Times-Shamrock Communications is selling its newspaper group, including The Scranton (PA) Times-Tribune, to MediaNews Group, CEO Jim Lewandowski announced. more

Philanthropic support is growing for both nonprofit and for-profit news organizations, according to a new study. Co-author Jennifer Preston said it provides data “so we can make a better case to communities around the country” to support local news organizations. more

CherryRoad Media has acquired eight community newspapers in Ohio and Indiana and a commercial print operation from Delphos Herald, Inc. and the Cohen family. Most of these newspapers date to the mid- to late 1800s, with more than 150 years of history serving their respective communities. more

CherryRoad Media Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Hutchinson, Kansas, printing operations from Gannett Co., Inc. The printing operation currently prints most of CherryRoad Media's Kansas publications as well as numerous other newspapers in central and western Kansas. more

States Newsroom, the nation’s leading network of state-based nonprofit news outlets, has launched Oklahoma Voice to provide people in the Sooner State with free, nonpartisan reporting on some of the state’s biggest issues, including public schools, health care, hunger, transportation, criminal justice reform and workforce development. With the launch of Oklahoma Voice, States Newsroom’s network now includes 36 newsrooms. more

Publishers including The Marshall Project and The Markup shared how reporters are using generative artificial intelligence in their newsrooms in their reporting processes — after some failed tests. more

August 29, 2023 - Some of the nation’s largest newsrooms are actively taking defensive measures to safeguard their content from ChatGPT, the groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot that is seen as a potential aggressor to an already struggling news industry. more

Sarah Stonbely, the research director at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, has been named director of Medill’s State of Local News Project. more

August 29, 2023 - Google's DeepMind unit is unveiling a new method it says can invisibly and permanently label images that have been generated by artificial intelligence. more

Walter Moore Dear II, a dedicated newspaperman who loved music, books, travel, philanthropy, dogs and cats — and, most of all, people — died at the age of 91 of a stroke and dementia. more

Veteran ad executive Ryan Kedzierski was tabbed general manager of The Tennessean (Nashville), effective Oct. 1. more

To address organizations’ need for communication strategies grounded in research and guided by practice, the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications has launched the Internal Communication Research Hub (ICRH) led by Public Relations Professor Linjuan Rita Men, a renowned expert in the areas of internal communication, employee engagement, leadership communication and emerging technology. more

There has been a “substantial” increase in philanthropic spending for journalism over the past five years, particularly outlets that serve poor and minority communities, a report issued on Thursday said — but journalists need to tighten ethical rules that govern the new spending, it recommended. more

Matt Hickman previously worked for the paper from 1998-2015 as a sports reporter, sports editor and assistant managing editor, during which time he won more than 30 statewide awards, mostly for sports coverage and column writing. more

Shannon Welch will become general manager of the Des Moines (Iowa) Register, effective Oct. 1, the company announced Thursday. more

The News-Press has announced that Tom Claybaugh has been named the general manager in the Fort Myers, Florida, market. In this role, Claybaugh will work closely with the executive editor to strengthen local connection points with businesses and brands to drive community-based strategies and engagement, effective Oct. 1. more

Talking through sudden changes, life after layoffs and more ... more

The nonprofit newsroom laid off 11 people Wednesday, including several longtime journalists and its entire copy desk. more

August 25, 2023 - Salary negotiations — among the most high-stakes, emotionally fraught and psychologically complex processes many employees will ever experience — could soon get the artificial-intelligence treatment. more

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press recently spoke with Paula Knudsen Burke, the Reporters Committee’s Local Legal Initiative attorney in the state, to learn more about why accessing settlement agreements is a priority for the Pennsylvania Local Legal Initiative. She discussed the arguments she’s making on behalf of journalists and newsrooms to overcome the pervasive culture of secrecy often keeping these documents hidden from the public. more