The Kerrville (Texas)  Daily Times welcomed its new publisher, Greg Burney, on April 22. He succeeds Jennifer McCullough, who announced her retirement March 6.

David Dishman, business, growth and development editor at the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, has been named the Coloradoan’s new executive editor. Dishman replaces Eric Larsen, who left in January to become executive editor of the Indianapolis Star, part of the USA TODAY Network.

The 19th has announced that veteran journalist Fernanda Santos is joining as managing editor to help shape coverage during this crucial election year and beyond.

The News/Media Alliance applauds additional publications for filing a lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York against Microsoft and OpenAI. Similar to the suit filed by The New York Times in December, the newspapers claim that the two tech companies have violated copyright law by using millions of the newspapers’ copyright protected articles in the training of their generative AI bots.

A group of eight major daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and the New York Daily News, sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Tuesday, joining the backlash to artificial-intelligence companies that have used copyrighted work to train their algorithms without compensating content owners.

The Scripps Howard Fund is investing $3 million to help student journalists learn how to cover under-reported communities while combatting misinformation and providing important journalism.

One America News Network said the story was being removed from "all sites" and "all social media" as part of a settlement it reached with Donald Trump's former fixer.

The European Union is investigating whether Meta Platforms shirked responsibility in tackling disinformation and misleading advertising in breach of its sweeping digital-competition law ahead of EU elections in June.

As the action swelled, the Columbia Daily Spectator, the campus newspaper, was positioned to be the main source of information about events that soon reverberated across the world. 

The terms of the new deal would provide Paramount shareholders with an investment to pay down debt and buy back stock.

Hunter Biden is threatening to sue Fox News for defamation, exploitation of his image and publication of hacked photographs, according to a letter obtained by Axios that was sent to the news channel last week.

U.K.-based global film business brand Screen International and the U.S.’ pre-eminent entertainment newsletter, The Ankler, are teaming to publish a daily newsletter at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. 

A legislative panel on Thursday narrowly rejected a proposed 20% reduction to Arkansas PBS’ spending authority for fiscal year 2025.

The last publication of Litchfield Independent Review was distributed Wednesday as the community gathered to say their goodbyes to the only community newspaper and the longest continuously-running business in Litchfield.

CherryRoad Media, the nation’s fastest growing newspaper company, announced that it will open newspapers in Hutchinson and Litchfield, Minnesota, to fill the void left with the closing of the Hutchinson Leader and the Litchfield Independent Review.

An 18-day strike against Gannett’s Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, New York) has ended despite the sides not having settled on a deal. 

223 Local Now FAST channels offering local news, weather and entertainment will be available to owners of LG Smart TVs.

The introductions of HDR and Dolby Atmos immersive sound to coverage of the Kentucky Derby are among the group’s latest technical additions that also include new interactive and streaming services for viewers.

In three years, prescriptions for a new class of weight loss drugs (called GLP-1 receptor agonists) have been so robust that they rank among the top-selling medications in Medicare’s prescription-drug program, according to a new report from KFF.

“That’s a great thing for the First Amendment and may be a great thing as it was in our case,” a sheriff's department spokesperson said of the podcast that helped solve a cold-case murder. “But the same factors can lead to proliferation of misinformation, or worse yet, case-compromising information.”

In the switch to electronic filing, the tradition of public access to new court pleadings was undermined by state court clerks all around the nation. Many clerks have now agreed to reinstate traditional access. But far from all.

This week, Poynter is publishing installments from “Shut Out: Strategies for good journalism when sources dismiss the press,” a report from a symposium by the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership about the growing trend of sources bypassing independent reporting.

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Help us recognize the foundation of news publishing, the Operations leaders who help us produce quality products each day while keeping an eye on the bottom line! Nominate an Operations colleague today, so we can profile them and share their ideas with the global news publishing industry in our 2024 class of "Operations All-Stars!"

In a strategic move aimed at optimizing its public notice services, Wick Communications, a third-generation family-owned and operated media corporation, has embraced Column’s latest professional service offering — Column Pro. This shift has reallocated staff resources, cost savings, and increased operational stability. “Column is great about attending to the details, such as keeping our newspaper logos on the invoices. Their team works with us to ensure our long-standing clients understand that Column is our newspaper partner — that we’re all working together," stated Manuel Coppola of Wick Communications.

In 2023, Amsterdam News partnered with Column to streamline its legals. Siobhan “Sam” Bennett, the President and Chief Revenue Officer of Amsterdam News in New York, NY, highlighted three stand-out reasons why their choice to go with Column has paid off. The three most impactful payment features that Column offers are payment alerts, invoice reminders, and the option for prepayment. Read about the solutions.

The National Press Institute for Audience Growth (NPIAG) along with Kelly Robinson, CEO of RedDot announced today they have partnered with Julian Placino, a professional recruiting consultant, to offer an innovative, cost-effective method, known as the Placino Carrier Recruitment Method, to identify, interview, qualify and contract newspaper carriers for any size market.