The owner of the Chicago Tribune is looking to acquire the chief local rival of its flagship newspaper, with Monday's announcement that Tronc is bidding for Wrapports Holdings, which publishes the Chicago Sun-Times.

Google is moderating its prior relatively inflexible response, which threatened to put publishers out of business for minor infractions. Under the new approach, Google will remove ads only from the offending content pages, leaving other inventory untouched.

Dr. Oz The Good Life will stop publishing monthly issues and transition to a quarterly "bookazine" with a higher newsstand price, as yet undisclosed. The transition to quarterly bookazine format entails layoffs for at least several staffers, although the exact number is also unknown.

One of the most prominent examples of a newspaper publisher going nonprofit, the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, which publishes the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, revealed that it has raised $26.5 million in donations from philanthropists and journalism foundations since it launched in January, more then doubling its endowment in a few months.

For the full year, Time Inc. is predicting its various online media outlets will generate a total of over 8.5 billion digital video views. To help power future growth, Time Inc. is planning to produce over 50,000 videos, including more than 1,500 hours of live programming this year.

It's the end of an era in the Windy City, as iconic African-American magazine Ebony and sister title Jet exit Chicago following a sale by longtime proprietor Johnson Publishing.

In the lead up to the UK's general election June 8, Facebook is providing more vigilant policing of content and a media campaign to educate the public about fake news. The latter includes full-page ads in the print editions of a number of big British newspapers, published by Facebook and Full Fact, a fact-checking company, providing a list of 10 tips and red flags for identifying fake news on Facebook and elsewhere.

Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian organization known for its vocal opposition to gay marriage and abortion, among other social issues, has relaunded 'Brio,' a magazine for teenage girls.

Under the new rules, companies engaged in online publishing can only hire personnel who have been approved by the central and local governments. Their workers must obtain official reporting credentials from the central government. The new regulations also require all entities currently publishing news to obtain an official license to be allowed to continue publishing.

Overall, NYTCO print ad revenues plunged 17.9%. However, digital revenues jumped 18.9% from $41.2 million to $49.7 million over the same period. NYTCO also continued to see growth in digital subscriptions.