The Sumter Item has recently welcomed a handful of faces to its newsroom and customer service department that are a mix of new hires and returning employees or were promoted. more

Joe Imel has been named the paper’s general manager and Wes Swietek remains the newspaper’s managing editor. more

Elon Musk’s tumultuous $44 billion bid to buy Twitter is on the verge of collapse — after the Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter’s board saying he is terminating the acquisition. more

For local media publishers, RevContent is a leading native advertising and content recommendation platform using approximately 50% less page real estate to drive higher returns. more

Lynn Hamilton is retiring from WEHCO Media Inc. after almost 48 years with the company. His retirement is effective July 29. more

Sharing contact information helps reporters gain followers and receive story tips. It also opens them up to online harassment. more

Apple on Wednesday said it will release a new feature this fall for iPhone, Mac and iPad operating software that is designed to protect high-risk users such as journalists and human rights workers from sophisticated spyware that has been linked to human rights abuses. more

Access to the East Room has become a point of contention between some reporters and White House officials. more

The Washington Post Press Freedom Partnership builds urgency for Tice’s safe return after 10 years in captivity. more

Alton Brown, the former regional publisher for Lee Enterprises in North Carolina, has been named president of the Chattanooga Times Free Press. more

The buyers are Amy Duncan, a former editor and publisher, and her husband, Mark Davitt, a former managing editor. more

Community-focused Teton Media Works, publisher of the Jackson Hole News & Guide and Jackson Hole Daily newspapers, has implemented ProImage’s NewsWayX automation workflow solution to streamline and modernize its expanding production. more

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 9, at First Baptist Church in Bemidji. more

On Monday, June 27, the Idaho Statesman celebrated the opening of its new newsroom. more

Tessa Olive, who joined the Post Bulletin in 2015 as the marketing director for Rochester Magazine, recently stepped into the leadership role for all of the PB's publications. more

The Denver Post, a news franchise of the cost-cutting Alden Global Capital, is seeking to sell half of its stake in the Colorado Rockies baseball team, according to a report in Sportico. more

McElvy Partners LLC has sold its media and marketing company with operations in Houston, Dallas and Charlotte to Street Media. The company’s divisions include community newspapers, shoppers, digital services, commercial printing and events. more

Danny A. Martin, a tough, kind-hearted newspaperman and former publisher of The News-Press died June 26 in Fort Myers, Florida. He was 80. more

The daughter of a reporter slain last week in the northern Mexico border state of Tamaulipas died Friday of wounds suffered in the attack that killed her father. more

The Supreme Court’s latest climate change ruling could dampen efforts by federal agencies to rein in the tech industry, which went largely unregulated for decades as the government tried to catch up to changes wrought by the internet. more