There's a new news service and niche editor at the GateHouse Media News and Interactive department. Her name is Lisa Glowinski, and she's got some big plans for the division. I sat down with her for a few minutes to see what she's all about.

The Gonzales Citizen Weekly offered its readers one heck of a lagniappe in prepartion for Super Bowl XLIV.

A "lagniappe" is an old Cajun term that means a little something extra, a small bonus. 

The GateHouse Media News & Inteactive Division is accepting applications for a new newsroom training program.

DECEMBER

Looking forward to a new year is always a great time to reflect back on the accomplishments of the last. Over the next 12 days we'll take a look back and recognize the great work accomplished at our newspapers.

The countdown will start Monday, December 21, and we will promote big ideas, projects and successes that took place in January 2009. And each day until 2010 we will showcase the next month and its great moments.

Changes are taking place at our GateHouse Media newspapers well before the new year. The online template conversion process is well into its second week and already eight newspapers have made the transfer.

Check out their new sites:

Lake Sun Online, Camdenton, Mo.

Morning Sun, Pittsburg, Kan.

Peoria Journal Star, Peoria Ill.

Rockford Register Star, Rockford, Ill.

So the launch date for your new Web site is quickly approaching, and now it's time to let your readers know about it. GateHouse News Service has developed pre and post launch promotions to run in your paper at least two weeks before and after your Web site changes over to the new templates.

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On Tuesday, 10 GateHouse Media editors and reporters will come to the Chicago suburbs for the first-annual 2009 GateHouse Media Your Big Ideas Series.

The participants come from small, medium and large newspapers. Some are executive editors, others are section editors and some are reporters of more than one newspaper.

Last month, GateHouse Media released seven print ads to encourage your newspaper readers to check out your Web success.

These house ads were created to run in print to direct your newspaper readers to online content – news updates, multimedia (including photo galleries) and the coupons section. Let your readers know ‘We’re on’ by using this promotion to direct them to your Web content 24/7.

In an ongoing effort to show readers that the newspaper industry is not slowing down and instead continuing to keep readers and advertisers engaged in our product, the GateHouse News & Interactive Division has released a campaign of pro-newspaper print ads that help communicate to your readers and advertisers the value and relevancy of newspapers today. The ads tell a very positive story of the newspaper industry: Our readership is growing and our total audience is larger than ever.

We encourage you to begin using these advertisements in your newspapers right away.