As the head of global media investment at Meta, Christine Lustig leads omnichannel investment strategy and governance across the company’s global media portfolio. Her work focuses on shaping media investment at scale and building modern frameworks that connect media to business outcomes. more

The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, which will acquire the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on May 4, announced today the leadership team that will guide one of the nation’s oldest and most respected regional newspapers. more

Charline Bou Mansour will this week join the CNN Creators line-up as a senior journalist, as the show returns to its base in Doha. more

For the first time in the history of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, over half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. more

In the six weeks since Josh D’Amaro took over Disney, the setbacks have been nearly nonstop. But now Hollywood’s newest chief executive has been confronted with a genuine emergency, one that could color his tenure: guiding Disney through a political crisis with President Trump. more

Donald Trump is doubling down on his call for ABC and Disney to fire Jimmy Kimmel. more

The event will combine the 2026 News/Media Alliance Fly-In and America’s Newspapers Senior Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., this September. more

New Medill research shows how the beat of local military reporting is changing as newsrooms contract. more

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is a MAGA loyalist, but he thinks the Republican-controlled FCC stepped over the line in accelerating the renewal process for broadcast licenses of Disney’s eight ABC-owned local TV stations — seemingly in response to a joke Jimmy Kimmel told about Melania Trump on late-night television. more

Fahima Haque, an accomplished editor who’s passionate about growing readership, is joining the team. more

The winners and finalists of the 73rd Scripps Howard Journalism Awards produced high-impact reporting that exposed corruption, challenged powerful institutions and amplified underrepresented voices. more

The leaders of major media companies around the world, including The Associated Press, are calling on Israel’s government to lift a ban keeping foreign journalists from being able to independently enter and report from Gaza, a barrier that’s been in place since the war’s start in 2023 and continues even as a ceasefire has been in place for more than six months. more

Three family members assaulted a journalist who writes for a conservative organization during a protest against immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday. more

Forty-one judges in Singapore and the San Francisco Bay Area named Hailey Haymond as World’s Best Emerging Designer and Tyler Remmel as World’s Best Designer in SND’s annual Creative Competition. more

For more than five centuries, journalism has operated in a world shaped by the logic of print — linear storytelling, institutional authority and the permanence of the written word. But the rise of social media, the creator economy and AI-driven conversation tools is pushing the industry toward something far older: a culture shaped by voice, dialogue and personality. The shift challenges long-held assumptions about how audiences consume and trust news. In this commentary, Chad Davis explores Jeff Jarvis’ theory of the “Gutenberg Parenthesis” and what journalism’s return to a more conversational media environment could mean for the future of the industry. more

The White House News Photographers Association® announced that it will honor Susan Biddle, a former Washington Post and White House photographer, and Dan Huff, a longtime video journalist for The Associated Press, with the association’s Lifetime Achievement award at the 2026 “Eyes of History®” awards gala on Sept. 19. more

So…remember the story I wrote about The Associated Press offering buyouts to many of its employees? Well, I decided to raise my hand to volunteer and Thursday is my last day after nearly 40 years. more

Annie Galvin has been promoted on “The Ezra Klein Show,” and Julie Beer and Rebecca Shaid join The Times. more

Older adults are more likely to show stronger confidence in traditional news outlets while teens and young adults distribute trust more evenly across traditional outlets and alternative sources of information like independent creators. more