The Supreme Court has stepped into the escalating battle over broadcasters’ political advertising rates for a second time, temporarily blocking a federal appeals court order that would have forced the FCC to decide by noon Friday (Oct. 9) whether to uphold its disputed lowest unit charge policy. The move came just hours after the Fourth Circuit rejected emergency requests to delay its deadline. more

Mike Isaac, is joining The Atlantic as a staff writer. He starts in December and will remain based in the Bay Area. For the past 12 years, he has been the leading technology reporter for The New York Times. more

American City Business Journals, the nation’s largest publisher of local business news and information, has added to its portfolio with the launch of the Fort Worth Business Journal. With this expansion, ACBJ is now operational in 46 U.S. cities. more

Working with Wayne Lawson, reporters said, was like taking a master class in writing: “He was a throwback to the old style of editing.” more

Renée Rippberger joins Opinion as an editorial assistant supporting Thomas L. Friedman. more

The question of AI in journalism is nearly unavoidable in 2026, and a recent column by the president of News Media Canada, Paul Deegan, ignited the debate once again. more

The complaint is the latest in a barrage of legal action filed this year against TikTok and other social media platforms like Facebook and Snapchat. more

Exiting the company are Warner Bros. Discovery head of TV and streaming distribution Scott Miller and Ryan Gould and Bobby Voltaggio, previously WBD's co-heads of U.S. ad sales. more

Temple University’s student journalists aren’t merely practicing how to produce a newscast — they’re doing the real thing, complete with breaking news, live reporting and the pressure to get the story right. In this E&P Quick Reads exclusive, Bob Miller goes beyond the scenes of “Temple Update,” whose student team recently earned the program’s first Student Edward R. Murrow Award for the “Excellence in Video Newscast” category. more

Fred Vigeant has been named the next general manager of WPSU, starting Oct. 26. more

Bloomberg Media announced the appointment of Patty Hirsch as chief digital officer. In the role, Hirsch will lead Bloomberg Media’s digital and subscription strategy across platforms and markets, overseeing audience growth, subscriber growth, consumer marketing and the continued evolution of the company’s digital products and experiences. more

Allison Benedikt will be deputy director of development on Shows. more

Jessica Schnall, a stalwart editor and longtime deputy on Flex, is being promoted to editor of the desk. more

For the next year, Rotimi Adeoye will write editorials and publish essays and videos under his own byline. more

Meg Ely will lead efforts to ensure New York Times journalism is visible and compelling on external platforms. more

Debra Bishop, a talented creative collaborator over her 10 years at The New York Times, has a new role. more

Judge Timothy J. Kelly will hold a hearing to consider whether to extend his two-week order preventing the White House from barring the three outlets from its grounds. more

Deep South Today, the nonprofit regional news network behind Mississippi Today, Verite News and The Current, announced that Northwest Arkansas-based journalist Jordan P. Hickey will serve as the founding editor-in-chief of Arkansas Today, a new newsroom serving Arkansas. more

“This is not my day job. I am a newly minted correspondent for 60 Minutes, where the goal is to ask probing questions, not sling political hot takes. If all goes well, this column will complement that work, staying a little bit above the partisan fray while giving readers useful frameworks (or, sometimes, truly eccentric frameworks) through which to understand our strange-and-getting-stranger century.” — Ross Douthat more