Google agreed to pay roughly $270 million in fines and change some of its business practices as part of a settlement announced on Monday with French antitrust regulators who had accused the company of abusing its dominance of the online advertising market. more

Only 2% of marketers would like to see a "full return" to the office following the COVID-19 pandemic's work-from-home protocols, according to a survey being released later this month by We Are Rosie, an only community of marketing executives. more

The International Falls Journal will cease publication this week, the newspaper announced last week, bringing an end to its 110 years of service to the northern Minnesota city. A related commercial printing business, North Star Publishing, also will close. more

The discussion around newsrooms’ social media policies following the AP’s firing of Emily Wilder over her tweets has opened up a can of worms for publishers. more

The Justice Department said Saturday that it no longer will secretly obtain reporters’ records during leak investigations, a policy shift that abandons a practice decried by news organizations and press freedom groups. more

Why doesn’t President Joe Biden give more press conferences? I’m talking about real press conferences — you know, with a podium and reporters in seats asking detailed questions with follow-ups. more

Ad-supported streaming services have some catching up to do. Subscription-based streaming services, which are largely ad-free, continue to dominate the amount of time people spend streaming video. But there is an opportunity for ad-supported streamers to edge into subscription-based services’ share of audiences’ attentions. more

On Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern, the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes will livestream their announcement of journalists who are winners or finalists for work that appeared in the previous calendar year. Many of them likely will have broken news about the pandemic, the presidency and policing abuses — or helped Americans better understand them. more

This year, World News Day will highlight the critical importance of journalism in providing trustworthy information about the future of our planet and its people. more

Direct publishing sounds like a 21st century journalist's dream come true: a technology that allows newsrooms to create a direct relationship with their audiences while retaining control over their content, data, metrics and ad revenue. Struggling to wrap your head around this idea? Let us unpack it. more

The White House’s James S. Brady Press Briefing Room is slated to return to full seating capacity this week, the White House Correspondents’ Association announced on Sunday. more

The Biden administration said on Saturday that no one at the White House had been aware that the Justice Department was seeking to seize the email data of four New York Times reporters and had obtained a gag order in March barring a handful of newspaper executives who knew about the fight from discussing it. more

The Creston Valley Advance of British Columbia, Canada, has hired a new publisher/sales manager. In his new role, Norman Eady most looks forward to meeting folks in the community and learning the nuts and bolts of a modern media business. more

The Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation recently announced the addition of Matthew Sauer as its new collaboration and impact officer. Sauer spent 28 years at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, eventually overseeing 20 newsrooms and 400 journalists in Florida as regional editor for the newspaper’s parent company, Gannett. more

Each Storytellers Project event showcases a diverse mix of storytellers sharing entertaining, illuminating stories for about an hour. For the “I Am” series, only those who self-identify as people of color will share the kinds of stories only they can tell. more

Substack made email newsletters buzzy — and controversial. Then Twitter bought a Substack competitor and launched its own version. Now it’s Facebook’s turn: The social network is prepping its take on subscription newsletters with something called Bulletin. It’s aiming for a launch at the end of June. more

Journalists in Brazil, Latin America and beyond are using an innovative new tool launched by an ICFJ Knight Fellow to combat misinformation and better report on the pandemic. Science Pulse, which makes it easier for reporters to find scientific experts and content, is the only tool of its kind designed expressly for journalists. more

Nine of the 10 newspapers that won Pulitzer Prizes for local reporting over the last decade experienced some form of cutbacks over the past year, according to data collected by the Tow Center and CJR. Three prize-winning outlets implemented layoffs, and four had their print runs affected, with pay cuts and furloughs scattered throughout. Some cuts have been restored; others haven’t. more

Newspaper publisher Gannett is fighting an effort by the FBI to try to determine who read a specific USA Today story about a deadly shooting in February near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that left two FBI agents dead and three wounded. more

Newsroom employees of The Kansas City Star have formed a union. The McClatchy Co., which owns The Star, voluntarily recognized the Kansas City News Guild on Wednesday. more