Category Archives: DAS News
Why newspaper ad sales teams love Discover America’s Story.
At its core, Discover America’s Story is about newspapers making more money. The program provides a sales team with tools to sell additional advertising – often to businesses that generally do not purchase ads. Why would they suddenly be motivated? … Continue reading
Need to digitally preserve your archives? Give it a try.
Publishers who are already using Discover America’s Story to generate fresh revenue, some of which they can use to digitize their loose and bound volume archives, say showing potential advertisers/sponsors the online archive has made it simple to secure sponsors. … Continue reading
What we learned at NNA.
Our Discover America’s Story team is just back from the NNA Convention in St. Charles – it was a great opportunity for us to introduce our program to a large number of newspaper publishers. It was well received – after … Continue reading
If you attended the NNA convention, don’t miss this!
PROBLEM: Your newspaper’s bound volume archive sometimes feels like a ball and chain — you must maintain it year after year in stewardship to your community — but you are running a business with assets that should make money. SOLUTION: … Continue reading
Special Offer for NNA Attendees
Discover America’s Story is a proven new ad sales program that is helping small town and community newspaper publishers from across the country generate a fresh stream of revenue that they can use to digitize their loose printed and bound … Continue reading
Evidence of ‘parallel universe’ discovered in 1980s small-town Louisiana newspaper archive
At SmallTownPapers, we regularly monitor activity on our archive pages – we analyze which archives receive the most traffic and we work to understand where the interest originates. One of the most visited pages got our attention big time – … Continue reading
Newspaper Generates Profits with Discover America’s Story
Congratulations to The Mooreland (OK) Leader and its publisher Tim Schnoebelen for their ongoing success with Discover America’s Story! The program has helped the newspaper generate revenue – some of which Tim is using to digitize his historic bound volume … Continue reading
The real story about digitizing newspaper archives.
Newspaper publishers are finding Discover America’s Story a great way to generate new revenue – money they can use to finally digitize and put their historic archives online for everyone to search and explore. We’re finding that many people have … Continue reading
Who controls your newspaper’s digital archive?
As word has begun to spread about this month’s launch of Discover America’s Story, small town and community newspaper publishers have been quick to call and ask questions about just how the revenue generating program works. They’ve been looking for ways … Continue reading
What a digitized archive can do for your newspaper.
Discover America’s Story’s parent company, SmallTownPapers, has been digitizing small market newspaper archives for years. Of all of the archives digitized and hosted online, the Shelton-Mason County Journal in Washington … Continue reading