Educators in Bolivia, the United States and Nigeria have won the Scott C. Schurz Press Freedom Teacher Award for excellence in teaching their students about why societies need good journalism and about the range of threats journalists confront. more

Who we are as people makes us more likely to notice certain things and not notice others — to ask certain questions and not consider others. Our lived experiences matter. more

A Business & Human Rights Centre report examining SLAPPs around the world between January 2015 and May 2021 found that these lawsuits are most prevalent in Latin America and Asia. And almost two-thirds of all cases worldwide involved criminal charges. more

Rather than grants, the trust dispenses venture capital and advice, with a goal of growing local support to serve small-town news deserts. more

The American Press Institute is excited to announce that Letrell Deshan Crittenden will join our team as director of inclusion and audience growth on Monday, Sept. 20. more

World News Day is an annual day to celebrate professional journalism. This year, World News Day is Sept. 28 and the theme is climate change. We're offering your newspaper a free "Going Green" Kid Scoop page to publish if you participate in World News Day! more

Recently, Our-Hometown announced our brand new Audio Articles Playlist feature, allowing listeners the ability to tune in to entire playlists of Audio Articles rather than just a single article at a time. With this feature, listeners can find playlists for the Latest Audio Articles,  This Week’s or Last Week’s News, as well as playlists for each individual article category. more

Presteligence, an industry leading software developer and innovator, announces Rossmoor News, a print-centric weekly for a senior community located in Walnut Creek, California, will utilize My New 360 CMS and editorial page production. more

As digital advertising continues to grow and accelerate, it can be challenging for quality publishers to stand out in a programmatic environment that often can be complex and opaque. As a result, media buyers waste money on fraudulent websites that offer no real ROI while publishers lose out on missed revenue opportunities. more

Hundreds of Pakistani journalists rallied outside parliament Monday to reject a proposed law that critics say would further curtail media freedom if passed. more

President Biden made his latest nomination to the Federal Trade Commission this week, tapping digital privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya to join the agency as it takes a hard look at the tech industry. more

This morning, your readers — your neighbors, your UPS driver, your kid’s teacher — woke up, scrolled through their daily obituaries, and found the name of someone they knew. Their first thought? “How can I help?” more

For this project, I helped the Current analyze and visualize data from a survey it conducted of 1,900 public media employees. The survey results included salary data, demographic information and other work-related fields such as years of experience and organization information.  more

Thirty Polish media have launched a "Journalists at the border" campaign in response to a state of emergency which restricts journalists from accessing the length of the Polish-Belarusian border. Here is their statement. more

Americans can’t tell the difference between fact and factoid and assign political labels to news outlets based on columnists rather than reporters. more

America's Newspapers is honored to welcome AffinityX as a new Solutions Partners. more

The words that a news organization chooses to tell a story make a difference. more

In two weeks, on Sept. 28, newsrooms across the world will mark World News Day, a global campaign to highlight the role and value of journalism — this year in telling the climate change story. There is still time to get behind the initiative. more

Social media often catches blame for increasing political polarization in the United States. Does it deserve that reputation? A new study from New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights finds that it does. more

Egyptian investigative journalist Hossam Bahgat is charged with insulting the National Election Authority, spreading false news on electoral fraud that undermines public interest, and misusing social media. more