Avila served as an ABC News senior correspondent and a “20/20” correspondent. more

Amber Nettles, former publisher of the Chicago Reader, announced on LinkedIn that she is joining EmpowerLocal as chief partnerships officer. more

Alana Hope Levinson will be joining WIRED as a features editor, and Maxwell Zeff as a senior writer covering AI.  more

A bipartisan group of predecessors says the agency’s current chairman is improperly wielding a little-used policy against broadcasters critical of President Donald Trump. more

WVIA has been awarded a grant through the First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania through the Williamsport Lycoming Competitive Grant Program to launch Lycoming County @ Work and Lycoming County Careers that Work, two groundbreaking workforce development initiatives designed to connect students, families and job seekers with the region’s most in-demand career opportunities. more

The Boston University Newsroom has published nearly 400 news articles in hyperlocal outlets in and around the city. more

There is significant viewing of television with the video on and the speaker off with viewers either muting, using earphones, earbuds, hearing aids or closed captioning. The study found that 38% of respondents were viewing one or more of those ways in the past two months. These viewers could be undercounted with measurement that relies on audio. more

John Hewitt Jones, a veteran congressional policy editor at Bloomberg Government, will join POLITICO as a deputy editor on the Tech team. Erin Schumaker, a standout Health Care reporter, will move into the role of deputy Health Care editor. more

The College of Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is installing new leadership at Illinois Public Media. more

On Tuesday, Nov. 25, Frontline, the PBS documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, and The Associated Press will present the U.S. broadcast and streaming premiere of “2000 Meters to Andriivka”: a stunning and immersive portrayal of the men fighting on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. more

Brussels is investigating whether the company's policy against "parasite SEO" wrongly punishes news sites for running commercial content, a practice regulators say is similar to traditional newspaper coupons. more

USA Sports and the Pac-12 Conference today announced a five-year partnership beginning in 2026-27, featuring regular season action for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball, plus the league’s men’s basketball tournament live on USA Network. more

The employee warned that the shutdown could have negative impacts on the millions of Americans who rely on the federal government to put food on the table. more

Yahoo Finance is introducing new integrations in the prediction markets and crypto spaces. Presented at Yahoo Finance Invest, these will deliver best-in-class content and data-rich hubs that bolster the Yahoo Finance experience for investors.   more

The company says it expects to spend $24 billion in content in fiscal 2026, an increase from $23 billion in 2025. more

Most failed subscription payments aren’t fraud — they’re fixable breakdowns that publishers too often handle the wrong way. In this column, Dan Nadeau argues that blunt-force retries waste money, frustrate readers and leave real revenue on the table. He introduces a reason-aware approach that matches retry strategy to why a payment failed in the first place. The result is a quieter, more disciplined system that recovers revenue without alienating loyal subscribers. more

When newspapers vanish, so does transparency. Two groundbreaking studies from the Brechner Center for the Advancement of the First Amendment expose how FOIA compliance suffers in states with fewer local news outlets. Director David Cuillier says the research proves what many have long suspected: “When newspapers go away, governments run amok.” From rising fees to missing records, the findings sound an urgent alarm — without journalists, public accountability collapses. more

The E.W. Scripps Company has named local media sales leader Kristen Darden to the role of general manager and director of sales for KRIS, the Scripps-owned NBC affiliate in Corpus Christi, Texas, and KAJA, the Telemundo affiliate in Corpus Christi.  more

The Local Media Association board of directors has approved the appointment of Julia Campbell as co-chief executive officer of LMA and Local Media Foundation. She will serve as co-CEO alongside Jay Small, who has been co-CEO for almost two years. more