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Aug. 21, 2026
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Colleagues,
Good Friday morning on this Aug. 21, 2026,
The News Media Guild said the AP will lay off 20 video production staff in the U.S. today and move those jobs to a new hub in India, and that an additional 10 photo editors in the U.S. and 10 video production staff in London are being targeted for layoffs, though it is unclear when their jobs would be terminated.
Poynter said in its story Thursday that AP spokesperson Patrick Maks, in an emailed statement, reiterated Executive Editor Julie Pace’s statement that the new hub would increase the size of AP’s production staff and its capabilities.
We bring you the story from Poynter in today’s edition.
We bring sad news of the death of AP journalist Christopher Bodeen, described in a wire obituary as “a tenacious, old-school wire service reporter who brought a keen analytical eye and a wry sense of humor to decades of work in China, Taiwan and in war zones and natural disasters across the globe for The Associated Press.” He died Monday at 55 after a struggle with cancer and complications from a stroke.
And, the family of AP photographer Charlie Bennett shared an obituary on our remarkable colleague.
In sharing it with Connecting, one of Charlie’s sons, Jaimie Bennett, addressed the question posed earlier in the week about Charlie’s nickname: “The nickname ‘Trash’ came from him describing himself as ‘White Trash’ due to his meager upbringing in Atlanta.”
CELEBRATING ANDY LIPPMAN – Signup is under way for the Celebration of Life for Andy Lippman. More than 30 have said they plan to be at a luncheon to be held Thursday, Oct. 15, in Pasadena, Calif., at Mijares Mexican Restaurant. The cost is $50 per person for a full Mexican buffet (tax and gratuity included). If you'd like to attend, please drop me a note. My email - stevenspl@live.com
Here’s to a great weekend – be safe, stay healthy, live each day to your fullest.
Paul
AP cuts US video production staff and moves jobs to India
By Angela Fu
Poynter
The Associated Press will lay off 20 video production staff in the U.S. on Friday and move those jobs to a new hub in India, according to the union representing those journalists.
An additional 10 photo editors in the U.S. and 10 video production staff in London are being targeted for layoffs, though it is unclear when their jobs would be terminated. The decision to eliminate journalists with decades of experience and move their jobs covering American news to India raises concerns about the quality of future coverage, union leaders said.
“They are experts in their region, in their topics, in their abilities to pick and choose what clips should be elevated,” said Kimberlee Kruesi, a breaking news and politics reporter who serves as the acting president of the News Media Guild. “There’s a lot of questions about creating a hub outside of the U.S. where we don’t know if they’re going to be up to speed on all these topics and regions.”
News Media Guild executive director Tony Winton said the union was initially told that staff would be laid off July 31, but AP later pushed that date to Friday for the U.S.-based video producers. The company still has not given the union a date for the photo editors’ layoffs.
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.
“Visuals are incredibly important to AP and its future. To that end, we are planning to develop a centralized global hub in India to increase the size of our production staff to scale both our video and photo capabilities while improving speed and quality,” Pace wrote in the email. She added, “India has a vibrant, digital-first media industry. We have done some hiring in production earlier this year to test the market, and we’ve long had success hiring for other teams there. Other news organizations have been building their presence in India in recent years as well.”
Bloomberg is also expanding its presence in India, where it has grown its staff by 30% in the past three years, according to Axios. Noida, which will be the site of the AP’s new multimedia production hub, is home to many Indian news channels and film studios.
It is unclear how workflows at the AP would be affected. Kruesi said that even though she mostly works with text, she is in regular contact with video and photo staff as part of her job. She added that the company has not provided the union with information about how U.S.-based journalists would be expected to coordinate with those in India.
In an emailed statement, AP spokesperson Patrick Maks reiterated Pace’s statement that the new hub would increase the size of AP’s production staff and its capabilities.
“Over 80% of our output today is visual, and we know those formats are increasingly important to our customers and audiences,” Maks wrote. “As a global news organization, we have staff in nearly 100 countries – including in India, where we’ve long maintained a presence – who play an essential role in delivering fast, accurate and independent journalism from every corner of the world.”
The AP in recent years has pushed to increase its video content. Since 2022, it has doubled the number of video journalists it employs in the U.S. (Those journalists work in the field and are separate from the video producers affected by the layoffs.)
Read more here. Shared by Doug Pizac.
AP reporter Christopher Bodeen, a tenacious chronicler of China’s rise, dies at 55
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AP reporter Christopher Bodeen walks along the Mutianyu Great Wall section on the outskirts of Beijing on Nov. 10, 2012, while covering Melania Trump’s visit to the wall. (AP Photo/Emily Wang)
By Foster Klug
The Associated Press
Christopher Bodeen, a tenacious, old-school wire service reporter who brought a keen analytical eye and a wry sense of humor to decades of work in China, Taiwan and in war zones and natural disasters across the globe for The Associated Press, has died. He was 55.
Bodeen died Monday after a struggle with cancer and complications from a stroke, his daughter, Ingrid, said Thursday by telephone from Taiwan.
Bodeen, who spoke fluent Mandarin with a proud Taiwan accent, spent much of his career detailing China’s rise to an economic, political and military superpower — and the accompanying friction from what critics have long called Beijing’s heavy-handed efforts to establish dominance in Asia and beyond.
“Chris was a reporter who would go anywhere and do anything for the story,” said Charles Hutzler, AP’s former bureau chief in Beijing. After a huge quake flattened a swath of Sichuan province in 2008, Bodeen composed his account from one devastated town sentence by sentence over text messages because of damaged telecommunications networks. “It was one of the first eyewitness reports the AP and the world received about one of the worst earthquakes in decades,” Hutzler recalled.
He was an expert on politics and Chinese military issues
From AP bureaus in Shanghai, Beijing and Taipei, Bodeen was for years the news agency’s go-to person on Chinese politics and military issues, able to quickly determine the newsworthiness of the government’s often abstruse statements.
“A chat with Chris would inevitably turn into a remarkable history lesson,” said Emily Wang Fujiyama, former Greater China news director. “He had astounding knowledge of the region and would be writing about China’s military presence in the South China Sea, pivot to Taiwan’s intricate politics, and just as deftly write about the political sensitivities of Tibet, Mongolia and China.”
Bodeen was born in Missouri on Sept. 9, 1970, but he spent parts of his childhood in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia. His father was a foreign service officer and his mother a former diplomat, his daughter, Ingrid, said. Friends and colleagues remembered his love of the Boston Red Sox, esoteric punk rock -- and his contagious enthusiasm for the job of journalism.
Click here for link to this story. Shared by Doug Pizac.
Charles Walter Bennett
October 26, 1939 – August 11, 2026
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Charles Walter Bennett, a longtime Associated Press photojournalist who spent decades documenting American history, including Watergate, three presidential administrations, presidential travels around the world, politics, sports and the changing life of Chicago, died August 11, 2026. He was 86.
Born October 26, 1939, in Atlanta, Charles left school when he was young to help support his family, later earned his GED, and was drafted into the U.S. Army. It was in the Army where he learned photography, acquiring the skills that would become the foundation of a remarkable career in photojournalism.
After his military service, Charles joined the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he spent roughly a decade as a news photographer. His assignments ranged widely across the life and history of the South during the 1960s, from politics and labor disputes to the changing face of Atlanta and the civil rights era. Among the people and events that passed before his lens were Georgia political figures, the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and the Beatles during their 1965 appearance at Atlanta Stadium.
In 1971, he joined the Associated Press and was assigned to its Dallas bureau. Two years later, AP transferred him to Washington, D.C., where he covered the Watergate hearings, placing him at one of the defining episodes in modern American political history.
Charles went on to photograph Richard Nixon’s resignation, Gerald Ford’s presidency, and Jimmy Carter’s election and presidency. As a member of the White House press corps, he traveled aboard Air Force One with President Ford on overseas presidential trips including the historic 1974 summit with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Vladivostok. He was also just steps from President Ford in Sacramento, September 1975, when Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme attempted to assassinate the president.
After his years in Washington, Charles transferred to the Associated Press bureau in Chicago, where he spent the remainder of his professional career. There, his subjects ranged from politics and social issues to sports and the personalities who defined the city and the era.
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Charlie with one of his heroes, Willie Nelson.
Away from the newsrooms, presidential motorcades and assignments that defined his career, he was known simply and affectionately as Charlie, Chuck, Trash (among his AP buddies), and Sweet Chuckie. Charlie was a fantastic storyteller. Many who have met him will recall his story about cooking chili for Willie Nelson, one of his heroes, at the Illinois State Fair in the early 80's.
Charlie’s family grew over different chapters of his life. His daughters Laurie and Sharley were born during his first marriage. He later married Marianne Martinson, with whom he had his sons Joseph (Joe) and James (Jaimie). Later in life, he married Aliza Buchman and adopted her son, Joshua (Josh).
Charlie and Aliza began their life together in 1989 and married in 2001. To the family, Aliza was affectionately known as “Grandma Leezie” and “Bubbie.” Their relationship lasted more than a quarter-century, until her death in 2015.
Together, Charlie and Aliza shared both adventure and home. They traveled across the country by motorcycle on several occasions but also loved the quieter pleasures of cooking and having family and friends gathered around them.
Aliza was an artist, and Charlie took great pride in her work. He enthusiastically supported her art and sought opportunities and places where it could be exhibited. Their life together brought together two creative people.
Charlie was preceded in death by his wife, Aliza; his parents, Tillman Oscar and Vivian (Timms) Bennett; his sister, Margaret; his brother, Harold; and his daughter, Sharley.
He is survived by his daughter, Laurie; his son Joe, Joe’s wife, Ann, and their children, Kjerstin and Kai; his son Jaimie, Jaimie’s wife, Binh Ho, and their daughter, Josephine (Josie); and his son Josh and Josh’s daughter, Tammy.
For all the extraordinary people who appeared before his camera over the years, Charlie’s own family remained the part of the story that existed beyond the photographs. To his children and grandchildren, he was Grandpa Charlie, Zadie, and Papa, remembered around the family table, on the open road, behind a camera, and through the accumulated stories and photographs of a long and remarkable life.
Remembering Charlie Bennett
Mark Duncan - I was fortunate to work with Charlie Bennett several times during my AP career, but one assignment stands out from the others.
We were both part of the photo crew assigned to cover the 1985 U.S. Open golf championship at Oakland Hills Country Club in suburban Detroit.
On one of the practice days (I think it was a Tuesday), heavy rains washed out practice and left all of us soaked as well as our cameras and lenses. Once back at the hotel, it was time to dry everything out - especially the camera gear.
Charlie took charge and had me help him take everything to the hotel’s pool area. There we took all the cameras and lenses into the sauna. Not wanting to leave thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment unattended, Charlie suggested we sauna along with the gear where he proceeded to entertain me with stories of his AP career.
After an hour or so everything was dry and, save for one camera, everything worked the rest of the tournament, won by Andy North.
Potential disaster averted by a veteran photographer thinking out of the box…RIP “Trash”.'
Remembering Marty Anderson
Steve Herman - I was saddened to hear of Marty Anderson's death. I never understood his preference for the overnight shift, but I was very glad he did. Many, many years ago, then-COB Joe McGowan took Marty off the overnight and, to my dismay, put me on it. That lasted about two months, and by the end of it both of us hated it.
So why had Joe made the change to begin with?
Somehow, he got the impression that Marty wanted it. Not so. But Marty, being agreeable Marty, went along without objection.
Eventually, order was restored in the universe, and Marty went back to the overnight, where he stayed the rest of his AP career.
One more note on Marty: In 1979, he was the first recipient of the annual Dale Burgess Award as outstanding Indianapolis AP staffer.
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Lindel Hutson - Marty Anderson was one of those staffers who never got a lot of attention. He simply did his job quietly and efficiently and the AP was lucky to have him running the overnight shift in Indianapolis.
Indy had to be one of the few bureaus of its size to have a full-time overnight. The AP was better for it because Indiana’s PMs editors came to work each morning to find an AP report that Marty had crafted. Many editors told me how much they appreciated Marty’s efforts.
He was a delightful man and I’m so sorry to see him go.
Marty and the overnight
Bob Ingle - The death of Marty Anderson, longtime overnight shift supervisor in the Indianapolis bureau, started me to thinking about what an asset to the AP and news organizations in general are the people who like working the overnight.
I never liked the change in hours when working it in a part time capacity, but people like Marty and Mike Barron in Atlanta and Kathy McCarthy in Seattle did and what a difference they made.
They had to be prepared for big breaking news and coming to the aid of AMs late editions with problems. They had to edit and move out packaged PMs reports. And cover broadcast.
In Seattle, a young McCarthy took the helm from me as my night shift ended. A treasured, veteran colleague had died, and the obit was written dayside by the news editor. I got a middle of the night call from a concerned, caring McCarthy saying the obit didn’t sound like our beloved colleague. Rewrite it, I said, and if there is a problem tell them I told you to. She did a wonderful job. The original author remarked it was so much better than what he did.
Atlanta was control for Alabama and early on I got the 11 pm Saturday til 7 am Sunday shift. Early on a Sunday there was a bombing in Birmingham. While working that, the General Desk called, I thought about the bombing, but no. “There has been a plane crash in Texas and the guy in Dallas says he can’t handle it, so that’s yours too.”
I hated the shift, only worked it occasionally but from the times I did I came to appreciate and respect the people who were assigned it regularly. They are special people.
Mohamed Osman and the RSF
Donna Bryson - More than a year ago, I got an email from Mohamed Osman, who I knew as a reporter in Sudan for the AP when I worked in Cairo. His email described his experiences behind the lines of the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, a militia fighting in the civil war that broke out in Sudan in April 2023. The conflict has killed at least 59,000 people and pushed much of the country into famine. Mohamed was among the 13 million people displaced by the war.
Mohamed wrote last year that he was working on a book about his experiences behind RSF lines. He was in touch today to say he's written the book and that it is being read in Khartoum.
I'm in awe that he wrote his way out.
Click here for a story about Mohamed's book:
Husband of new Colombia ambassador to U.S. is AP photojournalist Ricardo Mazalán
Chris Torchia - Bloomberg and other media reported on Aug. 17 that Colombia's new ambassador to the United States is María Consuelo Araújo. Colombia’s Caracol Radio additionally reported that Ms. Araújo’s husband is “Argentine photographer Ricardo Mazalán.”
Mr. Mazalán is AP’s Deputy News Director for Photography and Storytelling for Latin America and the Caribbean, according to The Associated Press. He is based in Bogotá.
As far as I can tell, AP hasn’t reported on the new ambassador, arguably Colombia’s most critical foreign service post.
The AP and other media recently reported that Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has asked his ally, U.S. President Donald Trump, to suspend tariffs to help Colombia recover from a deadly earthquake on Aug. 10.
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Stories of interest
Invited media and military members held at gunpoint at Space Force base in California
By The Associated Press
Five news reporters and two members of the military who were invited to an event at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California were briefly detained at gunpoint by security officers who thought they were gate crashers, according to local news reports.
The incident happened Monday ahead of an invitation-only groundbreaking for a new training facility for missile operators at the federal airfield near Santa Barbara, California. Reporters from Noozhawk and KEYT were among those detained, and both outlets published articles detailing the detainment.
In a statement to Noozhawk, a Space Launch Delta 30 Public Affairs spokesperson called the incident a breakdown in communication.
The reporters and military members were part of a convoy being escorted onto the base by uniformed public affairs staff in a government minivan when they were suddenly ordered out of their vehicles with their hands up, according to news reports.
Read more here. Shared by Michael Rubin, Doug Pizac.
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New York Times Loses Defamation Lawsuit in Alabama
By Katie Robertson
The New York Times
An Alabama jury determined on Thursday that The New York Times defamed a college basketball player in a 2023 article that incorrectly reported he was at the scene of a deadly shooting in Tuscaloosa.
The eight-person jury awarded $9.25 million in damages, after a nine-day trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Kai Spears, who played for the University of Alabama men’s basketball team, sued The Times in 2023, accusing it of libel and “false light” invasion of privacy. He claimed the article, which mistakenly reported he was a passenger in a car involved in the shooting, had caused him emotional distress and forever linked him with a murder. Three other basketball players from the school were present at the shooting, which killed a 23-year-old mother.
The Times corrected the article and added an editor’s note after Mr. Spears filed his lawsuit, which disclosed the identity of the passenger in the car for the first time.
Read more here. Shared by Doug Pizac.
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Lloyd Robertson, Unflappable Canadian Broadcaster, Dies at 92
By Adam Nossiter
The New York Times
Lloyd Robertson, a long-serving broadcaster and television news anchor whose calm demeanor led fellow Canadians to call him their nation’s Walter Cronkite, died on Aug. 4 at his home in Markham, Ontario, near Toronto. He was 92.
His death was announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, who called Mr. Robertson “a reassuring voice in moments of uncertainty” and a “charismatic and trusted storyteller.”
Mr. Robertson’s 41 years as a national television news anchor easily surpassed the tenures of his American counterparts Mr. Cronkite and Tom Brokaw, as Canadian commentators were fond of pointing out. Like those two anchors, Mr. Robertson imposed himself on the consciousness of his fellow citizens through an unflappable even-handedness that became his trademark.
Night after night, through his epoch’s defining events — the first moon landing, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Persian Gulf war, the Sept. 11 attacks and 14 Canadian federal election campaigns — Mr. Robertson’s plain, matter-of-fact delivery rhymed with the national sensibility.
Read more here. Shared by Doug Pizac.
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Longtime Seattle Sports Columnist Resigns Over Spiked Sophie Cunningham Article: ‘The Mob is Frightening’
By Stephanie Kaloi
Mediaite
Longtime Seattle Times sports columnist Matt Calkins announced his decision to resign from the paper after 11 years Thursday. Calkins accused the newspaper of spiking several columns of his, including one about Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham.
“After 11 years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times, I have decided to resign. It was entirely my choice, and it was not an easy one. The impetus was the Times declining to run a column I wrote from the perspective of two female student athletes who were opposed to competing against biological males,” he wrote.
“It was one of several pieces of mine that had been spiked, and I no longer felt like I could properly do my job as a columnist. I lay out the situation in greater detail in the link below, but I want to say that I enjoyed my time with the paper, find the talent there to be immense, and have no animosity toward anyone who works there. It was just time for a change.”
Read more here. Shared by Doug Pizac.
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Facing a “deluge” from AI, this publication will only take pitches by phone
By Hanaa Tameez
Nieman Lab
Whether you’re a reporter or an editor, your inbox has probably seen an influx of pitches, increasingly written with artificial intelligence. They’re likely bad, irrelevant, and annoyingly clogging up your email.
But one publication is over it. If you want to write for The Food Section, you’ll have to pick up the phone.
“We’re switching to a pitch-by-phone system come September,” founder Hanna Raskin announced on Tuesday. “Having been deluged by AI-generated and enhanced story ideas this summer, we’re re-humanizing the process with a dedicated hotline (which has the added benefit of weeding out supposed reporters who aren’t in the habit of ringing up strangers.)”
The Food Section reports on food industries and issues in the American South, with bureaus in Asheville and Charlotte, North Carolina. It was the first solo newsletter to win a James Beard award and the first newsletter to win a National Magazine Award, according to its About page. Raskin currently takes story pitches through a Google Form.
Read more here. Shared by Doug Pizac.
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Mexico regulation proposal sparks censorship fears
By Semafor
A media regulation proposal put forward by Mexico’s government has sparked fears of censorship in a country already grappling with bleak freedom of expression scores.
Under the plan, officials would be able to determine whether news coverage was sufficiently true or balanced, with breaches potentially costing companies as much as 1% of their annual revenue. Critics of the proposal pointed to the fact that Mexico is already one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists; nine were killed last year.
“The threat of sanctions alone …will have a chilling effect,” one opponent said. Mexico’s foreign minister countered the criticism, writing, “Mexico is living the freest and most democratic moment in its history.”
Read more here. Shared by Doug Pizac.
| Today in History - Aug. 21, 2026 | | |
Today is Friday, Aug. 21, the 233rd day of 2026. There are 132 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Aug. 21, 1831, Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of at least 55 white people; scores of Black people were killed in retribution after the rebellion, and Turner was later executed.
Also on this date:
In 1858, the first of seven debates took place between Illinois senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.
In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. (It was recovered two years later in Italy.)
In 1944, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China opened talks at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that helped pave the way for establishment of the United Nations.
In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation officially declaring Hawaii the 50th state.
In 1983, Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated as he exited an aircraft at Manila International Airport. (His widow, Corazon Aquino, would become president of the Philippines three years later.)
In 1991, a hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
In 1992, an 11-day siege began at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as government agents tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns; on the first day of the siege, Weaver’s teenage son, Samuel, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed.
In 1993, in a serious setback for NASA, engineers lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft as it was about to reach the red planet on a $980 million mission.
In 2000, rescue efforts to reach the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk ended with divers announcing that none of the 118 sailors had survived.
In 2010, Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant, which Moscow promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potential weapons production.
In 2015, a trio of Americans, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and college student Anthony Sadler, and a British businessman, Chris Norman, tackled and disarmed a Moroccan gunman on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris.
In 2017, Americans witnessed their first full-blown coast-to-coast solar eclipse since World War I, with eclipse-watchers gathering along a path of totality extending 2,600 miles across the continent.
In 2020, a former police officer who became known as the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo, told victims and family members in a Sacramento courtroom that he was “truly sorry” before he was sentenced to multiple life prison sentences for a decadelong string of rapes and murders.
Today’s Birthdays: Rock and Roll Hall of Famer James Burton is 87. Singer Jackie DeShannon is 85. Film director Peter Weir is 82. Football Hall of Famer Willie Lanier is 81. Actor Loretta Devine is 77. Two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin is 72. Actor Kim Cattrall is 70. Rock musician Serj Tankian (System of a Down) is 59. Actor Carrie-Anne Moss is 59. Google co-founder Sergei Brin is 53. Singer Kelis (kuh-LEES’) is 47. TV personality Brody Jenner is 43. Olympic gold medal sprinter Usain (yoo-SAYN’) Bolt is 40. Country singer Kacey Musgraves is 38. Soccer player Robert Lewandowski is 38. Actor Hayden Panettiere is 37. Comedian-singer-filmmaker Bo Burnham is 36. Actor Dallas Liu is 25.
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Connecting is a daily newsletter published Monday through Friday that reaches more than 2,000 retired and former Associated Press employees, present-day employees, and news industry and journalism school colleagues. It began in 2013. Its author, Paul Stevens, retired from the AP in 2009 after a 36-year career as a newsman in Albany and St. Louis, correspondent in Wichita, chief of bureau in Albuquerque, Indianapolis and Kansas City, and Central Region vice president based in Kansas City.
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