CNN has announced the appointment of award-winning journalist Isobel Yeung as an international correspondent based in the network’s London bureau.

Michal Leibowitz rejoins Opinion as a staff editor on politics and culture coverage.

Gregory Schmidt, who distinguished himself as an editor over more than a decade at The New York Times, has a new role in London.

ProPublica was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the work of Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Alex Mierjeski and Kirsten Berg. The award was presented for groundbreaking and ambitious reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding the Supreme Court to reveal how a small group of politically influential billionaires wooed justices with lavish gifts and travel, pushing the Court to adopt its first code of conduct.

See the full list of Pulitzer Prize recipients and finalists.

"I recently wrote an extensive analysis and criticism of a proposed California link tax, offering many alternatives. A state senator just proposed his own alternative — and it is even worse." — Jeff Jarvis

The Star Tribune Media Company, the largest news organization in the Midwest, today announced advancements of its newsroom structure to better serve Minnesota. Going forward, the news outlet will re-align news coverage and resources around its five key topic areas of News and Politics, Business, Sports, Food and Culture, and Outdoors.

The inaugural report of the Pew-Knight Initiative reveals that despite fewer U.S. adults following local news and few paying for it directly, 85% still consider these outlets important to their community and 63% believe they are in good financial shape.

What’s important to watch, in this gnarly legislation filled with acronyms, are two simple things: Money In and Money Out.

In a message to readers, Greg Farmer, executive editor of The Kansas City Star, introduced a new and improved digital experience: The Star’s Edition. He wrote: "Consider this a 'Best of The Star' Edition where we’re sharing every day the must-see stories, videos, photos and other content you can’t find anywhere else."

News releases on the New York Times Co. website generally announce promotions, new products, awards and the like. So the statement from a Times spokesperson posted to the site on April 25 stood out: “For anyone who understands the role of the free press in a democracy, it should be troubling that President Biden has so actively and effectively avoided questions from independent journalists during his term,” said the release, which followed a Politico article about a beef between the White House and the Times.

The company on Monday reached a tentative contract agreement with unionized employees who said they were willing to disrupt Anna Wintour’s carefully laid plans over stalled negotiations.

Israel shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in the country and seized some of its communication equipment Sunday, prompting condemnation from the United Nations and rights groups over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s moves to restrict press freedoms.

Meredith Owensby Harrell has sold Carter Publishing Co., Inc. d/b/a Kernersville (North Carolina) News to Paxton Media Group, according to John Cribb of Cribb, Cope & Potts who represented the Carter/Owensby-Harrell family in the transaction. Terms were not disclosed.

Ballantine Communications Inc., which owns The Durango Herald and The Journal in Southwest Colorado, has reached an agreement with Gannett Co. Inc. to purchase the Farmington Daily Times.

The Chicago Reader, an alternative nonprofit newspaper, is returning to weekly print production. The first weekly issue will be on June 5. 

Programming fees have become so onerous as to threaten the future viability of affiliates. Networks need to remember: If stations go under, they take the network owners with them.

Ben Smith (Semafor) stopped by Joe Kahn’s modest office in The New York Times newsroom Thursday to ask him what some of his readers want to know: Why doesn’t the executive editor see it as his job to help Joe Biden win?

Wounded and limping, doubting its own future, American journalism seems to be losing a quality that carried it through a century and a half of trials: its swagger.

"Al Primo & His Eyewitness News Revolution" takes you back to the early days of television news to hear the behind-the-scenes stories of its revolution from the people who were there.

Warren Buffett revealed that he dumped Berkshire Hathaway’s entire Paramount stake at a loss. “I was 100% responsible for the Paramount decision,” Buffett said at Berkshire’s annual shareholder meeting. “It was 100% my decision, and we’ve sold it all and we lost quite a bit of money.”

Warren Buffett cautioned the tens of thousands of shareholders who packed an arena for his annual meeting that artificial intelligence scams could become "the growth industry of all time."

Fresh off what it characterizes as a “successful” refinancing effort — in which it moved the maturation date of about $326 million in debt from 2026 to 2029 — Cumulus Media on Friday announced its earnings results for the first quarter of 2024, reporting total revenue of $200 million.

Imagine an assistive AI tool that efficiently reformats your newsroom content into various text, audio, and video formats instantly. Not only does it streamline the process, but it also autonomously generates headlines and keywords to optimize SEO performance for your stories. Registrants who can't attend will get instant access to a video of the broadcast.

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.