Memo to the Community Papers of Florida (CPF) staff:”I just want to say thank you for all you did last week to make our conference a great experience for all of our members!”As always, you came through in a big way. Thanks so much for y…

The readers of this blog are mostly publishers and advertisers. Our audience already appreciates the importance of advertising, because that’s what we do for a living. The facts and figures that follow are not meant to simply preach to the choir, bu…

PaperChain is excited to share the five most-outstanding entries — selected from a total of 188 outstanding entries from graphic designers at free community papers across the country. Awards for PaperChain’s National Ad Design Contest were presente…

Every free community paper publisher I’ve met has stories about their support for hometown groups. Volunteer service, donations of cash and pulp and ink to projects as diverse as their communities. These partnerships build a better place and reinfor…

Testimonials 2.0 – A Case Study in SuccessHere’s some good news from one of our publishing peers. It serves as an excellent example of both self promotion and the enduring power of print. The short video also illustrates the simplicity of proactivel…

Several storied titles, including the Northeast Times, The Star newspapers and My Community Trend, are now back out from under the shadows of the big city dailies. In total, 55 community publications, many of which were packaged into the turbulent o…

PaperChain is a national organization whose goal is to help their members to promote the Free Paper industry to local businesses and advertising agencies. Because we know the graphic and design talent within our own core of publications we would like…

Washington, D.C – When the federal government quietly announced that it is gearing up to promote financial literacy in a significant way, the free community paper industry let them know that our publishers would be a perfect fit for their plans. …

by Jim Haigh, Government Relations Consultant of AFCP and MACPAAccording to the latest analysis by Circulation Verification Council, the combined circulation of free community newspapers grew 1.41% year over year. The independent, third-party report…

According to the latest research by Scarsborough Research, 71% of adults read a newspaper in print or online within the last week.  Beyond the size of readership, newspapers continue to deliver an educated demographic with 80 percent of adults in …