Adams Publishing Group has announced the hire of the new general sales manager Lloyd White and managing editor Tyler Johnson to the Rocket Miner Newspaper in Sweetwater County (Wyoming). more

Gannett Co., Inc. has announced that Nate Rackiewicz is joining the company as chief data officer, a newly-created role overseeing the company’s vision, strategy and execution of data, analytics and science across all business units. more

The numbers are hard for some to fathom. More than six in 10 Republicans think Donald Trump’s presidential reelection was stolen. Half believe left-wing protesters staged the Jan. 6 insurrection to make Trump look bad. What responsibility do journalists bear when so many Americans are misinformed? more

Like many people, the first graph I ever saw explaining climate change was in a school geography textbook. It showed the “hockey stick” curve of the Earth’s surface temperature over time, which has become one of the world’s most recognizable line graphs. more

Twitter suspended the account of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' press secretary for violating rules on “abusive behavior” after The Associated Press said her conduct led to a reporter receiving threats and other online abuse. more

Nexstar Media Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. , has acquired The Hill for $130 million. The Hill is the nation’s leading, independent, political digital media platform. The acquisition marks a continuation of Nexstar’s content-first strategy, focused primarily on news, designed to further leverage and monetize its expansive digital reach. more

Leading U.S. journalists spoke out Friday against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s unacceptable campaign of repression against La Prensa, the country’s only independent print newspaper. more

Ads placed in news media consistently outperform ads on Facebook and YouTube, according to a study conducted by Australia’s ThinkNewsBrands. more

Facebook’s head of security policy said the company is putting into place security measures for users in Afghanistan, including hiding “friends” lists and adding a tool to quickly lock down accounts. Nathaniel Gleicher said in a thread on Twitter that Facebook made the changes based on feedback from activists, journalists and civil society groups. more

Last year, the Californian news site published a series of stories from reporters and the owner acknowledging and apologizing for past failings around reporting on marginalized communities. more

Carrol Dadisman was a journalist to the very end. The former publisher of the Tallahassee Democrat, whose community involvement extended well beyond his years at the helm of Florida’s capital newspaper, died from cancer Thursday at his home.  more

On Monday, the day after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, the publishers of The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal sent a letter to Joe Biden. They requested safe passage out of Kabul for Afghan colleagues and family members who were trapped there, “their lives in peril”; 204 of them were stranded on the civilian side of Hamid Karzai International Airport. more

Two media executives, a former newspaper owner and a veteran Associated Press correspondent have been chosen for the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame. The inductees are Lloyd Ballhagen, former CEO and board chairman for Hutchinson-based Harris Enterprises; Roxana Hegeman, AP’s Wichita correspondent; Joel Klaassen, former owner of the Hillsboro Free Press; and Tom Slaughter, executive director of the Inland Press Foundation and a former AP executive. more

Sara Libby is joining The Chronicle as the politics editor, overseeing coverage from the Bay Area, Sacramento and Washington, D.C. more

The collaboration trend in local news is leading to a number of arrangements in which multiple news organizations work together on both the funding and editing for a single reporter. more

Much of the focus is understandably about Axel Springer’s push into the U.S., as well as riding the newsletter trend (Politico’s Playbook newsletter is an industry heavyweight). But there is also a deeper story here — one that centres on the power of utility and service journalism. more

Deputy Managing Editor Amanda Barrett today announced a key appointment: Troy Thibodeaux, who has led AP’s data journalism since 2013, is now director of digital news. more

Facebook Inc (FB.O) has chosen 25 local independent journalists to be paid out of a $5 million pot to write for its newsletter site Bulletin through multiyear deals, the company told Reuters on Thursday. more

The Boston Globe on Wednesday published a deep, data-driven look at the facts and myths surrounding vaccinations called “The Last Best Shot.”  Globe Opinion also invited publications around the country to write their own editorials addressing their community’s concerns about vaccines in an effort to persuade people to get vaccinated. more

Phillips Media Group has entered into an agreement to acquire five publications from Gannett Co., Inc. The five publications include the Baxter Bulletin in Mountain Home, Arkansas, and four in Missouri: The Big Nickel in Joplin, the Rolla Daily News, the Kirksville Daily Express and the NEMO Trader in La Plata. more