Cecily Tynan, the longtime chief meteorologist for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s WPVI, will retire after more than three decades with the ABC-owned station. more

The companies can’t combine yet, meaning promised cost savings and strategic moves are on hold while rivals push ahead. more

President Donald Trump attacked a slew of journalists and some of his favorite political foils at a slimmed-down redo of the White House correspondents’ dinner on Friday, comparing one female reporter to a transgender social media star, mocking politicians’ physical appearances, and bringing his audience to mostly stunned silence for more than an hour before pulling out a red Trump 2028 cap and declaring he was running for another term. more

“Trump used his time on the stage that had been made available by the correspondents association — during a nationally televised event — to let loose with a hate-filled rant. It was aimed at journalists, at his political enemies and at anybody else who has failed to suck up to him at every moment or to support his lawless regime.” — Margaret Sullivan more

The Pittsburgh Progress, a news organization forged by a team of union journalists and community members, launched today (July 27). The publication name — the Pittsburgh Progress — is a nod to the striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers’ strike publication, the Pittsburgh Union Progress. more

Community newspaper publishers are asking the Honourable Joël Lightbound, minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement and Québec lieutenant, to direct Canada Post to offer publishers the same rate it offers to the country’s dominant flyer printer. more

Former Kewaskum Statesman publisher Lana Harbeck Kuehl, age 76, of Kewaskum, passed away on Sunday, July 19, 2026 at home after fighting COPD for more than a decade. more

A flood of paid, unlabeled influencer marketing and AI-produced political ads has prompted a Senate Democrat to look at new restrictions on political advertising online. more

The Dallas Morning News is one of a number of news organizations across the country using Reddit — and as of March 2025, a new newsroom-specific tool called Reddit Pro for publishers — to expand the publication’s reach and become a more accessible community resource. more

If you’re a reporter passionate about local journalism and public service, mark your calendar! Applications for the 2027–2028 WSU Murrow Fellows/Report for Washington program open Aug. 12. more

The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) is pleased to announce the 2026-27 Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship recipients. The Fellows are Frannie Block of The Free Press, Faith Bottum, Rago ’21, and Mary Julia Koch of The Wall Street Journal, Gilbert Guerra ’20 and Grayson Logue of The Dispatch, John Sailer of the Manhattan Institute and Liz Wolfe of Reason. more

If your newsroom or your channel walked away from that platform, now's a good time to reconsider. more

Cecilia Vega described what she said was pressure from executives to insert bias into several segments that aired this year. more

Johnna Margalotti, who’s helped organize cross-desk coverage on major storylines, is now staff editor for planning. more

Jonathan Jones will focus on bringing behind-the-scenes stories to the forefront, breaking news and capturing game moments with deeply reported articles and video analysis. more

Paramount said Friday it will not move forward with its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery until legal challenges to the deal are resolved or June 1, 2027, whichever comes first. more

Local journalism does not need another obituary. It needs a new operating model. In New Jersey, Stefanie Murray is helping build one that treats local information as civic infrastructure, supported by collaboration, philanthropy, local business revenue and carefully protected public funding. Her message to the industry: The future may not look like the past, but communities still need journalism that serves them. more

Forbes has confirmed the departure of Randall Lane, the company’s chief content officer and editor of Forbes magazine, ending a leadership tenure during which he helped expand the business publication’s digital audience and launched several of its best-known editorial franchises. more

A federal judge extended a temporary restraining order pausing the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger by another two weeks, meaning that the companies won’t be able to close the transaction at least until Aug. 17. more