Iran has expanded restrictions on distribution of news content from the country, directing international news outlets to place restrictions on use of their content by Israeli media. more

There’s a lot of resistance inside many philanthropic organizations that’s largely invisible. Here’s what to know, and how to get to yes. more

As the platform leans even further into AI-generated content, it will make it clearer to viewers what is real and what is synthetic. more

Companies and their customers are embracing bundled streaming packages — but for different reasons. more

The Economist Group announced that Lara Boro will be stepping down after seven years as CEO, with Luke Bradley-Jones appointed as the new Group CEO, starting on Aug. 1. more

The app retrieves and visualizes polling data from The Economist’s Trump approval rating tracker. more

The Associated Press announced that it will provide its U.S. election results to OpenAI, reinforcing AP’s vote count as the undisputed standard of information about U.S. elections for media organizations and technology platforms worldwide. more

The award, due to be presented on June 1 during the opening day of the 2026 World News Media Congress taking place in Marseille, France, acknowledges the sacrifice and endurance of local Palestinian media professionals living and working in a war zone. It also recognizes colleagues injured and killed in the course of doing their job. more

Every day, publishers sell digital advertising services to local businesses — but many may be paying far more than necessary behind the scenes to fulfill those campaigns. Outdated fulfillment models and cumbersome (and expensive) reporting can quietly reduce margins, limit pricing flexibility and make it harder for local media companies to compete for digital ad dollars. In this E&P webinar, learn how publishers can regain control of digital campaign fulfillment and reporting costs, improve profitability and strengthen advertiser relationships through a more advanced fulfillment model. If your sales team is working hard to grow digital revenue, this session could help ensure more of that revenue stays in your pocket. more

As misinformation campaigns grow more sophisticated and AI-generated deception floods digital platforms, journalists are facing an increasingly urgent challenge: how to verify what’s real before falsehoods spread unchecked. Two of the world’s leading disinformation experts believe they can help. Through their new platform, Indicator, Craig Silverman and Alexios Mantzarlis are equipping reporters with a growing arsenal of OSINT tools, investigative techniques and training designed to help newsrooms uncover digital deception faster — and fight back against the accelerating spread of misinformation online. more

Gov. Wes Moore‘s veto of SB 459 is a disappointing and misguided decision that overlooks both the capabilities of Maryland’s local news organizations and the urgent need to strengthen the state’s local information infrastructure. more

Sharyn Alfonsi, whose segment on a brutal Salvadoran prison was pulled abruptly in December, said that CBS News and its top editor, Bari Weiss, had let her contract expire. more

Elleiana Green will be joining POLITICO this August as a 2026 POLITICO Fellow. The POLITICO Fellows Program trains young journalists in the fundamentals of covering politics, policy and power. more

Mohammed Hadi takes on the pivotal role as a news director on the News Desk. more

In the fourth episode of the State of Local News Podcast, host Tim Franklin — professor, John M. Mutz Chair in Local News, and founding director of the Medill Local News Initiative — speaks with Katherine Maher, president and CEO of NPR. more

Union files unfair labor practice charge, contract grievances against The Times for using AI programs to surveil and monitor union members. more

U.S. antitrust regulators appear ready to approve Paramount’s $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery after a two-hour meeting Tuesday at the Justice Department, where Paramount CEO David Ellison reiterated a commitment to releasing movies in theaters, people familiar with the matter said. more

Journalists at five McClatchy-owned newspapers across Washington and Idaho walked off the job Tuesday, May 26, as part of a one-day strike organized by the Washington State NewsGuild and Idaho NewsGuild. more

All journalists make mistakes — what happens next tells consumers a lot about the newsroom. more