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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) joined family members, journalists and other press freedom organizations in Culiacán, the capital of the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa, to renew a call for justice in the murder of journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas. Valdez, a correspondent for Mexico City newspaper La Jornada and co-founder of weekly investigative magazine Ríodoce, was killed May 15, 2017, in Culiacán. He was a 2011 International Press Freedom Award recipient. Acco

New York’s nonprofit news outlets are lobbying Albany for the same boost available to their for-profit peers.

Upfront week is officially over. In case you missed any of the dog and pony shows — including Chappell Roan belting out "Pink Pony Club" during YouTube's Brandcast — don't worry; we've got you covered. The post We Went To Eight Upfronts This Week. Here’s What We Learned appeared first on AdExchanger.

Today is Sean Kuhn’s last day at Defector. Sean has been our Head of Subscription Strategy for the last four years, and in that time he has become one of our favorite dudes. The only reason we’re not furious at him is because he’s leaving us for a dream job: doing fancy math crap for…

May 15, 2026, New Delhi—Bangladeshi authorities must release journalists Farzana Rupa and Mozammel Babu, who were recently arrested in a crimes-against-humanity case filed at the country’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. On May 14, the ICT in the capital Dhaka showed Rupa, a former chief reporter and presenter at privately owned Ekattor TV, and Babu, the channel’s founder and former editor-in-chief, arrested in a case linked to the M

During upfronts, publishers flexed their ad performance muscles at media buyers all week long in an effort to appeal to the biggest demands media buyers have during their upfront negotiations: flexibility and results. The post Let’s Be Upfront About Performance appeared first on AdExchanger.

Around 59,000 years ago, somewhere in the Altai Mountains of southwestern Siberia, in lands prowling with woolly rhinos and cave hyenas, a Neanderthal had a toothache. The tooth was a molar, rooted in the lower left corner of the Neanderthal's mouth, and it had begun to rot. Such a dilemma is diabolically familiar to us modern humans, but at least we are fortunate to have dentists, who inflict upon us mild pain and terror in exchange for lasting relief. But a new paper in the journal PLOS One s

It’s another crunch week coming up for Keir Starmer after Labour leadership rivals Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham made moves on Thursday in an attempt to force the prime minister into an orderly departure. But Streeting’s failure to produce the required numbers to trigger an immediate leadership contest means Starmer may yet have time to defend his position, with a by-election victory for Burnham by no means a sure thing after the local election results. It’s been business as u

Reform leader Nigel Farage has said being visited by a Guardian photographer underlined why he needed extra security. The Guardian has issued a statement in defence of its photographer after Reform UK leader Nigel Farage shared an image of the photographer’s press card on social media. The photographer was taking photos from a public path, according to The Guardian, while working on a story related to allegations that the Reform leader failed to disclose a £5m gift from a Thailand-based cr

This article originally appeared May 11 on The Small Bow. Early on Saturday mornings, Amy Wallace would be yanked out of bed by her big brother, David. He was determined not to miss the start of the cartoons. At their home in Urbana, Illinois, the siblings situated themselves in front of the television and waited for the color bars to turn to The Road Runner Show, David eager, impatient, full of energy. Eventually, he would splay out on the carpet and Amy would sit behind him on the couch. More

Donald Trump was in China this week for a series of meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In order to cover the historic summit, major American broadcasters sent their newscasters overseas to broadcast from Beijing. Even the dolts from Fox News managed to get over there and commit a parking violation. Absent from the party, however, was beleaguered CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil, who at this point really seems to be cursed. "Right now, I'm just about 100 miles off the coast of mainl

This year’s TV Upfronts buzzwords are in: performance, dynamic, AI and fandom We explain why this quartet of phrases wove their way through the presentations. The post To Sell TV, The New ‘Premium’ Is ‘Fandom’ appeared first on AdExchanger.

Fox News finished ahead of ESPN in total viewers during primetime for the third straight week.

Local search visibility has been one of the most stable areas of SEO for years, relying on conventional techniques like keyword matching and search positioning. However, search behavior is now changing due to the implementation of AI-generated answers. Users are expecting synthesized suggestions for local businesses rather than sifting through a list of options. The popularity of services like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini is also growing, and users are turning to these platforms mor

And CNN reveals its 2026-27 CNN Originals programming slate.

The controversy over a piece in The New York Times continued to smolder on Thursday when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his country’s foreign ministry said they might sue […] The post Netanyahu and Israel threaten to sue The New York Times appeared first on Poynter.

Nobody better than Democracy Now! founder Amy Goodman to deliver in-your-face inspiration for refusing to take “No” for an answer. When a Trump climate advisor told her he was too […] The post A new documentary explores Democracy Now!’s journalism philosophy: confront power, center the vulnerable appeared first on Poynter.

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Top libel lawyers successfully lobbied against new legislation to protect public interest reporting from pernicious lawsuits. The Society of Media Lawyers met with both the previous Conservative government in 2024 and the new Labour government last year, and allegedly heavily lobbied via letters to ministers and MPs. The group includes representatives from prominent claimant specialist media law firms like Mishcon de Reya and Carter-Ruck. Two lots of reporting this week from the New States