Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Take a beat that your newsroom owns — in this case, the Buffalo Bills — and leverage your journalists’ expertise on the subject, paired with an appropriate platform like social video, to build reader engagement and generate sponsorships. more

Questions about the health effects of loneliness have motivated an explosion of new research over the past few years, particularly since social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic has raised new fears about loneliness levels worldwide. more

Over a year after the building housing the news agency’s Gaza bureau was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, The Associated Press has reopened its Gaza Strip offices in a new location. more

J. Louis Mullen has acquired The Lennox Independent and Tea Weekly in southeastern South Dakota from Independent Publishing, LLC. The group also publishes community guides for Tea, Lennox and nearby Worthing, and provides printing and design services for local businesses. The two weekly newspapers both circulate in Lincoln County, one of the fastest-growing counties in the state. more

Frank Daniels Jr., the blunt, coarse and candidly liberal publisher of The News & Observer, who led his grandfather’s newspaper to a modern age and progressive voice, then stood as the last of his Raleigh family to hold its reins, died Thursday. He was 90. more

Will media outlets be free to publish advertisements across state lines from providers operating in states where abortion has not been outlawed — as the Supreme Court long ago ruled they could? more

The struggles of America’s local media have been well documented — a Northwestern University report out yesterday found that 2,500 local newspapers have closed since 2004, creating hundreds of "news deserts." But the success and growth of titles like the Shawnee Mission Post, a for-profit business, is not isolated to Johnson County. more

The Hoffmann Family of Companies has acquired Florida Media Group, LLC, the publishers of nine newspapers with a circulation of more than 220,000 weekly readers. more

Graciela Mochkofsky will become the third dean to lead the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY since it opened in 2006. A native of Argentina, she is the only Latina serving as dean at a graduate school of journalism in the U.S. more

The United States continues to lose newspapers at a rate of two a week, further dividing the nation into wealthier, faster growing communities with access to local news, and struggling areas without, according to a report on the state of local news from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University. more

Six Rivers Media, LLC, has launched Bristol Now, a new weekly newspaper and associated daily-updated website (bristolnow.news) serving the Twin City of Bristol, Tennessee, and Bristol, Virginia. more

A panel at GlobalFact 9 talked about how new AI technologies can more efficiently combat global misinformation. more

Instagram is blocking posts that mention abortion from public view, in some cases requiring its users to confirm their age before letting them view posts that offer up information about the procedure. more

Twelve experts address many of the questions newsrooms need to ask when considering whether to publish graphic images from mass shootings. more

Julia Stidham has been named publisher of The Union and Don Rogers is returning to the newsroom as editor. more

The latest casualty is the Mount Olive Tribune, a weekly newspaper based in Mount Olive that covered Southern Wayne and Northern Duplin counties. more

Journalists do not have a binary choice of "sticking to the facts" versus "speaking their minds." Most audiences would prefer you to sit somewhere in the middle. more

For local newspapers, print circulation has collapsed for every audience except retirees. That’s why the daily paper in The Villages, Florida (metro population 129,752) prints as many copies as the one in Atlanta (metro population 6,930,423). more

Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the court's refusal to take up the case. more

Around seven-in-ten U.S. journalists (69%) say it is the social media site they use most or second most for their job. more