A Superior Court judge on Friday said he was leaning toward allowing a public records lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Times against the city of LA over the mayor’s text messages to go forward to discovery and then a trial. more

New York Post Media Group, home of The New York Post, Page Six and Decider, has launched its latest media venture, The California Post. more

Based in London, Ben Boulos will join the “Squawk Box Europe” lineup alongside Karen Tso and Steve Sedgwick in early February, as Julianna Tatelbaum begins maternity leave. more

“While America’s Public Television Stations are deeply disappointed that the final package does not restore any of the local station funding that was rescinded last year — a devastating missed opportunity for Congress to save local stations, particularly those serving rural areas — we are grateful that the bill provides some funding for the important public safety and education services that public media provides in communities throughout the country. ” — Kate Riley, president and CEO of America’s Public Television Stations more

Todd Handy argues that building recurring, scalable media revenue isn’t just about new pricing models. It requires rethinking the entire go-to-market (GTM) operation — from the first prospect touchpoint through long-term customer success. In SaaS, this approach is known as Revenue Operations (RevOps), aligning marketing, sales, customer success and operations under a unified growth strategy designed to drive durable growth. more

Disinformation is no longer a background hazard of modern journalism — it is a coordinated, weaponized assault on truth itself. In a world where lies travel faster than facts and chaos is deliberately engineered to exhaust the public, national security correspondent JJ Green says journalists are now fighting a real war for credibility. Drawing on decades of coverage of intelligence, conflict zones and information warfare, Green frames today’s media crisis as an existential battle for democratic survival. His new book, “The Noise War,” is not a warning shot — it’s a field manual for journalists on the front lines of disinformation. more

The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) today reiterated its firm opposition to the manipulation of journalistic images that mislead the public, particularly when such manipulation is conducted or disseminated by government entities. This position follows broad media reporting that an official White House social media account posted a digitally altered image of an arrested Minnesota protester to portray her as crying, a depiction not supported by the original unaltered photograph. more

The U.S. House of Representatives this week passed its final fiscal year (FY) 2026 minibus package of funding, which includes money for public broadcasting’s Next Generation Warning System as well as its “Ready to Learn” grant program. more

The Hastings Tribune will reprint Friday’s edition after a printing error caused the entire newspaper to be printed in reverse. more

The Guardian has announced the appointment of three new journalists to its growing U.S. and global sports desks — Pablo Iglesias Maurer, Jeff Rueter and Ella Brockway — strengthening its commitment to ambitious, agenda-setting sports reporting ahead of the 2026 World Cup. more

TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the United States that has been in discussion for years on the platform now used by more than 200 million Americans. more

It took a few weeks but a Christmas miracle is coming true near the Canadian border, in Washington’s Whatcom County. The Northern Light, a weekly newspaper serving more than 10,000 households in Blaine and Birch Bay, was saved by a remarkably generous gift over the holidays. more

At an unprecedented time across Minnesota, trusted local journalism is more essential than ever. The Minnesota Star Tribune is taking new steps to ensure Minnesotans, and the world — have access to accurate, independent, local reporting from the largest newsroom in the Midwest. more

OpenAI has officially announced ads for ChatGPT, signaling the end of the subsidized AI era. Here are the critical takeaways and impact from this announcement for the media industry. more

Claire Tighe has watched talented reporters reach for more. They have the instincts, the sources, the stories worth telling — and they’re driven to tell them in new ways. more

Lauren McGaughy, experienced in focusing on accountability, will report on state government and elections. more

With Substack TV, which has been in the works for some time, Substack is further cementing itself as a video platform. more

The organization that houses Report for America and Report for the World has unveiled a unified identity focused on the future of local news in the U.S. and around the globe. more

A federal magistrate judge rejected the Justice Department’s initial attempt to bring charges against journalist Don Lemon for appearing alongside protesters who breached a Minnesota church over the weekend, a source told CNN. more