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By Niklas Eriksson
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7/31/26
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Public Media Infrastructure has named Jeannie Ericson as its inaugural chief executive officer, effective Aug. 3. Ericson will lead the nonprofit’s efforts to modernize the technology infrastructure supporting more than 1,300 public media stations across the country as the industry navigates the post-Corporation for Public Broadcasting era.
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Staff | Inside Radio
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7/30/26
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Urban One Dallas has announced a series of leadership appointments for its Dallas-Fort Worth radio cluster following the company's acquisition of Service Broadcasting. Maurice Potts has been named vice president and general manager, Karl Whittingham has been promoted to director of sales, and Kevin Jenkins joins the company as local sales manager.
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Staff | Radio Online
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7/30/26
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Jeff Rogers has become the next president and chief executive officer of the Illinois Press Association, IPA Board President Jim Slonoff announced.
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Staff | Illinois Press Association
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7/30/26
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WEHCO Media, Inc. announced today that the Chattanooga Times Free Press has been acquired by Craig Fuller and his father Max Fuller, effective July 31.
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Press Release | Dirks, Van Essen & April
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7/30/26
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Samantha Henig is joining The Wall Street Journal as head of multimedia, overseeing the Audio and Video departments in a newly created role.
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Emma Tucker | The Wall Street Journal
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7/30/26
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More than a 100,000 comments, mostly supportive of the stations, have been received in just the last 30 days.
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George Winslow | TV Tech
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7/30/26
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Veteran broadcaster Amie Pollard has acquired Dothan, Alabama, heritage stations WOOF-FM (99.7) and WOOF-AM (560), along with FM translators W261AT (100.1) and W296DQ (107.1), through her newly formed AMP Media LLC.
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Staff | Radio Online
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7/30/26
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Corey Friedman has been named editor of the Lexington County Chronicle and newsletter editor of a sister publication, The Sumter Item, Group Publisher Vince Johnson announced.
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Staff | Lexington County Chronicle
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7/30/26
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The New York Times publisher talks with Wired about the value of first-hand reporting for artificial intelligence and the escalating attacks on the free press.
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Press Release | The New York Times
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7/30/26
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The staff of The Maine Monitor announced the formation of The Maine Monitor Union, joining The News Guild of Maine, Local 31128 of The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America. Management agreed to voluntarily recognize the workers’ union shortly after they went public.
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Jon Schleuss | The NewsGuild
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7/30/26
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The law took effect July 7 and could make IFCN-accredited fact-checkers eligible for government funding.
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Enock Nyariki | Poynter
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7/30/26
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The media world is still buzzing about some of the new hires for the upcoming season of CBS’s “60 Minutes.” Most notably, the talk has been about the hiring of Ross Douthat, the conservative New York Times columnist, as a full-time correspondent.
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Tom Jones | Poynter
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7/30/26
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What happens when Google stops sending readers to news websites? In his “News Media Today” column this month, E&P’s Rob Tornoe explores “Google Zero,” the devastating impact of AI search on publishers large and small, and why many news organizations now believe they must prepare for a future where Google delivers answers — but not audiences.
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Rob Tornoe | for E&P Magazine
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7/30/26
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By Olive Brinker
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7/30/26
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Distinguished journalist Henry Chu has been named curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, the University announced.
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Staff | The Harvard Gazette
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7/29/26
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A new media company called Eventual is launching in partnership with Polymarket to give the world's top prediction market traders a platform for news and analysis.
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Sara Fischer | Axios
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7/29/26
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Elon Musk’s X has settled its multiyear legal battle with advertising trade group the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), the two organizations said.
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Aisha Malik | TechCrunch
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7/29/26
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Kent State University has named Michael Beam, Ph.D., as the interim director of the School of Media and Journalism. His appointment started July 1, after MDJ Director Emily Metzgar, Ph.D., began a new role as dean of Penn State University’s Bellisario College of Communications.
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Staff | Kent State University School of Media and Journalism
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7/29/26
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Lauren Fedor will join POLITICO this fall as a senior politics reporter, boosting its reporting firepower during an extraordinary moment in American politics.
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Alisa Vasquez | POLITICO Press
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7/29/26
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