Prompted by the steep decline in government reporting, media organizations in Washington are launching their own news bureau in Olympia.

Over the past few months, news organizations have grappled with changes at Google that have led to a dramatic drop in organic search traffic. Publishers have been forced to navigate what appears to be seismic shifts in how Google doles out traffic, with the integration of artificial intelligence (which remains unintelligent and error-prone) causing panic attacks across the industry.

One of Jin Ding's first actions as CEO of Initium was moving its headquarters from Hong Kong — where it had been since it was founded nine years ago — to Singapore. Despite the move, Initium still reports on Hong Kong and mainland China with a network of trusted freelancers. This Chinese-language digital news site also is seeking to expand its reach and serve the growing number of Millennial and GenZ Chinese who have made their way to the U.S. over the past decade.

Investigative Reporters and Editors recently announced it was creating a tiered fee structure for membership and conferences to lower the financial barrier to journalists who may otherwise be unable to afford to become members and take training sessions with the organization.

Here are some basic dos and don’ts to would-be financial “saviors” of local news.

The Justice Department’s second monopoly case against Google got underway Monday in a Virginia court, with federal prosecutors taking aim this time at the internet giant’s lucrative business as the middleman for online ads.

"The path to revitalizing local news doesn’t run through cherry-picked boards that, no matter how well-intentioned, are subject to bias. It involves creating targeted, objective incentives that allow struggling news businesses to compete in the marketplace while preserving their journalistic integrity." — Zachary Richner, Cameron Nutting Williams and Jeremy Gulban (Richner Communications, Ogden Newspapers and CherryRoad Media)

The Washington Post is trying to fix one of its biggest problems: an outdated homepage loathed by its own staff.

iPublish Media Solutions, the leading provider of e-commerce advertising software, and CNPA Services Inc. are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to host a new and enhanced aggregated public notice website capublicnotice.com, a single depository for the state’s published legal notices.

Hyperlocal news publisher and creator of Broadstreet Kenny Katzgrau teamed up with Montclair Local's Annette Batson to deliver a highly polished and tactical webinar on achieving same-day closes with digital advertisers.

209 Multimedia recently streamlined its legal notice and obituary management with the help of Column’s Public Notice Platform, transforming an otherwise labor-intensive process into an efficient workflow. Saresa Shutes, who oversees legal notices, obituaries, and classifieds, previously spent hours manually handling ads, a process prone to human error. Now, thanks to Column, Shutes can process legal ads five times faster while drastically reducing mistakes, saving time and money for the company. With the addition of Column’s obituary platform, families and funeral homes can easily submit notices online, 24/7, with custom formatting, further simplifying the process for out-of-state customers.

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