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Microsoft and OpenAI launch Societal Resilience Fund

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced the launch of a $2 million Societal Resilience Fund to further AI education and literacy among voters and vulnerable communities.

TikTok sues to block U.S. ban

TikTok filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of a new law that requires a sale or ban of the popular social-media app, setting up a court showdown over national security and free speech in the age of global information wars.

Bloomberg Media and Emeritus partner to launch 'Bloomberg Learning'

Bloomberg Media and Emeritus are launching a suite of courses designed to deliver real-world insights from industry experts at the cutting edge of topics such as artificial intelligence, sustainability, finance and technology.  The first cohort of AI Strategy: Driving Impact for Business will launch this summer.

El Rito Media acquires Alamogordo Daily News, Carlsbad Current Argus and Ruidoso News

El Rito Media, LLC has agreed to purchase from Gannett three newspapers in New Mexico: the Alamogordo Daily News, the Carlsbad Current Argus and the Ruidoso News.

ProPublica awarded Pulitzer Prize for Public Service — see full list of winners

ProPublica was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the work of Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg. The award was presented for groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court to reveal how a small group of politically influential billionaires wooed justices with lavish gifts and travel, pushing the Court to adopt its first code of conduct.

See the full list of Pulitzer Prize recipients and finalists.

Opinion | News legislation: Bad to worse

"I recently wrote an extensive analysis and criticism of a proposed California link tax, offering many alternatives. A state senator just proposed his own alternative — and it is even worse." — Jeff Jarvis

The Star Tribune transitions newsroom structure to better serve readers

The Star Tribune Media Company, the largest news organization in the Midwest, today announced advancements of its newsroom structure to better serve Minnesota. Going forward, the news outlet will re-align news coverage and resources around its five key topic areas of News and Politics, Business, Sports, Food and Culture, and Outdoors.

Americans’ changing relationship with local news

The inaugural report of the Pew-Knight Initiative reveals that despite fewer U.S. adults following local news and few paying for it directly, 85% still consider these outlets important to their community and 63% believe they are in good financial shape.

Newsonomics: Eight essentials as California’s 'save local news' bill picks up speed

What’s important to watch, in this gnarly legislation filled with acronyms, are two simple things: Money In and Money Out.

Pennsylvania to study whether notices should still be placed in print newspapers

Pennsylvania is the latest state that could stop jurisdictions from paying newspapers for publishing their legal notices. 

TV news can’t sidestep turbulence as election approaches

ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN all face questions about their future, just as one of the toughest journalistic assignments looms.

Italy’s RAI journalists strike over budget streamlining, complain of censorship and media repression

Some journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI went on strike Monday to protest budget streamlining and what they said was an increasingly repressive atmosphere in Italy for media under the government of Premier Giorgia Meloni.

Catching up with — and rooting for — an entrepreneur taking a chance on fixer-upper newspapers

Jeremy Gulban was trying to pause, after a spree of acquiring newspapers in small towns where Wall Street firms had milked their local papers dry. But he couldn’t resist the opportunity when Alden Global Capital closed a group of six Minnesota papers in late April.

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Meredith Delaney has been appointed president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Fund, the philanthropic arm of The E.W. Scripps Company, effective May 8. She succeeds Liz Carter, whose retirement was announced in January.
CNN International Commercial (CNNIC) announces three new appointments to its Asia Pacific leadership team as CNN continues to expand its capabilities for Advertising, Distribution and Content Sales & Licensing partners.
In a message to readers, Bruce Mohl has announced plans to step down as editor of the CommonWealth Beacon later this year and hand the job over to someone new.
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Warner Bros. Discovery is staying on the sidelines of the Paramount Global acquisition drama — at least for now. That was the signal sent Monday by WB Discovery CEO David Zaslav during his appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills.
Audacy is asking the FCC to summarily reject a conservative group’s petition that seeks to block a change of ownership related to its Chapter 11 financial reorganization that would let liberal billionaire investor George Soros acquire a stake in the company. It calls Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center maneuver an “ill-informed attempt to impede Audacy’s reorganization.”
In a message to readers, Greg Farmer, executive editor of The Kansas City Star, introduced a new and improved digital experience: The Star’s Edition. He wrote: "Consider this a 'Best of The Star' Edition where we’re sharing every day the must-see stories, videos, photos and other content you can’t find anywhere else."
News releases on the New York Times Co. website generally announce promotions, new products, awards and the like. So the statement from a Times spokesperson posted to the site on April 25 stood out: “For anyone who understands the role of the free press in a democracy, it should be troubling that President Biden has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term,” said the release, which followed a Politico article about a beef between the White House and the Times.
ProPublica journalists Al Shaw and Lisa Song sifted through tons of data to deliver “Poison in the Air,” an award-winning reporting series in which they — alongside fellow reporters Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Maya Miller and photographer Kathleen Flynn — identify hundreds of industrial air pollution cancer-risk hot spots across the U.S. using publicly available EPA data. They even corrected reporting errors by the agency. 
Wounded and limping, doubting its own future, American journalism seems to be losing a quality that carried it through a century and a half of trials: its swagger.
"Al Primo & His Eyewitness News Revolution" takes you back to the early days of television news to hear the behind-the-scenes stories of its revolution from the people who were there.
Warren Buffett revealed that he dumped Berkshire Hathaway’s entire Paramount stake at a loss. “I was 100% responsible for the Paramount decision,” Buffett said at Berkshire’s annual shareholder meeting. “It was 100% my decision, and we’ve sold it all and we lost quite a bit of money.”
Warren Buffett cautioned the tens of thousands of shareholders who packed an arena for his annual meeting that artificial intelligence scams could become "the growth industry of all time."
Fresh off what it characterizes as a “successful” refinancing effort — in which it moved the maturation date of about $326 million in debt from 2026 to 2029 — Cumulus Media on Friday announced its earnings results for the first quarter of 2024, reporting total revenue of $200 million.
When Scott Libin and I email each other, our messages often start: “Greetings to my co-anchor,” even though we‘ve never worked at the same station It’s our reminder …
ORLANDO, Fla. (April 3, 2024) — WMFE is rebranding and changing its name to Central Florida Public Media. The new name reflects the organization’s commitment to building on its 44 years …
The auditing firm for Trump Media and the auditor’s owner were charged Friday with “massive fraud” by the Securities and Exchange Commission for work that affected more than 1,500 SEC filings, the federal regulator announced.
Knight Institute and Ethan Zuckerman say Section 230 does more than immunize the platforms, also protects user-friendly tools
"As we gather to consider the nation’s finest and most courageous journalism, the Pulitzer Prize Board would like to recognize the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk." — Pulitzer Prize Board
Paramount has been exploring a potential deal for months, talking to suitors including Skydance, producer of “Top Gun: Maverick.”
The company and outside cybersecurity experts found no evidence that the data has been misused to commit identity theft or fraud since the May incident.
Gannett released its Q1 2024 financials on Thursday. As usual, the firm experienced growing digital revenue and flatness overall. 
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