The Associated Press has announced that Rachel White has been named the inaugural executive director of The Associated Press Foundation for Journalism.    more

September 4, 2024 - West Virginia state Senator Jack David Woodrum told attendees at the West Virginia Press Association convention last month that he may introduce a bill that would reduce fees for papers in the state that fail to publish notices on their own website and on WVPA’s statewide public notice site, according to a report on WVPA’s member website. more

Florida is now three months into hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30, but the Tampa Bay Times began preparing long before the season started. more

Times Publishing Company, publisher of the Tampa Bay Times, has announced the appointment of seven leaders to senior positions. The new leadership team positions the company for innovation and growth.   more

This detailed report acknowledges the challenges that news outlets face, but it also celebrates examples of hope and creativity thanks to new, different and inspired work from news organizations big and small. more

Carpenter Media Group (CMG) and Phillips Media Group (PMG) have reached an agreement for CMG to acquire PMG’s 16 community newspapers spread across Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois, as well as Nowata Printing Company in Springfield, Missouri. more

America's Newspapers is proud to welcome new newspaper members this week: DecorahNews.com. The Lewiston Tribune and three newspapers published by Six Rivers Media. more

Bill Church — who joined The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina)  and The Herald-Sun as executive editor in September 2021 and led the newsroom through the end of a pandemic, two national news events and a host of efforts aimed at expanding the audience for local coverage — is leaving for a new post across the country. more

Can the homepage be resurrected as a news seeker’s destination? Should news organizations devote more resources to an outlet’s landing page? Or has the homepage outlived its usefulness, with news outlets better off pursuing more effective ways of attracting readers? more

Earlier this month the federal government alleged that Google is a monopolist, reaping illegal monopoly profits, which strikes me as likely correct, even if not helpful to journalism. Even more recently, Google, undeterred, took the news industry to the cleaners in a battle in the California legislature in Sacramento. more

A Democratic former politician was found guilty of murder on Wednesday by a Nevada jury that decided he’ll serve 20 years to life in prison for killing an investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of his conduct in office two years ago. more

The nonprofit Oklahoma Media Center has released a “Schoolhouse Rock!”-inspired animated video with a song designed to bolster trust and support for local newsrooms. more

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has announced the launch of its Community Journalism Project, a philanthropic initiative that will provide the newspaper’s supporters an opportunity to contribute to its mission of informing readers. more

Robert A. Dubill, an award-winning executive editor with Gannett News Service and a unique and forceful leader at USA TODAY since its inception in 1982, died Friday, Aug. 23, from complications after a fall. He was 88. more

Longtime Press-Republican executive Scott Bresett has been promoted to general manager of the newspaper. more

A federal judge in Virginia has tossed out a proposed class action accusing newspaper publisher Gannett of adopting diversity policies that had led to widespread discrimination against white employees. more

The freelance photographer was covering a demonstration protesting the 2020 George Floyd murder when he was tackled by a Des Moines police officer, pepper sprayed and arrested. more

A surprise text ended a prosecutor’s questioning Thursday of a former Las Vegas-area politician standing trial in the killing of a veteran investigative reporter, after a long day of sometimes rambling testimony during which the defendant declared that he never killed anyone. more

Boone Newsmedia, Inc. has named Alec Etheredge as the media company’s newest vice president. more

WILMINGTON  — Delaware’s sole unionized newsroom has ratified a new two-year contract with national owner Gannett, representing a deal for 25 employees at the News Journal/Delaware Online. more