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29 Jan 2024

NNPA 2024 Midwinter Training Conference – The Requirements for Participating in Digital Advertising

 
Presenters: Norman Rich, NNPA Digital Advertising Manager
 
Overview: Advertisers have increased the requirements placed on publishers to improve security, avoid fraud, and minimize loss. Those enhanced requirements directly impact your ability to participate in digital advertising campaigns and earn money. In this session, we outline those requirements and discuss solutions you can implement.
29 Jan 2024

NNPA 2024 Midwinter Training Conference – Fireside Chat Hosted by Reynolds Inc.

 
Topic: The Importance of Doing Away with Diversity and Inclusion. How will this impact you? Your community? This country?
 
Presenters:
Dr. Benjamin Chavis, NNPA President and CEO
Rahn Bailey, MD, DLFAPA, ACP, Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, 113th President of the National Medical Association
 
Overview: We are in a time where many localities, states, and even institutions are doing away with diversity and inclusion initiatives. This conversation will discuss the importance of Racial Impact Studies and policies that are shielded by color-blind language and the disparate impact on communities of color.
29 Jan 2024

NNPA 2024 Midwinter Training Conference – Scaling – Moving from Print to Digital

 
Presenter: Niele Anderson, Founder and CEO of PLB Media Inc.
Overview: Discussion about the importance of being relevant and profitable in a digital world and riding the 2024 Election revenue wave.
29 Jan 2024

NNPA 2024 Midwinter Training Conference – Millennial Panel: Digital Creative Storytelling

Presenters:
Micha Green, Editor, Washington Informer, Moderator Lafayette Barnes, Publisher, the Bridge
DaNiesha Bell, Social Media Correspondent (“TotallyRandie”) Ashley Smith, Publisher, NY Beacon
Overview:
This workshop will end with a live NNPA TikTok page called “Why We Vote.”
29 Jan 2024

NNPA 2024 Midwinter Training Conference – Historic Unveiling of the Black Wall Street Ticker

 
Presenter(s): Charles Walker, Founder and CEO, FOTM Global, Atlanta, Ga.
Overview: Tracking Black American and Allied Spending in America. In 2023 Black Americans injected 1.8 trillion dollars into the American economy.
29 Jan 2024

NNPA 2024 Midwinter Training Conference – The Power of Knowing Your Audience to Generate Revenue

 
Presenter(s): Chrissy Towle, Director of News Partnerships and Valentin Cornez, Global Lead and Co-founder of Google Insights Tools for Publishers, Google News Initiative
Overview: Learn from experts at the Google News Initiative how better understanding, growing, and engaging your audience can lead to increased revenue.
29 Jan 2024

NNPA 2024 Midwinter Training Conference – Revenue Generating Strategies in the Publishing Digital Age

 
Presenter: Carolyn Fox, Managing Editor, Tampa Bay Times, Board Member Times Publishing Company, Poynter Institute Affiliate
Overview: Using the latest innovations in digital advertising for African American and minority-owned newspapers and media companies.
29 Jan 2024

NNPA 2024 Midwinter Training Conference – Lunch Presentations: Hosted by Pfizer Rare Disease

 
Blessing of Food
Brief Remarks and Video Presentation
Topic: Sickle Cell and ATTR-CM
Presenter: Nia Thomas, Pfizer, US Community Activation Health Lead
 
1:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Introduction and Award of PGA Tours Scholarship Recipients
Jackie Hampton, Publisher, The Mississippi Link
Adam Loberstein, Director, Communications & Content Strategy
Recipients:
Jasmine Hall, Bethune Cookman University, Major: Mass communications and Multimedia Journalism, Senior
Victoria Gisel Montanet, Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University, Major: Broadcast Journalism, Junior