Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook is eliminating fact-checking may amount to a double whammy for people living in this country’s ever-expanding news deserts. more

Joe Imel, who began his journalism career in rural Kentucky 38 years ago, has been named regional publisher of eight Carpenter Media Group newspapers in Kentucky, as well as one property in both Tennessee and Ohio. more

For some local newspaper publishers, the most pressing challenge isn’t finding enough readers or advertisers, it’s figuring out who will carry the torch when they move on. That’s the case in La Conner, where the century-old weekly closed last month after publisher Ken Stern couldn’t find a buyer at the price he sought. more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to keep TikTok operating for 75 days, a relief to the social media platform’s users even as national security questions persist. more

SciLine, a nonprofit organization that helps journalists incorporate more scientific evidence into their work, has produced a new, free toolkit for newsrooms aimed at helping journalists cut through the political back-and-forth on hot button issues and reach a heavily polarized audience with a strictly nonpartisan focus on expert research on a given topic. more

In the closing weeks of 2024, a campaign among members of the boards of directors of America's Newspapers and the America's Newspapers Foundation generated $30,500 in contributions to support programs sponsored by the Foundation. more

The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law banning TikTok beginning Sunday unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company,holding that the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its 170 million users in the United States. more

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In May 2022, three papers-of-record shut down, leaving a void in Northern Kentucky’s news landscape. Consequently, Lacy Starling, the CEO of LINK nky, a digital-first publication in Northern Kentucky, reached out to Column to help them seize the opportunity to become the paper of record for the community. more

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A Marketing Resource (AMR), a leading contact center and direct marketing provider, announces its First to Market “Dual Price Program” that has helped over 300+ publishers eliminate over $45 million in credit card processing fees and counting. more

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Nicole Stockdale, a native Midwesterner who has helped oversee five newsrooms in California for McClatchy in recent years, will become the next executive editor of The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) and The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina). more

Katherine Miller, a veteran newspaper executive who began her career in Joplin, Missouri, has been appointed publisher of The Joplin Globe. more

Congress labeled the app’s Chinese ownership a national security risk and passed a law that would ban the social media platform unless it was sold. TikTok and creators say that violates their free speech rights. more

In a Dec. 21 front-page article in The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, New York), John DeAugustine, the new owner of the Daily Gazette Family of Newspapers, wrote that he is honored and humbled to lead the newspapers into the future.  more