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Sep 18, 2026
Matt JonesHOST
Like, a lot of the old school media outlets are gone.
Matt JonesHOST
Like, the Herald-Leader, think about this.
Matt JonesHOST
Herald-Leader didn't have a team.
Matt JonesHOST
Courier-Journal didn't have-
Ryan LemondHOST
They don't even have-
Sarah Beth TerryHOST
Kentucky's measles outbreak has expanded.
Sarah Beth TerryHOST
State reporting cited by the Lexington Herald-Leader says that Kentucky has now confirmed 48 cases of measles with recent exposure warnings involving four hospitals.
Sarah Beth TerryHOST
Pay attention to that.
Sarah Beth TerryHOST
Get your MMR immunizations.
Sarah Beth TerryHOST
Good Lord.
Sarah Beth TerryHOST
Governor Andy Beshear says that roughly $250 million in medical debt is being erased from approximately 130,000 Kentuckians.
Sarah Beth TerryHOST
Don't know how they're paying for it, don't know where it's going, and don't know who's getting it, but that's the news in the Lexington Herald-Leader among the 12 reporters that are still left.
Sarah Beth TerryHOST
That means a meaningful amount of debt per person if they do it right.
KruserHOST
No, I'm talking Barnes & Noble.
KruserHOST
That is a real shame, and I don't want to hear any of this, well, they're just a bunch of liberals over there at the Herald-Leader or the newspapers.
KruserHOST
This is bad, B-A-D, bad.
KruserHOST
This is bad for local news.
KruserHOST
And this is just awful.
KruserHOST
I mean, it breaks my heart because I like newspapers.
KruserHOST
And I worry now because even with – even up to the last cutback that they had at the Herald-Leader, there still was – there was still no better local news source than the Herald-Leader.
KruserHOST
Now, I don't know if that's going to – with two reporters, I'm going to be watching very closely.
KruserHOST
Walmart, same thing.
KruserHOST
UK, Herald Leader reporting an artificial intelligence company is collecting facial signatures of anybody entering certain buildings at UK.
KruserHOST
The university is licensed with a company called Alcatraz AI to install its rock technology, which uses facial biometrics to grant people access through doors, according to documents obtained by the Herald-Leader through the Kentucky Open Records Act.
KruserHOST
UK will keep a private database of facial signatures, which are a one-way encrypted mathematical representation of your facial features generated in enrollment and stored securely for authentication, according to its privacy policy.
Matt JonesHOST
We have a couple questions here.
Matt JonesHOST
Before I do that, I, I'm bummed about what happened at the Herald-Leader with all these reporters losing their jobs.
Matt JonesHOST
Not because I think the Herald-Leader has always been great, but these reporters, especially the ones that they let go, a lot of them I think were really good.
Matt JonesHOST
But also, I just worry about local news, because, like, you need to have local news.
Matt JonesHOST
You need to have somebody...
Dave BarnesHOST
He's also become a prominent voice on the intersection of faith and culture.
Dave BarnesHOST
He writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across Kentucky, has contributed to the Lexington Herald-Leader, served as a religion and culture commentator for Kentucky Sports Radio, and his writing has appeared everywhere from Christianity Today and World Magazine to the New York Times.
Dave BarnesHOST
And because apparently he didn't have enough going on besides that, Robert is also working on his Ph.D. Is that still happening?
Robert CunninghamGUEST
Yeah, I've retained my PhD candidate status, and in the academic world, it's a strange thing.
LenaHOST
[laughs]
DanHOST
Um, in an article covering these cuts for, uh, Common Dreams, Jessica Corbett notes that the cuts slashed the newspaper of the Lexington Herald Leader, which is one of just two statewide newspapers in Kentucky, fully in half.
JonathanHOST
Okay, so they, they took away a quarter of Kentucky's print news coverage, period.
DanHOST
Yeah, more or less.
KruserHOST
This was according to an email from Shamari Reed, or Red rather, of the Kentucky Teachers Retirement System.
KruserHOST
The Herald-Leader got a hold of some emails showing that district officials had questioned if Liggins qualified for retirement benefits.
KruserHOST
Well, basically, no, he doesn't.
KruserHOST
His retirement was voted by the board.
Joe GibbsHOST
Five people with knowledge of the layoffs said, At outlets in the Pacific Northwest, including the Bellingham Herald in Washington and the Idaho Statesman in Boise, 17 journalists, about a third of unionized workers, were let go, according to the Union, the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild.
Joe GibbsHOST
At the Lexington Herald Leader in Kentucky, 13 of the 23 newsroom employees were laid off.
Joe GibbsHOST
The full extent of cuts was not yet clear, but a current employee who asked to remain anonymous said that at least 90 journalists had been laid off at dozens of publications.
Joe GibbsHOST
Carol Martin Miller, the deputy investigations editor of the Miami Herald, said in an interview that the layoffs and elimination of vacant positions were a bloodbath.
Joe GibbsNARRATOR
Five people with knowledge of the layoffs said, At outlets in the Pacific Northwest, including the Bellingham Herald in Washington and the Idaho Statesman in Boise, 17 journalists, about a third of unionized workers, were let go, according to the Union, the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild.
Joe GibbsNARRATOR
At the Lexington Herald Leader in Kentucky, 13 of the 23 newsroom employees were laid off.
Joe GibbsNARRATOR
The full extent of cuts was not yet clear, but a current employee who asked to remain anonymous said that at least 90 journalists had been laid off at dozens of publications.
Joe GibbsNARRATOR
Carol Martin Miller, the deputy investigations editor of the Miami Herald, said in an interview that the layoffs and elimination of vacant positions were a bloodbath.
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