January 3, 2024 - Leaders in newsroom use of generative artificial intelligence shared tips, tools and some optimistic predictions before the holidays at the NCTJ‘s Artificial Intelligence in Journalism event. more

Times Media Group has announced that beginning Feb. 4, it will re-launch Tempe’s original newspaper, The Tempe Daily News. The new incarnation of the paper will be called The Tempe Tribune. more

Twenty-seven percent of North Carolina advertising buyers surveyed plan to allocate more of their media spend with local media companies in 2024. News executives and entrepreneurs who understand this opportunity will make more money. more

The Pivot Fund will map the news landscape of the Great Lakes states with support from the Joyce and McKnight Foundations, both founding members of the Press Forward local news initiative. The project, which will begin in Minnesota, marks a major expansion of the Pivot Fund’s role in identifying local news outlets that have earned the trust of communities of color. more

Dean Ridings, CEO of America's Newspapers, was among the industry leaders interviewed by the Alliance for Audited Media regarding their thoughts about the past year, how global challenges will continue to impact businesses and what the industry should look forward to in 2024. more

The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors is accepting entries for its annual Golden Quill editorial writing contest. Deadline is Feb. 1. more

Ray Erku's first official day as editor of the Times was Dec. 18, though he’s been lending an editorial hand for months. The last editor, Don Rogers, was employed by the Times from July 2022 through August 2023 before moving on to the Park Record in Park City. more

Joe Goodman, one of the last of his kind, died peacefully Sunday morning, Dec. 31, in the house his grandfather built along the banks of Muddy Creek outside Clemmons. He would have been 87 in a couple of weeks. more

Hearst Connecticut Media Group has finalized its acquisition of RJ Media Group in Meriden. more

Here’s a look back at some of the biggest stories in social media in 2023 — and what to watch for next year. more

Black Americans see several problems with how the news media covers Black people, according to a 2023 Pew Research Center survey on Black Americans’ experiences with news. more

January 1, 2024 - Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said. more

America’s news media industry is one of the least diverse in the American workforce. Nowhere is that lack of racial and ethnic diversity more stark than in the ranks of the nation’s investigative editors and reporters at major news organizations. more

A long-time journalist with strong ties to central Ohio has been picked to be the new leader of The Columbus Dispatch. more

The National Trust for Local News subsidiary will sustain community newspapers in Georgia with support from Knight, Woodruff and Casey foundations. more

The City and County of San Francisco recently announced its plan to strengthen its relationship with and invest in community publishers and ethnic media. The plan, included in a report commissioned by San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey, emphasizes the value of community-specific media in bringing important information to the City’s diverse communities. more

It was a freezing Tuesday evening in Fergus, Ontario — around negative-6 degrees Celsius. But the local newspaper’s publisher, Dave Adsett, stepped out of the hockey rink and braved the cold for an after-hours phone interview. Adsett wanted to be heard clearly, as he explained the benefits of a new law requiring Google to pay for news content it benefits from in Canada. more

December 21, 2023 - The City of Salina (Kansas) has decided to use its own website to publish notices beginning with the new year. more

Having determined that reader regularity is the most important factor in getting people to pay for news, Medill Spiegel Research Center Director Edward Malthouse sees trouble on the local-journalism horizon based on newly collected data. more

Writing about Santa is delicate. Here’s advice from 5 journalists about how to cover Saint Nick while being sensitive to children. more