AP Forward – Mega Conference 2025

In this Thursday, April 11, 2019 photo, copies of The Berkshire Eagle newspaper are placed in a machine before being bundled for distribution, in Pittsfield, Mass. The paper now features a new 12-page lifestyle section for Sunday editions, a reconstituted editorial board, a new monthly magazine, and the newspaper print edition is wider. That level of expansion is stunning in an era where U.S. newspaper newsroom employment has shrunk by nearly half over the past 15 years. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Television news crews record a press conference at Emory University Hospital regarding the proposed treatment of two American aid workers who contracted Ebola in Africa at an isolated unit at the hospital to treat patients exposed to certain infectious diseases, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, in Atlanta. Dr. Bruce Ribner said Friday he had no personal safety concerns over treating the patients of the dangerous disease. Hospital officials did not identify the patients, citing confidentiality rules. They were previously identified as Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol. Ribner said one of the patients was expected to arrive Monday, while a second was expected several days later. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Visitors test products at the SK Telecom stand during the third day of the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. The Mobile World Congress kicked off Monday in Barcelona, Spain, with mobile phone makers showing off new devices and telecom industry executives perusing the latest networking gear and software. (AP Photo/Pau Venteo)

A Muslim youth holds up a defaced U.S. flag during an anti-Israel protest marking the International Al-Quds Day outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Aug. 2, 2013. The last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is observed in many Muslim countries as Al -Quds Day as a way of expressing support to the Palestinians and emphasizing the importance of Jerusalem to Muslims. Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Scott Stiteler, right, and Susan Grant, both of Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mineral Resources Management, check some data as the group maps out coal mining permit process with colorful sticky notes Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008 in Zanesville, Ohio. Buoyed by the uncanny effectiveness of the Japanese notion of kaizen, or continuous improvement, a growing number of cash-strapped states are attacking their bulky bureaucracies and streamlining the use of time and resources. In intensive 5-day kaizen exercises, managers, workers, lawyers, regulators, technicians and end users of a single government process _ say, getting a government coal mine permit _ are assembled in one room to hash things out. The process in question is meticulously mapped, using colored sticky notes to identify junctures where paperwork must be filed, decisions made, sign-offs obtained. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Journalists work in a newsroom of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's local branch, called Radio Azattyk, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Friday, April 28, 2023. The court of the Leninsky district of Bishkek satisfied a request by the country's Culture Ministry to close down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's local branch, called Radio Azattyk as a mass media. (AP Photo/Vladimir Voronin)