MediaNews Group, the local newspaper company owned by Alden Global Capital, has shut down all of its comment sections as of July 1st, due to difficulties in moderating them, executives told Axios. more

Mandating a simpler cancellation process would confuse consumers and create problems for businesses, trade groups say. more

Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application. more

As The Sumter Item continues to evolve, it will soon do so minus one familiar face but with the addition and promotion of two more. more

Orangeburg native Damion Waymer has been selected as the next director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the University of South Carolina’s College of Information and Communications. more

Two years into its bold experiment in local news, Bellingham’s Cascadia Daily News is giving itself a makeover. more

Laney Griffo has been a part of the Tahoe Tribune staff since 2019, where she began as a reporter. more

June 29, 2023 - DCN checked in with six media organizations — Harvard Business Review, The Weather Company, Consumer Reports, The Washington Post, Skift and The Boston Globe — to explore how they are developing AI policies and internal guidelines for AI usage and what these look like.  more

A unanimous Supreme Court has issued its decision in Groff v. Dejoy, clarifying Title VII’s undue hardship standard to mean “substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business.” more

Meta made a similar announcement last week, saying that it will remove news from its social media platforms Facebook and Instagram before the law comes into force. It is also ending existing deals with local publishers. more

Facebook parent Meta is following through on threats to block news from its platforms in Canada, for now at least. The company threatened to block news if Canada passed a law requiring tech giants to fairly compensate news publishers for online content. It did this temporarily in Australia in 2021 when a similar law was being finalized. more

Joe Murray died at his home Sunday, June 25, at the age of 82. Services will be at 2 p.m. July 5 at First Baptist Church. more

Greg Hoskins’ Better Newspapers Inc. has purchased the Daily Journal (the Parkland regional newspaper), Fredericktown Democrat News, Farmington Press, and Advantage from Lee Enterprises. more

Ogden Newspapers announced Monday that it is exploring options for the possible sale of their Maui Publishing group and is planning to accept offers from interested parties over the next few weeks. more

States Newsroom launched Countdown ‘24, a newsletter to help readers navigate the 2024 presidential campaign through reporting from its 34 outlets, including the Iowa Capital Dispatch and New Hampshire Bulletin, and over 170 reporters across the nation. more

The Post and Courier (Charleston, South Carolina), with support from the Pulitzer Center, has released an investigation into the significance of the Sahara Desert on hurricanes on the East Coast. Reporter Tony Bartelme and Photojournalist Andrew Whitaker traveled to Senegal to report on the story. more

"The tech industry’s shiny new thing, artificial intelligence, is suddenly an urgent priority in Congress. ... But before going too deep into tomorrow’s tech, perhaps they ought to handle unfinished business with today’s. Namely, addressing severe harm to the news industry that’s resulted from their laissez faire approach to Big Tech over the last two decades." — Brier Dudley, The Seattle Times more

The timing could be better, with Seattle celebrating Pride Month and a vicious new culture war targeting transgender people. But the Seattle Gay News, a crusading weekly newspaper, is losing its leader and heading for closure at year end. more

Canada’s Senate on Thursday passed a bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms. more

Trying to keep tabs on contractors scooping up bids in the region? School boards discussing CRT? The latest big box store angling to build in your town? Agenda Watch has you covered. more