NEWSCYCLE Solutions is expanding its mobile product portfolio to include Over-the-Top (OTT) technologies, enabling news media companies to deliver content on-demand to online audiences. The new NEWSYCLE OTT offering supports Apple TV and Roku, and the company will be adding support for Amazon Fire this April, with Google Chromecast, Samsung Smart TV's and other set-top, plug-and-play and voice-activated devices following in the first half of 2017.

McClatchy has entered into separate agreements to sell and lease back real property owned by The State Media Company in Columbia, S.C., and The Sacramento Bee in Sacramento, Calif., for total gross proceeds of $67.8 million.

The number of transactions involving daily newspapers in 2016 numbered 28, the highest total since 2008, according to newspaper merger-and-acquisition firm Dirks, Van Essen & Murray.

Interlink is a USPS-approved circulation-focused service for community newspapers. Interlink's software-based service makes it possible for a clerk to handle a newspaper's total circulation – everything from billing a renewal to taking the last penny in postal discounts – all without being either a circulation expert or a postal wizard.

With the inauguration just days away, GateHouse Media's Center for News & Design has prepared a special package guiding readers to events in coming days.

The package can run as a 6-page broadsheet section. Five pages contain a 6x3 ad position, and the sixth page is a full-page ad.

Yeah, sure – Big Data. We get it, right?

We all know that the digital age is producing huge amounts of data about consumers and their behavior. And, sure, we know that anybody who's in the marketing and advertising business – like local media companies – needs to get good at it. Right?

Not that we've quite learned how to do it yet. But surely we know – don't we? – that we simply must master it to benefit both ourselves and our customers? And we're working on it, right?

Well, I am. I hope you are, too.

Why? Because somebody is going to bring Big Data to Main Street. If it's not us, Big Data will be the next big wave of disruption in our advertising and marketing business. It's guaranteed to whittle down our local media ad revenues still further.

I've blogged about the huge opportunity and threat of Big Data for local media companies four times in the last 13 months. If you're a regular Media Reset reader, you may be thinking, "What, again!?"

If you're not a regular MediaReset reader, I strongly recommend that you catch up on Big Data and its local media possibilities here.

But I can't stop there. I keep digging deeper to learn more about what Big Data can do and how we can master its potential for ourselves and our customers. And I keep learning.

For the last couple of months, I've been digging into predictive analytics – a narrower niche in the vast expanse of Big Data. It's the sharp cutting edge that is making Big Data even more powerful.

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Editor & Publisher wants to recognize the next generation of newspaper publishing leaders: people who are young, bright, and capable of tackling whatever the changing newspaper climate throws at them. People with business acumen to lead through trying times and vision to implement bold, new strategies to move their newspapers forward.

Shaw Media, operators of nearly 100 print/digital, paid/free publications in Illinois and Iowa, has joined a growing coalition of such family-owned companies as Calkins Media, Albuquerque Publishing Company, Frederick News-Post, Observer Publishing Company and Morris Publishing Group in pursuing audience growth, engagement and monetization through LEAP Media Solutions' proven data-driven approach, capping another year of record growth for LEAP.

One of the benefits of the NEX GEN program for Bobby Youngs was learning more about the basics of newspaper publishing and how other newspapers operate. He said his mentor, Steve Dorsey, vice present/innovation and planning at the Austin American-Statesman, "exposed me to other aspects of the industry that I don't know if I would have gotten so quickly."

Read about his NEX GEN experience.

To chronicle the unprecedented level of policy and political change that comes with the incoming Trump administration, The Associated Press is enhancing its White House reporting team. Reporters in Washington and elsewhere will provide comprehensive, cutting-edge coverage as the new administration dives into its first 100 days.