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In a comment on the BBC's charter, Reach says the BBC's "aggressive expansion" into local news and strong visibility in Google Search hurts local publishers (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/re…

Reach attacks BBC’s ‘aggressive expansion’ into local news
Reach has accused the BBC of damaging the local news ecosystem and urged the broadcaster to work with journalists outside of the company.

Africa’s Data Protection Reforms: A Continental Perspective on the Drivers of Change in Legal Frameworks
https://fpf.org/blog/africas-data-protection-reforms-a-continental-perspective-on-the-drivers-of-change-in-lega…

Run your own local chat on your laptop. Plus add web search like Perplexity. I do this on my Mac to to save a few AI DC BTUs and to learn stuff based on real web pages rather than hallucinated LLMs.
•⁠ ⁠Run your own chat: https://carlosvaz.com/posts/running-ll

Anna's Archive has quietly begun releasing millions of music files from its scrape of Spotify, despite an injunction against distribution of copyrighted works (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)
https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive

New and improved Baltimore Giants? How Isaiah Likely reshapes New York's offense https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48173860/new-york-giants-free-agency-acquisition-isaiah-likely-reshapes-offens…

Jesus, this administration can’t even source the weapons for their false flag attacks discretely?
Four drones stolen from Fort Campbell, army offers $5,000 reward
https://fox17.com/news/local/four-drones-stolen-from-f…

Four drones stolen from Fort Campbell, army offers $5,000 reward
Army investigators are offering a reward of up to $5,000 as they search for whoever stole four drones from Fort Campbell.

heise | Raus aus der Wolke: So funktionieren Apples lokale KI-Modelle
Apples Foundation Models Framework arbeitet lokal. Features wie die Rückgabe strukturierter Daten sind reizvoll und erleichtern die Arbeit. So geht's.

Raus aus der Wolke: So funktionieren Apples lokale KI-Modelle
Apples Foundation Models Framework arbeitet lokal. Features wie die Rückgabe strukturierter Daten sind reizvoll und erleichtern die Arbeit. So geht's.

A look at efforts to preserve local news archives, including work made for digital platforms first, and why some news leaders see archives as community gifts (Kristen Hare/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/saving-local-ne…

Saving local news also means saving the archives - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.

The AP Fund for Journalism doubles the size of its local news program to 100 members, who can now share some of their content via the AP's distribution network (Nicole Meir/The Associated Press)
https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-rele

AP Fund for Journalism expands landmark local news program to 100 newsrooms | The Associated Press
AP Fund for Journalism (APFJ) today announced 50 additional news organizations are joining its landmark local news program, growing the total number of

A look at Social Spider, a nonprofit that publishes four monthly print newspapers in London and expects to be profitable for a second straight year in 2026 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

The non-profit publisher making local news pay in London
Social Spider CIC reinvests any profit it makes back into its local journalism.