The Poynter Institute is proud to announce the 2026 cohort of Covering Child Welfare: A Journalist’s Guide to Impactful Reporting. This free training program, with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Insita Group, is designed to help journalists build sustainable child welfare and foster care reporting beats. more

A GOP Colorado lawmaker who serves on the state’s powerful budget-writing committee said he will hold state agencies accountable if they don’t prioritize their advertising spending with local Colorado news outlets. more

Treating the Federal Communications Commission like his own personal enforcer, President Donald Trump said on social media Sunday that NBC’s Kristen Welker would be “reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment” over a TV segment he didn’t like. more

Local news remains under enormous financial pressure, but the market for community publications is far from dead. A varied group of independent publishers, entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations is stepping forward to invest in titles that still matter to their communities. Sara April, president of Dirks, Van Essen & April, says many of these buyers are motivated by more than profit. Their commitment to preserving local journalism gives her renewed optimism about its future. more

Farah Miller, who has deep knowledge of the evolving online community landscape, will be Audience’s first deputy for Community. more

This week, the National Press Club saluted some of the year’s most consequential journalism while confronting the mounting pressures facing the profession. Honorees from The Washington Post, NPR and PBS FRONTLINE, The Atlantic and other news organizations reflected on the courage of their sources and the impact of their work. The evening showcased exceptional journalism — and a timely reminder of what it takes to produce it. more

The Pentagon’s firing last week of three employees of the newspaper Stars and Stripes was done out of retaliation over unflattering coverage of a Navy deployment and in violation of the protected right to free speech, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in Washington. more

With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on the horizon, the CBC has circulated a memo to reporters and editors across all its news platforms reminding them not to refer to the attacks that claimed 3,000 lives and changed the modern world as “terrorist attacks.” more

The Federal Trade Commission finalized orders requiring Cox Media Group (CMG) and two other firms to pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations they deceived customers by falsely claiming to offer an AI-powered service that could target localized ads based on conversations captured from consumers’ smart devices and that consumers had opted into such targeting. more

The appeals panel also determined that some URLs could count as copyright management information, which could have implications for linking back and forth on the internet. more

Nearly 40% of people in Chicago said in a recent study that they lacked information on their neighborhoods and how to get involved in civic life. Chicago Public Media decided to try something new to solve this gap. more

The E.W. Scripps Company has appointed Jen Carfley, a seasoned media sales leader, as head of small and medium business growth (SMB) and direct response advertising. more

After 56 years in the newspaper and printing business, View Newspaper Group Publisher Wes Smith recently announced his semi-retirement, which began last month. Three members of the View Leadership team have been named co-publishers. more

Leigh Ann Brannon is moving up at the Arkansas Broadcasters Association. Brannon, who has served as the association’s membership director for nearly three years, will become executive director when Neal Gladner retires in September, following the ABA convention. more

Rupert Murdoch said in newly released correspondence that it would be a disaster if his media empire fell into the “wrong hands.” more

In “The Anxious Generation,” he laid out the evils of social media for kids. The landmark Meta settlement seems to agree. more

Bradley Olson will oversee Axios’ technology and AI coverage, leading a team reporting on the companies, people and rapidly evolving technologies reshaping business and society. more

Go inside leading U.S. newsrooms to explore how publishers are responding to AI, video, changing audience habits, local journalism and the midterm elections. more

National Democrats and Republicans are pressuring local TV stations to respond in opposite ways to a new federal court ruling on political ad rates, Axios has learned. more