“For three years, the [Winchester] Gazette has appeared to be a local news outlet. It files stories online about crime, government meetings and community events. But the website has never publicly identified its writers, staff, owners or source of funding. City officials say they’ve never met a person identified as a Gazette reporter at a public event.”

The Scottish family-owned publisher DC Thomson is now offering a digital-only sports pack. “Nothing new was commissioned and editorial was not asked to change anything. It sells in-article at £1 for the first month then £4.99, and around 95% of sales happen there rather than on the subscribe page.”

“Five months after the Block family relinquished control of the Pittsburgh Post-­Gazette, its lengthy battle with the newspaper’s union workers appears to be over.”

“CNN’s viewership has fallen behind MS NOW, and its digital offerings are still in the infancy phase. (Fox News is ahead of both.) A subscription news service, which Mr. Thompson started, is expanding to Britain and Canada, but the network has shared few details about the number of paying users. Skydance could nurture this subscription model or take a cue from David Zaslav, the former chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery, who eliminated CNN+ just three weeks after it started.”

“Integrating two companies will bring change, including difficult decisions that affect our workforce,” co-CEOs David [First name] and Ynon Kreiz wrote to employees at the newly combined company on Tuesday morning. According to a report issued by Los Angeles County in August, the merger could result in the loss of some 4,500 film and TV jobs over three years in L.A. alone.

“Nearly all of the improvement in media trust this year reflects an uptick among Republicans. 22% now express confidence in the media, up from a record-low 8% last year and the highest Republican reading since 2015.”

Evan Newton, 25 years old, bought Georgia’s Monticello News this summer. “I was asked the other day if local journalism was boring, and I was like, ‘It may be boring, but it’s necessary.’”