Todd Stauffer

I’m the co-founder and CEO of Changemaker Media Services, which offers content marketing services (blogging, newsletters, social media management, video, etc.) to nonprofits, businesses and thought-leadership professionals. CMS grew out of solutions we offered at the Jackson Free Press, which I co-founded and ran as president and publisher for nearly 20 years. The non-profit Mississippi Free Press now owns the JFP’s journalism assets.

I also serve as Executive Director of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN) and as Lab Director for Transformation Tech, a three-association collaboration funded by the Google News Initiative to help legacy print publishers generate new digital revenues and sustain their local news organizations.

In 2024, I published The Digital Revenue Playbook for Local News Publishers based on my experience in the above roles. I plan to keep expanding it with new ideas and help from the journalism ecosystem.

In my previous career, I wrote a lot of consumer technology books. I’m the author or co-author of more than three dozen books on computing and the Internet, an award-winning magazine writer, and a former television and radio host.

While I haven’t written as much recently, a few years ago, I completed a series of eBooks focused on helping readers with Windows experience move to Mac OS. I was also the editor of How I Listed and Sold My House Without an Agent, written by my mom, novelist Liz Stauffer.

In midlife, I fulfilled my childhood dream of becoming a private pilot. I post videos about my flying adventures on my YouTube channel. I love to travel and offer tips (mostly about travel planning and technology) here on the blog.

I live in Jackson with Capp Bob, Gato, Gizmo and journalist Donna Ladd.

Disclaimer: I haven’t been paid to blog about anything; any products I discuss in depth I have bought myself or played with in the store unless otherwise noted.