U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, has announced that he will convene a full committee hearing titled “We Interrupt This Program: Media Ownership in the Digital Age” on Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 10 a.m. EST that will examine the Federal Communications Commission’s current broadcast media ownership rules. more

Writing on LinkedIn, Sean Jacobsen announced ... more

Black History Month often arrives wrapped in celebration — progress, perseverance, firsts. But this year, it begins with a sobering reminder that some of the most dangerous chapters of U.S. history are not behind us. They are repeating. more

Lionsgate is leaning into AI, hiring Kathleen Grace to serve as its first-ever chief AI officer. more

In this new role, Geoffrey Rogow will guide day-to-day output of BBC.com and the app, leading a global team of editors, writers and producers to further strengthen BBC's global digital offer.    more

The same betrayal happening inside that newsroom is happening everywhere. Here's how to stabilize your nervous system and disrupt cycles of harm. more

Newsroom employees at The Columbus Dispatch and Newark Advocate overwhelmingly voted to unionize, according to results tallied by the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday. more

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy former media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced Monday following his conviction in December under a Beijing-imposed national security law. more

Gray Media has entered into a multi-year affiliation agreement with Telemundo Network that extends an expanded partnership between Telemundo’s largest affiliate group and the popular Spanish-language television network that is also the exclusive Spanish-language home of popular sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup 2026™ and Super Bowl LX. more

Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (Nasdaq: LEE) has announced that it has closed its previously announced $50 million strategic equity private placement. The investment was led by David Hoffmann, with participation from other existing investors in the company, providing the company with committed capital and a strengthened financial and governance foundation as it moves into its next phase. more

Ethics prevent journalists from accepting free trips, but maybe there’s another way. more

Iowa Falls Times Citizen was named Iowa Newspaper Association’s 2026 “Newspaper of the Year.” The award was announced during the association’s Awards Ceremony on Feb. 5. more

Community publishers are often told they’re too small, too local or too fragile to survive in today’s media economy. Yet across the country, many are proving that scale isn’t the only path to sustainability — collaboration is. In this feature, Bob Miller looks inside the Association of Community Publishers (ACP), where small and mid-sized papers are pooling knowledge, cutting costs and strengthening revenue through shared expertise. The result is a model built less on competition and more on collective survival. more

Austin Fuller, a reporter for Current since 2024, will leave the publication Friday (Feb. 6).  more

Amid attempts to erase Black history and progress, Onyx Impact’s Invest in Black Media campaign will fund Black storytelling, journalism and media preservation throughout 2026. more

CHICAGO — Audientia Institute is a developing peer networking platform that aims to connect news professionals across organizations, and is currently building its founding cohort of users to test … more

Washington State University's Murrow College of Communication and Report for America have launched an ambitious partnership to cover every one of Washington’s counties by 2029, aiming to fill reporting gaps as newsrooms shrink and misinformation spreads across the state. more

O’Rourke Media Group has named JJ Tompkins as publisher of its Wisconsin Media Group, which includes nine hyper-local community newspapers and affiliated websites across the state. more

Senator Patricia Fahy (D-Albany) and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic (D-NYC) introduced the New York Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Requirements in News Act (The NY FAIR News Act), legislation that establishes clear, meaningful protections for both journalists, media professionals and the broader public to ensure that the integrity of the news and its workforce are safeguarded against artificial intelligence. more