Eleven local newspapers from across the United States will receive grant funding through The Lenfest Institute’s Beyond Print program, the Institute has announced. The funding, which totals $400,000, supports independent local newspapers in reducing reliance on print, growing digital revenue, embracing new distribution platforms and reaching new and younger audiences.   more

Yahoo Inc. has debuted Yahoo Scout, a new, proprietary AI-powered answer engine. Available in beta and built on Yahoo’s unique data and user insights, as well as over 30 years of history in search, Yahoo Scout is rolling out across both Yahoo Search and the entire Yahoo portfolio. It is available to all of the company’s nearly 250 million users in the United States1 on desktop and mobile. more

The seventh annual National News Literacy Week, presented by the News Literacy Project, The E.W. Scripps Company, USA TODAY and USA TODAY Network, provides educators with the tools and resources they need to help students navigate today’s information landscape more skillfully. more

BBC News is closing BBC Trending, an investigative journalism team tasked with shedding light on the darker side of social media. more

The chairman of the Senate’s antitrust subcommittee is raising concerns over Netflix’s proposed acquisition of the Warner Bros. movie-and-television studios and HBO Max streaming service.  more

As philanthropy pours new money into local journalism, a fundamental question looms: how do funders decide where their investments will have the greatest impact? With no comprehensive census of U.S. news organizations, even defining what counts as a newsroom has become a challenge. Researchers and industry leaders are now working to build shared standards and data-driven frameworks to map the true state of local news. Their work, led by the Local News Impact Consortium, could reshape how funders identify news deserts, measure capacity and direct resources where they’re needed most. more

Adams MultiMedia, the parent company of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, has announced that Richard Green, a longtime media executive and editor, will be regional president and publisher of The Gazette and 11 other community newspaper titles in Iowa. more

The Chicago Reader returns to print on Feb. 4, with the first issue from new editor in chief Sarah Conway, a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, and commemorates the last 50 years with a limited-edition book. more

Though Congress cut $500 million from NPR and PBS stations, vanishingly few have closed their doors. Angst about their long-term future remains. more

The newspaper will send a small team of reporters to cover the Olympics after it informed sports journalists on Friday that the paper would not send a group. more

The university says the loss of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting support eliminates about $1.1 million in annual funding for WBGU-TV. more

“With what amounts to civil war raging in the United States, we desperately need clear, fearless truth-telling that doesn’t pull its punches and doesn’t hand a megaphone to lies and propaganda in the name of supposed fairness.” — Margaret Sullivan, American Crisis more

The abrupt change in direction came just weeks before the Olympic Games are set to begin in Italy. more

In recent weeks, rumors have flown around the newsroom about the size of the cuts and when they would be implemented, but the conversation reached a fever pitch late last week, aided by unverified reports about section-wide eliminations. more

When U.S.-based TikTok users opened up the app on the morning of Jan. 23, many were met with a fresh pop-up. It was time to read the app's new Terms of Service (ToS) and there was only one option to continue using the app: Agree. more

Brian Corcoran most recently served as senior finance director at Lee Enterprises, Inc., where he managed the finances of 75 local news properties for the publicly traded organization. more

Julie Pace, senior vice president and executive editor of The Associated Press, and Vijay Iyer, a composer, pianist and professor at Harvard University, have been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, the Pulitzer Prize Administrator’s Office announced. more

The European Union will tighten its oversight over Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp, saying that the messaging service has enough European users to warrant stricter oversight under its content moderation rules. more

The joint filing highlighted the importance of NextGen TV for public media and urged the agency to make it easier for public stations to launch 3.0 broadcasts. more