The Corporation for New Jersey Local Media, a nonprofit dedicated to building strong communities through journalism and civic engagement, has announced a landmark agreement with the New Jersey Hills Media Group to work together to convert the group’s 14 weekly newspapers in Morris, Somerset, Essex and Hunterdon counties to non-profit ownership. more

Jonathan Stefonek has been named managing editor for the DeForest Times-Tribune in Waunakee, Wisconsin. more

USALegalNotice.com provides direct access to 47 public notice websites from across the country, each of which is operated by state newspaper associations. more

Lee Enterprises Group Publisher Bill Masterson has been selected as president and publisher of the Rapid City Journal in Rapid City, South Dakota, and Lee group publisher. Masterson succeeds Matthew Tranquill, who was named general manager and director of local advertising sales of the Morning News in Florence, South Carolina. more

Lee Enterprises, Incorporated has announced that Rapid City Journal President and Director of Local Advertising Sales Matthew Tranquill has been named general manager and director of local advertising sales for the Morning News in Florence, South Carolina. Former publisher Bailey Dabney has left the company. more

Presented by Kia, the annual program will measure sentiment around this year’s Super Bowl commercials and offer additional analysis with new Replay Rating feature sponsored by Verizon. more

Cox Enterprises has promoted Tiffanie McDonald to vice president of inclusion and diversity. In her new role, McDonald will lead the implementation of the company’s inclusion, diversity and equity strategy and will report directly to EVP and Chief People and Operations Officer Jill Campbell. more

The Boston Globe has announced a new program that will allow people to ask the newspaper to update or anonymize past coverage of them online. The “Fresh Start” initiative is part of a broader effort to rethink the Globe’s criminal justice coverage and how it affects communities of color, amid a national reckoning over racial inequity. more

"Return Man" is the first season in a new anthology of character-driven audio documentaries co-produced by iHeartRadio and McClatchy, called "Longshot." The series focuses exclusively on the intersection of sports and social change. more

Chadd Cripe, who has worked at the Idado Statesman for more than 24 years, has been named interim editor of the paper. more

Trevor Baratko has been named news editor of The Frederick (Maryland) News-Post to succeed Allen Etzler, who left the News-Post to work with the city of Frederick. more

The Seattle Times has announced the appointment of Brier Dudley as Free Press editor. He will cover the current local and national crisis in journalism, along with the efforts to preserve the independence and sustainability of the nation’s local free press system. more

In an opinion column published this week, Rob Williams, contributing editor with MediaPost, writes that the U.S. Supreme Court should repeal the newspaper-broadcast ownership ban, saying "the prohibition on cross-ownership was intended to prevent a single news source from dominating a community, but has become outdated with the rise of digital media." more

A long journalism career in New York and New Jersey, punctuated by historic local and national events and a newsroom Pulitzer Prize, have brought David Ng to The Providence (Rhode Island) Journal as the new executive editor. more

Todd Colling, general manager of the Beloit (Wisconsin) Daily News, is preparing for a homecoming of sorts as he takes on the new role of general manager of the Marinette EagleHerald and Antigo Daily Journal. more

Publisher Michael Moses is stepping down, and Shawn Palmer, who has a deep background in newspapers in Connecticut, has been named publisher of the Greenfield (Massachusetts) Recorder, Daily Hampshire Gazette and Athol Daily News. more

2020 was a year full of events that no one could have predicted. The Alliance for Audited Media asked leaders from across different media associations — including Dean Ridings of America's Newspapers — to share their thoughts on what the future holds, including how COVID-19 will continue to impact businesses, what we should look forward to in 2021 and what word businesses should use for guidance in the new year. more

A spokesperson for U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said she invited The Spokesman-Review editor as her guest at the inauguration so someone local could witness the historic event. more

Adding Second Street to Upland’s product portfolio will provide Upland’s customers the power to build promotions and email campaigns that grow revenue, customer databases and consumer engagement. more

Camille Olson of Seyfarth Shaw encourages newspapers to take a fresh look at the specific duties of their reporters and photographers, in light of new guidance from the Department of Labor that allows small town and local journalists to qualify for the creative professional exemption to federal overtime rules and be paid a salary, as opposed to hourly wage. more