Connecticut Public is pleased to announce the appointment of Missy DiNunno as its new vice president of community engagement. With more than 20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership, community engagement, and strategic planning, DiNunno will help strengthen Connecticut Public's relationships with communities across the state and expand opportunities for meaningful connection. more

President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, earned brutally bad reviews Tuesday on her first day on the job. more

The number of local news desert counties in the U.S. shot up by 26 in the last year, the largest one-year rise in at least five years, according to the Medill State of Local News Report 2026. more

Raw Story, one of the nation's largest independent political news publishers, today launched a major redesign of RawStory.com while expanding its investigative reporting team ahead of the midterm elections. more

What happens when the outcome of a multimillion-dollar bet depends on what a journalist reports? The consequences could be chilling — from threats against reporters to entirely fabricated news websites designed to manipulate prediction markets. In this exclusive Shoptalk op-ed, Scott Yates warns of an emerging threat to journalism and offers three steps publishers and editors should take now to protect their newsrooms and their credibility. more

Getty Images is filing for bankruptcy and going private through a restructuring deal with the Koch family’s company. more

The Local Media Consortium announced the launch of its SMB AI Benchmarking Study, a research initiative presented by its Digital On-Demand Services division in partnership with Borrell Associates. more

States Newsroom announces the hiring of Lara Hamdan as social media strategist, a new role that marks the news organization’s expansion into short-form video and robust social media storytelling. more

Justice's antitrust probe of TV networks was set off by their pause of White House pool coverage. Legal experts say calling that an illegal boycott is spurious. more

The job market is brutal, but journalists are still finding new roles — and more than half of those we surveyed landed better pay and benefits. more

CNN announced that its All Access subscription will expand to the U.K. and Canada on Oct. 20, providing international audiences for the first time with one direct, centralized destination for CNN’s programming and journalism, including live and on-demand video programming to stream.    more

TEGNA Inc. and Disney Entertainment Television have entered into a comprehensive, multi-year deal that renews station affiliation agreements for all of TEGNA’s ABC-affiliated stations. more

More than a dozen human rights groups urged social media platforms, including X, on Monday to resist Turkish court orders blocking hundreds of accounts belonging to journalists and activists. more

Fresnoland has grown from an experiment in public-service journalism into a nine-person nonprofit newsroom producing ambitious accountability reporting for California’s Central Valley. But proving the value of the journalism is only part of the challenge, building a sustainable business to support is another. In this E&P exclusive “News Media Profile,” Taayoo Murray explores how Fresnoland is growing its audience, diversifying revenue and remaining steadfastly focused on the community it serves. more

The Washington Post has named veteran media executive Alex Wallace its chief operating officer, bringing in a former NBC News and Yahoo leader to help steer the newspaper's business operations as it pushes toward profitability following years of financial losses and sweeping layoffs. more

iHeartMedia has promoted Lainie Fertick to the newly created position of chief insights officer, placing her in charge of insights initiatives across the company and adding her to its Strategic Communications (StratCom) leadership team. more

The Justice Department is investigating whether the major television networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News — violated federal antitrust laws when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of President Trump, according to six people with knowledge of the department’s action. more

President Donald Trump must cancel any remaining television commercials paid for with millions of dollars in taxpayer money to promote his political message, a federal judge ordered Sunday night, even as the administration said the ad campaign was coming to an end. more

Four Democratic candidates are accusing the FCC of deliberately running out the clock on a political advertising rate dispute, arguing that the agency is trying to keep its expanded discount policy in place through Election Day without allowing the courts to rule on its legality. more