Cox Media Group-Orlando announced that WRDQ-TV 27 will officially rebrand as MagicTV 27 beginning next week, marking a major milestone in the station group’s growing investment in local sports and community-focused programming. more

For decades, criminologists have studied how different approaches to police interviewing affect what suspects disclose, partly in response to wrongful convictions involving trickery, coercion and false confessions. Their research offers insight for every step of the journalistic process. more

Foreign correspondents venture far from home to tell consequential stories of people, politics, conflict and crisis — often encountering funding challenges, logistical hurdles and operational dangers. In E&P’s September “Association Insider,” Bob Miller introduces readers to the Overseas Press Club of America and the journalists and journalism it salutes. more

The major television networks are standing with CNN by declining to replace its White House pool crew after the Trump administration barred the network from fulfilling its assigned duties on Monday. more

The three national news outlets President Donald Trump banned from the White House — CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO — are filing a critical First Amendment lawsuit to restore their access. more

Editor & Publisher stands in solidarity with the CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO newsrooms that have been barred from White House grounds by the president of the United States.  more

Paramount has reached a settlement with a group of state attorneys general, according to people familiar with the matter, an agreement that clears the way for an $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery poised to reshape Hollywood. more

In a LinkedIn post, Lark-Marie Anton announced that she will be departing USA TODAY Co., Inc. as chief communications and brand officer at the end of the month. more

The PNA Foundation has launched a new centralized online resource to help college students and aspiring journalists connect with newsroom internship opportunities across Pennsylvania. The new website housed on internships.pnafoundation.org, was created in response to the rapid growth and overwhelming demand for the Foundation’s Newsroom Internship Program. more

The Fourth Circuit is giving the Federal Communications Commission more time to resolve its political advertising rate fight, declining to force a decision by Friday but keeping the threat of court intervention alive after Oct. 1. more

For 15 years, Rose Friedman was an editor and reporter who helped shape NPR's arts and cultural coverage. She was one of the co-creators of the popular Books We Love reading guide and, most recently, helped lead NPR's America 250 series. Friedman died at home, of cancer, in New York City on Sept. 17 at the age of 38. more

Cedar Basin Media, a new Iowa-based subsidiary of Civic Media, has reached an agreement to acquire six radio signals from NRG Media in the Cedar Rapids and Waterloo, Iowa, markets. more

Amid a growing movement for national and local philanthropies to support local news, the Poynter Institute has launched its first online course aimed at news funders, to help them protect journalistic independence while boosting newsrooms. more

A publisher in the Philippines, she used her women’s magazine as a forum for political stories that helped drive Ferdinand Marcos from power. more

Editor & Publisher thanks the many media companies that have already submitted nearly 200 entries in this year’s EPPY Awards. In response to requests for additional time to participate, we’ve extended the deadline to Friday, Sept. 25, at midnight ET. There’s still time to earn recognition for your team’s best work — enter the 2026 EPPY Awards at EPPYAWARDS.com. more

The announcement last week that the McClatchy newspaper chain was laying off 90 local journalists went from sad news to appalling as the details came in. The Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky lost the majority of its reporters. The Idaho Statesman lost half. At the Miami Herald, which lost almost 30 reporters, an editor reported that they would no longer have a city hall reporter in Miami, and asked, “How can you cover Miami without a Miami reporter?”   more

President Donald Trump’s decision to bar CNN, MS NOW and POLITICO from the White House has drawn condemnation across journalism, with professional associations, press freedom advocates and competing news organizations defending the affected outlets. Some voices are urging the industry to go further and withdraw from White House events in solidarity. more

CNN reporter Betsy Klein was denied access at the White House on Saturday morning and her press pass was seized, one day after President Donald Trump announced that he was banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico. more