The Scott C. Schurz Press Freedom Teacher Award celebrates teachers worldwide who educate young people about the need for journalism and the real-world dangers to journalists everywhere. This year, the award recognizes three outstanding educators from three continents.

News publishers have shared in the hardships along the way, struggling to balance the duty to inform the public about stats, guidelines and mandates with the need to operate responsibly and protect their employees from being harmed or from harming others, which was a concern for journalists working in the field. E&P felt it was vital to take the industry's pulse and understand the COVID-19 challenges that have passed and those that linger. So we asked our readers to take a short survey to let us know about their pandemic-related policies and how they're fairing today.

For too many years, reporting on gender, politics and policy and their effect on overlooked segments of society have not been seen “above the fold.” So the 19th, an independent, nonprofit newsroom, was created and is working hard to push these issues forward.

In recent years at least 1,400 local news publications, most of them digital, have begun to fill America’s large and growing local news desert. But are they really “greening” that desert by filling it with legitimate local news? Or are they just trying to exploit it financially and politically?

Whether it’s an expert on your team at maintaining great relationships with your local advertisers, a pro at representing your audience to regional and national buyers or that fantastic team leader who knows how to coach and maximize sales performance, help us recognize the industry's "Sales Superstars" by nominating yours today!

There is a sudden swell of optimism about the state of journalism in Chicago, where local journalists are about to answer a question I posed on these pages several years ago: Why can’t newspapers create a business model similar to public radio stations?

An intense, 10-day media sales and operations training program is preparing its graduates for immediate advertising and operations sales jobs with major broadcast media companies. And, through its partnership with the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters Foundation and the National Association of Broadcasters, it's helping to bring diversity to the media workforce.

A New York trial judge said he needed more time to deliberate on an order that the newspaper argued violates the First Amendment.

Twitter’s e-commerce initiatives now include livestream shopping and Walmart will be the first retailer to test the new platform.

The Biden administration on Tuesday asked a federal court to let it move ahead with a workplace rule that would require employees at larger companies to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or face weekly testing.

Several hundred Google employees have signed and circulated a manifesto opposing the company’s COVID vaccine mandate, posing the latest challenge for leadership as it approaches key deadlines for returning workers to offices in person.

Here’s how to advocate for pay equity for yourself and others.

Great journalism can’t rely on a “donate” button in a corner we have all learned to ignore.

Belarus’ oldest newspaper was banned on the 115th anniversary of its founding Tuesday, the latest move in the government’s relentless crackdown on independent media in the ex-Soviet nation.

During a hearing on Nov. 23, the trial court declined to lift the prior restraint against The New York Times while the court continues to deliberate.

When the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony is held in Oslo on Dec. 10, one of its recipients may not be allowed to attend.

Three researchers explain how journalists can use scientific consensus to bolster their coverage and battle misinformation about public policy topics.

After a successful stint working in Opinion for Charles Blow and Nick Kristof, Gina Cherelus has joined Styles as a general assignment reporter.

Andrew LaVallee will be the new editor of Arts & Leisure at The New York Times.

The Washington Post has named Miki King president of Arc XP, the industry-leading, cloud- based digital experience platform that serves more than 1,900 sites in 28 countries.

George Papajohn joined ProPublica as a senior editor in August and has helped edit several projects across the Midwest.

BlueLena has named Subtext as the preferred SMS vendor for its clients.

HINSDALE, MA. & CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. (November 15, 2021) – Wallit, a state-of-the-art software firm based in Milwaukee, which provides paywall services to dozens of publishers throughout the United States, has sold a majority stake to MvWd Enterprises, a media group based in the Berkshires (western Massachusetts) and New York's Capital Region. MvWd Enterprises is headed by Warren Dews, Jr. and Mark Vinciguerra.

VoicePort, LLC, a leading customer self-service automation software provider serving the newspaper and subscription industry, acquired Innovative Systems Design Inc. (ISD Chatterbox), effective Nov. 1.