On Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern, the 2021 Pulitzer Prizes will livestream their announcement of journalists who are winners or finalists for work that appeared in the previous calendar year. Many of them likely will have broken news about the pandemic, the presidency and policing abuses — or helped Americans better understand them. more

This year, World News Day will highlight the critical importance of journalism in providing trustworthy information about the future of our planet and its people. more

Direct publishing sounds like a 21st century journalist's dream come true: a technology that allows newsrooms to create a direct relationship with their audiences while retaining control over their content, data, metrics and ad revenue. Struggling to wrap your head around this idea? Let us unpack it. more

The White House’s James S. Brady Press Briefing Room is slated to return to full seating capacity this week, the White House Correspondents’ Association announced on Sunday. more

The Biden administration said on Saturday that no one at the White House had been aware that the Justice Department was seeking to seize the email data of four New York Times reporters and had obtained a gag order in March barring a handful of newspaper executives who knew about the fight from discussing it. more

The Creston Valley Advance of British Columbia, Canada, has hired a new publisher/sales manager. In his new role, Norman Eady most looks forward to meeting folks in the community and learning the nuts and bolts of a modern media business. more

The Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation recently announced the addition of Matthew Sauer as its new collaboration and impact officer. Sauer spent 28 years at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, eventually overseeing 20 newsrooms and 400 journalists in Florida as regional editor for the newspaper’s parent company, Gannett. more

Each Storytellers Project event showcases a diverse mix of storytellers sharing entertaining, illuminating stories for about an hour. For the “I Am” series, only those who self-identify as people of color will share the kinds of stories only they can tell. more

Substack made email newsletters buzzy — and controversial. Then Twitter bought a Substack competitor and launched its own version. Now it’s Facebook’s turn: The social network is prepping its take on subscription newsletters with something called Bulletin. It’s aiming for a launch at the end of June. more

Journalists in Brazil, Latin America and beyond are using an innovative new tool launched by an ICFJ Knight Fellow to combat misinformation and better report on the pandemic. Science Pulse, which makes it easier for reporters to find scientific experts and content, is the only tool of its kind designed expressly for journalists. more

Nine of the 10 newspapers that won Pulitzer Prizes for local reporting over the last decade experienced some form of cutbacks over the past year, according to data collected by the Tow Center and CJR. Three prize-winning outlets implemented layoffs, and four had their print runs affected, with pay cuts and furloughs scattered throughout. Some cuts have been restored; others haven’t. more

Newspaper publisher Gannett is fighting an effort by the FBI to try to determine who read a specific USA Today story about a deadly shooting in February near Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that left two FBI agents dead and three wounded. more

Newsroom employees of The Kansas City Star have formed a union. The McClatchy Co., which owns The Star, voluntarily recognized the Kansas City News Guild on Wednesday. more

Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann announced his appointment of Bill Jacobs, formerly the publisher of the Brookhaven Daily Leader and the Prentiss Headlight, to the Mississippi State Board of Education on Tuesday. more

June 3, 2021 - Leave it to the Legislature to introduce a “transparency” bill that actually makes it easier for board members of special taxing districts to keep the public in the dark. Indeed a better name for Senate Bill 21-262, the “Special District Transparency” bill, would be the “Obfuscation Opportunity” bill. more

Adams Publishing Group has named Randy Rickman regional president for APG Media of Southern Minnesota. Rickman previously served as APG’s regional president for northern Wisconsin and publisher of the (Eau Claire) Leader-Telegram. more

In a New York Times investigation into the Syrian government’s network of torture chambers, reporter Anne Barnard pointed to the important role data played in calculating the human toll. more

Cox is commemorating the 100th anniversary of what is believed to be the single worst episode of racial violence in American history, with a special donation, educational campaign and speaker event to help recreate the stories.  more

Israel’s defense minister on Monday distanced himself from comments made by his military chief after Israel bombed a Gaza Strip high-rise housing an Associated Press office and other news outlets, saying the remarks were not meant to be taken literally. more

On Friday, March 13, 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic spread, Buffalo News reporters, photographers and editors began working from home. Yesterday, we started returning. more