organizations deliver sophisticated websites and online tools that strengthen advertiser retention while helping local businesses attract customers and prosper. The publisher owns the brand and customer relationship; Duda supplies the infrastructure, automation and expertise working powerfully behind the scenes.

A newsroom can win a lawsuit and still be destroyed by it. Years of legal bills, missed deadlines and relentless anxiety can accomplish what an unfavorable verdict never could: silencing journalists and frightening others away from the story. For a small publisher without in-house counsel or deep financial reserves, one legal threat can place the entire organization at risk. International media-freedom attorney Flutura Kusari warns that waiting until a demand letter arrives to build a defense may already be too late.