News media and magazines are still the gold standard for advertisers looking to reach affluent, influential audiences, a new report by the News/Media Alliance finds. That data and more can be found in the News/Media Alliance’s 2025 Market Report on News and Magazine Media: Providing a Trusted, Brand Safe Source for Reaching Engaged & Influential Audiences, released this week.  more

Mathias Döpfner is hunting for “new gold” in media. It is harder than he expected. more

Fifty-one ethnic and community media outlets, who publish in 14 different languages, have issued an urgent appeal to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, calling for the immediate restoration of city advertising commitments that have collapsed under the Adams administration. more

The parent company of President Donald Trump’s Truth Social media platform is merging with a fusion power company, an unusual pairing of the Trump name with a futuristic clean energy venture that aims to power the next wave of artificial intelligence. more

A Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday rejected a bid by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to stay a preliminary injunction barring federal law enforcement from using excessive and indiscriminate force against journalists covering protests in Southern California. more

The Atlanta Journal-Constitutio is less than two weeks away from publishing its last print issue. But it is working on other ways of engaging readers.   more

News Media Canada and the Community Media Coalition, represented by the Community Radio Fund of Canada, are accepting applications for the 2025-2027 round of the Local Journalism Initiative (LJI) until midnight tonight (Dec. 19). more

Scripps Sports has secured exclusive local broadcast rights to Denver Summit FC, the National Women’s Soccer League’s newest franchise, launching in 2026. more

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. has announced that the company will launch The Nexstar Brand Studio, an in-house strategic and creative hub connecting advertisers to the company’s unmatched portfolio of media properties in markets of all sizes across the United States. more

Kim Bhasin will cover a wide range of companies in a rapidly changing economic environment. more

Marty Goodnight, Springfield Business Journal publisher and incoming owner as of Jan. 2, 2026, said Dec. 17 that he and his wife, Shallina Goodnight, will acquire The Daily Events as an independent sister company. more

In this column, Jeff Sleete challenges the long-held belief that December is a lost cause for sales teams. He lays out why the final month of the year is actually primed for connection, planning and unexpected wins. By reframing December as a strategic advantage, he urges salespeople to seize momentum while competitors coast. more

Adam Nagourney, one of the newsroom’s most versatile, curious and experienced reporters, will divide his time between New York and Los Angeles. more

After seven years leading the Vail Daily’s newsroom and nearly four years serving as the director of audience growth and content for Swift Communications’ 11 mountain resort publications, Nate Peterson is logging off.  more

Hearst announced that Jeff Nosek, president of MOTOR Information Systems, has been promoted to deputy group head of Hearst Transportation for the automotive businesses, effective Jan. 1, 2026. more

Roger Cohen will cover the tectonic political and cultural shifts around the world as international writer-at-large. more

Dana Rubinstein is Metro’s next City Hall bureau chief, and Emma Fitzsimmons will cover how the city’s policies affect New Yorkers. more

The American Journalism Project has announced a new $1.5 million investment in Fort Worth Report. This investment will support the organization’s efforts to grow its coverage across Tarrant County in response to needs identified through in-depth community research and engagement. more

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91. more