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Arizona president says realignment talk premature until Pac-12 has hard numbers on TV deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — University of Arizona President Bobby Robbins says until Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff gives the conference's leaders hard numbers on a future media rights deal, any talk about schools leaving the league is premature. Robbins spoke to a small group of...
CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after a brief, tumultuous tenure
NEW YORK (AP) — The chief executive CNN pushed out of a job on Wednesday faced mounting problems in his first year leading the struggling network: viewership and profits were declining, programming blunders were growing and the network’s journalists were losing confidence by the day. ...
Los Angeles Times announces 74 job cuts due to economic challenges
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday announced plans to cut 74 jobs due to economic challenges as the newspaper strives to transform itself into a digital media organization. In a message to staff, Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida wrote that employees whose...
5 things to know from Prince Harry's day in court
LONDON (AP) — It was a rare sight — a senior British royal testifying in a court of law. What Prince Harry said, both during cross-examination in the witness box Tuesday and in his written witness statement, was just as unusual. By turns defensive, frank and accusatory, his...
Prince Harry testifies tabloids destroyed his childhood but fails to recall specific stories
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry's historic showdown Tuesday with the publisher of a British tabloid exposed his deep suspicions of the press but offered little concrete evidence to support accusations of phone hacking that he said caused so much anguish in his life. The Duke of Sussex...
CNN chief apologizes to employees for distracting from work
NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Licht, the embattled chief executive of CNN, apologized to network employees on Monday for distracting from their work and promised to “fight like hell” to earn their trust amid criticism of his year at the helm. Licht's tenure hit a low point last week...
Lawyer says 'nothing was out of bounds' for reporters seeking scoops on young Prince Harry
LONDON (AP) — A broken thumb, a back injury, dabbling with drugs and dating girls. No event in the life of a young Prince Harry was too trivial or private for the journalists of Mirror Group Newspapers to resist, and the demand for such scoops led to the use of illegal means to dig...
Award-winning Hong Kong journalist wins appeal in rare court ruling upholding media freedom
HONG KONG (AP) — An award-winning Hong Kong journalist won an appeal Monday quashing a conviction related to research for an investigative documentary, in a rare court ruling upholding media freedom in the Chinese territory. Bao Choy was found guilty in April 2021 of deceiving the...
What to know as Prince Harry prepares for court fight with British tabloid publisher
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is going where other British royals haven't for over a century: to a courtroom witness stand. The Duke of Sussex is set to testify in the first of his five pending legal cases largely centered around battles with British tabloids. Opening statements are...
Italian media say border police are under investigation over shipwreck that killed 94 migrants
ROME (AP) — Three members of Italy’s border police force are under investigation for a suspected role in a shipwreck off the country’s southern coast this year that killed more than 90 migrants, Italian news outlets reported Friday. Quoting from a search warrant issued by...
