David Santillan has joined the Los Angeles Times Today team as an assistant video editor. Santillan most recently worked as an associate producer at KGTV 10News in San Diego. more

The Taliban must immediately cease using violence against journalists and allow them to cover the critical news from Afghanistan freely and without fear, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. more

Steve McPhaul has announced his plan to retire in mid-January as CNHI, LLC executive vice president and chief operating officer, completing two decades of leadership with the community newspaper company. Matthew Gray, CNHI’s general legal counsel, has been appointed to succeed McPhaul as executive vice president. more

The publishing group Axel Springer signed an agreement to acquire POLITICO, including the remaining 50 percent share of its current joint venture POLITICO Europe, as well as the tech news website Protocol from Robert Allbritton. more

The National Center on Disability and Journalism at Arizona State University has released an updated version of its disability language style guide in both English and Spanish for journalists and professionals who report or write about people living with disabilities. more

Through his fellowship with RJI, Aaron Eaton plans to build more than just a platform connecting independent visual journalists and smaller newsrooms. He is seeking to create a community of empowered visual journalists, a necessary tool for understaffed and small newsrooms to get access to more hyper-local content and an innovative model for paying journalists that will streamline the process of sharing and acquiring content at an equitable and fair price point for all parties involved. more

The Kansas City Star, one of the largest of McClatchy’s 30 newspapers, looks to be a hedge-fund-owned outlier, this month rolling out an expanded Sunday print edition, adding journalists and trying to improve its e-edition and digital site. more

Keith Diederich has recently joined Lineup Systems as the North American marketing manager. It is a new position for Lineup as the company is focused on growing the North American market. More specifically, the team will market Lineup’s premier solutions Adpoint and Amplio. more

Journalists question whether to stay or leave, after the Afghan Taliban — known for its curbs on media — sweeps to power. more

The social network has contacted academics to create a group to advise it on thorny election-related decisions, said people with knowledge of the matter. more

A federal magistrate judge is challenging the Justice Department’s refusal to detail how it dealt with First Amendment and free press concerns before seeking to bring Capitol-riot-related criminal charges against Owen Shroyer, a Texas man who hosts a TV program on the right-wing, conspiracy-oriented Infowars website. more

David Zurawik was always on top of things, keeping us informed of good programming and providing a deeply informed perspective on TV’s place in American culture and the country’s political life. more

An Oklahoma man seen on video pushing an Associated Press photographer over a wall outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot has been arrested, authorities said Tuesday. Benjamen Scott Burlew of Miami, Oklahoma, is the second person to be charged with attacking photographer John Minchillo, who was documenting the mob of former President Donald Trump’s supporters that day. more

Mira Lowe, who has been named as the next dean of the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication at Florida A&M University, said: “I’m super excited to be joining FAMU, a leading institution of higher learning in the state and a beacon among Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) around the country. It’s an honor to have the opportunity to build upon its legacy of scholarship, professional preparation and cultural pride.” more

As the situation remains fluid, The Wall Street Journal will continue monitoring public health information and guidance, as it starts bringing employees back to U.S. offices — on a voluntary basis — starting Monday, Sept. 13. more

Journalism schools are far behind in digital security training, and a lot of newsrooms aren’t much better. more

The approval was a huge story across the mainstream media landscape, knocking the crisis in Afghanistan off the top of many news homepages and TV bulletins. more

Launched in 2018 by cofounders Barak Ronen and Roie Amir, Crux has developed a widget that calculates a user’s “knowledge score” on a particular news topic and nudges them into bettering that score by reading more articles. more

Beginning Sept. 1, SportsGrid Network will be distributed across nine digital subchannels licensed to Nexstar in nine major U.S. markets, including San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Tampa, Portland, Nashville, Norfolk, Grand Rapids, Knoxville and Des Moines. more

“At the heart of everything is equity; it is the heart of what’s happening in your city, in your community,” says Eva-Marie Ayala, a veteran education reporter and the editor of The Dallas Morning News’ Education Lab. “Everything goes back to education. Everything goes back to who gets resources and who doesn’t. Look at every story through that lens is absolutely critical.” more