Best GateHouse photos of the week (May 15-21, 2012)

Here are the best GateHouse photos of the week for May 15-21, 2012. Want your photographs featured here? Just send them to shardesty@corp.gatehousemedia.com every week.

Best of the Day: A easy enterprise idea you can steal (5/22/12)

The Brookline (Mass.) TAB did a great enterprise story that would be easily duplicated in many of our communities.

The Morning Sun named front page of the day (05/22/12)

Daily and weekly papers: Send your front page pdfs to frontpages@gatehousemedia.com.

Memorial Day story ideas

From memorials to summer fun, here are some ideas to help you cover Memorial Day weekend:

New in Niche: June RadarFrog, election page (5/22/12)

June RadarFrog has tips on buying budget-friendly tech for Dad, and our monthly Election 2012 page looks at some potential vice presidential candidates for the presumptive GOP nominee, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney.

 

ComScore report shows why we need entertainment video

It's hard to argue the opportunity that video presents for newspapers, especially after this week's release from comScore that showed there were 37 billion videos watched online in April.

The State Journal-Register named front page of the day (05/21/12)

Daily and weekly papers: Send your front page pdfs to frontpages@gatehousemedia.com.

Gallery of the week: Longtime Rockland farmer, 91, faithfully tends her flock (Patriot Ledger, 5/17/12)

Louise McCarthy, 91, collects eggs from her Rockland barn twice a day, for a total of about 70 dozen per week. She sells them at her farm, the Luand Farm on Beech Street, and at the Hingham Farmers Market on Saturday mornings. View gallery here.

Best of the Day: Chicago group digs deep into NATO coverage

Staff at Suburban Life Publications, which covers more than two dozen towns in the Chicago suburbs, rallied for coverage of the NATO summit during the weekend. The summit attracted thousands of protestors and crippled transit throughout the area.

Top NDN videos in GateHouse (week of 5/14)

The most-viewed NDN videos in GateHouse last week:

Twitter accounts needed for papers & reporters, even at smallest sites

Should newspapers have both a paper-branded Twitter account and accounts for individual newspapers, even at GateHouse Media's smallest newspapers? Simply put, yes!

SEO tips: Where links come from matters

We've talked about the power of links and how it affects page rank. In a nut shell, the more links pointing to your page, the more SEO authority, or trust, you have with Google.
But getting a link from a like-minded website is better and more powerful than a link from just anywhere.

The Patriot Ledger named front page of the day (05/18/12)

Daily and weekly papers: Send your front page pdfs to frontpages@gatehousemedia.com.

Best of the Day: Siftings Herald uses Warrior Dash to sport multimedia skills

Using a green screen, the staff at the Daily Siftings Herald in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, showed off their video skills and made a cool online package for coverage of the annual Warrior Dash.

Southern Illinois newspapers use monthly tab to salute nurses

GateHouse Media-owned newspapers in southern Illinois took a different path in disseminating News & Interactive Division’s Salute to Nurses content in honor of National Nurses Week.

The Patriot Ledger named front page of the day (05/17/12)

Daily and weekly papers: Send your front page pdfs to frontpages@gatehousemedia.com.

AP Style on NATO, G-8

Two big summits are taking place in the U.S. this weekend. The G-8 summit kicks off Friday at Camp David, Md., and the NATO summit begins Sunday in Chicago.

Story idea: Where are people headed this vacation season?

More people are planning a Memorial Day weekend trip this year compared to 2011, but they still are concerned with travel expenses as they plan for summer vacations.

The Bulletin named front page of the day (05/16/12)

Daily and weekly papers: Send your front page pdfs to frontpages@gatehousemedia.com.

Best of the day: Use video to capture personality (5/16/12)

The Daily American in West Frankfort, Ill., captures the retirement of a local dentist through the use of words, photographs and video.

Training Schedule

Updated Jun 28, 2011 @ 09:53 AM

Here's a look at onsite training that the News & Interactive Division has on tap in the coming weeks:

Week of June  20
Harrisburg Daily Register [IL]
Eldorado Daily Journal [IL]
Carmi Times [IL]
The Olney Daily Mail [IL]
Flora Advocate Press  [IL]
Newport Independent [AR]
Stuttgart Daily Leader [AR]
Helena The Daily World [AR]
Heber Springs The Sun Times [AR]


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