This week, the Houston Chronicle launched “Change of State,” a YouTube series that follows statewide columnist Chris Tomlinson from the Houston suburbs to Brownsville, San Antonio, Fort Worth and beyond. In it, Tomlinson documents the undeniable demographic changes reshaping the Lone Star State’s politics, economy and culture.  more

Meta has pushed back the date of the change by three weeks to Friday, Nov. 20. The delay comes one day after a major trade group for news publishers sent a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding that the forthcoming terms be withdrawn. more

As artificial intelligence reshapes how people find and consume news, a new report from the Tow-Knight Center for Journalism Futures at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY examines what it will take to ensure the public has access to reliable, relevant information. more

The News/Media Alliance, the largest news media trade association representing over 2,000 newspaper, magazine and digital media publishers in the United States, delivered a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding the company withdraw its revised Commercial Terms of Use before they take effect on Oct. 30. more

The state’s challenging geography and newspapers’ broader economic struggles have stretched reporters in Alaska, just as its competitive U.S. Senate race has grabbed national attention. more

Shellie Murdaugh will focus on coverage of Jasper County as The Island News expands its footprint. more

After nearly a century of family ownership, Lorain County Printing and Publishing has reached an agreement to sell The Chronicle-Telegram and The Medina Gazette to MediaNews Group, the nation’s largest private operator of newspapers, according to John Cribb, Cribb & Associates, who represented the Hudnutt family, owners of LCPP. more

SinglePilot, being developed directly within the SingleComm platform, will help publishers simplify subscriber service configuration with AI, enabling teams to manage campaigns and workflows faster, reduce complexity and respond more quickly to changing needs. more

Search, Social, Retail Media and AI (SSRA) is a framework for understanding how discovery works today. Rather than treating these channels as separate marketing tactics, SSRA recognizes that they work together throughout the customer journey. Read AdCellerant's latest blog to learn more. more

An AI coding agent turns a plain-English request into working code. Here is how it works, and how to use one to change a paywall in five steps. more

Breaking news does not create workflow problems; it reveals them. For local and regional newspapers, treating every breaking story as a live stress test is one of the most valuable,  and most underused, sources of operational insight available. more

Jobiqo’s AI-powered spam detection automatically evaluates new employer profiles to identify potential fake recruiters, helping job boards reduce fraudulent listings and manual reviews. Customizable spam thresholds and flexible moderation options let administrators choose whether to flag or automatically block suspicious accounts. more

As publishers move from isolated AI experimentation toward wider adoption, governance is becoming a more important part of AI readiness. This article explores three broad governance models, the trade-offs between them, and why the “Centre of Enablement” model is increasingly relevant to publishers scaling AI responsibly. more

Your advertisers already trust you with part of their digital budget. Many of them would also pay for help ranking in organic search and showing up when customers ask AI assistants for a recommendation. more

On Oct. 20, a group of 63 international media organizations — including America's Newspapers — delivered a letter to senior Australian politicians asking them to reject proposed changes to the country’s copyright laws that would allow artificial intelligence companies to use copyrighted material in training their models. more

The executive order requires Maryland state agencies to prioritize local news organizations for at least 50 percent of their advertising spending, ensuring public dollars are reinvested in Maryland’s local information ecosystem. The policy applies broadly to print, digital and broadcast outlets, recognizing the full range of platforms that serve Maryland communities. more

Press Forward has announced the Press Forward Matching Challenge, a new national campaign that will triple reader gifts to local newsrooms in 12 communities this spring. Timed to Local News Day on April 8, 2027, the campaign runs April 1–30, 2027. Every gift to a participating newsroom will be matched by Press Forward and its local chapter, up to a match goal set by each community. more

Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press say Anthropic infringed on their copyright by using their content to develop its large language AI model Claude. more

Mississippi Today had a question. Did the stories around its Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting affect the way those investigations were received? It’s the kind of question local newsrooms can’t easily test on their own. But researchers from Local NExT Lab at Syracuse University could. more

In an article published in the Oct. 17-18 edition of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the newspaper recognized columnist Victor Joecks for the two Carmage Walls Commentary Prizes that he was awarded this year by the America's Newspapers Foundation. more