• The News Media Alliance has a post here on the Communications Decency Act,
housing Section 230, and liability protection for Big Tech. “Facebook, Google and
other digital platforms continue to be shielded by laws that are over two
decades removed from the rapidly advancing technology, and we are seeing the
disastrous effects from years of inaction to correct this oversight in the
law,” it says.
• The New
York Times is pulling out of Apple News, the paper
writes.• Starting Aug. 8, the
• The Press
& Journal (Middleton , Pennsylvania ) will publish its last edition
July 1, the family-owned newspaper announced. “Within weeks of the COVID-19
outbreak, our advertising revenue plummeted. Ironically, our readership
soared,” wrote owners Joe and Louise Sukle in a goodbye note.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough to save the paper.
• The
Mesabi Daily News and Hibbing Daily Tribune (Minnesota ) are combining into one six-day paper, the
Mesabi Tribune, on July 8. Adams Publishing Group owns the papers.
• The GrenadaStar (Mississippi ) is set to
have new ownership July 1, the paper says. Publisher Joseph B. Lee III and co-owner
Brenda R. Lee are selling the paper to Wyatt Emmerich of Emmerich Newspapers.
• The UNC
Hussman School of Journalism and Media’s Center for Innovation and Sustainability
in Local Media (CISLM) has released its latest report on the state of local
news in the U.S. “News Deserts and Ghost Newspapers: Will Local News Survive?”
is the fourth such report from Penelope Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair of
Journalism and Digital Media Economics at UNC Hussman.
•
Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated
Marketing Communications has been awarded $1 million by the Robert R.
McCormick Foundation for a new program to bolster local news in Chicago .
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