With that, ATSC 3.0 is now available in all Top 25 U.S. TV markets. more

The European Union hit Google with a fine of 890 million euros ($1 billion) after it said the technology behemoth broke digital antitrust regulations by setting up Google Play and its ubiquitous search engine to corral consumers towards its own services and apps to the detriment of competitors. more

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) is proud to announce the launch of the Penlight Prize for excellence in paywall-free public records reporting. more

The association says the dinner celebrates a free press. Trump will likely use it to attack the press. more

One of the richest sources of online information is re-evaluating its relationship with Google. more

The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) has promoted veteran television leader Dean Littleton to president of media, combining leadership of the company’s enterprise television and broadcast operations under Littleton in a newly created role for the company. more

With fewer editors than before, newsrooms are left with limited resources to balance quality and speed in their work.  New research testing three tutoring techniques with eight editors offers some hope.  more

GOP senators at odds with President Trump are slamming the plan floated by his social media company to sell faster access to the president’s market-moving online posts to wealthy trading firms, which could give them a crucial edge in the financial markets.      more

Nexstar Media Group, Inc., (NXST: NASDAQ) announced that it will launch primetime newscasts Monday through Sunday in Dallas and Phoenix in mid-August, bringing local news content to millions of new viewers in two of the nation’s top-12 markets. more

America’s childhood literacy crisis is deepening, with reading proficiency continuing to decline after the pandemic. Could local news media become part of the solution? In this “Quick Read,” E&P’s editor-in-chief explores how Kid Scoop News Founder Vicki Whiting is using community journalism to help children fall in love with reading while strengthening civic engagement. more

A federal magistrate judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump must turn over detailed financial information in connection with his defamation lawsuit against the BBC. more

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced a significant investment to launch digital newsrooms in 15 U.S. communities across three states in partnership with Village Media. The $5 million investment will bring Village Media’s proven model for sustainable, community-first local journalism to the U.S. more

Top-level editors at Reuters — including Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni — have repeatedly big-footed unionized journalists by cherry-picking stories, taking bylines and doing reporting and writing instead of managing their staff, all in violation of labor law, the NewsGuild of New York says. more

News Corp, the Murdoch family-owned parent company of The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is suing an AI company that describes itself as “the world’s most complete non-Big Tech search engine.” more

Adam Ellick and Ana Ionova, two top-notch journalists, will help International explore broader use of video. more

Sunday’s Spain-Argentina FIFA World Cup Final averaged a combined 66.4 million viewers across FOX (42.5M) and Telemundo (23.9M), the latter figure combining a Nielsen-measured linear audience with streaming viewership tracked by Adobe Analytics — marking television’s largest audience, excluding NFL games and news events, since the series finale of “Seinfeld” in 1998 (76.3M). more

After 173 years of serving Wisconsin’s newspaper industry, the Wisconsin Newspaper Association (WNA) announced it will adopt a new name: the Wisconsin NewsMedia Association (WNA).  more

Once again, ESPN is undergoing notable layoffs. One day after news broke that the network was cutting ties with NFL analyst Ryan Clark, ESPN continued its latest round of cuts, this time claiming some of its most recognizable on-air personalities. more

Yahoo Finance is launching a new premium feature on AlphaSpace that delivers real-time insights into options activity, helping users understand where investors are taking a position and what's moving the market. more