Vice hires Feiger as senior features editor
Leah Feiger has joined Vice as a senior features editor where she will be editing, commissioning, and writing. Feiger has also worked as a freelancer with her work being published in The Atlantic, The...
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Columbia Daily Tribune, Gannett employees win at 2020 Better Newspaper Contest
Columbia Daily Tribune journalists and their Gannett colleagues around the state received several high honors in the 2020 Better Newspaper Contest, sponsored by the Missouri Press Association. The awards recognize the best work published...
Biola University professor Longinow talks media and journalism
Michael Longinow is a professor of digital journalism and media at Biola University in California. His courses include media writing, reporting (intro, mid-level and advanced/investigative, including database), culture of media/reporting and philosophy of media,...
The Washington Post forms visual forensics team
The Washington Post director of video Micah Gelman, deputy director of video Phoebe Connelly, investigative editor Jeff Leen and rapid response investigative editor Eric Rich sent out the following announcement. The excerpt is as...
Pulitzer Center joins with 18 other organizations in support of Local News Commission Act
The Pulitzer Center has joined with 18 other news organizations in support of the “Future of Local News Commission” Act, which would set up a commission to “study the state of local news and...
Times Free Press honored with top award from Tennessee Press Association
The Chattanooga Times Free Press won the Tennessee Press Association’s top award for its size paper in the state journalism awards. The awards recognize the best work done in 2019 by journalists across the...
Scripps acquires ION Media in billion-dollar deal
The E.W. Scripps Company is planning on buying national broadcast network ION Media for $2.65 billion. The transaction will combine the business with Scripps’ Katz networks and Newsy to create a full-scale national television...
Talking Biz News Today — Sept. 25, 2020
Some of Friday’s top business news stories: Associated Press Fraud, backlogs disrupt US unemployment benefit payments, by Christopher Rugaber, Maryclaire Dale Justice Dept. expected to file antitrust action vs. Google, by Michael Balsamo, Marcy...
NY Times chairman Sulzberger set to retire
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. will be retiring as chairman and a member of The New York Times Co. board by the end of the year. Sulzberger Jr. will be succeeded by his son, A.G. Sulzberger....
NY Times honored with five Emmy Awards
Sam Dolnick, Nancy Donaldson Gauss and Jason Stallman of The New York Times sent out the following note: We’re thrilled to announce that The Times won five Emmy Awards this week, a dazzling recognition...
