Creative Circle Advertising Solutions, Inc. provides the content management system and subscription payment software for Local Media Insider, as well as about 60 newspaper sites. A strength is blending fully customizable design in a low cost platform. Contact them here. 

About the founder

Alisa Cromer, CEO, is an analyst and strategist working in the local media space. Cromer has served as COO of Metro Publishing, Inc., which owns  several city weeklies as well as Movietimes.com and Boulevards New Media, Inc  the largest U.S. network of pure play sites with the cityname.com URL, including 23 of the top 30 U.S. cities.She founded LVBusinessPress.com and LasVegasCityLife.com and has run web sites in seven U.S. cities. She can be reached at alisacromer@gmail.com, 408.892.9815.

About us

Local Media Insider  is a members-only site for working local media executives growing digital business models. We provide case studies, best practices and emerging models from local media around the country. Browse by topic, region or media type. Stories are linked to a directory of third party technology partners.

Our partners

Local MediaInsider has collaborated with a number of partners to research, report and train on best practices  including ItzBelden (now a division of Borrell & Association), American Press Institute and the Newspaper Association of America (NAA).  Members of GeoPublishers Association become automatically members of this site. For more information, contact us at localmediainsider@gmail.com.

Our Sponsors

In addition to revenue from memberships, our sponsors make this site possible. 

Laredo Group

Laredo Group is a leading trainer in digital sales and social media for the newspaper, magazine and ad agency industry. Their services include online certification and customized training. Contact them here. 


 Impact Engine provides an automated self-serve automated ad building service. Ad types include  Site Take-overs (great for events), social media ads, expanding ads and video ads. Impact Engine was originally one of Local Media Insider's recommended vendors, and it's rich media ads on this site dialed in an 8% response.  Find more information here.