National Public Radio (NPR) recently interviewed Our-Hometown, Inc. customer and friend Art Cullen from the Storm Lake Times and has published the full audio of the conversation online, along with a text transcription. The Storm Lake Times is being featured in an upcoming PBS documentary named "Storm Lake", prompting Art to join NPR host Dave Davies to discuss the family-oriented newspaper. To read or listen to the entire interview on the NPR website, just click the following headline: 'Storm Lake' Documentary Depicts The Triumph And Struggle Of A Local Newspaper "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen discusses the battle to keep...

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Our-Hometown has made the difficult decision to end our relationship with our e-mail service provider, Rackspace. The quality of service of Rackspace has degraded over the past year to the point where it is no longer a viable service. Emails are no longer being delivered reliably and Rackspace has refused to allow communication from the website server to their email service. They are unable, or unwilling, to resolve numerous issues that have caused us and our customers frustration while wasting all of our time.  We have decided to leave Rackspace and move our-hometown.com’s email to Google Workspace. With this change,...

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-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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Here at Our Hometown, we try to stay on top of the latest developments when it comes to online newspaper publishing. In this News Brief, we're highlighting a piece by Joshua Benton over at Nieman Lab about upcoming changes to Apple's News Partner Program. The article, "Apple now wants to be your “News Partner” (meaning they’ll let you keep more of your readers’ cash if you join Apple News)," discusses the ways that Apple is updating it's program to provide better revenue sharing to their news partners.  Here are a few of our big takeaways: Small publishers (those making less...

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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

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-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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Our-Hometown, Inc. is excited to announce that the Kevin Slimp Webinar Series has been extended to include several more informative LIVE WEBINARS, all of which are open to Our-Hometown customers free of charge! During the first round of webinars included in our partnership, Kevin covered several highly-relevant topics, and many of our customers were able to immediately apply his expertise to their digital publishing workflow. The feedback we received was overwhelmingly positive, and we're thrilled to be able to work with Kevin to continue to provide this added value to being a Our-Hometown customer. The NEW list of upcoming webinars...

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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

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-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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In this interview Matt Larson of Our-Hometown, Inc. welcomes Pason Gaddis and Jim Dickerson of the Florida Weekly group to discuss a brand new project consisting of mobile touchless displays presenting their news content to readers in various commercial locations, such as doctor's offices, hotels, and airports. Additional topics include their mobile website as well as their native mobile app, plus working with Facebook news and audio content.

Last week, Grant Hamilton of Neighbor-to-Neighbor News -- the publishing group behind the East Aurora Advertiser and several other community newspapers in the Western New York region -- published a new podcast episode that we feel perfectly exemplifies the use of audio technology in the news publishing world. (You may remember Grant from the Industry Interview we published just a couple of weeks ago, where he detailed his experience with our platform and his vision for the future.) Grant authored his article in a first-person point of view, knowing that this particular piece of content would only be published to...

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-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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Google recently announced that they are changing the way they share content through the Google News program, and it could have big impact on the traffic your website is seeing. Traditionally, Google News has used RSS feeds to collect news content from news publishers and render it directly within the Google News application or on Google's website. While this resulted in more eyes on the shared content and perhaps some brand exposure, most of the readers viewing the content never actually visited the website where the content originated. In a sense, publishers were trading their pageviews for the perceived exposure...

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Our Hometown Web Publishing is The Last Newspaper CMS & Website You'll Ever Need.  We help you generate revenue, engage with readers, and increase efficiency with Our Hometown's Digital & PrePress CMS features to fit your needs & budget.

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-Powered with WordPress
-Hosted on Amazon Web Services
-Integrated with Adobe InDesign & Google Drive

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In this webinar Mike Blinder of Editor & Publisher and Matthew Larson of Our-Hometown welcome several publisher to discuss deploying native mobile apps vs. responsive websites and the OHT pipeline to distribute audio news from RSS feeds to podcast platforms. 

Panelists include Tom Lappas, publisher of Henrico Citizen in Virginia; Codi Mills, editor and Courtney Gebes, designer of The Cattle Business Weekly; and Jared Murnin, general manager at the Western Ag Reporter.

Today we have a very special guest with us on the show: Grant Hamilton, publisher of neighbor to neighbor news, a group of community newspapers based out of East Aurora New York.

In this interview, we discuss Our-Hometown's audio articles feature, as well as a new implementation of playlists, and future developments of automated audio including podcasts.

Let us know your thoughts on the future of audio and podcasting for local news publishers.