A federal judge has ordered the organization behind a unionization drive at Starbucks stores in western New York to turn over all of its messages with journalists — a sweeping and unusual ruling that will let the company peek into communications that courts usually view as private and protected. more

A sedition trial opened in Hong Kong on Monday for two former top editors of a shuttered online media outlet who have been detained without bail for 10 months. more

Despite graphic violence in news coverage of the war in Ukraine and other controversial topics in the news, U.S. consumers broadly believe that all news content is appropriate for ads, according to the 2022 TAG/BSI US Consumer Brand Safety Survey, conducted by the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) and Brand Safety Institute (BSI). more

Twitter’s unending fight against spam accounts is now a problem for new owner Elon Musk, who pledged in April to defeat the bot scourge or “die trying!” more

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Butler Eagle were forced to seek a preliminary injunction against some of the labor unions representing Post-Gazette employees and some of their supporters who engaged in violent, threatening and destructive behavior.   more

Twitter will develop a “content moderation council” before making any “major content decisions or account reinstatements," Elon Musk tweeted Friday. more

Hearst has announced that Atefeh “Atti” Riazi has been named chief information officer. She most recently served as senior vice president and chief information officer/interim chief digital officer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. more

States Newsroom, the nation’s leading network of state-based nonprofit news outlets, has launched the South Dakota Searchlight to provide free, high-quality, non-partisan reporting on the crucial issues affecting the Mount Rushmore State. The South Dakota Searchlight is States Newsroom’s 30th outlet in its network. more

"This is not a time for journalism to go soft. There are really crucial crises going on around the world," says David Bornstein, a journalist and co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network. more

“Some of the finest journalism I’ve been associated with started out as an inkling.” — Dean Baquet more

Elon Musk has taken control of Twitter after a protracted legal battle and months of uncertainty. The question now is what the billionaire Tesla CEO will actually do with the social media platform. more

Most recently, Charles Odom served as vice president and treasurer of Cox Enterprises. more

In a recent Pew Research Center survey, half of 18- to 29-year-olds in the United States say they have some or a lot of trust in the information they get from social media sites, just under the 56% who say the same about information from national news organizations, but somewhat below the 62% who say so about information from local news organizations. more

Rick Thomason: "My time at the helm of this ship comes to an end Friday. It admittedly isn’t without some sadness. But blanketing that sadness is a whole lot of real joy and satisfaction." more

New research from Define American reveals insufficiencies in how news outlets report on such communities and how important it is to improve. more

The media entrepreneur Jimmy Finkelstein has taken one step closer to launching a new entrant in the American news landscape that he's billed to potential hires as a combination between The Washington Post and Daily Mail. more

The Nashville Banner, the historic daily that closed in 1998 after a 122-year run, is back — after a fashion. more

Prosecutors said they won’t seek the death penalty against a former Las Vegas-area politician who pleaded not guilty Wednesday to killing a veteran investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of him and his managerial conduct. more

Sonal Shah brings to the Tribune an extraordinary record in fundraising and strategic leadership. A veteran of Google, Georgetown University, Goldman Sachs and the United Way, she has built a career driving social impact and civic engagement. more

The rule codifies and expands a policy he issued in 2021, after it came to light that the Trump administration had secretly gone after records of reporters for The New York Times, The Washington Post and CNN. more