As live events slowly return, America's Newspapers' Senior Leadership Conference took place live at the Broadmoor Resort in Colorado Springs. Just under 200 attended sessions on growing audience, maximizing revenue, building a better internal culture for our operations and more. On Monday, October 18th, 2021, Editor & Publisher's participation included the announcement of the 2021 Publisher of the Year recipient: Judi Terzotis, followed by the moderation of a robust lunchtime panel discussion by news publishing leaders on their views and predictions on the future of the industry.

Topics covered during this lively discussion included:

• Print frequency and what it may look like in the years to come
• Should Google & Facebook be made to pay for the content they monetize from our journalists?
• The future of funding our newsrooms and can local journalism survive on just ad and reader revenue?
• Finding talent and what it will take to recruit and keep employees
• The return of local ownership and how this impacts the future of local journalism

In this 107th episode of "E&P Reports," Publisher Mike Blinder moderates, live from America's Newspaper's Senior Leadership Conference, a panel of industry executives that includes Heidi Wright, COO and Publisher, EO Media Group; Tim Prince, Senior Vice President, Boone Newspapers, Inc; PJ Browning, President and Publisher, The Post and Courier and John Rung, President and CEO, Shaw Media who address the most important and predictions on what the future holds for news publishers.