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Daily Journal: The business of showing up
In Kankakee, the Daily Journal sells something a national news feed rarely delivers: the details of life down the road. Its move into Shaw Media shows how a local newspaper can change its machinery while keeping its beat.
ZypMedia and the Value of Knowing the Local Salesman
Streaming scattered the television audience. ZypMedia made a business of helping the people who already sold local ads follow it.
The Neighborhood Became the Newsroom
NewsBreak turned the zip code into a distribution strategy. Its next test is whether a machine that knows what is near you can also know what is true.
Nextdoor Wants to Be Useful Before You Lose the Cat
The neighborhood network is rebuilding around news, alerts and local recommendations. Its comeback depends on giving people a reason to visit when nothing has gone missing.
He Drove Uber to Keep JamLoop Alive. Now It Wants to Make TV Ads Behave Like Search.
JamLoop survived a broad first act, a bootstrapped near-death stretch and an industry addicted to fuzzy metrics. Its second act is a sharper bet: sell local advertisers the reach of television, the controls of digital and proof that reaches beyond a click.
Viamedia Kept the Cable Pipes - Then Built an Ad-Tech Engine on Top
For two decades, Viamedia sold the awkward local minutes inside cable television. Now it is using those same operator relationships to make fragmented, cross-screen advertising feel like one buy - a practical reinvention with lessons for any legacy business sitting on overlooked distribution.
Best Version Media Built a 1,300-Magazine Network on the Internet’s Blind Spot
The Brookfield company turned family features, local sponsors and independent Publishers into a North American media network. Its real trick is not nostalgia for print - it is owning a tiny market well enough to sell the same trust across print and digital.
Eugene Johnson
Eugene Johnson is the founder and CEO of Revi, an AI-powered restaurant POS and revenue growth platform headquartered in San Francisco. Growing up in one of New York City's roughest neighborhoods, Johnson started his first business at 18, built a career in enterprise sales at Cisco Meraki, and pivoted to found Revi — a platform now serving 1M+ consumers and processing nearly $100M in transactions. He is also an Amazon bestselling author of 'The Mental Playbook' and a competitive chess player who ranks in the 85-90th percentile globally.