As a former reporter, editor and district manager for circulation, David Hall says he’s held almost every job in the newspaper industry. With his new position as The Daily Times’ circulation director in Maryville, Tennessee, Hall plans to use those experiences to help strengthen relationships with customers and engage the public with the paper. more

“Having readers who read more often is 10 times more important than having them read more articles,” says Medill Spiegel Research Center Research Director Edward Malthouse, Erastus Otis Haven Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications, who oversaw the first-of-its-kind analysis using anonymized data from the Midwestern business publication. more

Gannett is seeking charitable donations to cover the salary of the local government reporter at the Reno Gazette Journal, one of its dailies. According to executive editor Brian Duggan, the paper is trying to raise $100,000 over the next two years so that it can keep paying Mark Robison. more

Texas’ largest newspapers demanded more than thoughts and prayers on Tuesday, just hours after a gunman massacred 21 people at an elementary school, including 19 children. more

Images are a vital component of conflict reporting, including on CRSV, and can be a powerful means of connecting with readers. But there is also significant scope for harm to survivors, that goes beyond the risks of interviewing them. more

Clinical studies are clear that the more that journalists believe that they are doing important work, the more quickly they can heal from the traumatic stress of what they have witnessed. I can not stress this enough: You are doing important work. Do not let deaths go undocumented. more

Paul Farrell, group publisher of Lee Enterprise’s Southeast Region and president and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, is retiring this summer after 42 years in the newspaper industry. more

Effective May 30, managing editor Bruce Siwy will become an investigative reporter for the USA Today Network's Pennsylvania state capital bureau. more

Academics and journalists will be able to see more data about the way political ads are used to target users across Facebook and Instagram. more

Hawaii Gov. David Ige on Monday signed legislation providing freedom of speech and press protections to students publishing school-sponsored media at Hawaii public schools and the University of Hawaii. more

David Meadows, general manager of the Jefferson City News Tribune in Missouri died May 11 at the age of 58. more

We need the work journalists do to remain a free and independent nation, with power residing ultimately in the hands of its citizens. more

The massacre in Buffalo exposed not just violent racial hatred but the legacy of inequitable policies from years ago. more

As newspapers continue to search for an ideal path forward, the vanguards of some of the newest experiments in nonprofit news are surprisingly old fashioned. more

Prosecutors have ridiculed the idea that Project Veritas does journalism, but court filing says FBI treated group as "news media." more

The platform has a new "crisis misinformation policy." more

Student journalists account for around one-in-ten state capitol reporters in the United States (11%), according to a recent Pew Research Center study. In some states, however, they account for a much larger share of the statehouse press corps, with notable increases in some places since 2014. more

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), joined by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conecticut), has introduced the Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act. The bill would restore and protect competition in digital advertising by eliminating conflicts of interest that have allowed the leading platforms in the market to manipulate ad auctions and impose monopoly rents on a broad swath of the American economy. more

Kurt Jackson's love for journalism and news publication brought him to work at and eventually purchase Software Consulting Services, LLC (SCS). It also landed him on Entrepreneur India's list of 10 extraordinarily sharp and creative entrepreneurs who are bringing needed change to various industries. more

Amid everything else going on in the world, leaders might excuse themselves for moving climate to the backburner, but the press has no obligation to let them, much less to follow suit. more