The Department of Justice will no longer use compulsory legal processes to seize information from people working in the news media who are acting “within the scope of their newsgathering activities,” Attorney General Merrick Garland announced in a memo on Monday. more

Ryan Gregory has assumed the role of sports editor at the Sun Prairie Star in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. more

More than three years after the attack on the Capital Gazette newspaper that left five dead, survivors and family members of victims embraced in relief and applauded the jury for quickly rejecting the gunman’s plea of not criminally responsible by reason of insanity. more

More than three years after a man carrying a deep-seated grudge and a shotgun blasted his way into a newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland, and killed five employees, a jury found Thursday that he was sane at the time and criminally responsible for his actions. more

Thursday marks a turning point in internet history. For the first time, the U.S. surgeon general has declared the barrage of misinformation spreading on social media a public health hazard. more

Originating in the 1980s as “audio-blogging,” podcasting started as a way for people to share their experiences and thoughts via audio recording. Forty years on, it has developed into a full-blown genre that has allowed innovative formats and new voices to enter mainstream discourse. more

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Use your reporting, digital, photography and video resources, and take advantage of the growing popularity of streaming platforms and mobile-friendly video. Present existing coverage in an audience-focused newscast that’s attractive to new sponsors. more

In his job as a staff writer for the Richmond County (N.C.) Daily Journal, Matthew Sasser is used to reading about the alleged misdeeds of other people, not about himself. Yet there he is, in a 16-page order signed by a Richmond County judge: “During those sessions, Sasser used a recording device to record the proceedings,” reads the order from Judge Stephan R. Futrell. more

The New York Times Company announced today that it is naming Jason Sobel as chief technology officer. Sobel, 40, will report directly to president and chief executive officer Meredith Kopit Levien. He will lead its technology department when he joins The Times on August 23. more

Forced to choose between strict neutrality or defending democracy over the past four years, many news outlets opted for the latter, casting Donald Trump as a threat to the nation. This approach dismantled whatever was left of the facade that the media is a disinterested observer of U.S. politics — and created a new crisis for the industry. more

It wasn’t all that long ago that news outlets were doing a lot of handwringing over whether to ever use the word “lie” in relation to politicians lying about things. “Each time President Trump says something that we know, based on the evidence, is not accurate, we hear from readers who are upset that we did not call the president a liar,” The New York Times wrote in 2018. more

Thirty-four percent of consumers intend to start holiday shopping by Labor Day, according to a survey by digital experience management software company Sitecore, and 53% of marketers have planned campaigns to start earlier this year than last.  Fifty-three percent also added more domestic or local suppliers to mitigate supply chain challenges. more

AP Global Media Services (GMS), the production arm of The Associated Press, will offer multiple on-air reporting solutions for broadcasters and publishers in several languages at the upcoming Tokyo Summer Games. Through custom live shots and exclusive stand-up positions, GMS is equipped to deliver live reporting capabilities in Tokyo for news outlets across the globe. more

Larry Ham, the general manager for AIM Media Indiana was in a bind, as an unanticipated surge in demand had left his supply of newsprint short for the month. However, as one of the 450 publications in the PAGE Cooperative, Larry knew that he could count on PAGE to try to solve the shortfall, and he picked up the phone and called the CEO of PAGE, Gary Blakeley. more

SCS is announcing a paradigm-shifting new application called Automated News Pagination (ANP) that automatically paginates news pages utilizing SCS AI. ANP does not rely on endless InDesign templates. Instead, it uses content-package template abstractions that can create multiple paginated page results that editors and creatives can choose from. more

As group gatherings get rolling again, and travel is poised to reach a new pandemic high — Forbes reports nearly nine in 10 American travelers plan to travel in the next six months — use resources from your MCC Libraries to prepare your publication, your advertisers and your readers. Here’s an overview of layouts, images, pages and ideas to support restarting events, activities and travel planning in your community:  more

Be sure to join Matt Larson of Our-Hometown July 15 when he will be presenting a free webinar for members of America's Newspapers on Email Newsletter Basics.   Also, learn how FREE newspapers can create digital PAID subscriptions, plus view his archived webinar recordings on topics relating to producing and promoting your newspaper! more

Presteligence, an industry leading software developer and innovator, announces Paxton Media will deploy NewsXtreme Cloud at its print sites in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina and Mississippi. more

Every publisher faces a common challenge: how to convert audiences with low propensity to subscribe. Mather's research shows that two thirds of conversions come from the most engaged 2 percent of audience. In this case study of a "low propensity promo offer," see what Mather found works best! more

Many publishers have historically had the sole focus of increasing their page views to increase their advertising revenues. However, many publishers have instead shifted their focus to complement this goal by also driving audience engagement — getting their existing audiences to move up a value exchange to drive increased revenues through subscriptions and memberships.  The team at Building a Subscription Business are doing a deep dive on the topic of engagement and its link to commercial value in the publishing industry in their forthcoming report "Engagement Economics." more