TechRadar
Time has acquired Brandcast, a no-code website builder platform. The purchase is the first since Lynne and Marc Benioff bought Time in 2018 for $190 million.
The Washington Post
Gannett’s new round of layoffs is decimating news staffs. For instance, the Daily Jeffersonian, of Guernsey County Ohio, lost its only reporter: Kristi Garabrandt, “When you’re the paper’s only reporter, you don’t consider yourself nonessential,” Garabrandt said.
Iowa Public Radio
Gannett’s Iowa Hawk Eye staff has been reduced, and critics say it leaves the future of small newspapers in question. Gannett instituted layoffs after a dismal financial report.
Poynter
Legal notices provide critical revenue for local newspapers. But some states are trying to cut off that revenue stream by ending requirements that the notices be printed.
The Observer
Twelve journalists have resigned from the New York Daily News within the last three months, the union representing the newsroom reported. The union blames owner Alden Global Capital.
Cream, the impish rock magazine, is making a comeback next month after 33 years. It is now a quarterly that offers a subscription for $79.
Kiplinger
Good editors vet stories to prevent defamation and misinformation. But writers make mistakes and editors don’t catch them all, as happened in these instances cited by attorney H. Dennis Beaver.
Radio Ink
Hearst Media Production Group has named Maria Thrasher as a business partnerships and develop executive. Previously, Thrasher was senior integrated marketing director for Group One.
The New York Times
Women are flocking to publications that support abortion rights in the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned. For instance, Jezebel, The 19th and The Cut are seeing surges in traffic.
The New York Times
The newsroom staff of The Aspen Times was demoralized when the paper’s corporate owners refused to let it cover a libel suit filed by a real estate developer, former staffers say. One editor quit, and another was fired after writing an opinion piece about the episode. Now residents of the vacation town are wondering if local journalism can still fearlessly tell the truth.