RJ Shook of Shook Research said he paid Randall Lane, the former top editor at Forbes, for “services and guidance” in partnering with Forbes and later selling his research firm. more

The attorney general of California, one of 12 states suing to block the $111 billion deal, accused Paramount of leaking and misrepresenting earlier settlement discussions. more

The Pentagon on Friday fired the publisher and the editor in chief of Stars and Stripes, the military newspaper funded by the Department of Defense that has long enjoyed editorial independence from the government, according to the publication’s outgoing editor in chief. more

E&P Magazine has published its core journalistic values, giving readers and the news media industry a clear standard by which to judge its work. The values will appear on the first editorial page of E&P’s September issue and permanently online. E&P is inviting readers to question, challenge and hold the publication accountable to those principles. It is also urging other news organizations to publish their own values and show their communities exactly what they stand for. more

“The Athletic FC Podcast,” your essential guide to football’s biggest stories, is back with a new host as the new Premier League season gets underway. more

Havovi Cooper will help shape The New York Times' enterprise and vertical video journalism. more

James Paton will be a London-based business correspondent covering a range of industrial companies. more

Signal Ohio is pleased to announce that Mike Canan will join the organization as chief content officer, leading editorial strategy across its growing network of independent, nonprofit newsrooms serving communities throughout Ohio. more

John Solomon, once a reporter for The Associated Press and The Washington Post, veered rightward in his coverage. His prize: a job in the administration. more

The Guild's organizing committee has delivered a letter to Tribune Publishing, which acquired the Daily Herald in June, requesting voluntary recognition. By forming the union, the journalists aim to address high turnover, advocate for pay equity and strengthen the publication’s community-focused coverage. more

TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, reached a $400 million settlement with the US Justice Department over children’s privacy litigation on Friday, one of the largest amounts yet for a case of this kind. more

The New York Times has begun testing its first generative AI tool for readers, a step the publication hopes will improve its troubled search feature but which has also alarmed some of the paper’s journalists. more

What if the media were to get obsessed about things that really matter? What a concept! more

Prince Harry and six other high-profile figures in Britain were ordered on Friday to make an initial payment of £9.54 million, about $13 million, to the publisher of The Daily Mail, after they lost a privacy case against the company. more

Stars and Stripes was never meant to be the Pentagon’s mouthpiece. It exists to serve as an independent voice for those who serve, and for the military families who depend on its reporting to understand the decisions shaping their lives. The Pentagon’s firing of the publication’s publisher, editor and a Middle East reporter now puts that independence, and the trust it has earned over 164 years, in jeopardy. E&P Editor-in-Chief Gretchen A. Peck examines what these actions mean for the future of Stars and Stripes and the people who rely on it. more

“Karoline will now be one of my top outside advisors, and an influential voice within the Republican Party,” President Donald Trump said in a statement earlier this week announcing the departure of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. Turns out, he was right. more

Three of the most extraordinary people I have had the privilege of interviewing during my years in this industry have now been fired by the Pentagon. Publisher Max Lederer, Editor-in-Chief Erik Slavin and former Ombudsman Jacqueline Smith each dedicated themselves to protecting the independence of Stars and Stripes and serving the military personnel, families and communities that depend on it. In my conversations with them, all three returned to the same fundamental truth: Stars and Stripes cannot fulfill its mission unless its journalism remains free from military command. more

When wildfires roared toward Spokane, the journalists covering the disaster suddenly found their own homes, neighbors and newsroom in its path. Three newsroom leaders reveal how The Spokesman-Review raced toward the danger to deliver lifesaving information, verify rapidly changing facts and document the devastation consuming its community. Their experience offers a powerful lesson in what local journalism demands when the story hits home. more

National Press Club President Mark Schoeff Jr. released the following statement on Friday: “The firing of Erik Slavin, editor of Stars and Stripes, is another brazen attempt by the Pentagon to dictate coverage of the military and should be immediately reversed.” more