The Supreme Court’s decision to leave the landmark “actual malice” standard intact may have passed quietly, but its impact on press freedom, public debate and defamation law is enormous. In his latest “Democracy Desk” op-ed, Digital Media Laureate and E&P columnist Stuart N. Brotman explains why the legal doctrine at the heart of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan remains a crucial safeguard against efforts to silence criticism of powerful figures. more

Greg Tufaro, the award-winning New Jersey journalist whose three decades of reporting on local high school and college sports helped bring some of the state’s most important issues to public attention, died Monday. He was 59. more

NPR Chief Operating Officer Ryan Merkley announced today that Bryan Moffett has been promoted to senior vice president, transformation, and Michael Seifollahi has been promoted to vice president, audience technology and data. more

NPR announced that Emily Feng will be joining the Politics and Policy Desk as a White House correspondent. She will team up with Franco Ordoñez, Deepa Shivaram and Danielle Kurtzleben in their regular rotation at the White House. more

The White House Correspondents’ Association has asked President Donald Trump’s administration to “work with us on a protocol for handling extraordinary security circumstances in the future,” now that his secret plane switch last month has been revealed by leaks to news organizations. more

Bill Clinton’s White House used a similar plane-change maneuver in 2000. But unlike Trump’s flight last month, the press was briefed on the operation and its dangers. more

The Boston Globe CEO Linda Henry told Press Gazette how investment in local and specialist content is part of a strategy to get more potential subscribers in the “front door.” more

PolitiFact announced its most extensive partnership network to date for the 2026 midterm election cycle. Building on a nearly two-decade legacy of public service, PolitiFact is joining forces with premier local newsrooms in battleground states to help voters navigate a complex landscape of political claims and online misinformation. more

This fall, Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication launches the largest collection of new degree paths since its founding in 1984, marking a new era of preparing students for mass communication careers. more

Cade Metz, who has spent years covering the rise of AI, will now have a beat dedicated to the subject. more

Some for-profit newsroom leaders believe reader support is a chance to keep pace with rising costs while keeping their publications available to the public. more

For 18 months, Poynter has tracked federal actions affecting journalists and news access, revealing a rapid, sweeping change in the media landscape. more

Podcast advertising continued to show strong growth in the second quarter of 2026, with spending rising 23% from a year earlier and 9% from the first quarter, according to Magellan AI's latest Podcast Advertising Benchmark Report. Every month of the quarter topped the average monthly spending level recorded during Q1. more

WKRN News 2 and its veteran reporter/photographer Jerry Barlar — known for his live morning show reports from his car during bad weather and breaking news — parted ways suddenly Aug. 7, according to a copy of an email sent to Channel 2 employees and obtained by The Tennessean. more

Spanish Broadcasting System is asking the Federal Communications Commission to clear the way for a sweeping ownership change that would accompany its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. more

When The Valley Independent shut down in 2015, many feared Monessen, Pennsylvania, had lost more than a newspaper. But just four months later, a new publication emerged in its image, thanks to some local community leaders. In this special report, which marks The Mon Valley Independent’s 10th anniversary, E&P’s Tandy Lau explores how the local news brand not only survived the brief closure, but built a new newsroom, compelled subscribers and proved its long-range viability. more

The Atlantic is announcing two new staff writers: Madeleine Carlisle and Danyel Smith. This marks a homecoming for Carlisle, who was an Atlantic editorial fellow in 2018 and 2019, and went on to Time magazine and most recently “60 Minutes.” more

Numerous people participated in the deception, some unwittingly, and journalists who thought they were traveling with the president aboard the legacy Air Force One were not notified that he had changed aircraft or made aware of the extent of the threat on Air Force One, the U.S. official said. more