Clarice Touhey has been named publisher of the Williston Herald and Sidney Herald in Montana for Wick Communications. more

I can’t begin to tell you how proud, honored and privileged I feel today addressing you as the new editor of The Rogersville (Tennessee) Review. more

The internal watchdog for the National Security Agency said on Tuesday it was launching an inquiry into allegations that the agency had improperly spied on a member of the U.S. news media. more

The First Amendment Museum, located in the former Guy P. Gannett home in Augusta, Maine, won a nearly $250,000 grant to complete the design of what officials say will be its state-of-the-art exhibition meant to inspire visitors to understand, practice and preserve their First Amendment rights of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. more

Google Ads in the coming months will expand the safeguards it has in place to prevent age-sensitive ad categories from being served up to people under 18, as more schools, classes and meetups are held online. more

For nearly 13 years, Mark Sabbatini has served as the sole publisher, editor and reporter of IcePeople, a paper covering Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the High Arctic, for a global audience. more

An online group of journalists is pushing the industry beyond surface-level representation — one tweet at a time. more

After 17 months of the coronavirus pandemic few things seem as normal as working from home. The shift to the home office has been a recurrent topic also for newsrooms, journalists and media managers. more

The summer would normally be a great time to be a reporter, commuting into work in the nice weather and enjoying the heat when reporting on your beat. Many of us, however, are still working from home. Journalism.co.uk rounds up a handful of tools to use whether you are out and about, or still stuck inside. more

Colin McMahon is stepping down as editor-in-chief of the Chicago Tribune. The last day for the longtime Tribune reporter, editor and executive, who also serves as chief content officer for Tribune Publishing, will be Aug. 20.

Succeeding McMahon will be Mitch Pugh, who has been named executive editor of the Chicago Tribune after eight years in the same role at The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. His first day will be Aug. 30. more

Beth Bennett, executive director of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, was elected president of Newspaper Association Managers during the group’s 98th annual summer conference in Madison, Wisconsin. more

A reporter for the Rapid City (South Dakota) Journal was turned away at the door from an event held last Thursday at which Sidney Powell, a former lawyer for President Trump, spoke. The event was held by South Dakota Citizens for Liberty at the Rushmore Hotel in Rapid City. more

Last week — as newspapers around New York State called on Andrew Cuomo, the governor, to resign after an official investigation concluded that he harassed 11 women — Cuomo’s local paper, the Albany Times Union, went a step further. Its editorial board pointed out that it had already called for Cuomo to quit in early March ... more

The Georgetown Times will be offered free at more than 80 locations throughout Andrews, Georgetown, Pawleys Island and Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. The overrun of an additional 5,000 copies begins Aug. 11. The Times will also appear as a section of The Post and Courier Myrtle Beach newspaper. more

When you become a manager, your words have greater impact than you know. Your specific and sincere praise can make someone’s day. Your criticisms can burn more than you know.  more

The media industry in India had been in a difficult spot already before COVID-19, with layoffs commonplace over the last five years due to tax reforms, industry shifts and demonetization, explained Sam. The pandemic stretched news organization budgets, resulting in less reporting and flexibility for freelancers, as well as the forced resignation of journalists despite government advisories against layoffs and salary cuts. more

Gannett’s new approach to crime coverage, editors say, will focus on offering context, identifying trends and following stories to their end. more

Minnesota’s City Pages was closed after its parent company said the pandemic had made the alt-weekly “economically unviable.” Now, four top editors are back with something new. more

This is the first of Publisher Frank Blethen’s two-part annual message, focusing on hope and the fragile state of our local free press system. Part two will run after Labor Day, focusing on The Seattle Times’ innovative transformation from a traditional print newspaper to a multifaceted content company. more

Tampa Bay Newspapers Associate Publisher Jay Rey has been named publisher for the organization, which includes publications in Pinellas, Pasco, Hernando and Hillsborough counties. more