An overwhelming majority of the eligible staff of the Schneps Media Network of hyperlocal news outlets spanning New York City and Long Island announced (June 15) the creation of a union to secure competitive wages, sustainable working conditions and strengthen the news organization’s mission of providing objective local journalism in the public interest.  more

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) filed a federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice to uncover whether the agency is systematically misrepresenting the law and hiding statutory press protections from federal judges so that it can secure search warrants against journalists. more

Lehigh University has entered into an agreement to sell the Federal Communications Commission broadcast license for 91.3 WLVR-FM to its long-standing partner Lehigh Valley Public Media (LVPM). The agreement signals the shift in student learning outcomes related to digital content creation. more

POLITICO Magazine is being relaunched as a weekly publication focused on original reporting about the people and ideas that shape power around the world. more

Richner Communications, Inc., based in Garden City, New York, has selected SCS’s Community Advertising System to modernize and streamline its advertising, production and customer service workflows. more

Only two of eleven of the most well known national news organizations have a majority of Americans who have a great deal or fair amount of trust in them, according to a new survey conducted by YouGov for the Center for Integrity in News Reporting. However, the survey also found greater trust among these 11 national news organizations individually than estimates of public trust in the mass media in general. more

Last Thursday, The Epoch Times — an independent media organization — released a tranche of more than 2,000 never-before-seen photographs documenting the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement in Beijing. For decades, film rolls containing thousands of photos have been kept in a metal box, never known to the world, and The Epoch Times has made them public for the first time ever. The photo release marked the 37th anniversary of the June 4th massacre. more

A bill that would divert some unused film tax credits to public media got a hearing before a Senate panel on Monday, with backers of public television and journalism supporting the plan. more

California legislators are trying again to save local newsroom jobs, and it’s no wonder. As the Assembly considered a refundable tax credit for news organizations, Californians were trying to navigate a zany primary election that included 61 candidates for governor. The tax bill sailed through, 63-10, on May 27. more

WGTE will assume broadcasting responsibilities for WBGU’s PBS programming beginning July 1, providing continued access to service for viewers across the region. more

President Donald Trump stormed out of a Meet the Press interview Sunday — after moderator Kristen Welker repeatedly fact-checked his claims on a variety of topics, including: Jan. 6, his “anti-weaponization” fund and election fraud. more

The appellate panel found that freedom of press does not guarantee rights to the press over those allowed to the general public. more

Over the past two decades, philanthropic efforts to preserve local journalism have largely focused on launching new nonprofit and digital news organizations, while often overlooking the local news organizations that continue to produce most original local reporting. Some funders are reluctant to support newspapers because many operate as for-profit businesses. However, if foundations, civic leaders and philanthropists truly care about preserving local news, they cannot focus exclusively on building new organizations while ignoring the institutions that are doing most of the work. more

Sinclair, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) announced that its stockholders elected the nominated nine directors at the company’s Annual Stockholders’ Meeting held yesterday. more

FT Strategies, WAN-IFRA and Arc XP have published a major global study revealing how newsrooms are restructuring around AI, audience engagement and community as publishers confront growing commercial and technological disruption. more

For one day, the iconic Stone Pony won’t be hosting musicians. It will be hosting local news publishers. On July 1, media leaders from across the country will gather at the legendary Asbury Park venue for “Born to Run the Local News,” a unique event focused on the challenges, opportunities and resilience required to build community news organizations that can thrive for the next century. The event will also be livestreamed, allowing news professionals everywhere to join the conversation. more

CBC/Radio-Canada, The Globe and Mail, La Presse, Postmedia, Quebecor, Torstar and TVO Media Education Group announced they will join the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights (SPUR) Coalition, becoming part of a growing international alliance of news publishers working to shape the technical and commercial environment in which intellectual property owners can control and monetize the use of their content by generative AI applications.  more

Montclair State University and its College of Communication and Media will manage NJ PBS beginning July 1. The selection brings public media back home to New Jersey with broadcast-ready facilities, a statewide journalism network and a fiscally responsible plan built for the long term. more

A newspaper company argues the news aggregator NewsBreak has violated its copyright to its online articles by displaying embedded versions on its app. more

Times Journal Media Group announces the purchase of three additional Georgia newspapers: The Oconee Enterprise in Watkinsville, The Walton Tribune in Monroe and The Covington News in Newton County. All three papers print weekly or biweekly and operate corresponding websites. more