🤝 A guide to conference season

Hello! Here’s what’s in this week’s issue:

» A guide to conference season

» A hybrid approach to local news in Washington

» 2025 Pulitzer Prizes awarded

» Reinventing TV news 

» Will the news article go extinct in the age of AI?

» AI newsreader launches promising to help publishers

🤝 A guide to conference season

Poynter released this helpful guide to the top journalism conferences of the year, complete with “ONA, NABJ and more industry acronyms we love”. Read the full guide here.

📰 A hybrid approach to local news in Washington

The Spokesman-Review in Spokane WA, which recently announced that it’s becoming a nonprofit, has been experimenting with a hybrid business model for years. Editor & Publisher explores how their approach of combining traditional advertising and subscriptions with philanthropic support and community engagement is going.

🏆 2025 Pulitzer Prizes awarded

This year’s Pulitzer Prize winners were announced on Monday in NYC. Local publishers taking home the coveted journalism award include The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina for collaborating on coverage of Hurricane Helene and journalists at The Baltimore Banner for investigative work on the city’s fentanyl crisis. Read more from Poynter.

📺 Reinventing TV news 

The Local, a TV news startup, is launching in four states with the goal of reinventing local TV news by focusing on community-centered storytelling and sustainable funding models. The project will focus work on securing content contracts with streamers instead of relying solely on advertising dollars.

🤖 Will the news article go extinct in the age of AI?

The Nordic AI in Media Summit 2025, held in Copenhagen, recently brought together media professionals to explore the practical integration of AI in journalism. One speaker said that newsrooms need to implement radical changes now to reach a new generation of news consumers, saying “The article will die, should die, but storytelling will not.” Read more here.

📖 AI newsreader launches promising to help publishers

Particle, an AI-powered newsreader startup, has launched its web platform, Particle.news, offering users AI-generated news summaries, key quotes, and topic-specific pages. The platform claims to emphasize collaboration with publishers by linking directly to original articles and to deepen reader engagement through features like AI-driven Q&As. Read more here.

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Local Stories

⏩ CPB awards $650,000 grant to Appalachia and Mid-South Journalism Collaboration

⏩ Warren Buffett called out for ‘torturous’ cuts at Omaha World-Herald, resulting in smallest staff in decades

⏩ Canadian law meant to support local journalism brings mixed results

⏩ Jim Brady announces plans to leave Knight Foundation

⏩ LA Times Lays Off 14 Staffers in Latest Round of Job Cuts

⏩ ‘We’ve lost a good one’: Donald R. Dwight remembered as passionate advocate for local journalism

⏩ Malheur Enterprise closing after 115 years as owners retire

⏩ Rachel Stassen-Berger is returning to the Des Moines Register as new executive editor

⏩ Over 100 Gannett employees to lose jobs when Sterling Heights facility closes

⏩'Detroit Free Press' Workers Approve Contract With Gannett

⏩ Two efforts to support local newsrooms seek public hearings before California legislators