As advertising dollars increasingly shift online, leveraging digital solutions like search engine optimization (SEO) is key to staying relevant, driving revenue and getting ahead of your competition. more

Amid the shifts in the publishing industry in Q4 2024, one trend stood out: a sharp focus on top-line revenue in acquisitions. more

At stake is public access to “junque files” containing back-channel communications between legislators, lobbyists and stakeholders during the drafting of bills. more

The Associated Press and two other news organizations are suing Idaho’s top prison official for increased access to lethal injection executions, saying the state is unconstitutionally hiding the actual administration of the deadly drugs from public view. more

December 10, 2024 - Earlier this year, the WSJ owner sued Perplexity for failing to properly license its content. Now its research tool Factiva has negotiated its own AI licensing deals. more

“I’m not sure people realize the importance of Washington winning its latest lawsuit against Meta, the social media titan that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Potentially at stake are laws enabling the public to know who is influencing elections in Washington and other states.” — Brier Dudley, Seattle Times Free Press editor more

Rufus Friday, the former publisher of the Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, Kentucky, will join the Center for Integrity in News Reporting (CFINR) as its executive director on Dec. 30. more

Roger Simmons has been with the Sentinel since 1993 in a variety of sports, news and digital roles. more

The owners of the Helena World and Monroe County Argus are once again stepping up to save community journalism in a rural Arkansas county, announcing the purchase of the Waldron News and the Mansfield Citizen in Scott County, which ceased publication earlier this year. more

The Sun accuses its partner paper, the much larger Las Vegas Review-Journal, of declaring its operating agreement illegal in an attempt to run it out of business. more

Carpenter Media Group has acquired M. Roberts Media, a cornerstone of the Texas media landscape since 1942. M. Roberts Media is the parent company of seven award-winning newspapers and a variety of magazines and publications that serve Victoria and East Texas. more

Lakeway Publishers, Inc., has announced the sale of its Missouri regional operation to CherryRoad Media, Inc., a media and technology company focused on the sustainability of community journalism. more

The work stoppage that started in 2022 laid bare years of turmoil in the newsroom union. more

December 4, 2024 - The status of newspaper notice in New Jersey was thrown into uncertainty when Advance Publications announced on Oct. 30 that early next year it plans to close a production facility and the print editions of several significant newspapers in the state, including the state’s largest paper, the Star-Ledger. more

It may be too late for @edwardrmurrow.cbsnews.com, @huntersthompson.rollingstone.com or @mikewallace.60minutes.com, but today’s reporters have another way to prove who they are on the rapidly growing social network. more

It’s been called an exodus. People are leaving the Elon Musk-owned X in droves, in favor of Meta-owned Threads and Bluesky, an app that was initially a project of Jack Dorsey when he was CEO of Twitter. more

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) today published "Destination Diners," a statewide dining guide that features an in-depth look at 33 diners across the state, from Columbus to Savannah and everywhere in between. With stories, photos, maps and videos, the guide brings to life the flavors behind these local eateries. more

In the Pew Research Center's most recent survey, conducted two months before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, about three-quarters of Americans (74%) said criticism from news organizations keeps political leaders from doing things that shouldn’t be done, while far fewer (24%) said this type of scrutiny keeps leaders from doing their job. more

A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system. more

The Austin NewsGuild, the collective bargaining unit representing Austin (Texas) American-Statesman journalists, and the newspaper’s parent company, Gannett, reached a labor agreement after three and a half years of negotiation and two strikes. more