January 27, 2023 - Technology has changed but the law hasn’t. Senator Obenshain and Delegate Hope are pushing legislation that would allow government legal notices to be posted online. more

Deborah Douglas will lead efforts to provide training in solutions journalism. more

January 25, 2023 - Florida’s Republican lawmakers hate the daily newspapers and for 25 years have sought to end laws requiring public notices in newspapers. Their answer: Let government control public notice. Ha! more

An antitrust suit that challenges Google’s dominance of online advertising offers hope for the survival of the local free press. Justice moves slowly, however, and in the meantime, Congress should take steps to help local news survive. more

An administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., on Thursday found that Pittsburgh Post-Gazette management had bargained in bad faith since 2019 with the union representing newsroom employees. more

The new rules will greatly limit the public release of lawmakers’ communications. more

The Las Vegas Review-Journal argued unsuccessfully that federal law bars police from looking at a journalist's news-gathering material. more

The video will certainly be graphic. Journalists should be prepared to explain why they chose to show or withhold it. more

The Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, which provides pro bono legal representation to social justice and media organizations worldwide, and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the nonprofit investigative newsroom and network, have launched Reporters Shield, a legal support program and defense fund for investigative journalists and newsrooms. more

Meta will reinstate former President Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts "in coming weeks" following a two-year suspension, according to Nick Clegg, the company's president, global affairs. more

Media literacy campaigns are not designed to tell anyone what to believe or how to think; rather, they are about equipping people to think critically and make informed decisions about what information they consume. more

The bottom line: "We are a news organization that has traditionally lived in one space, which is the content licensing space," Executive Editor Julie Pace said. "Now, we also want to take part in what I think a lot of the rest of the industry has already done, which is the digital advertising revenue stream." more

Saeed Ahmed is joining The Associated Press as its first vice president of news for digital platforms. more

The Supreme Court wants Biden's thoughts on the controversial First Amendment case. more

Grant Gibbons has been announced as publisher of The Journal, in New Ulm, Minnesota, and The Independent of Marshall. He will be replacing Greg Orear, publisher since 2016. Orear has taken a publishing position with a newspaper group in Missouri. more

The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit, which a group of states joined, was the fifth against the company since 2020. more

Steve Waldman, co-founder of Report for America, leads new independent nonprofit organization developing non-partisan public policies to strengthen community journalism. more

The AP-Frontline documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing retelling of the Russian siege of the city, made its world premiere Friday, Jan. 20, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. more

The American Journalism Project announced its first three new grants of 2023 to nonprofit news organizations that aim to reach new audiences and cover critical issues concerning communities in North Carolina, Fort Worth, Texas and Nebraska. more

The front page of Monday’s Times featured a photo of the shooter dead in his van. more