Originally recorded on April 24, 2025 About the webinar: Algorithms, user behavior, tools, and the law are always changing on social media. Let’s take a look at some of the current best practices on Instagram to engage with your audience and attract new users to your content. We’ll look at a variety of publishers to see…

Originally recorded on May 8, 2025   About the webinar: Whether your newsroom is actively covering an election or interested in learning about what political issues are top of mind for your community, community engagement best practices can help inform your coverage. In this webinar, Bridget Thoreson of Hearken shares how to design your own engagement…

Originally recorded on June 5, 2025 About the webinar:  Media organizations face unprecedented cybersecurity threats from nation-state hackers, ransomware criminals, and sophisticated disinformation campaigns. Join cybersecurity expert Greg Edwards in an essential webinar designed specifically for media leadership and journalists. Highlights include: Real-world case studies of recent cyberattacks impacting local and independent newsrooms. Practical, non-technical…

Originally recorded on June 12, 2025 About the webinar: Sales in local for-profit and nonprofit news has shifted from selling ad space or pageviews to addressing psychological, strategic, and narrative-driven challenges. This session outlines how news organizations can adopt a sales approach rooted in sponsor alignment and value-based storytelling. Participants will learn how effective sales professionals…

Originally recorded on July 24, 2025 About the webinar: The team at Our Hometown will demo the latest updates to their AI Summarizer for Public Meetings. In the the last webinar, we saw CEO Matt Larson walk through the AI app they are testing on PublicMeetings.org. Since then, the app has been repackaged into a WordPress Plugin…

Originally recorded on July 31, 2025 About the webinar: Almost two years ago, Joey and Lindsey Young, co-publishers of Kansas Publishing Ventures in south central Kansas, put their company in the hands of three university researchers and took the plunge to try new ideas for revenue with their flagship community weekly, Harvey County Now. Hear all…