“Executive editor Julie Pace first announced that the AP would open a new production hub in Noida, India, in an email sent to staff in June. She noted that the initiative would ‘affect’ some U.S. staff and that the company was also ‘exploring making production changes’ in other locations.” An additional 20 AP staffers in London are being targeted for layoffs.

“A 2023 article incorrectly reported that a University of Alabama basketball player was at the scene of a deadly shooting. A jury awarded $9.25 million in damages.”

“Affiliate selling is almost as old as e-commerce.”

“Facts are the harshest and the hardest part of life,” Li writes, noting that her life “makes some fiction feel pale and feeble” in comparison. “That a mother could do all things humanly possible and sensible for a child but still could not keep him alive — that was a fact that I would have to live with, I thought, every single day, for the rest of my life.”

“As the platform promotes more and more free content, users have less and less incentive (and time) to engage with the more thoughtful higher quality content that lives behind paywalls.”

Steve Grove, CEO and publisher of The Minnesota Star Tribune, on a new Star Tribune lip balm flavor. The news org will have 90,000 tubes to pass out at the Strib booth at the Minnesota State Fair next week.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome. Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”

“Following six years of steady growth, we began to run up against financial hardships in 2025 and, despite a restructuring at the end of that year, we have not been able to bounce back from that. Having exhausted all options in our efforts to keep Queen City Nerve alive, today we must shut the doors.” Queen City Nerve itself had been born of another closure; it was launched after Creative Loafing Charlotte abruptly shut down on Halloween 2018.

“The four publishers to increase their follower count by more than 11 million were led by the Daily Mail, which has seen an increase of 16.6 million followers in two years to 26.5 million for its main account, BBC News, up by 12.3 million to 16 million, Fox News, up by 11.4 million to 11.5 million, and CNN, up by 11.3 million 15.7 million.”

Lara Witt, Prism’s editor in chief, on the philanthropy climate for movement journalism.