The Federal Trade Commission is negotiating a potential settlement with several major advertising companies to resolve a probe into whether they violated federal antitrust laws by coordinating boycotts against platforms including Elon Musk’s X, people familiar with the matter said. more

The U.S. Postal Service has filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) of mailing services price changes to take effect on July 12. more

A new independent initiative, The Media Integrity Project, has officially launched with a mission to elevate the standards of public storytelling by examining how journalism is created, framed and experienced. more

MS NOW has announced a series of investments and collaborations with three leading nonprofit organizations in support of investigative and local journalism across the country. more

Anat Rubin, an investigative reporter for CalMatters, is the recipient of the 2026 John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism from Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. She is honored for “The Man Who Unsolved a Murder” published by CalMatters. more

Paramount President Jeff Shell will leave the company Wednesday, according to people familiar with the matter. He is also expected to resign from the company’s board of directors, a person with knowledge of the matter said. more

ProPublica journalists walked off the job on Wednesday, for 24 hours, after more than two years of negotiations that failed to yield a deal for a union contract. more

American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped from a Baghdad streetcorner last week, was released Tuesday, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. more

With the launch of ICEtracking.org late last month from Evident Media, journalists have a new resource that parses and organizes a wide range of information about mass detentions. more

“The moment I saw Trump’s crazy and dangerous Truth Social post on the morning of Easter Sunday, I could imagine the freakout in newsrooms across the country.” — Margaret Sullivan more

Amazon has been hit with a lawsuit by content creators who allege that the company wrongly scraped their YouTube videos in order to train the generative artificial intelligence system Nova Reel, which aims to create videos from text prompts. more

As cuts in federal funding for social programs push foundations to increase their payouts and shift their priorities, one fundraising initiative offers a solution for funders and nonprofits alike. NewsMatch packages the promise of a matching gift with training and tools designed to empower nonprofit newsrooms  to do more than earn the match: it teaches them how to engage  small-dollar donations and major gifts, cultivate investments from local businesses and community foundations and even stand up their own matching gift incentives.  more

As America prepares to celebrate its 250th Anniversary, a three-part national contest series asks students from across the United States to express their vision of the future of American democracy through writing, art and performance. more

Paramount has received signed equity commitments of close to $24 billion from three sovereign-wealth funds led by Saudi Arabia to help back its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, according to people familiar with the matter. more

Animosity from the White House has taken on new meaning amid an imminent sale to David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance, fueling anxiety among journalists. more

Ten writers have been accepted into this year’s George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. The workshop will take place in Evanston this July. more

President Trump in April 2025 posted some thoughts on Truth Social about public media, in all caps: “Republicans must defund and totally disassociate themselves from NPR & PBS, the radical left … more

Was it her mishandling of the Epstein files? Was it her failure to prosecute President Donald Trump’s perceived enemies? Was it her awful performances in front of the media and Congress? Did she run out of allies within the Republican Party? more

Wick Communications has announced that Seaton Publishing Company’s Grand Junction Media is acquiring Wick’s Colorado newspaper group and commercial printing operations. more

WVIA public media is marking 60 years of service to Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania, celebrating six decades of educational programming, local storytelling, cultural connection, and, more recently, trusted journalism. more