On Thursday, the Committee to Protect Journalists published the latest edition of its Global Impunity Index — an annual list ranking the worst countries in the world when it comes to convicting the killers of journalists. more

Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative is developing tools and standards that allow people to capture, store and verify key details about a photo — its digital provenance — with an eye toward creating standards that can be used across the internet. more

Ismail Turay Jr., a news veteran of two decades, is returning to the Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun as its editor. more

Lebanon’s Daily Star, one of the leading English-language newspapers in the Arab world and Lebanon’s oldest, has folded following a years-long financial struggle. more

Twitter on Monday said it will be making authoritative information about climate change more accessible to users during this year's United Nations COP26 climate summit. more

Foreign media say authorities have blocked requests for access and harassed reporters. more

Big Local News and the Reynolds Journalism Institute will make Agenda Watch a full-featured platform for journalists, one that provides the ability to research past agendas and minutes as well as subscribe to alerts based on topics and keywords relevant to a reporter’s beat. more

By turning to AI-powered paygates, newsletters and a stock market game, these news organizations are getting readers to pay for their news content. more

Journalists at the Asbury Park Press, the Courier News and the Home News Tribune in New Jersey are now officially part of the APP-MCJ Guild. more

Plus, 16 states to sue over federal vaccine mandates, Canada starts its new vaccine passport this week, Natural immunity is less effective, and more. more

Chip Minemyer, editor of The Tribune-Democrat in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and a regional editor working with the The Times-News of Cumberland, Maryland, has been promoted to general manager of both papers. more

America's Newspapers is honored to welcome CitySpark into membership. more

Journalists at Politico, the inside-the-Beltway news outlet that was sold in August to the German publisher Axel Springer for more than $1 billion, announced Friday that they were moving to form a union and seeking voluntary recognition from their new owner. more

Gender inequality in America’s newsrooms continues across all media platforms as men overall receive 65% of news bylines and credits and women 34%, according to the Women’s Media Center’s latest “Divided 2021: The Media Gender Gap.” more

The Washington Post Creative Group, Dropbox and Mediahub today announced the launch of a new, interactive experience inviting readers to guess a celebrity based on the contents of their Dropbox folder. more

The Vatican on Thursday abruptly canceled the planned live broadcast of U.S. President Joe Biden meeting Pope Francis, the latest restriction to media coverage of the Holy See that sparked complaints from White House- and Vatican-accredited journalists. more

The Wall Street Journal defended running a letter to the editor from former President Trump that alleged widespread voter fraud in Pennsylvania, but called his claims “bananas.” more

The Sumter Item welcomed two multimedia reporters to its newsroom team this month. more

DallasNews is trying to make the leap to a sustainable digital business model where online revenues can support a large newsroom. more

The resources offered by CEI in NYC provide a replicable model for supporting community media in local elections across the country, according to “Making Local Elections Count.” more