Lee Enterprises has been quietly laying off dozens of employees across its local papers and at the corporate level as it continues to cut costs following the unsolicited takeover bid from hedge fund Alden Global Capital, sources tell Axios. more

Local news organizations are unionizing at a rapid pace — but how often are these journalists seeing wins? The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media looked at unionization in the local news field from a solutions-style lens to investigate the frequency and type of successes and limitations. more

USA TODAY announced Francesca Chambers, an eight-year veteran covering the White House, will be joining as a White House correspondent starting May 9. more

President Joe Biden met Monday with the parents of American journalist Austin Tice, who was abducted in Syria nearly 10 years ago, the White House said. more

Adams Publishing Group of Southern Wisconsin has announced upcoming staffing changes at the Cambridge News and Deerfield Independent and the Herald-Independent and McFarland Thistle. more

The Athens (Ohio) Messenger welcomes its newest staff writer, Nicole Bowman-Layton. more

Jeremy Speer, publisher of The Courier in Findlay, The Advertiser-Tribune in Tiffin and Review Times in Fostoria has been promoted to group publisher of Ogden Newspapers’ five papers in northwest Ohio, adding the Sandusky Register and Norwalk Reflector to the publications he oversees. more

Stacker, a news agency offering a newswire that provides data-driven feature content to thousands of news outlets across the country, has appointed Micah Cohen to the newly created role of editor-in-chief. Cohen will oversee Stacker’s growing newsroom, leading content strategy and managing data reporting and editorial. more

Paxton Media has sold the 142-year-old weekly Sumter Times, the county seat weekly in Sumter, Florida, to D-R Media. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. more

Former circulation manager for The Sand Mountain Reporter, Jonathan Bottomlee, has jumped back into sales, taking the lead as advertising director. more

The Spokane Valley City Council in eastern Washington in an unusual move has banned newspapers from the City Hall lobby. more

In her new role, Roxanna Scott will work closely with sports editors across the country on coverage plans, recruiting and staff development. more

Nonprofit news organizations are playing an increasingly important role in covering state capitols, according to a recent Pew Research Center study. more

The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up an effort to counter disinformation coming from Russia as well as misleading information that human smugglers circulate to target migrants hoping to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border. more

A California sheriff’s targeting of a reporter is the latest instance of authorities misusing power. "These are steps toward autocracy," says one press freedom advocate. more

All but one of the 10 biggest English-language news sites in the world saw year-on-year increases in traffic in March. more

Here are a few suggestions of how newsroom leaders can support disabled journalists. more

The Odessa American announced today — effective April 30 — the conversion from a seven days per week print publication to a seven days per week digital-only edition supplemented by two days per week of continued print publication. more

John Wagner will succeed Rachel Kytonen, who has resigned to become the city administrator for the city of Braham. more

A five-part series on a Florida government program that failed to aid families of children who suffered catastrophic brain injuries at birth earned the Miami Herald and ProPublica the 2022 Collier Prize for State Government Accountability. more