President Donald Trump has fired Katie Zacharia as press secretary, advisers to the president said, ending her turbulent week-long stint as the White House’s top spokesperson.

The 2026 James Madison Award recipient for service to the First Amendment is Rufus Friday, executive director of the Center for Integrity in News Reporting.

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The coalition, organized by The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, will support local reporting, community conversations, and civic education before and after Philadelphia’s 2027 municipal elections.

The president said only immediate families of the victims of the mass shooting in 2009 would witness the execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

As advertisers begin planning for 2027, media sales professionals may be asking the wrong questions. In her latest “Ad Sales Life” op-ed column, Shannon Kinney explains why conversations shouldn’t beg...

Christian Devine, an executive director and principal adviser in the Pentagon's public affairs office, was appointed weeks after terminations.

Following the money behind federal political appointees can require digging through thousands of documents scattered across government agencies. ProPublica has done much of that legwork for journalist...

President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, earned brutally bad reviews Tuesday on her first day on the job.

What happens when the outcome of a multimillion-dollar bet depends on what a journalist reports? The consequences could be chilling — from threats against reporters to entirely fabricated news website...

Fresnoland has grown from an experiment in public-service journalism into a nine-person nonprofit newsroom producing ambitious accountability reporting for California’s Central Valley. But proving the...

Imagine running a newspaper where you're the editor, reporter, photographer, designer and sometimes the person challenging city hall. For many rural publishers, that's not an exaggeration. It's their ...

We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us.

A federal judge on Thursday appeared likely to indefinitely extend court-ordered access to the White House for three national news organizations that were banned by President Donald Trump. But he put ...

What if local newsrooms could expand their coverage and reach simply by sharing more of their journalism with one another? In this E&P Quick Reads exclusive, Alyssa Choiniere introduces readers to Plu...

What can open-door newsroom policies teach us about a healthy democracy? In his latest “Democracy Desk” op-ed column, Stuart N. Brotman reflects on Gloria Steinem’s philosophy of the editorial meeting...

As data centers spread across the country, communities are asking urgent questions about water, power, land use, tax incentives and public benefit — and local journalists are being called on to find t...

The Society of Professional Journalists membership has voted to approve revisions to its Code of Ethics after the SPJ board of directors endorsed the changes Sept. 25.

As an independent nonprofit organization, States Newsroom relies on grants and donations to make its statehouse reporting possible.  Caitlin Sigal, States Newsroom’s development director, is highlight...

When much of the news media industry is talking about contraction, Detroit PBS is doing something decidedly different: building. The public media organization has broken ground on a new 50,000-square-...

“The press is the people’s best friend,” Rep. Jamie Raskin told news media executives gathering in Washington, D.C. for the News/Media Alliance and America’s Newspapers joint conference. In a recap, E...

More than 55% of independent local publishers responding to a Syracuse University study cited burnout as a concern, while approximately 52% identified balancing journalism and business operations as a...

New reporting from InvestigateWest and RANGE reveals the staff concerns behind Rob Curley’s previously announced suspension from The Spokesman-Review — and raises questions about the newspaper’s plann...

As AI-generated cartoons and columns make their way onto opinion pages, newsrooms face increasingly urgent questions about standards, transparency and trust. In his latest “News Media Today” op-ed col...

With the 2026 midterms fast approaching, newsrooms are preparing for an election shaped by national politics, questions about election security and voters hungry for trustworthy information. For E&P’s...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Community NEWS Act into law Sept. 30, creating journalism employment tax credits projected to deliver more than $200 million to local newsrooms over five years....

Charles Pittman received the Inland Foundation Distinguished Service Award, and Inez Russell Gomez, Bridget Grumet and Dick Yarbrough earned top honors in the Carmage Walls Commentary Prize competitio...

Max D. Lederer, Jr. is Editor & Publisher’s 2026 News Executive of the Year. Lederer is the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes, where he spent more than three decades in leadership roles, includ...

What can a self-driving car teach news publishers about AI? Quite a lot, according to Guy Tasaka. In his September E&P “Tasaka’s Tech Talk” op-ed, he argues that publishers should stop framing AI prim...

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

Every week seems to bring another announcement of a newspaper closing, a newsroom shrinking or another community joining the growing list of America's news deserts. Against that backdrop, launching a ...

Pope Leo XIV told reporters they were welcome to cover him, as he responded to the Trump administration’s attempt to bar U.S. media from the White House and affirmed the importance of journalists cove...

The gubernatorial campaign of Republican Tom Tiffany blocked two reporters for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel from entering an event in Milwaukee Thursday, preventing the state’s largest newspaper fro...

Change may be inevitable, but constant disruption doesn’t necessarily make an organization better. In his September “The Corner Office” op-ed column, Doug Phares contends that effective leaders know w...

An Iowa state court on Wednesday dismissed President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register newspaper.

What happens when high school students are asked to tackle declining media literacy and trust in news? They come up with solutions. In this month’s “Shoptalk” op-ed, journalist Linda Carpio Shapley re...

Two of Puerto Rico’s biggest newspapers announced Monday that they will end their print editions and pivot to digital only, joining a worldwide trend.

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Public media survived the loss of federal funding, but is survival enough? In his September “Innovation in Practice” op-ed, E&P columnist Chad Davis contends that public media is at a pivotal moment t...

Foreign correspondents venture far from home to tell consequential stories of people, politics, conflict and crisis — often encountering funding challenges, logistical hurdles and operational dangers....

Editor & Publisher thanks the many media companies that have already submitted nearly 200 entries in this year’s EPPY Awards. In response to requests for additional time to participate, we’ve extended...

For the third consecutive year, Northwestern University's Medill School has tracked how Americans' local news habits are changing. The latest survey confirms that audience demand for local journalism ...

Editor & Publisher stands in solidarity with the CNN, MS NOW and Politico newsrooms that have been barred from White House grounds by the President of the United States.

President Donald Trump’s decision to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House has drawn condemnation across journalism, with professional associations, press freedom advocates and …

The AI behind AlaskaNews.com cracks jokes and acknowledges a “trust burden.”

What separates a trusted sales adviser from someone simply selling advertising? In her September “Ad Sales Life” opinion column, Shannon Kinney argues that the best media sales professionals look beyo...

After 35 years, cartoonist Lincoln Peirce has retired the daily “Big Nate” comic strip, but he’s not quite ready to leave the 6th grade behind. In his “News Media Today” op-ed column, E&P’s Rob Tornoe...