The billionaire’s private friendship with the president has helped Oracle’s business and his son’s media conglomerate. more

The National Press Club announced today that CBS News, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, PBS Frontline and NPR are among the winners of this year’s prestigious National Press Club Journalism Awards. more

YouTube and its parent company Google have reached a confidential settlement with R.K.C., the unnamed defendant in a second bellwether trial over the effects of social media on minors. more

The Daily Wire, one of the biggest players in conservative media, is in talks to take on at least $100 million in investment, with an eye on an initial public offering in a few years’ time. more

NewsGuard, the company whose journalists have evaluated the reliability of online news sources since 2018, today announced the launch of NewsGuard AI, the world’s first news aggregation chatbot purpose-built to deliver reliable responses to prompts on topics in the news. more

Few suburban newspapers have existed as long as the Daily Herald, founded as the Cook County Herald just seven years after the end of the Civil War. But now, the news organization that prides itself as “Suburban Chicago’s Information Source,” is facing a major transition. more

Journalists and other state media employees dressed in black and formed a human chain around Czech public radio headquarters in Prague on Monday, part of a larger protest against a government plan to overhaul the way the country’s public broadcasters are funded. more

LTN, a major provider of IP-based video transport and network services, has been selected by PBS as its IP video partner to modernize and future-proof content distribution and contribution across more than 330 public television stations. more

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced the recipients of the 2026 Freedom of the Press Awards, which recognize the accomplishments of leaders in the news media and legal fields whose work embodies the values of the First Amendment. more

Senate Bill 1167, signed into law June 19 by Governor Katie Hobbs, establishes a flexible, consistent framework for public notices across Arizona, improving accessibility while preserving the longstanding role of newspapers in promoting transparency and accountability.  more

Patrick Dorsey knows better than most about the newspaper industry’s painful disruption. Virginia newspapers he delivered as a boy are gone. Much of his career was in chain newspapers that shrank, merged and shrank again. Yet Dorsey strongly believes the industry will endure. more

The publication is abandoning a planned rebranding after resolving a trademark dispute with the new publisher of The Washington Star. more

Need help finding places to hike? Want to share your dinner or blog about your latest trip and live in Illinois? Your social media use could contribute to at least $600,000 in revenue for Illinois, but it comes at a cost.  more

D-R Media and Investments of Venice, Florida, has selected SCS’s Community Advertising System to update and enhance its advertising and production workflows. By implementing CAS, D-R Media will benefit from a unified, organization-wide solution that supports display, classified and digital advertising operations, as well as invoicing, accounts receivable and customer account management. more

In this opinion column, Stig Ørskov, chief executive officer of WAN-IFRA (World Association of News Publishers), highlights Canada’s global leadership in supporting sustainable journalism, from newsroom tax credits and the Online News Act to local journalism initiatives. As artificial intelligence reshapes the media landscape, he urges Canada to continue leading by protecting intellectual property, ensuring AI transparency and holding technology companies accountable — safeguarding the future of independent journalism and the democratic values it supports. more

Freedom of the Press Foundation revealed that Paramount+ rejected an ad calling attention to President Donald Trump’s crooked meddling in media transactions to extract favorable coverage. The ad would have run on the platform during the same time as the UFC Freedom 250 event, broadcast live June 14 from the White House on President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday. more

Florida's attorney general sued TikTok ​on Monday over claims it is violating the state's law barring social media platforms from allowing children under age 14 ‌to create accounts. more

Two weeks since Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s administration picked Montclair State University to take over operations of New Jersey’s public television network, skeptics have increasingly grumbled about her choice. more

USA TODAY PLAY, a unified digital hub for casual entertainment and gaming, part of USA TODAY Co., Inc., announced a collaboration with Marvel Comics to provide an exclusive vertically-formatted Marvel Infinity “Spider-Man TODAY” Comic series to USA TODAY PLAY. more

Salesforce on Monday announced the acquisition of Fin, an AI customer service platform, as it moves to help companies become agentic enterprises in a next move that ties customer service to media buying. more