Mark Walker, a veteran Kentucky newspaper executive, has been appointed publisher of the Richmond Register. more

He spent two decades guiding a popular newspaper Sunday supplement as its revenue and circulation grew, reaching nearly 40 million readers at one point. more

July 13, 2023 - Graham Media Group developed the idea for a “first dibs” comment bot through NYC Media Lab’s AI & Local News Challenge. more

Lawsuit says the ban is unconstitutional and hinders academic freedom. more

July 13, 2023 - The FTC is examining whether the artificial-intelligence app harmed people by publishing false information. more

The Associated Press and OpenAI have reached an agreement to share access to select news content and technology as they examine potential use cases for generative AI in news products and services. more

Financial Times reporter Myles McCormick is expanding his beat beyond energy to include the wider corporate, economic and political scene in Texas. more

July 12, 2023 - What’s okay and what’s verboten when it comes to AI in the production of news? Here’s how 21 newsrooms in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere have laid out their own policies and plans. more

July 12, 2023 - Jim Lockwood, a reporter for the Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pennsylvania, has been named the 2023 winner of the Public Notice Resource Center’s Michael Kramer Public Notice Journalism Award. more

During a panel at the IRE conference in Orlando, Manny Garcia, executive editor for the Austin American-Statesman, and Cristi Hegranes, chief executive officer and publisher of Global Press, shared how they make safety a priority in their newsrooms. more

Steinman Communications Inc. and WITF Inc. have completed a transaction that gifts LNP | LancasterOnline to WITF, setting the combined organization on a path to innovate a new model for local news, community education and civic engagement in Central Pennsylvania. more

A Superior Court judge who refused to dismiss a case against two Asheville reporters convicted of trespassing based his decision on the First Amendment — not as protection for the journalists, but as grounds for him to uphold their conviction. more

About six-in-ten Americans (59%) see TikTok as a major or minor threat to national security in the United States, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults. more

Longtime Tribune Chronicle  and Vindicator General Manager Ted Snyder will take the reins in the top leadership role at the local newspapers (Warren, Ohio) following Publisher Charles Jarvis’ recent retirement. more

The National Trust for Local News has agreed to purchase five of the state’s six daily papers and 17 of its weeklies in an effort to preserve local journalism. more

Los Angeles billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has sold The San Diego Union-Tribune to an affiliate of the MediaNews Group for an undisclosed amount. more

Social media giant Meta Platforms (META.O), owner of Facebook and Instagram, plans to label government-affiliated media accounts on its new Twitter-like platform Threads, an executive told an Australian inquiry on foreign interference on Tuesday. more

July 11, 2023 - Newsroom unions are asking their employers to agree to new terms on how generative artificial intelligence is used and the impact it will have on their employees and editorial production as more media companies begin to adopt the technology. more

Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a Threads post Monday that in the five days since its launch, 100 million people have signed up for Threads, which was rolled out as a companion app to Instagram. more

Metro Market Media has hired a veteran newspaper leader to serve as the company's director of revenue. more