Meena Duerson was previously a correspondent for VICE News, reporting for Vice News Tonight, where she covered a wide range of key issues across the nation from education to housing, health care and climate.

Erin Mershon is joining Business from Stat, where she has delivered a string of agenda-setting and award-winning coverage from her perch as Washington bureau chief and associate managing editor.

The industry veteran will lead The Washington Post’s audience insights, data and programmatic, sales operations and revenue analytics teams.

The board said it would accept public comment on the question for the next two weeks before deliberating and issuing a decision.

Schneps Media, a news group that serves Long Island, New York City and elsewhere, has acquired Anton Media Group, a Mineola-based publisher of newspapers and magazines that focus on communities in Nassau County.

The local news crisis has been widely chronicled. Why do so many seem unaware?

Katherine Maher, who became the CEO of National Public Radio (NPR) in March, has turned down an invitation from House Republicans to testify before Congress this week regarding claims of left-wing bias at her network.

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced the launch of a $2 million Societal Resilience Fund to further AI education and literacy among voters and vulnerable communities.

ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN all face questions about their future, just as one of the toughest journalistic assignments looms.

Some journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI went on strike Monday to protest budget streamlining and what they said was an increasingly repressive atmosphere in Italy for media under the government of Premier Giorgia Meloni.

Jeremy Gulban was trying to pause, after a spree of acquiring newspapers in small towns where Wall Street firms had milked their local papers dry. But he couldn’t resist the opportunity when Alden Global Capital closed a group of six Minnesota papers in late April.

Here are some specific points for newspapers to consider as they evaluate how to build trust this year — plus resources and inspiration for getting started.

Warner Bros. Discovery is staying on the sidelines of the Paramount Global acquisition drama — at least for now. That was the signal sent Monday by WB Discovery CEO David Zaslav during his appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills.

Audacy is asking the FCC to summarily reject a conservative group’s petition that seeks to block a change of ownership related to its Chapter 11 financial reorganization that would let liberal billionaire investor George Soros acquire a stake in the company. It calls Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center maneuver an “ill-informed attempt to impede Audacy’s reorganization.”

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.

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?

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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.