An earlier version of the defamation suit, which focused on an article about a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, was dismissed by a judge. more

Carol Rothman, who held many leadership roles at The NewsGuild-CWA, died suddenly on May 19 at the age of 76.  more

The Mat-Su Sentinel has acquired the Frontiersman newspaper from Arizona-based Wick Communications, according to John Cribb of Cribb & Associates, who represented the Sentinel in the acquisition. This marks a major shift in ownership for the nearly 80-year-old Frontiersman and brings the publication under locally based nonprofit ownership. more

June 15 will be the starting date for Nebraska Public Media Omaha. more

New name, new pigeon, same award-winning journalism for all New Yorkers. more

Nick Bilton, investigative journalist, best-selling author and filmmaker, has been named executive producer of "60 Minutes,” CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss and CBS News President Tom Cibrowski announced. more

Five years after launching Cascadia Daily News in Bellingham, Executive Editor Ron Judd was fired by owner David Syre. more

Most of the senior corporate management team at local TV giant TEGNA has left the company as the legal battle over its merger with rival Nexstar continues. more

On Thursday, CBS News and controversial Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss shook up TV news gold standard, “60 Minutes.” This isn’t a minor tweak or slight change in philosophy. This is a major overhaul. more

Ken Brown is joining CNBC from The Information, where he helped drive coverage at the intersection of technology, finance and business. Before that, he spent many years at The Wall Street Journal. more

POLITICO partners with American University and the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education on the program. Two high school students from the Washington Association of Black Journalists’ Urban Journalism Workshop join for the first week.   more

For generations, the U.S. Supreme Court operated behind a wall of silence, issuing decisions that shaped American life while revealing little about the people, politics and pressures inside the institution itself. But as the Court’s influence over issues ranging from abortion rights to presidential power has intensified, so too has public demand for deeper scrutiny. The New York Times has responded by expanding its Supreme Court reporting team — combining traditional legal coverage with aggressive investigative journalism aimed at illuminating one of the nation’s most powerful and secretive institutions. more

Publishers do not have a CRM problem. They have a revenue visibility problem. In this E&P sponsored webinarWorkbooks CRM CEO John Cheney and Business Development Director Ken Campbell argued that as media companies juggle advertising, subscriptions, events, first-party data and AI, the real challenge is no longer simply collecting information. It is turning disconnected customer data into clearer sales strategy, stronger advertiser relationships and more predictable revenue growth. more

Nick Tattersall has been named executive editor of Reuters, succeeding Simon Robinson as he departs for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.  more

CNN is suing Perplexity, accusing the AI company of unlawfully copying and distributing CNN’s content. more

A recent E&P Reports interview on the growing role of public policy in supporting local journalism has drawn attention from The Wall Street Journal editorial page, underscoring the expanding national debate over taxpayer-supported news media. In “The Return of State-Backed Media,” Wall Street Journal assistant editorial page editor James Freeman questioned whether government-backed journalism could weaken media independence and argued that local news organizations must remain accountable to consumer demand and public trust. more

The former workers were among a group of employees who confronted the company’s head of human resources about layoffs last fall. more

Amber Williams, a talented editor on the News Desk over the last two years, is joining the editing ranks on the Science desk. more

The awards were handed out at the Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City on Wednesday. more