Jeff Robischon has been named general manager of the Ashland Daily Press in Wisconsin after a career spent in newspapers across the region and the country. Robischon also will be responsible for operations at the Price County Review and Northwood’s Shopper. more

On the afternoon of July 12, subscribers to The Spokesman-Review who have activated their e-edition accounts will notice that a new newspaper has been delivered to them digitally, the first new edition of The Daily Chronicle in almost 30 years. more

Last week, Ed Zitron wrote an important piece on coordinated online attacks against reporters. His primary argument is that newsrooms still don't understand the nature of the culture war they're sending their reporters out into each day. When their employees are the subject of bad faith networked harassment campaigns, they frequently fail to protect their reporters or, more troublingly, they sometimes punish their staffers for attracting perceived controversy. more

As vaccination rates rise and the number of infections fall, like the Brood X cicadas, we are finally emerging from our homes and learning how to re-acclimate after 15 months of isolation, anxiety and loss.  more

Amid rising attacks on racial, ethnic and religious groups, journalists are navigating the complex terrain around what constitutes a hate crime. So how can they cover hate crimes and other attacks on vulnerable populations? Here are some tips from a National Press Club Journalism Institute panel. more

Paige Masten, a 2021 graduate of UNC and the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, wrote a column published Monday (in The Charlotte Observer) about objectivity, Nikole Hannah-Jones and the journalism principles championed by Walter Hussman Jr., a prominent UNC donor. Hussman replied with this letter to Masten, which was published in The Charlotte Observer with his permission. more

Jeffrey Timmermans, an accomplished business journalist and educator, has been named the Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. more

A. H. Belo Corporation’s stock listing will move from the New York Stock Exchange to Nasdaq on June 29, when it begins trading under the new DallasNews Corporation name. The ticker symbol for the parent company of The Dallas Morning News will become DALN. more

Philip Gray will be joining the Opinion department at The Los Angeles Times as a deputy Op-Ed editor. He was most recently at Bloomberg and The New York Times as an opinion and news editor. more

Janet Malcolm, a longtime writer for The New Yorker who was known for her piercing judgments, her novel-like nonfiction and a provocative moral certainty that cast a cold eye on journalism and its practitioners, died on Wednesday in a hospital in Manhattan. She was 86. more

The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), together with the World Editors Forum (WEF), have condemned the arrest of Apple Daily editor-in-chief Ryan Law and four of its directors as Hong Kong’s national security police continue to target the media company and its outspoken pro-democracy owner, Jimmy Lai. more

Laura Trujillo, a former editor at the USA TODAY Network’s Cincinnati Enquirer and Arizona Republic, has been named managing editor of Life and Entertainment at USA TODAY. more

June 28 marks the third anniversary of the deadly attack on the (Annapolis, Maryland) Capital Gazette newsroom that killed five: Gerald Fischman, John McNamara, Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters and Rebecca Smith. The month also coincides with the buyout offer from the newspaper's new hedge fund owner, Alden Global Capital, which recently acquired Tribune Publishing. more

Last week, the ABC announced it had achieved a milestone it had been trying to reach for more than two years. For the first time, in the previous month of March, it had equal numbers of women and men appearing in its news coverage. more

Project Tell Me’s Lift Every Voice is a new initiative that showcases conversations between young Black journalists and the oldest generation of Black Americans. Conceived by Hearst Magazines, the significance of the subject matter and the abundance of inspiring stories brought Hearst Television and Hearst Newspapers to the project as well, and the result is a rich collection of inspiring stories from more than 50 Black American elders, including civil rights activists, hometown heroes and celebrities. more

Read about the progress Microsoft and its partners have made over the past eight months and what they have learned, and how the Journalism Initiative is growing. more

Deepfakes aren’t a big problem on Facebook right now, but the company continues to fund research into the technology to guard against future threats. Its latest work is a collaboration with academics from Michigan State University (MSU), with the combined team creating a method to reverse-engineer deepfakes: analyzing AI-generated imagery to reveal identifying characteristics of the machine learning model that created it. more

Deepfakes are an increasing concern for newsrooms with their ability to manipulate video and audio using AI technology, and turn it into something the original version never intended. more

Last year, hate crimes against Asian communities in the U.S. rose by 145%. In 2020, calls for racial justice also swept the world following the killing of George Floyd. With hate crimes against certain communities on the rise, and citizens becoming more aware of such incidents, journalists have been tasked with reporting on them more than before.  more

As a young girl, Mary Rogers loved looking at photos in National Geographic. She dreamed of a job that would take her all over the world, to see the images in the glossy magazine up close. Her journey is part of “No Ordinary Life,” a new film by Heather O’Neill, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Atlanta. more