Community content publishing service helps reporters save time

GateHouse Media's Center for News and Design is providing other newspaper companies with its unique Community Content publishing service, which helps free a reporter's time to focus on important local stories.

GateHouse Media, which is a Strategic Partnership provider with SNPA, is offering this service at a 15 percent discount to SNPA members.

"At GateHouse Media, we've found that at many of our newspapers reporters were spending too much time "processing" content – preparing calendar briefs, re-writing news releases, typing in letters to the editor, compiling school supply lists and performing similar time-consuming tasks," said David Arkin, senior vice president of content and product development for GateHouse Media.

So how do you give your reporters the opportunity and time to do their best work?

Learn more by accessing a presentation explaining the Community Content program.

"While valuable and important to readers, this routine content can be
very time-consuming to produce amid other local priorities," said Amber Krosel, director of community content for GateHouse Media. "To solve the dilemma, we created a separate team of journalists – content producers, writers and editors – based in Austin to create hyper-local content; we're now working with 160-plus papers."

At GateHouse Media, the Community Content team works with newspapers to establish content they're interested in having the team publish. The Community Content team writes, edits and even makes calls to local organizations to confirm information. The team can publish directly to a newspaper's website.

"Ask us how we can help free time for your reporters, keep the important hyper-local content in the paper and on the website, and do it all for a very affordable price," Arkin said. "This service has been a game changer at GateHouse."

Contact John Reetz – jreetz@gatehousemedia.com – for more info.

Other services offered at a 15 percent discount to SNPA members via the GateHouse-SNPA partnership program include:

More Content Now, GateHouse Media's niche solution that features daily pages, special sections and original content. Content offerings include:

• Weekly broadsheet pages on health, home, automotive, food, kids/NIE.
• Weekly columnists on frugal living, humor, family, TV, politics, religion and more.

Daily features on lifestyle topics:

• Monthly family magazine and boomers tab, with information about retirement, grand-parenting, travel, real estate, leisure and other issues of interest to this large segment of newspaper reader.
• Twice-yearly bridal tab.
• Seasonal tabs on home and garden.
• Special sections on themed sporting events.
• Sudoku puzzles and word searches for kids.

Weekly regional college sports pages. SEC, Big 10 and Big 12 football and ACC, Big 10, SEC, ACC and Big 12 basketball pages are available.

Daily nation and world, business and sports pages (a dozen all together daily) in different shapes and sizes to fit your daily wire report. Agate, NFL and Major League Baseball pages are also available.

"The Center for News & Design is offering SNPA members content that readers want to see in their newspapers, and having such a reliable source of quality national and feature content gives newsrooms more time to expand their local coverage," says SNPA executive director Edward VanHorn. "This new partnership with GateHouse has made ready-to-use content even more affordable."

"The Center for News & Design is offering SNPA members content that readers want to see in their newspapers, and having such a reliable source of quality national and feature content gives newsrooms more time to expand their local coverage," says SNPA executive director Edward VanHorn. "This new partnership with GateHouse has made ready-to-use content even more affordable."