Ron Nixon has been promoted to a new leadership role with The Associated Press: vice president for news, investigative, enterprise and grants and partnerships. more

Star Tribune Media Co., Minnesota’s largest media company, today announced that Mike Klingensmith, its publisher and CEO, will retire in January 2023, following a 13-year tenure marked by achievements and improvements in virtually all areas of the company. more

USA TODAY, part of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), today celebrates 40 years of impacting the media landscape with concise journalism that speaks to the nation. more

George B. Irish, the publisher of the San Antonio (Texas) Light from 1988 until its closure in 1993, died at his New Jersey home on Tuesday (Sept. 13) from an apparent heart attack at age 78. more

Elizabeth Walters has been named interim editor of the USA TODAY Network newsrooms in South Carolina. Walters replaces Steven Bruss, who leaves his position Friday, Sept. 23. more

Enghouse Systems Limited has acquired the business assets of VoicePort LLC, a provider of SaaS automated solutions based in Rochester, New York. more

Enterprise Media Group has become a corporate member of America's Newspapers, bringing nine newspapers into membership. more

Since 1989, Mike Luckovich has been delighting fans on the left and enraging detractors on the right as editorial cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has published several collections of his work, and his latest offering is “The Twisted History of the GOP,” which was published Tuesday, Sept. 6. more

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has named Destiny Cook as a junior social media producer. more

A federal judge in Arizona has, for now, halted the enforcement of a new state law that would ban people filming police at short range, setting a one-week deadline for any agency wanting to defend the idea to come forward. more

During a news conference Thursday, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Capt. Dori Koren told reporters that Telles was upset about articles German had published, as well as a new piece he was planning to write. more

Lee Enterprises has added a 12-member team of experienced, veteran investigative and data-focused reporters to provide the industry’s most impactful local journalism. more

Sabra Ayres, a longtime foreign correspondent with extensive experience covering Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe, has been named The Associated Press’ chief correspondent for Ukraine. more

Mallika Sen has been appointed as the new entertainment news editor for The Associated Press, based in New York. She has had several roles at the AP, most recently on the East regional desk, where she’s handled numerous major breaking stories. more

After a six-year legal saga, Florida has agreed to return traditional on-receipt access to new complaints filed in the courts of the third most populous state in the nation. more

The new publisher and advertising director for The Daily Advance (Elizabeth City, North Carolina), Chowan Herald (Edenton) and The Perquimans Weekly (Hertford) expressed excitement last week about the opportunity to work for newspapers in three communities with a strong sense of community. more

There’s a new leadership team at the Detroit Lakes Tribune, with Publisher Devlyn Brooks and Managing Editor Tris Anderson now at the helm. more

The budget passed in California this week includes $25 million worth of help for local news, which will be distributed via UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism starting next year. more

CherryRoad Media is buying The Millbury-Sutton Chronicle, The Grafton News, The Landmark in Holden and the Leominster Champion from Gannett. more

In a memo to staff, AP Education Reporting Network Director Chrissie Thompson announced three additions to the network aimed at deepening education coverage by the AP and across the news industry. more