March 20th & 21st
Saratoga Hilton
New venue! The Saratoga Hilton – great downtown location walkable to bars, restaurants, and shops.
New format! Thursday and Friday – sessions start at 10:45 am Thursday and run through dinner Friday evening.
New entertainment! Stroll downtown for a casual networking event at Walt & Whitman, a trendy, comfortable brew pub located in the former home of the Saratogian newspaper.
Dynamic new newspaper contest awards presentations!
Expansive trade show – new location, new format, new vendors!
Ask Me Anything sessions with experts! Subscription strategies, AI, digital advertising, InDesign, time management, Adobe Acrobat, libel, Open Government, paywalls, email marketing,
Sports podcasts, investigative reporting, and much, much more, designed to help you develop inspired strategies for a sustainable framework!
We can’t wait to see you!
Thursday Night Networking at the Whitman Brewing Company. Former home of the Saratogian.
So, who’s speaking?
Chris Coates - Growing readership through community connections
Bridget Thoreson - Unleashing The Power of Collaboration: A Toolkit For Community Newsrooms
Eric Athas -Taking a Measured Approach to Launching New Tools in your Newsroom
Jo Lukito - Detecting Misinformation
Liz Worthington - Simplify and contextualize your data with Metrics for News and Source tracking fosters responsive engagement and improves your journalism
Christian Fahrenbach - Useful New Sites, Apps and Services to Boost Your Productivity and Creativity
Sherrod Blakely - Developing your G.P.S. to navigate a successful Sports podcast
Jim Brady & Elisa Shearer - Redefining News in the Age of Social Media
Brant Houston - Investigative Reporting
Robert Skrob - Transforming News into Subscription Growth Models
Rowan Philp – Top Tools for 2024
Melissa Bell - How to Keep Evolving in a changing world
Gregory Favre - Bridging the Generational Gap
Katelyn Belyus – Paywalls, traffic, subscriptions, and retention
Print and Digital advertising, leadership sessions with Bill Barker, Kevin Berrier, Kenny Katzgrau and Charity Huff.
Photography sessions with Anne Herbst, Karen Mullarkey and Carey Wagner
And last but not least Kevin Slimp!!
Agenda of the sessions to come in January.
Don’t miss this incredible lineup!
Conference
$149 per Registrant
$30 Friday Breakfast & BNC Awards
$35 Lunches & BNC Awards
$65 Thursday Night Networking
$75 Friday Closing Banquet
Book Your Room
Hotel: $167 per night
Saratoga Hilton
Reservation cut-off date is February 21, 2025
Better Newspaper Contest Awards
Awards will be given out during Thursday lunch, Friday breakfast, Friday lunch, and Friday dinner.