Publishers began closing loopholes that allowed people to bypass their paywalls with fervor back in 2019, but it’s still a challenge for publishers to measure and block people who are finding those gaps. more

Officials asserted that the puzzle, which appears next to the crossword, “may be used to create coded messages indecipherable by staff.” more

Lyle Printing and Publishing, of Salem, Ohio, has selected SCS to provide its Community Advertising System and Community Publishing System. Farm and Dairy, which serves the rural communities of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, is the company’s flagship publication. more

For the last seven weeks, national TV political advertising has climbed to $3.7 million. more

A continent seeped in oral tradition is meeting the many challenges of the digital divide — and swinging a few learning curves at global publishers and content creators. more

A police raid without precedent on a weekly newspaper alarmed First Amendment advocates. The real story of how it happened, though, is rooted in the roiling tensions and complex history of a few key community members. more

Connections, a daily game where players find common threads between words, can now be found on The New York Times Games app for iOS and Android devices. more

Moderators Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier used attention-grabbing statements and statistics to paint a vivid picture of the state of America. more

There has been a “substantial” increase in philanthropic spending for journalism over the past five years, particularly outlets that serve poor and minority communities, a report issued on Thursday said — but journalists need to tighten ethical rules that govern the new spending, it recommended. more

Learning communities provide key on-demand services and infrastructure for sustainable local news. more

Absent for more than two years, former President Donald J. Trump posted his mug shot on the site, now called X. more

The nonprofit newsroom laid off 11 people Wednesday, including several longtime journalists and its entire copy desk. more

State lawmakers for years have been ahead of Congress in passing data privacy legislation. Will the same happen with generative AI? more

A Delaware judge on Wednesday rejected Newsmax’s attempt to throw out part of a defamation case brought by the election technology company Smartmatic against the right-wing network. more

People in the 27-nation European Union can alter some of what shows up when they search, scroll and share on the biggest social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram and Facebook and other tech giants like Google and Amazon. more

Talking through sudden changes, life after layoffs and more ... more

Salary negotiations — among the most high-stakes, emotionally fraught and psychologically complex processes many employees will ever experience — could soon get the artificial-intelligence treatment. more

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press recently spoke with Paula Knudsen Burke, the Reporters Committee’s Local Legal Initiative attorney in the state, to learn more about why accessing settlement agreements is a priority for the Pennsylvania Local Legal Initiative. She discussed the arguments she’s making on behalf of journalists and newsrooms to overcome the pervasive culture of secrecy often keeping these documents hidden from the public. more

The figure exceeded the expectations of some television executives, who believed that Mr. Trump’s absence would leThe first Republican debate on Wednesday night drew an audience of 12.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen, indicating robust interest despite the absence of former President Donald J. Trump, the front-runner in the race.ad to far fewer viewers. more

CEO Sonal Shah told staff that 2023 has been uniquely challenging for the outlet, which many have come to see as a model for nonprofit journalism. more