This article summarizes the major paths legislators have proposed to support local news and the outcomes of such legislation. more

Steve Grove, publisher and CEO of the Star Tribune, presented the interns with a prompt: “How might the Star Tribune reach college-age students who are interested in the news, and convert them into loyal readers?” more

Just days before Labor Day, the U.S. Department of Labor unveiled its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, aimed at revising the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime exemptions for executive, administrative and professional employees. more

August 31, 2023 - The U.S. Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI and copyright issues as the agency figures out how to approach the subject.  more

Deb Gruver is seeking damages for “emotional distress, mental anguish and physical injury” as a result of Police Chief Gideon Cody’s “malicious and recklessly indifferent violation” of her First Amendment free press rights and Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure. more

For the first time in American history, cameras and live streaming coverage will be allowed inside the courtroom when a former U.S. president stands trial for allegedly running a criminal enterprise designed to overturn the lawful results of an election. more

Times-Shamrock Communications is selling its newspaper group, including The Scranton (PA) Times-Tribune, to MediaNews Group, CEO Jim Lewandowski announced. more

Philanthropic support is growing for both nonprofit and for-profit news organizations, according to a new study. Co-author Jennifer Preston said it provides data “so we can make a better case to communities around the country” to support local news organizations. more

CherryRoad Media has acquired eight community newspapers in Ohio and Indiana and a commercial print operation from Delphos Herald, Inc. and the Cohen family. Most of these newspapers date to the mid- to late 1800s, with more than 150 years of history serving their respective communities. more

Starting Monday, Oct. 9, the U.S. Postal Service will be delivering the Greenville News, Spartanburg Herald-Journal and Anderson Independent Mail as part of an effort to improve delivery consistency and optimize resources amidst ongoing labor challenges, fluctuating fuel prices, competition for workers from door-to-door delivery services and increasing digital demand. more

CherryRoad Media Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Hutchinson, Kansas, printing operations from Gannett Co., Inc. The printing operation currently prints most of CherryRoad Media's Kansas publications as well as numerous other newspapers in central and western Kansas. more

States Newsroom, the nation’s leading network of state-based nonprofit news outlets, has launched Oklahoma Voice to provide people in the Sooner State with free, nonpartisan reporting on some of the state’s biggest issues, including public schools, health care, hunger, transportation, criminal justice reform and workforce development. With the launch of Oklahoma Voice, States Newsroom’s network now includes 36 newsrooms. more

Publishers including The Marshall Project and The Markup shared how reporters are using generative artificial intelligence in their newsrooms in their reporting processes — after some failed tests. more

August 29, 2023 - Some of the nation’s largest newsrooms are actively taking defensive measures to safeguard their content from ChatGPT, the groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot that is seen as a potential aggressor to an already struggling news industry. more

August 29, 2023 - New data suggests that excitement about the increased use of artificial intelligence is at a three-year low, but opinions are split on whether the technology will help or hinder certain aspects of daily life. more

Sarah Stonbely, the research director at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, has been named director of Medill’s State of Local News Project. more

August 29, 2023 - Google's DeepMind unit is unveiling a new method it says can invisibly and permanently label images that have been generated by artificial intelligence. more

G. Ogden Nutting, who for nearly three decades served as president and publisher of Wheeling, W.Va.-based Ogden Newspapers Inc., died Friday, August 25, at age 87. more

Walter Moore Dear II, a dedicated newspaperman who loved music, books, travel, philanthropy, dogs and cats — and, most of all, people — died at the age of 91 of a stroke and dementia. more

Veteran ad executive Ryan Kedzierski was tabbed general manager of The Tennessean (Nashville), effective Oct. 1. more