Here's an idea to steal and adapt: The Times Union partnered with a nearby university to build a data-rich, low-cost weather and climate product. more

States Newsroom is the largest news org of its kind; boasts newsroom or partner news outlet in every state following content-sharing agreement with Spotlight Delaware. more

April 8, 2024 - OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems. more

Rep. Randy K. Weber Sr. has joined as a co-sponsor of a bill intended to provide support to community newspapers and small businesses. more

April 5, 2024 - Virginia has become the first state in the nation to approve the publication of legal notices in online-only local news sites. more

During a panel at the ACES: The Society for Editing national conference in San Diego on Friday, AP Stylebook Editor Paula Froke announced that Merriam-Webster is now the Stylebook’s official dictionary, among other updates.  more

Vaughn Burnheimer has been named The Tribune-Democrat’s new general manager, CNHI Regional Executive and Tribune-Democrat Publisher Chip Minemyer announced Thursday. more

Washington’s journalism fellowship program is starting on time, mostly, which is how it goes sometimes with news deadlines. Six of the fellows were hired as of Monday to fill two-year state-funded positions at newsrooms from Tri-Cities to Long Beach. more

April 3, 2024 - Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed three bills last month that will impact the state’s public notice laws. When it takes effect on July 1, the most significant bill will make Indiana the first state to authorize government units to publish primary notice on some newspaper websites or e-editions. more

El Diario is among 150+ local newspapers advocating to save local news in New York. more

Meta says it will take a number of days for news tab to be fully removed in Australia and the United States. more

With hundreds of U.S. newspaper closings leaving legions with little access to local news, a college newspaper in Iowa has stepped up to buy two struggling weekly publications. more

CitySpark, Inc., the leading provider of local event listings and management solutions for publishers, today announced the successful recent acquisition of SceneThink, Inc., an audience engagement company providing publishers with advanced event curation and cutting-edge audience balloting technology.   more

Flip-Pay is an established, complete and scalable content monetization platform with customers and successful use cases all over the world. READ MORE more

An office manager at a weekly newspaper in Kansas is the latest employee to sue over a police raid last year that sparked a firestorm. more

Coda Ventures has announced that long-time newspaper industry veteran, Sammy Papert, will assume the role of executive sales consultant in charge of newspaper sales starting April 1. Papert brings experience in national advertising sales, custom market research and digital technologies to the company. more

Court of Appeals brief decries prosecutions as "a dangerous step toward the evisceration of freedom of the press." more

March 28, 2024 - Overall, 54% of Americans say artificial intelligence programs that generate text and images, like ChatGPT and DALL-E, need to credit the sources they rely on to produce their responses. A much smaller share (14%) says the programs don’t need to credit sources, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. About a third say they’re not sure on this question. more

Despite initially resisting a trial delay, Robert Telles softened his stance after revelations of a preexisting bribery probe. He's changed his mind again and wants to go to trial as soon as possible. more

Doorfront Direct, the nation's largest network of magazine/catalog delivery affiliates, provides distribution revenue to newspaper companies. READ MORE more