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By Steve Ranson Thirty years ago — Jan. 13, 1988— the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-3 decision that student journalists shed some of their constitutional rights at the school door, and school administrators could remove material they deemed inappropriate — or, in many cases, embarrassing to them personally. The …

by Kevin Slimp As I sit in my hotel room in Gloucester, Va., I can’t help but think about the 2018 version of our annual newspaper publisher’s survey from the Newspaper Institute. As is often the case, being with these editors, designers, sales staff and the publisher of the Gloucester …

Facebook — can’t live with it, can’t live without it. The social media platform’s recent announcement that it would be de-emphasizing news and returning to its roots of sharing posts among friends and family sent some shivers through news publishers large and small, but it shouldn’t have. If your strategy …

A paper mill in Washington state won a ruling today from the U. S. Department of Commerce that will lead to antidumping duties on paper imported from Canada, increasing the cost to newspapers in the United States. Here’s the story from The Daily News in Longview, Wash., where the mill …

There’s no shortage of advice to journalists out there, especially during the Trump era, on what role the free press should play. If a lot of it seems redundant, it is. Journalists should enlighten and inform. There is a place — on the opinion pages — for rumination and analysis, …

With the action last week by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, rescinding a memo from the Obama administration that had made federal prosecution of marijuana a low priority in states where recreational or medical use had become legal, the uncertainty of advertising again became an issue. We have described the situation …

We’re sorry to see The Mirror go. The Nye County newspaper, which began in 1983 as the irreverent Death Valley Gateway Gazette and was known as the Pahrump Valley Gazette in the 1990s, published its last edition on Dec. 21. Here’s the story in the Pahrump Valley Times. As the …

By Peter Wagner It’s no secret America’s newspapers are struggling to find their place in today’s social media society. Many major metro dailies now only offer home delivery on Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, the days they carry an exceptional number of high-revenue inserts. The balance of the week interested readers …

By Kevin Slimp I suppose any time is the right time to look over your newspaper operation and search for ways to make improvements, but the beginning of the year seems especially appropriate for such a task. As I sat at my trusted keyboard to begin, I sent a note …

Cullen family of Iowa’s twice-weekly Storm Lake Times wins Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism A Northwest Iowa family that has demonstrated courage, tenacity and integrity in the face of competition and powerful, entrenched local interests is the winner of the 2017 Tom …