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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which has been publishing since 1868, will stop publishing a print newspaper at the end of this year, making it one of the largest daily newspapers yet to completely abandon print. Ending the print newspapers is expected to result in the termination of about 30 full- and part-time employees involved in designing and distributing the newspaper. The AJC, owned by Cox Enterprises, will continue to offer an e-paper laid out like print as part of its digital offerings. Cox is instating a $150 million effort to boost the AJC, looking toward a digital future. The company told the New York Times that it currently has 115,000 paid subscribers, of whom 75,000 are digital-only. AJC.com says that paper’s circulation peaked at more than 600,000 “about two decades ago.” “The fact is, printing newspapers and putting them in trucks and driving them around and delivering them on people’s front stoops has not been the most effective way to distribute the news in a very long time,” AJC president and publisher Andrew Morse told the Times’s Katie Robertson.
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Herring Networks, the owner of One America News Network and A Wealth of Entertainment (a reality-based channel that caters to wealthy viewers), has fast-tracked the debut of both on YouTube TV. The channels, which were scheduled to launch on the platform in November, became available on Aug. 29, giving YouTube TV viewers access to such programming as “The Matt Gaetz Show” and “Selling Mega Mansions.” The agreement with Herring was announced while YouTube TV was reaching a distribution deal with Fox Corporation to continue carrying such channels as Fox News, Fox Business Network and Fox Sports 1 (FS1). OAN, along with Newsmax (which has been on the platform since October), provide the right-leaning content that was said to be a priority for Fox.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which has roots going back to 1786, is going out of business, the paper’s owners, Block Communications, announced on Jan. 7... GQ editor Will Welch is stepping down to take on a new Paris-based role with the musician Pharrell, who is also men’s creative director at Louis Vuitton... Semafor says it has raised $30 million on a $330 million valuation, following its first profitable year. 
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach an agreement that will make a set of more than 200 animated, masked and creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars available for use by Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform... CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has moved Tony Dokoupil, a co-host at “CBS Mornings” since 2019, into the anchor’s chair for the “CBS Evening News,” following the departure of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois... USA Today editor-in-chief Caren Bohan has left the paper.
Michael Kaminer, who was responsible for the Observer’s “Power List” for the past 13 years, has cut ties with the publication... The New York Times Company continues the march toward its goal of 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is providing more than $6 million in funding to eight organizations working to address the challenges local news and information environments face along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Conservative outlets Fox News, Newsmax and the Daily Caller are holding back from signing Pete Hegseth’s edict restricting press access in the Pentagon... CBS News sees the first executive departure of the Bari Weiss era as head of standards and practices Claudia Milne exits... Indiana University shuts down the print version of The Indiana Daily Student.
Rothschild family plans to unload 26.7 percent stake in The Economist... STAT, a digital media company that focuses the life sciences, brings back Damian Garde, who anchored its biotech newsletter and podcast from 2016 to 2024... High Times officially resumes print publication (following its 2024 shutdown) with the release of a limited-edition, collectible 50th anniversary issue. 
