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Bondi let the cat out of the bag, so to speak.
Once again, Republicans and Trump are planning on stealing the election
Give me your voter files and ICE will leave!
It was never about gang members or drugs!
Our government does nothing but lie to us!
Stop voting for republicans! #Epstein

Susan (@joeyotis.bsky.social)
Bondi let the cat out of the bag, so to speak. Once again, republicans and Trump are planning on stealing the election, again! Give me your voter files and ICE will leave? It was never about gang members or drugs! Our government does nothing but lie to us! Stop voting for republicans! #Epstein [contains quote post or other embedded content]

A podcast transcript with Steve Grove, the Minnesota Star Tribune CEO and publisher and an ex-Google executive, and Tim Franklin, on retaining readers and more (Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2…

Steve Grove on AI, Building Trust and Reinventing the Minnesota Star Tribune
In the inaugural episode of the Medill State of Local News Podcast, host Tim Franklin—Professor, John M. Mutz Chair in Local News, and founding director of the Medill Local News Initiative—speaks with Steve Grove, CEO and publisher of the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/technology/social-media-trial-verdict.html

Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial
A jury found the companies negligent in their app designs, harming a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.

“The City of Goleta will serve as the official host city for one of this year’s World Cup contenders.
One international team
—which has yet to be revealed
—will stay at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara
and hold practices at UC Santa Barbara’s Harder Stadium
in preparation for the World Cup matches starting in June.”
#Goleta

Goleta to Serve as Host City for World Cup Team in Summer 2026
The team will stay at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara and practice at UC Santa Barbara’s Harder Stadium

Google rolls out Nano Banana 2, aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, with advanced world knowledge and precision text rendering and translation, across its products (Naina Raisinghani/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-banana-2/

Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

An interview with Audrey Cooper, EIC of The Baltimore Banner, on local news decline, growing regionally, paywalls, experimenting with AI, and more (Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories

The Baltimore Banner enters a new year — and a new chapter — with a new editor-in-chief
Local journalism is shrinking in much of the country — but The Baltimore Banner is moving in the opposite direction. In just two years, the nonprofit newsroom has grown into Maryland’s largest reporting operation, expanded beyond Baltimore, and built a fast-growing base of paying subscribers. Now, with their new editor-in-chief, Audrey Cooper, at the helm, The Banner is doubling down on a belief that many in the industry have quietly abandoned: scale still matters. In this wide-ranging conv…

Q&A with Wendy McMahon, who resigned last year as CEO and president of CBS News and Stations, on CBS under Bari Weiss, the pace of change for news, and more (Noor Ibrahim/Marie Claire)
https://www.marieclaire.com/career-advice/wendy-mcmahon-cbs-newsexit-in…

Wendy McMahon Tells All: Leaving CBS Was “Exhilarating and Painful”
The media titan talks her exit, Bari Weiss, and the future of news.

Sources: WaPo is laying off up to 300 employees, including over 100 staffers in the sports, metro, and foreign teams; the sports desk may be shuttered entirely (Natalie Korach/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/washington-post-layoffs-cuts-jeff-bezos

Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.

Hundreds of staffers at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation stage a 24-hour strike for the first time in 20 years over low pay and working conditions (Shweta Sharma/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/aust…

Some of Australia’s biggest news programmes go dark as public broadcaster staff strike over pay
Hundreds of staff of ABC staged large-scale protests outside the broadcaster's office over low pay and working conditions

Ann Godoff, a top Random House and Penguin Press editor who cultivated the careers of dozens of novelists and nonfiction authors over 30 years, died at age 76 (Sam Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/books/ann-godoff-dead.html

Ann Godoff, a Top Editor and Publisher of Best Sellers, Dies at 76
Considered an “author’s publisher” at Random House and then Penguin, she cultivated the careers of dozens of celebrated novelists and nonfiction writers.