A judge ruled that Sarah Palin failed to introduce “even a speck” of evidence to prove the newspaper defamed her in a 2017 editorial that mistakenly connected her political rhetoric with a mass shooting. more

Maine State Police must turn over additional disciplinary records detailing misconduct by troopers to the state’s two biggest newspapers, a judge ruled. more

A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints. more

This free, four-week online course aims to empower and inspire Latinx students to pursue careers in media. more

Mark Lewis has been promoted to president of the Tulsa World Media Co. Before this promotion, Lewis served as the publisher and president for the Wisconn Valley Media Group in Wisconsin. more

The USA TODAY NETWORK, part of Gannett Co., Inc. , and the Gannett Foundation today announced the 2022 A Community Thrives program, a $2 million dollar initiative. more

New exhibits on display at the Billy Ireland museum and at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California, are celebrating the upcoming centenary of the birth of “Peanuts” cartoonist Schulz, born in Minnesota on Nov. 26, 1922. more

At the WAN-IFRA 2022 Asian Media Leaders Summit on Wednesday, May 25, Vice President and Head of Global News Production Derl McCrudden outlined how AP is using artificial intelligence in the newsroom. more

An experiment finds small changes in framing and word choice can elicit significant changes in how science skeptics engage with news coverage of climate change. more

This locally focused analysis shows that many of the trends apparent in the overall newspaper industry hold true for local U.S. newspapers as well. more

As a former reporter, editor and district manager for circulation, David Hall says he’s held almost every job in the newspaper industry. With his new position as The Daily Times’ circulation director in Maryville, Tennessee, Hall plans to use those experiences to help strengthen relationships with customers and engage the public with the paper. more

“Having readers who read more often is 10 times more important than having them read more articles,” says Medill Spiegel Research Center Research Director Edward Malthouse, Erastus Otis Haven Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications, who oversaw the first-of-its-kind analysis using anonymized data from the Midwestern business publication. more

Gannett is seeking charitable donations to cover the salary of the local government reporter at the Reno Gazette Journal, one of its dailies. According to executive editor Brian Duggan, the paper is trying to raise $100,000 over the next two years so that it can keep paying Mark Robison. more

Texas’ largest newspapers demanded more than thoughts and prayers on Tuesday, just hours after a gunman massacred 21 people at an elementary school, including 19 children. more

Images are a vital component of conflict reporting, including on CRSV, and can be a powerful means of connecting with readers. But there is also significant scope for harm to survivors, that goes beyond the risks of interviewing them. more

Clinical studies are clear that the more that journalists believe that they are doing important work, the more quickly they can heal from the traumatic stress of what they have witnessed. I can not stress this enough: You are doing important work. Do not let deaths go undocumented. more

Paul Farrell, group publisher of Lee Enterprise’s Southeast Region and president and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, is retiring this summer after 42 years in the newspaper industry. more

Effective May 30, managing editor Bruce Siwy will become an investigative reporter for the USA Today Network's Pennsylvania state capital bureau. more

Academics and journalists will be able to see more data about the way political ads are used to target users across Facebook and Instagram. more

Hawaii Gov. David Ige on Monday signed legislation providing freedom of speech and press protections to students publishing school-sponsored media at Hawaii public schools and the University of Hawaii. more