Tony Leiserowitz, lecturer, senior research scientist and director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, shared five elements every story about climate change must hit to be successful. more

August 2, 2023 - Smaller newsrooms have been experimenting with AI for years, and interest has grown since the latest releases of ChatGPT. more

With advertising shrinking and newspapers vanishing, Maine’s largest newspaper group became the latest to try a nonprofit model with the completion of the sale of more than 20 daily and weekly newspapers, including the Portland Press Herald. more

In Pt. 1 of interview, Marty Baron calls on journalists to stop the nostalgia and doom-and-gloom and to focus on solving problems and making tough choices. more

Ava Buttacavoil will be covering crime, courts, schools and community reporting in a variety of communities in eastern Dane and Jefferson counties. more

Vice President and Regional Publisher Terry Ward is leaving Sound Publishing to start his own newspaper group and passing on the torch to Eran Kennedy as publisher of the Peninsula Daily News (Port Angeles, Washington), Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum. more

The Missouri School of Journalism has announced a $2.47 million grant from the Walton Family Foundation in support of the Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk, a network of journalists that provides coverage of agriculture, water and environmental issues centered around the Mississippi River Basin to news media nationwide free of charge. more

The guide is an effort to point to and organize resources in ways that can be helpful to journalists looking to put words to what they’re feeling and manage those stresses. more

The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media  and the Reynolds Journalism Institute have built a better practices playbook for hiring and getting hired.  more

July 31, 2023 - Without Section 230 protection, copyright issues and defamation suits are cropping up. more

In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook’s and Instagram’s algorithms, suggesting there was no silver bullet to fixing the platforms. more

Veteran newspaper executive Katherine Miller has been appointed publisher of the Norman (Oklahoma) Transcript, the newspaper announced. Miller was the group publisher of three Alabama newspapers owned by The Transcript’s parent company, CNHI, LLC. more

The program will provide grants to for-profit and nonprofit news organizations to help address their unique sustainability needs or provide core operating support. more

The Beacon is 3 years old. The Northeast News of Kansas City is more than 90. They are part of a surge in nonprofit news outlets and funding. more

As if on cue, layoffs and disruption rocked two California dailies right after state legislators tabled a measure to help sustain local newspapers. more

In her second stint with the Enid (Oklahoma) News & Eagle, Cindy Allen has served as publisher and editor since early 2021. more

Gannett Co., Inc. has announced the 2023 USA TODAY High School Sports Awards national show, debuting a new podcast-style talk show format. The national show premiers on Sunday, July 30, at 8 p.m. ET on the USA TODAY High School Sports Awards website. more

Here are eight facts about Americans’ use of the platform, based on Pew Research Center studies. more

July 26, 2023 - The latest tech enhancement enables journalists to quickly find, identify, edit and publish material from video library Reuters Connect. more

Eliza Gaines, the publisher of WEHCO Newspapers, Inc., the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's parent company, was installed Friday, July 21, as the newest president of the Arkansas Press Association. more