You Can’t Have Democracy Without A Free Press

There’s a reason we need a free press, despite its faults and foibles: Democracy won’t work without it.

Reach out to your members of Congress to support the Local Journalism Sustainability Act

Breaking news, the LJSA is back in the Build Back Better Act. H. Dean Ridings, CAE CEO, America’s Newspapers reported that as of this afternoon,...

November Obituaries 2020

CONNECTICUT Virginia Fiske Boorom Anthony Adams Davenport Nancy Ann Fenton Harry A. Jackson Sr. Robert Francis Kennedy Joyce Rossignol MAINE None Reported MASSACHUSETTS William F. Bell, Jr. Louise Black Henry T. Callahan Marjorie I. DeSmet Bill Elfers Gwen Ifill Norman...

Google v. Oracle: Tech battle ultimately about free speech

Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. Email him at gpolicinski@freedomforum.org and follow him...

Congress passes legislation honoring fallen journalists

Update to this post: President Donald Trump signed this into law on Dec. 23, 2020.

Don’t Miss the Deadline for the Better Newspaper Competition

The deadline has been extended until Friday November 1, 2019.NEW CATEGORIES - EDITORIAL/MULTIMEDIA/PHOTOGRAPHY Best Solutions Journalism Project - This award...
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Favorite apps for journalists

Kevin Slimp, technology Kevin Slimp is director of the Institute of Newspaper Technology. Email questions to him at kevin@kevinslimp.comIn April, I was asked to speak on the...

Shaw Israel Izikson named the editor of The Country Journal

Shaw Israel Izikson was named as the editor of The Country Journal in late November. Izikson is an award-winning journalist, editor, and photographer from Baltimore,...

Free Members Only Webinar: 5 Ways To Grow Your Obituaries

For most publishers, the obituary category is a huge traffic driver and an important classified revenue stream....