New warnings from within the artificial intelligence industry have revived a long-running debate over whether advanced AI could escape human control and ultimately threaten humanity’s survival, and whether the companies developing the technology are doing enough to prevent such a scenario. more

Jennie Coughlin is now National’s senior audience editor, and Nathan Boley and Kerrie Vila join The Times. more

As Shows continues to expand, the desk welcomes new editors and production staff. Rebecca Blandón, Eddie Costas, Pat Gunther and Paula Neudorf step into new roles within Shows, and RJ Sachdev joins as a video editor.ws continues to expand, the desk welcomes new editors and production staff. more

Victor L. Simpson, the longtime Rome bureau chief for The Associated Press whose four decades as a foreign correspondent spanned five popes, wars and violence that touched him personally, has died. He was 84. more

This month Innovation in Focus spoke with three different news leaders to learn more about how they find funding for interns. From universities to press associations, they shared their tips for newsrooms looking to find support for internships.  more

Gray Media launches new seasons of its popular weekday programs “InvestigateTV+” and “Aging Untold” alongside the debut of a new weekday format for the uplifting newsmagazine program “The Good Side.” more

The proposed legislation in the New York City Council, which would make it easier to revoke press credentials, follows inflammatory statements made by some of Luigi Mangione’s supporters. more

This new initiative is a collaboration between the Scripps Howard Fund and the J+D Lab, which supports innovative community college programs across the U.S. South that train students and community members to get, share and act on reliable local news and information. more

Rob Galloway already knew The Center Square’s reporting from its daily newsletter. What he hadn’t realized was that The Center Square was an open-access newswire. A sponsored post made that connection—and gave him a way to supplement local coverage with statewide stories his readers had reason to care about. For a newsroom that can’t get to every important story, that discovery opened the door to more coverage of housing, fire and other issues that hit home. more

Twenty-five years after the attacks of September 11, leading journalists, First Amendment advocates and scholars gathered at Columbia University for The Forever War and the First Amendment, a symposium examining how two decades of conflict reshaped journalism. Fresh from the event, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Azmat Khan joined E&P Reports to discuss what the press learned—and failed to learn—from covering the War on Terror. She argued that many of the challenges exposed after 9/11, from overreliance on government sources to growing secrecy and declining public trust, continue to shape journalism today. For local news leaders, Khan said, those lessons remain as relevant in their communities as they are on the world's biggest stories. more

Across the country, news organizations mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, honoring the souls lost and the heroes who served America that day and in the months and years that followed. Let us all reflect on the moments that forever changed America and the world. more

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication professor and award-winning journalist Andres Diaz has been named director of the National Center on Disability and Journalism.  more

The owner of The Miami Herald said subscriber interest did not support its current level of investment. One employee called the layoffs a “blood bath.” more

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has released an updated U.S. ad-spending forecast — up 2.8 points to more than 12.3% for 2026 compared with its estimates in January 2026. more

A Hong Kong court has convicted the publisher of the Wall Street Journal of deterring a reporter from taking up a trade union role, in a case that raised concerns about press freedom in the city. more

A local advertiser may need more than another standard display banner. It may need a podcast recorded at a neighborhood brewery, a sponsored story, a newsletter placement, a print campaign or a large, interactive digital unit that commands attention. Independent publishers can make those choices because they know the businesses, control their inventory and can adapt without waiting for an algorithm. Uriah Kiser of Potomac Local News and Julie Beth Maglio of the Hernando Sun show how publishers can use that freedom to build campaigns the largest platforms are not designed to deliver. more

Watch WSJ staff recall how they put together 9/11 coverage from a shattered newsroom in New York City. more

Telemundo has named Juan C. “JC” Acosta head of Telemundo Studios, putting the longtime media executive in charge of the company’s scripted content operation. more

TikTok has rejected ads from Meta that call on TikTok and other tech platforms to join Meta in settling with U.S. state attorneys general in a landmark children's safety lawsuit, sources told Axios. more

WLRN Public Media announced that Tom Hudson has been named chief executive officer, following a nationwide search for the organization’s next permanent leader. Hudson, who has been serving as interim CEO, will now officially take the helm of one of South Florida’s leading public media organizations. more