Last month, during an all-staff meeting at WAMU, Diane Rehm’s microphone mysteriously stopped working. Rehm began her career at WAMU in 1973 and has hosted a podcast and a monthly book club program for the Washington public radio station since she stepped back from daily broadcast of her nationally distributed show in 2016. more

Mandy Hofmockel remembers looking for a job early in her journalism career. She applied to over a hundred openings at organizations across the country; after months of intense searching, she got … more

Editor & Publisher (E&P) Magazine is proud to announce the launch of its new free-to-access content vertical, "Public Pulse," dedicated to providing executive insights on public media. The online platform, available at EditorandPublisher.com/PublicMedia, aims to address the informational needs of public media executives navigating a rapidly evolving media landscape. more

New Iberia Newsmedia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carpenter Media Group (CMG), has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire The Daily Iberian (New Iberia, Louisiana) from Wick Communications of Sierra Vista, Arizona. Work to complete the transaction is underway. more

The legacy publication is leaning on AI for video production, a new breaking news team, and first drafts of some stories. more

Scripps News has announced that Ad Fontes Media, a tech company that rates the news for bias and reliability, will audit its national news as part of the network’s industry-leading commitment to transparency and nonpartisan journalism. The agreement comes as advertisers struggle to filter through a deluge of low-quality journalism that can pose brand safety risks. more

The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government. more

Yes, the broadcaster is a mess. But 'wokeness' isn’t the issue. more

NPR business editor Uri Berliner earned a five-day suspension without pay from his bosses this week for having violated the network’s policy prohibiting unauthorized work for other outlets. Warned that if he did it again, he could be fired, Berliner made the next move and resigned. more

Colorado Public Radio has a vision to be the state's top, free news source. Getting there has created some controversy. more

The Online News Association (ONA) is excited to announce an expansion of our commitment to cultivate transformational leadership with the acquisition of Digital Women Leaders (DWL), a mentorship resource for women and non-binary people aimed at addressing disparities in journalism leadership. more

The scholarship, open to any undergraduate or graduate student pursuing degrees in broadcast or multimedia journalism at any college or university in the U.S., awards one student $2,000 and an invitation to the annual RTDNA conference. more

The Fund for American Studies (TFAS) and The Wall Street Journal are pleased to announce Jillian Lederman and Luke Lyman as the two recipients of the 2024 Joseph Rago Memorial Fellowship for Excellence in Journalism. The Fellowships are being awarded to two outstanding individuals for the first time since its creation in 2018. Previously, the award was given to one fellow per year. more

Bryan VanCampen of The Ithaca Times was an institution in the central New York college town of 32,000. He might have been the last of his kind. more

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The union that represents a Pittsburgh newspaper’s truck drivers, one of five unions that have been on strike for 18 months, has approved a new contract with the … more

In a time when the headlines are dominated by wars and a divisive presidential campaign, the magazine-world rivalry between The Atlantic and The New Yorker doesn’t amount to much. more

Uri Berliner, the NPR editor who accused the broadcaster of liberal bias in an online essay last week, prompting criticism from conservatives and recrimination from many of his co-workers, has … more

Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, 350 members of America’s Newspapers and the News/Media Alliance gathered April 14-16 for discussions of the key issues they are facing and to share success stories and strategies for meeting the challenges of today. more

Say what you like about the Germans, you can always count on them to find just the right word for anything. Take “ weltschmerz ”, for example, which roughly translates to “world … more

The AM For Every Vehicle Act is on the verge of a crucial milestone in the U.S. Senate. The proposed legislation, which broadcasters have for the past 15 months fiercely advocated for, is about to … more