Anyone who once read Michael Foreman's children’s book Fortunately, Unfortunately can relate to the news about public notices gathered by the Public Notice Resource Center (PNRC) in 2024. In the book that helps children learn the two words, a child gets himself in and out of a variety of tricky situations. Unfortunately, he falls out of a plane but [...]
iPublish Media Solutions, the leading provider of e-commerce advertising software, and CNPA Services Inc. are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to host a new and enhanced aggregated public notice website capublicnotice.com, a single depository for the state’s published legal notices. Launched in June, the platform provides added features and gives the public greater ease of accessing legal notices in [...]
If you are a newspaper publisher, your press association is working on the creation of a statewide network for public notice placement. We all agree that state press associations should host a statewide public notice network online — they already have relationships with most newspapers and are dedicated to keeping newspapers central to public notice distribution. But state governments [...]
Hearst Communications will roll out AdPortal® Public Notices across the organization this year, automating the process in some cases and replacing existing automation software in others. The most recent launch at The Houston Chronicle is estimated to save 20 hours a week by cutting five to seven steps from an all-manual workflow, according to Clayton Wiseman, workflow consultant and [...]
In 1998, a little office opened in Chicago with one goal: to bring print obituaries online. Twenty-five years, several tech bubbles, and one pandemic later, Legacy.com has grown from twelve employees and a ping–pong table into a coast-to-coast team that provides digital end-of-life services to millions worldwide. As the leader in Obituary services over the last 20 years, [...]
Legacy.com joined the Arbor Day Foundation and Chicago-nonprofit Openlands to celebrate reaching 5 million tree plantings as part of the Memorial Tree program. Launched in 2019 in partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation, memorial trees purchased via a Legacy-partner newspaper obituary have improved the quality of life of communities across the globe. “Trees clean our air, cool our cities [...]
The Publish Notice Resource Center released a great one sheet that makes a compelling case for why newspapers are the right choice for publishing notices required by law to be made public. Here are 5 great reasons why it is important for newspapers to continue to educate and inform local markets about Public Notices: Open meetings, Freedom of Information, and [...]
iPublish presented the AdPortal Public Notices platform at Florida Press Association’s conference this month to rave reviews. James Allen told attendees that the platform automates, rather than outsources, their public notices franchise. A key concern of Florida publishers is ensuring they will own these customer relationships in the future. When a newspaper outsources customer relationships to another company that [...]
After losing the requirement to publish public notices in Florida last year, Richard Karpel, Executive Director of the Public Notice Resource Center (PNRC), is telling newspapers to improve how they display public notices on their websites. In spite of research that shows that 66% of U.S. citizens surveyed believe public notices should be published in newspapers, and 55% rely [...]
While death rates are surging — 50% more people will die of old age (National Center for Health Statistics) over the next 30 years — traditional print obituary placements by funeral homes have been in decline. In fact, experts predict these declines to reach 20% by the end of 2023. The reason is simple: most newspaper orders are placed by [...]
