Since the program launched with a pilot group of 114 schools, 10,000 local readers have discovered newspaper obituaries for former classmates, teachers and administrators. To meet demand, Legacy will release 3,850 more high school pages by July 31. Read more about the program and add a local high school to the priority launch list. more

The Yakima Herald-Republic and Walla Walla Union-Bulletin have selected Layout-8000 and SCS/ClassPag from SCS. Owned by The Seattle Times Co., the Washington-based daily newspapers will be running the systems in the SCS cloud with a "go live" planned for Sept.  1. more

The White House on Tuesday said it would nominate Jonathan Kanter to be the top antitrust official at the Justice Department, a move that would add another longtime critic of Big Tech and corporate concentration to a powerful regulatory position. more

Growing shares of Americans think major technology companies should face more government regulation, and a majority say that these firms have too much economic power and influence, according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted April 12-18, 2021. Still, there’s not a strong consensus among the public that the government reducing the size of major tech companies would be a good thing. more

Here’s a guide to all the potential bills — and existing New Jersey and New York City programs — to help make local news sustainable. more

The newsroom at The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) and the Durham Herald-Sun will soon have a new leader who will focus solely on the Triangle. Robyn Tomlin, the top editor at The N&O and Herald-Sun, is taking a new job at McClatchy, which owns the papers and 29 others across the country. more

The Hollywood Reporter announced that Patricia Mays will be joining the company as its executive editor of news, overseeing the digital news strategy of the award-winning publication across the brand, including its recently relaunched website. more

The Justice Department is pushing for rule changes that would put a 50-year delay on when courts can consider releasing material from federal grand juries, according to documents and interviews, and would separately allow gag orders to be applied more broadly to witnesses. more

Workers at The Buffalo News have been represented by a union for nearly a century and are very familiar with the collective bargaining process. But the current round of contract negotiations is unlike any in recent memory, union leaders say. more

The families of five Maryland newspaper employees killed in a mass shooting in 2018 and most of the surviving employees who were in the Capital Gazette newsroom during the attack have filed two lawsuits alleging a parent company did not do enough to prevent the attack. more

America's Newspapers is honored to welcome ASK-CRM into membership. more

At a time when federal regulators and consumer advocacy groups are eyeing break-ups of the industry's biggest media conglomerates, ad executives overwhelmingly deem media industry consolidation to be a good thing for the industry, as well as for advertisers. more

Creating quality content and improving user experience is the top priority for the majority (58%) of publishers this year, ahead of growing traffic (55%), subscriptions (41%) and social followers/engagement (40%), according to a new report by social media publishing platform, Echobox. more

WarnerMedia will start up its CNN+ — a digital, live streaming news platform — next year in Q1. CNN+ says it will have original, live, on-demand and interactive programming as a “stand-alone” direct-to-consumer service, separate from CNN branded linear TV channels. more

From overwhelming statistics to devastating headlines, many reporters have faced burnout from the stress of reporting on COVID-19. Among the many forms of media that journalists have produced during the pandemic, however, one comes as a source of relief and, at times, even humor: editorial cartoons. more

Cox Communications Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Patrick J. Esser will retire effective December 31, after leading the company for 15 years. Esser will be succeeded by Cox Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Mark Greatrex who will be named president. more

Harry M. Rosenfeld, who barely escaped the Holocaust as a child in Nazi Germany and who became a key Washington Post editor during its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate break-in and resulting scandal, died July 16 at his home in Slingerlands, New York. He was 91. more

David Hawpe, who rose through the ranks of the Courier Journal to become editor of the Louisville newspaper, which won multiple Pulitzer Prizes on his watch, has died. He was 78. more

Ogden Newspapers, Inc., has accepted an offer from The Daily Gazette of Schenectady, New York, to purchase The Leader-Herald (Gloversville, New York), effective Aug. 1. more

Global Results Communications today published the findings of its 2021 PR Media Report in which 1,026 members of the U.S. media took the time to answer questions covering a wide range of topics, including what they value most from public relations professionals. more