After more than a year of contract negotiations at the Los Angeles Times, the newsroom’s union reached a contract agreement on Wednesday evening after the newspaper was purchased in February 2018 and broke away from a Chicago-based publisher.
Read moreMore than 30 Colorado newspapers have folded in the last two decades and about 44% of local reporters lost their jobs. It might seem easy and obvious to say newspapers are dying, but others see new opportunities on the horizon.
Read moreA Virginia newspaper and a handful of national and international outlets filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s prison system demanding public access to the full execution process, claiming current policy allows much of the proceedings to be blocked by a curtain.
Read moreThe former administrator for Iowa’s third-largest city is suing the area’s biggest newspaper, claiming that its coverage was unfair and cost him his job, in a case that has alarmed advocates for press freedom.
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Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders announced plans Tuesday to shake up the business of journalism and crack down on media monopolies, vowing to shore up local news and revitalize an industry beleaguered by consolidation if elected in 2020.
Read moreTwo of the largest newspaper companies agreed to a merger Monday, creating by far the largest newspaper company in the United States.
Read moreMore than one-fourth of major newspapers in the U.S. experienced layoffs last year, according to an analysis from the Pew Research Center, and nearly a third of them saw multiple rounds of job cuts.
Read moreA federal judge in Kentucky dismissed a $250 million libel and defamation lawsuit against the Washington Post, finding that the newspaper’s coverage of a January incident between a high school student and an American Indian activist was not defamatory in any way.
Read moreThe news media saw another decline in audience and revenue last year, though podcasts are still growing, the Pew Research Center reported Tuesday.
Read moreA Kansas judge has tossed a defamation lawsuit against The Kansas City Star brought by Kansas Senate Republican Leader Jim Denning, finding that the lawmaker failed to show malice.
Read moreLawyers for actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard squared off in a Virginia courtroom Friday, as Heard sought to have a state judge dismiss her ex-husband’s $50 million defamation case.
Read moreA judge on Tuesday ordered that the trial for a man charged with killing five people at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland to be held in two parts and granted a request for more time to conduct a mental health review by the state health department.
Read moreSiding with the Washington Post, a Sixth Circuit panel ruled Thursday that the Drug Enforcement Agency cannot file court records about the distribution of prescription opioids under seal.
Read moreIn a show of rare solidarity, Russia’s three major newspapers on Monday put out nearly identical front pages to support a detained journalist.
Read moreThe Miami Herald and others sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his cabinet on Tuesday, claiming their planned meeting in Jerusalem on Wednesday will violate the open-meetings provision of the state’s Sunshine Law.
Read moreA former promoter of galas held at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club filed a libel lawsuit Monday against the Miami Herald over a story that she claims falsely portrays her as the one-time head of a day spa prostitution ring.
Read moreThe Washington Post argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday for the release of drug distribution data provided by the federal government in a multidistrict litigation against the manufacturers, distributors and retailers of prescription opioid medications.
Read moreSeeking to block the release of food stamps data under the Freedom of Information Act, an attorney for the federal government urged the Supreme Court on Monday to tighten an exemption that keeps secret some types of business and financial information.
Read moreAfter the Wall Street Journal published an article titled “Prominent Art Family Entangled in ISIS Antiquities-Looting Investigations,” the business of two brothers and long-time dealers took a predictable nosedive.
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