Paxton Media Group has sold the Las Vegas (New Mexico) Optic to O’Rourke Media Group. The Las Vegas Optic is one of the 46 newspaper operations PMG recently acquired from Landmark Community Newspapers LLC.  more

Richard G. Jones will become The Inquirer’s managing editor for Opinion, returning to the company where his varied and accomplished career in journalism and academia began more than 30 years ago. In announcing the appointment Tuesday, Inquirer Editor Gabriel Escobar said that Jones, selected after a national search, would assume his duties on July 26. more

Reporting on trauma is central to news. If you are a journalist reading these words, you already know it in your bones. Whether in breaking news or investigative reporting, local beats or international coverage, features or photographs: Knowledgeable and ethical reporting on violence, crisis and tragedy poses a profound daily challenge to craft and to the personal capacity of news professionals. more

Euclid Media Group, a media company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, announced today that it has purchased the LEO Weekly, an award-winning Louisville alternative newsweekly publication, formerly owned by Aaron Yarmuth and founded by John Yarmuth. The LEO Weekly has served the Louisville area since 1990 with cultural and political reporting, entertainment previews, food and drink reviews, events coverage and more. more

In April of 2018, Daniel Ortega, the president of Nicaragua, announced reforms to the country’s social security benefits. Protests erupted, following years of discontent with the increasingly repressive regime. The Ortega government responded with brutal crackdowns on protesters, political opponents, and the independent press that still have not abated. more

Emmanuel Felton will join The Washington Post’s America desk as its race and ethnicity reporter. Felton comes to The Post from BuzzFeed News, where he has worked for nearly two years as an investigative reporter on the inequality desk. more

When Apple and Spotify launched their premium subscription podcasts earlier this year, some feared that the tech giants will end up dominating the market and stifle the growth of projects on a smaller budget. But NRC, a Dutch publisher that has historically relied on a subscription model to finance its journalism, considers this a positive sign. more

The gifted articles won’t count towards the limited number of articles that non-subscribers can click before hitting a paywall and recipients have 14 days to read ’em. more

ProPublica announced today that Robin Sparkman, founding CEO of StoryCorps, has been elected by its Board of Directors as president and co-CEO of ProPublica. Her appointment, succeeding Richard Tofel, whose retirement from ProPublica was announced in February, will be effective September 8. more

6AM City, the fastest-growing newsletter-first local media company is on pace to more than triple the size of the business in 2021. Over the next six months, 6AM City will expand into 24 cities nationwide and reach more than one million subscribers. To help facilitate this expansion, the company has added experienced media executives to its board and leadership team. more

USA TODAY NETWORK, part of Gannett Co. Inc., announced it will auction its inaugural non-fungible token (NFT) inspired by the first newspaper delivered to space in 1971. Powered by Origin’s NFT Launchpad, which was chosen for its ability to host record-breaking NFT sales on an industry-leading tech platform, the auction will consist of a unique mosaic incorporating more than 300 images from 50 years of space coverage. All auction proceeds will benefit the Air Force Space & Missile Museum Foundation and The Gannett Foundation. more

Marcos Bretón, who has been a columnist at The Sacramento Bee since 2007, was announced on Monday as McClatchy’s new California opinion editor. In his new role with McClatchy, Bretón will lead The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board and work closely with opinion editors in each of the company’s California markets. more

Foreign Editor Douglas Jehl, Deputy Foreign Editor Eva Rodriguez, Director of Global Live News Josh du Lac and London hub editor Sara Sorcher today announced the latest staff additions to The Washington Post’s London news hub. This hub, in addition to another base in Seoul, will allow The Post to become a more global newsroom. Launching this summer, these operations will be staffed by reporters and editors whose primary focus will be covering live news for a worldwide audience as it unfolds in the United States and around the globe during nighttime hours in Washington. more

America’s Newspapers is proud to sponsor the premiere of "Storm Lake" at the renowned AFI DOCs 2021 Film Festival.   "Storm Lake" is available for virtual viewing beginning Thursday, June 24, at Noon EDT with 48 hours to start watching after purchase. Click here for details more

An Ohio news outlet that’s owned by the readers it serves. A start-up newsletter for Iowa’s Black residents. A student-reported website bringing information to a “news desert” in Kansas. And a digital-only Ohio newsroom modeling “solutions journalism.” These are some of the innovative news organizations profiled in a new video reporting project by students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. more

Journalism around science, and looking after each other, has come into its own this past year. It’s the kind of content that has strengthened the bond between newsrooms and their communities. By giving people access to trustworthy information to help them manage their lives during a time of threat, a compelling case for fact-based journalism is made. This is exactly what World News Day, on September 28, seeks to highlight. more

After delivering news to its region for roughly 140 years, The Cass County Democrat-Missourian will cease publication of its weekly newspaper following a final edition on June 25. Based in Harrisonville, the weekly newspaper has changed hands and operated under different titles over years of consolidations. But it is considered one of the oldest businesses in the county. more

Journalists for Human Rights and the Canadian Association of Journalists have announced the creation of the Indigenous Reporters Network, a first-of-its-kind program designed to support and empower Indigenous journalists from coast to coast to coast. more

When Jon Mitchell, the mayor of New Bedford, Mass., delivered his state of the city address in 2019, he made an unusual plea. “Support your local paper,” he said, referring to The Standard-Times, New Bedford’s daily newspaper. “Your city needs it to function effectively.” more

Jeff Robischon has been named general manager of the Ashland Daily Press in Wisconsin after a career spent in newspapers across the region and the country. Robischon also will be responsible for operations at the Price County Review and Northwood’s Shopper. more