What was supposed to be an announcement on fraud quickly devolved into Trump vs The Independent. Andrew Feinberg details how it all happened in the Oval Office. more

President Trump has talked about replacing the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room with an indoor swimming pool. more

This summer, Larry Ellison was going to sell a big chunk of his stock in Oracle, the company he founded five decades ago. He wanted cash to help pay for his son David’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Instead, in the run-up to the merger’s completion, Ellison added to a multibillion-dollar borrowing spree. more

Unionized newsroom staff at Embarcadero Media Foundation, a Silicon Valley-based media nonprofit, have won their first contract in a deal that gives members higher salaries and a pay scale that compensates workers for prior experience, improved healthcare benefits and job protections.  more

Slate, the digital news and culture magazine, has named editor-in-chief Hillary Frey as its new CEO, effective immediately, according to a memo obtained by Axios. more

The new much requested feature enables paid supporters to share their full suite of benefits with up to three people. more

Obituaries have long been a reliable revenue stream for newspapers and an important connection to the communities they serve. But as families increasingly turn to funeral-home websites, social media and other digital alternatives, publishers are seeing that business decline. Can newspapers reclaim their place in this changing market? In this E&P Quick Read, Taayoo Murray examines new research on obituary revenue, the competitive challenges publishers face and innovative approaches to preserving a valuable business, a historical record and an enduring community tradition. more

Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press say Anthropic infringed on their copyright by using their content to develop its large language AI model Claude. more

“The Spokane Editorial Society, the collective bargaining unit for nonexempt employees of The Spokesman-Review, strongly objects to the current conditions for the proposed transfer of the newspaper to new nonprofit ownership on Oct. 30.” — Thomas Clouse, president of the Spokane Editorial Society more

The White House has been excluding CNN from President Donald Trump’s trips on Air Force One, disrupting a decades-old tradition of pooled TV coverage. Now an attorney for CNN is warning that the network will take additional legal action if the White House continues to prevent its news crews from covering the president. more

Getty Images and Lee Enterprises, Incorporated announced a strategic content partnership through which Getty Images will license and distribute editorial photography and video produced by newsrooms across the Lee Enterprises network. more

Boston.com has been a free news site from the time that The Boston Globe launched it in 1995. Today, after experimenting with a soft paywall for the past year, the site will be converting to a mostly … more

Comedy Central announced on Monday that Jon Stewart signed a new deal that will keep him as host of the late-night show for one day a week through December 2028. more

She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and wrote a book about how to watch movies. more

BBC News told staff on Tuesday that the division will close more than 100 roles over the coming months, saving £5.5 million ($7.4M). more

TikTok is primarily known for short-form video sharing, but it has also become a common place for many people to get news. A fifth of U.S. adults regularly get news on TikTok, according to a Pew Research Center survey from August. more

The New York Times journalist reflects on her two deeply personal essays about her child and New York City public schools and how she grappled with readers’ responses. more

The Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a national nonprofit that trains incarcerated writers in journalism and publishes their stories, today announced the appointment of Dena Ferrara Driscoll as director of philanthropy. Driscoll will lead the organization's strategic fundraising initiatives, institutional giving and donor engagement to expand and deepen PJP’s impact across the country. more

Netflix is overhauling its creative leadership as it struggles to get domestic audiences to watch more. more