Registration walls, vertical video, and AI's print-room job

A local newsroom has two hard problems right now. It needs direct audience relationships because platform traffic is weaker. It also needs lighter workflows because the staff is already stretched. This week, we have four stories that are useful because they sit at that intersection: registration walls that behaved better than expected, a local video program that produced a real lift, an AI tool aimed at the print closing process, and new standards that may decide whether publishers can measure how AI systems use their work.