Exclusive offer from Content That Works for members of SNPA 7/26/16

Content That Works – SNPA's latest Strategic Partner – wants to be your go-to features department.

Get access to everything Content That Works produces for your print products. It's like having your own in-house features department without the overhead or the hassles.

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Evening Post Publishing Co. equips multiple plants with ProImage NewsWay 7/25/16

ProImage has announced the sale of two NewsWay Workflow Systems to the Evening Post Publishing Co. The two systems will manage the workflow of the Aiken (S.C.) Standard and of The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., respectively.

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Zinser offers employer action plan for addressing new rule on overtime 7/19/16

Michael Zinser outlined an action plan for all employers during last week's webinar on the U.S. Department of Labor’s New Rule on Overtime.

While he noted that the November 2016 election could impact the finality of the rule, he encouraged all employers to take steps now so they are prepared to implement the changes.

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Ready-to-use pages available for upcoming football season 7/18/16

With college football kickoff just weeks away, SNPA members are eligible for special savings on high-quality, revenue-producing weekly conference preview pages that focus on the SEC, ACC and other conferences during the coming football season.

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Ancestry.com acquires Adpay, Inc. 5/19/16

Ancestry.com LLC, the largest provider of family history and personal DNA testing, announced that its subsidiary has entered into a definitive agreement and plan of merger to acquire Adpay, Inc., creators and operators of the Memoriams.com obituary input network.

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Community content publishing service helps reporters save time 5/16/16

GateHouse Media's Center for News and Design is providing other newspaper companies with its unique Community Content publishing service, which helps free a reporter's time to focus on important local stories.

GateHouse Media, which is a Strategic Partnership provider with SNPA, is offering this service at a 15 percent discount to SNPA members.

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Cuba:
A first-person look
5/9/16

By Kenneth Boone, chairman, Tallapoosa Publishers, Inc.

Suzanne, our blond, bubbly and very able American tour guide, met us in the lobby of the NH Capri hotel and announced the "bad news." Our tour bus had broken down and she arranged for taxies to take us to dinner.

Not really a tragic announcement anywhere in the world, but not good news either.

Except in Havana, Cuba, where it turned out to be a highlight of our visit.

Lined up on both sides of the street were 17 vintage 1950s American convertibles, tops down, awaiting 41 American travelers on a 75-degree breezy evening. Buicks and Oldsmobiles and Fords and Pontiacs, all painted bright colors like lime green, sky blue, crimson and white, and the most iconic of all, Pepto Bismal pink.

Read this article, view photos and see a video.

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Gavel-to-gavel video of the political conventions is available at SNPA discount rates 5/3/16

The Republican and Democratic conventions will attract a lot of reader interest this year – and SNPA has arranged a special deal with FedNet that gives its members access to complete video coverage with a 15 percent discount.

Live video coverage includes all proceedings from the main speaker platform in the convention halls. Every speech will be available through a Livestream HTML player plug-in for integration and rebroadcast from your website, mobile applications and apps. This multi-camera HD broadcast feed translates into an easy viewing experience for your online visitors, without the need to incur the high costs of attending and covering the Presidential Conventions.

FedNet – which provides digital video and production services to news organizations from The Washington Post to broadcast networks like Time Warner – is also offering separate access to an exclusive library of speeches as the convention proceeds, readymade for editors to easily integrate into your political coverage.

If your paper is sending a correspondent to Cleveland or Philadelphia, FedNet can provide Skybox Suite positions that overlook the floors at both venues. This opportunity presents an unparalleled way to maximize your investment to cover these historic conventions.

To use these services, you must sign up by June 1.

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Sun wins Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing 4/19/16

When Monday's Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, the small market Sun newspapers emerged from the giants to capture a first place for Editorial Writing.

The Sun newspapers, which cover Charlotte and Sarasota counties, beat out the New York Times, Boston Globe and other industry leaders for Editorial Writing in its coverage of the state prison system and the aftermath of guards killing inmate Matthew Walker at the Charlotte Correctional Institution south of Punta Gorda.

This column, written by David Dunn-Rankin, president of Sun Coast Media Group, honors both the newspaper's staff and the mission that his father set for the papers.

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AP wins Pulitzer Prize for 'Seafood from Slaves' investigation 4/19/16

The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service based on its international investigation of the fishing industry in Southeast Asia that freed more than 2,000 slaves and traced the seafood they caught to supermarkets and pet food providers across the U.S.

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