iHeartMedia Louisville has named Christopher Layfield as vice president of programming, overseeing content strategy for the market's nine stations across music, talk and news formats. more

Barnes shepherded Poynter through an attempted hostile takeover of the Times, ensuring that the paper would remain independently owned. more

In a notable escalation of Cleveland.com’s use of generative artificial intelligence, the newsroom has debuted AI avatars on social media. more

Twin Cities PBS, also known as TPT, has expanded its reach into southern Minnesota by entering into a comprehensive management and programming agreement with KSMQ Public Television in Austin. more

Dave Adsett and Benoît Chartier both carry on proud family traditions of newspaper ownership. In this article in Policy Magazine, they outline a number of new policy measures the Government of Canada can take to keep the news publishing industry commercially viable. more

Around two-thirds of the media managers that the Reuters Institute surveyed for its Trends and Predictions report said they haven’t cut any jobs due to AI. This might be starting to change.  more

Breaking news doesn’t wait for experience — and increasingly, it doesn’t wait for professional newsrooms either. As local media resources shrink, student journalists are stepping into high-stakes reporting roles, covering events as they unfold in real time. In Minneapolis, University of Minnesota students found themselves on the front lines of a rapidly developing and dangerous story. In this month’s J-school profile, E&P looks at how the Hubbard School of Journalism is preparing students to report in the real world — and why their work is already making an impact. more

The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes a Kuwaiti court’s acquittal of U.S.-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin on all charges following nearly two months of detention. more

After nearly five years of transformative leadership, Robin Blinder will retire as editor-in-chief of Editor & Publisher (E&P) Magazine, marking the close of a significant chapter in the publication’s 140-year history. Blinder has served in the role since September 2022 and has been a key member of the organization for more than six years. more

A Lebanese journalist was killed Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon where she had taken cover while reporting on the Israel-Hezbollah war. Her body was only retrieved from the rubble hours later, rescue workers said. more

Basis has announced that Christian Hendricks has been appointed president. Hendricks, who has served on the Basis board of directors, brings deep operational and commercial expertise to the role as the company accelerates adoption of its AI-driven platform across agencies and brands. more

An $81 billion Warner-Paramount mega merger has received shareholders’ stamp of approval, propelling a deal that could vastly reshape Hollywood and the wider media landscape closer to the finish line. more

Now that it doesn’t have to pay for Warner Bros., Netflix is using its capital to buy back more shares: The streaming giant said its board authorized a buyback of an additional $25 billion of the company’s stock. more

The judge said that Frank Figliuzzi's statement, “when taken in context, cannot have been perceived by a person of ordinary intelligence as stating actual facts about Patel.” more

Can it adapt to major changes in audience and business model? more

The Alabama Educational Television Commission (AETC) voted Tuesday to conduct a survey of public attitudes toward Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) programming, amid pushes from some commissioners to end APT’s affiliation with the network.  more

Trib Total Media has named the inaugural members of its Pittsburgh Community Advisory Panel, a group of local leaders and community voices who will help inform and strengthen the organization’s coverage across the region. more

Two issues newsrooms are increasingly dealing with, and that all newsrooms will likely have to confront eventually, are whether and on what terms to strike business deals with the prediction markets and how, if at all, to regulate the conduct of their own staffs with respect to participating in the markets. more

Two new directors and one incumbent were named to The Associated Press Board of Directors, it was announced today at the news cooperative’s annual meeting. more