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AP Indianapolis newsman Ken Kusmer dies at 65 after a short illness

May. 10, 2024 14:57 PM EDT

Ken Kusmer, whose long award-winning career with The Associated Press included exposing flaws in efforts to privatize Indiana's welfare system, died Thursday at his Indianapolis home after a short illness. He was 65. Kenneth Doyle Kusmer began his AP career as a reporter and writer...

Hal Buell, who led AP's photo operations from darkroom era into the digital age, dies at 92

May. 09, 2024 12:52 PM EDT

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — Hal Buell, who led The Associated Press' photo operations from the darkroom era into the age of digital photography over a four-decade career with the news organization that included some of the defining images of the Vietnam War, has died. He was 92. Buell...

Italy's RAI journalists strike over budget streamlining, complain of censorship and media repression

May. 06, 2024 20:30 PM EDT

ROME (AP) — Some journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI went on strike Monday to protest budget streamlining and what they said was an increasingly repressive atmosphere in Italy for media under the government of Premier Giorgia Meloni. The 24-hour RAI strike is the latest protest...

Improvised explosive kills three and wounds seven in Pakistan’s southwest Baluchistan province

May. 03, 2024 07:16 AM EDT

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A blast from an improvised explosive device killed three people and wounded seven on Friday in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan, a police officer said. Footage from the scene moments before the attack shows a motorcyclist traveling alongside the car,...

Student journalists are covering their own campuses in convulsion. Here's what they have to say

May. 02, 2024 18:23 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Ordered by police to leave the scene of a UCLA campus protest after violence broke out, Catherine Hamilton and three colleagues from the Daily Bruin suddenly found themselves surrounded by demonstrators who beat, kicked and sprayed them with a noxious chemical. On...

Mexican journalist is slain south of Mexico City, spurring outrage among colleagues

Apr. 27, 2024 20:40 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican journalists held a vigil and protest Saturday a day after one of their colleagues was slain in the southern state of Morelos. They demanded a transparent investigation into the case and vented anger over the dangers news workers face in Mexico, which is...

The National Enquirer was the go-to American tabloid for many years. Donald Trump helped change that

Apr. 26, 2024 15:51 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Catch and kill. Checkbook journalism. Secret deals. Friends helping friends. Even by National Enquirer standards, testimony by its former publisher David Pecker at Donald Trump's hush money trial this week has revealed an astonishing level of corruption at America's...

Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations

Apr. 26, 2024 00:52 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — This spring, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers. Whistleblowing isn't...

Live video of man who set himself on fire outside court proves challenging for news organizations

Apr. 20, 2024 22:24 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Video cameras stationed outside the Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial caught the gruesome scene Friday of a man who lit himself on fire and the aftermath as authorities tried to rescue him. CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC were all...

Algerian journalist says he was expelled from his country without explanation

Apr. 16, 2024 12:40 PM EDT

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian journalist was expelled from the country after flying in from France and not being allowed to leave the airport as journalists continue to face challenges reporting in Algeria. Farid Alilat, a writer for the French-language magazine Jeune...