News organizations say the Arizona law violates First Amendment rights to record and report on police and government activities. more

Startling new revelations from Twitter’s former head of security, Peiter Zatko, have raised serious new questions about the security of the platform’s service, its ability to identify and remove fake accounts, and the truthfulness of its statements to users, shareholders and federal regulators. more

Helena World Chronicle, LLC. announced that they will purchase Hayden Taylor Publishing — publisher of the Monroe County Herald, the only newspaper in Monroe County (Arkansas). more

Plus: How news organizations work to repair their histories of racism, media criticism on TikTok, and what news consumers think about fact-checking. more

An analysis of comprehensive data for roughly 1,000 The New York Times employees conducted by members of the union that represents its newsroom found that Black and Latino staffers are far less likely than their white peers to receive strong job ratings. more

The Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, Local 1096 of The Newspaper Guild – Communications Workers of America, has reached a tentative agreement with Dow Jones & Co. on a new one-year collective bargaining agreement covering more than 1,300 employees across the United States and in Canada. more

A controversial Arizona law restricting how the public can film police faced its first legal challenge Tuesday with a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. more

America's Newspapers is honored to welcome The Cascade Courier into membership!  more

The Palo Pinto Press will debut with its inaugural edition on Friday, Aug. 26. Led by editor Ann Powers, a veteran community journalist, the paper will include a weekly print edition and online presence. more

Before signing off, Margaret Sullivan offers advice to her fellow journalists on how to cover a perilous election. more

Gannett has been hit by a breach of contract lawsuit by a consumer who claims the firm continued automatically billing her even after she canceled a newspaper subscription. more

In some states, including Florida and Colorado, small-print legal notices are under threat as politicians move to eliminate the requirement that legal notices be printed in newspapers of record. more

Creative Circle Media Solutions and eType Services have announced they will be supporting one another’s clients by cross-selling some of their services. more

In addition to serving as editor of the York paper, Randy Parker was central Pennsylvania executive editor for the USA TODAY Network. more

U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, have announced $162,155 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for West Virginia University (WVU). more

She will be based at the new Center for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship. more

The hearing emerged from an effort by news organizations to unseal the affidavit submitted in support of the search warrant. Any public version of the affidavit could be heavily redacted. more

Earlier in 2022, food poverty campaigner Jack Monroe used Twitter to criticize the way that inflation was being covered and how the headline stats ignored the disproportionate impact on people with the lowest incomes. more

A leadership retirement in the Adams Publishing Group Eastern North Carolina division allowed two promotions for APG Ohio/Michigan. more

August 18, 2022 - The audience for news is growing fast, with media organizations reaching approximately 136 million U.S. adults each week. Yet at the same time, revenue generated by U.S. news publications has dropped 58% since 2005. Between 2004 and 2018, newspaper newsroom employment dropped by almost half, according to the Pew Research Center. How can news organizations be losing money when traffic to news sites is increasing? Simple: The people producing this news aren’t being paid for it. more