Connecticut Public president and CEO Mark Contreras, who has led the organization over the past seven years through the COVID-19 pandemic and Congress’ rescission of public media funding, has announced he will be retiring later this year. more

The Society of Professional Journalists joins Defending Rights & Dissent and more than 20 other press freedom and First Amendment organizations in calling on Congress to drop a subpoena for investigative journalist and author Seth Harp.  more

After decades of chasing every promise dangled by Silicon Valley, newsrooms are once again being told that the next technological fix will save journalism. In a sharp, unsparing column, Rob Tornoe argues that artificial intelligence is not a lifeline for the press but the latest weapon Big Tech is using to marginalize it. Drawing on recent traffic collapses, newsroom embarrassments and the long history of broken platform promises, Tornoe makes the case that publishers have seen this movie before. His warning is blunt: trusting AI to rescue journalism risks repeating the same mistakes that helped put the industry in peril in the first place. more

Kolby Jensen has been named director of circulation and Ryan Jerman was appointed digital marketing product manager of The Spokesman-Review. more

Hearst has announced that Uvie Bikomo, formerly audience development editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, has been named editor of the Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise. Bikomo will lead the editorial side of the newspaper and its digital products. more

Scott Adams, whose popular comic strip “Dilbert” captured the frustration of beleaguered, white-collar cubicle workers and satirized the ridiculousness of modern office culture until he was abruptly dropped from syndication in 2023 for racist remarks, has died. He was 68. more

The copyright infringement case pursued by several publishers against OpenAI has taken a new turn, one bound to cost time and money.  more

The Trump administration has tried to eliminate funding for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA. Appropriators in Congress have had other ideas. more

“Let’s make sure every single night has something with viral potential,” Ms. Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, wrote to top producers as they prepared for the show’s new anchor, Tony Dokoupil, to start his tenure this month with a two-week tour of the country. more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating inside the Pentagon network, as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military’s data as possible into the developing technology. more

As the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) concludes its grantmaking, the organization announced a $2.9 million grant to American Public Television (APT) to a new initiative designed to help local public television stations complete, distribute and promote locally produced content for national audiences. more

Saving local journalism isn’t always straightforward, as a turnabout in Oregon demonstrates. Two newspapers in Linn County just about failed after they were sold to a former employee. But veteran owners and community support jolted them back to life this month. more

Some TV news stations are breaking their national network affiliations, and leaning into local programming more

Newsrooms will prioritize on-the-ground reporting, YouTube and something called “liquid content” this year, according to a global survey of news executives. more

With a Spanish-speaking population of more than 60 million people in the United States, N+ Univision continues to strengthen its role as the most reliable and relevant news source for Hispanic audiences nationwide. more

Tanvi Valsangikar has joined the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press as its inaugural Abrams Legal Fellow, a two-year position that focuses on providing free legal assistance to documentary filmmakers. The fellow’s primary client is FRONTLINE, the award-winning PBS documentary series produced by GBH in Boston.  more

Kadejah Howell joins Newsroom Operations as operations manager for the International desk. more

Reis Thebault will cover the Southwest and collaborate closely with the National desk’s broader West coverage team. more

The BBC is taking steps to have Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against it dismissed, a court document showed. more