If media employees have proven to their bosses over the last 18 months that they can be productive while working from home, why are they being required to come back into the office this fall? more

The past two days have seen far too many examples of wanting black-and-white answers for a situation that is several shades of gray. And wanting them right this second. more

Gannett is aiming to attract 10 million subscribers to its local news content across the U.S. and U.K. within the next five years, and Renn Turiano has been charged as the person to do it. more

Three journalists will join the staff of the Center for Public Integrity this fall and contribute to the nonprofit news organization’s investigative reporting on the causes and effects of inequality in the United States. more

Tennis star Naomi Osaka teared up and briefly left a tournament news conference Monday after questions about her relationship with the media. more

Nicaraguan police raided the offices of the storied opposition newspaper La Prensa Friday. The National Police said in a statement the raid was part of an investigation into “customs fraud and money laundering.” It said the newspaper’s offices “remain under police custody.” more

The Cincinnati Enquirer has announced that Kelsey Conway will be the beat reporter covering the Cincinnati Bengals. Conway, entering her eighth season covering the National Football League, is returning to Cincinnati after previously working for the Atlanta Falcons and Baltimore Ravens. more

The publisher of The Washington Post pleaded with the White House on Monday to have the U.S. military move to safety more than 200 journalists and related people affiliated with the Post, Wall Street Journal and New York Times who are “in danger” at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan. more

Misty Castile has been named the top editor at The Shreveport (Louisiana) Times, replacing Scott Ferrell, who moved to another position with Gannett. more

Gerald Thomas III has been named as the new sports editor for the Bryan County News (Richmond Hill, Georgia) and the Coastal Courier (Hinesville, Georgia). more

David Syre, a pillar of Bellingham’s business community, is bankrolling a new local newspaper and digital news site for Whatcom County. The as-yet-unnamed paper will launch in January with a weekly print edition and a daily report online. more

Women in media in Kabul tell of trying to destroy traces of their identity as they brace for Taliban retribution. more

The initiative we’re launching is designed to help local journalists take stock of their role in a polarized society and how they can reach and be trusted by a more diverse audience with fact-based, responsible journalism. more

Sometimes, it seems like the more you use social media, the more you realize you don’t know about social media. Here are three tips for making the most of social media platforms. more

As U.S.-led forces depart the country, Taliban militants are capturing city after city, and province after province. For journalists, merely going to work has been frightening. They are among the Taliban’s worst enemies due to the nature of their work, documenting and raising awareness of developments in the country. more

The news of the weekend was overwhelming. A devastating earthquake rocked Haiti, killing more than 1,200 and injuring more than 5,700 as a tropical storm headed that way. COVID-19 cases continue … more

At Trusting News, rather than accepting distrust in journalism, we work to better understand it so we can help journalists actively earn trust. We believe healthy democracies depend on civic dialogue … more

The Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact will move its offices to Arizona State University’s campus in the heart of Washington, D.C., in a unique collaboration that will expand training in fact-checking journalism, create a new website to fact-check Arizona politicians, and grow Poynter’s teaching footprint in the nation’s capital. more

Russia could renew a visa for a BBC journalist to let her resume work in Moscow if British authorities give a visa to a Russian journalist, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Russia has refused to renew a visa for BBC correspondent Sarah Rainsford in an effective expulsion amid simmering tensions with Britain — a move that the British government and the BBC condemned Friday as an assault on media freedom. more

As Taliban forces seize control in Afghanistan, global news outlets are struggling to stay safe and continue reporting. But local journalists could be at greater risk. more