Carol Hunter, one of the longest-serving executive editors in the 175-year history of the Des Moines Register, announced Thursday she is retiring after a 45-year career in journalism. 

Gray Media has announced the upcoming retirements of two veteran broadcasters at year-end. In Columbus, Georgia, Holly Steuart will retire as the general manager of WTVM, the local ABC affiliate, and in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Scott Sanders will retire as the general manager of WMBF, the local NBC affiliate.

Dao Nguyen will be joining The New York Times as senior vice president and head of the digital advertising mission.

The Copyright Office has published a final rule relating to statements of account (SOAs) that cable, satellite and digital audio recording devices or media (DART) operators must file under section 111 of the Copyright Act.

The MacArthur Foundation has announced $20 million to support newsrooms and provide journalism infrastructure as part of its commitment to revitalize local news.

The Tulsa Local News Initiative will begin publishing The Oklahoma Eagle newspaper, launch a new newsroom and create over two dozen journalism jobs.

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. has announced that its board of directors has authorized the company to implement a new corporate structure designed to enhance its strategic flexibility and create potential opportunities to unlock additional shareholder value.

As debates over free speech and ideological diversity continue to intensify on college campuses, a new study by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) sheds light on the unsettling prevalence of self-censorship among faculty at higher education institutions across the United States.

Following the company’s successful July launch of its sports business vertical, CNBC Sport, CNBC President KC Sullivan announced the formation of a Strategic Verticals & Audience Development unit responsible for creating, growing and commercializing both new and existing verticals centered around key content areas.

Foreshadowing what may be one of many fights in the coming year in Washington, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) has introduced a bill that would end taxpayer funding to public radio and television.

The Trust Press, a commercial printing facility launched by the National Trust for Local News to address the skyrocketing costs of producing local news in Colorado, is now operational.

Federal prosecutors sidestepped some Justice Department rules when they seized the phone records or emails of reporters as part of media leak investigations during the Trump administration, according to a new watchdog report being released as the aggressive practice of hunting for journalists’ sources could again be resurrected.

The job cuts will be the second round at the Bend Bulletin in the past six months.

A Minnesota district court found that Unicorn Riot's actions during the 2016 protest of a North Dakota oil pipeline were akin to journalists embedding with a military unit.

RANGE, the iconic journalism brand you know for its cooperative structure, deep investigations, civic engagement barcrawls, and the raw animal magnetism of its staff is back with its most shameless ambitious project yet: Putting designs on clothes you can buy to show your commitment to accountability while helping RANGE keep afflicting the powerful and empowering the afflicted.

The Associated Press and two other news organizations are suing Idaho’s top prison official for increased access to lethal injection executions, saying the state is unconstitutionally hiding the actual administration of the deadly drugs from public view.

At stake is public access to “junque files” containing back-channel communications between legislators, lobbyists and stakeholders during the drafting of bills.

The emergency motion comes just days after a D.C. Circuit panel ruled the federal statute imposing the January ban was constitutional.

Local digital media entrepreneur Charity Huff plans to grow the brand’s offerings while bolstering its flagship monthly print magazine.

With the arrest of a suspect in the killing of a health insurance executive, newsrooms are entering into that frenzied period of competitive reporting where every little nugget of information takes on an outsized significance.

As the Washington Post newsroom awaits the appointment of a new top editor, its acting news chief intervened to block an article about the departure of its second-highest-ranking editor, a contender for the position, according to several people with knowledge of events.

The International Federation of Journalists said Tuesday that 104 journalists and media workers have been killed so far in 2024, with more than half of them perishing during the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.

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