diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c1594844dbe9e171e7a065e51196fa42acc6b9e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/NEWS
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-2014-01-23, Luis Kornblueh: Mail notifying of post receive works.
-2016-04-14, Luis Kornblueh: Moved bare repo to MPIM server.
-2016-04-14, Luis Kornblueh: Reattached repsoritory to redmine.
diff --git a/REUSE.toml b/REUSE.toml
index 37dfb1c3327e0fcbd0f09cc8f5984c2e726ec786..712e750eef6e87f4b59c19e9ab3ea9f51e89a01a 100644
--- a/REUSE.toml
+++ b/REUSE.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 version = 1
 
 [[annotations]]
-path = ["**/README", "AUTHORS", "CONTRIBUTING.md", "NEWS", "README.md"]
+path = ["**/README", "AUTHORS", "CONTRIBUTING.md", "README.md"]
 SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "2013-2024 MPI-M, Luis Kornblueh, Rahul Sinha and DWD, Florian Prill. All rights reserved."
 SPDX-License-Identifier = "CC-BY-4.0"