By Bart Pfankuch Details, details, details… I hopped into a pickup the other day to take a ride with a man who has suddenly become a grass-roots activist in the fight to block a proposed gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota. We weren’t in the truck long …

In case you’re keeping score, First Amendment and open-government advocates this week had  a couple of successes, took a continuing loss and will look forward to another significant contest next week. One of the wins came in the Nevada Supreme Court, which said a district court judge was wrong to …

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Something I read today in a newsletter from Columbia Journalism Review about the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School just didn’t ring true. “Almost every journalism textbook,” wrote the authors of the CRJ newsletter, “says activism and journalism are incompatible. But the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas are busy …

By Peter Wagner Not all newspapers are dead and the printed newspaper business is not doomed. However, many editors and publishers, hearing the “sky is falling,” have hurt the industry by cutting content, news hole and subscriber value. Instead, they should have increased interest with more local content. Newspapers remain …

From Chad Stebbens and Steve Ranson at the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors: Given that we have received significantly fewer Golden Quill entries this year than in 2017, the ISWNE board has authorized us to extend the entry deadline to March 1. The contest is open to community newspapers …

The Nevada Press Association has joined the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in seeking to contest a judge’s ruling that news organizations must refrain from publishing stories about an autopsy from the October massacre in Las Vegas and destroy their copy of the records. The Las Vegas Review-Journal …

by Kevin Slimp During a keynote address at the Kansas Press Association convention in February, I presented the results of my annual survey of newspaper publishers in the U.S. and Canada for the first time. With roughly 15 percent of publishers in these two countries participating in the survey, it’s …

ARLINGTON, Va – The News Media Alliance today launched the final ad of the second phase of its Campaign to Support Real News. The new ad puts an exclamation point on the storyline it began in October 2017 with a strong statement: “We Are Real News,” and unlike other news …

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