A reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper that police raided last year filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against its hometown and local officials, saying the raid caused her physical and mental health problems. more

February 7, 2023 - Public notice legislation introduced so far in 2024 suggests state legislatures are growing increasingly comfortable having news websites serve as an alternative source of official notice. And that comfort seems to have cooled their ardor for moving notices from newspapers to government websites. more

February 6, 2024 - Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said Tuesday it is ramping up its capability to detect and label images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) ahead of elections in the U.S. and abroad. more

Commercial partnership provides engaging sports betting content in dedicated online section separate from news staff sports coverage. more

Jane Ashley Pace, Paxton Media Group regional advertising director and publisher of both the Henry County Local and Oldham Era, is now president of the Kentucky Press Association, a newspaper industry trade group established in 1869. more

Crystal Miller, publisher of the Albert Lea Tribune and the Austin Daily Herald, was elected president of the Minnesota Newspaper Association during the association’s annual meeting at the Minneapolis Marriott Northwest in Brooklyn Park. more

A Muskogee County jury has awarded a man $25 million in damages after finding The Oklahoman defamed him in 2021 when it incorrectly identified him as the speaker of a racist rant during a high school basketball playoff game. more

Ron Nixon, vice president for news, investigative, enterprise, and grants and partnerships with The Associated Press, has announced that Mary Rajkumar and Jeannie Ohm will co-lead AP's award-winning investigative team and work across the organization to develop and produce in-depth investigative projects. more

Starting in March, The Sumter (South Carolina) Item will print newspapers twice a week, a weekday edition on Wednesday and a weekend edition on Saturday. more

Microsoft is launching several collaborations with news organizations to adopt generative AI. more

It’s no secret the news industry has suffered from declining revenues for years, with the situation so dire that many newsrooms across the country have shut down. Now, three state Democrats are trying to help local newsrooms in Wisconsin with a set of three bills aimed at paying for journalists, reporting projects and subscriptions.  more

The Seattle Times' Brier Dudley asked members of Washington’s delegation where they stood on the need for Congress to help save local journalism. All but two, U.S. Reps. Dan Newhouse and Cathy McMorris Rodgers, responded with thoughtful comments and pledges to help. more

Gannett Co., Inc. and the USA TODAY Network have announced a multi-year agreement to become the official content partner of the Big Ten Conference, the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. more

Our working paper found that the tech giants owe publishers billions of dollars. Here’s how we arrived at that conclusion and what it means. more

Jim Falzone, a longtime and highly esteemed employee of the company, has been named publisher of North of Boston Media Group. more

The Arizona Republic and its newsroom staffers have agreed on a two-year contract that provides a framework for benefits, wages and working conditions for employees. more

The two new newspapers become the third and fourth dailies taken over by the Gazette in the past four years. more

John Celestino, regional executive for CNHI newspapers in New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, died Friday, Jan. 26. He was 63. more

In this leadership role, Cole McNeely will play a pivotal part in overseeing, managing and leading the strategic direction of the company's audio and video production efforts, as well as driving the productization of content to create and maintain revenue opportunities for the foundation and its for-profit interests within the organization. more

The first annual $100,000 of Awards for News Reporting will award four $25,000 awards for the most fair, impartial, objective news reporting that has the courage to not fear and the discipline to not favor. more