Vendor Directory
AARP
Website: www.aarp.org
Contact: Angela Foreshaw
Philadelphia, PA
AARP is a United States-based interest group focusing on issues affecting those over the age of fifty.
AdCellerant
Website: www.adcellerant.com
Contact: Ben Bouslog
Denver, CO
AdCellerant is a technology and digital advertising company focused on making quality digital marketing accessible to every business. AdCellerant achieves this goal by partnering with local marketers, media companies, agencies, and channel sales organizations, helping them leverage AdCellerant’s proprietary advertising software platform, UI.Marketing. This software platform provides clients with a comprehensive, total digital agency solution that oversees the full lifecycle of a marketing campaign including sales enablement, campaign execution and reporting. The AdCellerant team strives to be part of your internal team as your digital marketing operations arm, your product and technology trainer, and your digital sales expert.
AdMall by SalesFuel
Website: https://salesfuel.com/admall/
Contact: Denise Gibson
Westerville, OH
SalesFuel’s SaaS-based portfolio of sales tools, training and intelligence provide thousands of sales teams nationwide with the power to Sell Smarter®. SalesFuel leverages critical insights that enable our clients to attract, grow and retain their best employees and customers. One of its core products is AdMall. Providing tactical business intelligence for local marketing and media sales, AdMall makes selling easier, improves marketing results and quickly generates return-on-investment. Named as one of the Top 10 Sales Enablement Vendors for 2021 by Selling Power Magazine, SalesFuel, Inc. was founded by C. Lee Smith in Columbus, Ohio in 1989 with a simple objective: Sales are the revenue engine of your company; we provide the fuel. For more information, please visit https://salesfuel.com and for AdMall information, visit https://salesfuel.com/admall/
Archive in a Box
Website: www.archiveinabox.com
Contact: Paul Jeffko
Shelton, WA
There’s no downside to scanning your newspaper’s archive but there is a singular hurdle so daunting that most publishers simply cannot foresee any way to overcome it – cost. Luckily, there are organizations determined to help. ArchiveInABox works with historical stakeholders who can provide funding to digitize and index small-town newspapers, while the publisher retains all ownership and rights.
Associated Press
Website: www.ap.org
Contact: Paul Memoli
Philadelphia, PA
The Associated Press is an independent, not-for-profit news cooperative headquartered in New York City. Our teams operate in 250 locations in more than 100 countries to tell the world’s stories, from breaking news to investigative reporting. We provide content and services to help engage audiences, working with companies of all types, from broadcasters to brands. More than half the world’s population sees our content every day.
Ballard Spahr LLP
Website: www.ballardspahr.com
Contact: Michael Berry
Philadelphia, PA
At Ballard Spahr, our clients’ content matters. Our Media and Entertainment Group serves the needs of creators and providers of virtually every type of content in every kind of media. Across the news, entertainment, publishing, social media, advertising, and advocacy sectors, our clients have one thing in common: a focus on the content they develop, produce, and deliver. From our fifteen offices around the country, we represent and counsel media in all areas of First Amendment, media, and intellectual property law.
Clelan and Company
Website: www.clelan.com
Contact: Doug Clelan
Camp Hill, PA
Opening their doors 30 years ago, Clelan and Company was one of the first independent financial advisory firms in the central Pennsylvania area. Boasting a combined 90 years of experience helping highly successful individuals and companies build, manage and conserve net worth, their advisors’ experience includes, but is not limited to: financial planning, investment management, qualified retirement plans, executive compensation arrangements, business succession planning, estate planning and insurance planning. Clelan and Company’s mission of significantly improving the long-term financial well-being of business owners and professionals is further highlighted by the personalized attention paid to each client.
Coda Ventures
Website: www.codaventures.com
Contact: Dave Storey
Nashville, TN
Coda is a ROI-driven newspaper research and consulting firm specializing in your success. We quantify your total audience footprint across all your media platforms – print, web, social, apps, newsletters and more. Our research will help you showcase the buying power of your readers and turn data into advertising sales. Contact us today to learn how you can turn research into revenue for your newspaper.
Editor & Publisher
Website: www.editorandpublisher.com
Contact: Patti Minglin
Fountain Valley, CA
Editor & Publisher is the trusted source of newspaper industry professionals, providing perspective where only data overload existed. The goal of E&P is to support, inform and promote the newspaper industry and provide professionals with tools to ensure their success in the years to come.
Fitzpatrick, Lentz & Bubba. P.C.
Website: www.flblaw.com
Contact: Doug Smillie
Centre Valley, PA
Doug Smillie of Fitzpatrick Lentz & Bubba, P.C., has extensive media law experience, stemming from his representation of media entities in a variety of litigation-related matters. Doug advises our media clients on all matters related to media law, including the Right-to-Know Law, Freedom of Information Act and Sunshine Law. In addition, Doug has handled a variety of issues confronting media entities, including defamation and invasion of privacy claims, First Amendment issues and subpoenas seeking testimony or information concerning sources. The firm also counsels media and entertainment companies on their general business, employment law, intellectual property, collections and other related matters. Our clients include local and regional news organizations, broadcasters, publishers and production companies throughout Pennsylvania and the surrounding areas.
Frank, Gale, Bails & Pocrass, P.C.
Website: www.fbmgg.com
Contact: Frederick Frank
Pittsburgh, PA
Frederick N. Frank and Frank, Gale, Bails, & Pocrass, P. C. has extensive experience in media law. It includes a broad range of successful litigation in the fields of the Freedom of Information Act; the Right to Know Law; the Sunshine Act; access to judicial documents and proceedings; the Shield Law; and the reporter’s qualified First Amendment Privilege. The firm prides itself on giving immediate and excellent representation to its media clients when these issues arise. It recognizes that it must be prepared to act quickly in instances such as when the media is barred from judicial proceedings. Its great experience in the field facilitates its ability to do so.
ICANON-Newzware
Website: www.newzware.com
Contact: Gary Markle
Hatfield, PA
Newzware Publishing System Software – The best performance value in the newspaper industry – Circulation Audience Management, Display & Classified Advertising, Financial, Editorial and Ad Production tools are deployed separately or integrated as a complete enterprise software environment. ICANON Services insure a legacy of performance with unequaled personal customer support. ICANON is a System Integration Company incorporated in 1990 and has supported the publishing industry with its Newzware products for over 30 years, specializing in hosted computing applications.
Kid Scoop
Website: www.kidscoop.com
Contact: Vicki Whiting
Sonoma, CA
Kid Scoop produces a high-interest weekly kids feature using all parts of the newspaper, building circulation in more than 300 papers. The lively pages help children increase reading and math skills plus learn geography, history, science and civics. Free marketing materials included.
Kinect Energy
Website: www.world-kinect.com
Contact: Cheryl Hefft
Carlisle, PA
World Kinect Energy Services is trusted by customers worldwide to deliver conventional and renewable liquid fuels, lubricants, electricity and natural gas. With 35 years of experience delivering on time and in full, we are there when you need us, where you need us. Today, we facilitate fuel, wind and solar power, along with sustainability services and data management for international brands and local businesses.
A worry-free total energy solution starts by listening. With boots on the ground in the US, Mexico and Canada, our local energy experts get to know your business and deliver customized energy solutions. We can help you buy better and buy smarter.
Kreischer Miller
Website: www.kmco.com
Contact: Richard Snyder
Horsham, PA
Kreischer Miller is a leading independent tax, advisory and accounting firm that serves the Greater Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas. We’ve built our firm to respond to the unique needs of private companies throughout the metropolitan Philadelphia region and Lehigh Valley, helping you smoothly transition through growth phases, business cycles and ownership changes. The companies we work with quickly adapt and respond to changing market opportunities and challenges. That’s why our focus is on being responsive, decisive and forward-thinking. We’re up to the challenge – always looking at the road ahead, not in the rear-view mirror. Among Philadelphia-based CPA firms, you can trust Kreischer Miller to deliver the best people, ideas and solutions for your business needs.
Local Media Association
Website: www.localmedia.org
Contact: Nancy Lane
Traverse City, MI
Local Media Association (LMA) is intensely focused on helping local media companies discover and develop new and sustainable business models. LMA is the only organization that brings together all media for purposes of sharing, networking, collaboration and more. More than 3,000 newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, digital publishers and research & development partners are active members. LMA assists local media companies with their business transformation strategies via cutting-edge programs, conferences, webinars, content, research, consulting and training.
MediaBids
Website: www.mediabids.com
Contact: Jim Jinks
Winsted, CT
Run attractive, response-based, national print ad campaigns in your publication and start generating new print revenue within days (by your next publication date). Every year, MediaBids’ Per-Inquiry Print Advertising Program helps thousands of publications across the U.S. run high-quality print ads. Newspapers and magazines get paid for each qualifying phone call/lead or sale these ads generate. Many publications also use the performance insights garnered from this program (i.e. how many phone calls an ad generates) to prove to prospective advertisers that their publication works.
Metro Creative Graphics
Website: www.metrocreativeconnection.com
Contact: Debra Weiss
New York, NY
Metro is the leading provider of advertising, creative and editorial resources designed to help media companies create, sell and profit with their print, web, social and mobile efforts. With an unparalleled dedication to providing the finest resources available for ready-to-use images, spec ads, ideas, stock-quality photos, logos/trademarks, auto manufacturer photos, marketing/sales materials, copyright-free editorial features, print and digital templated sections, and groundbreaking digital ad development tools — plus custom image, ad design and editorial services — Metro remains unmatched in serving the creative and sales needs of today’s media companies.
Muller Martini
Website: www.mullermartini.com
Contact: Gary Owen
Haupauge, NY
As one of the world’s leading providers of newspaper finishing equipment and services, Muller Martini offers a host of solutions that can enhance a mailroom’s performance and productivity, including SLS inserting systems, SAM Production Planning, WinLincs 10 Control System Upgrade, Certified Rebuild Program, and extensive parts support.
MyDistrict.Net
Website: www.mydistrict.net
Contact: Mark Frizzell
Long Beach, CA
MyDistrict.Net, the leader in Home Delivery & Single Copy Distribution Software, offers significant savings compared to other systems by giving you all the essential routing functions at a manageable cost. We provide stackout/draw sheets, sequenced route lists, easy-to-use carrier compensation tool and our Route Optimization tools. We have award winning support to all 3 levels of users, Publisher, Distributor, Carrier. See our website at www.mydistrict.net and view our client list at https://market.mydistrict.net.
Nauman, Smith, Shissler & Hall, LLP
Website: www.nssh.com
Contact: Sarah Schrank
Harrisburg, PA
Founded in 1871, Nauman Smith holds the longest legacy of any law firm in Harrisburg. Our commitment to excellence has guided us through growth, supported us through change, and sustained us through challenge – for 150 years and counting. What began as a general practice law firm has expanded in response to – and proactive support of – the needs of our community to include Rail and Transportation Law, Right-to-Know, Media, Business and Employment, Municipal, Real Estate Law, Tax, Trusts, Estates, Litigation and Bankruptcy Law. Our history has equipped us with experience. Our passion continues to drive us forward.
News & Tech
Website: www.newsandtech.com
Contact: Mary Van Meter
Beaver Dam, WI
News & Tech is the premier resource for insight, analysis and technology integration in newspaper, magazine, digital and hybrid operations and production. News & Tech is written by industry experts and read by publishers and executive decision-makers.
Our Hometown
Website: www.our-hometown.com
Contact: Tyler Wood
Clifton Springs, NY
Our Hometown, Inc. has proudly served the newspaper industry for over twenty five years, providing complete and hassle-free digital publishing solutions for news media outlets across the country and world.
From our WordPress CMS platform, you can compose content and export articles to InDesign, or receive a feed from our Google Docs add on. We also offer full website production with our PDF to HTML conversion service and native apps for iOS and Android.
We also offer features that can be embedded into any CMS to increase website traffic and engagement. For example, our new feature Audio Articles is a tool for automatically converting the text articles on any newspaper website into mini-podcast episodes, which are fed to all major podcast apps.
Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association
Website: www.pfma.org
Contact: Alex Baloga
Camp Hill, PA
The Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association is a statewide trade association advocating the views of convenience stores, supermarkets, independent grocers, wholesalers and consumer product vendors operating in Pennsylvania.
PFMA membership consists of national chain stores, regional chains and locally owned independent retailers of all sizes. Our 800+ corporate members operate more than 3,500 retail food stores and employ more than 200,000 Pennsylvanians.
Pennsylvania Press Club
Website: www.papressclub.org
Contact: Christine Corrigan
Harrisburg, PA
Founded in 1996, the Pennsylvania Press Club is a monthly luncheon series that features key lawmakers, newsmakers and other individuals. The luncheons include a speaker, moderator and question-and- answer period. Statewide coverage of the luncheons is provided to 3.2 million Pennsylvania households by PCN. The Press Club has featured a wide range of speakers from Governors Tom Ridge, Mark Schweiker, Ed Rendell, Tom Corbett and Tom Wolf to C-SPAN founder and president Brian Lamb, Philadelphia Phillies Chairman Bill Giles and U.S. Senators Pat Toomey, Bob Casey, Arlen Specter and Rick Santorum.
Pennsylvania Legislative Services (PLS)
Website: www.mypls.com
Contact: Deborah Hannon
Harrisburg, PA
PLS was established in 2001 and has grown over the years to become the most powerful Pennsylvania online legislative research, tracking, media and analysis service providing unique and exceptional access to Pennsylvania’s policy making process. PLS’s clients run the full gamut and include Pennsylvania’s most influential legislative participants – lobbying firms, law firms, associations, corporations, state and local governments, educational institutions, health systems, state agencies, the entire General Assembly and Pennsylvania’s courts. PLS provides subscribers with more news and information than any other source.
ppi Media US, Inc.
Website: www.ppimedia.de
Contact: Thomas Reinacher
Chicago, IL
ppi Media is an international workflow specialist for automated newspaper production and cross-media publishing. We provide sophisticated software solutions and services for more than 100 media companies and publishing houses worldwide. We are headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, with offices in Kiel, Germany and Chicago, with 100 employees worldwide.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Website: www.rcfp.org
Contact: Paula Knudsen Burke
Washington, DC
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press provides pro bono legal representation, amicus curiae support, and other legal resources to protect First Amendment freedoms and the newsgathering rights of journalists. In Pennsylvania, Reporters Committee Local Legal Initiative Attorney Paula Knudsen Burke helps provide local news organizations with the direct legal services they need to pursue enterprise and investigative stories in their communities. For updates on our work, sign up for our email list, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Software Consulting Services, LLC
Website: www.newspapersystems.com
Contact: Phil Curtolo
Nazareth, PA
Family-owned and employing US-based staff of developers, sales and support staff, SCS’s business is providing software to the newspaper industry.
SCS builds trusted newspaper systems, including a front-to-back advertising and production solution, an editorial resource and workflow management system, stand-alone modules for ad dummying, ad workflow management and classified pagination, and web presentation, archiving and automated color toning of photos.
Automation is at the heart of SCS’s offerings. The company was at the forefront of automated ad dummying and automated classified pagination, and in 2021, SCS is introducing the premiere tool for automating news pagination. It’s called ANP, and you can click here for a sneak peek.
SpotlightNews
Website: www.spotlightnews.us
Contact: Tamer Morsy
Los Angeles, CA
Spotlight is a news and content application for college students with more than 200 partners ranging from college newspapers to local and international publishers and includes highly sought-after and engaging cryptocurrency information.
Users can follow their favorite publication, topics, or create custom topics they want to see. They control the order of their feed and do not hit any paywalls, pop-ups, or get tracked.
SpotlightNews will help drive collegiate readership and incremental revenue. To date, we have also sold over 70,000 subscriptions to multiple universities.
Telecom Strategies
Website: www.telecomstrategies.net
Contact: Michael A. Rogin
Bensalem, PA
Telecom Strategies LLC is an independent Voice and Data telecommunications consulting firm established in 2011. It was formed by telecommunications professionals with over 40 years’ experience in the industry.
We are agents for voice and data suppliers nationwide. As a result, our fees are solely paid by them. Our consulting services are at no cost to our clients.
Our mission, therefore, is to serve as an independent advocate who can navigate the marketplace to identify, install and support the most cost-effective telecommunications solutions for our clients.
Our expertise encompasses all aspects of your telecommunications needs.
Feel free to contact us at: contact@telecomstrategies.net or toll-free at: (844) 282-6400.
TownNews
Website: www.townnews.com
Contact: Rick Rogers
East Moline, IL
TownNews equips local media organizations with the digital services and guidance to transform their business models and flourish in the digital age. Our tools and expertise in print, digital, video, OTT, and advertising enable forward-thinking media organizations in dynamic markets to efficiently engage their audiences, increase security and grow revenue.
Fueled by a passion for local media and a 30-year proven track record of success, more than 2,000 news organizations have benefited from the platform and tools we’ve built specifically for the media industry to thrive.
Visit TownNews today to learn how we can help you thrive in the digital age.
VoicePort LLC
Website: www.voiceport.net
Contact: Dan Martini
Rochester, NY
VoicePort’s automated customer self-service helps newspapers improve customer service and drive retention while reducing call center agent costs. Our IVR and messaging-chat software are highly configurable and integrated with your CRM, so subscribers get personalized attention and accurate care, 24/7. With VoicePort, you can automate routine tasks – anything from delivery problems and vacation holds to password resets. Over half the daily US newspapers are clients of VoicePort. If your paper isn’t yet a client, contact us to learn how we excel at customer service automation.
White Birch Paper
Website: www.whitebirchpaper.com
Contact: Dick Tabbachino
Fair Lawn, NJ
Driven by the passion and commitment of our employees, we are dedicated to producing the highest quality paper and paperboard products. Through continuous investment in safety, sustainability and operations, we are able to thrive as a reliable partner that works with a sense of urgency to meet our customers’ needs and enable their success. We manufacture newsprint, high-bright, directory paperboard and other specialty paper products at our three paper mills in Canada, where we are able to serve customers throughout North America and around the world.