Bridge leaders can shepherd an organization and staff from one leader to the next. more

Reporters worked on their cellphones, filing stories from the darkened newsroom or from the local police station, one of the only places with electricity. more

The new feature film “20 Days in Mariupol” from The Associated Press and Frontline, the award-winning PBS documentary series housed at GBH in Boston, will make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this January in Park City, Utah, and be featured in the festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition. more

More than 50 media and community organizations have formed the citywide Every Voice, Every Vote coalition to put Philadelphia voters and key issues at the center of the elections for mayor and city council . more

Facebook threatened to block news in the U.S. over the measure, which was under consideration as part of a defense package. more

On Dec. 1, Steve and Cynthia Haynes sold Nor’West Publishing/Haynes Newspapers, 42 years to the day after they purchased their first newspaper. more

Steve Turnham has been promoted to Washington Bureau chief, while Ethan Nelson is named head of Court TV prior to Jan. 1 launch. more

Eleven takeaways as Lookout Santa Cruz enters its third year. more

Lawmakers have added a measure to Congress' must-pass defense funding bill that would force Big Tech firms like Google and Meta to pay hundreds of local news outlets for their content, sources tell Axios. more

In response to Meta’s statement on Monday that it would consider removing news from Facebook if the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act — a bill that would require the dominant tech platforms to fairly compensate news publishers for use of their content — is passed in the U.S., the News/Media Alliance issued this statement ... more

The Burlington (Iowa) Hawk Eye has been acquired by family-owned Burlington Multimedia, LLC, an affiliate company of Community Media Group headquartered in West Frankfort, Illinois. The paper had been owned by Gannett Co., Inc. more

News channel Al Jazeera on Tuesday formally asked the International Criminal Court to investigate the fatal shooting of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh as she was reporting from a Palestinian refugee camp in May. more

Given the long history of newspaper-postal service interaction, you might think the formula for success would be well understood. In fact, nothing about working with the postal service is simple, according to Tonda Rush, general counsel of the National Newspaper Association and one of the industry’s leading experts on mail delivery. more

A new student fee has been approved that will fund the student newspaper at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. more

Sewell Chan, editor in chief of The Texas Tribune, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University announced. more

Gabe Whisnant has been named interim editor of the USA TODAY Network newsrooms in South Carolina. Whisnant replaces Elizabeth Walters, who left her position Friday, Nov. 25.  more

Watertown (Wisconsin) High School graduate Brian O’Connor is the new managing editor of the Watertown Daily Times and Daily Jefferson County Union. more

The Superior Telegram (Duluth, Minnesota) has launched a grant program to help nonprofit organizations in Superior and Douglas County with advertising and marketing. more

Bipartisan coalitions in the House and Senate pushed through a bill that would impose an agreement between rail companies and their workers. more

Lydia Polgreen: "As local news gathering shrinks, people are spending more time in places likely to deepen partisan divides: on social media or on platforms like Nextdoor, or watching national cable television. A 2019 study in Scientific American found that voters in areas where local news outlets closed were less likely to vote a split ticket, a signal that points to deepening polarization in those communities." more