News, information, and tips to assist local news organizations in covering the COVID-19 pandemic.
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TownNews, in partnership with Moonlighting, has kicked off a new site—NewsGigs—that helps media professionals promote themselves and search for quality jobs. Read more
Since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in early March 2020, TownNews has remained laser-focused on assisting our local media partners. By deliv… Read more
MOLINE, IL and LEXINGTON, KY – June 16th, 2020 – TownNews and BlueFrame Technology have announced a partnership which will give the more than … Read more
The state or county fair is a yearly platform to showcase the best of your community—and it's critical to your local economy. But as COVID-19 … Read more
With graduation ceremonies across the nation being cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19, local media sites are looking to offer students the… Read more
Growing reader revenue has never been more important. Many of our partners have asked: "What are some fast, effective things we can do to grow… Read more
In this E&P Reports webinar (sponsored by TownNews), Mike Blinder, Publisher of Editor & Publisher magazine, explores how the Telegrap… Read more
"We were looking for a content management system that could allow us to easily and quickly share across all of our platforms," said Rob Curry,… Read more
With COVID-19 keeping crowds away, The Port Lavaca Wave had been using social media to livestream the regular season football games for the lo… Read more
At the close of an eventful calendar year, bring a more personal dimension to related content with a “Fave 5.” Debuting last year on Lee Enter… Read more
We are happy to introduce new functionality that will be available with our new BLOX Core version which is being released this week.
This new feature creates "breakthrough" regions that allow for full-width ad spaces on your article pages. These regions continue from the art…
Now, when you click on "find assets" (children, siblings or parents) you can easily add assets from multiple different searches or pages of re…
We are excited to announce some big improvements to the BLOX Live e-Editions mobile interface for sites using our "segmented pages" version.
Thanks to feedback from our partners for BLOX Live e-Editions, we are now rolling out a series of features which will help improve the overall…
We are excited to announce a new feature that will be available as part of the BLOX Core release. This new functionality allows editors and re…
Website admins can now go directly to an asset in BLOX CMS from the article. A new bar across the top of web pages will show when a website ad…
In this release, we are adding a new block called "Card: Image grid" that will show a simple, clean grid of images. This new block can be help…
We're happy to announce that we have integrated the OneTrust privacy solution into the BLOX CMS platform. This will allow you to easily config…
This week, as part of our BLOX Core software update, we are making emojis available through BLOX Notifier. These are often used by sites to pr…
Sort and better display articles by related content with the new "child type" query rule. This is great for featuring articles with videos, ph…
BLOX Notifier puts the management of push notifications and social messages right in the middle of the editorial process allowing your editors…
When users forget their password or are having trouble logging in, it can be a frustrating experience for them, and the customer support staff…
We've partnered with Fotomoto to bring new features to BLOX Photo Sales. These new features include digital downloads, smart cropping, and cus…
This week we will be making significant improvements to BLOX Notifier and how automated announcements are formatted.
In this week's release, we are adding a new property that allows site administrators to choose different styles for how letterboxed images are…
This new header and navigation option dynamically changes based on the specific scenario to create the best user interface for the end user. O…
A new feature released this week allows sites to set the behavior of ads on Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) separately from normal web pages.
BLOX Subscription Pro now has support for promotional rates and promo codes.
Enable Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) for BLOX Calendar events to improve the mobile user experience and help with rankings on Google search r…
Growing reader revenue has never been more important. At our February customer webinar, Bridget Sibthorp-Moecker, Director of Audience for Tow…
At our November customer webinar, Christine Masters, Director of BLOX CMS for TownNews, gave a masterclass to highlight some advanced, and som…
At this special webinar, the product team at TownNews introduced important changes to BLOX Live e-Editions and Associated Press feeds, and sho…
At our September customer webinar, Christine Masters, director of BLOX CMS, shared expert tips and tricks for using our industry-leading tools…
From new integrations and functionality, to design layouts and blocks, we’re constantly working to improve our products. At our August custome…
At this customer webinar, Joe Hansen, senior product manager for TownNews, and Michelle De Mooy, privacy consultant with the Local Media Conso…
At our June customer webinar, Susan Bell, senior product manager for TownNews, showed off the latest redesign of the BLOX Now mobile app. This…
At our May 2020 customer webinar, Rick Rogers, chief revenue officer at TownNews, and Richard Green, CEO of Evvnt gave an overview of the new …
At this special webinar, the TownNews team shared ideas and best practices for serving your audience and generating revenue during the coronav…
At our March customer webinar, we introduced SmartSend, an all-new text and email marketing app that allows your clients to easily send instan…
When it comes to audience engagement, email is still tops. But how do you know you’re getting the best possible results from your email newsle…
At our January webinar, we gave a sneak peek at two new data-powered solutions that will transform your digital growth in 2020: iQ Audience+ a…
At our November customer webinar, Susan Bell, product manager, and Christine Masters, director of product management, showed off what’s new in…
Join Tim Turner, iQ Engage program manager at TownNews, and Tim McDonough, manager of client strategy at Lotame, as they show you how TownNews…
Though videos and podcasts are all the rage, the workaday, unsung article still accounts for more than half of all page views across the TownN…
Officials are asking callers to be more discerning amid a critical staffing shortage at the city's 911 center.
HELENA — Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a major ‘constitutional carry’ bill Thursday that will let Montanans carry concealed firearms in public se…
Indigenous people accounted for more than one-fifth of all of Wyoming’s homicide victims, despite representing just under 3% of the state’s po…
AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday was to hold an emergency meeting with key lawmakers to discuss ways to prevent spikes in Texans’ energy …
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