Observed annually on Feb. 13, World Radio Day invites reflection on a fundamental question: how has radio maintained its relevance in an era dominated by digital platforms and social media? more

2WAY, the interactive live video platform dedicated to unique conversations, unbiased discourse and open debate, and SiriusXM have announced that journalist and political analyst Mark Halperin is bringing 2WAY’s “The Morning Meeting” to The Megyn Kelly Channel on SiriusXM (ch. 111). more

A judge ordered Thursday that Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora be returned to house arrest again while awaiting trial after spending nearly a year in jail in his latest stint of incarceration. more

Paramount CEO David Ellison returned to the White House last week to meet privately with President Donald Trump, amid Paramount’s ongoing hostile takeover bid for CNN and the rest of Warner Bros. Discovery. more

The head of the Federal Trade Commission this week claimed in a letter to Apple that the company may be violating the federal consumer protection law by allegedly promoting liberal publications in Apple News and suppressing right-wing ones. more

Newspaper delays are just one consequence of cost cuts and changes to a fraying 250-year-old system. more

The axe is still swinging above CBS News. more

When longtime magazine editor Christopher Keyes lost his job in early 2025, he didn’t set out to start a nonprofit newsroom. But stepping away from a collapsing commercial media model gave him space to see a problem few news organizations were positioned to solve: America’s public lands — nearly a third of the country — were slipping through journalism’s cracks. Within months, that realization became Re:Public Lands Media, the first nonprofit newsroom dedicated exclusively to covering how public lands are managed, threatened and protected. more

In an era when many say the news finds them, there is no consensus about the importance of following the news. more

A majority of Americans (57%) express low confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis from the Pew-Knight Initiative. This includes 40% who say they have not too much confidence and 17% who say they have none at all. By comparison, 43% of adults say they have a great deal or a fair amount of confidence in journalists. more

The Trump administration covertly sent thousands of Starlink terminals into Iran after the regime’s brutal crackdown on demonstrations last month, U.S. officials said, an effort to keep dissidents online following Tehran’s stifling of internet access. more

When three small-town newspapers in rural Missouri faced closure, the future of local journalism in Lafayette County hung in the balance. Rather than watch their communities slip toward news desert status, the Lexington Area Chamber of Commerce stepped in to buy all three titles. The catch: no one at the chamber knew how to run a newspaper. The solution came through outsourcing nearly every back-office function to CherryRoad, creating a model that may offer a lifeline to other towns fighting to keep their local press alive. more

In 2013, Jeffrey Epstein couldn’t erase his conviction as a sex offender. But he could make it harder to find on Google, using various search engine optimization tactics, along with his personal connections within the news media. more

Gallup will no longer track presidential approval ratings after more than eight decades doing so, the public opinion polling agency confirmed to The Hill on Wednesday. more

A “CBS Evening News” producer said Wednesday she’s taking a buyout from the company in part because new leadership has created “fear and uncertainty” that hinders the company’s journalistic legacy. more

“Many people frame the problem of funding A.I. as choosing the lesser of two evils: restrict access to transformative technology to a select group of people wealthy enough to pay for it, or accept advertisements even if it means exploiting users’ deepest fears and desires to sell them a product. I believe that’s a false choice.” — Zoë Hitzig, guest essay, The New York Times more

The Guardian has announced that Adrian Searle, its chief art critic since 1996, will step down from his full-time role at the end of March. more

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) has announced that Ralph M. Oakley, a respected leader in local broadcasting, will receive the Chuck Sherman Television Leadership Award in recognition of his distinguished career and enduring commitment to local television. The award will be presented on March 3 during a special radio and television broadcasting awards presentation at the NAB State Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. more

Rebecca Campbell, interim CEO and board member of immersive arts company Meow Wolf and former chair of International Content and Operations at The Walt Disney Co., has joined The Philadelphia Inquirer's board of directors, Inquirer Publisher and CEO Elizabeth H. Hughes announced. more