MFM & BCCA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Don’t Learn About Cybersecurity The Hard Way

A recent ransomware attack gave Tribune Publishing a trial by fire in cybersecurity. The company’s lessons have broad implications for all media companies in an age of advanced risk.

MEDIA FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

Sook: Algorithms Can’t Serve Local Markets

Perry Sook, chairman and CEO of Nexstar Broadcasting Group, told attendees at the Media Financial Management Association’s conference in New Orleans today that local media companies’ local nature is their greatest weapon in their battle against the Googles and Yahoos of the world. “Local markets cannot be effectively served by an algorithm,” he says.