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All entries must be submitted by 11 p.m. (CST).
Today is the last day for entries for this year's Mega-Innovation Award. This honor will be awarded at the Mega-Conference to the newspaper or corporate office that best represents innovation in the newspaper industry. We encourage you to nominate your newspaper and share your best innovations with the industry!
Three finalists will present their innovations at the Mega-Conference. The conference registration fee will be waived for one representative from each finalist company who makes the presentation.
In addition, the GRAND PRIZE winner will receive $500, a beautiful plaque and recognition by industry peers!
Innovative newspapers take a wide variety of approaches to reaching additional readers and audience segments and improving subscriber engagement.
Your approach may center around print products, digital products, events, agency services (PR work, logo development, competitive media placement), etc. Perhaps company culture or your organizational structure is central to your newest innovative approaches.
We're trying to make entering as easy as possible this year. In whatever format works best for you:
There is no cost to submit a nomination.
The deadline for entries is 11 p.m. (CST).
Please email your entry and any supporting documents, graphics, etc., to cdurham@newspapers.org.
Three finalists will present their ideas at the Mega-Conference. The conference registration fee will be waived for one representative from each finalist company who makes the presentation.
The GRAND PRIZE winner also will receive:
A beautiful engraved award.
Cash prize of $500.
Recognition for the great work that you and your company are doing!
Putting on events has much in common with publishing, according to Jason Taylor, president of GateHouse Live and New Media Group Ventures. Publishers, he said, create content that attracts an audience, and they try to monetize that audience. "An event does the exact same thing."
By putting a computer screen on top of a newspaper rack, Oahu Publications opened up a new profit center. Called the Digital Billboard Network, the screen runs a seven-minute loop of news and advertising in high-traffic areas where people are likely to pass by or stand in line.
When Calkins Media was named a finalist for the 2016 Mega-Innovation award, its video stream produced by the Bucks County Courier Times was a repeating four-hour content block. Now, it is essentially a local TV station.
When Vince Johnson was first named publisher of the Forsyth County News, the paper had a rule about social media. Only one article was posted to Facebook each day, at 6 a.m. In his entry form for the Mega-Innovation competition, Johnson noted that rule officially died on Jan. 20, 2014. Since then, the paper has increased its social media following by more than 1,000 percent. That's just one example of how the Forsyth County News, described by Johnson as "wildly traditional" not so long ago, has changed.
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