Last week marked the final editions of long-running Upper Cape publications, The Sandwich Broadsider and The Bourne Courier. Initially locally owned and operated, these weekly Massachusetts newspapers were most recently owned by Gatehouse Media. more

The Washington Post has announced the creation of Next Generation, a new initiative to accelerate the acquisition of younger and more diverse audiences through new products, practices and partnerships. more

The Washington Post today announced Michelle Jaconi will be head of news talent strategy and development, effective Aug. 16. In this newly created role, Jaconi will lead talent development initiatives across a variety of formats and emerging platforms, creating features and products to amplify the voices and personalities of Post journalists. She will also identify opportunities to showcase journalists’ signature styles and connect their work with a broader audience. more

In July, a coalition of news organizations and press groups — including The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Committee to Protect Journalists — wrote to the Biden administration and Congressional leaders with an urgent request. more

In response to the beatings, arrests, and harassment they experienced while covering last summer's racial justice protests, five news photographers today filed a federal lawsuit seeking to hold the New York City Police Department accountable for its violation of their First Amendment rights. more

President Joe Biden sent a letter to The Capital dated Aug. 3 in support of the Capital Gazette and the freedom of the press in the aftermath of the June 2018 office shooting and the recent trial verdict. more

Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, who wrote about rock when music journalists were just beginning to take it seriously, and through her work met Jim Morrison, frontman of the Doors, with whom she said she had a marriage of sorts, died on July 23. She was 75. more

CNN said on Thursday that it had fired three employees who violated its coronavirus safety protocols by going to the office unvaccinated, one of the first known examples of a major American corporation’s terminating workers for ignoring a workplace vaccination mandate. more

On August 4, 2020, an explosion at the port of Beirut shook Lebanon’s capital, killing more than 200 people, wounding thousands more, and flattening the surrounding homes and businesses. The shock of the explosion, caused by hundreds of tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate, reverberated across a country already reeling from decades of government corruption, financial mismanagement and abuses of power. more

Sewell Chan, the current editorial page editor and former deputy managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, will be The Texas Tribune’s next editor-in-chief. more

Annabelle Timsit will join The Washington Post as a breaking-news reporter at its new hub in London. She will be part of a team that will play a key role in The Post's global expansion. more

A nonprofit that supports free speech and other rights on college campuses has written UNC-Chapel Hill challenging its probe into how The News & Observer obtained a $25 million donor agreement with Arkansas newspaper publisher Walter Hussman. more

Known as a journalist who asked tough questions and an all-around stand-up guy, former Associated Press correspondent and public servant Ed Moreno has died. He was 67. His family said Moreno died July 27 of a brain tumor at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A memorial service has been scheduled for Sept. 18. more

Erin Cunningham will become Foreign’s evening editor of The Washington Post, steering breaking-news coverage through a critical part of the day. more

A group of Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Amazon and Facebook on Wednesday, urging them to stop campaigning for Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s recusal from antitrust matters involving their businesses. more

We need more journalists of color in leadership, especially in local news. It’s that simple. As newsrooms struggle to identify with, connect to, and ultimately convert audiences of color, a key way we can make change is by putting more journalists of color into decision-making roles. more

Russian news outlet Open Media said on Thursday it was shutting down after the communications watchdog blocked its website for most users and included it on a list of internet pages engaging in "extremist activity." more

AP Deputy Sports Editor Howie Rumberg, in Tokyo for the Summer Games, describes what it’s been like to cover the Olympics in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. more

Nothing to see here. I guess that’s going to be the approach taken by CNN’s Chris Cuomo when it comes to the news about his brother, Andrew — the New York governor who, according to an investigation by the New York attorney general, has sexually harassed multiple women with inappropriate touching and comments. more

The New York Times is edging closer to its goal of 10 million subscribers by 2025, according to its second-quarter earnings call. But while it drew in its lowest quarterly increase in subscriber numbers, there’s a silver lining since its overall subscriber revenue is growing. more